Drinking game: take a shot every time Michael says "odds and ends". ... JK, this tour was really lovely. I always enjoy listening to people's thoughts about shop layout, organization and infrastructure.
Thanks for sharing your creations. Shop organization videos are a dime a dozen, ones that really take the time to include taking the extra time to use complimentary woods and colors like you have are far and few between. This has to be one of my favorite small shops on RUclips. Your humble presentation also adds to it. To me, a shop is a place to stimulate creativity, my little museum that brings peace and calmness. From one skilled craftsman to another, you have created a BEAUTIFUL space that I am confident brings you joy each time you enter it. Bravo!!
Wow, I'm thinking this can be submitted to Architectural Digest or Interior Design magazine. As you pan through each section, starting with the lumber storage that's hidden by the wall with your logo, the axe, and RUclips award. Then throughout that entire wall with placement of special items that break up the space between tools and adding a personal touch like the planes are pretty to look like when not being used. Even the way the vises are positioned makes it more interesting. And displaying the chisels - it's eye catching. Even the turned pattern bowl in its own cubby with the sustainer storage is functional and yet beautiful to look at. The drawers for the miter saw has the same feel of function and beauty. Your office is the piece de resistance. Thank you for the shop tour update and congrats on your marriage.
I am a big fan of shop tours and really appreciate you doing one, Michael. You have a very nice work space and the area I liked the most was your office area. It looks super inspirational.
I love watching shop tours, they're a fantastic way to get ideas. Every woodworker is different and everyones needs vary but I've found your old shop tour and this one very insightful. Partially because your space is very well thought out. Partially because it's of very similar size to what many of us have available to us. Great video!
amazing tour, amazing tools, and love to see that its not over bought and over crowded with random tools. Everything seems to be used in the shop, and it just looks like a dream shop to me!
OMG, as amazing as your shop is, the jib is what got all of my attention. It will help solve all of my camera struggles which usually takes me longer to film than to build the project. mind blown on this. thank you.
Thank you for the shop tour. I have been working out of garages for as long as I can remember. I have tried many solutions to organize my space and it is not bad, just not as nice or organized as yours. You give me hope for a future shop in the future. I really like the layout you have. Very nice job and congratulations on your recent change in your life with being now married. Best of all things to come in the future. The wonderful thing about life is that it only gets better if you let it.! Thanks again for the tour. Will be watching in the future.
Congratulations guys!! With both of you being creative people, it's a guarantee for a solid marriage and life together. Big fan of the shop tour videos too. Incredibly well organised for such a small footprint in comparison to many bigger shops I've seen on YT. Dream shop for sure
Congratulations Michael! So happy for you both!! Love your content and how you’ve grown over the past several years! Keep up the wonderful and inspiring work that you provide.
This was fun to watch. I was particularly excited to see many of your strategies for tool placement + workflow are really similar to what I've come up with in my own shop.
Hey, you have a amazing shop. My shop was also a two car garage but it was no where near as yours. Even thought I was able to make some pretty nice furniture pieces. I stopped woodworking about five years ago due to my age after about 40 years. It was very rewarding taking a bunch of raw wood and making it into something beautiful. I do miss it, I was not a business. A lot of the items I made still reside in my home. Again great shop.
Idea for the scrap bin door... Hanging flap like a fast food restaurant trash can. Will keep the dust out more (especially with a little soft flap at the bottom) and allow for quick scrap tossing
Thank you for showing us the partially organized storage drawers. Shop tours are always so fun to watch and inspiring but then its easy to feel disheartened when you take some ideas to your own space and you create the beautiful bench top storage and are left with the “but what about the rest of this junk” part.
Came for the transformation of the office space, stayed for the lovely attitude and all of the fun projects. Thanks for the shop tour, it was a fun one!
I have a beautiful redwood burl table my father made before I was born, he made quite a few that I love, but this one is particularly special to me as it has an inlayed birds eye maple chess board, well, the white squares are inlayed maple, the black squares are just the redwood. This is a fun unrelated tangent, but he finished it by going too a VERY secluded beach, digging a large hole and making a fire until it was just coals, dropping a little sand in, then putting the piece of wood (abt 3'x3'x3") in the pit, soaking in ammonia, the heat helped it to super absorb the ammonia as it warmed up. He then had a cooler keeping gallons of bleach ice cold, and when the table was fully heated and soaked, and of course when the wind was steady and NO ONE was down wind (because chlorine gas is very deadly) he poured the freezing bleach onto the wood. I went on that tangent just because a) it makes the redwood super dark b) it's literally the heartiest and least fussy finish I have ever seen, I can't hurt it, It's like it's petrified, and considering I've had this table all through highschool, all through college, and didn’t oil it or take care of it properly for probably 15/20 years (until my thirties really), well, it still shines and is rock solid without any rings from drinks, anything really.. anyway tangent over, maybe you could make little inset pattern ply squares to make a chess board, that could be really beautiful :)
Your Utilising space while keeping it nice and tidy and well looking is so cool love your space I would be proud to have it as I only a 20 ft x 10 ft shed what I do my hobby work in but I built it when I had no wood working experience what so ever so it needs an overhaul but it’s served me well for I’ve been doing so I can’t complain but yh I need something like yours I think …well done 👍
About your off cut bin (@13:00), perhaps cut a flap in the door hinged at the top? Door keeps out (most of) the dust & hinge let's you access the bin to drop the off cuts.
Awesome tour and great ideas! I have a suggestion for the trash can under your miter saw. Put in a small spring loaded door in the cabinet door with a short slanted shoot so the small pieces will just slide into the trash can.
As promised, my take on your patterned plywood video is published, and I mentioned you as “the godfather of patterned plywood.” Thanks for the inspiration man.
Beautiful shop, I love the organization and quality of your shop furniture, the one thing I missed is seeing a fire extinguisher, I'd recommend having one by each door just incase the worst were to happen.
I’ve got the same air compressor for my large laser and that is one amazing compressor. I’ve been told the are the quietest one made. I absolutely love mine. It’s mind blowing how quiet it is.
Nice video my friend… it’s pretty crazy what you have in there. Love the addition of the new bench too, which wasn’t there when I visited. I can’t remember seeing that camera rig, that is very interesting. I ended up getting the Koby design one, and I’m already thinking of getting this one instead haha.
For that slab of burl - until you decide to build a table or something out of it, why not route/carve a large, shallow version of your logo into it, fill it with resin and you will have a really nice, one-of-a-kind logo on your wall large enough to be clearly visible
Beautiful shop Michael! I love all the space saving and efficiency measures you built into it. Very important for us peasants who don't have malecki sized shops. ;-)
So interesting to see what you've collected and selected over the years, really inspiring. To me this is more of a dream shop than those very polished ones with tools all from the same brand and stuff, it really shows your expertise, experience and reflexion around something you are truely passionate about ! You haven't talked about those big black mats on the floor, are they for comfort when working in an area ? Don't they get in the way of rolling your tools or your (amazingly streamlined) camera jig ?
I am on my third building binge in 5 years to get it right. It's either psychosis, or merely avoidance of working with expensive wood on one of the million things i want to do out of fear. But, i do use your methods from your drawer video which was a HUGE help to me.
Love this shop! Reminds me of what I'm trying to do with mine (just north of Seattle)! Feel free to come on up! 😉 My shop isn't nearly as organized but even when it is it doesn't take much to mess it all up again! BTW I'm waiting for you to make more turned SawStop fence handles! Been wanting one for mine but as far as I've seen no one makes nice replacements!
Michael...it was nice meeting you at Work Bench Con. Meeting you there led me to subscribe which allowed me to see your shop tour. i like much of what you have done with your shop. I now need to catch up with the different builds you mentioned on your tour so I guess you are going to get some more watches from me in the near future (😂😂😂). I also wanted to let you know I enjoyed your class at WBC and I am considering several of your suggestions on branding improvement - need much wok on that area also. Thanks on your willingness to share appreciate your insights.
Congratulations of your upcoming marriage. Your shop is amazing. I actually found you initially through some of your artwork and frame making and then I stayed because of everything else. Applause.
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Ive never seen so many Odds and Ends before
Surprised there isn’t an epoxy river plywood piece with a thousand holes in it for individual nail storage honestly
Drinking game: take a shot every time Michael says "odds and ends".
... JK, this tour was really lovely. I always enjoy listening to people's thoughts about shop layout, organization and infrastructure.
Thanks for sharing your creations. Shop organization videos are a dime a dozen, ones that really take the time to include taking the extra time to use complimentary woods and colors like you have are far and few between. This has to be one of my favorite small shops on RUclips. Your humble presentation also adds to it. To me, a shop is a place to stimulate creativity, my little museum that brings peace and calmness. From one skilled craftsman to another, you have created a BEAUTIFUL space that I am confident brings you joy each time you enter it. Bravo!!
You are one of the most coherent, thoughtful and succinct makers online. Thx!
Wow, I'm thinking this can be submitted to Architectural Digest or Interior Design magazine. As you pan through each section, starting with the lumber storage that's hidden by the wall with your logo, the axe, and RUclips award. Then throughout that entire wall with placement of special items that break up the space between tools and adding a personal touch like the planes are pretty to look like when not being used. Even the way the vises are positioned makes it more interesting. And displaying the chisels - it's eye catching. Even the turned pattern bowl in its own cubby with the sustainer storage is functional and yet beautiful to look at. The drawers for the miter saw has the same feel of function and beauty. Your office is the piece de resistance. Thank you for the shop tour update and congrats on your marriage.
I am a big fan of shop tours and really appreciate you doing one, Michael.
You have a very nice work space and the area I liked the most was your office area. It looks super inspirational.
What a fantastic shop! Good organization and what a wonderful space to get things done--thanks for showing the shop to us!
I love watching shop tours, they're a fantastic way to get ideas. Every woodworker is different and everyones needs vary but I've found your old shop tour and this one very insightful. Partially because your space is very well thought out. Partially because it's of very similar size to what many of us have available to us. Great video!
RUclips must be heaven if you enjoy watching the same thing again and again
@@kz.irudimen oh shush
@@kz.irudimenYou must be in hell if you're this stuck up :|
@@kz.irudimenthey’re all different lol
amazing tour, amazing tools, and love to see that its not over bought and over crowded with random tools. Everything seems to be used in the shop, and it just looks like a dream shop to me!
One of my favorite shop tours. Tons of great ideas and inspiration. Thank you, Michael!
Just found your channel as a beginner woodworker and must say that your shop is truly amazing.
Welcome to the craft, Michael is a great resource
The one thing I always admire about your work is the attention to detail. It’s nice to find your patterns or your logo here and there too. Great work.
Congratulations to you both and all the best for the future
Kind regards from Germany
OMG, as amazing as your shop is, the jib is what got all of my attention. It will help solve all of my camera struggles which usually takes me longer to film than to build the project. mind blown on this. thank you.
Awesome!!!
Extensive information on workshop organization... very well done.
Thank you for sharing.
I’m always inspired after watching your videos…. Thank you Michael
new drinking game: take a shot every time michael says odds and ends
Or “Rockler”
Super nice workshop setup! Thanks for the tour.
Wow, what a great tour.
Thank you for the shop tour. I have been working out of garages for as long as I can remember. I have tried many solutions to organize my space and it is not bad, just not as nice or organized as yours. You give me hope for a future shop in the future. I really like the layout you have. Very nice job and congratulations on your recent change in your life with being now married.
Best of all things to come in the future. The wonderful thing about life is that it only gets better if you let it.!
Thanks again for the tour. Will be watching in the future.
Great tour, thanks for sharing!
Congratulations guys!! With both of you being creative people, it's a guarantee for a solid marriage and life together. Big fan of the shop tour videos too. Incredibly well organised for such a small footprint in comparison to many bigger shops I've seen on YT. Dream shop for sure
This is a real chill watch, thanks for showing us around man!
Beautiful shop, Michael... thanks for sharing!
Congratulations Michael! So happy for you both!! Love your content and how you’ve grown over the past several years! Keep up the wonderful and inspiring work that you provide.
Congratulations 🍷🍾to you and Ashley, 💕so happy for you both. Best wishes from Ireland
great tour thanks and some good tips/ideas for tight work spaces. Love your miter / lathe station combo.
Nice Shop - thanks for sharing
WOW, beautiful work shop, whit a lot of think that give me ideas and ispiration. Bravissimo! Micky from Italy
Simply wow! Amazing job
Holy cow! Can’t think of anything from this video I didn’t like or I’d do different. Such an inspiration! Stoked I found your channel!
Congratulations! 🎉
Favorite shop your I have seen thank you!!!
This was fun to watch. I was particularly excited to see many of your strategies for tool placement + workflow are really similar to what I've come up with in my own shop.
Michael's plans are the bomb. I definitely recommend them.
honestly one of the coolest shops on youtube, love all the thought that you put into everything.
Love your style. That office is fabulous, but then so much of what you shared is.
Congratulations to you both
New shop layout is amazing and some great innovative ideas. Congrats on the marriage 🎉.
Flabbergasted by the amount of odds and ends you fit in there
This is so rad. Fantastic shop.
Congratulations and many years of happiness! 💓
very nice shop. well thought out to maximize the space.
Congratulations on getting married! The shop looks awesome. Can't wait to see more great work.
Congratulations!
Congrats on the wedding!! And a clean shop.
Hey, you have a amazing shop. My shop was also a two car garage but it was no where near as yours. Even thought I was able to make some pretty nice furniture pieces.
I stopped woodworking about five years ago due to my age after about 40 years.
It was very rewarding taking a bunch of raw wood and making it into something beautiful. I do miss it, I was not a business. A lot of the items I made still reside in my home.
Again great shop.
Thanks for sharing Michael. Its always a pleasure to watch your videos. You are so talented.
Idea for the scrap bin door... Hanging flap like a fast food restaurant trash can. Will keep the dust out more (especially with a little soft flap at the bottom) and allow for quick scrap tossing
Congratulations to you both I wish you both many happy years
Thank you for showing us the partially organized storage drawers. Shop tours are always so fun to watch and inspiring but then its easy to feel disheartened when you take some ideas to your own space and you create the beautiful bench top storage and are left with the “but what about the rest of this junk” part.
Thanks for sharing!
That looks great!
So many good ideas. Great shop. Thanks. Congrats on the wedding too!
Nice shop brother😊
Great shop tour it looks amazing. Congratulations to you both on your wedding 🎉🍾🎊
Many congrats to you and Ashley. From across the pond in Durham, England
that shop makes me want to build. Having a space to promote creativity is awesome!
Congratulations!!!
Came for the transformation of the office space, stayed for the lovely attitude and all of the fun projects. Thanks for the shop tour, it was a fun one!
Awesome! Thank you!
I have a beautiful redwood burl table my father made before I was born, he made quite a few that I love, but this one is particularly special to me as it has an inlayed birds eye maple chess board, well, the white squares are inlayed maple, the black squares are just the redwood. This is a fun unrelated tangent, but he finished it by going too a VERY secluded beach, digging a large hole and making a fire until it was just coals, dropping a little sand in, then putting the piece of wood (abt 3'x3'x3") in the pit, soaking in ammonia, the heat helped it to super absorb the ammonia as it warmed up. He then had a cooler keeping gallons of bleach ice cold, and when the table was fully heated and soaked, and of course when the wind was steady and NO ONE was down wind (because chlorine gas is very deadly) he poured the freezing bleach onto the wood. I went on that tangent just because a) it makes the redwood super dark b) it's literally the heartiest and least fussy finish I have ever seen, I can't hurt it, It's like it's petrified, and considering I've had this table all through highschool, all through college, and didn’t oil it or take care of it properly for probably 15/20 years (until my thirties really), well, it still shines and is rock solid without any rings from drinks, anything really.. anyway tangent over, maybe you could make little inset pattern ply squares to make a chess board, that could be really beautiful :)
dream shop
Your Utilising space while keeping it nice and tidy and well looking is so cool love your space I would be proud to have it as I only a 20 ft x 10 ft shed what I do my hobby work in but I built it when I had no wood working experience what so ever so it needs an overhaul but it’s served me well for I’ve been doing so I can’t complain but yh I need something like yours I think …well done 👍
What an amazingly well organized shop! I’d absolutely love to see a floor plan.
Congratulations.....Enjoy your break
About your off cut bin (@13:00), perhaps cut a flap in the door hinged at the top? Door keeps out (most of) the dust & hinge let's you access the bin to drop the off cuts.
I had the same thought, but a mail slot for a front door might work well here too.
Awesome tour and great ideas! I have a suggestion for the trash can under your miter saw. Put in a small spring loaded door in the cabinet door with a short slanted shoot so the small pieces will just slide into the trash can.
great job man very inspirational
Congratulations
CONGRATS YOU GUYS! :D Married life is the best!
CONGRATULATIONSSSS
That burl is honestly cool enough that I would just level it out and get a nice “wet” looking clear coat on it and put it back up on the wall!!
Very cool video. Hope you’re having a great day
As promised, my take on your patterned plywood video is published, and I mentioned you as “the godfather of patterned plywood.” Thanks for the inspiration man.
Congratulations.
“Odds and ends” lol
6:13 Ladies and gentlemen, Michael “Way more hose than I need” Alm 😂
отличная мастерская ! все сделано с умом!
A great workshop. And congratulations on your coming nuptials.
Hey Michael,
herzlichen Glückwunsch zu eurer Hochzeit!❤
Ein tolles Video, wie immer. Und die Werkstatt wird von Mal zu Mal besser!👍✌
Congrats to you and Ashley! I guess the house remodel is a bit of a wedding gift to yourselves.
Congratulations on your wedding, Michael and Ashley!
Beautiful shop, I love the organization and quality of your shop furniture, the one thing I missed is seeing a fire extinguisher, I'd recommend having one by each door just incase the worst were to happen.
Those small strip sanders are insanely useful. I have a large belt sander and a small strip sander like yours and I go to the small one more often.
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO
I do not like watching shop tours, but I've watched both of yours start to finish. Loads of great idea and inspiration.
Right on! Glad you found it helpful 🙌
You should carve the burl into a stingray. It’s got most of the shape already!
Kool man!
I’ve got the same air compressor for my large laser and that is one amazing compressor. I’ve been told the are the quietest one made. I absolutely love mine. It’s mind blowing how quiet it is.
Love this!
Nice video my friend… it’s pretty crazy what you have in there. Love the addition of the new bench too, which wasn’t there when I visited. I can’t remember seeing that camera rig, that is very interesting. I ended up getting the Koby design one, and I’m already thinking of getting this one instead haha.
For that slab of burl - until you decide to build a table or something out of it, why not route/carve a large, shallow version of your logo into it, fill it with resin and you will have a really nice, one-of-a-kind logo on your wall large enough to be clearly visible
Beautiful shop Michael! I love all the space saving and efficiency measures you built into it. Very important for us peasants who don't have malecki sized shops. ;-)
Congratulations on your marriage- wonderful news for a great couple!
So interesting to see what you've collected and selected over the years, really inspiring. To me this is more of a dream shop than those very polished ones with tools all from the same brand and stuff, it really shows your expertise, experience and reflexion around something you are truely passionate about !
You haven't talked about those big black mats on the floor, are they for comfort when working in an area ? Don't they get in the way of rolling your tools or your (amazingly streamlined) camera jig ?
Big congratulations on getting married!!!
I am on my third building binge in 5 years to get it right. It's either psychosis, or merely avoidance of working with expensive wood on one of the million things i want to do out of fear. But, i do use your methods from your drawer video which was a HUGE help to me.
Love this shop! Reminds me of what I'm trying to do with mine (just north of Seattle)! Feel free to come on up! 😉 My shop isn't nearly as organized but even when it is it doesn't take much to mess it all up again!
BTW I'm waiting for you to make more turned SawStop fence handles! Been wanting one for mine but as far as I've seen no one makes nice replacements!
Michael...it was nice meeting you at Work Bench Con. Meeting you there led me to subscribe which allowed me to see your shop tour. i like much of what you have done with your shop. I now need to catch up with the different builds you mentioned on your tour so I guess you are going to get some more watches from me in the near future (😂😂😂). I also wanted to let you know I enjoyed your class at WBC and I am considering several of your suggestions on branding improvement - need much wok on that area also. Thanks on your willingness to share appreciate your insights.
Thanks Rob!! Nice meeting you too
Congratulations of your upcoming marriage. Your shop is amazing. I actually found you initially through some of your artwork and frame making and then I stayed because of everything else. Applause.