01-16-2016, 11:24 PM
Not sure how many newbies there are here, or if any of you guys can even remember being a newbie, but thought I'd share a couple of notes/learnings/updates as I continue to build my shop to where I can actually do some work out there without having to first move 9 things (bikes, trash cans, wife's car, etc) out of the way.
It's been a couple of weeks since I brought home the entire inventory of a cabinet shop that was going out of business:
I managed to get most of the material stored in the shop side of the garage. There is dimensional lumber (also gotten from the cabinet shop) spanning the gaps between shelves. The bottom shelf in the pic is mostly 3/4" thick mahogany boards, 3 - 7" wide and 4 - 14' long. There are a couple of cherry boards and a maple board there as well. The top 2 shelves are almost entirely mahogany and cherry molding...crown, base, panel, etc. Underneath the bottom shelf are the maple and walnut drawer boxes I got and a bunch of ipe.
I also cleared a spot for the sheet goods. The wavy sheets on the left are bendy ply. I also threw together the high shelf on the way left for paint/stain/finish cans.
Finally, I started building what will be my outfeed/assembly table. I used 4 cherry corner posts as the legs. They started out like this:
I trimmed them to length, cut out some spots for the supports and got this far today:
KEY LEARNING OF THE WEEK: If you lose focus for second in the shop, someone can get hurt. I was using my 10' metal ladder last weekend in the garage and left it out for the day. As I was cleaning up my workbench, my daughter (4) came out and asked if she could open the garage door. I had my back to the doors and said "sure." As the garage door opened, it caught the ladder and slowly started to tip it. I just about [censored] my pants when the thing fell over. When I turned around, my daughter was no more than a few feet from where it landed. I'm embarrassed to tell this story, but it was a huge learning moment and I am still a bit shaken from it. I don't even want to think about what might have happened if that had fallen on her.
Sorry for the length, just felt like sharing.
It's been a couple of weeks since I brought home the entire inventory of a cabinet shop that was going out of business:
I managed to get most of the material stored in the shop side of the garage. There is dimensional lumber (also gotten from the cabinet shop) spanning the gaps between shelves. The bottom shelf in the pic is mostly 3/4" thick mahogany boards, 3 - 7" wide and 4 - 14' long. There are a couple of cherry boards and a maple board there as well. The top 2 shelves are almost entirely mahogany and cherry molding...crown, base, panel, etc. Underneath the bottom shelf are the maple and walnut drawer boxes I got and a bunch of ipe.
I also cleared a spot for the sheet goods. The wavy sheets on the left are bendy ply. I also threw together the high shelf on the way left for paint/stain/finish cans.
Finally, I started building what will be my outfeed/assembly table. I used 4 cherry corner posts as the legs. They started out like this:
I trimmed them to length, cut out some spots for the supports and got this far today:
KEY LEARNING OF THE WEEK: If you lose focus for second in the shop, someone can get hurt. I was using my 10' metal ladder last weekend in the garage and left it out for the day. As I was cleaning up my workbench, my daughter (4) came out and asked if she could open the garage door. I had my back to the doors and said "sure." As the garage door opened, it caught the ladder and slowly started to tip it. I just about [censored] my pants when the thing fell over. When I turned around, my daughter was no more than a few feet from where it landed. I'm embarrassed to tell this story, but it was a huge learning moment and I am still a bit shaken from it. I don't even want to think about what might have happened if that had fallen on her.
Sorry for the length, just felt like sharing.