Shop is going to be a must, hopefully separate from the house this time so noise is not an issue.
that's a great lookin shop, you sir do some fine work looks like you could eat off the floor, love the torsion top on your bench very strong, nice curves on the stretchers. That work bench is massive, looks like you love using hand planes alsoView attachment 1027066 View attachment 1027067
I’ve built furniture for fun since 2000. Kinda gets in the blood.
This is my main bench in the shop. It weighs 800lbs empty.
Roger that.Hammer, the house is needed to keep mama happy and if mama ain't happy...
Very classy table. It looks more like furniture than a loading bench. Lots of nice touches with the curves and the mortise and tenon joints and the pocket screws.
Great looking shop. You even swept the floor before the picture.
I love the rubber floor mats.
Terry, that’s some skill on display there. Very nice!
All I can say is "WOW", You do excellent work,and have a great shop.
I must admit,I'm jealous.
Great job on the bench. Very nice work-- only trouble is its to smallWas out in the shop early this morning. I cut the rails for the end panels and routed the grooves in those and the legs to accept the melamine insert.
Melamine is oversize to I cut shallow rabbits on the back side of the panel to fit.
Dry fit after cutting the curve on the lower rails.
Once proper fit was confirmed I drilled for the pocket screws and assembled the end panels. I cut the curves on the long lower rails and drilled for pocket screws in those as well and assembled the base.
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I added supports for the lower shelf and cut the melamine and installed. Once the base was assembled I moved it onto the floor and added the top. I kinda like it. Sill need more sanding and then I'll put a few coats of wipe on poly on it and call it good.
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ive got alot of stuff on casters to--you remind me though ive got a cabinet with two radial saws and a compound miter saw i think i will caster.Some thoughts from living in my own shops for lo these many yrs.
I've changed my layout so many times that now everything in my shop is on casters, including 30ft of reloading benches. I'm careful to set hts the same on everything as my radial arm/chop/miter saws and cutoff equipment is also on rolling 8ft tables....... even the horizontal bandsaw is blocked up and mobile. Some of my rolling tables have 110VAC on all faces. I like them all to be stable enough that I can mount a barrel vise on even the short end and easily make 150ftlb torque with no movement/tipping. And good enough wheellocks for swaging bullets.
I hook to walls (and to each other) using tabs and screws
For those few setups without locking casters, like my welding bench with steel casters, I throw chain on the concrete floor and wrap it around the wheels
All I can say is "WOW", You do excellent work,and have a great shop.
I must admit,I'm jealous.
Terry, another idea worth considering might be to make flat trays, possibly with low dividers to kind of keep things from moving around... but use bullet or brass boxes for parts containers. Not like you'll have a shortage of them
I've tried the factory made parts tray/boxes and they do work pretty well, but they seem to break awful easily and inevitably when I need a replacement, they've stopped making that particular size/configuration... :/
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