My Workshop

[Mrk67mark]

Well, I finally broke out the camera and took some pictures of my shop. It is an attached two car garage, approx. 20'x19'. There are 8 110v outlets spread around the shop. For lighting I only have 3 of the two bulb, four foot florescent shop lights, with a few of those clamp on lights that I move around as needed. Nearly everything is on casters or mobile bases. I used to park my truck in the garage, but because my truck is big, I had to pull within 5-6 inches of the wall. That got old pretty quick, so the truck stays in the driveway now. The pictures are on photobucket, as I didn't know if that was the best way or not. Enjoy, and questions, comments or suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks.
Mark

Here are the pics.

[final_t]

Too organized. Too clean.

[poolhound]

Very organized indeed, will you come and sort mine out

I would also guess that Ryobi must love you nearly as much as you love them. I think you have a better stock than HD

[bigstick509]

Very nice shop, I really like your clam shell power tool storage idea. Any other info or pics would be appreciated.

[dbhost]

Nice shop. That clam shell thingamajig appears to be one of the projects from that Wood Magazine special publications on shop ideas...

Interesting tool selection... I see you like cordless drills...

[chopnhack]

Very nice, Mark! Only missing one thing in that great shop of yours.....

DUST!

LOL, go make something

[thestinker]

See its shops like that is why I will never post pictures of mine Seriously, that makes my shop look like the dust monster puked everywhere after a bad night of binge drinking. Oh wait, no my shop just looks like that regardless of how nice yours looks....real nice Mark.

Riley

[pelligrini]

That's a pretty nice setup. Lots of good ideas for storage.

What are you going to do when you buy more clamps?

[Hoover]

Nice!! But::

[Pappy]

Nice set up, Mark. I noticed the bench plane sitting on a plywood 'shelf'. You need to either keep the iron retracted when stored or cut a slot in the plywood under the mouth. The second option is my preference so the cutter height is always set.

[Alex Franke]

Awesome. Looks like I'm going to have to build one of those power tool boxes! Great work!

[Wood_workur]

Very nice, I like the big rolling clam shell for most of the tools. Kinda like having a tool chest for the big stuff.

[Mrk67mark]

Thanks everybody for the nice comments, and really it's not that clean. I just swept before taking pictures. Honestly I have more trouble keeping leaves out than sawdust.

Any other info or pics would be appreciated.

Mike, I'm not sure what exactly you wanted to see, so I took some more general pics. It's all made from 3/4" plywood. Each half of the shell is 33"x60" and 12" deep. They are connected by a full length piano hinge. The top and bottom are rabbeted into the sides. The shelves are in dado's. The pegboard has 1/4" spacers behind them for clearance of the pegs. The backs are 1/4" plywood just nailed on and flush trimmed. When fully opened it is NOT very stable, which is why it's up against my lumber rack, but closed or in a "v", I can roll it around with no problems.





Look there is dust!


Slots cut for circular saw bladeguard





This screw is for the lock to catch.

Pappy I do keep the blade retracted in that plane, but the slot in the plywood is a great idea. Thanks!
Mark

I meant to ask, for future posts with pictures, which is the preferred method. Putting in a link to photobucket (or similar) or putting the pics directly in the post?
Thanks again

[pelligrini]

I meant to ask, for future posts with pictures, which is the preferred method. Putting in a link to photobucket (or similar) or putting the pics directly in the post?
Thanks again

I kind of like both, not everyone will follow external links. Putting a few on the BT server in a post, and the rest somewhere else works well for me.

[SARGE..g-47]

Nice shop, Mark. I see them better posted on the forum..