$1,000,000,000 worth of tools

[Music] hey folks hi guys doing hope you are all having a great day today if you haven't already entered the giveaway on my website it ends Christmas Eve 2018 if you're watching this in the future then sorry but I've got a huge giveaway on my website check it out giving away SawStop table-saw Laguna lathe rockler Woodworking in hardware is giving a tremendous tremendous amount of goodies we also have some Whiteside router bits a huge gift card and a huge dovetail package from Jonathan Katz Moses all the informations down in the description or a link to the giveaway I should say click on it enter it and good luck with that said let's get into the shop tour it's nearing the end of 2018 and my shop has changed quite a bit in 2018 that's a reoccurring theme and I think it's a good thing I think shops and and everything in life really evolves and progresses towards improvement it should be that way so lots of stuff has changed in my shop and I know that sometimes there is a little bit of envy or jealousy or just negative vibes from somebody showing off their stuff and it's not meant to be as an arrogant or look what I have type of situation it's more like a what's working for me and what I have worked my butt off to get so not everyone starts the same way with building a shop and not everybody has the same background to come from hopefully you can get some ideas and inspiration from what I'm gonna show you here in my shop and instead of wishing you had something get out there get off your butt and earn it it's always better that way so with that said oh also I just published an article a few weeks ago about my very first shop and that's kind of interesting to look at too so I'll have a link to it in the description below I'm gonna give you some overview stuff of the shop before I get into specifics of what's going on so let me back up the camera and we'll get started all right so you can pretty much see the entire shop from this angle the majority of it anyway - the wall where the camera is at this is a wide-angle lens so it makes the her shop feel bigger than what it is everybody who's come into the shop or I seen the shop in person is said that wow it's smaller than what it appears to be on the videos mainly just because of the lenses used to record the videos but it's it's not a small shop by any means but it's not massive it's it's 20 and a half feet by 20 and a half feet square and the ceiling is 10 feet off of the ground it doesn't matter what size shop any one of us has we pretty much fill it up and then every one of us wishes we had a bigger space very very rarely do you encounter situation where somebody says they have too much of a work space so doesn't matter what we have every one of us wishes we had a bigger space I would like to get out of this space and into a larger shop but it's not gonna happen within the next year - at the very earliest so a lot of things have changed here in the shop this year and I'll go into specifics with each one I'll turn the camera round and we'll start at the door going into my office and then just work our way around the shop this way but just to overview a real quick there's the miter saw station and huge storage wall over on that side one of my work benches these kind of migrate around always lives right here as the main work surface between the main working machines here and then over on this side there's we've got a drum sander my air cleaner cart cnc machine dust collection system and over there is the jointer planer combo in the middle is my table saw router table and the extension wing that's not a drill press that's a a bandsaw and my other workbench lives over there and there's a lathe in the corner and some hand tools and some other stuff into this side so I'm gonna spin the camera around and get started at the door going into my office on the other side of this door is my office and on the the office is the rest of the house so there is an isolated room that separates the shop from the house and none of the noise that I make here in the shop is unbearable or annoying in the house which is a plus and just to throw it out there none of my neighbors complain about noise I've got one neighbor he's quite a far distance away from the shop so I'm fortunate in that regard coming through the office door is my metal cabinet that I keep mainly harsh chemicals up at the top like acetone and lacquer thinner and stuff like that not necessarily normal finishing supplies like oil based stains or polyurethane and stuff just the harsher chemicals and then the rest of it is long-term storage that I don't access all the time I don't need access to all the time this is basically as far as my sticker collection got I started collecting these stickers few years back and I didn't want to clutter up the shop too much you can't get excessive with some stuff so I've got a box full of stickers that I need to figure out something to add to the collection over here this corner is generally you know it's quick grab and go type stuff but it's not anything permanent stepladder some jigs on the wall mini-split is on this wall as well that is one of the best tools one of the best investments that I've added to my shop is a way to heat it and cool it I live in Mississippi winters aren't that bad but summers are brutal just under a hundred degrees constantly in the summertime with like 90% humidity it sucks this allows the humidity to be lowered in the shop and work at it comfortable it can keep it 70 degrees but I normally keep it 75 to 80 degrees in here in the summertime so that's that was a tremendous benefit I don't know if it's showing up in the video no above right here I'll put another video up there another b-roll clip I've got some really high storage on both ends of the garage to have stuff that doesn't necessarily need to be accessed often or clutter from the house like you know Christmas tree and stuff like that I can store it up here at the top without taking up any type of storage space here in the working area down here on the ground highly highly recommend putting up high storage shelves in any working environment that you have extra room near the ceiling so I've got a drill press that is something that I wanted to upgrade for a long time but haven't necessarily done so this is a central Machinery drill press 13 inch bench top drill press from I think Harbor Freight I bought this a long time ago there is so much play in the Chuck it just doesn't drill straight all the time it wanders quite a bit and I found out that the table itself is leaning down in the front so I'll have to shim up the pillar back here I just never got around to making any efforts to upgrade it I also have one these bench top router tables underneath it that doesn't get used often but when it does it's very handy to have next to my shop back and cyclone cart because the dust collection just plugs right in and I can use it just walk up and use it this is all sitting on a nightstand that I found in the trash and put some casters on it from I think a computer desk yeah those are computer our computer chair casters down at the bottom so this is all trash and scale salvaged but it works just fine gets out of the way when I when I don't need it this is my shop vac and cyclone cart regular oversized like six and a half horsepower shop back with a clear view I don't know what it is it's the mini a CBO six I think on the backside here and all the attachments this kind of looks like a cluttered mess but it is an organized state of chaos I guess you could say everything is easily accessible and my sander pretty much lives on here I've got it plugged into an eye socket automatic switch so when you turn the sander on automatically turns the shop back on and does the job just fine I had a bunch of different hoses on here but though there's a hose kit from Rockler that has multiple attachments to it that are it's a universal done I think a universal dust port attachments that come with it and that replaced all of my hoses which is really nice so this lives in this corner it's all powered by this socket right here this this outlet right here which is on an extension cord so I can get anywhere in my shop without having to unplug this thing super super handy to the left of the shop vac cart and on the right side of my miter saw station is this area that kind of doesn't really have a dedicated purpose the only thing there's two things that I have that I really want to maintain here no matter what and that is my air quality monitor and the first aid kit so I have a dial off air quality monitor here and I'm not necessarily worried about the absolute value of what's in the air I just used this to occasionally take readings outside and check what what the meter says the quality of air is outside and I tried to maintain a better quality of air here in my shop and I do so by a pretty good dust collection system as well as an air cleaner cart which I'll show you in just a little bit so if I'm here in the shop this thing is running and it lets me know at a glance the quality of the air here in the shop I also have a first aid kit visible and it always lives right here used to not always be here it used to be in this particular drawer right here until I realized I had a friend over who could his finger not that bad but needed a band-aid and can find one as I stepped into the house so hard not having a first-aid kit that is not visible and nobody else knows where is that doesn't really do much good so it's not a massive first-aid kit by any means but it's always visible and everybody who walks into the shop can see it right here and everyone knows where it's at and this entire back wall is my miter saw station and more so than a miter saw station it is a storage wall that was the primary design element that are the primary motivation for designing this was just a huge wall of storage and then also secondary to that was putting the miter saw in it so I could have a place to live prior to this I had a bunch of boxes and crates scattered around the shop to store to store stuff which isn't efficient to go through the boxes trying to find what you need and also it isn't efficient as far as just having a bunch of crap in your way so now everything has a home know everything has a place to live and it's super convenient I'd get a lot of questions in regard to the height of the surface here and then also these drawers being up on top not being able to access them easily so the work surface I am a short guy I'm only 5 foot 6 but that wasn't I didn't really take that into consideration for the height of the work surface here this is sized because of or based upon the height of my table saw so I didn't want any horizontal surfaces here in the shop that I had control over to be taller than the table saw surface just for the ease of use of moving material from one surface to the to the next and from a tool to tool but also it doesn't get in the way if you've got some odd situation where you need to put a board you know way back here to run it to the table saw or something something along those lines so that's the reason why these the surface here is at this particular height and as far as the drawers go I wanted the highest drawer in such a at a height where I could see down inside it so this drawer for example I can open it up and I can still see everything inside it but because it is so high then you just designate lighter stuff for this height of a drawer so in this case I've paintbrushes this is my painting drawer we're painting supply drawer finishing supply drawer and then heavier stuff you want to have down here closer to elbow level so you're not lifting it up too high to get it out of a drawer it's readily accessible so like this drawers all of my mechanics type tools sockets and wrenches and all that sets all that stuff so it's it's readily accessible but you don't have to strain to get to it like the top top drawers if you were gonna put something heavy in there and then reverse reverse that scenario on the bottom drawers the stuff you don't use that often and the lighter stuff goes on the very bottom and then the stuff you use more often you just put it at the top so this drawer way down here on top is my main hardware drawer I use this drawer all the time one right below it is the secondary hardware drawer which could use a little bit more organization all of the drawers in this station are on full extension slides so it's really easy to to get to anything that you need and yeah I love this thing so above that is these cubbies which was initially meant for it still is for stuff that is used frequently that doesn't need to be in a drawer like drills and drivers or drills and drills and drivers impact drivers use those frequently they don't need to be in drawers and drill bits I use those very frequently with a drill press and also with the the cordless drills and such so they're readily available stuff like that all my glues and adhesives some small cut off scraps basically this side over here is a little bit of overflow and then this side over here is stuff that I really use all the time above that is just miscellaneous storage I've got a couple of boards acclimating for future projects I tried to keep as much lumber as possible out of the shop and in a storage shed that I have behind my house if it's just storage for a long term purposes doesn't need to take up space here in the shop so that's been very beneficial and trash can and some miscellaneous storage down there and then also you kind of can't see it yeah you can't see it I'll just move the camera I had a air compressor down in this corner for the first couple years here in the shop first few years and it was extremely loud and obnoxious so I barely ever used it I got rid of it this was just a dead space for a while so it's just actually a very very convenient spot now or smaller panel material for the CNC machine it kind of looks like crap right there but it's actually very very convenient my Rowling's stool here I was going to make a lazy susan of some kind to have a lazy susan to spray finishes on and then I realized that just why not use my little shop stool here it's already purchased no assembly required because it's already put together and it does the exact same thing so if you're looking for a lazy susan to spray finishes on just buy yourself a rolling shop stool and sit on it when you're not spraying stuff with it we're on it I've got a couple of these rolling top stands so it's got a regular roller on top and then it's got a bearing type roller system that you can add to it these are incredibly handy for I find them really handy for like around the bandsaw specifically because if you are reselling something that's kind of heavy and long well you have to balance keeping it upright as well as up against the fence tracking nice and you know nice and neat Theresa that's where I've found these to be very very beneficial is at the bandsaw I've got two of these this is my favorite edition of 2018 as far as productivity goes Super Max 1632 drum sander having something that in just a couple passes can do the the bulk of all of your sanding has just been such such a handy convenience this particular one has a digital readout that I've had a couple questions about as far as if I like it I never use it I just I just don't this collection on it is really good and the adjustment as far as the quick and slow adjustment is also really nice so you can quickly just as well as fine-tune all of this thing wish I would have gotten this a lot sooner right on the other side of it is my air cleaner cart and the exhaust is on the bottom side on this side and it kind of points up even with this table being in place or with it being right here this still cleans the air and pushes that clean air up towards the ceiling which therefore pulls all of that dusty air in the top and brings it down and I've done some testing with this as far as its location as far as the direction in which it points it seems to be doing the best job if it's in on this wall and in the middle of the wall pointing in this direction as far as like cleaning the air here in the shop it does a really really good job and that's proven by my air quality monitor so this is one of those things that I highly recommend everybody make for their shop is a air cleaner cart rather than one of them top mount typical air cleaner boxes that are that a lot of people have hanging from their ceilings I'm not saying that those don't do a good job but I am saying that something like this that not only circulates air around your shop in a circle but also circulates air top to bottom bottom the top this does a really really really good job and it was made with a salvaged furnace furnace furnace blower and so I didn't have any money in the blower itself and then it's just a couple two by fours some plywood panels and four filters all the way around it so it moves a tremendous amount of air it's relatively quiet and it that was a really really good job at cleaning the air so that's how loud it is it's not really loud at all and in the summer time if you live in a hot climate it does move a lot of air so you can get in front of it and use it as a fan that's been really handy I replaced the air compressor that I had down there with this particular one it's a really really quiet I don't know what brand it is it's a legal brand it's really really quiet it was already on so and it's got one of these flexible hoses that this this is all I need this will reach just about everywhere in my shop and it's portable enough to where I can take it out in the garage and Arab tire or take it out in the driveway and Arab tires with it or whatever so this has been handy little addition rather than having a really large air compressor that I would typically not use any way above my air cleaner cart an air compressor is my finishing supply rack that is probably the oldest surviving shop project that I have to date that was from my last shop and I've moved it around several different times it's just a very convenient little well rack for finishing supplies easy to make - so it's an oldie but a goodie and then I've got the dust collection system mainly in this wall so in the very beginning and that opening shot I guess I should have mentioned that I try to keep all of the items with dust collection in one side of the shop and power tools and such and then all of the you know the non power tool type tasks like you know using hand tools or clamping for assembly all that stuff on the other side of the shop so the dust collector itself is can you see it yes it's a clear view 1800 I think that's what it is it's a clear view in the corner back there it's tucked away nice and tight behind the garage rail it's extremely tight and very efficient with space the main trunk comes out five foot section that is undisturbed to reduce turbulence inside the dust collector and then there is a and this is all six inch by the way and the PVC is comes down to this little spiderweb area that's changed multiple times and then there's the longest line goes behind this this cart along the wall underneath the miter saw station and there's a full six inch port right underneath the backside of the miter saw and that creates a tremendous draft at the miter saw which makes this collection over there fantastic speaking of draft it's very common to get asked questions about using a shop vac for a dust collector and there there are two completely different things a shop vac is a low volume high pressure suction so it doesn't move a tremendous amount of air but it puts a lot of suction exactly in a you know small location such as like a random orbit sander or you know any other type of isolated scenario the opposite of that is a dust collector which is a low-pressure high-volume situation relatively low pressure high volume and the way that it works is it creates a large draft to pull all of that dusty air all the fine dust that you can't see the harmful stuff out of the air yes it you know pulls the larger stuff too but the main thing you want is to pull the harmful dust out of the air you want to create a large draft that you simply cannot do with a shopback so machines like this this size dust collector stuff like this it's meant for larger dust producing items like a table saw a larger bandsaw planer jointer drum sander that creates a lot of dust so shop vac is much different than a dust collector from here we also have the main cluster of blast gates if you have a tremendous amount of line and have the blast gate right at the tool that may be convenient as far as going up to the tool opening the blast gate and using it but you have extra strain on the system by it pressurizing that entire length of pipe so yes the I still have I don't know 15 15 maybe 20 feet from this blast gate here that's hidden behind the air compressor 15 20 feet between this blast gate and the miter saw but it allows me to completely eliminate that much pipe from the system if I'm not using that side of the system so the bottom one down here it goes to the table-saw station and table saw and bandsaw this one goes to this side I have a I think this is 28 feet it's one of the dust right expandable hoses or collapsible hoses anti-static hoses this four inch hose goes to the CNC machine and alternate between it and the jointer pointer combo it's not the most ideal situation and much rather have everything plugged in at all times but it's just the way it works out this is the only way possible for me to do that without making all kinds of crazy connections with pipes and then this side over here is another 28 foot hose that I use for cleaning up the shop I try to sweep as little as possible because that sucks or just pushes dust up in the air and instead I use these attachments to clean the surfaces with this brush attachment and then also this longer piece right here for sweeping the floors or vacuuming the floors I should say and then this also gets disconnected and goes to the drum sander and it just seems to work out really nice over here this I'll go to this side over here this is my axiom ar8 Pro Plus CNC machine I got this in September and I've put a lot of miles on it already I love this thing it's in in respect to some of the DIY type stuff like the shape o Co and the x-carve it's just a different class of machine and that's no disrespect towards those machines it's just it's just simply the the specs are completely completely different and it should be it's in a different price point this is a seems to be a reliable machine and the use that I've had on it so far and it's very very capable precise fast it's convenient I absolutely love this thing so I got the attach some of the attachments like the over arm dust collection thing if I was to do this all over again I probably wouldn't get that particular over arm dust collection thing because I didn't realize where I was gonna have it here in the shop and if I was gonna have a dedicated port to it or something I didn't realize that the dust collection was gonna be right here so it would have just been more convenient and easy to just drape a line right there but it is what it is everything else about it I love yeah that's that it and this is kind of in a cluster situation right here so let me move the camera once again and I'll show you the limited space but very usable space that is right here this area right here in between three tool stations is it's very very tight but it works and it has to be tight just because of limited space here in the shop so on the CNC machine I need to access the front of it obviously but I wanted to be able to access the entire length of it over here for you know attaching stuff as necessary so this this space is minimized as much as possible to increase surface area or area in the rest of the shop because this isn't like a it's not a traffic area I just just need access on a temporary basis for here now on the router table this is the spot that gets the most compromise as far as this area goes because I can still access it as needed but I don't use the router tables tremendously I find myself using the router table most often for very small round overs or flush trimming which I don't need a huge work surface for stuff like that if I was to put a raised panel bit in here then something has to move just because I don't think I could get a full door through here as far as you know cutting it on the on the router table so there has to be flexibility implemented in this tool lay out and there is in fact that the table saw has a fantastic mobile base so just a couple pumps with my foot it's a hydraulic base it lifts up and this whole thing can slide around as needed the limiting factor there is the dust collection which you can't see it's right underneath my foot dust collection is somewhat flexible but somewhat attached to be a pipe so I can't go too far with this this whole setup can go that way by six to ten inches and then also this bandsaw it's on a mobile base so with one foot it can be lifted up on the mobile base and then moved around as necessary again it's attached to dust collection too so I can't go too far with it but the fact that all three of these well all both of these two stations can wiggle around I can accommodate most every situation that I can think of anyway I've had these machines set up like this for three months and I haven't had to move the bandsaw and you just yet haven't had to move the table saw any just yet so it's better in my opinion to plan for the 99% of situations and then also be ready for that 1% of situation that 1% that may may come up so let me drop this bandsaw hmm that's always nerve-racking because I wanted access to walkthrough on this side the bandsaw had to be moved a little bit into the river capacity of the table saw so as it sits right now I can get something underneath the table of the bandsaw and I've got about 31 and a half inches of Ripa capacity as they sit right now again the table saw can be lifted up and moved that way very easily the bandsaw can move this way very easily and I can get to the full 52 inch rip capacity of this saw but I will probably never use the full 52 inch capacity of this saw again because I find it much more convenient to just set up a straightedge and use a circular saw rather than wrestling a large sheet of plywood cross-cutting through a table saw but I do have access to the full rip capacity if needed the bandsaw can be moved around very easily with a mobile base I think I said that this router table in the wing of the saw is my lover router or lift it's just been very easy to use with one hand you can very quickly and easily lift up and lower the bit and use it so let me move the camera over to there so you're looking at the back side of this little tool island area you seeing the operators perspective somewhat of the bandsaw this is the Laguna 18px bandsaw and it is a a big step up from the last band saw that I had it's a lot stronger it's got more resaw which a full 16 inches of resell capacity which I want to maximize with a book-matched table project that I'm planning out still in the planning stages of its got ceramic guides I've got a a resaw King carbide tipped bandsaw blade on here which makes resoling like using cheat codes on a video game it is just it's effortless to resaw thick material with this bandsaw in this blade so extremely extremely happy about this and really the biggest improvement of the most welcomed improvement yes it cuts great yes it has a lot of power but the thing that I find the most enjoyable or like the sigh of relief is the the increased work surface here on the table there's a lot more material support compared to my last bandsaw and that is just a huge welcomed addition being able to more easily support your material as you're using the bandsaw so this table is it's pretty big and it's it's very much welcomed the fence rotates 90 degrees down so like in this situation if you don't have much height to cut the the the blade guides get in the way of the fence so you don't have but like an inch and a half between the blade and the fence so in those situations in order to keep the blade guard down the fence can rotate 90 degrees and therefore you only have the thickness of the fence as your height in that orientation and there's some stop blocks that are integrated with this fence for operations like you're making Tenon's larger Tenon's on the bandsaw and you can set a integrated stop block on the backside of the fence so there's a lot of cool little features of this fence that I like and then also that it has a foot brake which you can't see in the picture but there's a foot brake down there to stop the bandsaw to turn the bandsaw off as well as stop it and you don't have to wait for it to spin down which is handy in certain situations also have one of these lights up here which is extremely bright right where you need it very handy hanging the table saw is the folding outfeed table a small walkway and then this jointer planer combo machine and this I knew this was coming and opposed a couple issues as far as placement in the shop because I've got so much stuff crammed in here I wanted to have this in a situation where I could have a lot of infeed and outfeed area it's a bigger machine so I don't want to move it often it does have a mobile base but I don't want to move it often so this is a prime location for it it's in the middle of the door and therefore whatever's next to it in this direction has to be able to be moved very easily that's the outfeed table for the table saw and it has to be able to fold down mainly because the guard on the when you're jointing here it sticks out quite a bit and then also the fence as it sits right now is as far as it can go that way until it's the garage door so if I need to have if I need more capacity on the jointing surface then the home machine has to come this way by inch or two and once again we've reduced the walkway right here so in that situation the outfeed table needs to be able to get out of the way quickly and easily so I can actually walk through here so that was that was the only reason that I wanted to have an outfeed table now a lot of people are folding out the table a lot of people suggested making my own but the more I'm out here working in my shop the less I actually want to work on the shop and want to be making furniture want to be making stuff that I could use you know to look at pieces in the house or something I don't want to be making shop projects all the time less and less more I would work so this allows me to have a outfeed support for the table saw quickly and easily and also quickly nee easily get out of the way majority of time it stays up because if the blade guards not in the way or if I'm planing or whatever when this is in planar mode then this is actually a nice little handy horizontal surface to have material also with the bandsaw as well so that's the reason why I have a or I went with a folding outfeed table rather than a stationary Alfie table now you heard this click I added some magnets here to hold the feet up in place as its folding and that's the only thing preventing this thing from being in my opinion like a flawless design just include a couple magnets they weren't included but I put a couple magnets on the legs to hold them up and yeah I really like that so on from that to the jointer planer combo machine which has generated a tremendous and of interest this is the hammer a 341 jointer planar combo machine it is like I said it made by hammer which is a division of Felder both jointing and planning operations share a 16 inch wide cutter head so that means I can joint a 16 inch wide board and I can plane a 16 inch wide board when you have a convo machine like this there's no way around it you gain something and you also lose something so in this situation what I'm gaining is the reduced footprint here in my shop yes this is a large machine but I don't have two dedicated foot prints for machines for a jointer and for planer and therefore have two dedicated spaces for infeed and two dedicated spaces for outfeed for those separate machines instead it's combined in one footprint the same infeed and outfeed space is used for jointing and planning what I lose is the convenience of having two machines set up ready to go at all times for anointing and planing and I also lose the time it takes switching between jointing and planing so the convenience of not having both machines set up isn't that big of a deal it takes about a minute to switch between these two again not a big deal the only thing that the only situation where this would be a big deal in my opinion is if you have a high-volume production shop where a time really really is money in a big way then at that point it just doesn't make sense to get a combo machine it makes sense to get dedicated machines but also cost this isn't a an expensive machine by any means but the cost of getting a getting this capacity and two separate machines is is actually quite more so I looked at the cost of this versus the cost of say like a Powermatic twelve inch jointer this is a 16 inch jointer and just a Powermatic 12 inch jointer by itself cost more money than the 16 inch combo machine but anyway I'll get into more detail on the machine as far as cost breakdown and all that other stuff in a separate video because I have gotten so many questions about this machine I know a lot of people will want to see this thing switch back and forth like I said it doesn't take much time typically this lady guard is in place over there so I would flip it over to here and then the dust collection port down here for jointing mode I would take the dust collection hose off flip it over the table on this side this lever unlocks the unlocks the outfeed table this one unlocks the infeed table and at that point the fence has to be in a certain position forward so it doesn't bend on the backside of the machine which it already is so with it locked down these two tables lift up they're connected in the middle with this bar so if you accidentally let go of one or the other it's not gonna come crashing down they are loosely connected and once it's all the way up there's a lock down here which prevents these from falling forward that's as far as it'll go so you have to lift this up in order to bring the tables back down so once this is in the up position at that point the dust collection hose will be draped down right here the dust collection shoot or shroud let's lift it over the top I'll plug it in right here and then the biggest complaint people have with this machine is you need to raise the table up you can't see it in this image but you have to raise the table up from 6 inches to whatever your cutting depth is by turning a hand wheel not that big of a deal and you have to activate the rollers with a little lever here so rollers activated for planar mode rollers not activated for jointer mode and with it back down you can disconnect the dust collection flip that back over thus collection hose is still hanging right here pull this up lower the tables lock them into place grab the dust collection hose plug it in and flip the guard back over and you're back to ready to joints again so you you do have like I said a little bit of inconvenience in the time it takes to switch back and forth not that big of a deal I I will gladly accept the increased jointing and planing capacity then worry about the time it takes to switch back and forth between the two so I'll have another video on this dedicated of this in the short near future next step we'll go this way in the shop this corner has always been a clutter catcher in my shop and I've put forth effort to reduce the amount of clutter that I put in it so I still keep some of the larger boards for upcoming projects in this corner simply because it's just convenient to storm there and by putting my lathe right in front of it it's made forced me to reduce the amount of clutter that actually put in it so this is a Laguna 1216 mini lathe Laguna contacted me a little while back and asked if I'd be interested in helping introduce their new mini lathe and as you can see I agreed to that so this is Laguna 1216 mini lathe and it is it's a nice little setup I've used it in a couple projects so far I'm not a huge lathe Turner per se but it is really handy to have a lathe in the shop I can't justify having a full size lathe so this is a good compromise for me it allows me to turn stuff as necessary but I don't need the capacity of a huge monster full size wood turning lathe so that's that and behind that is my clamp rack which has seen many different versions it's completely full right now it's at the maximum capacity if I get any more clamps which you can never have too many clamps then I'll probably have to make another clamp rack and this is I don't know what version this is version 2 3 4 clamp rack video that I've made whatever so if I make another clamp rack odds are I'm probably not gonna make a video on it but it'll probably be the same design where you store the clamps in this direction rather than horizontally across the wall you can put a lot more clamps by putting them in putting them in hangers so they stack out of the wall rather than horizontally on the wall so that's that's a definite definite must for a clamp rack in my opinion and on that side we go to the hand tool area so let me move the camera real quick once again behind this workbench is my hand tool and having them on a wall like this does a couple things number one and most importantly it makes them readily accessible you can just walk up and grab one and use it and the idea is if you're working on the workbench everything is within arm's reach basically right in the workbench and number two I make videos for living so that just looks pretty cool in the background so the downside is everything is exposed to dust which isn't a big deal it's not gonna hurt him at all but also rust for humidity and such so I've been thinking a lot about all these tools being exposed and the amount of rust that they're starting to get and I've casually been thinking about making some type of tool cabinet or something that can close up to where it just keeps the the moisture at bay I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing something like that but a bunch of hand tools I don't use every one of them all the time but it's fun to to use hand tools every now and then and keep those skills going so you're not 100% reliant upon machines which I'll never give up power tools in my my woodworking the amount of time saved using power tools is a necessity these days but the enjoyment that I still get using hand tools is also it's also a lot of fun so in front of that is the workbench this is my second workbench it is all Hickory it's about six feet long and about 28 and a half inches front to back including the tool well I put it too well on this workbench on the opposite side that I'm typically working on love it I'm going to eventually put a tool well on my other workbench a lot of people say it's you know clutter catcher and that's exactly right it is a clutter catcher but that's what I want to have the clutter right there and readily accessible rather than on the work surface so I've got marking devices files stuff like that stuff that's mallets that I'm typically using with the workbench and it's not in the way up here on the surface and I can still grab it as needed so this design workbench isn't specific to me it's just a proven it's based on a French design workbench very basic big joinery instead of mortise and tenon joints on the base I used half lap joints they're really really strong as well pin them with some screws or dowels and they're not going anywhere just the same as a draw board mortise so the base is easy to make the base connects to the top with a through mortise and tenon connection I've got a video covering the differences between this hardwood Hickory workbench and my softwood southern yellow pine workbench they're basically the exact same design on this one I have a tool that when I don't I'm gonna put one on that one but on this one I have a shelf down below for a couple tools that I don't use frequently good storage spot for my hybrid panto router which is a very versatile machine then also my bench grinder so they can both be slid out and put on top as needed the other workbench I've got cabinets and down below so I'll spin you around and we'll check out that one this is the very first traditional style workbench that I've ever made I'll probably keep it for the rest of my life because it's built to last and I really enjoy using it it's pine its southern yellow pine which is it's a relatively hard softwood and I prefer using this more so than the Hickory workbench when it comes to hand tool tasks not by much but I do prefer it because because the fact that it's a softwood so it absorbs the impact more so than the Hickory workbench which kind of bounces back into the tool I what's different about this one oh I've got a cabinet down below on this one rather than a lower shelf on the Hickory workbench and I'm not gonna say one is better than the other because they serve two different purposes I really like the convenience of being able to store some machinery and larger items on the bottom of the Hickory workbench but I also really like the fact that I can put a bunch of stuff in the drawers and this one there's only four drawers in there and I I can't say one's better than the other they both have different uses there is a shallow shelf on top of the cabinet's over here but I can't really put much stuff on it the best addition to both of my work benches in this year 2018 was adding these retractable casters so with one foot I can push this bar down it activates both of these casters or puts locks them in the down position and then I can move these work benches around very very easily so that leads me to another question that a lot of people ask is how much do these work benches way I don't care how much they weigh the the thing you want to do is not necessarily go for a number a weight number but you want to make sure that a work bench doesn't move when you don't want it to move but it's easy to move when you do need it to move so before adding these casters I could wiggle these around the shop but there weren't convenient to move adding the casters really made this the retractable casters really made it easy to move these around in the shop best edition I've done in 2018 for these work benches alright that's it for this shop tour I know there's been a lot of changes in 2018 I'm sure there's gonna be changes going forward as well all of it in the efforts of continuous improvement so if you have any other questions be sure to leave a question in my on my website youtube's kind of hard to keep track of everything just cuz there's so many different videos and such but leave me a question if you have one if you want to have your shop featured on my website I'll have a link in the YouTube description or in the article for this video on my website and that's it so you guys take care have a great day and see you in the next video [Music] [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Jay Bates 2 - Vlog and Non Project Videos

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Length: 48min 52sec (2932 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 23 2018