Inspirational workshop layout
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- BuckeyeDennis
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Inspirational workshop layout
If you're like me, and need to make better use of available workshop space, this video should inspire you. The guy has a well-equipped and useable power-tool workshop in a 8' x 6' outbuilding!
It's made possible by outstanding organization. I think the guy must have made his living as a lean-manufacturing consultant ... or maybe he's just an unusually-talented natural neat-freak.
It's also an exceptionally well-done video. Check it out:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtRWwvGHeY[/youtube]
It's made possible by outstanding organization. I think the guy must have made his living as a lean-manufacturing consultant ... or maybe he's just an unusually-talented natural neat-freak.
It's also an exceptionally well-done video. Check it out:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCtRWwvGHeY[/youtube]
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Great video! Thanks for sharing it.
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Very cool video. Wow, I thought I was obsessive about organization !!
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Me too! I have a drawer for screwdrivers and another for wrenches and still another for hammers, etc. Absolutely obsessive! My only problem is "Which drawer to look in".
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Drop a hint that you would like a label maker for Christmas, one that does large print.dusty wrote:Me too! I have a drawer for screwdrivers and another for wrenches and still another for hammers, etc. Absolutely obsessive! My only problem is "Which drawer to look in".
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10ER #23430, 10ER #84609, 10ER #94987,two SS A-34 jigsaws for 10ER.
1959 Mark 5 #356595 Greenie, SS Magna Jointer, SS planer, SS bandsaw, SS scroll saw (gray), DC3300,
Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Eff that guy. He makes me feel bad about myself.
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Interesting and impressive but not me... I would love to be a little more organized but if I "had" to function like that I would probably either quit woodworking or put a gun to my head...
My life is far too full and my interest far too broad to even consider working like that.
I was always an organization nut at work but not in my home shops.
My wood shop and my farm shop are fairly organized as far as tools go, its just all of that excess "STUFF" that is in the shops that make them look a bit of a mess.
Different strokes for different folks.
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My life is far too full and my interest far too broad to even consider working like that.
I was always an organization nut at work but not in my home shops.
My wood shop and my farm shop are fairly organized as far as tools go, its just all of that excess "STUFF" that is in the shops that make them look a bit of a mess.
Different strokes for different folks.
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I did not equip with Shopsmiths in spite of the setups but because of them.
1 1988 - Mark V 510 (bought new), 4 Poly vee 1 1/8th HP Mark V's, Mark VII, 1 Mark V Mini, 1 Frankensmith, 1 10-ER, 1 Mark V Push-me-Pull-me Drillpress, SS bandsaw, belt sander, jointer, jigsaw, shaper attach, mortising attach, TS-3650 Rigid tablesaw, RAS, 6" long bed jointer, Foley/Belsaw Planer/molder/ripsaw, 1" sander, oscillating spindle/belt sander, Scroll saw, Woodmizer sawmill
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Perhaps his surname is Studley.
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
JPG wrote:Perhaps his surname is Studley.
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- BuckeyeDennis
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Re: Inspirational workshop layout
Interesting analogy. If you think about it, his workshop is his tool chest. And he works inside of it.JPG wrote:Perhaps his surname is Studley.
I noticed that the workshop was lacking a couple of things that I take for granted in my own shop: storage for lumber, and storage for finishing supplies and other chemicals. I suspect he keeps that stuff somewhere else.
The video did give me a new appreciation for french-cleat organization. I sheathed my own workshop walls with white pegboard, which is pretty versatile. But while you can easily move individual tools, relocating an entire group of tools is a PITA, and so it rarely happens. And it’s harder to get more than one layer of tools on the wall, so you can’t use the space as efficiently.
I do have some pegboard brackets that would let me hang entire tool-organizer modules, much like a french cleat. You install one of the brackets at each end of of the organizer, and insert them into the pegboard holes to hang it. But if there happens to be a stud behind the pegboard where you want to hang it - at either end of the module - it won’t mount in that location.
But there’s nothing to stop me from putting french cleats on top of my pegboard walls.
My biggest problem is that I have a bunch of stuff in my workshop that really doesn’t need to be there. Job one is to get that stuff moved somewhere else, or get rid of it.