How
to Build a Great Home Workshop
by WOOD Magazine
Softcover
205 x 255mm
286pp
Published by Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., New York USA
R.R.P.$29.90
ISBN 1-4027-1177-8
As reviewed in The Australian Woodworker Issue 137
Very few workshops are planned from the start. They often begin with no more than a bench and expand irregularly as their owners acquire machines and tools in pursuit of their changing interests.
The result is usually inefficient and may even be unsafe.
Deciding what to do - how to build your own ideal workshop that is uniquely suited to the kind of work you want to do - is a challenge.
How to Build a Great Home Workshop is designed to help you meet that challenge. Compiled by the editors of WOOD magazine (a US publication), it is a huge collection of ideas about everything associated with building and equipping the home workshop. There are chapters on customising the workshop space, setting up dust extraction, heating systems, the workbench and descriptions and plans for a wide range of storage facilities you can build.
Chapter 6 - The Workbench: Heart of the Shop - is typical. It offers plans and instructions for making six kinds of bench including one with a built-in dust collection system, plans for a lift-up router table as well as notes on specially strengthening and also flattening a bench top.
There is enough information here to keep you busy for months, maybe years, revising and improving the place in which you work.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial
Contents
A Woodworker's Dream Shop
How to Find
Space for the Woodworking Shop
Wiring Guidelines for Your Shop
Shop Lighting
Strategies
Climate Control Considerations
Storage Space
Customize
Your Space
Idea Number 1: A Bountiful Basement
Idea Number 2: Efficiency
in One Stall
Idea Number 3: Two-Car Garage Workshop
Idea Number 4: No-Nonsense
Dedicated Space
Idea
Number 5:A Professional's Place
How
to Lay Out Your Shop
Clean
Air in Your Shop
Basic Dust Defense
A Case Study in Dust Collection
Guidelines for Setting Up Your Own Dust-Collection System
Step Up to Air
Filtration
Shop-Made Dust-Collection Systems
Shop
Heating Systems at a Glance
Workshop Heating Considerations
Forced-Air
Heaters
Tube Heaters
Radiant Heating
Electric Options
Is
Wood Good?
How to Determine Which Heating System to Use
Workshop
Safety and Security
Tools as Targets
Protect Your Shop from Fire
Safety
Equipment
The Danger of Dust
First Aid for the Shop
Shop Safety Check
The
Workbench: Heart of the Shop
One-Day
Workbench
Durable Workbench
Drop-Leaf Mobile Workbench
Tough-Stuff
Workbench
Full-Service Workbench with Surprises
Lift-Up Router Table
Flip-Up
Benchtop Tool Table
Workbench with Side-Draft Dust-Collection System
Workbench
Tool Crib
Flatten Your Workbench's Top
Shop
Cabinet Craftsmanship
Start with a Base Cabinet
Now, Try a Wall Cabinet
Clamp a Large Box with Confidence
Build a Floor-Cabinet System: The Basic
Cabinet
Three-Drawer Utility Cabinet
Flip-Top
Work Center
Dual-Purpose Sanding Center
Swivel-Topped Cabinet
Modular
Wall Cabinet System
Another Take on a Wall-Cabinet System
Make Customized
Tool Holders
Handy Cabinets
Reference Center
Solving
Special Storage Needs
Flexible Wall Storage System
Tablesaw Accessory
Cabinet
Mobile Tablesaw Base
Mobile Tool Cabinet
Swing-Out Cabinet
for Bits
Scrollsaw Blade Drawer
Drop-Down Tool Tray
Wall Hanging Sanding-Supply
Organizer
Drum-Sander Holder
11-in-One Sander Cabinet
Storing
I umber and Sheet Goods
Quick-and-Easy Mobile Storage
Roll-Around
Plywood Cart
Sheet Goods Mover/Lifter
Lumber Storage Rack
Double-Duty
Clamp/Lumber Rack
A Catchall for Cutoffs
Easy
Racks, Holders, and Organizers
At-the-Ready Bit Shelf
Easy Router
Bit Storage
Bandsaw-Blade Holder
Saw-Blade Holder
Scrollsaw-Blade
Organizer
Cordless Drill Recharging Station
Wall-Hung Plane Holder
Wall-Hung
Router Organizer
Five Great Clamp Organizers
Clamp-Rack Combo
Safe
Chisel Storage
Chisel Stand
A Simple But Top-Notch Chisel Rack
Wrench
Rack
Simple Saw Rack
Ready-for-Work Tool Holders
Hose/Cord Holders
Glue Caddy
Lathe Tool Rack
Lathe Tool Board
Stands,
Stools, and Supports
Leg Stand for Stationary Tools
Super-Sturdy Scrollsaw
Stand
Mobile Mitersaw Stand
Roll-Around Tool Base
Workshop Rest Stop
Two-in-One Seat/Step Stool
Sturdy Stool
Fold-Out Work Support
Knockdown
Cutting Platform
Knockdown Sawhorses
Back-to-Basics Sawhorses
Metric
Equivalents Chart
Board Feet Guidelines
Index
Credits