Woodshopdemos New Shop

[woodshopdemos]

Not really a new shop but totally reorganized shop. I wanted to set it up with a work flow for cabinetmaking and then furniture. I welcome your comments.

http://www.woodshopdemos.com/reorg-1.htm

 

[Bob Marino]

Not really a new shop but totally reorganized shop. I wanted to set it up with a work flow for cabinetmaking and then furniture. I welcome your comments.

http://www.woodshopdemos.com/reorg-1.htm

Very nice John. Way nicer than when I  was there a few years back. Reorganizing a shop can be cathartic too. Makes woodworking a pleasure, not a task.

Bob

 

[nickao]

I am still working on re arranging my entire shop also and it is so much better already!

You must feel re-invigorated like in a new shop. I do and I am not even complete yet. And as always you have those pretty shop helpers to help move stuff around, that's almost worth moving the stuff around in itself!

 

[Dave Ronyak]

Very nice, John.  Thanks for sharing and explaining the concept of your layout and how you set it up.  If any of you gentlemen are ever in Akron, I sure could benefit from your expertise.  My 15ft x 25ft shop is an overcrowded mess, even without the car that I usually keep and work on there as well.

Dave R.

 

[woodshopdemos]

Bb and Nick, reinvigorated is the word. At 72, that is a task to achieve. Part of my reorganizing is so I, with my health, can actually make cabinets and furniture. Elena comes by once a week and that is a great help but I want to see progress in between. Right now a few jigs must be attended to. Number one is to make a storage location for the long guide rail. That is too precious to abuse.

 

[Dave Ronyak]

I have that 3000mm Guide Rail storage issue, too.  Currently I hang mine parallel to the ceiling up high on a pair of hooks.  The rail is safe and easy to find, but I have to climb onto my work table to get it when needed.

Dave R.

 

[Tinker]

I have that 3000mm Guide Rail storage issue, too.  Currently I hang mine parallel to the ceiling up high on a pair of hooks.  The rail is safe and easy to find, but I have to climb onto my work table to get it when needed.

Dave R.

Wish I had that problem.  with only 6-8 ceiling, I do not have wall space for off the floor storage.  all tools, shelves and cabinets must be on wheels so i can rearrange the space for nearly every project.  I have made some storage boxes that are pinned to swing down from between ceiling joists, but there are so many wires and water pipes running thru the joists there is not much room for more than three such drop down boxes.  Along one wall is heating duct, so i have my lumber rack along that wall under the duct.  My rails get stored with the lumber and end up getting moved  from level to level as lumber gets moved on or off the rack.  This winter, i had not finished with total rearranging of the shop so I am still stumbling around looking for place to put my feet, let alone working.  I few small projects are piling up at one end.  As warm weather approaches, I will start sanding the whole pile and preping for finishing.  When i can move outside, i will set up assembly line for final finishing.  I then plan on getting back to arranging shop and building more rolling shelves (sortainers stacked on Festool dolly don't have catalogue handy right now for part # are great for rearranging help and I have six of them so far) thru summer months.  hopefully, by time fall rolls around and I can get back to serious projects with space to move.

BTW:  One of my planned projects for the summer is to make a couple of wheeled frames with shelves and/or cabinets for my MFT's (800 & 1080) so i can wheel them around to open up more floor space as needed.  For cutting, it works better with them out in the center of the floor.  For small projects assembly, I like them against the wall so i have space to do other things while glue setting up.  For finishing work, I like to keep the tabels seperated.  i stack parts on the smaller table and do the clamping & glueing on the 1080.  Also rebuilding the frame my larger BS is on so I can put shelves under that with pins to hang blades in the back out of the way.  About the only thing I want stationary so for is my Rat.  I am even working out a rolling rack for mounting that.  The problem there is the dust collection.  I have enough problems with that keeping it mounted in one corner, i cannot figure a good way to handle dust if I move Rat around.  (that's another entire subject)

John, when I visited your shop, it was crowded.  But you had made good use of your space and believe me, you were quite spacious by the standards i have managed to set in my own shop.  Would love to see more of how you have rearranged.  you always have some great ideas.  Good luck to you.  i know what you mean about the 72 year old (er young) body.  That's why I have stayed at 39 for the last 39 years.  I kind of like that age  :
Tinker

 

[woodshopdemos]

Tinker, from your description of space, it is amazing that you get anything done. And the Rat -- I cant imagine that being used without permanent mounting. But you do what  you have to do. 39 was not a banner year for me. Give me year 23 and riding a destroyer thru typhoons --now that is good year, not to mention Japanese young ladies.

 

[Tinker]

John, years 22-23 were not so hot for me as I was hopping around on those Korean hillsides.  now have one leg shorter than the other and can only walk on hillsides in one direction  .  The rest of your comment i will make no comment.  Boss would kill me.
Tinker

 

[johnsonri]

John,

Amazing shop and amazing use of space!!! I love your ingenuity.

Rey

 

[woodshopdemos]

Rey,
  Thanks  for co m ments.  It is a work in progess.  Already Elena and I have made a few changes.

 

[Bob Swenson]

Dear John, :

First I can't believe that I am writing  a ?Dear John letter? and second I don't believe that you should have reorganize your shop. You have destroyed the wonderful ambiance you had in the old shop. The one thing that connected you with the rest of us sloppy disorganized wood workers.

It is also going to impair your creativity. Before when you needed that Festool Jig saw that was behind all those panels and junk, that would take a least an hour to move, your creative mind would discover the coping saw in that  pile of tools on the work bench in the tool file that we all keep, thus finding a whole new creative way to do things. Now with a well organized shop, work will be same old, same old.

I do agree that increasing the wattage in the shop helps you to keep a better eye on Elena. On that note it might be a good idea, for the sake of safety, to have her wear a bikini top, heck you might as well go all the way and have her wear the bottom too. Then for finishing you could consider an off the shoulder, low cut, evening gown.  ;D

I guess it's progress.

Remember, a prissy clean well organized shop is a sign of a sick mind. ;D

Bob

 

 

[nickao]

"Then for finishing you could consider an off the shoulder, low cut, evening gown".

Is the evening gown for Bob or Elena, it isn't clear by your post.  ;D

 

[Jay Knoll]

"Then for finishing you could consider an off the shoulder, low cut, evening gown".

Is the evening gown for Bob or Elena, it isn't clear by your post.  ;D

Nickao

If you have to ask, you don't deserve to see her wearing it  :

Jay

 

[nickao]

Hey I am just trying to figure out Bobs preference. 

 

[Bob Swenson]

Nickao,
I am perplexed by your interpretation of my post.
Makes me wonder.  :

 

[nickao]

Well I guess the joke was lost on you, sorry You can wonder about me I am all for anyone's personal chosen lifestyle.

I do sleep with my Festools in the shop lately, hopefully that is not held against me  ;D

 

[woodshopdemos]

Dear John, :

First I can't believe that I am writing  a ?Dear John letter? and second I don't believe that you should have reorganize your shop. You have destroyed the wonderful ambiance you had in the old shop. The one thing that connected you with the rest of us sloppy disorganized wood workers.

It is also going to impair your creativity. Before when you needed that Festool Jig saw that was behind all those panels and junk, that would take a least an hour to move, your creative mind would discover the coping saw in that  pile of tools on the work bench in the tool file that we all keep, thus finding a whole new creative way to do things. Now with a well organized shop, work will be same old, same old.

I do agree that increasing the wattage in the shop helps you to keep a better eye on Elena. On that note it might be a good idea, for the sake of safety, to have her wear a bikini top, heck you might as well go all the way and have her wear the bottom too. Then for finishing you could consider an off the shoulder, low cut, evening gown.  ;D

I guess it's progress.

Remember, a prissy clean well organized shop is a sign of a sick mind. ;D

Bob

   

manno manno, if this isn't a case of one ole man misleading another. Thanks Bob