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I also have a garage workshop and I am taking a little break from buggering my last two neck blanks. So before I begin my replacements - I decided to build myself a nice work center in the garage - more like a work table -
It is a table saw station - for my small cheap Ryobi, it will have a router table from Ryobi, the nicer MDF one, with a Porter Cable router, a drill press mounted and a scroll saw mounted, all with drawers for accesories, dust collection ports, and electricity - the table will be 26" x 64" - will post pics soon - I already built the base cabinet out of plywood. I am shocked at how much plywood costs !!


I am making it with ideas from this picture -

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Filippo, I love your drawers! Practical AND good looking
Might have to burrow the idea when I set up my shop

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Olivier Gauthier
Montreal, QC

Hot-rodded the Grizzly bandsaw the other day with Cool Blocks and a Viking blade from Lee Valley. The difference is like night and day. After the blade wears out I'll get the six inch riser block from Grizzly and two more blades from Lee Valley, one for resawing, and a new 1/4" to fit the saw with the riser blocks. I'm really diggin the posibilities with this machine.

I spent most of my shop time making improvements for about 18 months after we moved in to our latest house. Then I decided it was time to make some guitars. Still got plenty of improvements to make. The top three are my milling machine bench area, a small spray booth, and the 25+ drawers I need to build to go into the slides I've already installed. Come on over if you get bored.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

No photos but I made great shop improvements today, all signs of the flooding are gone, but my stuff is everywhere but where it should be. We moved enough stuff out to clean about 6' along one wall and then shifted things from the dirty areas after sanitizing the base to the clean area, creating another area to sanitize. I lost 2 large cabinets and 2, 1/2 height ones but the insurance will pay for replacements. I lost no machines or tools but some home built jigs and 1 radius dish were destroyed.

Now the task of putting things back in place begins. I will take my time and hopefully get things better organized.

Fred

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Fred Tellier
http://www.fetellierguitars.com
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Just added wall mounted storage for the really tight or figured lumber I've culled out for the last 6 years of furniture, doors and cabinets.

I have a vacuum table and a table saw with extension as work areas when assembling and other various jobs centered in mty shop. Above this I added a 8'x6' floating rack mounted to the ceiling. I mounted my Jet air filtration box. Places to hang clamps, body forms, jigs, etc...also hung two fluorescent light fixtures and two wall outlet boxes with three double receptacles. It sure did relieve a lot of clutter and opened up a lot of wall space after I removed the shelves that all of these things had been sitting on.

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