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Hi. Long time no update. Sadly there isn’t that much to update at the moment on the shop build itself, its been a bit of “one step forward, two steps back." I learned Monday that all garage outlets need to be GFCI protected, and that I need tamper resistant outlets along the wall, even in the...

Some Good advise here. Especially the last sentence. Table saws should give you the willies. It's almost the only tool in a woodshop that's out to get you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I bought two of these because they're cheap and because in the stationary position they rest on something other than wheels. I would rather the TS not move while I'm using it. So far I have been happy with them.

Oh no. I am on the hunt for a planer and a 14" bandsaw ... And maybe others. :D And, thanks!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. No real progress on the garage. Other areas of life need attending to. Today, after working a bit on a jig for putting the router plate in the table saw’s extension table, I got a wild hair and decided to see if the car still fits with all the tools put away...

Yeah, I'm not too excited about those doors either. And I hear what you're saying about dowels providing less glue surface than tenons. Still thinking about the best way to make these things in my little garage. Having said that, I've had more people talk to me about furniture projects than...

Hello from just across the river! You've got a really nice looking bench going there, Jeremy, I'm envious of the big timbers. Assuming things haven't changed since last time I was there, Crosscut sells west system epoxy. I have had good experiences with it as well, and you'd definitely have...

This weekend represented a big step forward in this story: With the help of my brother-in-law I got the garage wired (who are we kidding, I helped him and sometimes got in the way). We went from a single outlet to 9, one of which is 220v. And that means I can finally plug the table saw in. And...

Funny you should mention the dowelling jig, I have been wavering a bit today over that particular tool. Someone has a boring machine on craigslist for $200 that looks tempting, but I just don't think I have the room for it. I've been looking at the JessEm dowelling jig, and it's quite a bit more...

Okay: question for you veterans of this forum: What's the best way of making sure that I post my updates to the end of thread, on the top level?

A brief update. Over the last couple of days I put a couple coats of paint on the outside walls, and framed in the rest of the bench. I need to get another sheet of plywood for the top, but its nice to be able to see the outline of the whole bench and to see the jointer nested under it just...

The doors in the picture are from when I was a full-time woodworker. We had shapers back then. I am still thinking about best ways to make screen doors in my tiny garage/woodshop. Perhaps a small shaper. A bigger problem, I think, is the joinery: we used to use a horizontal boring machine and...

Hello Garage Journalers, a few projects have wrapped up and now I have some time to work in/on the garage. An update is in order. Yesterday I started getting ready for electrical. The electrical will come in a couple parts. First I plan on doing some sheetrock-off electrical work on the wall...

Thanks, Christiebiscuit, and welcome. I am pretty new here myself so I am not the best person to answer questions about how the forum works; perhaps someone more experienced can chime in. I only have one outlet right now too, and that won't be workable BUT.... I am about a week from the end of...

I didn’t really have time to work in the garage this last week, so this is sort of a non-update. It is end of semester time, so I probably won’t have much time for the next few weeks. I did spend some time getting permits and electrical help set for the electrical work (not very exciting or...

Thanks for the feedback and encouragement everyone! rieferman, (uncapitalized like bell hooks?), I spent quite a bit of time today going through your thread, and you look to be quite good at both the woodworking and also the carpentry thing. My shop may yet be a car-free zone. I suppose that...

Slow and steady ... Not a whole lot of time for working in the garage, but I did spend more time than I’ll admit to browsing this site. A lot of great ideas and a lot of really talented people here. Already I have expanded my vision of what this will look like quite a bit. In the couple hours...

Oh man, I just took a quick look at your shop and you definitely feel my space constraints. Duly subscribed! Here are a couple of pictures of the mobile tool cart when it was fresh and shiny in 2006. In retrospect, there is some wasted space inside where the drawers are, I am sure you wouldn't...

Ha! Well, the cart wasn't repurposed: I built it myself. It was one of my very first woodworking projects—poor design and wasted space and all. I would be curious about when the tool chest was made. I think the brown crinkle finish signifies that it is a machinist's chest. I have the driveway...

Thanks! Ideas like this are why I decided to document this project here.