Shop Tour! Inside My New Commercial Shop

you want me to do a fiery kick nah i think i'll leave that out this time all right it has been oh i think like what 10 months or something since i purchased the woodshed or since i purchased this building and turned it into the woodshed there is still a lot of progress that i need to make but there's also been a lot of progress that i have made so i'm gonna go ahead and give you a shop tour and show you everything that's been happening come on inside so there's still a ton on the to-do list but come on in eventually this will be part of the retail section so that whenever you enter in this is going to be the first thing that you see um then you're going to be stepping into the larger retail section so that used to be an office and then this used to be the whole building used to be an auction house that i'm turning this section into the retail space and then the next section i'll show you into the production shop space so kind of like my idea for this is you'll be able to come in and actually purchase items that i'm making or my team is making and anything kind of woodworking related in here i'm going to be having slabs and products and furniture live edge and other other assortments and also i think it'd be fun in the future to have like maybe maybe maker meetups in this space so still fleshing out all of the ideas on what to do as you can see i have all of the tree rings hung up which was a major accomplishment and a very complex project if you haven't seen it then check out that video on it and of course all of the renovation in here is also a standalone video if you want to see how we took this metal building and turned it into what you're currently seeing the shiplap siding is custom made on the cnc and i did it that way in order to save cost and also time on throwing it up as it's one giant panel of plywood rather than individual boards of shiplap over here you're going to see the shipping department my mother is in there diligently working away as she always is shipping out the products that i sell on my website so my mom handles everything that you guys purchase from my website and ships it out mama say hi she steals my wave um then over here as you can see the guys are busy putting together these slabs or put putting the slabs up i purchased all of these slabs from canadian woodworks up in canada paul so i got a lot of walnut and maple because i don't have access to those species here and ash but in the future i do have my bandsaw mills in the back that i'm going to be able to mell up all the pecan mesquite and hickory cedar elm a whole bunch of species that i do have locally if you're interested in slabs feel free to stop in again this is all going to be a work in progress i am going to be selling uh just equipment as well so i'm going to be selling logasol and shaper isotunes and a few other things so if you're ever in central texas and want to put your hands on some of this unique woodworking equipment then you'd be able to come in and see it done so let's go over to the actual production shop where i get to show you the really exciting stuff all right here is the production shop the meat and potatoes of this building and the real reason i wanted to purchase it y'all remember i built my own 4 000 square foot shop and whenever i built it that large it wasn't because i dreamed of building a team up but i ended up building up a team and they've been working out of my shop in the meantime and so the way i kind of envisioned this space is for to give them a zone to work in and then for me to have my shop back to as my personal shop so this is going to be the shop where jacob and the rest of the team will be working out of whenever something is needed again a work in progress but so much has already been made let me start i guess with the layout of how things are situated here we have the bay door here that we left so that and then a pathway so that a trailer could be backed up and into this space loaded down with material because in the future this entire wall is going to be nothing but material storage right now i do have my plasma table and a few odds and ends just kind of stored over here but all of this will get handled once this turns into material then we're going to have a mobile miter saw so that this could be moved anywhere but then the material will come off go to the miter saw get chopped down and then immediately it can flow over into the processing system which is going to start with the jointer and planar and then move over to the table saw and then maybe even the cnc probably the first thing you'll notice right off the bat is all of the grizzly equipment i am so proud and thankful humbled all of the nice words to be partnering with grizzly for my woodshed shop and you guys get to benefit as well grizzly has been so gracious to give me a 10 discount code to give to you guys off all of the machinery that i have there's a link for you down below so if you need anything for your shop then be sure to use my coupon code as it will save you 10 percent and also big thank you to grizzly for believing in what i'm doing and supporting my brand all right let me show you the tools because i imagine that's what you want to see so this is a 16 inch jointer we call it a why did we name this jake it's an aircraft carrier i just say it's an aircraft carrier but he's named it nimitz um so 16 inches of course i went large with the equipment because they do plan on processing a lot of slabs milling them in the backyard turning them into slabs and drying them then be able to to go right into processing them so to not have limiting capacities is just going to be so amazing so 16 inch jointer then we go right into 24 inch planer this is going to be a dream and then of course you'll notice that none of these have dust collections set up to them yet but all of them do have uh ports that we're eventually gonna run over to the dust collection system i say we actually jacob jacob is the one who has put together all of the equipment it's really not my forte to do the fine-tuning and assembly and layout of the shop so this has all been jacob in fact i'll show you the model that he put together from the very beginning to where we've been having tons of correspondence throughout the entire 10 months on where things should go so that once the equipment showed up we can put them right in their spot and not have to continuously move the things around hey y'all want to meet jacob jacob say hi to the people hi people i don't even have a name for what jacob is he's like my right hand man he's my lead shop he's my i broke it please fix it so i could just build something he uh he put together the dust collection last night and yeah he's going to be the one actually doing all of the dust collection and the in the fine detail work while i'm in my shop doing the videos that you guys see so great job jacob moving on to the table saw so oh my goodness this is a massive table saw and it's a sliding table saw again this is going to be huge for processing plywood you're able to throw an entire big sheet here and then instead of moving the material through the blade you then move the wing through the blade so that the material stays stationary this is going to be great for big sheet good as well as slabs then moving back here we have some workstations set up we are going to have more set up over there but right now these main two are set up with horsepower and then it's worth noting that all of the power equipment is hardwired in everything is three-phase and i'll tell you this much it was nine months to get three phase power into here and it was it was a very long and difficult and just exhausting process but it feels good to finally have it done and that's actually the delay on the shop opening up is getting power in here of course i've talked about the dust collection that thing is not going to have any problem sucking up all of the the dust from these machines you'll see that i have a 24-inch bandsaw as well as a 17-inch bandsaw i have a few different sanders a disc sander which is one of my favorites and then an oscillating edge sander which is going to be very useful two drill presses this one i used for metal equipment and then this one is just a floor model which actually i've never had floor model before so this is going to be a really great addition all the odds and ends you see as far as cabinetry and storage just this is kind of a a work in progress as everything is as i've been saying but this definitely the space is a seed and heated which is really nice but then of course on great beautiful texas days we can just open up the bay door and enjoy the sunlight so all of this is left open as a not only a main walkway but also having a forklift to get material because while this is the main shop area the cnc portion of the shop is at the back so just thinking about how to get slabs from the retail space or milling them in the backyard all the way to the cnc and then maybe to this area for processing and that's really where mobile workbenches come into play you'll see me utilize these a ton but then also with multiple people now in the shop i just have to rethink the workflow of things so being able to stage things on a workbench and constantly move it from section to section and then whenever it's not being used or waiting on the next process it being stored against this white board where somebody could label it until somebody may be at the cnc or the table saw is ready for it and can move it over to vent their workstation so lots of mobile carts of course room to move communication setups and then storage like this is just a temporary uh dose of what we're gonna do but eventually there's going to be rocks all along the top for long-term storage oh it's a lot it's exciting okay and then coming back this way i kind of envisioned this right now to be hardware storage i've been utilizing the smart jar system which is really good but this might end up moving into more multiple sections because all of this wall is just room to grow in the future this is kind of like the cnc bay of the whole shop right now we have two 4x8 shopbots that are actually just got up and running thank goodness and so now the next step is to get the laguna over here and have all three over here freeing up my shop and then also just having everything in one location to where when the shipping department needs something she can haul her at the cnc cnc will make it go right to shipping and then right now they're having to transport it from my shop to here and it's just kind of a mess well it's not a mess but there's room for for growth there so this is very exciting over here later on is going to be a material rack that goes all the way up to the ceiling and then this smaller rack will also get replaced because of course with cnc's that can process so much material quickly a lot of sheet good material is just needed so again mobile carts everywhere with the shop so large you'll see skateboards you'll see mobile carts and it's just a way to easily transport material let's go check out the very last room this room used to be the attached apartments where the owners of the place actually lived on site well i don't need to live on site and so i turned this into kind of an employee break room and it definitely needs definitely needs some lights and a few other things but in the meantime this has been working great for us to stage offices and work on our laptops for us to eat lunch for us to throw a party after we completed a really hard project and whatnot but yeah you'll you'll see that this room will grow eventually as well because i plan on of course bringing you guys along for everything i think let me show you the backyard really quickly where i have the of course the amazing deck build and i think that will pretty much wrap up this tour [Music] 2020 has been such a crazy year and such a drastic change not only buying a place and putting all the effort it's taken to get it even this far but also just growing a team of people going from a one-woman team to i think four people now videographer jake and a woodshed manager just um it's been a wonderful year and you can see them moving around in the background backyard another another place that is a work in progress but man i mean seeing it seeing what it was before guys i've put in so much effort already of course the amazing treehouse deck oh it's spectacular i still have the railing to do on it but then eventually i'm thinking of doing maker meetups here and how fun will it be to eventually be able to have like a small band maybe up there and then all of us mixing and mingling down here maybe doing tool swaps and just talking about projects having the bandsaw mills running you'll see that my bandsaw mill is over there and we just gathered up a lot of pecan and some heritage oak actually so a lot of really big fun plans and a lot of hard work [Music] it might sound cheesy but if you're willing to put in the hard work in any direction you want to go in you can achieve it even though there is still a lot of hard work in order to go in order to get this place where i see it it is so fulfilling seeing where it's at right now and i absolutely love bringing you guys along for it so thank you for supporting me and coming along for the ride i can't wait to actually have my doors open and see you guys here on a regular basis hopefully or whenever you're stopping in on a texas vacation hope that you enjoyed the shop tour again don't forget that grizzly has a 10 coupon code if you want to buy the grizzly equipment that's i'll link to you down in the description i will see you in my next video guys [Music] if you're a maker and want to support a company that is trying to put a stop to the disposable mindset that adds to so much waste then check out this video sponsor which is ifixit they're a company that empowers people to fix 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Channel: April Wilkerson

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Length: 15min 10sec (910 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 11 2020