Greetings & Salutations,
I am about to start a new Murphy Bed and Cabinet Project and just got the shop kind of straightened up so I took a few pictures and thought I would post them for everyone to see.
My shop building is a 30 x 50 metal building with 10' side walls. I made the actual shop 20 x 30 in the back of the building and using the dividing wall just outside the double shop door I put in a 10 x 10 bathroom complete with tub and shower as well sink and vanity.
These pictures show the double door that I am able to open fully so that I can easily get lumber and completed projects in and out.
The door also makes a handy place to hang my cross cut sled and just to the right is a lumber and sheet goods rack with my Delta miter Saw on a portable stand in front. I elected to use the portable stand since my shop is about 300 feet from the house and I am always doing projects in the house it makes it handy to bring the MS up to the house to work rather than make the trip back and forth.
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To the left of the doors I put in a shelf that I can keep my woodworking books along with all my operational manuals of my machines and tools on. Below I have a deep tub sink and to the left of that are a couple of shelves that manage to collect any and everything.
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Moving on around to the left you can see more storage cabinets as well as my roll around tool cart that is so big and heavy it never gets rolled around. For cooling I have a 30,000 BTU AC unit that I keep a furnace filter over the front of and believe me this thing will keep it cool. I do have 6" of insulation in all the exterior walls and 14" of blown insulation in the attic. The walls and ceiling are 5/8 OSB that I got at Lowes on sale for $2.99 a sheet. At the end of the Table Saw, which is a Grizzly 1023SL 5 HP you can see the top of the Grizzly 6" Jointer and my temporary Miter Table which is a table top unit from Rocker. (New Router Table next on the agenda) My Performax 16-32 Drum Sander and the Delta 13" Planner are on rollers so I move them all over when not using them to keep them out of the way. Also on rollers is my Penn State Dust Collector that for now I move from machine to machine. Up on the back wall is my home made planner sled and with some MDF against it is my Grizzly Drill Press.
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Moving on around the shop against the back wall next to the DP is my Grizzly Lathe which I have not done much with yet but soon will. Next to that is a Oscillating Drum Sander that I got from Harbor Freight and it does a pretty nice job for $90 bucks. The outfeed table is one of the first things I built for the shop after my work bench and gives me a lot of useful storage.
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I have a few more pictures but will have to put them in another post on this thread.
Thanks for taking a look at my little area of relaxation and enjoyment.
Gene Miller