Show us your shop!
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If any of you anything like me… then you’re a curious creature by nature…
I am very interested to see where most people work wood. I don’t know why I find it interesting to see but I do nonetheless.
I’ll go first… I have two shops, one clean and one.. well not so clean….
I am going to be building a small shed in my yard in the coming year, and it would be great to get ideas from these! 🙂 How big is your space? I was thinking of something in the 8×10 range.
Hi Max,
Nothing wrong with being curious. You might like to use the following link to look at a previous thread where members posted pictures of their workspaces:- https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/discussions/topic/show-your-workspace/
I built mine from a kit a couple of years ago – it’s 3x5m (10×16′). There are some details here:
George.
I used to have a larger shop with power tools – half of a two car garage – but when I moved, most of my stuff went into storage. I now work in about half of a small one car garage. The bright side is that the small shop was the impetus to get into hand tool woodworking – turns out to have been a good thing.
I like your workbench @mattmcgrane
My workbench is due an upgrade I think! I want to make one like Paul demonstrated
Finally found the time to take a picture of my garage for you all. I envy you all with windows in your workspace.
I work out of my 20 x 20 garage that I have to share with all the household items like lawnmowers, etc. I’ve been in this house for a bit over two years, and the garage is set for a fix up soon, including building a proper bench. As you see, I’ve been working off an old 30″ x 6′ door on a some 2×4’s, on some sawhorses, with a clamp on vise. Works good enough until I have to plane something and get a good workout chasing the door around the garage. Ha! My saws are on the wall behind me in this pic. My bench planes are kept in socks up on the corner of the wall shelf, and my 45 and router plane are in the boxes next to them on the shelf. I keep my lumber in the rafters, except the scraps from my most recent projects that are still in the corner there. I think you can just make out the totes I just built on the right side, waiting to receive some finish.
It’s not much but it is mine.
My shop is the preverbal 10 lbs. fit into a 5 lb. bag, so things get moved around hoping through magic to make the 10 into 5. It is arranged into a machine section and a bench section, with a “tool room” in the back.
Bench area looking forward with secondary bench on the right and sharpening bench on the left.
Jmahoney,
Many of the hand tools were acquired in the 70s and 80s. The sharpening bench was my first “wood working” bench also built in the early 80’s. Because of work (International travel and at times based) I sold all my machines and put every thing else into storage around 94 or 95. I semi-retired about 7 years ago, pulled everything out of storage and started re-building the shop.
The shop is close to complete but….As a guy with a tool jones, I can usually find a new toy to add to the mix every now and again. Truth is, I only use a core set of tools that I would guess is less than 50 total for 95% of everything I build.
Thanks for asking,
ken
Let me bore you’ll a little more and post some additional photos of the bench area of my shop where most of the work is done. The machines are used to rough dimension stock, it is a love/hate relation. Once or twice a year I will take a rough board and four square it by hand for a couple of reasons. First to remember how and second to remind me why half of my shop is taken up by pig iron.
This is my secondary bench, it sets to the right of the main bench. It will usually have the Moxon vise mounted.
This is looking from the back side of the main bench into the “tool room” aka fibber McGee’s closet. The tool room has my bench grinders, saw vise, lathe, tool box and tools that are not used often.
And last looking down the main bench to the left.
It’s small but works>
ken
Here are some pictures of my workspace. Everything but the workbench is mobile so I can re-arrange the space as required.
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