Recent content by Lumberjackprince

Holidays and cold are among my common excuses for why I don't get much done in the shop and I'm trying to remedy that. After debating for months about how to best reclaim floor space, I decided to make a flip top stand for my scroll saw so I can slide it under my outfeed table. I was reluctant...

Here's a junky drawing of a cutaway of the bin with the rough dimensions. It's about 20" wide. Basically it lets me collect up all my small to medium scraps; the longer stuff goes in the back and shorter stuff in the front. Another thing I have been working on is a soldering station. My...

I totally agree! Unfortunately I can't go up very much since the garage height is that of a regular room and half the ceiling space is taken up by the garage door and a large beam but my plan is to get more cabinets up on the cleat in the coming months. The other big idea is getting rid of all...

Thanks for all the encouragement, I think I've made more progress in the last few weeks than I have in the last few years. In addition to "just keeping at it", one thing that really helped was letting go of the "perfect" storage solution. Inevitably trying to make a home for stuff gives me a...

I'm super happy with the Rigid combo oscillating belt/spindle sander but only 87.3% happy with the stand I made for it. I had the brilliant idea to make the inside of the door pegboard. But I couldn't stop at just one sheet of pegboard, I used two overlapping pieces, thinking to maximize...

After lurking in awe of all the awesome stuff going on here, I decided it's time to finally join in. I have a lot of hobbies, motorcycles, woodworking, music and more. The only unifying characteristic is I make a mess doing all of them. This year was an explosion of tool buying for me but the...