| Blog series by Tim Dorcas | updated 744 days ago | 2 parts | 910 reads | 1 comment total |
Part 1: A New Shop Cabinet
The last two months or so, the shop has been a mess. Partly this is due to not having a place to put all of my lumber but the bigger part is I have had no place to put the larger equipment. Recently in one of the woodworking magazines they built a shop cabinet that housed the same type equipment I was trying to organize. They built it with spruce and peg board. I had some left over melamine (melamine that just happened to match all of the other cabinets in the shop) so I went to work with a d...
Part 2: Getting Organized
With the new equipment cabinet completed, I could go to work on getting the rest of the shop cleaned and organized. I moved a bunch of stuff to the shed or outside on the side of the house. I then proceeded to sweep, vacuum and dust. Since I don’t have an air filtration system in the shop I routinely open up the garage doors and blow out the dust with the air compressor (a trick I saw at the Wood Whisperer). A (Reasonably) Clean Shop Next up on the list is to make another cabinet fo...


















