oscorner's Workshop

Mark, have you added something new here? I noted in ‘Feel the Pulse” that you have added your workshop, but unless I’m dreaming, I could swear I looked at this lovely shop before today. I remeber thinking how fortunate you are to have space for the terrific sander.

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

Hello Don, I had put these same pictures on the projects forum. I had my location on the map once, but it disappeared, so I decided that now that I had some pictures that I would try it again. Thanks for the nice remarks about my shop. I agree that I am very lucky to have this shop. There is also plenty of attic space that I thought I would use to dry any green wood that I may harvest in the future.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Hi,

Thanks for visiting my shop. As for the miter saw cut off station, take a look at MsDebbieP’s workshop and see if you notice a resemblance!

From photo #6 it looks as if you have several homemade woodworking jigs. What is the one near the floor in the center for?

-- John

If I’m looking at the same thing, there is a shaving horse (w/o the foot activated clamp) with the beginnings of my adjustable table that I posted in the projects section. Near the chain for the rollup door is a tenoning jig that I built and next to it under the black case is a jig that holds my router horizontially that I haven’t finished. I’ll have to take some close ups and post on the projects page, I guess.

-- Jesus is Lord!

No, the black frame with the red lumber flag hanging from it.

-- John

Dude, I like the panel cutting saw rig… too cool!

-- Brian, Alabaster, AL

That’s a bed extender. It slides into your reciever hitch and adds another six feet to your hauling capacity. The crossbar has tiedowns. I added a adjustable strap to hold down my lumber and flags for safety. I can fit an eight foot sheet of plywood from the rear of my wheel wells to just past the tee so I can haul 10,12, or 14’ lumber with no problem.

RoyBoy, thanks it was a WorkBench project. They claimed that they built it for $50.00, but it cost me more.

-- Jesus is Lord!

I wish I had a larger shop, Mine is only 8’ x 24’, but it’s easy to heat.

If I ever catch up with my messy place I’ll put some pictures.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

You got some heavy boards to use an motor lift to get them up to your Woodmaster.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karson, I use the 1 ton engine hoist to lift my 6” jointer ( it weighs 100lbs) onto my SuperShop. It was on sale for $100.00, so I figured my back was worth it.

Dick, I use a 16,000 btu propane heater to heat my shop. I can keep it at 50 degrees on the lowest setting. Of couse, it doesn’t get much colder than the mid 20’s around here, normally.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Can I ask where did you get your bed extender? I saw one at Harbor Freight in town pretty cheap, but they sometimes scare me with their products. Or, did you make it yourself?

I’m handy with a welder too… doesn’t look complicated?

Thanks – great shop!

-- Brian, Alabaster, AL

RoyBoy I got it from Harbor Freight and it does a good job. I don’t know if you could build it and paint it for the same or less, but it is not a complicated design.

Thanks!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Os, did you find that panel cutter hard to make? About how long did that take you? I have been toying with the idea of making one and studying the ones at the big box stores (of course, their’s are metal and I would go the wood route like you did. Also, would have to clear out an entire wall which seems kind of impossible to me at this point, space-wise that is. Great shop though. Thanks for sharing.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Thanks Chip! The panel saw plans in WorkBench were easy to follow and the construction of it wasn’t hard at all. At the time I didn’t have a dado blade so I just used my regular saw blade to cut the dadoes that the sled for the circular saw tracks in. Because of this I have a little play from side to side, but will make adjustable guides to fix. It takes a lot of screws and the $50.00 to make isn’t true, at least not in Louisiana, more like $80. The only difficult part was cutting out the slots in the sled for my saw. I didn’t own a jigsaw, then, so I used my plunge router with a straight bit and a 1” paddle bit. I’m very pleased with it! The rails have some adjustment so you can square them to the frame and it will handle up to 1” material. It took me about 3 days to finish. It took me alittle longer to fiqure where I was going to place it. I wanted it near my plywood rack and that particular corner of my shop wasn’t going to be very usable with the wood storage there for more than maybe somemore storage. I’ve got about six feet from the edge of the panel saw to the wall and two feet from the edge of the frame to the saw blade, so that gives me plenty of space. I made it with the idea of needing to cut a lot of 3/4 ply for shop cabinets and such. I wish I would have thought of this when I made it and it can still be done and that is to make it where it could handle up to 2” material. This way I could use it for a crosscutting saw as well and would only need my table saw for ripping and dadoes and such. This way the space loss would be less of a waste. Just think of it, there is at least 6’ of height to it. You could crosscut six 2 X 12’s at one time. What a time saver! If you decide to build one and make it this way, let me know how it goes. Also, I use wedges to hold material less than 1” thick. The wedges put pressure on the ply to hold it against the back of the jig while there is a board that the ply sits on, if that makes sense.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Mark you have a very nice shop, and so clean! How do you do it? In the winter I’ve partitioned off a little 14×12 Room to work in instead of trying to heat the whole garage. But now I got 30×44 to work in and that is packed full of crap too. Believe it or not I have 4 lathes out there ,2 scrollsaws, 2 tablesaws, a planer and a jointer and a canoe, 17 footer, and a 350 polaris quad. So what have I gained. Nada. love ya guy, mike

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

Thanks for the kind words. Mike, you’re looking at it all wrong. You’ve been blessed abundantly and that is why it is so full. You might want to sell some things (maybe not?) First, you’ve only got two hands so you only need two of everything or less. What you don’t see is the 9 X 9 shed packed to the rafters, the 6 X 18 storage that is connected to the car port (practically full) and the outside storage that I have. When I built the shop I did everything possible to keep it just for woodworking and it is still too small.

I use my dust collection on all my tools that it can be connected to and sweep up every day, sometimes in between projects. Every now and then I get the leaf blower and blow it out, of course I have to be careful that I don’t blow out something I want. LOL.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Mark -

I sure do like your shop. I really like the wood stash! You did a great job with the panel saw. I saw a similar set-up in ShopNotes (don’t recall the issue number). I would love to have some dedicated space like this. Outstanding!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

David, the plans for this particular one came from WorkBench magazine. A fellow LumberJock reminded me of this when I posted it on the projects page. I’ll try to get the issue and page number for you, tomorrow.

Well, I don’t see in my blogs or projects, sorry I’m not sure where it is. I’ll find it in the magazine.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Thanks Os!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

David, the $50 panel saw plan is in the, December 2005 issue; page 24. They use a battery powered circular saw, but my corded one works.

-- Jesus is Lord!

Thanks!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Thanks for the info Os. Appreciate you taking the time to go over it for me. I was in the shop today trying to figure out where it could go that would optimize efficiency but with the least amount of moving hassles and lost storage space. Thanks again!

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Not having a need for a panel saw. So I’m free to comment without bias.

How often do you use the panel saw and what would be the problem with having other tools occupy the same floor space. The other tools could be on casters and move things around to get to the tool needed.

Of course it could also be said how ofter do you use a lathe, and the Woodmaster could fit in front of the panel saw and allow the use of it.

Even though I seem to have a lot of floor space, it all seems to be eaten up by something or other. I keep moving items around trying to get more efficient use of space. Where an aisle can be used to allow something to be gotten to from both side of the aisle. And, also having to move something out of the way to get to the drawers. My EX son-in-law got a bunch of shelves that had been used to hold greeting cards. I have about 16 of them. They are 24” wide and 8” high and 18” deep. They all have ball-bearing slides so they are quite useful.

That has allow me to push some items closer together and get to the drawers by standing at the side of it instead of in front of it.

It’s a great shop Os. Keep up the great work.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Thank you, Karson. I’ve moved my shop around twice in the last week and a half trying to get more efficiency. I threw away a lot of scraps that I was hanging onto in the hopes of using them, but there is no space to do that. I decided to start building some storage cabinets and workbench, so I put my panel saw into full service today. I need to take some time and tune it up a bit, so today I just cut an extra 1/4” so I could clean up the cut on the tablesaw. It is about 1/8” out of square over the 48”.

I was able to cut the carcus and began my dado cuts, today. I’m using a plan from ShopNotes ( I think it was the 2nd to last issue) that had plans for a fold down workbench alone with cubbie holes. I’m not going to get the premade cabinets, because I need the practice on making my own.

You loose about six feet of wall space on both sides of the panel saw with four feet that is the panel saw, so your looking at sixteen feet total. When I built my shop I wish I would have know about the panel saw plan, then I would have planned my outlet location differently. I would have put the lumber rack for the plywood in line with the panel saw so I could pull the sheet straight into the saw. I have to carry it over to the panel saw the way I have it. The original thought of putting it(plywood storage) where I did was that I could backup my truck and off load through the 10’ rollup door straight into it. Of course, if I could do it again, I wouldn’t have put the 10’ rollup door on the east side of the building, because I lost 14’ of useful space by doing so. It’s like a house, you have to build three to get close to what you really want.

Have a great week!

-- Jesus is Lord!

hi i’m ken i like youe panel saw i have a corner of a wall that i can use i would like to know the lay out and plans. thanks ken.

Nice panel cutting saw rig.

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

Gentlemen, sadly this fine man has gone to meet his maker.