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Cabinet time! I built a outfeed table and side wings for my little job site table saw and started building cabinets. The little saw does ok for what it is. Holy smokes cabinet grade plywood has gotten ridiculously expensive and the quality has gone down as well. The veneer is literally...

So with the barn door up, the wood working area of the shop can now be isolated. It was time to install a work bench and some prefab wall cabinets so I can get some stuff off the floor and out of boxes. The work bench is built of 1x1x.120 wall tubing topped with a 2x4 frame 3/4” plywood and...

Picked these up this morning. Local machine shop was clean out and had these listed for 60 each. I offered 100 and he carried them out to the car for me! He’s got more stuff that I bought but it’s buried in his store room. I’ll get it after the first of the year. 6” made in tiawan and an...

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals!

You’ll notice that the room in which we built and installed the barn door is painted. I painted each room as I finished the plywood and ceiling. I used an oil based PVA primer and then 2 heavy coats of pure white high gloss oil from Sherwin Williams. There’s a lot of paint on these walls. A...

Last framing item was to box in the waste pipe from the master bath. Once that was completed it was time to build a door. I used some 1/2” plywood and 1x4’s. My brother and nephew came over and helped me hang it. Once up I could close off the woodworking area and make dust without covering...

The plywood went up fast. The ceiling no so much. Working overhead is not a lot of fun. My brother and I worked a couple nights a week for about a month and finally finished up the ceiling. Working on a bakers scaffold is great but there I no convenient way to hold tools. We whipped up a...

As far as I know the only requirement would be one layer of 1/2” drywall.

With all the plywood needing to be cut as straight as possible I bought a (cheap) Bora track saw system. For what it is and for the money it works pretty well. Definitely not a festool competitor but for dirty framing it does ok. All the plywood joints would eventually get caulked prior to...

With all the plywood needing to be cut as straight as possible I bought a (cheap) Bora track saw system. For what it is and for the money it works pretty well. Definitely not a festool competitor but for dirty framing it does ok. All the plywood joints would eventually get caulked prior to...

With the plywood and Masonite on hand and the insulation complete my brother and I started putting making the walls complete. We started with the base boards and crown. Backwards I know but there’s logic to it. The base is SYP 2x10. This acts as a bumper and run rail. Almost all my big tools...

Yep. Sony receiver with a extra amp to run 3 pairs of speakers. It’s the last of my component gear. My old tube amp finally died.

Finally installed my chain fall and organized the tooling for my mill.

Make sure you plan your slab thickness and reinforcement for your lift correctly. It ***** to have to cut up a new slab because you didn’t go “heavy” enough.

Once the HVAC was in and running I wrapped up all the miscellaneous blocking, framing and deadwood. Then it was time for the part I hated most. Insulation! Argh I dislike insulation almost as much as drywall. Well anyway, it’s wasn’t going to insulate itself, before I started the itchy fun I...

While not technically garage sale items. This is my Saturday score. Cabinets and drawers being tossed out by local municipality that I grabbed, snap on 1/2” to 3/4” torque multiplier and extension being tossed by a a local fire department, portapower, chain hoist from my brother and a bunch...

You have a box of money.

I would recommend matching the roof pitch and overhang of the house. I personally like large overhangs.

I’ll take it and promise not to sue.🤦‍♂️🤣

Here’s how the majority of my are organized. I have a couple loose that live in my tool bag and another mounted at another place in the shop so I have fresh batteries near by