Let's see some garage/workshop pics

[dkerfoot]

Well, I drool over the prospect of a two car garage! Welcome to my very humble shop. It is a grand total of 10' x 11'. I have a single car detached garage that is so full of bikes, wheelbarrows, etc, that the only shop use it provides me is temporary storage of lumber. I did recently move a bunch of non WW stuff out of the shop into the garage, so I am still reorganizing and I actually have a bit of free shelf space!

I park my DC just outside the door. As I enter, on my right is a small but very functional workbench. I made it by laminating 2x4s and then facing it with maple to give the vice enough extra strength. Legs are PT 4x4s. Lots of stuff stored underneath, including my new Ryobi planer. To the right of the bench is an old three drawer cabinet I put on wheels. On top of it is a rotating tray for fasteners, etc

Pretty much everything except the bench is on wheels. For now, I am leaving all the carts as open shelves, since it allows me to leave things sticking out as necessary. Not very sharp looking, but very helpful.

To the left of the bench is a DP and jointer. The back wall has full length shelves that hold my scroll saw, compressor, mini lathe, many hand tools, a big unsorted pile of sandpaper (working on it), clamps, and lots of finishing supplies.

Continuing to the left is the router table. It rides on an open cart. My CM 21829 TS is visible out front. I have pegboard, magnetic strips or wall mounted tubs on pretty much any open space.

Continuing to the left, I now have my 21829 folded away and you can see my CMS and belt/disk sander and also a bench grinder along with lots of other stuff on the shelf behind.

The worst pictures are of the overhead. It is hard to picture because of the glare, but I have open joists above and I use them to store an amaziing array of stuff. You can see my dovetail jig, fence-riding multi-jig, clamps, sanders, stapler, etc. I also keep all of my tape rolls and dozens of other items that can hang on nails up there.

I've written this many times, but I love my 21829! If I weren't able to fold it away, I simply could not use this room as a woodworking shop.

[Alex Franke]

Okay -- mine's a bit of a mess right now because we're shifting a lot of stuff around the house (anything that's mine lands in the garage!) and in the garage and I try to organize some stuff a bit better.

It's a slightly over-sized one car garage. I'll try to explain where everything goes in order to get the car in there. It only takes about 15 minutes to close up the shop and more the car in.

Here it is from the outside. You see the door in the back where the wagon is? That's where all those toys go (Jeep, bike, scooter, hockey goal, stroller, etc) -- I stick whatever I can in the wagon and just cart it to the back of the garage. Then when the kids want to go play, I just cart it all outside. The pile of scraps you see will be explained in the next photo.



Around the corner in on the inside is a shelf where I keep useful scraps and other odds and ends, including stuff like umbrella strollers and tarps -- stuff you'd expect to see in a garage. The shelves are pretty empty now because part of my organizing process involves first taking everything down. :lol: All the scraps you saw in the first photo are organized by size and stored in this corner. Longer pieces are against the wall, smaller pieces are on the shelf. Still smaller but still useful pieces are in one of the white bins. There's a bucket that holds long narrow pieces and dowels.

The table was is on the left in the middle of the garage. And you can see the workbench. And yes, that is a bottle of vodka next to the fire extinguisher. Under the bench I keep things like the socket wrench set and turning tools, and a couple of hand held power tools.



Most of the bench tools go into this storage shelf I built (look in Finished Projects for details on this). When I need a tool I take it off here and put it on the bench. The cabinet is for painting supplies. The little box below it is for small parts storage (again search finished projects for details). You can just see a dust collector hanging from the ceiling above the workbench.

The tool chest rolls out for a little extra work space. Under the cabinet is where things like step ladders and other small things go when they're put away.

Behind the shelf is the band saw, and behind that is where I store both sheet goods and lumber. The sheet goods are on a rolling rack, and the lumber is stacked on a lumber rack on the back of the left-hand wall. You can see a part of each of these behind the band saw.

The nook under the bikes and in front of the wood storage (behind the band saw) is where the table saw goes when it's put away. I've rolled the storage shelf and the band saw into their "put away" positions for this photo.



The shelf in back to the left of the breaker box is for other general storage -- a box of electrical-related tools and supplies, a router kit, a box of plumbing-related tools and supplies, etc.

The jointer is pushed up against the desk in back until I can figure out a better way to store it. Under the desk is where the shop vac lives. The shelves above it contain everything from a wallpaper steamer to glues, stains, tapes, and some gardening stuff.

You can see that we have the washer/dryer in here, too. I want to move those guys upstairs.

In front of the washer and dryer is another shelf where we keep stuff like recycle bins, a cooler, and a hamper for smelly kid clothes that we want to get out of the house. It's right next to the door that leads to the kitchen.



The dresser is for things like router bits, biscuits, battery/plastic bag recycling, etc, and of course another fire extinguisher. The cabinets are for kitchen overflow storage (extra paper towels, napkins, etc), sanding supplies, workshop manuals, etc. Air tools and some power tools live on top of this cabinet (e.g. nailers, drill, dremel, etc). Then there's the thickness planer and the air compressor, which lives under it. Back in the corner is the dust collector.

[Bill in Buena Park]

I don't have any pictures just yet, but the "shop" part of my two-car garage makes use of wallspace on two sides - the right, and the back (when looking in from the roll-up entry door). The left side is entirely floor-to-ceiling storage cabinets dedicated to sundry seasonal decorations and sporting goods items. Ladders are hung from the ceiling.

Looking in through the main door, the wall on the right has wall cabinet/shelving from 1/2 way up to the ceiling, the full length, which houses the majority of my portable power tools, hardware, and finishes. Underneath, I have from right-to-left: 16g shopvac, folded 21829 TS, 26g compressor, small worktable, rolling toolbox, workbench, router table, and MS on MSUV.

The back wall is lined "shoulder-to-shoulder" with table-mounted tools, again from right-to-left: planer, BS/DP table, Disk sander/OSC table, RAS, and materials bin.

All items are on locking casters and have storage beneath the tables - I just move them into the remaining area when I work. That remaining area, when between projects, is room enough for my SUV and Kawasaki Voyager XII.

[dbhost]

I don't have any pictures just yet, but the "shop" part of my two-car garage makes use of wallspace on two sides - the right, and the back (when looking in from the roll-up entry door). The left side is entirely floor-to-ceiling storage cabinets dedicated to sundry seasonal decorations and sporting goods items.

I know that feeling. I am trying to whittle that down somewhat. I am stowing those sundry seasonal items such as camping gear inside of the giant igloo coolers, and totes, and trying to stuff as much as possible in the attic.

Ladders are hung from the ceiling.

Can you post pics of how you manage this?

Looking in through the main door, the wall on the right has wall cabinet/shelving from 1/2 way up to the ceiling, the full length, which houses the majority of my portable power tools, hardware, and finishes. Underneath, I have from right-to-left: 16g shopvac, folded 21829 TS, 26g compressor, small worktable, rolling toolbox, workbench, router table, and MS on MSUV.

Good use of space. That 16G shop vac is a good size to. Good for DC if you use the HEPA filters too!

I did notice you didn't mention a jointer. Have you found that you don't need one, or is that just the addition that hasn't come yet? I am wondering, for space reasons, I am seriously considering a benchtop planer, but I am wondering if they are really worth it at all...

My wife still has a LOT of junk in the garage / shop from when we got married, that she has not yet gotten parsed through and either cleaned up and put up (sawdust, my fault) or taken to a donation center... (We both were holding on to some very old clothes and stuff)...

I figure with the camping gear stuffed in the back corner and inside totes and coolers, I can free up that right wall. Once that my wifes stuff is out, and the BBQ stuff gets shoved in that back corner as well. The shop area can be much better organized...

[Bill in Buena Park]

dbhost,

I finally took some pictures of my shop area in the garage. Picture with lumber cart is back wall, and the ones with the Kawi are the right side wall (you'll see my 21829 folded up the corner of one picture).

One picture is a "closeup" of the ladders hanging from the ceiling.

[gary]

Posted my garage shop in a different thread. Not a clean shop like some of these but that's me!! Never teach a pig to sing, it's a waste of time and it annoys the pig.

[footprintsinconc]

my shop isnt organized at all, i am in the middle of making some real mess. i was planning on showing a glimps of my mess, but now looking at b0330923's garage, i am going to have to clean up first before i post anything.

b0330923, really well done. i have been meaning to build shelves like you did on the wall, but havent gotten around to it. what did you make those cabinet/shelves out of, 3/4" ply? how about some side views of the lumber cart and approx size.

[Bill in Buena Park]

...what did you make those cabinet/shelves out of, 3/4" ply? how about some side views of the lumber cart and approx size.

Omar, the shelving is 3/4 ply, with 3/4 pine face frames - however, credit for construction goes to the former owner, also a woodworker, I was just fortunate to benefit from his work.

The lumber cart pics are in this thread:
http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...ht=lumber+cart

Dimensions -
Base is 47"wide x 31"deep; cart is 72"high, but wheels add another ~4". Why 47"wide, when cut from full sheets of OSB? I had to trim 1/2" off each side to remove the tongues & grooves. )

[dbhost]

Bill,

Nice work on that shop! I wouldn't have thought to use ladder hooks like that, but I like it... I need to get my ladder out of the way...


I am curious about the metal universal tool stands you used though... Are they a good use of space? You seem to use the vertical space in there very efficiently, but I was wondering how having everything on its own little stand was working for you... I was considering using one of those, and building a rolling tool cart / tower with slide out basically bench tops for each bench top tool like DP, Grinder, Oscillating Sander, Planer, etc...

That looks like less of a pain to deal with, but takes up more space in the garage. I was basically wondering if that was easy to live with it that way...

[MikeMcCoy]

Bill,

That looks like less of a pain to deal with, but takes up more space in the garage. I was basically wondering if that was easy to live with it that way...

I'm going to start this weekend and reverse the process by building a large mobile cabinet similar to one in Tom Clarks book. Everything I have now is on a dedicated stand of some sort and I am literally crowding myself out of work space.

[dbhost]

I'm going to start this weekend and reverse the process by building a large mobile cabinet similar to one in Tom Clarks book. Everything I have now is on a dedicated stand of some sort and I am literally crowding myself out of work space.

Tom Clarks book? Do tell...

I was considering doing something like the tower that Alex Franke has set up. But keep the planer in the middle with basically holes for infeed, outfeed, and control / power / DC. Everything else would be moveable on it's own top that would then, in turn clamp down to a top on only one universal tool stand...

Of course this does not include the router table as it is on a cart that provides a goodly amount of small tool storage.

[Bill in Buena Park]

...I am curious about the metal universal tool stands you used though... Are they a good use of space? You seem to use the vertical space in there very efficiently, but I was wondering how having everything on its own little stand was working for you...

The stands work out pretty well for me, as I didn't have the time to spend building roller cabinets, and the HF stands are $19 each. The shelving underneath will be enclosed, with doors and drawers added. Someday, when I am ambitious enough, I will probably replace with cabinets.

Individual stands means less lifting/swapping of tools - important to me, especially when several are quite hefty.

[dlminehart]

dbhost, I notice a lot of perf board backing to the shelving, but no sign of it being used. Did your practice turn out different than theory?

[dbhost]

Nope, that's an old pic. I don't think I have a spare square inch on the pegboard now...

I had just put the peg board up and only had one pack of pegs. I soon realized those multi packs give you lots of junk you will never use. I went and just started getting the pegs I actually wanted and using them...

My garage / workshop is a serious mess right now as I am rearranging shelving and such, trying to get my seasonal / camping stuff in the right rear corner, wood working all along the right side, and lawn & garden along the left... So recent pics are rough...

My WW projects currently going on are a Bobsplans type Ultimate workbench, which I have the major panels cut for, and sitting half forgotten due to other priorities, and a greatly enhanced router table fence. Not tiltable, but I am working on a taller fence with T-track, clamps, featherboards and the like...

[poolhound]

I finally managed to take some pics of my Garage/Shop. As I have mentioned in previous threads I have had to be rather creative with a variety of mobile and dual function bases as everything must live around the edges of the garage which transforms into my shop as I move everything out for use.

Here you can see my shop being used as temporary storage for our vehicles and then empty.

The back of the shop has my main bench and is where my BT and large clamps are stored. The left and right side a pretty packed with tools and more storage. The smaller bench on the left is on raisable wheel and has leveling feet for when its moved into position. I have another worksurface/assembly table made from a door that sits on two saw horses. Its not perfectly flat but it works ok and acts as an outfeed for my saw when necessary.

I also include a shot of the shop in action. It doesnt take too long to pull everything out and get going but it would be great to have things permanently setup - one day maybe.