I'm still headed towards the purchase of a house without a shop of the size I am used to - about 400ft2. It has a little 12x12 shed that will be my shop, at least initially. We're thinking of adding another 1 car garage eventually (it might be my shop (but my experience with making lots of dust in the garage is that I get negative feedback) and also allows a bigger room over). But the need to make long cross cuts plus the need to let a couple yorkies in and out has me thinking.
My current cross-cut arrangement is a long table with more than 8 feet on either side of the saws and stops for repetitive cuts. I can't do this, exactly, in a 12 foot wide shed. But what if I had doggie doors a little more than a foot wide on the two walls at the end of a 12 foot wide crosscut table? Then I could slide boards out the doggie doors when necessary to do longer cross cuts. I'm thinking of the kind with magnetic closures and a plastic inner door you put in place to close up. I could even make my own with thick clear plastic and magnets.
Any experience or thoughts?
My current cross-cut arrangement is a long table with more than 8 feet on either side of the saws and stops for repetitive cuts. I can't do this, exactly, in a 12 foot wide shed. But what if I had doggie doors a little more than a foot wide on the two walls at the end of a 12 foot wide crosscut table? Then I could slide boards out the doggie doors when necessary to do longer cross cuts. I'm thinking of the kind with magnetic closures and a plastic inner door you put in place to close up. I could even make my own with thick clear plastic and magnets.
Any experience or thoughts?
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