Love your shop. I have a 12x16 myself (192 total) and it’s nice to see someone else’s solutions for the problems in a small shop. Can’t wait to see more.
Thanks for sharing your shop with us, I thought I had a small shop!!! 😬💪 Nice! I feel your pain, I use to the same thing you did, pulling the miter saw outside on the driveway, us DIYer's have to stick together! YT recommended me your video fyi and I passed you up all day yesterday loI got you this morning with my coffee!
Nice to see someone with a small shop as opposed to the guys with $100K in tools and enough room to build an entire house. I made a rack from black pipe that is mounted to the ceiling and is just slightly above the garage door when it opens. It stores a substantial amount of lumber entirely out of the way without wasting wall or floor space.
Nice job with using limited space. That you fit in a cabinet saw is most impressive. Peter Millard (5 Minute Workshop) has one of the smallest shops on the RU-vid, but no table saw, and your shop doest look much larger than his.
1:57 - Why are the castors all sitting on small squares of plywood? Not easy to move at all, as it rolls off of those blocks... and then back onto them??? And assuming the drawer banks are attached to the saw stand, it will BREAK if you ever tried to move it. 3:05 - Not good to go. That stop block is crooked. It needs to be square to the track in order to present a flat surface to your workpiece. Otherwise you can get inconsistent results.
1) plywood squares are to level everything. 2) are you saying that a tool chest with wheels is not easy to move because they're sitting on squares of plywood? if that is what you're saying, then you're incorrect 🙂 3) it's not attached, so it will not BREAK 4) stop lock works fine, i use it, it works fine 😀
@@danmadewoodworking If I came off too negative or critical, I apologize. In fact, I do like your presentation style and thankyou for posting your tool arrangement. However... yes, I do think that those pieces of plywood make it harder to move. Ka-klunk rolling off them... and then rolling back up onto them looks difficult. And if your mitersaw platform ISN'T attached to your wings with the stop block, that's even worse. Because it would allow the distance from the blade to your stop to move. And absolutely yes... any stop block really NEEDS to be square to the blade. Just think of cutting narrower stock vs wider stock... the narrower stock could stop against a different measurement. I'm sorry, but this setup looks like a _hard fail_ in more ways than one... IMHO.
@@danmadewoodworking Oh I forgot to mention... fairly soon I will be posting a video showing my own small shop solution. Please feel free to pick it apart without mercy ;)
It's ok if you were being negative or critical, i don't mind that, no need to apologize. i was just saying that you were wrong 🙂. i use it, it works, it's a hard success 😀
I have the sawstop job site saw. It folds up and rolls up against the wall and only uses 30 inches when folded. Best thing I have ever added to the micro shop.
I can totally relate to you hauling everything out onto the driveway and then back in. I am very GRATEFUL for the 18'x20' shop that I have now. Although I need to get it organized.
I think I’m going to be able to relate well with these because my shop also under 200 square feet. I have a 16x12 shed with to lofts but they are for seasonal home goods of my wife’s. Basically the main part of the shed I use because we don’t have a garage.
Nice shop. You mentioned that you are going to make a new bench. If you decide to build a Paulk Smart Bench I can loan you my Parf Guide System Mark 2 for drilling the dog holes. It's a great bench for cross cutting with a track saw as well as functioning as an outfield table for my Sawstop.
I'm retiring in December and am setting up a small woodworking shop, I've always loved woodworking. I just discovered your channel yesterday. I'm glad you're making such great videos. Keep up the good work.
I still roll my tools outside, easier to clean up with a leaf blower. Have everything on wheels. Did also learn to watch out for windy days. Blew my table saw right off the patio, and it took a tumble. That Dewault is pretty tough Looking at getting a Sawstop as well
First, I would like to say thank you for validating my preference for NOT building shop projects because I'd rather build furniture. I see sooooo many people on YT who have the shops filled with beautiful storage that they built and I start to wonder "do they have shops JUST so they can build stuff for their shops?" 😂 Also, I just wandered into my local Lowes and saw the new version Metabo miter saw you mentioned. I'm definitely going to consider it, thank you for the recommendation!
Not a lot at all, especially the wider the workpiece is you're feeding through there. If you're using it for thicknessing, it'll take a long time. I just don't think it has enough power, especially since it runs on 110 power.
I can appreciate the small shop community. I have a 12' x 12' shop that sometimes gets congested depending on the project. But you have to work with what you have. It's all about the craftsman's skills vs shop size or fancy tools. Thanks for the vid. Keep it up. New subscriber here.
I have a 12x20 shop (restricted to 250 sq. ft when I got a new shed -- thanks, township codes!) , and I've been toying with the idea of upgrading my Bosch jobsite saw (and just building a better outfeed/assembly bench for that) to a Sawstop PCS, but was still reluctant due to the footprint. I stumbled into your video here, and was delighted to see that you pulled it off and made it work. Thanks!
I'm so happy I found your channel. Us small shop owners need to stick together. I also really love locking casters. My biggest problems are deciding what scrap wood is worth keeping and storing partial 4x8 sheets. I recently discovered that putting my dust collection hose on the ceiling made a good chunk of extra room. It drops down in the middle of the ceiling and will reach all four corners of the shop. Now I'm off to watch more of your videos to catch up. PS I like your sense of humor.
Nice shop. I like seeing shop tours for me to get ideas on building mine so I really appreciate it. Good idea on putting plywood under your table saw to raise it up. I too recently bought the 3hp sawstop and got the same mobile base. Sometimes 20:01 I have to lean in to get a better view of my city and it hurts my back, so raising it is a good idea. It too was the most expensive thing I’ve bought for myself but damn do I love using it. I work a lot and barely have time in the shop but when I do it makes it that much more enjoyable. Great video.
loved the humor in the video! I'm also in a small shop and have basically the same setup as yours. I got rid of my miter saw because of the footprint! Man those things take up a lot of room for what they do
Love the miter saw station you have. Great idea for storage and space efficiency. Thank you for the great content. My shop is 144 sq ft. Need all the tips I can get!
Greatest random youtube recomendation in a long time. Do you have to heat this space at all ? I'm in the north and wondering if I should change the baseboard I have in mine to something more compact.
Thanks!... yeah, i use a propane heater with the garage door cracked. then when it gets up to temp, i turn it off and shut the door. it'll hold that temp for a couple hours usually.
My kids laugh at me for having every tool in the shop on wheels, but I say it provides a ton of flexibility because no matter the size of the shop you always seem to need just a little more space.
Nice video dude. Your 5 small shop DONTS vid came up on my recs and lead me here. I've been cruising the youtubes looking at small shop videos for some inspiration. Did not realize this video was so current and tried to find that workbench video and realized hehe. Will be on the look out for it! One question I have, for your dust collection, why not run the hose that goes from the seperator/cyclone to the filter outside through a vent or window? I have this option and it seems like a good idea. I am thinking about sealing my basement shop off from the rest of the home fairly well and then exhausting outside, i'll still run the separator to keep the chips inside. Thinking I might run into some air pressure issues so may add a second vent (maybe a one-way that opens under pressure?) in the window to act as an intake and put a regular high quality hvac filter on it to prevent any of that fine dust from getting sucked back in.
are you saying why not put my dust collector outside of the garage/shop? if so, i would just have nowhere to put it. it would just be sitting in my driveway or yard
@@danmadewoodworking No sir, sorry. I'm asking rather than the last connection in the dust collector being a bag or a filter, why not just send it outside through a vent? All the chips and stuff get separated and fall into a bin inside like it does now. The way I see it the only use for the bag/filter is to try and catch fine dust from being shot all over the shop which is achieved even better by sending it outside..?
Very helpful video. I got myself a SawStop cts ….the baby of the SawStop line. Very happy to have it and with all the accidents on table saws for me it was a no brainer to get it. Looking forward to watching many more of your videos ❤❤
Glad i found your channel!! I just started building out my 10x20 garage shop, the wife vetoed me using both bays of the garage :) looking forward to your bench build since i have been tossing back and forth on what size to go with.
Daniel, I've been running my 735 with the straight blades for about 15 years (I can't see buying a $600 cutter head plus the headache of installing it) and it's been fine. I will say that I do take the time to maintain the planer and I run the blades over a diamond plate once in awhile and I've been happy and saved money.
Yeah, honestly, I just watched a video recently, and changing out the cutter head from straight to helical is not looking like something I want to do 😀
Window boxes are a great project for the cedar fence pickets. Treated fence pickets are perfect for building deck boxes and vertical tool sheds. The vertical tool shed I used to build was cut-off-the-dog-ear high and wide/deep enough to house the 3 or 4 most needed tools right in the garden; sold for 100 bux all day long and that was 6-7 years ago. Looking forward to seeing more vids.
