I wanted to extend the table on my planer to help tone down some snipe. I don’t have room for a large dedicated table – I normally store the planer and pull it out as needed. So I took a 6 foot piece of 12” shelving and added a cleat to keep it from being pulled through the planer, and use this as my table. The shelf goes on the wall when not needed, taking up almost no floor space in the shop, and has worked great for me. Dusty – this is the one I was talking about.

I was visiting my parents recently and heard them discussing a cabinet they wanted to buy for their bathroom. After looking at the catalog I decided I could build it for them from materials already in my shop (basically 3 pine boards that had been lying around for a few years). So I scaled it off the picture and the stated overall dimensions and this is what I came up with. Of course, I forgot to take any pictures at all till after I had delivered it the 2 and half hours away, but at least I remembered at some point. ;-]

It wasn’t particularly difficult nor did it require a lot of skill, but my Mom is happy and that floats my boat.

Seems like I’ve been building a lot of storage lately. This came from plans in ShopNotes. It’s a pretty goodsized cabinet with a decent amount of drawer space. The moldings were made from the same stock as the cabinet on the router table. There is a shelf that i managed not to capture near the bottom that I keep some larger jigs on as well. All in all I’m pretty happy with it, and it’s one of the better looking things in my shop.

I built this to at first to get my chisels off the bench and it kind of filled up on me. It’s based pretty closely on a Jim Tolpin design from a Fine Woodworking publication (my apologies to the Jim if I mangled his name). The original picture didn’t have the pegboard, but I was weak on commitment and added the pegboard.

The materials are Beech, Walnut for the box joint drawers, and Baltic Birch ply for the door panel. I really should have used a hardwood panel for the door, but I ran out of beech :-). I rarely close the door to see it anyway.

My shop happens to include the oil furnace and oil water heater for the house, naturally located in the center of the wall and breaking up MY space. I guess it could have been worse and been in the center of the basement. Anyway, as this was pre dust collector and air cleaner, I wanted to keep chips and as much dust as possible from the boilers, and most importantly I didn’t want to drop anything into the mix.

So I built a frame to the ceiling that hangs down about 6 inches, sort of a really short stud wall that’s on the ceiling rather than the floor. I sheathed this in OSB, and added a cleat to the bottom edge. This frame sticks out 8’ from the wall, and is 8’ wide. From the cleat I hung 4×8 sheets of OSB from cleats on the top of the sheets. This makes a sort of removable wall system around the mechanicals, enclosing a space 8’ by 8’ around the them, and provides proper clearance to the burners. The first picture is of the closed space, the second is with one sheet of OSB taken down and shifted aside to access the boiler. The 4th picture shows the cleat detail. The panels hang to within a couple inches of the floor, and I stapled some heavy guage plastic (a clear carpet protector strip) that makes something of a dust seal.

The panels are connected to each other with blocks on the inside and big home-made thuimbscrews on the outside (pics 3, 5, and 6). i can get access to the systems in a couple of minutes. I installed a couple of furnace filters in the front two panels to make sure air (but not too much dust) gets to the burners.

It’s not perfect, but it didn’t cost much, it keeps the furnace area surprisingly clear of dust and debris, and I definitely don’t need to worry about dropping a big chunk of lumber into the burners. It’s completely removable for access as well.

This is an older project, but then, I’m a newer member :).
After I got my dado stack a few years back I realized the packaging was totally inadequate to store the blades and chippers safely, so I threw this together from some scrap . With the lid closed all of the individual parts are captured and can’t fly about to chip the carbides or tear up the shims (not that I throw the box around, or even turn it on it’s side anyway). I kept the reference card on the inside of the lid to keep it all easy to hand.

More from this past Christmas, a boxes for the wife, mother, and sisters in law. Curly maple + Padauk, Walnut +Yellowheart, Walnut + Curly Maple, and Zebrawood+Sapele. Basic construction along the lines of the article from last year, not sure what magazine. Bookmatched to chase the grain around the corners.

This is a chisel set I bought for a Christmas present for my brother, and the rack I built to hold them. I adapted plans (from Shopnotes, I think), to fit the chisels. Solid sapele and sapele veneer. It has a french cleat in the back to hang it up.