Recent content by CraigP

Man, am I jealous. I have a single car garage which doubles as a shop, if you can even call it that. Keep it up Bull, subscribed!!

While working on my dining room table I actually remembered to take a few pictures of what I was doing. I'm neither artsy nor fartsy but I do like this picture.

I dropped the ball, I didn't keep you guys in the loop, I'm sorry :sad:, but my table is done! How'd I do?

Just catching up on my old posts here. I used the extra cedar to build a couple flower boxes and the flowers survived the summer, so we're good to go from that point. I also used the cedar to build one side of my workbench. Since it's 3/4" thick I can hang random stuff on it without worrying...

Hey bczygan, I see you have a lot of wood in your garage. Where do you live? I have some leftover oak that's sitting in a hallway right now and it's starting to bug me there, but I don't want to keep it in the garage. I live in Chicago so it's cold and damp out there. I'm not an expert but I...

@PC Pain -- I'm with what everybody else has said. Take your time, do your research, draw out your plan, and go to it. Also keep in mind that wood is cheap so if you mess something up, a fresh 2x4 is only about $2. If you can use scrap from around the house or neighbors, that makes it even...

Here's my bench I put together with inspiration from everybody here. Nearly all of it was built from scrap lumber (plywood and 2x4's from my dad's garage, left over cedar from a deck, solid desk top that previous owners left in my house) with the exception of two or three new 2x4s and the lag...

Re: what did you do in your garage today? I refurbished a hand plane to the best of my ability a few weeks ago. I needed it for another house project I'm currently undertaking. This was my grandfather's and possibly his fathers as well. The patent date stamped into the adjustment lever is Feb 3...

This stuff is awesome. I don't make anything to this caliber, yet!

I built most of my workbench out of scrap wood that had been in my dads garage for years and a couple new 2x4's from the local big box store. For the top I cut down an old desk top left in my house by the previous owners. Also just put together a rack for some pipe clamps out of cedar left...

what a great build 44! keep it up buddy, you're inspiring a lot of people with your work.

Awesome bench and bag set TimTaylor75! What kind of wood do you use for your bag sets and how do you finish them? They look awesome!

There are some great ideas for clamp storage here. For Christmas I received 8 quick clamps and just put together 4 pony pipe clamps. I know this isn't a lot but I've gone from no clamps to a pile that's messing up the storage cabinet of my bench. Time to make some storage racks with the spare...

@ PurdueSD - that's an awesome bench. Almost too nice to mess up except those legs shout 'beat on me!'. @ shoot summ - that is awesome! Solid/Hollow/Foam filled? How are the legs constructed and attached?

I built a bench months ago based on everything I had read here and the input of a good buddy. I need to get some pictures and measurements up for you guys. It's the only fair thing to do.