From Old Firehouse to Woodworking Wonderland | Shop Tour 2024

The 2024 Shop Tour begins with a review of the changes since our last update on Oct. 22 2022. From there we'll discuss the general workflow and layout in the shop. I'll then show you more detail as we review the various tools and pieces of shop furniture. We'll finish up with a Q&A where I deep dive into the topics you were most interested in.

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Tools & Stuff

00:00 - Intro
00:24 - Changes since last update
02:39 - Layout & Workflow
05:13 - The Details
21:39 - Guild+
21:39 - Q&A

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[keithwhittemore]

Great video. I have been incorporating ideas from your shop layout for years. The best additions I have made are the T1-11 for all of my walls and a Mini-Split to condition the shop for year-round use. As you say, living in St. Charles MO can make summer and winter difficult if you don't have a way to control your shop environment. Thanks for all of the great videos.

[brianbarney]

Your comment about running the dust collection main branch along the wall and then dropping down to each machine was right on. That will maintain the best suction and velocity. Managing a large custom cabinet shop for 18 years taught me 2 important lessons about dust collection; nobody ever has enough, and if you can collect 90% of the mess brooms will do the rest.
After our move to Albuquerque I’m setting up 1/2 the garage as my shop and am again using my 1 hp Shop Fox dust collector for the planer/jointer, mortise machine, and bandsaw. It removes 95% of the chips and shavings but the piping is air tight, short (9’) and has blast gates at each machine drop.

[scottreplogle]

Holy cow, I've been watching you for years and just realized you are located right down the road from me (probably 7-8 miles)! That's awesome!

[glong]

WOW!! What a diference from the tools you had at your house in Arizona compared to now. I am so happy that all is well in the Wood Whisperer world alll contniues in the right direction. I recollect you talking about the podcast, when I first began classes, what I felt would happen. SO happy for you and your family. Congratulations on your new find, in reference to the shop. 😊😊😊😊

[scottgetz]

Great video! Really appreciate you taking the time to answer my question about your fire safety equipment, and glad maybe it helped you remember you wanted to add the emergency eye wash station. Needed one of those back in a Chemistry class in high school, and that saved my vision, so yes, those are very important to have.

[robtriplett]

T1-11 idea is the bomb. Transformed my shop and storage.

[VillelaHN]

Awesome shop setup. Thank you for the tour.

[mirameejung]

Thank you for sharing!!! I’ve been looking forward to an updated shop tour as I’ve been struggling with layout in my shop & it’s nice to get fresh ideas. Also, as a fellow Missourian, I laughed at your comment regarding the five days a year the weather is nice enough to eat outside, bc that is so true!!! That really sent me 😂😂😂 Anyhow— thanks again for the (educational & entertaining) content. 👍🏼

[Keith-gdps]

Just hung a tv in mine and it’s great like you said for sports and just to have some background noise besides music. Great job on this tour, you really worked hard to answer those questions for everyone with detail.

[BearCreekWoodworking]

Awesome Tour and Information Marc! Thanks! 😃👊

[RaffBuilding]

Great detail. Very helpful having your justifications for things. Thanks.

[AlienLeader]

Awesome very detailed video thanks for sharing your knowledge. Keep up the amazing work. 👽

[gizanked]

5 days a year? There's probably at least 11 days you can eat outside as long as you catch the 29 minute window before the weather changes.

[bobby-c]

I saw your reel on the question of introversion. I think many people confuse introversion with inherent quietness. I totally understand you’re an introvert. You prefer not to have a shop assistant. You are energized by working alone. I see you exhausted at the end of filming “Wood Talk”, and so on.

My wife is a very outgoing person. She enjoys being around family and friends. But, it exhausts her. When we get home from an event, I’m still stoked, she is dead ass tired.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter that much. Just be you. My guess is that Nicole is an extrovert and the two of you make it work. That’s all that matters.

[adamb]

Missouri suits you well! Hope you've been enjoying it.

[stevenkingma]

for dust collection, try to shut off an entire un-used branch. The key to any DC is static pressure. If your blast gate on a branch is at the tool, you loos static pressure since the fan is still trying to draw air from those branches.

[espenskeie]

Great video.

I’m in the process of planning where to put tools and electricity in my new build workshop, slightly smaller at 9x12meters.

Got some great advices here, thanks.

[andrewbrown]

Great video, Marc~! Gives me some good ideas for the continuous evolution of my shop organization effort. I was lucky enough to build a 30'x40' pole barn and it's shocking how fast it fills up with "stuff". Thanks for doing this shop tour~!

[mtnjak]

Great update. That Backsaw Boys poster is timeless! 😏

[Gorango]

Thank you for answering my question! ❤