Kenbo

Nice shop!!! Looks great, lots of windows, lots of natural light, lots of space. Sweet.
Ken

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dbhost

Greg, that is one great shop building!

The stuff my dreams are made of! Do you have dust problems with the 2nd floor?

And if I am not mistaken, I am pretty sure I have seen that miter saw dust collector and miter saw in Wood Magazine not that long ago...

Love the french doors, and the windows too. Brings lots of light in, keeps you from feeling so cooped up. My garage workshop has no windows, so when the A/C or heat is going, I tend to feel like a prisoner...

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toolman Steve

Whaooooo .
You have made many of us jealous does it have AC&Heat ?

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gregL

Thanks for the positive comments!
I have 14 windows and 2 sets of french doors. When I built the shop I wanted a lot of windows and I was fortunate enough to find a huge selection of new and extremely cheap double insulated windows at the local Habitat For Humanity store. I couldn't believe how many they had and I was able to get all 14 for just over $325 + tax. I bought the windows first since you can only get the sizes the have available, and I then built the openings to fit the windows. I wish now that I would have added even more windows! Natural light is like tools...you can never have enough.

I do not have a dust problem upstairs since i put the weatherstrip at the door bottom. A $5 investment that works.

The shop has heat and a/c. I added a 24000 btu window unit a/c on each floor. These units have a heat element built in. I have not needed the heat since it it well insulated but the a/c has been a lifesaver lately with the 95+ degree heat we have been having. It is nice to finally not have sweat dripping off me and onto my work.
I do have to clean the a/c filters weelky... a pleasure to do when shop is comfortable

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rrbrown

Hey GregL very nice shop. Do you have any other pictures of that miter saw and dust shroud? I might try to modify it a little to work on my Radial Arm saw. I had certain subdivision restrictions but I built mine 24 x 34 with 9' ceiling, I should have went up like you did but ran out of money. I have been letting the breeze cool the shop since I have a 9' garage door and two 3' x 6' windows besides a 30" fan but I may want to put A/C in soon. Problem is I took new 3' x 6' horizontal sliding windows out of the 2nd story of my Chalmette home after Katrina and I'm not sure how to fit the A/C in them yet.

All you guys with A/C and Heat or making me jealous.

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gregL

Here are some additional dust shroud pictures, This works quite well and gets the majority of dust sucked in with the dust collector and any left in the shroud can easily be brushed into the collector opening.
I used 2 pieces of melamine from Home depot that were 24" x 48" and a piece of plexiglass 24 x60. My dust collector hooks to a opening behind the saw and I also connected a 2" hose to the saw's port and just stuck it in the 4" opening. Extra hose slack is needed for the 2" hose because of the pulling it does when mitering. This was something I threw together on the fly and I am planning on building another one shortly with improvements and storage drawers on top.
I needed this collector to be deep because of the sliding miter rails. You probably do not need one as deep with a radial arm saw if it does not slide as far back.

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rrbrown

Thanks GregL, My uncle had a smaller version hooked to his RAS but it was all plywood. I like the clear look and have a few ideas for other uses for the plexiglass.

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gregL

Please keep me updated on how your dust collector comes out. I would like seeing pictures of it.

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Bearcreek

May I ask what size that Work Area Benches are?

Thanks

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Leo G

Work benches were made from a single sheet of plywood to get two of them. They are 23 7/8 x 96 x 28 tall. They are the same height as my sawhorses. The small design was for when I was building a lot of entryways. I would pull them apart and the legs would rest on them, that way I could walk in between them to do the molding runs across the head. Most of them were 10' ans taller so I would let them fly off the bench and rest on the horses. Now that I am older, the bending over to sand is becoming old. I need to make a sanding bench. But the height works out great for assembling cabinets too. Not to low, not to high. They are pretty strong too, I have had 350 BF of Sapelle on them and thy didn't groan at all.

The long bench is 24 x 16' x 37" tall. When I did a lot of 18th century reproductions I used that as my hand planing bench.

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Bearcreek

For some reason they look twice as big. I wonder how much, percentage wise, should a good work bench be in relation to the size of your shop area without disrupting the flow of your work. My new shop I am working on is 35'x30' with a 12'x15' room taken out of a corner for an office/bathroom/utility/mechanical room. Personally I believe you can never have too much workbench, but I dont want to build something that is too big and regret it and have to cut it down.

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Leo G

My work space is 25 x 52+. I built my office to be 5 x 10 on the inside. Just needed to hold a computer/desk and a filing cabinet.

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Bearcreek

Do you have your compressor outside? I dont know if I am going to put mine outside or in the mechanical room?

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Leo G

It is over in the back left hand corner, by the dust collector system. I'm glad it is pretty large because it is noisy. It only goes off very infrequently. When I spray I am in a different area and don't even hear the compressor. The Kreg Foreman pocket holer sucks up the air and will make it cycle a lot. If you can, put it outside of the main shop area, or put some soundproofing around it. Make sure it can breath and release heat.

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woodnthings

Richard, Neither of my AC units are in windows, just in the stud wall, with a plate header and precisly fit to the unit. I did have a unit in the Pella awning window but the window had to be removed, PITA.
It is easier to just make an opening the correct size and slip the case in then slide the unit in. bill

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rrbrown

Hey Bill I know about the A/C in the wall, Thats where mine is in the atteched Game/Finishing Room. My problem is in the shop itself I have no open walls to use plus I will share that A/C with the house during Hurricane season when the power goes out. I'm thinking of making a 3/4" piece of wood to fit in the window then mount the a/c in it. My other option is get another A/C for the house but money is tight and I will have to store it somewhere.

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Bearcreek

Here is the pics of my new...well..old shop BEFORE renovation. I was renting this house out until I decided to make it my wood working shop. I have been doiong minor work to the inside, i.e. tearing out sheet rock etc. But today is the first day I start tearing down walls, then I start tearing out floors.

What I am doing is tearing the far back add-on wall out and tearing out all the floors except for the room where you see the the upper room without the blind. I am going to leave that room for office space and pour the rest for a floor and put a garage door in that back addition wall.

So...here is the before pics...stay tuned...I have already have all the rear siding removed this morning before 8:00am.

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frostr2001

This is going to be nice!!

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Bearcreek

Thanks...so far its a pain....This old house has Vinyl on the outside covering old rough sawn, harwood lap siding then on the inside of the wall there is sheetrock covering old 6" tonque and groove .

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rrbrown

Can't wait to see the inside pictures. You may want to move this post to this thread "Show us you shop" with all the rest of our shops.

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