 Hello Woodworkers. Paul Carlson here, a small workshop guy. Let's do my 2020 small one-car garage workshop or a woodshop tour and talk about the seven principles of laying out a small workshop. Obviously it's challenging to survive and do decent woodworking in a small one-car garage. Let me give you some of my principles for doing so and there's nothing magic about them. Everybody if you asked for seven principles you'd probably come up with six out of seven would be the same list. Here's my principles. Principle number one decide what's most important to you and then give that priority as to where you place it. For me that's my table saw and my workbench so I figure out where I want those first. Everything else will have to live within that decision. Principle number two use all the floor space underneath all of your tools to the extent possible. So here I have a couple of red barrels from Ace and I fill them up with off-cuts and then I have some other stuff underneath for storing some jigs as well as some off-cuts that I might actually use some day. Most my off-cuts I save for a year and then I throw them out. Principle number three use your wall space to the extent that you possibly can. When I look at a little bit of sheetrock right here I say oh I'm wasting some on my wall space so use your wall space every possible way that you can. Principle number four use your high space in the same way. Another word look for every possible place where you can hang up something that you don't use that often. Hang it up high and then make sure you have a nice step stool to be able to get to it. And in my case I've even got a mezzanine level up above my garage door where I store all my lumber and even a couple ladders and some pipe clamps and some other things. Principle number five have things out and available and ready to use otherwise you won't use them. An example would be like a sharpening station so I have a little card here with a sharpening station on the end of it and a grinder and if I don't have those available if I put them in the drawer I won't use them. Principle number six says a couple things might be fixed everything else in order to make a small workshop work has to be on rollers and has to be able to be moved around to be used as far as the how long of an input output area you might need so have every other possible tool on casters or on rollers. And then principle number seven is make sure you have a pair of sturdy beautiful saw stallions that's a pair of saw horses trestle style with in my case match fit dovetail grooves every place on them so that they're very very versatile. Those are my seven principle. Alright starting in this corner let's go up the right hand wall then come down the left hand wall as you're looking into the garage. So obviously I have my table saw mine is a saw stop PCS 30 in this short tour I'm not going to review the tools. I have my jigs over here homemade and purchased. I have some stories back here on the garage door to hang up things that are light and that might be needed right here on my table saw. In a one car garage there's usually two little areas on both sides of the door and so here I keep some longer off cuts as well as my sacrificial 2x4s so that when I set up my saw horses outside with my veritas platform saddles on them then I've got my sacrificial 2x4s to support my big sheet goods that I'm breaking down. So that's the table saw area let's move into the garage up the right hand side. Alright moving past the table saw is my open area protected by the fact that I've got a foldable out feed table or accessory for the saw stop that's actually from the saw stop company. Then I have a shop fox dust collection system it's kind of underpowered I wish I had a more powerful one and then that's connected to a top from Rockler in a 32 gallon barrel from Home Depot. So I use this primarily for my table saw but also I can hook it up quickly to things like my thickness planer or my jointer when I'm going to fill up that barrel with big old wood chips. A lot of the time I don't use this I use my craftsman I think about 13 gallon shop back for all those tools over there. In utilizing floor space next to this barrel is some room for a few sustainers so I have some power tools in there including the new shaper origin. Alright I don't always have like my sharpening station sitting beside my work bench if I'm going to do work with my chisels and my bench planes then I keep it there otherwise if I'm doing other kind of work I kind of roll it out of the door to get it out of my valuable work space here and then I usually move in a another assembly table on top of my saw stallion in order to make this a more effective area. So on the wall beyond the dust collection system we just have the traditional clamp racks that everybody builds in their workshop might a little clugged up because I got pipe clamps in there panel clamps and a lot of these F-style bar clamps so that's toward there. I happen to have some bars across the top of my ceiling in order to hang tripods and cameras and lights and so those just become a very effective place to put six more panel clamps. So beyond my valuable open space I have my workbench this is a five foot long version of the samurai carpenter workbench. My workbench is very very sturdy not necessarily the most utilitarian thing in the world for underneath storage and all of that there is a platform down there I do keep a number of routers down there but I just love the looks of it and I enjoyed the process of making it so very very sturdy a nice addition to my workshop particularly when you make it yourself. Hanging around the edge of that bench is always my set of samurai saw stallions modified according to small workshop guy plans in order to have a lot of micro jig match fit dovetail clamp grooves on all of the edges and on the top and bottom so those give me more width and more length when I need it. When you build saw stallions or saw horses make sure they're exactly the same height as your workbench and make sure your workbench is exactly the same height as your table saw that way the saw stallions can be used at the table saw or at the workbench or all the way in between if you really want 12 foot of workspace so what do we have behind the workbench well we've got a tool wall starting down low there's a just a place to put a lot of little f style clamps bar clamps whatever you want to call them and also the little four-inchers and then a number of things that I might use in my dog holes and then I have a big sheet of plywood and a lot of different dowels and screws and little custom holders and stuff in order to hold my hand planes my chisels my mallets my card scrapers my some of my measuring devices and all of those things of that type it's a little cluttered right now but it's going to get lightened up a little bit because I've also set up a French cleat tool wall on the other side of the garage all right so this is a very very critical territory to me I love it I have these another piece of wood 2x5 or 2x6 up above here just anchored to the studs and then I just have these tool holders from ACE nothing more than a couple prongs coming out and I find just about every possible tool will hang on those they're very very versatile so then I keep kind of my hand power tools up here measuring devices and things of that nature all in their area a few things clamps and stuff hanging there things for my bench as far as you know bench bench dog planning stops things of that nature and a number of other things that are probably going to get moved so that is the right-hand side of my garage the garage door the table saw underneath storage a Dutch collection sustainers clamps tool wall workbench and things that are used on the workbench so as we come down the right hand wall we get to the very end of the garage and this is a the built-in cabinets that I did several years ago out of a kit I didn't I didn't make these this is not woodworking this is just assembly and it's got my Wi-Fi back there my computer obviously sitting there all sorts of little things and battery chargers and little bitty hand tools and places where I hang my dust mask and my ear protection and just a variety of things including my some of my blues and stuff for here so just my little work center and you got I put in a light fixture that has some USB port so I can charge my iPhone while it's sitting there and I can charge my headset and so forth so that's this corner so let's move on over to the tall power tool so on the very back of the left-hand side I've got my water heater and my furnace and my ladder that I need occasionally to get something off the my 12-foot roof then I have my powermatic bench top mortiser here my drill press next to that and my bandsaw the drill press and the bandsaw are from when here's what I have discovered if I'll take my tall tools such as my these three tools that are all kind of higher taller and group them together number one they generally don't get in the way of each other and can easily be moved in order to get work pieces in and out and number two then they don't block a wall in other words I'm probably not going to use that part of wall maybe I will but by putting all of my taller tools in one section then that opens up access to a wall below all of my shorter tools that are on cabinets right before this shop tour I did spend about $1300 to upgrade my electricity in the shop so I'm very happy to have an outlet behind these devices now whereas I was using some extension cords before which always made me nervous at night whether I'm going to have a fire or something so this is my back left hand corner let's proceed down the left hand wall as we get to some more stuff so coming back down toward the big garage door now I have the entry door to my carport where things get rolled in and rolled out to get them out of the way and that's a secret of working in a small workshop is to get the stuff you're not going to use outside in the carport and then you'll have more room to walk around I considered building a matter saw station of the J Bates style but then I quickly decided not to in my one car garage workshop because just there wouldn't be room for anything else and so I found this really good cart from Borna called the port-a-mate and it's you can hook you can install your miter saw there and the wings fold up as you can see from the one wing there that I've got up and then that inlet or that inset comes up and gets level with the bed to support my workpiece if I want to this other wing can come up as well to support my workpiece go in the other way and if I get my shop back out of there this whole thing will rotate underneath leaving me a big flat surface I don't need that so I don't do that so I do store my shop back down there and then with this shop back hose I can reach all of the tools on this side of the garage for my desk collection and then I've got the little device so that when I turn on a power tool that's plugged into there that the shop back comes on automatically when that power tool is engaged so that's my miter saw station pretty happy with that arrangement to finish off the bottom floor of the tour we'll talk about the mezzanine in a second I've got a router table here with some storage underneath on rollers obviously I have my oscillating sander and my belt sander right there and then I have my thickness planer which does not get used there it gets brought out into this open aisle or just put right outside of the garage door then I recently upgraded my electrical which I was happy with so I got an electrical panel back there availability of 220 when I'm ready to buy something that needs 220 and then I just finished putting up the French cleat wall storage so I've only got three things hung up right now which is all my nails and everything and then my corded Milwaukee circular saw and my corded DeWalt big powerful drill and that obviously is going to get all filled up and then some of my other tool wall items will get brought over here in order to make that more attractive again and then parked right here if if I'm not working I put my sauce dyons on a cart and then I really really really like having these available to work either in my workshop or outside there's a couple other videos about these the plans are available on my website for a grand total of $9.99 and those even have 12 videos to support exactly how to build these out of three-quarter inch plywood if you're lucky enough to have it and I feel very blessed that I've got the space but I had a tall enough ceiling that I could build a mezzanine level not anything I can get up or walk on or anything but a level where I can put my larger lumber storage up there to let it get dry and so forth and the heat's good up high my panel offcuts you know sheet goods kind of are designed to go behind my drill press and my bandsaw so I could have quite a stack over there without moving those too far out and getting in my way but up here I can not only keep some large lumber but some excessive pipe clamps or extra pipe clamps and things or at least the pipes to make my pipe clamps longer and I've even got a ladder up there so anyway if you're lucky enough to have that consider utilizing it part of the principle of using your up high space well that's my workshop tour I hope that gave you some ideas on layout I'm pretty happy it keeps evolving probably a year from now it'll be different so watch for my 2021 shop tour see what I've changed but right now I feel pretty good about it and I'm looking forward to starting some new projects if you would consider subscribing that would be much appreciated I also have a patreon link down below if you'd like to support me for a few dollars a month just for a few months that would be appreciated and I'd like to thank my current patrons for their support I don't come anywhere near breaking even but that's okay I enjoy doing this so stay safe in your workshop and we'll see you in our workshop tour in 2021 and I have some other videos in the can as well I'll see you later only on this side but also on the other side and normally unless you're filming it will just go down the way I supposed to there we go I generally have to pull it out because I and when I pull it out generally something falls but I have to pull it out where and talk about the seven principles of laying out a small workshop I'm actually going to give you that I might try it again so but about 5% 10% attack where you're quoting statistics when you don't need to make up statistics that is so stupid come on dude get it together