Shop Cabinets completed

[jziegler]

Very nice. gives you a good organized shop.

[RayintheUK]

Someday I'll tackle the kitchen...

Based on this project, a kitchen looks to be well within your range, Jeff. Well done!

Ray.

[JeffG78]

Loads of nice clean work surface it looks really great. I cant wait to see what it looks like when its in full operation. Where is the table saw and other tools going to live?

What you see in the pics is just over half my shop. Right now the other part of the shop is being used for storage. I will take all the storage bins and racks out in the next few days and move them to the other part of the basement. That will give me room to leave my CMS set up and have room for the BT3100. I made the cabinet tops the same height as the table saw so I can use them as outfeed tables when needed.

There will be one more long wall left where I can put a jointer when I pick one up.

[avbclark]

Nice looking shop

Wow great work. Which issue of ShopNotes led you to this?

[JeffG78]

Wow great work. Which issue of ShopNotes led you to this?

I got it from Volume 10 Issue 59. A friend at work got the whole Shop Notes collection from his uncle. I borrowed them all and got some great ideas.

[mater]

Very nice work. They look great.

[lrogers]

Aahh, now I can see them! I think you'd make Norm jealous with those cabinets!

[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[dbhost]

Looks nice. Good clean lines, not too fancy, not too plain. Me likey...

I am thinking that looks like pine, and?

I guess that is hardboard you are using for the counter top inserts, is that right? That would make for a NICE slick surface. I know I really hate my B/C plywood top and have often wanted to cover it with some laminate of some sort...

I have a mess of discarded Southern Yellow Pine 2x4s laying around taking up space in the garage. I might just try building up a rolling workbench / cart of sorts for tool storage, and assembly space. I am seriously unhappy with my current bench layout... It worked good for me with small wood projects, and was GREAT for auto projects, but for larger assembly projects it sucks... The wall kind of gets in the way you know?

From the sheen on it, and the hue it looks like you simply applied a gloss poly over the prepped pine. Are you having curing problems with Poly this time of year? It is so humid here I can't seem to get poly to cure...

[JeffG78]

dbhost,

The frame is made up of 2x pine with 3/4" MDF end panels, shelves, and double-thick top. The doors are #2 pine with beadply panels. I then added 1/4" hardboard over the MDF top. I only finished the top and top edge banding with oil base poly. The rest was left natural. The hardboard top is held down with double sided tape for easy replacement when the time comes. The poly actually dried really quickly! it was ready to sand and recoat within a few hours. I'm hoping that the poly keeps the top in decent shape for a while.

[John's Woodshop]

Those shop cabinets look Great!!!

[rcp612]

Great looking cabinets!!!
One question,,,,,,, did your cased tools just happen to fit or was that a consideration while building?
Anyways, looks like very good organization and I really like the corner section with the drill press.

[LCHIEN]

Great looking cabinets!!!
...I really like the corner section with the drill press.

Realizing this is a 2-year-old thread popped up, I do have a comment for anyone planning a DP in the corner like this.

One of the great uses of a DP with a fence is drilling repetitive holes on a long piece at a fixed distance from the edge. With this kind of placement, its hard to imagine how he would handle drilling holes distributed along a 6-foot piece of wood - the walls would get in the way and there's no place for auxiliary outboard supports.

Just my 2 cents on DP placement. The original cabinets look great BTW- but his cabinets looking full, needs more places for more tools (just kidding I'm sure he just showed the ones he loaded up and he has other empty ones.)

[dbhost]

I never noticed that, but you are dead right... Maybe lose the shelf, and build a rolling cabinet that can be rolled into that corner to mount the DP on, roll it out when you need to use it?

If the OP is still around, how is that DP placement working for you?

[SARGE..g-47]

Very nice shop cabinets Jeff and a spacious surrounding which is a plus. Sorry to get to the party late but I obviously missed this post when you originally posted. Bet you can't keep your shop that clean when the cabinets start getting used.

Enjoy....