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Right now I’m making the best of what I have to work with. I have a very small (approx. 5’x6’) workshop taken up mostly by a small workbench for assembly and light sanding/planing. I also use it for finishing. When I have to cut or work with large pieces of wood, I move outside into the carport (another feature of our current rental that I dislike). I have a small Workmate portable bench that I take outside to support my work. I have a small set of tools: hand tools like screwdrivers, hammers, big box store type planes, cordless Ryobi drill and circular saw, corded Hitachi jigsaw, random orbital sander, and a corded Worx circular saw. Other than some finishing supplies, that about makes up my workshop. Hopefully we’ll be moving soon.
Here are some quick pictures to show you guys what I’m dealing with. If you look carefully at the first picture, you can see that my tiny shop doubles as storage for my lawn mower and an outdoor project that I’ve completed. In the next two, you can see my off-the-floor storage “solutions.” The last two are of my workspace in the carport where I do most of my work. The second to last picture shows all of the hand-planed shavings from a couple of projects that I’m working on.
-- Jeff in Meridian, MS
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Scott Bryan
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posted 27 days ago
Jeff, when you get the opportunity (or a new shop) a pictorial tour would be nice to see. I have said many times that any shop is a good shop. While yours may not be one of the largest, I had a co-worker who had a 10×10 shop with a jointer, planer and table saw in there. It was tight but he managed to produce some really nice furniture and cabinetry in his shop.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
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posted 27 days ago
FWIW, we’d love to see how you make the small space work for you. Anybody given tons of money can set up a great functional shop in a warehouse. It takes some real creativity to make small spaces work. We’d love to see your solutions to the space problem!
-- Trying to follow the example of the master.
a1Jim
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posted 27 days ago
Photos make us LJers happy .
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Bothus
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posted 27 days ago
Hey Jeff,
Welcome to Lumberjocks
Thanks for posting your shop description.
It occurred to me as I was reading your list of tools and looking at your projects that history will not recall the size of your shop of the tools you owned, only what you did with them.
Great job on the tables.
Bothus
-- Professional kitchen designer, amature woodworker.
Splinterman
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posted 26 days ago
Hmmmmm…..pics would be nice Jeff.
-- I will just keep doing it till I get it right.