After my garage was flooded from a burst water pipe a little over a year ago, I began rebuilding my shop. I completely re-wired, insulated, drywalled and painted the shop.

  The 1st pic is where I locate my smaller mobile tools and mobile storage cabinets. I installed a 30 amp heater that works really great and is fairly cheap to operate. My refrigerator where I store and dispense my kegged home-brewed beer. Above the fridge is my television, dvd player and satellite radio receiver.

   The 2nd pic is the deep sink used for cleaning out beer kegs, glasses and racks from the pellet smoker, my steel tip horsehair dart board and part of the new cabinets I built with the wife’s assistance.

   The 3rd pic is the shallow cabinet with sliding doors that hold glue, hardware and several shop accessories and tools. The 4th pic is my shop built cabinets that provide tool storage and support my benchtop tools.

   The 5th pic is my drill-press cabinet that holds all my bits, machinist vise, pen mills and various jigs for various projects, and next to the drill press is my dust collector with separator.

   The 6th pic is my wood rack and bellow that is some temporary clamp storage and a mobile cabinet I built before the flood for my lathe and grinder and in front of that is my table saw.

   The final pic is my shop built air cleaner and the 4  8’ long T8 fluorescent light fixtures that illuminate my man cave.

   For the electrical I installed an 80 amp sub panel from my main breaker box in each wall 4 extra 20 amp 110 volt outlets each set of outlets are on independent circuits. The light fixtures are also on separate circuits. All was completed to code and inspected.

This was a lot of fun and I learned a lot but none of it would have been possible without the support and help from my loving wife. Thanks for viewing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A good bar stool and that's a nice Mancave!!!

 Sorry Dragon I neglected to include the stools!

Man that is one nice shop and sooooo clean. I am jealous.

 

Tell me a little about your shop built air cleaner.

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The air filter was made from a set of plans from Woodsmith magazine Vol. 16 No. 95. The carcass is made from birch plywood and scrap hardwood rails to support the filters. The heart of the filter is an 850 CFM furnace blower that I got for free from an HVAC company. It’s a 4 speed blower but I could only find a 3 speed switch.

In the event I need to service or clean the blower I mounted it to a plywood plate that’s attached to an internal frame with machine screws. The filters are 16â€X20â€X1â€, two inlet and one outlet HEPA filter. This thing really moves a lot of air. On high it does make a fair amount of noise but not to an annoying level. The two lower speeds work very well.

The changes to the Woodsmith plan was the dimension I chose is bigger, the switch is a pull chain multi speed switch that’s rated at 6 AMP, and the mounting of the blower is with two .040 thick stainless brackets that I fabricated, and the plywood adapter plate is held in with machine screws and “T†nuts.

Total cost $48.55

I've been using this filter for about a year now and it works realy well and I didn't have to spend $300.00 for a store bought one.

We are all anxious to see product from such a CLEAN , well organized shop. Nice pics -

Cool shop Mike you sure you don't do surgery in there LOL

Hey Jim! No I don't do surgery, I cleaned it before I took pictures. I'm hoping to dirty it up here in a few days. My buddies came in from Alaska and Montana for 5 days so I didn't have time to do any woodworking but tomorrow I'll be starting some new projects. How's Joe doing?

Just kidding around your shop looks great, my shop should look so good.

Hey John, I'm glad you keep a clean shop.  I've been catching flak over mine.  Nice shop too!  What's the overall size of the air filter?  I've got a ceiling corner that that might fit in.

I just had to add two pictures to prove to Misters Moody and Morris that my shop does get messy but not filthy.

Okay Ron, now I feel better, I can't see the cordless phone.

Nice shop Ron, and I'll bet that you know where everything is located.

The air filter dimensions are: 21" H X 17.5" W X 33" L and uses 2ea 16" X 20" X 1" air filters in the intake side and 1ea hepa filter in the discharge side of the same dimension.

Its on the shelf next to the Endust.

John Moody said:

Okay Ron, now I feel better, I can't see the cordless phone.

That's doable.  I like it!
John Michael Dillen said:

Nice shop Ron, and I'll bet that you know where everything is located.

The air filter dimensions are: 21" H X 17.5" W X 33" L and uses 2ea 16" X 20" X 1" air filters in the intake side and 1ea hepa filter in the discharge side of the same dimension.

Nice I love this!!!  I need to drywall my walls too.  Your bench cabinets look so cool...Oh, and the fridge, of course, is a nice touch.  I like how you used the space above your garage door.

Okay well here are a few shot from inside mine just so you will know it is not spotless.

 

This was last night in the shop.

Very nioce shop John and bigger than mine.  I have a fridge but you've outdone me with the microwave.

My fridge is under the microwaves. They are there for drying turning blanks. More recently there were used to warm the food for the bird dog puppies. My shop is sharing with my sons hunting stuff, dog stuff and the lawn care stuff. You didn't see a shot of the other end where the roll up doors are. There is hay, bags of concrete and other stuff there for the building of the new dog kennel, what a mess! Hopefully that project get finished sometime this week and all of that goes back out to the kennel.

Very nice John! I like your miter saw / planer stand. How big is your garage?