This is the most encouraging shop tour I've ever seen. The fact that you don't have the biggest and best tools in the biggest and best shop indicates to me that you just don't need those things. Might be nice to wait a little while and spend a little more to get fully functional equipment, but overall, there's no need to break the bank. Thanks!
"Welcome to my shop, I hate everything. ... Except the loc-line, that works."-- Scott. 😁 I have loc-line also; lets me swap between a couple sanders. But I usually don't bother with aiming it at the drillpress. I should.
I like the humour and the honest in your videos. You give me multiple times a smile on my face. Btw, compared with my shop yours is massive. I have a workspace of 3x3m. I placed all of my tools on my own designed flip top benches, a design I haven't seen since built. Maybe one day I will sell the designs.. you never know.
I love how honest this shop tour is. Glad you were super transparent about about some of the negative aspects of getting great deals on used items! Some people make it seem like it's all bunnies and rainbows, haha.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking true, the fact they came from pro shops meant they were worked to death. its possible to get good second hand gear, but id stick to private owners, impressed how you crammed it all in there. my shop is even smaller than yours, which is why the CNC is in the spare room !
Very interesting tour. I really appreciated the lessons learned from used equipment purchases. There were A LOT of bearing replacements. I wouldn’t have a clue on how to do that.
Nice... I though my shop was small. I have an L-shaped basement shop that is abut 350 sq. ft. Nothing wrong with smaller tools... my drill press and band saw are both bench top versions (8" and 10"). The jointer is only a 4" cabinet version (old 1960s Rockwell) and works great for my needs. My old 1969 Craftsman 113 table saw lacks a riving knife as well and makes me nervous to cut without. Best two upgrades I made to it were... (1) splitters on my plates (I use Microjig MJ) and (2) Jessem table saw stock guides. Those are worth every penny and make using the saw great. For way less than a new saw, I upgraded it with extra wings, including a router table wing, and a Delta 36-T30 fence. It can easily do 36.5" rips to the right side now and 10" to the left.
sounds like you could use a new bandsaw and jointer and router table and table saw lol. I know that feeling, Ive gone through so many tools in my basement shop. just slowly upgrading to a bit better version of it. Im pretty happy with most of my tools right now, but Im sure that will change lol
In the next video I reveal which company steps up and sponsors my shop tools! Thanks for the tour as I also have been going down the shop tour rabbit hole.
I have one or two tools in my shop that have regret written on them. I know other woodworkers who have one or two tools in their shop with regret written on them too. But I've never met anybody who regrets all of their tools, with the exception of one or two. Lol. Your shop layout and use of space is well executed, but your luck of the draw for tools sucks. But while your self flagellating and self commiserating your tool purchases, check out a channel called "Makin' Sawdust". He has a small basement shop too. It has a dirt floor, dirt walls, it shares space with all of the houses mechanical, furnace, hot water tank, and plumbing. Electrically he has a lighting circuit, and one 20 amp 110v circuit for all of his power tools. His power tools are a whole other story. I'll almost guarantee you, after watching his first shop tour video, you'll go into your shop, and hug your power tools regardless of their short comings. I know after watching it I went to my shop and said, hmmm this isn't that bad. Thanks for sharing. Cheers. 👋🇨🇦
Thanks for watching Andy! I realized after how cynical this video turned out. I really don't hate any of them by any means, but I had just spent way too much of my time tinkering with the planer/jointer and I was still a little sour about it. When I'm in the middle of fixing a tool with an unexpected issue, I constantly wish I was woodworking. A full blown restoration is different though, and I appreciate that work a bit more. Look out for a new video coming this week, Cheers!
I wish i could have big room like this, I made a small and I mean small woodworking hobby room 1.5m x 3.5m, in there I have a rauter table, table saw, mitersaw, drillpress and primitive dust collection. It is my Hobbyroom but I call it my Hobbit room.
Indeed, you have so many expensive and useful machines in such a cramped area... This has to be an issue! I'm just sad we a renot in thesame country, I would rent you my space in a strategy to become a partener!! Have a good day and start shopping for a better place!
Sounds like a lovely endeavor. Unfortunately, where I live in Canada, the price per sqft of real estate makes my 120 sqft shop the most expensive aspect of my shop by a laaaaarge margin. like, several orders of magnitude.
It was a good shop tour. However it seems that your not to keen on precision equipment, that tends to lead to inaccurate woodworking. You seem to enjoy what you do, god bless ya.
FYI- You may want to think about lowering the height of the table saw. If you get kickback a piece of wood can pierce your chest. I had a piece kick back a small thin piece of rock maple that pierced my stomach, that I had to have surgery for. You should have seen the ER staff when I walked in with a piece of lumber sticking out of me. It was priceless!
Thanks for the comment and the anecdote! What might not be apparent in the video is that I'm sitting down when talking at the table saw. I stand quite a deal taller (I'm 6') when operating the saw and the table is probably at hip height. A cabinet saw cannot be lowered at any rate. Thanks for watching!
It is very stupid not to use a split knife, i have my diplomas in fine woodworking only i have never worked in it but i have worked in ambulance services where woodworkers had injured themselves by removing the guards from the saw table. take a little more time to work with the safeguards, you will save a lot of suffering, time, money and happiness.
More food for thought: how is it possible to bring all these pretty large machines into your pretty small basement? I bet you must have good loyal friends to help you with that!
Great video, Scott! Thanks for putting in the time and effort to create your video's. Very inspiring to see how you use your space. I can't believe that at this point in time there are only 718 views. Only a matter of time if you ask me.
Clamp collection size shaming needs to end. It's not the size of the collection, it's how you use it. Most woodworkers in Asia make due with very small clamp collections and craft the most beautiful joinery. If the client really likes your work, they won't care about the size of your clamp collection. 🥺
Somebody needs to do more research on their used tools before buying...lol, but i like the honesty, unlike people who claims they got the best deal ever.
Yeah, there's only so much research than can be done. Also, sometimes you have to drop everything and run to get a deal before someone else does. In my experience, it's really not about the brand's per say, more about how the machine was used or abused in the past. Sometimes you don't really know what you have until you get it home and go over it with a fine tooth comb. And my jointer/planer doesn't really exist on the internet, so that was a total shot in the dark. Thanks for watching!
This video gives me hope! I'm currently filming a build series of my little basement shop and often worry I don't have enough space... Think I will steal some ideas from your shop. Thank you!
Thanks for the tour of your "Micro Workshop"! I appreciate that you upcycle/ recycle where you can. My shop is of "Nano" scale, it's 19ft x 7ft, so it's got a bench that runs from one end to the other with a radial arm saw and a benchtop planer near the middle. I don't use a table saw, just a circular saw as a track saw and have a bandsaw for resaw work in the mud room next to my shop. I also made a router table similar to your setup and have access to a drill press also in the mud room. It's all a bit of a challenge, but I make do with the space I have available, as you have done with your available space. I use wall and ceiling space for tool and wood storage. Your shop is an inspiration, the tips you have provided are very helpful, thank you.
Dude, I am really digging your channel in every way possible. Love your shop, and your quirky sense of humor. I could see creating something with you would be rewarding as well a pretty fun time. Keep doing what you are doing and thanks for the content.
😂 I don't see the resemblance but that's not the first time I've heard that comparison so it must be true! Thanks for the watch and subscribe! More content coming!
@@ScottWalshWoodworking Think of your target audience (or rather the audience that most uses RU-vid) - They won't know the difference between a volitile and water-based finish. You might think about adding a note or reference just to make sure the message is conveyed.. That's not like "My saw doesn't have a riving knife and I don't use a splitter." Those are personal choices based on equipment and you can compensate with good safety procedures.
Edit: Tip…Put a magnetic white board for notes and design ideas on the back of your door! 10x12 ! Luxury mate!…. My craft/work room is a 8x11 spare bedroom. Same problem of too much stuff and no room to turn around…a 6’ assembly bench, an 8’ machine tools bench and a 4’ I don’t know what for bench. A 3’ long low level detail work bench/station with chair. Bandsaw, bench pillar drill, table saw (not yet set up and idk if it will fit), small firebrick brazing hearth with small anvil, bench grinder, bench belt sander and disc, then a dozen black and yellow power tools with their storage cases, waste bin, shop vac and stacking storage pull out bins. I think with enough shelving and wall cupboards I might just get it properly functional as originally intended….but right now it looks more like a junk filled shed than an organised maker den!
Hey, buddy, get yourself a SawStop table saw; your fingers (and your wife) will thank you. Are your fingers worth $2,500? Yes? Then dump that POS table saw you have and get yourself a SawStop. I reported depositions of a LOT of now-fingerless, VERY experienced 40-year wood workers who wished they’d bought a SawStop.
Do you feel you are paying far too little for your kit, I haven’t noticed anything worth more than £400?? ‘………you get what you pay for…….’ Shall we work through this sentence? You like the brand new thing….uhmm! Bob England
your shop is big compared to mine 🤣 mine is 8'x12' and I have an 8" table saw, 8"x10" planer/thicknesser, router table, bandsaw that will cut about the same as yours, bench morticer, drill press, bobbin sander, radial arm saw, wood lathe, and that is just the big stuff 🤣
Holy Cow! What do you really do for a living? I was a LITHOGRAPHER, ( the process of printing from a plane surface (such as a smooth stone or metal plate) on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area ink-repellent). I made pretty pictures.
Started the tour fully energized....slurring speech by the end. Is your woodworking hobby slipping below the video production hobby? 🖖 Thanks for sharing!
Hey, at least you have a shop. I live in an apartment and would love to have what you have here. Sorry if I sounded like a pecker head, wasnt meaning to.
No offense taken! Real-estate in the GTA is insane and I don't take my little shop for granted. I've had to deal with my fair-share of apartment living up until now.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I just wanted to make that perfectly clear. I'm a pretty direct person and people have told me I come off as a dick sometimes...maybe their just too sensitive!!!????? Anyway, thanks for the video. Its extremely interesting watching others optimize small spaces for their specific needs.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking you have given me some awesome ideas as to how to further organize some of my tools and sanding pads. I have a filing cabinet that is going to be used to separate the different grades of sand paper and other odds and ends type "stuff"........
Dude. Duuuude. I so hear you on the machines. The deals are just rabbit holes and you burn SO much time getting that equipment up to spec. Still cheaper than buying new, but people who make it sound like you can just pickup deals and run them like they are... F them.
Aside from the functionality of the table saw, what are your thoughts on how you've got it positioned? I'm kinda in the same boat - I got a pretty good deal on a cabinet saw but I don't have a ton of room. It seems that you might have a problem with larger sheet goods since there's not a ton of room between the saw and the wall/door where you stand.
I’ve bought a lot of my tools used and have regretted many of those purchases. You feel like you got a great deal at the time. But then spend hours and hours and $ trying to fix and tune them up. Only to still not be happy with their performance. Then end up buying a replacement. I just chalk it up as a learning experience on tool maintenance
I don't know how you do it man. My shop is a fair bit larger, smaller jointer and I don't have one or two of the machines you do and I'm still cramped in there. I guess I shouldn't complain too much.
Thanks for the tour. My shop is just a little smaller than yours and I too have all full sized tools (although I do cheat by having my 12" planer in the garage). Your video was the most encouraging I have seen and your message to me is "clean up the mess and organize." Some folks wonder how you do it. I know how, keep it clean and it works so much better. Thanks again.
Thanks so much Lawrence! I worked in a frame shop once which needed to be kept meticulously clean to make sure any dirt or dust didn't end up into customers' frames. After every day, everything was put away and swept up, and I just kept doing the same thing in my shop. I simply don't have the work surfaces to leave everything lying around. I feel like I have more opportunities to be more organized as well, but it's a vicious cycle of buying more tools to build things to organize the tools. Cheers!
Only yesterday I watched one of your videos. Subscribed immediately. Like your presentation. Thank you. Watched this one to get some tips on how to organize my 20x8 shop. Im curious to know if you have a new table saw. If so, what did you get.
I've saved a ton of money buying used. I've also lost a ton of money buying used. I actually like my small shop though. I think its fun trying to figure out how to make things fit. Plus, everything is close by when you need it.
I really resonate with everything you said, hah. I have a newer video on used machinery that kinda (almost) puts the nail in the coffin for me. For my next machine purchase, I'm definitely looking at new band saws rather than used.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I'm still buying used, but only a couple of years old. They take longer to find, but I don't have nearly as many problems, and I still save quite a lot.
I want to know what roads you're driving down to find all this stuff on the side of the road. Amazing to see what you've done with such a small space. I'm working on converting part of a 2-car garage into a workshop, but since one of the requirements is that the car, canoe & 6 bikes still fit, I have a similarly small amount of space to work with. So it's good to know what can be done. At least in my case, I have the option to pull the car out if I'm trying to rip a full sheet of plywood.
Just wondering why you would build a project using maple, and then paint it?? I would have just used pine if I was going to paint it. All is not lost, there is a safe non toxic paint remover on the market that is citrus based, and not even harmful to skin, or if it is even ingested. I have a space for my shop that is larger than yours, but I get to share it with items collected over many years, so I'm almost as cramped as you are. My biggest issue in my shop is that I have a huge CNC (1500x1500mm) that is still in it's boxes 2 years after I bought it, because I don't have the room to set it up. With your table saw, when the time comes to replace it, IF you have the room, get rid of the motor and everything else that is not there for structural reasons, turn what's left, into a welding table, should you be inclined to take up welding.
Am I the only one that needs MUCH more explanation of the "I used that MDF to lift my car to change the tires..." bit? Am I the only one stuck on that?
I also have a basement shop full of used tools with problems. It’s an expensive hobby otherwise. How are you managing with the router table between the saw and the wall? Do you scoot things over or just reach over awkwardly? I have my saw positioned the same, so I have been eyeing that space.
it's not great because of the low bulk head. You can see me use it in many of my other videos, like my workbench build. I don;t have to shift anything around to use it.
I’m wondering, where did you get those double 240v outlets? Everywhere I look, I can only find 240v outlets with only one outlet, if that makes sense. But in your video, it seems there are two. How can I find these?
After watching this, I'm really looking forward to this channel taking off and this poor guy getting some sponsors or youtube money to buy a new tool for once
it takes me less time to change my own tires than it does to bring the car to a mechanic to get them to do it. Same goes for an oil chance, but anything beyond that is quicker for the mechanic to do.
6:23 glistening music while saying "not ideal...but nice to have when I need it" - Great perspective. You make good content thats easy to watch. Pretty soon a 2022 shop tour update? I keep working at my shop every year and it's fun to do this to see all your hard work come to fruition. I also enjoy re-purposing shop furniture off the curb and have gotten into metals/welding so there's so much for the taking to practice on. The problem of a builder is bringing home a lot of stuff you may use use sometime never.
I like your channel. I’ve been building cabinets and doing woodworking for 50 years I’ve worked in small spaces and large spaces I’ve had great tools and not so great tools I’ve made good money and I’ve lost money I done big jobs and small ones. But one thing I never did was to let a project out of my door until I was proud of it. That to me means craftsmanship more than any tool in your shop. If you love building then build. If you love working on machines then do that. Everyone needs something
Just bought the same table saw, needed new bearing in the motor and lots of cleaning. I paid a shit load more then you did, but it doesn't have as many issues as yours did... I hope, I haven't set it up yet. Same deal as yours with the safety accessories, none, and king doesn't even have anything compatable. Cool. Great tour. Keep it real
Great to see how you have sorted out your shop, I think you have fantastic ingenuity. I have a much smaller area and am just a beginner but have learned a lot from you and others. Main thing is I have made some good stuff now and am enjoying myself!
Love the l wood shop tour, I’m just getting into woodworking. The stuff I build 80 percent of it the hardwood material was found by the side of the road. 😊
I truly respect a woodworker that takes the time to refurbish a piece of equipment. That’s not something I want to do to the point that I pass on some nice old tools. Except hand planes and chisels I’ll buy them.
Not much it seems! But after a fair amount of effort, both my planer and edge sander are running top notch at the moment. But I will say this!:my next machine purchase will be brand new 😂
@@ScottWalshWoodworking Haha I don’t blame you, especially after putting lots of effort into your used ones, it’ll be a nice feeling to simply get your new machine out the box, plug it in and play 😜🤙🏻