WudWrkr's Workshop

We built a new house in the summer of 2004, it was our first totally new home, built to our specs, and we are lovin’ it. It’s not too big, about 1600sqft, but lots of windows and a nice open living room. Momma will go on about that and the landscaping and the location, but between us LJs I think the really sweet part is the 3rd car garage!

It’s 16×22 with 9ft ceilings and it’s almost the way I want it (twice as big would be nice, but, hey, I’m not complaining!). I still have some trimming to do and a couple more cabinets to build. I also plan to make a bench for the CMS and a moble cart for the drill press – they are both on my little work bench for now.

The pics start with a view from the door coming from the 2-car part of the garage and is looking toward the south wall where I’ve hung the shop cabinet I just put in the projects section. The pics progress clockwise around the room, the garage door is on the west wall. As you can see, the north wall is not trimmed out and most of the items there are temporary. The “junk” corner in the north-west will be the location of a DC system (hopefully by years end). The two tier bench in the middle of the north wall is something I’m storing for my son and will soon(?) be the site of my CMS bench. I will probably incorporate the thickness planer in that bench somehow.

Moving on around towards the northeast corner you can see my “plenty tall” router table next to the tablesaw. I don’t know what I was thinkin’ when I cut those legs, but at least I don’t have to bend over to route something! I’m going to add a carcase with some drawers for my router bits and accessories to the center of the table – hmmm, maybe that’s what I was thinkin’ when I made those legs…naw!

For now, I’ve got a my sheet goods leaning against the wall in the northeast corner. I had planned on making a horizontal sheet goods rack on the east wall below the lumber rack, but I got a heck of a deal on some cherry wood and I’ve got it stored there for now. I would have put the cherry over in the 2-car side, but I got a heck of a deal on some soft maple at the same time and, well, that’s where the maple is. LOML will only compromise just so much on her space!

In the southeast corner I have some “leanin’ lumber storage” and storage shelves with miscellaneous tools for now. I’m going to make a rack for knocking down sheet goods with a circular saw and put it here eventually.

Well, anyways, this is where I hang out every chance I get, drinking coffee, making sawdust, or watching a great woodworking DVD or VHS for the twentieth time. It don’t get much better than that (unless you’re talkin’ grandkids, but that’s another story!!) ;^)

Thanks for looking.

-- Steve - "Dang, no matter how many times I run it through the planner it's still too thin!"