8.15.2017

Basic Lumber Wall Rack For Getting Your Lumber Stash Out of the Way

Without a place to store extra boards, I'm convinced it's impossible to keep a woodworking space in enough order to work without re-arranging every time there's a project at hand. Oh man, I've moved stuff around and re-arranged until the motivation to work completely fades away. That's why it's important to come up with these types of solutions to the basics. Now I'll say, until fairly recently, my idea of building something with wood didn't require a dedicated space. But now that I've started acquiring tools that are more stationary in nature, it reasons to have a dedicated shop space. So like many of my fellow hobbyists, I have 1/2 a 2-car garage to work with. So the goal was simply this: put the boards somewhere that I can get to without too much headache, put them where I'm not stepping over them, nor have to move them to use any certain tool. A simple rack on the wall seems like the best solution.


8.08.2017

Ridgid R4512 - Smooth and Quiet Table Saw

I finally got a table saw. I've toyed with the idea for quite a while, but have held off until I was able to get what I wanted. I decided early on the steer clear of the job site saws, because of their noise level. Since I live in town on a heavily populated street, I want to do the best I can to keep the noise down, However, the drawback to getting a stationary saw, is the lack of shop space that I have. But in the end, I decided since the table saw would be one of the most used tools I have, I'd make room for it.