The
Complete Woodshop Guide
How
to Plan, Equip or improve your Workspace
Softcover
210 x 275mm
272pp
Published by Popular Woodworking Books, Ohio USA
R.R.P.$34.90
ISBN 978-1-4403-0229-9
As reviewed in The Australian Woodworker Issue 152
Workshops often grow without an overall plan. A site is selected - anything from the corner of a garage or spare room to a garden shed - and a bench is installed. Tools are added, then one machine, and another, and another...
Storage is needed so up go a few shelves or a cupboard is fitted into a bit of open space.
The result is rarely efficient but for a long time you are likely to be too busy making things to worry about that.
Yet the time must come when you realise that something must be done. But where to start?
You might decide to begin all over again. You could get yourself a purpose built shed and start from scratch.
More likely, you will decide to rearrange your current workshop - look at the work you generally do, the usual workflow it requires and then put together a new layout using your present equipment.
The authors of this book discuss both these options as well as many other aspects of creating, improving and enlarging workshops. The contents of the book’s 23 chapters are drawn from articles which have appeared in the Popular Woodworking (US) magazine over the past ten years and from books produced by the same publisher.
Many of the chapters include constructional notes for making workshop additions which are designed to increase the flexibility of space usage.
The last 40 pages contains 8 essays and smaller projects which address topics ranging from material storage and a practical shop cabinet to a rolling clamp rack.
The book is well illustrated with more than 300 photographs as well as exploded diagrams for the main constructional projects.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial
Contents
Introduction
Building Safety into Shop Design
Powering and Lighting the Shop Effectively
Implementing Your Dust-Collection System
Planning Your Ideal Workshop
Maximizing Your Shop Space
Customizing Your Woodshop
Choosing the Right Shop Location
Examining Real Woodshops
Basement to Shop Conversions
Converting Garages to Shops
Workbenches
The Practical Workbench
Power Miter Saw Station
Multifunction Power-Tool Cabinet
Power-Tool Storage Station
Mobile Table Saw Center
Base- and Wall-Mounted Workshop Cabinets
Router-Table Cabinet
Drill-Press Center
Tool-Sharpening and Tool-Maintenance Station
Mobile Workbench and Tool Cabinet
Table-Saw Outfeed Table and Storage Cabinet
Shop-Made Disc Sander
Material Storage
Small Stool Storage
Wall-Mounted Clamp Rack
A Practical Shop Cabinet
One-Weekend Router Table
Benchtop Router Table Stand
Rolling Clamp Rack
Saw Bench and Shop Stool
Suppliers
Index