Old School wood shop (my second thread here)

[chrislehr]

Hello all - been several years since my last thread in the gallery, of which all pics are now broken, so I won't link it.

Closed today on a new home (to us) in Portland, OR on the South East side.

Garage specific pictures

Ceiling:
20160511_220451363_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr


South wall:
20160511_220457031_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

From side yard looking at back left of garage:
20160511_220732511_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

Area outside garage (looking at house)
20160511_220741950_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

north wall:
20160511_220447498_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

Garage door:
20160511_220449456_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

West wall:
20160511_220445665_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr


Short term: Wood shop and bike storage (no cars!)
Long term: Raise the second floor (or raze building) and make a granny/nanny apartment above and dream shop below.

 

[chrislehr]

Hm. Working on pics, sorry.

 

[Bib Overalls]

I use Flicker. It is free and the links work with the Garage Journal software. Some photo hosting services, i.imgur.com being one, are not compatable.

 

[Stuart in MN]

I have a Mac computer, I can right click on the little squares and open the pictures in a new window so they are there, you must have just made a minor error in posting them.

 

[chrislehr]

Sorry long time, no update, been busy. Someone please tell me pics work now.

 

[chrislehr]

Street view:

Garage by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

 

[chrislehr]

Things added since those pics.

1) HF dust collection
2) DeWalt planer
3) DeWalt table saw
4) DeWalt double bevel miter saw
5) Jet Drill Press (still back ordered)

Been an amazing couple of weeks but the shop is unorganized and unplanned. more to come. Not sure if I will level and raise or level on the concrete yet. TBD, had some serious in house projects to deal with first.

 

[Pig In A Poke]

Are you painting the interior, removing the old paint, or leaving it as is?

 

[chrislehr]

Are you painting the interior, removing the old paint, or leaving it as is?

I think the old boards are cool looking. Going to pull them off and insulate, floor the attic and maybe add some more joists for support but keep the boards to clean up and rehang.

 

[cj6]

Definitely, the boards are really cool. I like it.

 

[KM223]

What a cool place!

 

[matt_i]

Excellent build. Love the old woodwork. My free piece of advise is to also look at hanging air filtration units. The dust collector does an excellent job but there's always superfine airborne dust it will miss. Especially from the two saws. The filtration unit will eventually track it down

 

[Pig In A Poke]

I love the wood, not real crazy about the spray paint on the wood.

+1 on the hanging air filter, woodsmith mag has a write up on building your own.

 

[chrislehr]

Excellent build. Love the old woodwork. My free piece of advise is to also look at hanging air filtration units. The dust collector does an excellent job but there's always superfine airborne dust it will miss. Especially from the two saws. The filtration unit will eventually track it down

Been looking into it. having a dust collection system is already a massive upgrade to my normal, so that's a large quality improvement. I will look into this. Not sure on ceiling/attic yet. Seems the shop would feel more open if I opened up the ceiling. There's not enough joists to support much weight up there either. Maybe I can do engineered beam and open the height to allow for more "hung" equipment like that.

 

[Bib Overalls]

If your long term goal is to build up you need to asses the load bearing capacity of tour existing foundation now, before you put any money into the existing structure.

Garages are one place where even the best builders economize. There is a good possibility your foundation is the minimum allowed by code for single story structure.

Probing with a 1/4" sharpened steel rod and digging down next to your foundation will give you a good idea as to the width and depth of the existing footer. Don't be surprised if you don't have one.

 

[chrislehr]

If your long term goal is to build up you need to asses the load bearing capacity of tour existing foundation now, before you put any money into the existing structure.

Garages are one place where even the best builders economize. There is a good possibility your foundation is the minimum allowed by code for single story structure.

Probing with a 1/4" sharpened steel rod and digging down next to your foundation will give you a good idea as to the width and depth of the existing footer. Don't be surprised if you don't have one.

Agree completely with you. Already know the attic joists are like 4' apart, so likely will need an engineer to tell me how to upgrade without a complete tear down so I can retain the current location without having to move it away from the property line as well. Not that I can't move it 5', but it would hamper the plan we had for the area between the house and garage.

 

[chrislehr]

Some more new toys I picked up today.

20160815_231804667_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

20160815_231759864_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

 

[chrislehr]

Excellent build. Love the old woodwork. My free piece of advise is to also look at hanging air filtration units. The dust collector does an excellent job but there's always superfine airborne dust it will miss. Especially from the two saws. The filtration unit will eventually track it down

Picked this up used for $150 today

20160821_013800318_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

 

[chrislehr]

And these odd chunks of tree arrived.

20160822_014522569_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

20160822_015124479_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

 

[slimpickins]

I'm liking the wood interior but that dark wood soaks up a lot of light, unless the pics make it look darker than it is. Methinks you'll be needing lotsa lumens in there to see what you're doing!

This has a lot of great potential! It'll be interesting to see what you do with it!

Looking forward to progress!
Cheers!

 

[bj383ss]

Man what a cool place. I would think on all the old wood you could just run it through the planer and just take a little bit off and clean them up. This is going to be a cool place. Sub'd.

Bret

 

[chrislehr]

Man what a cool place. I would think on all the old wood you could just run it through the planer and just take a little bit off and clean them up. This is going to be a cool place. Sub'd.

Bret

That is my hope as well - lots of de-nailing to be done first, too.

Alas, most of my garage efforts lately have been on making things for the house, and not much garage improvement. And then in October, we had our first child (a boy!) and that's consumed some time.

However, I managed to install some Matador garage insulation (this stuff is awesome!) last week between various other garage outings.. you can also see the top of a small end table I've been working on.. completed pic below the garage shot.

20161223_024358015_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

20161225_073530363_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

 

[Zeke]

Don't use Imagur on the GJ. They won't load directly.

 

[chrislehr]

Don't use Imagur on the GJ. They won't load directly.

I make this mistake every dang time. 99% of forums it works fine, just GJ I have issues.. standby for rehost...

 

[Richard Cranium]

Nice table build

 

[chrislehr]

Things move glacier like when you have a newborn, but some updates coming. For this post... I made and hung shelves for my speaker and made grilles to protect them from the elements.

20170124_231126861_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

Coming:
1) Removal of ceiling wood to determine attic storage feasibility
2) Dust collection
3) Pixi lights (I did these in our Austin 2 car with 2 lights, this time will do 4. Should be bright)

Sometime in there, I will spend some time and money on new electric circuits and sub panel, might rough that in myself and then just have electrician check my work and run the power to the new sub.. I am not super confident in my electric abilities.

 

[chrislehr]

Coming:
1) Removal of ceiling wood to determine attic storage feasibility
2) Dust collection
3) Pixi lights (I did these in our Austin 2 car with 2 lights, this time will do 4. Should be bright)

Wow. I ****. Attic feasibility, I am thinking I couldn't store anything much up there, but I still might open it up sometime soon.

Dust collection, I am happy to report is in place for at least the main runs. Next up is finding the right arrangement of tools for optimal usage, power, and dust runs.

Other projects keep me from progressing on the shop.. But I also made a spray booth this past month that I've only used once so far, but it was excellent to make some storage space. I also used only wood I had for free, so the only costs were the electrical bits.

20170622_050704771_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

20170622_044612539_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

20170623_201200707_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

Video of spray booth

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUgQ922Dyqw/?taken-by=chrislehr

 

[chrislehr]

Another month, another update.

My shop has been super busy moving tools in and out.

In the last months, I've acquired quite the pile of old hardware. In no particular order:

• Crescent 1906-1912 32" bandsaw
• Delta 10" Super 990 Radial Arm Saw
• Delta Homecraft 11" bench top drill press
• Delta 8" tilt top table saw
• Delta 40's 6" jointer
• Darra James 12" Table Saw
• Craftsman 6" jointer (already sold)
• Delta 10" bandsaw (somehow this was in perfect shape and free)

Phew.

Here's my shot of the largest tool in the shop:


And I finally got my Pixi 2x2 LED lights hung. It's so much brighter now!



Oh and the Rockwell 15" drill press I've been working on cleaning and restoring is at about 95% (It needs two bolts to be slightly shorter, and a new link belt)

 

[chrislehr]

It's been a while since I posted here, so update... I have POWER!

100 amp sub panel, 3x dedicated 20 or 30a 220 1p and 3x 110 25a circuits in addition to the two smaller 15a circuits for small electronics and lights

This of course means... my giant awesome bandsaw runs, and it runs perfectly - I couldnt be happier with it.

I'm still rearranging the shop, and had to sell/part out some of the tools I wasn't making use of.

Here's the main tool wall as of last night:

20171111_013259872_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

I need to finish the bandsaw's guards and dust collection so I can paint it grey like most of the other gear. Also might need another outlet on this wall, four is exactly two shy of what I need here, even though I would never use more than two at a time.

On the other side of the shop, progress on my miter saw station - this has been a long slow road. I even swapped my miter saw half way (the Dewalt was 12" deeper and made the cabinet come out stupidly far)

20171101_053458324_iOS by Chris Lehr, on Flickr

My wife thinks my hobby is just moving things around out here. To some degree this is accurate.