Doing a shop overhaul, here's your chance to actually bud into someone else's business and it's welcomed :-)

 

Here are some pics of what it looks like before, any suggestions, comments, input before I start screwing everything up?

 

P.S. Notice the entrance to my mancave right next to the shop... P.S. Built all of that myself in the back of my garage including the bathroom.

 

Let me know what you think.

 

Dr. Nevin

 

Edited February 8, 20206 yr by nevinc
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Nice place. Needs sawdust.

Edited February 8, 20206 yr by Woodbutcherbynight

There’s a little :-)

Like Gunny said and too much open space, Needs more tools. Wish I had a man cave with a large TV.

Got the wheels on this beast, bought a solid core door at discount ( minor flaw) made a bench.

What I was thinking, using a piece of 4' X 8' - 3/4" plywood to make a new bench and I would like to make half with a flip flop for two tools?  (Griner/polisher and sander)

I'd love to see it once completed, most of the flip type stations I've seen had the entire top flip.

I will make the height appropriate for my table saw so it can also be used as an extension of the saw.  Maybe be able to mount my miter saw on the other half without flipping ability, dunno, just spitballing ideas before I begin?

...Let's see here now...nice big garage, decent sized shop, man cave, and a full bath. 

...Maybe in the afterlife. 

 

I have lived here for 25 years and only about 4 years ago did I start building the mancave/bathroom, it used to all be open with a high ceiling and I had a long workbench along the back wall for my computer shop.  I finally started piecing it together and now I have it.  I am getting closer to retirement and "now" the wife wants to move in a few years.  Go figure!  Hope someone will like it when we sell since it can actually be an apartment (I think they refer to it as a mother-in-law apartment?  LOL...

Edited February 8, 20206 yr by nevinc

Instead of a flip mount the tools on ply that will fit into a cabinet , Then just remove from cabinet and mount . Logistically much easier than flip and probably more stable. You have an empty pallet and if she wants to move plan for mobility or easy relocate for most of it and will save much in the long run.

Building it, I will need to have it on wheels and maybe easy to disassemble, be my luck she will want an apartment :-(

I have also seen a smaller flip top (maybe 36 or 48 inches wide)  Not sold on the flip top idea yet.

Hoping by asking for ideas I get one or a few that will work for me.

Nothing worse than building something and then not being happy or satisfied with it... 

 

Kind of what I was thinking, it has an air compressor in the front right corner (I won't need) a router station in the back, a planer on the left middle, it has built in electric and dust collection as well and its on wheels!

 

Whew, a lot of work this one will need! Hmm...

 

Edited February 8, 20206 yr by nevinc

I am not a fan of flip tops.  Mostly because inevitably I will need both tools to go back and forth to during a build.  Kinda frustrating especially if set up takes some time.  Here are some of my work arounds, pictures explain better sometimes.  These may not work for you, or you may see a way to expand on them to work for you.  The idea here being take a look at one persons method.    You can go as fancy with the finished project as you like.  

 

This is a router cabinet inserted as a drawer.  Designed for round overs on smaller work it allows you to leave a bit in place at whatever height you wish.  It has above the table bit change ability. To store disconnect DC and close the drawer.

 

 

 

This you can modify anyway you like.  It is two contractor saws, one set for regular cutting the other for dado / finger joint work, as well as a router table for larger work.  The cabinet underneath holds jigs and tools for the saws, (blue drawers) router bits and routers (red drawers) and a host of other tools I had all over the shop (yellow drawers).  Condensed into a single workstation it makes work flow much easier.  It is on wheels, and can be moved but is rather heavy.  I have yet to move it since setting it in place in 2018.

 

 

 

Everyone has different ways to store shop supplies, this is only one of many ways to do so.

 

 

 

 

 

Some things can be accessed then just pushed back such as this grinder.

 

    

 

Some tools can be grouped together to work with one another.

 

 

3 minutes ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

Some tools can be grouped together to work with one another.

My sentiments exactly! 

Awesome pictures and great advice, thank you. I am beginning to seriously reconsider the flip flop idea.  I like the idea of making the grinder slide back and forth but remaining in the same location. I have actually seen similar items for countertop accessories!

 

Great food for thought, thanks again.

 

Dr Nevin

As for linking them together, reminds me of the old timey sawmills that ran on water power down by the creek 😊👍🏻

Hokey smokes, that is a big vise.  Looks like you have a handle on the shop.  I’d give some consideration to a hanging filtration system.  It’ll keep the dust down in the rest of the house.

Yea, do some metal work once in a while, used to be a welder.

i was just thinking of running my dust collection up and out...

Edited February 9, 20206 yr by nevinc

1 hour ago, nevinc said:

i was just thinking of running my dust collection up and out...

Mine is behind the wall.  Piped into the shop.  Less noise, and it is not in the shop.  Before I built that I had the DC in what looked like an outhouse.

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Ron Dudelston said:

I’d give some consideration to a hanging filtration system.

I agree, helps a lot.  WEN makes one that is inexpensive and seems to work well.  Or you can make your own. Mine was a gift from a friend few years back.  When I asked him for an old HVAC fan with a cage he asked me why.  Told him to make my own. 

 

After all these years he finally could buy me a tool I needed.

 

 

Edited February 9, 20206 yr by Woodbutcherbynight