New Shop Update

The online woodworking shop is going to take an extra week or two to get up and running. We are getting orders coming in a bit faster than we had thought we would to start with so before we get going too far we decided to remodel the inside of the shop.

Made these three black boxes for a customers tv room, each box holds 30 dvds or games, now they are thinking they would like a couple more to put in there to hold more stuff!

As it was we were having to push the tools, table saw, router, sander, miter saw and planer into the middle of the shop so we could use them.. and since it is a very small shop... we would have to step over cords and move things to get to other things and it just was not working as well as it should be. We were making it work but, we have always known we would need to do something to make it work a lot better. What we would like to do is to build a new shop... for woodworking only... a huge one.. well not too huge but the size of a 2 car garage... with a different place to park the jeep. That will not be happening though so a remodel of what we have has been started.

The plan is to build custom cabinets for each tool. Right now they are on stands that roll around... but our goal is to have them in cabinets that stay put along the wall. Dave designed cabinets for each tool... they will hang on the wall.. and have drawers and cupboards for all of the tools that go with that tool. The sander will have a drawer under it for all the other sanders ( we have about 6 of them ) and a cupboard above that will have all the different papers in it. The router will have drawers in it for the router bits and tools needed to change them. Everything will have a place. This should save a lot of time, not having to go back and forth across the shop for things.

We are adding a bunch of storage and making things a lot easier to use. Getting rid of a lot of things that we just never use and won't ever use, making room for things we need. We learned when we did the house that a place for everything and everything in its place really works well. If it is something we want or need then we need to make a place that is for that item... and then keep it in the place. If we do not need or want it then it needs to go. Makes everything work so much better.. a lot less clutter and mess.

We are keeping this shelf and the pegboard here, took everything off of it and cleaned it up and now giving it a coat of white paint to clean it all up.

This wall will have a counter top, the miter saw, the router and the sander. I am just going to once in awhile give a little peek, because I am so excited about it all... I can't wait to get it all done and take a lot of good pictures to show it off.

~Michelle