| Blog series by Loren | updated 494 days ago | 2 parts | 5906 reads | 17 comments total |
Part 1: My shop
My current shop is a 2 car garage. I’ve made some sacrifices to keep the space workable and have the machinery in there I want. I have no router table, but I can use my shaper or the Woodrat or the little green overarm router made for the printing industry. The cyclone dust collector, made from the plan first published in Wood Magazine in 1997, takes up surprisingly little floor space. Running the ducts hung from the ceiling is the only viable solution but there are more bends i...
Part 2: Workbench design - here's my truss-rod bench with skirts and tool tray
Here’s my bench, built many years ago. I’ve made some drawings to illustrate how the design works. It’s pretty straightforward but feel free to ask questions. The base stretchers are held in tension by truss rods in channels running through the legs where adjustable nuts allow dis-assembly and hold the base in a very rigid alignment. The legs are mortised into the bottom trestles. I had a Emmert vise on here at one point as a tail vise. The end cap is thus mutilated....
