Well done, I'm getting ready to build a woodworking workshop, and I've found this video to be the most helpful so far. I have a 3m by 12m yard, so not a lot of space, and I need to maximise the garden space too, so I'm planning a small workshop about 2.5x1.5m plus a 1m veranda on the front with roof over it. My idea is to make it look like a garden shed out of Anne of Green Gables, so that I complements and enhanced the garden while I side I have my workshop. The front 2m wall will have double doors opening outwards so that when I'm working I can make use of the covered veranda as additional workflow space, and by making the doors solid with heavy hinges I plan to permanently mount on their inside so that when the doors are open and anchored back those tools are available to use outside in the veranda. I think this will maximise work space and garden space at the same time. What do you think?
Nice you are on your way...a life partner...love the flip table...now ideas...creativity has NO limits but does have a starting point...READY SET .....
Great shop and tour, thank you. Very efficient, thought out, and good use with the space you have. I’m a fan of the lift router table and multi tool flip stand!
You’re genius!! I’m an old guy that’s been working in various office and sales jobs all my life dreaming of the day to have a shop like yours! Your efficiency is brilliant and love the tools great job!!!!
"Allowed to use" I'd be expanding the size with each project request!! New dining room table.... 1.5 car garage workshop!! New kitchen cabinets..... 2 car garage workshop!! Leave the wife room to park her car and always remember that it's ALWAYS easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission!!
Lol so true. I had to make the corner of my garage into a work space that I was allowed to have lol. With kids toys and a car in the garage and in the winter its tough but at least I got that haha.
A lot of inspiration here, thanks. I'm putting together a 10 x 20 shop at my property 80 miles from the nearest road. I'll be building some of your items!
I know how you can improve it, GIVE IT TO ME!!!! Ha ha ha! Nice set up, you did very well. Like the part of "letting you have". You're very lucky having a 3 car garage. We have a 1 car & a small shop. Well done & with your approval, I'm going to "use" some of tricks.
You call that a small shop?!!! That's a sizeable space I'd give my back teeth for. Still, you have clearly put a lot of thought and care into it and have some great tools there. Great job! That's not small though. Try 8x15. That's all I have for a professional shop. The only way to work in such a small space is to be creative. Dust collection put outside in it's own enclosure with the hose taken through the workshop. Wall space completely utilised. Love your flip top idea. Will use that one. Also like your folding assembly table idea. Agree that the table saw takes pride of place. I've upgraded my contractor saw to a larger cast iron table with a sliding mitre table. It takes up half my workshop space. Timber storage is external. As long as it is a dry well ventilated space it's fine. Smallest professional shop I've seen was 7x8ft! It had dust collection, a router table and a good bench saw in it as well as a 6ft long workbench!
It's always impressive to me to see the small shops people have and how they make it work. It's more important to maximize your space no matter the size! Good luck in your shop
Awesome layout for your small shop. I'm trying to design a layout for a small shop in my basement. Thank you for a lot of great ideas. Happy woodworking Sir!
thanks for showing. I have the same tablesaw. My shop is smaller, but I've worked on turning the 3rd bay of my garage (where I usually park my jeep) into the shop, and then rolling everything back against the wall like puzzle pieces. I watched your video to get ideas on maximizing my layout
I was going to just make a holder for my router bits, bit I like the idea of the removable one. Would work for drill bits as well so it's got me re-thinking that strategy. Yes, everything's always going to be a work in progress - it never stops and needs always change. Thanks
Good layout for wood working. I like the central aisle and benches along the sides. Great use of available storage. My garage shop has just enough room to pull my truck into. It fits like a knife in a sheath. 😆 Woodworking is in the basement with the sheet and board rough cutting in the garage. It also is the welding and cutting area. Bandsaws, wood and cutoff. Welders, stick, MIG, + TIG. Cutting torch and plasma. I had hopes for setting up a larger shop in a barn but it's not happening. I ended up with most of the working garage tools on wheels. Not Ideal. I'm always spending more time putting away and getting out than I am working.
Yeah that's a tough situation. I gave up on parking my car in the garage so my wife could have hers in there and I could have a shop. I don't have to fit welders in there though. Good luck!
@@EveningWoodworker It could be worse. 😆 I have a shop that is airconditioned in the summer and hested in thevwinter and I don't have to scrape the truck widows. 😆 I do like your setup though. 😆😎
Nice layout and I really like the table saw top. I have a similar saw and will be making a top for it. I am most impressed with your apron. I buy a new one at least once a year and seldom see ones with flaps over the pockets. Periodically I shove the shop vac hose in and clean the sawdust out of the pockets.
Great setup for the limited space allowed. This is timely as I just built my long desired chop saw station. I’ve made it where the saw lifts out on a plywood base and can be exchanged with my router table and also mortiser also mount on plywood. Both tools require different heights to take advantage of the wing extensions. Plus the base cabinet now allows me to store the router and morticer instead of being on my bench top or on the floor. It is a huge improvement in my shop as the chop saw station and wings are at the same height as my table saw so I can support sheets of sheet goods as I run them. It’s a bit difficult to make everything work as I also have to store also the mower, spreader, lawn tools, 4 bicycles, 2 motorcycles and misc other pieces associated with a wood shop.and still fit at least 1 car. Wish I could build a dedicated wood shop out back but that would be a budget buster.
I’ve got a small shop, too. Though mine is in the unfinished basement and may end up shifting around before it gets fully settled in. So it’s cool to see how you have yours laid out to give me ideas for mine. Thanks for the tour!
Perfect timing. I’m going to be moving my shop home to a20’x20’ garage from a rental space. I like the idea of leaving a straight through lane. Many good tips.
Since you work in such a small shop. Look up Ron Paulk and the smart wood shop. A Paulk Smart Bench or a Paulk Smart Station could really add some flexibility to your space.
I love your shop and how you explained it. I too have a 3 car garage and dedicated 1 bay to my workshop. I have fudged a bit and spilled over to the 2nd bay. But you gave me some good ideas to work into my shop. Thanks
That flip top stand is brilliant. I’m just getting into woodworking and planning out my shop layout in my head. Our home’s previous owner built a nice little shop off the basement, but it’s more of an all purpose shop than a woodworking shop. The floor space is long and narrow, about 20’x7’. Your layout helped give me some good ideas though, many thanks!
Great tour! I have a similar setup (including your miter station, thank you 👍👍). Best decision I made was to build a partition wall to enclose the third car bay. It keeps the dust off the cars and out of the house, and it’s another wall to hold wood racks, place additional plugs, etc. It will be fun to watch your shop evolve in years to come. Cheers!
@@EveningWoodworker same here. I was thinking maybe a sliding barn door style or even just hanging partitions with french cleats. I'll be watching to see what you come up with. I appreciate you sharing this video. Gave me some good ideas!
As I'm in the redesigning phase of my very small workshop, I'm watching a lot of videos to get an efficient workflow. Your video is very helpful! Especially where the space is limited optimization is the key (I'm less than 100 sqft). Thanks
Very nice sir, I'm in the beginning stage of getting into the hobby and I have the same amount of space to use. I need all the tips I can get. I will be looking at more of your videos, thanks for sharing.
It's a great hobby with actual tangible rewards! Get a few basic tools and then add a little at a time as you need it for each project... unless you just have a ton of money up front!
very well organized small shop. Subscribed! My shop is the same size (11x25) and even though it's not particularly cluttered yours just looks larger - and I realized why. I only have a 7 ft ceiling height. Man I wish I at least had the height you do (but then there's someone out there who wishes they had 275sf workshop). That height you have will allow you to install a proper cyclone dust collector and it won't sacrifice too much space either - less than a 3x3 footprint plus ducting you might have to do along the walls. The good thing about that over the bag dc you have (besides filtration) is that it stays put and doesn't get in the way. That's why I made mine and installed it in the corner rather than deal with having to roll a bag dc around the shop from tool to tool. That would have been painfully annoying to me in my small workshop. The one I made years ago is modeled after the Bill Pentz design for a cyclone, but I had to make it short and stout to fit under my ceiling and still have decent separation. So if you haven't gotten a cyclone yet, check out the Bill Pentz design and maybe do a build video on it. It's not that difficult to do. I recently did a quick review video of my cyclone (check that out if you want), but I made it pre-YT days so I don't have a build video on it. I'm glad to offer advice along the way of the build if you want. Here's Bill Pentz's site - billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/air_cleaner.php
Yes Bill Pentz is the King of Dust Collection!... that is definitely on the to do list. I've read a lot of his stuff on it and I can appreciate his testing and research. I'll check out yours when I'm ready! Thanks for the sub!
Thanks! The air connectors were part of a cheap kit of hose and connectors that I got awhile back. It included the drops, connectors, and hose which could be cut to length. They have better ones out there now; not sure this one is available anymore. Search for "air hose kit"
the flip top workstation is also on my list of shop builds, right after i finish my miter station cabinets, also i am a fan of the door trim, awesome idea which i may copy when i get around to redoing the doors in my house to make it a bit more unique, other then the 7 foot home bar with built in shelving and hidden door that leads to my shop lol
This was great, thanks for sharing your shop tour. I have an almost identically sized garage I’m struggling to create a shop from, and yours is the first video I’ve seen where a “one car garage” shop wasn’t at least 4-8 feet wider than mine in at least one dimension. Seeing what you did with such a similar space was really helpful. 👍🏼
You gave me some really good ideas here. I like how functional and practical your shop is. I'm beginning mine and was trying to decide how to situate a miter saw station around my electrical panel along my main, long wall where most of my space is and the router table spacing is perfect. I think I may do a similar flip top cart for my same tools, as well. Great job, thanks for sharing.
Your workshop is fantastic! I really enjoyed how you prepare the wood and put the tools in the perfect place! Who knows one day I get one like this! Here in Brazil, it's very difficult to make like in the USA. Congratulations! Nice!!!
Might want to think about putting the router table on the table saw as an extension. Then the fence of the saw can also be used as the fence for the router. Plus it would free up more space in the shop. That's what I did in my small shop.
This is a great tour and giving me so many ideas. Thank you...I think. :) I am overhauling the workshop I inherited from my father. It has 2 walls of upper and lower cabinets with countertop, like a kitchen, 1 wall with the furnace and hot water heater, and 1 wall with a work bench under a peg board system. He also made heavy wooden boxes for all of his tools which makes storing them difficult. I love your cubbies for your sanders and such.
@@EveningWoodworker totally being facetious. But definitely a nice shop. I don't have a shop. I do not really like working indoors. Seems i am destined to build one or enclose my work space in self defense. A robin layed 4 eggs in my markers box. Some other bird layed five in my glue cubby ontop of the various glue bottles. And i just found 4 or 5 baby rabbits in a hole under my drill press.
Great tour and obviously lots of thought went into the layout. One concern is your electrical panel is blocked by one of your power tools. Also importantly you need a First aid kit in easy to reach place accessible with one hand that includes a tourniquet.
Don't worry the flip top stand in front of the panel is on wheels and I can easily roll it out if I need to access the panel. Good idea on the first aid kit though!
I always laugh when Americans (usually) talk about their small workshops and then reveal the actual dimensions as several hundred square feet. I have half of a UK single garage - about 95 square feet. I don't have all the tools you do and what I do have is smaller versions for instance an 8" mitre saw and a jobsite table saw but I am grateful for what I have and although I lose time mounting and dismounting tools which share space, I get things done. You have a great set up there, enjoy!
Nice video and layout. Great ideas that I will share with a friend who is about to set up a shop the same size as yours. Your table saw is actually 1 1/2 hp, though. Craftsman always rates their saws at the rate at which the motor pulls at the point where it stalls, not actual horse power during use. True hp of craftsman saws is half of what it says on the front of the saw. I think you will find that the motor draws around 12 amps at 120 volts, which translates to 1 1/2 true hp. If it was really 3hp at 120 volts, you would need a dedicated 30-amp breaker to run it.
The Evening Woodworker Craftsman is the only manufacturer that does that to my knowledge. Notice that it says 3 PEAK horsepower. Whenever it says peak hp, just divide by two for the true hp.
I have to measure mine, I think it's around 11' 3"×22'. So I'm pretty much in the same boat. That's what made me watch your video, looking for some ideas.
I had those but they had some damage from the previous owner and didn't work too well. I have since upgraded my tablesaw though and passed this one on to a friend who will put it to good use
Thanks for the tour! I have a third bay shop too. I love the router table and the dove tail door frame. Great ideas. Think I am going to take a look at my layout...
I like the table saw cover to protect the saw's top surface. I have had one of these fprs the last 15 years and my old saws top still looks good. Good use of space. keep the vids coming !
Nice tour young man. I love the plywood storage system you made. Shame your wife ( I’m guessing here) won’t let you have a second bay lol. I can only imagine all you’d do with that amount of space. 🤙🏻🤙🏻
@@EveningWoodworker I’m sure she is 😃. I did notice you were missing one thing though. No shop dog lol. Gotta have a shop dog. I’m close to making my first RUclips video. My 3 car garage shop is filled with metal and wood working stuff. I love doing both. I’ve enjoyed watching several good shop tours on here. Some are so poorly done which makes me appreciate ones like yours. You made a quality video I enjoyed. Hopefully I’ve learned how to make a good one too.
Very encouraging. I have a little more but you would never know it. It's a mess and I've been laboring how the shop should flow. You gave me inspiration. Thanks for sharing. I'm your next new subscriber.
Excellent, thanks for showing us your shop! I just got a lot of ideas for layout based off of yours. I love the lift mechanism on the router table, and how your store your sheet goods is a great use of that space.
I just bought my second used Craftsman table saw like yours. My second one was built in Taiwan but it has the same dimensions as the older one. I can use my INCRA fence on ether one so I plan to turn my older saw into a router table. Your shop is fantastic. Luckily my shop is a detached garage and is my lockdown sanctuary. Re-named from 'Dog House'
Very cool. You're entirely justified in giving a shop tour. Thank you. You'll be picking up air tools in a hurry now... think sanders next and a sub-micron filter to go with the cyclone for your dust collector. Happy trails!
Loved the shop tour, and the ideas. Fortunately for me, I was able to take over the garage which is a 2 car garage. When I say that, I also say that with a grain of salt, as there are still things that are hers that still require some of the space. I'm working on that. Love the layout, and really liked the idea of a main alley for in and out of the garage itself. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos as you gained a new sub. Keep up the great work.
One thing that I think is key for small shops is putting everything on wheels. I'm trying to give every tool it's own cart with its own storage on wheels.
You've just solved my dilemma 👍🤓. Such a planned out layout. I appreciate this video. Definately, a like, thumbs up and for sure SUBSCRIBE! All the best👍
A real man can make any space perfect.
Exactly!
OK, you've given me about seven good ideas for my own single bay garage shop. Thank you.
Great! I'm glad it helped!
The sheet plywood storage idea was fantastic. Def going to rip that off lol.
A frenchcleat wall above your work bench would look awesome too
Good idea, I've been thinking about the French cleat thing too.
Great shop video demonstrating the functionality of a small garage shop.
I love old craftsman tablesaws
Thanks! Hope it helped!
GREAT USE OF YOUR SPACE .REALY LIKE IT
Thanks! Always trying to pack more in!
That flip table is absolutely an eye-opening design
It's super useful! You should make one.
nice shop, good layout,
Thanks man!
Well done, I'm getting ready to build a woodworking workshop, and I've found this video to be the most helpful so far. I have a 3m by 12m yard, so not a lot of space, and I need to maximise the garden space too, so I'm planning a small workshop about 2.5x1.5m plus a 1m veranda on the front with roof over it. My idea is to make it look like a garden shed out of Anne of Green Gables, so that I complements and enhanced the garden while I side I have my workshop. The front 2m wall will have double doors opening outwards so that when I'm working I can make use of the covered veranda as additional workflow space, and by making the doors solid with heavy hinges I plan to permanently mount on their inside so that when the doors are open and anchored back those tools are available to use outside in the veranda. I think this will maximise work space and garden space at the same time. What do you think?
Thanks! Sounds like a good plan. Just make sure you have enough power going to the workshop with sufficient outlets and outlets to spare!
Nice you are on your way...a life partner...love the flip table...now ideas...creativity has NO limits but does have a starting point...READY SET .....
Yes! Thank you!
I like your layout very efficient.
I love that router table feature!
Thanks!
Great shop and tour, thank you. Very efficient, thought out, and good use with the space you have. I’m a fan of the lift router table and multi tool flip stand!
You’re genius!! I’m an old guy that’s been working in various office and sales jobs all my life dreaming of the day to have a shop like yours! Your efficiency is brilliant and love the tools great job!!!!
Thanks! My shop is my escape from my desk job. That's how I stay sane!
“Allowed to use” I felt that
Yep as you know it's a give and take!
"Allowed to use"
I'd be expanding the size with each project request!! New dining room table.... 1.5 car garage workshop!! New kitchen cabinets..... 2 car garage workshop!! Leave the wife room to park her car and always remember that it's ALWAYS easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission!!
No doubt.
Lol so true. I had to make the corner of my garage into a work space that I was allowed to have lol. With kids toys and a car in the garage and in the winter its tough but at least I got that haha.
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A lot of inspiration here, thanks. I'm putting together a 10 x 20 shop at my property 80 miles from the nearest road. I'll be building some of your items!
Sweet! Good luck, sounds like the place I wanna be!
I know how you can improve it, GIVE IT TO ME!!!! Ha ha ha! Nice set up, you did very well. Like the part of "letting you have". You're very lucky having a 3 car garage. We have a 1 car & a small shop. Well done & with your approval, I'm going to "use" some of tricks.
Yes that's the point of the shop tour! It's to give people ideas of what they can do in their shop. Good luck!
You have clearly put in a lot of time and thought in your shop setup. Nice job on a very well organized space.
Thanks! It took awhile but it's worth it
You call that a small shop?!!!
That's a sizeable space I'd give my back teeth for. Still, you have clearly put a lot of thought and care into it and have some great tools there. Great job!
That's not small though. Try 8x15. That's all I have for a professional shop.
The only way to work in such a small space is to be creative. Dust collection put outside in it's own enclosure with the hose taken through the workshop. Wall space completely utilised.
Love your flip top idea. Will use that one. Also like your folding assembly table idea.
Agree that the table saw takes pride of place. I've upgraded my contractor saw to a larger cast iron table with a sliding mitre table. It takes up half my workshop space.
Timber storage is external. As long as it is a dry well ventilated space it's fine.
Smallest professional shop I've seen was 7x8ft! It had dust collection, a router table and a good bench saw in it as well as a 6ft long workbench!
It's always impressive to me to see the small shops people have and how they make it work. It's more important to maximize your space no matter the size! Good luck in your shop
Nice shop, nice use of space.
Thanks a lot!
Awesome layout for your small shop. I'm trying to design a layout for a small shop in my basement. Thank you for a lot of great ideas. Happy woodworking Sir!
Thanks John! Good luck on your shop too!
very organized shop! It's nice to see how people organize such smart solutions in not so big places!!!
Thanks! It's fun getting creative about it
thanks for showing. I have the same tablesaw. My shop is smaller, but I've worked on turning the 3rd bay of my garage (where I usually park my jeep) into the shop, and then rolling everything back against the wall like puzzle pieces. I watched your video to get ideas on maximizing my layout
Good luck! I decided to give up my inside parking for a shop!
Nice looking shop, great use of your space.
This video has been inspirational in my own shop setup. Thank you for your work in creating PRACTICAL content with both your videos and shop builds.
Thank you! That's what I'm trying to do... I'm glad it's working! Good luck with your shop!
Your shop is huge.
Somedays it feels bigger than others!
@@EveningWoodworker yeah, I have even less space than you, sucks.
I was going to just make a holder for my router bits, bit I like the idea of the removable one. Would work for drill bits as well so it's got me re-thinking that strategy. Yes, everything's always going to be a work in progress - it never stops and needs always change. Thanks
The removable feature is handy especially if you're handheld routing. Good luck!
Thanks so much
Good layout for wood working. I like the central aisle and benches along the sides. Great use of available storage.
My garage shop has just enough room to pull my truck into. It fits like a knife in a sheath. 😆
Woodworking is in the basement with the sheet and board rough cutting in the garage. It also is the welding and cutting area. Bandsaws, wood and cutoff. Welders, stick, MIG, + TIG. Cutting torch and plasma. I had hopes for setting up a larger shop in a barn but it's not happening.
I ended up with most of the working garage tools on wheels. Not Ideal. I'm always spending more time putting away and getting out than I am working.
Yeah that's a tough situation. I gave up on parking my car in the garage so my wife could have hers in there and I could have a shop. I don't have to fit welders in there though. Good luck!
@@EveningWoodworker It could be worse. 😆
I have a shop that is airconditioned in the summer and hested in thevwinter and I don't have to scrape the truck widows. 😆
I do like your setup though. 😆😎
Great use of available space sir. Amazing what could fit in one bay of a 3-car garage.
Thanks! Id love to have another bay if I could convince the wife to park outside!
Nice layout and I really like the table saw top. I have a similar saw and will be making a top for it. I am most impressed with your apron. I buy a new one at least once a year and seldom see ones with flaps over the pockets. Periodically I shove the shop vac hose in and clean the sawdust out of the pockets.
Thanks! I have the link to the apron I got in the description. It takes a bit to break in but I really like it now.
Great setup for the limited space allowed. This is timely as I just built my long desired chop saw station. I’ve made it where the saw lifts out on a plywood base and can be exchanged with my router table and also mortiser also mount on plywood. Both tools require different heights to take advantage of the wing extensions. Plus the base cabinet now allows me to store the router and morticer instead of being on my bench top or on the floor. It is a huge improvement in my shop as the chop saw station and wings are at the same height as my table saw so I can support sheets of sheet goods as I run them. It’s a bit difficult to make everything work as I also have to store also the mower, spreader, lawn tools, 4 bicycles, 2 motorcycles and misc other pieces associated with a wood shop.and still fit at least 1 car. Wish I could build a dedicated wood shop out back but that would be a budget buster.
One of the best w/s I have seen.
Great work bro.
Thanks man! I appreciate it!
I’ve got a small shop, too. Though mine is in the unfinished basement and may end up shifting around before it gets fully settled in. So it’s cool to see how you have yours laid out to give me ideas for mine. Thanks for the tour!
Good luck! Find everything a home but make sure it's mobile too so you can reconfigure when needed
Perfect timing. I’m going to be moving my shop home to a20’x20’ garage from a rental space. I like the idea of leaving a straight through lane. Many good tips.
It's been really nice to have it set up like that!
Very nice shop.
Thanks!
Since you work in such a small shop. Look up Ron Paulk and the smart wood shop.
A Paulk Smart Bench or a Paulk Smart Station could really add some flexibility to your space.
Great idea! Thanks
From one Jared to another your little shop looks great
Thanks Jared! Also thanks for spelling our name correctly!
I love your shop and how you explained it. I too have a 3 car garage and dedicated 1 bay to my workshop. I have fudged a bit and spilled over to the 2nd bay. But you gave me some good ideas to work into my shop. Thanks
Yeah sometimes I spill lumber storage over into the other bay too!
Wow, that’s a good size shop. My is 14x9
Yeah I guess it all depends on perspective... it's small for me and big for others.
That flip top stand is brilliant. I’m just getting into woodworking and planning out my shop layout in my head. Our home’s previous owner built a nice little shop off the basement, but it’s more of an all purpose shop than a woodworking shop. The floor space is long and narrow, about 20’x7’. Your layout helped give me some good ideas though, many thanks!
Awesome! Good luck with your shop!
Great tour! I have a similar setup (including your miter station, thank you 👍👍). Best decision I made was to build a partition wall to enclose the third car bay. It keeps the dust off the cars and out of the house, and it’s another wall to hold wood racks, place additional plugs, etc. It will be fun to watch your shop evolve in years to come. Cheers!
Thanks, that's a good idea! I've been thinking about various ways to add at least a partial partition.
@@EveningWoodworker same here. I was thinking maybe a sliding barn door style or even just hanging partitions with french cleats. I'll be watching to see what you come up with. I appreciate you sharing this video. Gave me some good ideas!
As I'm in the redesigning phase of my very small workshop, I'm watching a lot of videos to get an efficient workflow. Your video is very helpful! Especially where the space is limited optimization is the key (I'm less than 100 sqft). Thanks
Great! Glad I can help!
Very cool
Very nice sir, I'm in the beginning stage of getting into the hobby and I have the same amount of space to use. I need all the tips I can get. I will be looking at more of your videos, thanks for sharing.
It's a great hobby with actual tangible rewards! Get a few basic tools and then add a little at a time as you need it for each project... unless you just have a ton of money up front!
That's a cool work shop... I'm definitely interested in the flip work station... I need one for my planer and jointer.
Thanks man! I have plans for the flip top stand on my website. The link is in the description.
very well organized small shop. Subscribed!
My shop is the same size (11x25) and even though it's not particularly cluttered yours just looks larger - and I realized why. I only have a 7 ft ceiling height. Man I wish I at least had the height you do (but then there's someone out there who wishes they had 275sf workshop). That height you have will allow you to install a proper cyclone dust collector and it won't sacrifice too much space either - less than a 3x3 footprint plus ducting you might have to do along the walls. The good thing about that over the bag dc you have (besides filtration) is that it stays put and doesn't get in the way. That's why I made mine and installed it in the corner rather than deal with having to roll a bag dc around the shop from tool to tool. That would have been painfully annoying to me in my small workshop. The one I made years ago is modeled after the Bill Pentz design for a cyclone, but I had to make it short and stout to fit under my ceiling and still have decent separation. So if you haven't gotten a cyclone yet, check out the Bill Pentz design and maybe do a build video on it. It's not that difficult to do. I recently did a quick review video of my cyclone (check that out if you want), but I made it pre-YT days so I don't have a build video on it. I'm glad to offer advice along the way of the build if you want.
Here's Bill Pentz's site -
billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/air_cleaner.php
Yes Bill Pentz is the King of Dust Collection!... that is definitely on the to do list. I've read a lot of his stuff on it and I can appreciate his testing and research. I'll check out yours when I'm ready! Thanks for the sub!
a lot of great ideas, you earned a subscriber
Thanks! Hope to keep giving good ideas
Very nice. Glad to see it’s possible in such a small space. I’m setting up a shop in my 2-car garage and though I had limited space!
It's definitely possible! Just gotta get creative!
Wow I really like how efficiently you used your space. Really cool shop!
Thanks!
Good video! Very relatable for the rest of us hobbyists that have to deal with limited space and machines
Thanks! I feel like my pace is so much slower than many of the others out there, but I have to remind myself that this is not my full-time gig.
Very well done. I would like to see more and know more about those air connectors, or even see a video on how you installed them. Thank you.
Thanks! The air connectors were part of a cheap kit of hose and connectors that I got awhile back. It included the drops, connectors, and hose which could be cut to length. They have better ones out there now; not sure this one is available anymore. Search for "air hose kit"
the flip top workstation is also on my list of shop builds, right after i finish my miter station cabinets, also i am a fan of the door trim, awesome idea which i may copy when i get around to redoing the doors in my house to make it a bit more unique, other then the 7 foot home bar with built in shelving and hidden door that leads to my shop lol
Nice! sounds like some cool plans for future builds
really like the dovetail door casing. never seen that before.
Thanks! I saw it once somewhere online and added it to the to build list
Great looking shop and great storage solutions and layout!
Thanks!
This was great, thanks for sharing your shop tour. I have an almost identically sized garage I’m struggling to create a shop from, and yours is the first video I’ve seen where a “one car garage” shop wasn’t at least 4-8 feet wider than mine in at least one dimension. Seeing what you did with such a similar space was really helpful. 👍🏼
That's great! I'm glad it helped! I did another video on shop layout tips that might be helpful too: ruclips.net/video/5yuq34HQAdc/видео.html
You gave me some really good ideas here. I like how functional and practical your shop is. I'm beginning mine and was trying to decide how to situate a miter saw station around my electrical panel along my main, long wall where most of my space is and the router table spacing is perfect. I think I may do a similar flip top cart for my same tools, as well. Great job, thanks for sharing.
Great! I'm glad it helped. My setup along the wall with the breaker panel has worked great. Good luck!
My mind exploded when you raised up your router table.
Haha! I've gotten so used to it now I can't imagine it any other way!
I still can’t see how that would help with the changing of bits and height of bit adjustments.
I’ve rather gone with a router lift solution
Your workshop is fantastic! I really enjoyed how you prepare the wood and put the tools in the perfect place! Who knows one day I get one like this! Here in Brazil, it's very difficult to make like in the USA. Congratulations! Nice!!!
Thanks for watching from Brazil! Just keep making with whatever you can. We're always envious here of the local Brazilian woods!
Good video. Gave me some helpful ideas.
Glad to hear it!
Might want to think about putting the router table on the table saw as an extension. Then the fence of the saw can also be used as the fence for the router. Plus it would free up more space in the shop. That's what I did in my small shop.
Good idea! I've thought about that but not sure how it would work in the space I have. Send me a pic of your setup
Enjoyable tour. Plenty of good tips to improve my shop.
Great to hear!
This is very well organized. So this was before you got you got your Sawstop. It must have been tough fitting a saw stop in here.
Actually it fit in the same footprint as the old saw! My newest video releasing today at 11am will tell all about it and how I made it fit.
This is a great tour and giving me so many ideas. Thank you...I think. :) I am overhauling the workshop I inherited from my father. It has 2 walls of upper and lower cabinets with countertop, like a kitchen, 1 wall with the furnace and hot water heater, and 1 wall with a work bench under a peg board system. He also made heavy wooden boxes for all of his tools which makes storing them difficult. I love your cubbies for your sanders and such.
I usually use something out of those cubbies every time I'm out in my shop. It's nice to have them handy! Good luck with your setup
Thats a nice big shop.
I've definitely seen smaller, but I'd love it to be bigger!
@@EveningWoodworker totally being facetious. But definitely a nice shop. I don't have a shop. I do not really like working indoors. Seems i am destined to build one or enclose my work space in self defense. A robin layed 4 eggs in my markers box. Some other bird layed five in my glue cubby ontop of the various glue bottles. And i just found 4 or 5 baby rabbits in a hole under my drill press.
Not to mention the king snake i had to fight off the robins nest...lol
Great tour and obviously lots of thought went into the layout. One concern is your electrical panel is blocked by one of your power tools. Also importantly you need a First aid kit in easy to reach place accessible with one hand that includes a tourniquet.
Don't worry the flip top stand in front of the panel is on wheels and I can easily roll it out if I need to access the panel. Good idea on the first aid kit though!
I always laugh when Americans (usually) talk about their small workshops and then reveal the actual dimensions as several hundred square feet. I have half of a UK single garage - about 95 square feet. I don't have all the tools you do and what I do have is smaller versions for instance an 8" mitre saw and a jobsite table saw but I am grateful for what I have and although I lose time mounting and dismounting tools which share space, I get things done. You have a great set up there, enjoy!
Thanks! You just gotta take what you have and make it work! Good work
Great video! I love the router table lift idea!
Thanks! It's pretty useful
Great shop set up for the space you have.
You have some really clever ideas happening there.
Thanks man!
I like the center of your work bench! Oh and that door frame👍👍
Yes! It makes me want to make more nice stuff for my shop!
I’ll just jump in here -- that was funny what you said about the engineers.
ha ha ha ha
Nice video and layout. Great ideas that I will share with a friend who is about to set up a shop the same size as yours. Your table saw is actually 1 1/2 hp, though. Craftsman always rates their saws at the rate at which the motor pulls at the point where it stalls, not actual horse power during use. True hp of craftsman saws is half of what it says on the front of the saw. I think you will find that the motor draws around 12 amps at 120 volts, which translates to 1 1/2 true hp. If it was really 3hp at 120 volts, you would need a dedicated 30-amp breaker to run it.
That's good to know... I guess you shouldn't ever trust the marketing!
The Evening Woodworker Craftsman is the only manufacturer that does that to my knowledge. Notice that it says 3 PEAK horsepower. Whenever it says peak hp, just divide by two for the true hp.
I have to measure mine, I think it's around 11' 3"×22'. So I'm pretty much in the same boat. That's what made me watch your video, looking for some ideas.
Good luck! It can be done!
glad to see you still using a Sears contractor table saw but your missing the splitter with the anti kick back paws
I had those but they had some damage from the previous owner and didn't work too well. I have since upgraded my tablesaw though and passed this one on to a friend who will put it to good use
Thanks for the tour! I have a third bay shop too. I love the router table and the dove tail door frame. Great ideas. Think I am going to take a look at my layout...
Awesome! Good luck with your shop.
holy shit you're the life of the party bud
I like the table saw cover to protect the saw's top surface. I have had one of these fprs the last 15 years and my old saws top still looks good. Good use of space. keep the vids coming !
Thanks! Glad you like it!
I love the assembly table thing for your table saw!!
Thanks! It's a quick and easy way to get some extra assembly space.
Cool shop. Looks like you have a good system in place to work efficiently
Thanks! At least I can't use my shop as the excuse why I'm working slow!
Nice tour young man. I love the plywood storage system you made. Shame your wife ( I’m guessing here) won’t let you have a second bay lol. I can only imagine all you’d do with that amount of space. 🤙🏻🤙🏻
Haha, well she's worth the sacrifice!
@@EveningWoodworker I’m sure she is 😃. I did notice you were missing one thing though. No shop dog lol. Gotta have a shop dog. I’m close to making my first RUclips video. My 3 car garage shop is filled with metal and wood working stuff. I love doing both. I’ve enjoyed watching several good shop tours on here. Some are so poorly done which makes me appreciate ones like yours. You made a quality video I enjoyed. Hopefully I’ve learned how to make a good one too.
Very encouraging. I have a little more but you would never know it. It's a mess and I've been laboring how the shop should flow. You gave me inspiration. Thanks for sharing. I'm your next new subscriber.
Awesome! Glad I could help!
Great video!!! I have a very similar space and this gave me so much hope!!! Thank you!
Excellent, thanks for showing us your shop! I just got a lot of ideas for layout based off of yours. I love the lift mechanism on the router table, and how your store your sheet goods is a great use of that space.
Thanks man!
I just bought my second used Craftsman table saw like yours. My second one was built in Taiwan but it has the same dimensions as the older one. I can use my INCRA fence on ether one so I plan to turn my older saw into a router table. Your shop is fantastic. Luckily my shop is a detached garage and is my lockdown sanctuary. Re-named from 'Dog House'
Nice! Sounds like fun!
some awesome ideas for storage. Your shop is still twice the size of mine :D thanks for the tips.
Thanks man! Good luck with your shop, just gotta make it your own!
I love the router bit storage, I'll be making one soon. Thank you.
Glad it helped! It's still a super functional design! Good luck
I realize I'm pretty off topic but does anyone know a good place to stream newly released movies online?
@Tristan Kason Lately I have been using Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
@Jadiel Fox Yea, been using Flixzone for months myself =)
@Jadiel Fox Thank you, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I appreciate it!
Nice organize little set up you have there, my friend. A big thumbs up for a small shop!
Thanks! It's been fun to see what I can make work in there.
Very cool. You're entirely justified in giving a shop tour. Thank you. You'll be picking up air tools in a hurry now... think sanders next and a sub-micron filter to go with the cyclone for your dust collector. Happy trails!
Thank you! I definitely will be adding the sub-micron filter when I do my dust collector mod!
Very nice and organized space!! Congrats!
Thank you!
Awesome organisation, thank you for sharing
Thanks! No problem
Awesome workshop. Just subscribed. Have an amazing weekend, Andreas 🇸🇪
Thanks Andeas!
Loved the shop tour, and the ideas. Fortunately for me, I was able to take over the garage which is a 2 car garage. When I say that, I also say that with a grain of salt, as there are still things that are hers that still require some of the space. I'm working on that. Love the layout, and really liked the idea of a main alley for in and out of the garage itself. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos as you gained a new sub. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the sub! Yeah I should have fought harder for the 2-car side!
One thing that I think is key for small shops is putting everything on wheels. I'm trying to give every tool it's own cart with its own storage on wheels.
Good call! The wheels make it really versatile depending on your project.
Evening woodworker here as well. Just finished my outfeed/assembly table. On to a dedicated miter saw station. Great setup man. Cheers.
Good work! Sometimes, the evening is all we got!
Nicely done! Good use of a small space.
Thanks!
Great shop!
Thanks for the tour. I will be in a similar situation to you in terms of shop space in the near future and this gave me some good ideas.
Nice! Glad it helped. Good luck!
Nice......I like the flip-up on the router..........Yes, praying to the router is a pain! DD
I figure I'll be more grateful the older I get!
Bonito taller, saludos desde España
Gracias! Que bueno que haya gente hasta España mirando tambíen!
@@EveningWoodworker thank you
You've just solved my dilemma 👍🤓. Such a planned out layout. I appreciate this video. Definately, a like, thumbs up and for sure SUBSCRIBE! All the best👍
Thanks! I'm glad it helped
Good video. I'm just in the process of reorganising my garage/workshop which will be laid out in a similar fashion. Lots of good ideas here.
Thanks! Good luck with your shop!