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Wood Shop Storage Solutions...
April 6, 2012 |
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wow. This is very impressive.
wow. This is very impressive. I love how tall the pieces are so you don't have to bend down, I'm always working with my tools on the ground and it is a pain.
I covet your router table.
And the miter station is awesome. I just may copy that! I love how it houses all of your other tools as well. OMG! It even holds your shop vac, and has a handy ledge for pipe clamps?! I would love a simple plan.
I'm really curious about your kreg jig setup on that work table too.... details please.
Well Done!
posted by birdsandsoap | on Sat, 2012-04-07 00:05
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Ahh The Ground
You've got to get up off the ground. I did that for a looooong time and my back suffered big time.
The kreg jig is mounted to a piece of plywood. Then I drilled 2 holes in the top corners and hung them on the side of the work table.
The miter station has to be custom made for your shop needs but planning it out is very important. I needed a spot for my vice and a quick spot for my speed square. So I calculated all the space needed for 3 drawers and then just added a few inches. Also measure how high your saw sits and recess your work surface exactly that amount.
Grizzly tools has a good deal on simple router table set ups right now. I'd check that out. Eventually the miter saw will be hooked up to the shop vac. I bought an outlet that automatically turns the vacuum on when I use the saw.
It's just like the other stuff. Start with the face frame and the rest will come to you.
Patrick
posted by patrickhosey | on Sat, 2012-04-07 11:20
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Alternate plans
If working without plans makes you twitch, Startwoodworking.com, Fine Woodworking and Popular Woodworking usually all have plans for shop furniture like this. There are enough variations over the years that you can usually find the features you're looking for if you do some mixing and matching. I know there was a very nice router table plan last year.
For the record, I work more like Patrick unless what I'm building gets complex.
posted by claydowling | on Sat, 2012-04-07 13:49
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Me too! i always seem to get
Me too! i always seem to get inspired by a plan, and by the end of the project, it's totally different than the original because of all of the adjustments I make. I have never even considered building shop furniture before, these photos are inspiring!
Thanks Clay for the link, I will have to go burn some time on that site as well. Someday (when I don't have a leaky garage) I will have a shop worthy of such beautiful equipment.
Great Job again, Patrick!
posted by birdsandsoap | on Sun, 2012-04-08 02:25
Impressive
Really nice job on these and oh so practical! And Patrick, thanx for serving!
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AMAZING
Uh, this is amazing. Good thing I can tell your shop vac and scraps bin have DUST on them, or I think you might be lying about this somewhere you actually work :) ! I just got around to finishing my work space table. I am planning on doing some major organizing before the heat of the summer hits, and then maybe a router table like this might make it to the top of my list.
posted by redhead_61 | on Sun, 2012-04-15 16:24
Sheer inspiration!
Patrick, with the recent release of your Farmhouse Table, I find myself watching it over and over and my jaw is always on the floor by the end. In a way, the flow and the craftsmanship is intoxicating. My family is in the process of moving to a new home and I am mostly looking forward to organizing the garage space. I need a man cave and it needs a miter saw station and a router table.
Did you construct it all with pocket holes? What material is the majority of the carcasses, face frames and drawer fronts?
Thanks for the excellent pictures and marvelous video!
Scott
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Thanks Scott
The materials are just standard pine boards from Home Depot. White pine for the face frames and drawers and 3/4 pine plywood for the cabinets. I'm glad you like the video and I really appreciate the nice words. We have some new stuff coming up, so be checking back for the router table plan.
Patrick
posted by patrickhosey | on Tue, 2012-06-12 00:54
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Thank you, Patrick!
Do you use a table saw for any of your projects? What would you estimate the cost of the miter saw station, alone, to be? For some odd reason, nice 3/4" birch plywood is the same cost as 3/4" pine/fir plywood here is Missoula, MT. An 8' x 4' sheet goes for ~$45. Is your switch for the vacuum the Rockler product like in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LmSVvOnxsI ? Sorry for all the questions. Your station is by far the closest to the what my mind has been imagining and what my garage could handle. Thanks!
posted by Scott Kershaw | on Tue, 2012-06-12 20:36
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Scott
I just bought a used Grizzly table saw. It's pretty new to me so I'm all excited about learning on it. For the most part I used a circular saw with a straight edge. Now that I have a table saw, all that should go a lot faster. The switch is very similar to that one, but I bought it from sears a few years back. The miter station is hard to make plans for. Every miter saw is different so the platforms need to be different sizes to match whatever saw you're using. Then you have to keep in mind the size of your shop vac and design it around that as well.
posted by patrickhosey | on Tue, 2012-06-12 22:18
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Used Table Saws
Table saws are something that can last fifty years or more without any trouble, so you can get them used pretty readily. You want to buy a good sturdy saw. Locally the used market is dominated by Craftsman/Sears saws. The saws made before 1962 were made by King-Seeley, a company local to me, and those are pretty good saws (I own one and really like it). The ones made after that were made by Emerson Electric, and the owners of those saws have not had such kind things to say about them.
posted by claydowling | on Wed, 2012-06-13 07:31
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router table top
I got that table top at Rockler. It's been great so far.
posted by patrickhosey | on Tue, 2013-03-12 14:47
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