After several small projects, it was time for a cleaning and organizing. Spent like 3 hours and the place is still a disorganized wreck. I’ve just got too much shit in a little building.
I also dropped a clamp on my foot, -2hp.
But, the place is somewhat less dusty now.
Got any before/after pics?
I’m terrible at organizing my workspaces, so I like seeing how other people set up their shops. It gives me neat ideas that I will totally never get around to implementing. Meantime I just spent 20 minutes hunting for that goddamned screwdriver I know I set down on a sbelf between the stack of wall anchor boxes and the bin of random drill bits. Or maybe I left it on the table saw…
I don’t really have any before/after pics of today’s project; not a lot about the building changed in a meaningful way (I moved some clamps I don’t use very often to the roof.) I mostly jus kind of cleaned up and put things back where they go. I’ll give you a tour though; these pictures have a little age on them but they’re basically current. Won’t take long, it’s a 10x12 shed.
This shot is standing in the doorway looking in, on the left hand side you’ve got the router table on that godawful old kitchen table, drill press on its cart, the mill cart with planer and jointer beyond, end of the aisle you’ve got my table saw folded up there’s no hope of using it in the building, it has to get wheeled out for use) and then the work table with miter saw station on the right. Stock loft above the back wall at convenient head hitting height, with the supply shelf below.
Detail shot of the workbench, with a rack of cheap parts bins from Harbor Freight for hardware and such below, along with scrap storage. Most of those tool cases have been moved under the drill press. Note the clamp department over there to the right, near the door. The pipe clamps have been replaced with parallel jaw clamps. That stock support to the left of the miter saw is a mistake, in fact I’d like to rethink that whole damn table. But, I built that table before I knew this was going to be a furniture shop. So. Also: Don’t get the brown pegboard. get white pegboard. Absorbs less light.
Other side of the shop…I am personally unimpressed with that Bosch router table and would recommend buying a lift and building your own router table than buying that one. Once I get my peertube channel off the ground I’m going on a longform rant about it.
When you have a space as small as this, you do have to make use of any little space you can. Everything but the router table is on wheels and everything can go right out the door and down the ramp, so my 10x12 foot shop unpacks to be, well, backyard sized. A minor thing I did today was install some hooks between the joists of the stock loft so I can hang some smaller scraps up there.
A lot of offcuts and scrap have piled up along the back wall, I need to come up with some projects to use some of that up. If I had a shop twice this one’s size, I’d instantly pack it this dense.
Looks great, man! In this guy’s humble opinion, it’s just the perfect amount of organized, but not overly fussy, for a compact functional workshop.
