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First picture is my work center. It’s just 2×4s, inexpensive 3/4 sheathing, some pine boards and luan. The top is double layer MDF. It’s bolted to the wall and the floor. It has full extension drawers, rail and style doors, a small shelf with a light above like you’d have in your kitchen cabinets. Next is my clamp rack, I saw in in one of the Shop Notes books and built it just like it was shown. It’s on wheels, allowing you to have you clamps right at hand during glue-up. Then I show my finishing cart, also on wheels. Underneath is all the solvents, finishes, brushes, etc., for finishing. On the side there looking like a mailbox is a compartment for rags. Finally there’s my table, with some junk on it – looks more natural that way. It has many mortise and tenon joints, is very heavy – but I just bouht the butcher block top. Drawers have chisels, measuring & marking and my pocket hole drill. I guess now I should build something real.
Update – added a picture of my bandsaw cut tenons and my planer stand.
-- Don, Royersford, PA
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23 comments so far
Michael1
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#1 posted 611 days ago
Very nice looking shop furniture. I really lie all of it. Very functional looking.
-- Michael Mills, North Carolina, http://www.scicaskets.com
Jayp413
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#2 posted 611 days ago
Nicely done!
flwoodhacker
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#3 posted 611 days ago
Very impressive. Gives me some ideas for a blank wall in my shop.
JL7
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#4 posted 611 days ago
Nice job Don – looks good and functional.
Jeff
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Beginningwoodworker
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#5 posted 611 days ago
Nice job on the work center.
-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker
CharlieM1958
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#6 posted 611 days ago
Wonderful example of how you can make great looking and functional stuff from inexpensive materials. Nice work!
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
smitty22
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#7 posted 611 days ago
Nice workcenter and bench! I’m not sure about building ‘something real’, I just tend to give those projects away. My workshop projects I get to keep!
-- Smitty
sgtq
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#8 posted 611 days ago
You should be enjoying those pieces for a long time, Nice furniture.
-- There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. ~William J. Clinton
ChrisN
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#9 posted 610 days ago
Very well done!!!
Thanks for sharing!!
Chris
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doncutlip
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#10 posted 610 days ago
Thanks for the comments. I don’t have a table saw yet, so what you see came from a circular saw, bandsaw (I love my bandsaw), router table, planer and jointer. Plus quite a few pocket hole joints.
-- Don, Royersford, PA
Kristoffer
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#11 posted 558 days ago
I agree with Smitty…. These are the real projects. They look great, they’re functional and they are yours to cherish. All of that other crap just seems to disappear.
I am about to move into my newest and largest shop and there is a lot of inspiration in this single post. Thank you!
-- Cheers and God Bless
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#12 posted 512 days ago
Nice shop orginzers and my i say very well built, make the sawdust fly.
Nermin
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#13 posted 490 days ago
Very nice and organized. Wish my shop looked like that
WOODGLUE
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#14 posted 490 days ago
with thoughts made by people in my past that have seen a shop look like this (beautiful by the way) i have to ask, and i’m not being smart, does it really get used or is it just for display? :) :)
WOODGLUE
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#15 posted 490 days ago
that work table is super, looks like you could put the front end of a truck on it and it woulldn’t budge. did you get plans for the table or think it up yourself?
maybe one day i’ll grow up and have a shop to look like yours! :):)
thanks
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