Workshop- in progress , Wood Area

[RobWoodCutter]

Let start by say, yes I know I have been extremely blessed.

WARNING: If the site of a clean and organized shop will cause you physical or mental distress, you may not want to look farther.

The shop was started Oct. 2007 and is 1200 sf with 10 foot ceilings. The tool area is 24'x38' and the wood storage/bathroom is 12'x24'.  The layout has been moving and shifting constantly from the beginning. I finally decided the only way to stop the moving was to take all the tools off the mobile bases.
The first view is coming in the main door:
Sink, Refrig, TV, Stereo
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Going clockwise:
Drill press, Mortiser, Panelsaw, belt/disc sander, wall shelve with all the Festool sand paper/dominos
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Turning corner:
Oscillating edge sander, 14" bandsaw (and clamps)
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Continuing:
14" bandsaw, Oscillating spindle sander, CMS, CT/boom arm, air filtration overhead
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Festool Kapex, all Festools/accessories in cabinet below:
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Turning the corner:
4'x8' assembly table, tool chest below with all handtools, Longer clamps on wall
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Unfinished corner:
Lathe,dovetail jig, planer/molder (PM15) covered and E-size plotter (covered), overhead door.
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Work in progress:
installing 5hp cyclone, overhead air filtration, A/C, 200amp electric service
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Last around the walls:
Filters, air compressor, small scroll saw by door.
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In the center end of the shop by the drill press:
Shaper w/powerfeed, 8" jointer
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Another view behind shaper:
20" planer, 25" dual drum sander
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Another view:
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Moving on to the center of the shop:
16" jointer, 18" bandsaw, portable dust collector
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Another view of center:
Tablesaw, 18" bandsaw
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Another view of center:
Outfeed table, 18" Radial arm saw
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And main workbench:
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And finally a view of the ceiling:
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Moving into the wood area:
Bathroom, fasteners
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The wood:
Shorts and sheetgoods
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Mostly exotics:
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Well that's it. Rob

 

[dltflt]

That is an awesome shop.  I hope mine can look half as good as that someday.

 

[RobWoodCutter]

For some reason the wood images did work in the first post:

The wood:
Shorts and sheetgoods
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Mostly exotics:
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Maple,Ash,Beech,Birch
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More fasteners, start of oak
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Oak mostly Red, some white
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Poplar, Goncola Alves, Leopard wood
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Cherry
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Walnut (Dogwood log on floor)
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All mahogany:
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Wider mahogany
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Zebrawood
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Hickory, Canarywood, Padauk
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Well that's it. Rob

 

[nclemmons]

Lots of that is banded.  You must have bought out a sawmill!

Great selection.  Looks like several thousand board feet for sure!

Is this a hobby shop or do you do custom furniture and cabinet work?

Thanks for sharing pics.

neil

 

[nclemmons]

Great shop!  Is it free standing or attached to your home?  Looks like it might be a metal building.  Curious what you do for heat / ac.
Looks like I see a couple of window units on one wall.

Are you running ducting under the floor or overhead for the new DC?

Thanks for sharing - really impressive.

neil

 

[RobWoodCutter]

Great shop!  Is it free standing or attached to your home?  Looks like it might be a metal building.  Curious what you do for heat / ac.
Looks like I see a couple of window units on one wall.

Are you running ducting under the floor or overhead for the new DC?

Thanks for sharing - really impressive.

neil

It is a freestanding stick built, slab on grade. The walls and ceiling are well insulation and a single 25000 btuh window A/C unit can keep the space at 68 degrees even when it is +100 degrees outside. The wall unit heater, 2.5kw, will keep the space at 65 even when it is in the teens outside. The humidity stays between 30-40 percent year round.

The cyclone duct will be run overhead, mostly above the ceiling and just drops to the groups of machines. Right now I just move the portable dust collector around.

 

[Wooden Skye]

Rob

That is a great shop, I wish I had the wood shop portion at the moment.  I noticed you have what appears to be osb under some machines, did you do a sub floor for the entire shop, or are they just under your machines?

 

[RobWoodCutter]

I got a lot of good deals on the wood.

A local fellow woodworker has a friend that ran a custom commercial window/door factory. They buy in bulk based on the job.
My understanding is they used to just store all the cut offs and extras but soon it piled up. They then started to burn it until the county nixed it. So they just put large trash containers out and tossed it. He would meet the owner on a Sunday and pull out what he wanted and haul it up for the price a gas. I would buy it for $2/BF from him. (i.e. all the oak, most of the mahogany, most of the walnut, all the maple. )

There is another woodworker locally that does small crafts items that he sales on the internet. He will buy bulk of say 500BF of Zebrawood at $4-5/bf.  He will pick the crème of the crop (30-40 BF) for his crafts and sell the rest of it on craigslist at $8/bf, which is still cheaper than most stores. In the end, the wood for his business costs him nothing and he is able to make a few hundred is extra cash. Thus he can use exotic woods for his projects he sells online and charge plain wood prices. The goncola alves, leopard wood, padauk, zebrawood was all about $4/bf since I went in half in half on the orders.

In total, I have somewhere around 4500 BF.

It should last me through my retirement years.

Also, I have an LT-15 woodmizer bandsaw mill, so eventually I can start picking up urban logs to cut/mill/dry when the normal woods start running short. Rob

 

[RobWoodCutter]

The shop is slab on grade and it was a pain on the feet/legs.

So I sealed the slab and made sure it was not going to sweat any.

I then put the OSb under all the tools, to get them off the concrete and make it easier to clean. In all the areas surrounding the tools I have the 24"x24"x1/2" interlocking matts.

It is incredibly comfortable on the feet/legs and makes the floor feel warmer in the winter.

Because the mats and the OSB are the same height, they just blend in together seamlessly.

Rob

 

[Doug B]

Great looking shop that looks really well laid out, oh for that amount of space.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Doug.

 

[mike_aa]

Looking at you shop and stores of wood I am in total awe.  All I can say is where do you find your energy?  Do you ever sleep? 

Mike A.

 

[Scott B.]

That's what I'm talking about.

 

[wow]

Looks really nice. I also have a slab-on-grade floor in my shop and like your mat/osb idea. I may have to steal it!

[big grin]

 

[semenza]

Wow, Rob, really nice!

I think we are in competition for Bessey clamp quantity.

Seth

 

[Billedis]

Beautifully done.  I'm moving to North Georgia in about a year and was going to build a 30x40 shop.  I have bookmarked as you have many great ideas.  Bill

 

[RobWoodCutter]

What is not obvious from the pictures is how the tools are aligned for maximum infeed/outfeed.

The Kapex has 9.5' to the left and 16' clear to the right. The mitre table is higher than the CMS and the OSS.

The CMS can shift forward and can have 16' clear on both sides.

The 8" jointer is clear wall to wall.

The 16" jointer has 16' clear in/out. The shaper table is a 1/2" lower but in alignment with the 16" jointer outfeed and can be used for outfeed support.

Wood can get stacked on the tablesaw before running through the 18" bandsaw. A support board can be clamped to the 16" jointer outfeed table for outfeed support of wood coming off the 18" bandsaw.

The table saw can handle a full sheet of plywood if needed and the end of the sheet can be rested on the infeed of the drum sander and the workbench is at a lower level than the outfeed table of the table saw for full outfeed support.

The radial arm saw uses the table saw outfeed for support.

The shaper can be raised 1/2" to use the 16" jointer as an infeed table support if needed.

The 14" bandsaw is set beside two lower tools for plenty of infeed/outfeed space.

The 20" planer is turned diagonal to run 12' long boards.

This is what took most of the time in arranging the tools.

Rob

 

[kelauben]

I see what looks like Biesemeyer table with the Kapex.  Is that the 3' one on the left and the 8' one on the right?  Did they line up with the Kapex table height?

Awesome looking shop.

Karl

 

[dltflt]

I also want to thank you for posting these pictures showing all of your clamps, I showed my wife you collection and now she does not think I have so many clamps.  I going show her the amount of wood you have stock piled so she will quit telling me that I'm a wood hoarder.

 

[Gwerner]

That is a great looking shop! I too recently decided to just pull everything off the mobile bases, glad I did.

 

[nfk]

That is a very nice shop.  I will definitely be reviewing these pictures for some ideas.  I don't think I have ever seen that many clamps in one place before...