My Woodworking Shop

Here's some links to pictures of my wood working shop. It's in my
detached garage. The garage was the sales office for the model
homes, so it came finished out with drywall, and two of the three
bays divided width wise into two "offices". For 6 years it housed
my N scale model railroad, now it's the woodworking shop. One bay
is still garage, although it never sees the cars. Cars can stay outside
that's why they paint them. The wife doesn't agree but there's too
much junk in the way, so the cars stay outside.

In order to fit the table saw, and give room for infeed and outfeed
I cut out an 8 foot wide section of the "width" wall. I left the rest
of the wall for support, since we store boxes in the garage attic area.


View of tablesaw and work bench through the
cut out wall section

Reverse view of above, shows tablesaw, shopvac used for dust collection,
and pegboard with vac accessories. Far door is a 1/2 bath. Left of the
bath is the exit door.

My workbench. Just finished this, made it on a pattern from Mike Simpson's
page (http://www.his.com/~msimpson/woodworking/bench.htm). It is 6' x 3',
half-lap 2 x 4 frame, 2 x 6 legs, 3/4 MDF top, covered with 1/8 hardboard.
I altered it a bit by leaving a 6" overhang on the front edge, and a 1" notch
overhang of the top material for clamping. I'll add a vise later. Casters on
the bottom make it moveable. Very sturdy bench.

Closer view of the workbench. You can see the notch on the right
portion of the tabletop more clearly in this picture.

This view through the cutout shows the miter saw table based on the
one from Norm's workshop. Made from MDF, it's mounted on brackets made of
2 x 2, and 1 x 2, lagscrewed to the studs in the wall. This is how my model
railroad was anchored to the walls, and is very sturdy.

Looking back from the workbench. Shelves in the original doorway
and tablesaw accessories on pegboard close at hand for use.

Router table built on Norm's plan, modified.

My latest tool, a G1102 Grizzly jointer. What a great machine.

Here's a few of the projects I've completed.

Air filter- two filters on each side, a blower fan from Grainger
really moves some air.

I got myself listed on the New Yankee Workshop ! I couldn't believe it !

Thanks for the visit.

Questions or comments:
Bill Van Pelt