Home work shops

[EvilTwin]

That's a nice looking dolly under your Unisaw. Is it a custom build or a store bought?

Custom I guess.  It's a piece of 3/4 plywood painted black with some aluminum angle on the edge and some castors on the bottom.  The base was original to the saw and decent enough that I tightened everything up and painted it black to match.

[jteneyck]

Going to try to add pics to my earlier post.

Well heck here is my earlier post, reposted(?):

  My wood shop is a 400 square foot building behind the house. Stick construction ( PreFab TuffShed ).
Insulated, drywalled, epoxy coated floor, 60 amp electrical service. Almost all the tools are second hand,
acquired over the years.











  

That's a really clean shop, Mark.  I have no clue how you, and some others who posted pictures of their shops, keep it so neat and clean.  

Is the fan hanging from the ceiling just for air circulation or are there filters over it to help clean the air?  

How do you like those floor tiles?  It looks like they are just where you walk and not actually under any of your machines, correct?  

John

[Bob Vaughan]

By 1996 my two sons had grown and gone. The back yard was now my play area.  I had a 24x40 shop building put up.  There's a double door up back for the upstairs storage area entrance plus a pull-down stairway inside for inclement weather access.  Inside there's a main woodworking shop room, a metalworking room, bathroom, and storage room.  Gas heat and air conditioned.  It suits me just fine.  I hjave a wood turning area and lumber storage area in the basement of my house (walk-out basement).

   

   

[fredhargis]

Bob, when I built my detached shop I considered having my turning stuff separate from the shop and located in the basement. I asked around if anyone had done this, and every reply I got (this was 8 years ago) said it was a bad idea. How has that worked out for you? Is it awkward having some of the stuff out in the shop building versus in a room with the lathe?

[Bob Vaughan]

Bob, when I built my detached shop I considered having my turning stuff separate from the shop and located in the basement. I asked around if anyone had done this, and every reply I got (this was 8 years ago) said it was a bad idea. How has that worked out for you? Is it awkward having some of the stuff out in the shop building versus in a room with the lathe?

Carrying stock back and forth is a petty nuisance but nothing compared to the space a woodturning area would take up in my shop.  I wouldn't have it any other way.  Woodturning is a specialized activity that I don't do often like I do general woodworking.  I can only use so many bowls and turned furniture parts.  Room for a tenoner and mortiser is far more valuable for woodworking.

Turning area below in the basement.

   

   

   

   

[MarkSingleton]

"  Is the fan hanging from the ceiling just for air circulation or are there filters over it to help clean the air?  

How do you like those floor tiles?  It looks like they are just where you walk and not actually under any of your machines, correct?   "

John



   Standard 20" box fan. I use an electrostatic ( washeable ) filter behind it.  I also run a JDS filtration unit, also on the ceiling.  In addition,
there are other filter fans scattered around.  Mainly because I have not gotten around to better filtration, ie a cyclone system. I am still 
using a shop vac with a dust deputy.     I take filtration VERY seriously as I have a hemi diaphragm on my left lung ( half the lung is simply
non-functional ).  Probably born that way according to my Pulmonologist.

   As for the 'tiles' , they are the foam anti fatigue mats ( interlocking ) from Harbor Freight. If they get damaged or too grungy, they
are easily replaced.   Probably harder to see what they are, because I had to reduce the pic size so much, to get them posted here. 

[Bob Vaughan]

"  Is the fan hanging from the ceiling just for air circulation or are there filters over it to help clean the air?  

How do you like those floor tiles?  It looks like they are just where you walk and not actually under any of your machines, correct?   "

John



   Standard 20" box fan. I use an electrostatic ( washeable ) filter behind it.  I also run a JDS filtration unit, also on the ceiling.  In addition,
there are other filter fans scattered around.  Mainly because I have not gotten around to better filtration, ie a cyclone system. I am still 
using a shop vac with a dust deputy.     I take filtration VERY seriously as I have a hemi diaphragm on my left lung ( half the lung is simply
non-functional ).  Probably born that way according to my Pulmonologist.

   As for the 'tiles' , they are the foam anti fatigue mats ( interlocking ) from Harbor Freight. If they get damaged or too grungy, they
are easily replaced.   Probably harder to see what they are, because I had to reduce the pic size so much, to get them posted here. 

The fan exhausts to the outside.  There's a sliding panel behind it.  I open the basement door to get cross through ventilation when needed.  I haven't used it in decades.  I learned real quick to open the door first.  Decades back I didn't do that and it sucked the fireplace ashes out into the living room.  Caught some chin music for that.

Floor tiles are VAT (I suspect) from the 1960s when the house was built.  I moved the back wall back several feet to get a longer work area in the 1970s.

[tablesawtom]

First off, my apologies to Dereck. It doesn't look like the hammer slider takes up anymore room than the usual cabenite saw with a 36 inch fence .  Well I staked out my new shop today, it looks to be 22 X 30. The wife thinks it should be back farther. Which opens up a L shaped building. After having a 45 x45 shop the will seem really small but after seeing and reading about some of your shop it sounds like a lot of room

  I am currently in the basement with a drill press and a mini lathe and accouple of saws in the garage.

I am loving seeing pictures of some shops and reading about all of them so keep them coming please . I am getting some ideas for my shop, when ever. I am amassed at all the well equipped shops. It seems that all that replied are from older well seasoned woodworkers, Seeing peoples shops kind of says something about the the experienced level and now I can understand where some of their comments come from.

Please, I would really enjoy hearing from more of you.

Tom

[jteneyck]

Derek's slider is a nice little, short stroke machine, targeted towards people doing furniture and other fairly small work.  It's much smaller than sliders aimed at people cutting sheet goods or straight line ripping with the carriage.  Those things take up a lot of space and are not easily moved.  

Said another way, your needs will dictate the size of the machine needed to accomplish it.  

John

[fredhargis]

Wen we bought this place I had my shop building put up. It's a 32' x 50' garage (basically) with 10' ceilings and 6" walls. I put in a partition wall, making the shop portion 32' x 30', then a "back room" for lumber storage, mechanical work, and odds and ends storage. This is the largest shop I've ever had and so far it's worked out good. It is heated with a gas furnace, and i have a window AC for the hottest days like the stretch we just went through. While I wish i had plumbing It's tolerable without it and in my case the cost of doing that far exceeded the value. I minimized the number of windows to have as much wall space as possible, and put a 9x7 OH door in the shop half, with a 12' x 8' OH door in the back room. Both rooms have entry doors, and there's a 42" door between them. In the pic of the rocked walls you can see the outlets are all at 52", and every other box is 240V, some 20amp and some 30 amp. The 120V outlets are all 2 gang with 2 duplexes. Light are all LED that plug into outlets, that allows me to put them wherever I want, and easily replace any fixtures that fail.