Ron has a good idea about the lathe and the person using it.. Comfortable to use so a person don't get wore out before he gets started using it.

  When I bought the new 788 in 99 I decided who ever built the stand that came with the scroll saw  was about half off his rocker....So I went to thinking ....and here is what I use to keep me in the shop, longer, and with not as much aches and pains.

   I built a table to sit the saw on that is 19 1/2" tall. The saw is not bolted to the table, it will slide around as it sits on pieces of a truck tire inter tube... making it quieter, not a clue!! Sometimes I am sawing long pieces of wood and the saw needs to be turned one way or the other to accept the area where the sawing is fixin to take place.. I sit on an office chair with good swivel casters so I can go back and forth to the work top area a few feet away from the saw....Another good thing, which makes me follow the saw line better, I am mostly looking down on the piece to be sawn. Better results on saw-man-ship, not a clue again, but after building this set up , I got better at  scroll sawing?? Most of the time these 788's don't bounce around much so maybe the inter tube is helping there??  This scroll sawing turned out to be the most comfortable tool useage  of anything I do in my shop.. After I get a pattern attached to the wood then head toward to scroll saw, I let out a loud hurray or is it hurraw for the next few hours will be sitting down to where I can relax and make saw dust!

  And don't forget to turn on that box fan with the filter attached over there to the left of the operator!

  

It took years to get my shop set up so tripping over objects in the floor would be a priority.

 

I did leave room so I could get to the commode and the sink after I finally locate where they are!

Does anyone have any good ideas to keep lumber stored thats not being used from day to day?

  The 12" Powermatic # 72 table saw catches all the overflow for all it is used for is cross cutting so it gets all the extra crap.... The sled on it is a permanent fixture for it measures 34x48" and is too important to stand up somewhere and get knocked out of whack.

   Yes I do take care of some of the small long pieces but sometimes I forget they are up there out of the way.

 

And this fixture keeps some clamps close to the work table which is over the end of the table saw I call my work table. Its on a swivel so the clamps are easy to get to. I didn't say easy to squeeze, which they ain't!!

  A small metal strap bending tool is a good tool for making brackets for storing wood on the ceiling..

 Oh, the drill press has a magnet to hold the chuck key but it serves another very important service for the light next to the magnet is too heavy with the extra large bulb making it too heavy to stay up in the air so the magnet holds the light over the work area also to even for.

Its on a swivel so the clamps are easy to get to. And did I say  not easy to squeeze?

  I decided getting up in age I need everything out in plain sight so I won't have all those drawers to look through. So I have lots of turn tables with lots of holes to display lots of small items. And I do think it has helped save wasted time.....

   Lots of experimenting went in to the 60 and 100 watt led bulbs in my shop and my house. I even had my wife take pictures of the receipts and the expected years these bulbs are supposed to last!!!!! I can just see the clerks asking are you sure those led bulbs were the 9 year, or the 18 year or the 22 year warrenty models or what????  We had just now finished installing all those curly cue light bulbs in all the shops and garages and houses receptacles and are now returned to the boxes the led's came in, with no where to go with them!! HO HO.

Nice Shop!

 

Looks like you have used about every available spot!

3 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

Better results on saw-man-ship,

I like this term.

 

As for the rest, way too organized for me...I could never find anything out in plain sight like that...I prefer to keep as much as possible tucked away out of sight and memory...it gives an excuse to go buy something new when I can't find it even though I'm pretty sure I have one or two tucked away somewhere....

 

Thanks for the tour Patch!

Extremely impressive use of space. 

Love the commode lid. 

I am Speechless................

Herb

On 5/27/2017 at 0:16 PM, Smallpatch said:

Does anyone have any good ideas to keep lumber stored thats not being used from day to day?

Either in the lumber yard or in the overhead spaces that you already have.  It looks like you are using every available space plus non-available spaces.

Your shop has that "homey" feeling to it.  Well used with everything where you can get to it in a hurry.

On 5/27/2017 at 11:39 AM, lew said:

Nice Shop!

 

Looks like you have used about every available spot!

I dunno, I am still seeing a lot of ceiling and some more available floor space in those pics...

That is a great shop.  Reminds me of my shop where the toilet lid is the only flat surface with nothing set on it.

Edited September 7, 20178 yr by HandyDan

Awesome.

Dan that flat not used commode seat cost me sometimes ago. I have lots of flat shelves in that small commode room and I used the commode as a step ladder. Well, way back yonder I was using the rattle snake commode seat display instead of the one I have on there now and broke it. No the rattlers didn't escape but I do have to repair it before I can start using it again.

  Back when my kids were little no one would go in our bathroom cause of the snake seat. Wow that was fifty something years ago. I've been gonna repair that seat for almost 20 years now.  Where did the time go?

The older we get, the faster the time gets away from us....................