tmiller's Workshop

good shop

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

This is a nice shop that you have to work in. It looks like you have organized it well and you have done well with the space that you have. I like the pegboard storage that you have added to the walls. This helps keep your tools organized and readily available. To tell the truth I am not sure there is a lot that can be done with getting more room out of the available space that you have. It looks like you have done a pretty good job, from my standpoint. Of course I could offer to let my wife come there and organized it for you. (She does do that occasionally in my shop when her neatness OCD takes over). Your shop would look like it has more room but you would not be able to get to any of your tools. :) When she organizes my shop she believes that stacking the tools along one wall is the best way to “unclutter” it. The only problem is that by stacking them three deep you can’t get to anything without moving a lot of other tools out of the way.

Anyway thanks for the pictures. I enjoyed visiting your shop.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

I have a similarly sized shop. I have my table saw in the middle at a diagonal. My work bench faces the doors. I had it set up like yours, but realized that I was wasting space in front of the doors.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Just a couple suggestions.

Instead of the open stand for your BT drill press, put it on a cabinet with drawers. It could help clear some bench space.

If possible, depending on the construction of the bench top, mount a mixer lift under your bench for your spindle sander. Again, clearing some bench space.

Hope this helps.

Jack

-- Best regards, Jack, www.PixelsandSawdust.com

Jack – thanks for the suggestions I am seriously considering the mixer lift. I had no idea these existed.

I will also be keeping my eyes out for a cabinet for cheap on criags lift for the drill press.

-- All trees have projects inside of them, it is your job to get them out.

If you can’t find a cabinet, you can always make your own.

Good luck.

Jack

-- Best regards, Jack, www.PixelsandSawdust.com