The
south wall in my shop is split in two halves by the entry door. On
the left side of the shop facing this south wall is where you will find
my drill press, some sheet stock storage, a wall cabinet that houses stains,
clear coats, thinners, etc. Set out a bit from the left side wall
is my band saw. The band saw needs upgraded but will do fine for
now.
The
saw is a an older model 14 inch Enco. The saw was made available
to me when my day job workplace decided to upgrade a couple of these saws.
I just recently acquired the saw and I need to fix the throat plate and
guides and probably make a fence for it but other than that, it runs true
and has plenty of power.
You
can also see in the photo on the left (in the corner behind the saw) my
Kobalt 7 drawer top and 4 drawer bottom tool chest. The drawers all
have roller bearing drawer slides which makes it real nice to open and
close with the weight of all my hand tools. My drill press is also
located in this southeast corner of the shop.
You
can't see it from this photo, but the entry door is just out of the above
picture and to the right.
You
can see the entry door in the photo on the right which is the right side
of my shop's south wall. The top cabinet on the wall stores all my
woodworking magazines (I subscribe to seven different ones) and below it
is another cabinet that holds some of my hand sanders and other odds &
ends. Not going to tell you what is in the fridge but you can guess
if you want to.
Until
I can get the work bench built that I want, I do all my layout and assembly
work on an old door resting on saw horses. This will be the area
where I will permanently place my workbench after it is built. I
only have about a dozen workbench plans and haven't decided which one to
build..... maybe it will be a combination of one or more of the plans.
You can see that I have two of the smaller dovetailed drawers (2 of 5 that
are going into my wife's new kitchen pantry. I'll upload the photos
of her new cabinets and the finished pantry on the Projects Page very soon............
So, keep tuned!
I
made the dovetails (in the above photo) with my Porter Cable Model 4212
Dovetail Jig shown here on the left. I am really happy with this
jig but the manual is a little bit vague in places which initially caused
me to add some wood to my "bone pile". I wrote an article that gets
in to this subject a little bit and it is posted on the "Articles"
page of the web site. The router that I use with the jig is my Porter
Cable Model 890 variable speed (shown on the left) which I also use in
my router table. Currently, I clamp the jig onto the bench that runs
nearly full length along the east wall of my shop. I also have a
small bench top drill press on the bench that can be seen left of the jig
in the left photo.
The router table mentioned
above can be seen on another view of the shop on this shop tour.
That's about it for this view and I hope you can relate somehow to your
shop what it is now or what it used to be.
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