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Small shop transformations are our favorite category of reader submission. There’s something about the constraint – the fixed square footage, the limited ceiling height, the one outlet that […]
Small shop transformations are our favorite category of reader submission. There’s something about the constraint – the fixed square footage, the limited ceiling height, the one outlet that […]
Mike spent 35 years as an aerospace structural engineer. He designed things that had to be precise because imprecision in aerospace has consequences that are not acceptable. When […]
The fold-down workbench is not a new idea. But the shop that applies fold-down thinking to every surface – not just the bench – is a design solution […]
Most shops are monolithic – they do one thing, or one category of things. Chris’s shop is a deliberate hybrid: one half is a knifemaking shop (forge, 2×72-inch […]
The conventional wisdom is that a proper shop needs a dust collector. For a shop with multiple stationary machines running simultaneously, this is true. For a small shop […]
Professional cabinetry is typically a commercial shop endeavor – a large building, industrial equipment, a crew of employees. David produces custom cabinets for high-end residential kitchens from a […]
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