As I mentioned before I've  bought and sold plenty of tools  over the years but the shop has become compressed and I need to find those lost corners and footage that can be there if I look hard enough. Looking for a good ideal on a cordless gun, charger plus a way to house nail and staple guns...any photos would be great. This has to go on the wall and be compressed to get the most out of the smallest cabinet..thx 

In my tiny shop, wall space has disappeared. I've started making swing down storage from between the ceiling joist.

 

 

My ceiling is sheet rocked so that's out. I have considered the ideal of possible clamps against the ceiling where the duct work is for the furnace....

10 hours ago, BillyJack said:

plus a way to house nail and staple guns.

While this is drawer mounted it could be applied to a vertical application.  Just throwing this out there for ideas.  

 

Most of my tools are located in a cabinet.  Above the cabinet sit twin contractor table saws.  Squeezed a lot of space out of that cabinet.

 

Air nailer drawer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thx for the ideals with drawers but drawers are out. I need them ready to roll as needed. ...

4 minutes ago, BillyJack said:

Thx for the ideals

Think of as drawer in the vertical position, same idea, lay them out and have them handy.  Could be a pull out "vertical drawer".  One cabinet well thought out with layout could be squeezed for a lot of space.  Now this layout stuff, it took me 5 1/2 months to build that monster.  A lot of that time was spent just playing with where to stash stuff in the most economical space / layout.  My neighbor wants a single table saw set up like mine. 

 

Till he heard how much $$ I wanted to make it.

 

R&D cost have to be recovered.  

The problem is I have drawers and there too full. It starts out neat but eventually becomes a tool trap. That lost treasure box in the wood shop. I have many tool boxes that I over  the years have found lost treasures I have had to repurchase because  I simply couldn't find it.

 

Over the last week I have been looking into a 20 year problem. I either have to sell stuff I don't want to or I have to make better space of the stuff I want to keep. 

Edited October 5, 20196 yr by BillyJack

2 minutes ago, BillyJack said:

 I simply couldn't find it.

I feel ya on the lost tool thing.  Started labeling with tape what is in drawers late last year after I built this storage cabinet.  Designed this so the handles are at the bottom of the drawer, allowing the tape to be put across the top where I can read it.

 

Memory is excellent, the recall, well it has it's moments.  

 

Woodbutcherbynightq I appreciate the ideals. They may not work in my situation but something is better than nothing and there could be something I might have missed. So glad to have the info....

10 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

I feel ya on the lost tool thing.  Started labeling with tape what is in drawers late last year after I built this storage cabinet.  Designed this so the handles are at the bottom of the drawer, allowing the tape to be put across the top where I can read it.

 

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I did the same when I got some drawers from a closing drugstore. Just could not remember which drawer and with this setup did not want to open six drawers to find something. Oh by the way i found that having shallow drawers in the place of the deep ones I have more than doubled storage available.

 

 

Had lots of empty drawers when I got this now full. I used Large font on computer and printed black on white the taped on with wide clear tape.

Edited October 5, 20196 yr by Gerald

16 minutes ago, BillyJack said:

and there could be something I might have missed.

 

Sometimes I see stuff here and wham it hits me how to solve a unrelated problem.  Ya just never know.  

 

 

14 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Oh by the way i found that having shallow drawers in the place of the deep ones I have more than doubled storage available.

I agree Gerald.  Made this cabinet with deep drawers originally.  Came back later and refurbed and ungraded to ball bearing slides.  What a difference.

 

Now for others looking in, keep in mind that time spent working on cabinets, and the shop, is time away from other projects.  So if you are doing side jobs this kind of organization eats time.  Give and take type deal.  For me I don't do side work.  Just stuff for me and the wife.  

 

I think I counted up 8 staple and nail guns. 3 cordless dril and one cordless impact. I have 3 pneumatic  drill/screw guns. Looking around just compressing this stuff will help around the shop if I can compress and yet be functional. On the wall, drawer or in the box it's just making my shop disfunctional..just more confusion

 

 

 

Here's old pictures from 2005. I've lived with this problem way tool long..

 

I don't see beer as a problem.

18 hours ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

I feel ya on the lost tool thing.  Started labeling with tape what is in drawers late last year after I built this storage cabinet.  Designed this so the handles are at the bottom of the drawer, allowing the tape to be put across the top where I can read it.

 

Memory is excellent, the recall, well it has it's moments.  

 

 

 

Yeah, I have a whole bunch of those labeled "Misc. stuff" and "Misc. Tools"

 

(Not really)  Fed up with the disorganization at the furniture bank, we spent most of a day a couple of weeks ago sorting, boxing, labeling and discarding junk.   Just as we were about to wrap up for the day, the president's brother, who does some odd jobs, came in and said, "I need somewhere I can just pile stuff while I'm working on something."   We gave him a cart with shelves of tools and a plastic box full of misc. parts that he can sort through while we know that this box contains 3" screws and the one next to it contains 2 1/2" screws, etc.  The new discipline is that if you take something out, you put it back where you found it.

Facing the same issue at the theater set shop.   I'm trying my best there, too.  Those who don't will be destined to sort 20 lbs of screws one day.

59 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

I don't see beer as a problem.

I collectted that beer and some bottles or liquor.

Edited October 5, 20196 yr by BillyJack

Gunny and I will be over. Better stock up.

@Gerald, two things in your image I love, I could drink a gallon of Simply Orange in one sitting, love the stuff! And the Blue Marples chisel, still have a set I bought over 25 years ago, Marples, not Irwin. They are my favorite "Go To" chisel.

@John Morris maybe me but I am not that fond of them . On mine the edge seems to chip easily

1 minute ago, Gerald said:

On mine the edge seems to chip easily

You are absolutely right, they do. But I try to avoid that, but yes they do chip. I have other chisels that seemed like a good thing to have, I'd use them for awhile, just to find my Marples ending back up on my bench, they just seem to drift back to me.