To Build a Workshop or Not To Build?

You seem a bit entrapped with a limited budget and perhaps a limited interest in woodworking.
It might be a good idea to give it a few months until you have a clearer insight into what you want to do.
I am building a shop as we speak and it is costly and time consuming.
Best to be sure you really want this.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Will the shed work for heating, if you can insulate it. I’m not sure where your at maybe you need to cool it. With that small of a spce it shouldn’t be a problem. Your shed would give you 120 sqft, for what your going to be doing it sounds workable. I’m stuck in a one car garage, building furniture, but I’m always having to move something out of the way just to move.

-- Ed Collinge- Edmonds, WA.

Go with the shed conversion. You can always add a small propane heater when it gets cold. When I lived in TX the only place we had for my carving and my wife’s scroll saw work was a single car garage with lots of other stuff in there. I hand carve and power carve at times and you really don’t need to have a lot of room.

-- Growing older but not up!

For just scroll sawing and carving just use a big closet inside the house. :-)

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Depends on what you want to scroll saw. You can do some pretty huge panels scroll sawing——making small panels and joining them. But if you are never going to do anything more than the size of your scroll saw table——a small room – even smaller than your shed would work.

The size is not so much limited by your work but by your comfort level. I would not be comfortable with a shop smaller than 8×8. Anything smaller and I feel closed in.

if you already have the shed – I’d go with that.

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!