10-17-2015, 11:05 PM
I have the Harbor Freight drill press, and I have been mostly happy with it, except for the fact that I always felt I could use more storage. I used to have a very small cabinet that held some odds and ends, as you can sort of see from this picture in 2007. I wanted something a little bigger.
I usually don't take a whole lot of pictures while I am working, because my time in the shop is pretty limited. But this was not a terribly complicated thing to build, and the few pictures I have make it clear how it was built. Since this is shop furniture, I used a lot of pocket holes for expedience.
I made the drawers using a lock miter bit. They aren't quite perfect, but for the limited practice I have had with the bit, I think they came out well enough.
I gave the carcass a couple coats of Rustoleum Flat Black high durability oil-based paint. I've been using this stuff on a lot of my shop furniture, and I like it. Goes on quick, hides a lot, and it can be touched up with a Sharpie when necessary.
The doors I painted with some leftover Killz white latex primer. It was free, and it more or less matches the white of a lot of the melamine work surfaces in my garage.
I am sure a ton of people have thought this up before and implemented it in a thousand better ways, but this is my one bit of clever in this whole thing:
Used the back half of the cabinet behind the column to store the long and/or obscure stuff I use with my drill press. However, it can be hard to get at it up against the wall where my drill press commonly lives, so I did this:
I have had the time to do very little in the way of woodworking this year, and most of it has been small shop projects such as this one. It may not be master craftsmanship, but I am proud of it nonetheless.
Thanks for your time!
JohnnyEgo
I usually don't take a whole lot of pictures while I am working, because my time in the shop is pretty limited. But this was not a terribly complicated thing to build, and the few pictures I have make it clear how it was built. Since this is shop furniture, I used a lot of pocket holes for expedience.
I made the drawers using a lock miter bit. They aren't quite perfect, but for the limited practice I have had with the bit, I think they came out well enough.
I gave the carcass a couple coats of Rustoleum Flat Black high durability oil-based paint. I've been using this stuff on a lot of my shop furniture, and I like it. Goes on quick, hides a lot, and it can be touched up with a Sharpie when necessary.
The doors I painted with some leftover Killz white latex primer. It was free, and it more or less matches the white of a lot of the melamine work surfaces in my garage.
I am sure a ton of people have thought this up before and implemented it in a thousand better ways, but this is my one bit of clever in this whole thing:
Used the back half of the cabinet behind the column to store the long and/or obscure stuff I use with my drill press. However, it can be hard to get at it up against the wall where my drill press commonly lives, so I did this:
I have had the time to do very little in the way of woodworking this year, and most of it has been small shop projects such as this one. It may not be master craftsmanship, but I am proud of it nonetheless.
Thanks for your time!
JohnnyEgo
Math is tough. Let's go shopping!