 Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. I'm going to give you a workshop tour today. I'm using an iPhone 7 on a gimbal, so hopefully it won't be too ragged. I'll try to do it quickly, although it is going to take a little time to explain everything that I've got in my workshop. My workshop is 10 foot wide, 20 foot long, so about 200 square feet. I'll let you translate that to square meters if you're overseas or in Australia or down under somewhere. So anyway, along the right-hand side the design and the layout is to have the table saw as the main device with an open space where I can put in some saw horses. I call them saw stallions for various uses, or I can open it up and move other tools into there. And then further down I have my samurai carpenter work bitch. Then I have an aisle going all the way from front to back so that I can move and get down to places and also move tools in and out where they need to be. On the left-hand side it's organized with everything on mobile bases. Alright, let's do a little bit more detail. Coming back here to the garage door opening. On the right-hand side in the corner there's always space for wood storage. And I kind of have, the only thing I put there are some sacrificial 2x4s that I use for breaking down sheet goods. And then I have a wall here where I hang up various jigs. You're looking at in the front there a mini cross-cut sled with max fit dovetail grooves in it. And also behind that is a tall fence board straightener tapering match fit dovetail jig that I built. I like the micro express cross-cut sled with a really precise miter. But I only drag that out and set it up for when I'm doing detailed angular stuff. I use an IVAC switch here so that my dust collection system will come on whenever I turn on whatever tool is plugged into that. Normally the tool is plugged into that is my table saw. On the wall is an underpowered shop fox one-horsepower dust collection system that's hooked up to the table saw the majority of the time. But I do have this supplemental hose that I can quickly put on to the dust collection system and then hook up to the port on my jointer. All right, sitting on top of my SawStop PCS 30. I wish I had more room with. I'd love to be able to put a router table embedded in that where that piece of wood is just sitting right now. That's not embedded in my saw. That's just sitting there. You know how horizontal spaces are. If they're available you start using them. On the SawStop I have placed my cross-cut sled and that's kind of designed with match fit dovetail grooves as well. Then I have a long bar on that that's got all sorts of measurements on it and I can put that on that cross-cut sled in order to give myself an extension arm off to the left and use my stop block on that. This is the Jonathan Katz Moses stop block. And let's see. So that's my table saw. Underneath the table saw to use the storage I have two red barrels. Big old red barrels from Ace. One takes the off-cuts that are going to go to the dump yard. And then another one under there has off-cuts that I might use later. You know how that is. You store them for a couple years and then you finally get rid of them. And then I have even some additional off-cuts and a little carton or crate of some sort. I forget what that is. An orange crate or something. All right. I have a MagSwitch feather board and just some push sticks that I've made. But primarily I use the micro jig push sticks. What do they call those? Grippers of various types. And those are actually attached to my garage door which normally is down so they're right behind my table saw where I can reach them along with a set of protective eyed glasses and hearing and a hearing protection device in case I've forgotten to bring those from the other side of the garage. And now I also have a little rack here to hold my match fit dovetail clamps. All right. Moving inside right now in my open space which is a space between my table saw and my workbench I have my, oh I guess I'd call them Samurai Carpenter Saw Horses. I call them Saw Stions. I have customized them so that the side of the top is flush with the legs. That way I can put a dovetail groove all the way down and that gives me some superior clamping capabilities if I need it. I have match fit dovetail grooves on the top of these Saw Stions as well. And here you can see how that can be used for all sorts of clamping. I find that a lot of things are cumbersome to clamp elsewhere and with these custom Saw Stions because you can put them in a carport, you can put them in the driveway, you can get them close together, you can spread them out, you can use them to cut down sheet goods, you can always get clamps underneath stuff in between things. So I just, it's my primary thing when I want to do a little bit of work and I want to do some clamping. I find it much much easier and much more flexible than trying to clamp things to my fixed workbench. So anyway I just have a little drill press table that I'm finishing up with my router sitting on top of it just to demonstrate that clamping. If you don't have these yet I'd highly recommend them. These are little Veritas bench saddles or platform saddles. You just stick them into bench dog holes in the top of 2x4 or something and then you can put a sacrificial 2x4 in there and then you can put your sheet goods across that in order to support your cut. The Dutch collection system I've added a cyclone to it. There's a top from Rockler that's got a cyclone kind of a device in the top of it on a 32 gallon barrel from Home Depot and literally 99.9% of everything goes into that barrel and very little goes into that dust bag which is good because it's a hassle to change or to empty out. Up above or to the left of the Dutch collection system is my clamp rack. Everybody's got one of those. They're all look similar. Well they're different but whatever works for you. So I got a lot of Bessie panel clamps as well as pipe clamps. Sustainers are kind of right here. I've got four or five tools that come in sustainers and so they're just stacked up. I love the way those things fit together and then I've got some other storage boxes for some sanding supplies and on top of there is my little glue station that I grabbed quickly. To the left of that I've got my jig for pocket holes and the little compressor to run some of the pneumatic tools. Alright sitting on top of my samurai carpenter workbench. Well first under it is my Festool HEPA you know shop vac and so I connect that to a number of my Festool tools. I don't have that many. I have three or four. They're pretty expensive. You got a budget for those puppies and save up for them but man once you get one they are beautiful. So sitting on top of the workbench right now is a station. You say what in the world is that? Well all of those dominoes that you see there tape that's just a one-sided tape are so that this device called the Shaper Origin which is a CNC router. So it's got a computer on it. It connects by Wi-Fi. You can do designs in Adobe Illustrator and then send those to this device and then carve those designs in a work piece or you could just if you want to do a dado that's not going to be a through dado. This thing by itself just supports circle cutting and rectangular cutting so you just decide what side dado you want and it's extremely precise and I'm having a lot of fun with it including engraving some logo and some of the things that I do. Got the domino 500 the smaller one and I like to use my not necessarily my go-to sander but my one for special applications and polishing is the Rotex 90. I like that because you can put different heads on it for different applications whether it be polishing or whether it be running it in the Rotex mode to really do some quick and heavy carving. I have a little device that I just throw up under my workbench in order to protect it and in order to give me some clamping so it's got some match fit dovetail grooves in it. So here I'm just demonstrating how you could use that to you know laminate something together and hold it down with some match fit grooves and that just lives over here behind my apron when I'm not using it. I use a wax cotton apron. I actually have the Jonathan Cass Moses apron on order because his has got some leather pouches that he's put into it that are convenient for holding some tools that I want to hold. Alright so anyway that's my workbench it has two Veritas twin screw vices on it one on the end as well as one on the side. It has some storage underneath there I have my shooting boards and some just other miscellaneous router supplies. I love and I have at my age I have to have a rolling little work stool that's adjustable. Alright so that's kind of the left well let's talk about the tool wall a little bit more so over and near my let me back up so you can see hang on don't get dizzy I'll try not to move too much so on the wall up above my workbench I have put in just a big piece of I think you know 24, 24, 30 inch by 6 foot plywood and then use wooden pegs. I'll show you the other side of the garage I have the French cleat system so over on one side I've arranged all of my sort of measuring tools that I wanted hand my two-sided tape my inkra my fire extinguisher my bench planes several of those are Lee Nielsen one of them the big number seven is a wood river I've got the Lee Nielsen router plane and the Lee Nielsen little jack rabbit plane you know what I mean I can't come with the name when I'm filming alright I like the Festool measuring tape have a set of mortising chisels from Narex the little angular chisels from Narex as well as the regular bench chisels but my two favorite chisels are the Veritas half inch and and quarter inch and I use those majority of time I have these three back saws from Veritas two of them are dovetail saws one for under a half inch one for half inch and three quarter and then I've got the crosscut my University of Kansas banner because that's where I went spent most of my childhood as in Lawrence Kansas all the way from kindergarten through graduate school and then here's just a place where I have about 40 different small clamps as well as some of my hold downs and things for my bench my workbench alright so that's that wall next to the work bets well let me go back to one section here I have these built-in cabinets and then on top of that I have a nice iMac computer there's the small workshop guy website where you can find plans to my pocket pop-up workbenches and plans to my sauce stallions and then I just keep a number of tools there and I've got a light that's got some charging devices on it so I can keep my Bluetooth headsets charged up as well as my gimbal that I'm using to film this space is critical in a small workshop and so sitting next to my workbench it'd be nice to be able to get all the way around the workbench but you can't do that in one car garage so I like to keep my sharpening station out where I can use it if I have to do some grinding then I have the slow-speed grinder down there and then I have my Triton oscillating sander and next to that is my DeWalt thickness planer that's new I replaced the wind wasn't anything really wrong with the wind I just have some projects coming up and I used them to rationalize upgrading my thickness planer and I haven't yet put the helical heads on that but all of my buddies tell me that I will want to do that all right so again that is the right side of the garage and then I use the up high space on the walls as well left hand side of the garage so put up a French cleat system here in the back we'll talk about that more in a second down on the floor I've got the sander and then some accessories and stuff for the table saw right here where I need them put in the the dado and so forth in front of that I have my thickness planer this is a power that's not a thickness planer that's a jointer Paul Powermatic 8 inch 73 inch long I think 2 horsepower with the helical heads on that puppy I've got I'm gonna make some big Japanese style beds for two bedrooms of the ishi-tani type that I see him do I actually in ordering my jointer from Amazon which I would never do again because it came broken and then I had to replace it well anyway there was a mix up I ended up with an extra base and an extra motor so I may try to do a John highs type thing and build myself a big old rotating belt sander of some length alright so I'm looking forward to that I did a video even last week said small workshop how do you free up space get rid of your mitre saw well I lost a couple of sleepless nights and I spent a couple days in the workshop using my jigsaw and you know what I just didn't like it so during the night I'm thinking thinking and I realized how I might be able to put a mitre saw back in here and still have this space that I needed so I moved my thickness planer over next to my work bench and I added back a mitre saw but I didn't want to get a sliding mitre saw because of space that requires in the back unless you get the really expensive who is it Bosch excuse me and so this is a DeWalt 12 inch fixed mitre saw and it only mitres in one direction okay and I have that sitting on a Bora port of mate that Bora port of mate is on wheels you can take it out in the driveway you can also flip that mitre saw underneath if you want to work bench on top but I store my shop back down here it's a six and a half horsepower craftsman shop back I've added an extra long hose to it so 10 foot hose instead of the normal six or seven feet that come with it and that helps me reach over to my drill press and my bandsaw and then I incorporated into that the cyclone using the just the dust stopper from Home Depot and that works great I really really impressed for such an inexpensive arrangement French cleat system if you're not familiar with that there's a zillion videos about it and so you can see what I've got up there just different little cleats with screwdriver and pliers and scissors and hammers and this is a cool little sanding device for getting inside of small holes and stuff it's kind of a belt sander but portable wired and then I have another of those iVac system so that when I plug in my mitre saw there my vacuum comes on automatically when the mitre saw comes on and that's good because I'm always forgetting about the vacuum or having to let it run and living with the noise back behind here I have two little tops one's a small one one's a little larger one those are all designed with dog holes as you can see and match fit dovetail grooves and when I throw those soft I ends out in the driveway I can throw whichever top I want to on top of it and I have a really quick pop-up work bitch all of my screws and stuff all labeled and organized I got so tired of dealing with boxes and stuff and then my corded Milwaukee circular saw my corded DeWalt drill my battery operated jigsaw my drill drivers of various types and my circular saw battery operated I focused or decided to centralize not centralize but to use the DeWalt systems 8 18 or 20 volt XR and try to get all the tools to work on that one same battery system little engraving that I did using my shaper origin for my workshop here's the little simple devices that a lot of these tools are hanging on they're just little hooks from ace hardware and then you put them you know with the dovetail with the French cleat system on the back and then you can move them anywhere you want to and I've only had this French cleat system for maybe two months and I can't tell you how many times I've rearranged everything in order to make it more practical and easier to reach things on my miter saw one of the things that bothered me was well what how am I going to support workpieces to the right and to the left supporting workpieces to the right of the miter saw is not a problem because I've got an open doorway here so this wing comes up and and then there's a platform that gets level with the miter saw so I can support things on the right I just have to kind of move my dust collection out of the way or my dust stopper and I can pull that this out but what I found out and what I realized was I can put my jointer right here and yes it's the wrong height so it can't support an outpiece but I thought you know what there's only a small difference there why don't you just build a little jig ball which is nothing more than some oak with a little wings on it and make that exactly the right height so that then let me grab the board and demonstrate well I get this board let me show you something else I use a little supplemental storage out here in the carport where I keep some off cuts for my sheet goods and maybe if I'm in the middle of a project I store some of that project working out that these are my two by four saw stions that I'm prototyping and the plans will be available for free and those only cost you about I don't know 40 or $50 to build and then you too can have some saw stions you'll have to put some match fit dovetail grooves in them maybe anyway I store my little router table out here if I'm going to use it fine I move it into the shop it's on a mobile stand but no I just one more item I don't have room for when I'm working in my shop so I just kind of roll it out here at the beginning of the day and then I roll it back in at night or I roll it in if I'm going to use it so speaking of supporting a workpiece on this miter saw here's the way I work that out so I can support the left hand side without moving my joint or just by throwing that little bridge on there and so now I've got literally if you look down that board I can literally go till I hit that fence about 50 feet away so unlimited space that way and unlimited space pretty much to the right so now my miter saw can be used in both directions alright well the only other thing I have to show you is my inexpensive band saw that'll be the next thing that I upgrade you can only upgrade so many things at a time budget-wise so I used a little storage systems underneath that to store things I also have this right here and set at the proper height for my miter saw to the right hand side so I don't have to move my dust stopper and and raise that wing I can just set that roller bar up for the right hand support so the little wing when 10 inch two speed band saw will probably replace it with a right con what do they call it 14 inch forget the model number and then I've got a variable speed when drill press and that works just fine and I'm just finishing a new drill press table and then again down here I have my power matic bench top mortiser which is not sitting on a bench top because I don't use it that often and just can't eat up any valuable space alright so and here's a little thing I found on the internet and ordered put on my wall of all the different woods well not all the different wood species but wood species so I kind of know what's what let me put the garage door down to demonstrate the storage on there so this is a condition that I'm in most of the time when I'm working which is with the garage door closed and so I've got a little place on the garage door where I store my extra alright stop swinging store my extra table saw blades and my grippers and some of my match fit clamps that aren't already on all the jigs and then for wood storage I happen to be lucky enough that my garage ceiling I guess is taller than most so I've got a good 4 foot up above my garage door opener or rails and so I just put in a mezzanine platform up there and I've got a project in the works up there and I got some extra pipe clamps stored up there and got to try not to use that for too many things keep it for wood storage and then over on the other side I have I just have wood and and yes I got to get a step stool to get up there and grab things but that's not that hard everybody's got their own styles everybody's got their own things that they do and the kinds of things that they need so your selection of tools may be different than mine but you can definitely if you work hard at it get a lot of stuff in a one car garage and have a lot of fun for the rest of your life and doing a little woodworking please give me a like give me a comment give me a subscription and if you want to be in very rare company go to patreon there's a link down below and sign up to chip in a dollar or two a month to help the old coot cover some of his software costs small workshop guy hoping you'll be safe in your workshop have a great week