Archive for the ‘Shop’ Category

Woodworking Workbench Construction Pt. 1

Friday, August 15th, 2008

In earlier posts I had talked about getting the "Bench Horse" from Blum Tool Co. I also considered the "X-Bench" from Skil as suggested by my Dad. While both would have served my purpose in the apartment, I decided to build my own. I have to say, ...

Apartment Workshop has begun

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Today I started on my new home away from home workshop. The new shop will be in my bedroom of the apartment that I will be staying in for the next year or so. The reason the new shop is in my bedroom is because I will be ...

The Space I Have

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Haven't posted in what seems like an eternity. I have been caught up in the new job, finding a place to live, moving into that place, figuring out all of the stuff that I forgot to bring with from home and then making multiple trips to the store to get ...

Portable Bench… An answer to my prayers?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

    With my recent job change I have been forced out of my new workshop (or new workshop in progress) due to relocating. That really bummed me out a bit as it was getting close to completion, or at least usable, and I was really looking forward to getting some ...

Storage Solutions

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

While my shop has been in a total chaos state during the upgrade process I have been trying to decide on a storage system. My initial plan was to make a set of cabinets myself. The reason for this is: to get some experience making cabinets before making the kitchen ...

Creature Comforts Part Deux

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Today the temp outside reached 93 deg. Normally the garage would be a couple of degrees higher due to being closed up all day. When I got home from work today, I was pleasantly surprised to find the temp of the garage to be only 77 deg. This is without ...

Creature Comforts

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Today a very important milestone was achieved in the many shop upgrades that are in the works. Earlier in the week I installed an air conditioner. I bought the biggest window unit that I could find, a 25k btu unit. I have never had an air conditioned garage/shop before so ...

Drywall is up!

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Things are really taking shape now! I was getting depressed about the whole garage upgrade thing. Mostly because my shop has been a total mess. Anytime I try to do anything  I have to spend about an hour rearranging stuff before I can get started. Also, I have never done ...

Garage Upgrade Update

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I have installed insulation in the garage (in the walls anyway) and now I am waiting for some help from my family to install the drywall. I was trying to think of some ways to hang this stuff myself by making some supports out of 2x4's but I haven't ...

Electrical upgrade…DONE!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I know in my last post I said that it was going to be a few days before I could finish up on the wiring but, it was driving me crazy not having it finished. So, I took an unscheduled day off from work (sorry Dom, I know you missed ...