173 days ago
by scottb |
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Okay, so I’ve been good about the projects challenge, just bad about the posting. 27 days in, 1 project left to do… maybe I’ll wait until Friday night for some last minute, down to the wire drama!
Here’s a quick look at much of what has been going on in, and outside of the shop. Quite the mix of big and small. I wish I was able to do more “want to” than “have to” but I’m also VERY happy to have cleared a lot of those projects off the p...
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191 days ago
by scottb |
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Part of the problem, or challenge, of getting a project done every day (or doing anything in the shop ever) is the dance. The hop, skip and jump of winding your way around all the offcuts, jigs, scrap that too nice to trash, and trash that just doesn’t get out the door.
So, in my quest to move forward to having actual floor space, and plenty of covered storage for tools and materials, I’ve stepped away from the lathe, took some plywood and got started on some BIG storage boxes....
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300 days ago
by TheBoxStoreCraftsman |
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I recently had an opportunity to take advantage of what I thought could be an improved storage unit in the shop. A local office was upgrading their lateral filing cabinets and I had a chance at the used ones (all I had to do was pick them up). I thought it would be a good idea, since the cabinets are designed to hold a lot of weight and would provide some dust protection.
after a month of use, I really like them and it frees up some of my drawer space under my benches!
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465 days ago
by Stevinmarin |
17 comments »
I needed a place to store really small cut-offs. That, and a place for my shop TV.
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466 days ago
by Sailor |
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I just did another video on my drawer storage unit in my shop. I figured I would share it with everyone!
Thanks for watching!
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1259 days ago
by Brian Havens |
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This is a re-edit of the video that got me started doing videos. Unfortunately I knew very little about shooting and editing video at the time. In fact, I shot the video with a web cam, so the video quality is poor in parts. The re-edit gives it a nice face lift, but perhaps in the future, when I run low on topics, I can re-shoot the video. (Full steam ahead on Router Inlay!)
Here is the link: Working with Melamine
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1317 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
29 comments »
Grandkids And The Studio Furniture Movement
The space-time continuum changes when you add the grandkids factor to the intended work progress equation, but that is OK. Rita and I had a couple of the grandsons for the weekend and they spent some time in the shop with me.
I went out to the shop Saturday morning with the 2 boys in tow (ages 3 and 4) and thought that I would finish my organizational efforts in just a few hours – silly me. It took me all morning just to install the ceil...
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1319 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
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Almost Done
I only have a few things left on the list for this round of shop organization.
I need to get the clamps hanging on the wall. At the moment they are just laying on the floor. Before this started they were standing, piled in a corner. It was difficult to access them or pull them out individually, but I cannot neglect them for one more day on the floor. This has been their temporary home while I finished the wall.
I also need to hang the extension cords. I have a lot of ...
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1321 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
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It Just Won’t Stop!
I tore out some double doors at the end of the shop that I never use, I need the wall space to hang my clamps.
I figure that since I started doing this little reorganization I might as well finish it. I usually bite things off a couple days at a time and then wish that I had finished or done more. There never seems to be a convenient time to interrupt my work schedule for improving shop conditions, but the payoff is always big when it comes to improved work fl...
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1322 days ago
by Todd A. Clippinger |
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Getting Closer To Done
I don’t think that a person is ever done with organizing the shop but I am getting close to done for this round of organization and resetting the shop.
I finished my drywall repairs and painted the wall. I have 3 cans of old paint and all of them are marked “shop walls” but none of them match. My guess is that I did not have them labeled and at some point I opened them for identification, thought it looked like the shop wall color and marked it a...
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