Shop Tour: The Budget Shop That Competes With Pros
The furniture that comes out of Marcus’s shop is good enough that two professional furniture makers who visited it last year assumed the shop was better equipped than […]
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The Renter’s Workshop: 8 Ways to Build Without Permanent Changes
Renting means you can’t bolt storage to the walls, can’t cut into the garage floor, can’t add a subpanel without the landlord’s permission, and can’t make any change […]
Shop Tour: The Converted Barn – 2,400 Square Feet of Woodworking Heaven
If the small shop community represents one end of the woodworking space spectrum, the converted barn represents the other. Jeff converted a 19th-century post-and-beam dairy barn on his […]
Small Shop, Big Output: Furniture From 100 Square Feet
The measure of a shop isn’t its square footage. It’s what comes out of it. This is easy to say and hard to believe until you meet someone […]
Shop Tour: A Teacher Who Builds Furniture on Weekends – The Full Reveal
Sarah teaches high school English. Her summers are the season she builds. The rest of the year, she builds on weekends and occasional evenings – not as many […]
The Mobile Shop: A Builder Who Makes Furniture Anywhere
Most shop thinking assumes a fixed space – a garage, a shed, a basement – that gets equipped and stays equipped. Tony’s shop is the opposite: a fully […]
Shop Tour: The Custom Cabinet Maker Who Works From a Two-Car Garage
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 […]
No Dust Collector? No Problem – Small Shop Solutions That Actually Work
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 […]
Shop Tour: The Knifemaker’s Garage Studio – Forge, Grinder, and Wood Shop Combined
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 […]
Fold-Down Everything: The Small Shop Built Around Disappearing Furniture
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 […]