 Tour of the small workshop guys small workshop 2018 Hola woodworkers Paul Carlson here small workshop guy So let's start the tour here Having come inside the garage doors I find the strategic place to place the table saw is about four feet inside the garage door that way Most the time even though we got great weather in in Northern, California We still because I'm in a homeowners association. I need to work with the garage door down Most of the time so I put it far enough in here to give myself some room for my infeed But at the same time if I need more then I can open the doors So I find this to be the strategic place I'm not normally working on that side of the table saw so I've put that up against the wall in Order to utilize the walls. I have experimented with other ways of doing wood storage But I will never do anything other than vertical storage again When I'm going to do a project I will plan that project and go buy the wood for that single project and then store it around various places In the workshop. Excuse me. Just say it coming off of a cold So anyway, let's try not to go too slow here I built Clamp racks and so I find that to be very very good They're all reachable I feel I've made a mistake buying 50 inch panel clamps. I just don't think I'm going to do that many jobs that size I would be happier. I believe with 24 or a 30 inch panel clamps I recently experienced that when I am working on the tabletops for my samurai workbench and Trying to use those 50 inch ears on something. That's only You know 20 inches wide Was overkill and cumbersome and a problem in a small workshop. So anyway, I store my wood here I have Like my ear muffs and my respirator and my brush And more importantly a little checklist. So when I'm getting ready to use my table saw Being a relative rookie of three or four years of woodworking I need some reminders. So I got to remind myself to open up the proper gates to my dust collection system I got to remind myself to have my push sticks push sticks ready And yes, I'd got the grippers and I feel very safe with those. I like those Obviously, I bought the saw stop in order to keep these things on my hand for the rest of my life. So Anyway, I have a checklist there open the gate have the push sticks ready get my glasses on put on the respirator put on the ear muffs and then Check my clearances make sure everything that I'm going to work on is going to go through it properly In feed and out feed last thing I want to do to get in the middle of a cut and find out that I can't push the board any further so Underneath I feel it's important to have some cushioning particularly if you're age 76 is five as I am when I'm filming this You're always going to get a lot of off cuts and so I have Just a red barrel here full of all of my scrap off cuts that then go to the junk yard or dump yard every few months Or if I'm working on a big project more often I Got the little one two three Metalworkers device for real quick measurements. I Find that if I don't have something that's really easy to set up and do then I won't use it So for my feather guide, I like this Mag switch or mega switch turn that little thing and they clamp down like crazy So that's my table saw set up here I have a little Roller type of a device so that if I need to support an M M piece that's pretty cumbersome that I can do that And then behind the table saw I have just a box With some pieces that probably will be usable again later and then the concept that I use is to use my Contractors saw Which was what I had before I had the The nice one and I just leave my dado blade on it so The contractor saw becomes my out feed table for my saw stop and My saw stop becomes the out feed table for my contractor saw if I'm going to put a big sled on here Then I do need to just pull this away a little bit so that my sled doesn't get bound up on this Because I want these to be level Dutch collection wives in this island that I have here. I have a Cyclone and then coming off the cyclone or feeding into the cyclone I have one main tube that's been split into three sections So one is permanently on my saw stop one is permanently on my Contractor saw with a dado blade in it and then the other one is on a long flexible tube and that will literally reach anywhere across my workshop and Attached to like the thickness planer the jointer the drill press the band saw Or act as my vacuum for for cleaning stuff up I have spent a lot of time creating Sleds for my table saws and then I had to rework them when I bought the new saw stop So anyway, I probably off-camera part of that time, but I'm sure you could hear me Let's move on into the garage and see another section For the Dutch collection system I have a shop fox. It's obviously hung up on the wall using good fortification across the studs because it's very heavy and then I've got the Cyclone from Rockler That's just the lid and then you go to like Home Depot and buy the 31 32 gallon, you know waste can And that I really I'm pleased with that that works really really well And it's amazing how much goes into the waste can and how little actually makes it into the bag So anyway, I'm pleased with the Dutch collection. Do I wish I had nice permanent? Ducks running all around the garage reaching every tool. Yes, but you know what? You walk before you run so right now. I'm walking with this set up and it's pretty effective. I'm pretty happy with it As far as utilizing space I've got these cross-cut sleds one for the contractor saw one for the big saw stop That is the stumpy nubs mega cross-cut sled With a multitude of jigs that go on it for things like cutting tenons and dovetails and so forth So anyway, those fit very nicely just on their ends down circling that island so that Speaking of things in a convenient central location on the floor here is my compressor Hooked up with the pneumatic hose obviously and then I keep a blower on the end of that and that is using a little thing to just hang it on the edge of the workbench and Then I can pull it over to the table saw I can pull it to the compound miter saw anywhere I need to even to my workbench if I'm you know Shaving things and cutting things and I want to blow all the debris out of the way So for today's tour I've got my garage set up the way it would be when I'm actually doing woodworking as opposed to filming videos So when I'm woodworking, I like to have my compound miter saw up and ready to go and powered up If I got it stuck over in a corner somewhere and I need to move it and plug it in and everything Then I'll end up grabbing a hand saw and doing something instead. So I like my power tools I like to use them. So the idea is to have them set up a hundred percent of time when you're actually working So I had the island over there with the contractor saw and the saw stop and The clamps and the wood storage and then I've got a second island here with my temporary work table And it is got the electrical on it and it's got storage underneath for a lot of my jigs for my Stumpy nugs mega cross-cut sled and And so this is my work table Multiple layers of MDF and plywood extremely heavy doesn't rack on me too much But it's in the process and that's what these are of being replaced with a five-foot Version of the samurai work table. So that's my project for the next couple of months I take my time and by the way, if you want to slow down your woodworking Then decide to become YouTube channel Because you'll bring your woodworking to a screeching halt until you get it all figured out So that's what I've managed to do and I'm looking forward to getting back to more of my real woodworking and less time Now that I kind of figured it out on shooting the videos lighting wise I Like to have on my work table a little movable a light when you get to be In your mid 70s your eyes start to fail and so having proper lighting is that critical I even have some shop lights that I can put up on the bicycle tires and add some additional illumination so Anyway, does it work? Looking forward to getting my samurai workbench in here with real nice materials the compound mitre saw you're looking at is on a Device called a port of mate and the port of mate swings the wings swing up and And then you can even raise a little platform. Well, why don't I show you? So let's take a look at this Port of mate. I've underneath there. Actually I have a shop back and that's connected all the time to my compound mitre saw Okay, so these wings fold up here and This even comes up as to be level with the bed here or goes down You can even release a couple of latches and Rotate that mitre saw underneath the table and pull up the other wing and have a seven foot Assembly table or work table so very very versatile. I highly recommend it and it's on rollers And so when I'm like shooting videos over here I just pull the the entire unit back over here against some of these other devices So I'm very very happy with that. I know most people have their compound mitre saw on the wall With big work benches on both sides. I find this works for me multiple ways to skin the cat. I Absolutely love The concept of the tool wall So here's my work bench and here's everything that I need with any frequency What I did was obviously this is just plywood here with some verethane on it and then drill some holes and put in some dowels and Just lay things out in an organized manner but another thing that I really like that I did was I put a just you know a inch wide by five inch and And six foot long board up above secured to the studs and then I simply put these bicycle Hooks in there. I bought about 12 of them off of Amazon hung those up there And I find that to be very very convenient To hang up my hand power tools and some of my clamps. I Considered doing cubicles But I just thought that dust would collect on the top of the cubicles dust would collect on the tools Inside the cubicles and that would be a problem. I like this better I can take out the old blower and I can just blow the dust off of everything and right out the garage door So I do that about once a month So anyway on my tool up above. I have my pneumatic tools my staplers my nail guns I have a little skill saw. I have the jigsaw. I have some clamps. I have a little You know router compact router trim router. I have some more clamps. I have some more drills Starting over here, you know, I've got my woodworking hammers. I got my kreg clamps Don't do a lot of the kreg stuff anymore. I've got my nairex Chisels both the bevel edge chisels and then also the mortise chisels I've got a number of Blades of different types separated with little styrofoam so that they're not leaning against each other I've even got some nairex Screwdrivers kind of disappointed in those. I wish they were beefier down at the end They must have been for a different purpose got my Japanese saws got my then I've got obviously my planes so The first plane I got was a Stanley Bailey number five for $69 Absolute piece of crap. So anyway, I've got some nice ones. I've got the number seven wood river It's a convenient place to hang your little magnetic angle Devices on it You know some people don't like that approach because then you got to take those off there to grab it Well, I don't grab the number seven Joints her plane all that often. I've got a brand new very happy to have it a low angle Lee Nelson Nielsen Number 62 so that's my low angle jack plane. I've got a Lee Nielsen smoothing plane number four and I have a Stanley Bailey sweetheart A smoothing plane number four again, obviously I had that first and then I bought this Why do I spend so much money on the planes? Because I'm gonna use them and enjoy them and they perform like crazy and then they're gonna be inherited by One of my sons and so I wanted him to think well of me So I thought hey, why don't I spend a couple hundred dollars extra and get the really really nice stuff Plus I like supporting Even though I didn't do it with the Wood River. I like supporting a US manufacturing company and Lee Nielsen qualifies Got my little block plane. I have the Lee Nielsen router plane Looking forward to some projects to use that and then better have a fire extinguisher Ready willing enable if you're a klutz like I am and might actually be doing some of the wrong things And then I have all my measuring devices over here. And so I'm very very pleased with the tool wall and I try to make things earn their way up there because I'm going to use them frequently So I highly recommend that so over here in my Built-in shelving Which I built long before I got into woodworking. It was just for you know as a homeowner Trying to maintain the house. I have these cabinets that I got from a Local hardware store and put them all together and put them in Pretty pleased with it. I have my computer station here This is a Google Wi-Fi device and so I have you know great access right here in the garage because this is my man cave I mean this is where I watch videos. This is where I get some time to myself. I have an Alexa echo There she turned on for me Alexa Play Elvis Presley Shuffling songs by Elvis Presley So anyway got your music got to have that in your workshop Alexa off Alexa what is three divided by eight? Three divided by eight is zero point three seven five. So anyway She's very helpful to me when I need to do conversions from From even inches to mill of millimeters and so forth So I like having my laptop out here to look up things I might be trying to build a jig that somebody's got a video on and so I run the video while I build the jig I've got some battery charging here. I've got a Basically a secret camera so that I've got motion detection built in if somebody comes into my garage I will know about it upstairs. I will have a nice picture of them I will have a video of them and the police and I will have a good time trying to get my Lee Nielsen Bench planes back so So in front of my furnace, I have my desktop drill press. It's a when I Didn't know what I'm doing when I first was buying this equipment So I went as inexpensively as I could until I could get some experience and learn what the trade-offs were and So forth actually turns out even though that's maybe a two hundred and fifty dollar or maybe less Drill press I've been very happy with it, but maybe that's the question of not knowing what you're missing That's obviously sitting in front of my furnace And my water heater I'm very careful to blow out my garage at least once a month to get all the accumulation of dust and everything Off of any ducts so that I don't end up creating a fire So that's my drill press All right, not in the most accessible place, but this isn't where I use it is my Q-Tec eight inch Jointer and I didn't spend a whole lot of money. I think less than five hundred dollars once again Not wanting to go crazy until I learned the ins and outs and the pros and cons before I upgrade to the better devices Got a little inexpensive router table got a piece of junk Ryobi router underneath there Those will get upgraded That thing's very difficult for me to work with to get it adjusted as far as the height. Obviously, I don't have it on a one of those fancy Raising and lowering devices Don't do a tremendous amount of routing that does have good dust collection on it And so I pull that cord across from the room and hook it up to that and pick that up underneath there I've stored my really nice little compact router plus the edge guide and it's a plunging router and I've got the bushings And so I'm going to use that to create some mortises for my mortise and tenon on my samurai workbench So on the remainder of this wall over here I have a pegboard system on the back and then I've got like work lights extension cords the broom sheet rocking Putty knives and things that nature a lot of Things to hold together carcasses when I'm doing joinery work staplers my Craig Devices any kind of jigs I bought extra blades for that for the band saw and so forth the band saw just a win I think the The band saw and the drill press together. I believe we're under five hundred dollars again It's been working great for me. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing But I've been able to do the things I wanted to do on a band saw when I get into maybe Finer furniture and carpentry. I'll realize that it's a piece of crap, but at this point it works pretty darn good for me Lighting wise Recommended or something. This is a little sewing machine light It's got a powerful magnet in it. It's electrical So when you got these devices and your and your next electrical Which obviously are and because they're powered you can put that puppy on there little LED lights put it where you want it and Get the illumination you need, you know these things that come with it, you know, they they need a little Viagra I don't know what how they build them But they don't they don't stay where you need them to stay so like I say some Viagra would be good for those for the stand that my Band saw is sitting on that that came with it each it all the time my sharpening system So I just take that off put it over on my workbench and keep it out if I'm doing any chiseling or any Bench plane work now Is small workshop again the secret is to find places to put things if I put that away in a drawer Then I won't get it out If I have it there where I can grab it and in five seconds have it ready to go Then I'll use it and I'll keep my stuff sharp as I work Then I've got a wind thickness planer no complaints seems to be working great again Maybe I'm just naive and don't know what I'm missing I built a a stand for it and then that stand of course has some open area to store things like dado blades and and Various devices and then in a couple of drawers for nails and screws and all of those kinds of things so that That is that section of the garage. We've made the complete tour now we we've gone from The opening right hand side all the way around my tool wall my back shelf my drill press I got a lot of stuff in here and Let me show you one more set of stuff that I have in here and finally Since I am part of a family and I do have two grandchildren living with me They're 14 year old twins. I love them boys. One of them is Got a body. I wish I had And so he's got some weightlifting equipment He's doing as he gets older and older He's doing a better and better job of keeping his stuff kind of corralled and neat and organized Because he knows that would drive grandpa nuts if it was a mess all the time So I'm happy to let him have this section of the garage He just pulled things out into the driveway does his workouts and puts them all back So That's my workshop I'm pretty proud of it Given the constraints I have with the homeowners Association single-car garage I'll I'll put some pictures of My view from the back to show you why I will not be moving and So I need to make the best of this space So I've got the beautiful view in the back and I got the nice little man cave here in the front and I am enjoying woodworking and Look forward to doing more of it look forward to doing videos for some of you beginners Share my experience with you. I'm doing a lot of Three-minute overviews on woodworking topics and then in those three-minute overviews. There are links to more extensive videos By a lot of the other expert presenters. So that's the concept. I think it should be very useful For me, it's kind of fun to do. Yeah, if you want to learn anything in life then teach it and so Having to do videos has taught me a lot about my Video shooting equipment my DSLR Premiere Pro Sketchup So anyway, it just adds a lot more flavor to my woodworking. I do warn you go before you get seduced into doing videos Make sure you really want to spend 80% of your time Working on videos and 20% of your time doing woodworking Now maybe some of those guys have worked it out where they can do better, but for me right now That's the case. I guess I'm just a real slow super klutz at producing my videos That's it a small workshop guy signing off