Ok, who has their workbench against the wall and likes it??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used to have my workbench away from the wall in the middle of the garage.  On the recommendation of Mr. Schwarz and in need of space to put things together, I moved my workbench next to the wall under the tool hanging cabinet.

I gotta say, I’m not really lovin’ it there.  The tool cabinet for my hand tools that I’m working on now is wider than my bench and sleppin’ the workbench around to be able to work on it is turning out to be kind of a pain.  Going on the back side, I end up getting hung up in the hanging tools.

I need to do so more work on the shop.  Shrink the outfeed table, move the bike to the back yard shed (after I build it), come up with a new sharpen station since the new cabinet will block the current location.  But if I leave the workbench against the wall, this will be a long term thing.

Perhaps my floor is also part of the problem.  Little rubber mats are getting in the way of moving the bench and end up being a trip hazard when they get scrunched up by the bench.

Thoughts?

Tool Cabinet – Putting together the case .. finally

Things have been extremely busy and I haven’t had much shop time to work on the the tool cabinet.  But today, I got the tool cabinet put together and edges trimmed up.

Inspector Kitten came in and declared the dovetails .. mediocre.  And a disappointment .. since they weren’t actually attached to any birds.

After this, I’ll start working on the interior joinery.

Then .. there will be another long delay while I put together my rip saw.  Pictures to come on that.

Phooey .. no more woodworking this weekend

Getin’ old sucks.  According to the doctor, when one gets .. lets say .. in one’s late forties, knee meniscus start losing water and are easy to tear.  If you kneel for extended periods of time, this also squeeses water out of the meniscus and that first step you take after getting up can tear it. According to him .. gardening .. is the biggest reason for this kneed injury.Fortunately, its a day surgery so I’ll be sitting on the couch reading about woodworking this weekend instead of doing it.

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