Workbenches/Storage areas/Cabinets

My electrical should be compleated this weekend and it will be time to look at making some workbenches and storage cabinets. Does anyone have any multiple functional benches/cabinets? Like a workbench that has a saw(scrollsaw,or other item) mounted to it that maybe rotates under the table out of the way so you can have full use of the workbench when you need it. I want to have full use of everything, but for the items that are not used alot to be mounted in a way that they can be flipped out and used at any time without having to dig them out of the corner and clamping them to a table. Since I have 10ft ceilings I'm looking at shelving around the upper part of the ceiling for bowls, and storage. I don't want the shop cramped up with stuff I don't use alot. That's why I need multi-functional cabinets/benches. If you have something like this please post a picture(s). Please any help or pics would be greatly appreciated.
Donny

You're way ahead by already taking the approach you are. Anything not used at least monthly can be in another room or out in a shed. Anything you don't use weekly can be in a storage cabinet, shelf or somewhere out of the immediate area. Save your immediate workspace for those things that you use every time you are at that location. Well done. That lesson took me years to learn ;-)

Most of my shop fixtures were developed by reading and looking at everything I could. This seemuingly endless volume of material can then influence your own application of these ideas. All of our shops are different and we all do things differently. Most of the fixtures and methods I have discarded were done "as shown". The ones that stick around were tailored to my space and methods (right or wrong :rolleyes:).

Here's some of my organizational stuff to add to the flood of ideas you can find:

oh man... now my "projects list" just got expanded by 5...

Donny, one thing I really like is to have a long extension table on the table saw, then build cabinets underneath it, and to put a router into the end of the extension wing with the router cabinet below. Saves a lot of space.

And a combined "assembly table / tablesaw outfeed table" is good, with lots of built in storage below it too, giving you a 3-purpose bench.

Hey Donny,

(I'm in the American south, we don't say Hi or hello.....)

I remember reading many years ago, in one of the woodworking mags, about a system that a man had in his shop. He had numerous benchtop tools -- a mortiser, a drill press, an oscillating spindle sander, etc.

He had mounted each of those devices to plywood bases that were all the same dimension. And on the top of his bench, there was a "receiver" for just such a plywood base. When he needed to use a benchtop tool, he'd get it off it's shelf (base attached), and slide the base into the receiver. Bingo! a bench-mounted benchtop tool.

And now that I think more about it, maybe the receiver was something that was removeable, and was held in place by the face vice? If you can plan/make such a system, the bench could also be completely available for milling wood, for assembly and glue-up, for planing and such............

And all you need is enough shelf-space to store the benchtop tools on pre-made bases.

I have a planer table similar to Brad's. When the planer is down I have a work surface and I have a box with a drawer that sets on top and has a grinder and a buffer mounted on it. The drawer holds related 'stuff'. I take it off and set it on the workbench when i want to use the planer.

I haven't built anything fancy, but I did set up a drill press mortiser station that is very handy.
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The cart is a Craftsman tool chest that I found on one of their great sales and I attached some plywood to the top. On top of the plywood I placed my Delta bench top drill press and a Steel City mortiser. The drawers house all my bits, other items used with the drills or mortiser as well as my portable drills. When I have something that needs to be drilled I have one place to find what I need.