I see the miter stop T track. I want to do that with mine too but I didn’t see it in the plans. Can I add it as built or do I need to add extra material to the top?
Bought the plans, but unfortunately my garage is not the best set up. I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up my 18' miter station. I have a crawl space access door and water supply line on one side, and an outside door on the other, leaving me with limited configuration options. Do you have plans for a rolling table/work bench that could substituted in place of a 60" run of base cabinets to maintain the base cabinet height? That would be ideal.
By far the best "Organize your shop" video I've seen. Most are very Basic and dont have anything amazing. 5his has so many little tips that make a huge difference. Thanks for sharing.
I’m 75 and getting back to furniture flipping for myself, family and friends. My son and dil are having a creative cottage built for my 75th birthday. I’m still trying to decide how to organize my tools and paint. Thanks for sharing. I got some great ideas👍👍👍
TIME STAMPS! 0:33 Have a scrap wood rule 1:49 Have a dedicated space for offcuts 2:25 Use all of your available space 3:31 Use bench top organizers for small parts 5:32 Use portable organizers for small parts 6:50 Add tray to drawers for extra storage 7:20 Use stackable containers in drawers 8:08 Create a space for cordless tool storage / keep frequently used items accessible, not hidden away 9:50 Think about your needs today and in the future 10:30 Use pegboard storage 11:57 Use a french cleat system 12:45 Customize your cabinets (i.e. cabinet drawers, door cubbies, etc.) 14:09 Build your own custom cabinets I tend to refer back to this video to remind myself of best practices lol
Excellent tips. Brad nailed it! I totally agree with "A place for everything and everything in its place", and "Use labels". A labeler is the first tool you should get for your shop. Well first after the bottle opener, that is.
I noticed your sandpaper drawer. One helpful change I've made in the last few years is adding a filing cabinet to organize sandpaper by grit and type. Plus, most sheets are 8-1/2 x 11, so they fit nicely in hanging folders. And over time, it's been a useful way to organize saw blades, manuals, reciepts, etc. It's been a game changer. Great job, and thanks for sharing!
I too use the horizontal surface storage technique. Though I made it more efficient by stacking some tools to make space for others, just be careful grabbing stuff by the hand saws...
@@williamwalters3796 I to employ these methods but I also stack things in front of stacks so if I need to get something from the far bottom I have the luxury of reliving my childhood and playing Tetris as I move things around.
Pro Tip: Lay a generous coating of sawdust on top of all horizontal surfaces in your shop before you lay your tools out. The sawdust creates just enough friction to keep the piles - I mean, um, stacks of tools from falling onto the floor. Periodically re-apply sawdust on top of the tools as needed.
Different rule for offcuts- save everything until dedicated space is full. Then replace pieces with better pieces as they happen. So the parts you keep are the best you could keep. Optimum. Little drawers means that, even if they are labelled, you need to check exactly what they are (e.g. brass, domed countersunk, slot head, 25mm, dual thread, full length thread, no 8 screw is a long label...) Having trays in a drawer means you can see them all at once. And still lift out the tray. You want slim drawers as wide as possible- nothing stacked in drawers! Agree that open storage and pegboard is the best primary storage.
Thanks to Brother...I appreciate you supporting this channel. Brad, i am inspired to organize my shop. My wife just bought a new Ptouch from Brother so I am set!
These are amazing tips Brad! I'm cleaning out my single car garage for my first humble but well organized (thanks to your tips) workshop. Thanks and I've learned so much from your channel. Super inspiring!
Whenever I need ideas or help…this is where I go. He is so helpful, specific, and always provides safety tips and extra hints based on experience level. Thanks!
The "French Cleat Rail" is a great idea!! I need that versatility to build different sized storage boxes as my tool collection gets bigger. The storage unit for extra project wood is great too. I have so many buckets of wood in my shop hogging up all that valuable floor space. THANKS!
Nice crisp video! I did all of the above except the drawer inserts (added to my to-do list) and the tool wall (no available wall space). #5 Portable Organizers for small parts works in the shop AND in my office for electronics, office supplies, phones/accessories, etc. I have more than 20 of them with labels! Another tip -> add labels to your cabinet doors, not just your drawers. I have 2 label-makers and I use them often. Label your power supplies. This has saved me big time.
Lots of good ideas here. Instead of labels I fasten a sample of the contents to the small parts drawers. Much quicker to find than reading labels. I can recognize sizes of screws and nuts by sight.
I don’t have heat in my shop, so I was thinking about building a wood stove to put in there, and only using scrap wood to keep ‘er heated. I figured it would be a lot easier to let go of that scrap wood if I was freezing my bottom off. 😏
Personally, my #1 rule is to not share your workshop space with your significant other. 75% of the stuff in my workshop is my wife's-stuff-that-she-does-no-know-what-to-do-with.
Great video!. Don't know if you have already done it yet but you should do a shop tour showing how and where things are located and stored. This will be helpful for those of use who are building a shop.Thanks
I glad i found this video. Im going to be opening my own Gunsmith shop and ice been trying to think ahead on how im gonna set up my tools and all the other things that come with owning a business.
I purchased my house 4 years ago now and it has 2 detached garages. The 1 stall already had cabinets in it and that's what I've turned into my shop but I've often questioned it I should remodel the entire thing. All the floor cabinets are stationary and take up a good 1/2 of the garage. I've customized it to my liking for now but your ideas have really gotten me thinking about making some new adjustments. Great video and thanks for the inspiration.
Brad, you are the man! I hope I get to your skill level someday! I just sold my house in New England leaving my basement workshop behind and relocated to Florida where I will be building a whole new workshop in my garage. I will certainly be using a lot of the ideas I watched in this video. Great job man! ...truly!
I'm in the process of organising my tools and equipment at the moment. This video could not have come out at a better and more convenient time. Thanks for the tips, Brad!
That piece of wood was still usable, make friends with some pen turners. I'm on my second Brother P-Touch in 25 years, I love them. Had a P-touch-PC until they quit supporting it so had to replace it when I went to Win10. Replaced it with a P-Touch 700. They aren't as portable as yours but they use all of the fonts and sizes on my computer. For all of the little plastic drawers I prefer White on Clear tape. It seems less garish and is still easy to read with the natural dark background. Please keep bringing the GREAT videos !!! Thanks, Rickster
Getting off the 'save everything' addiction is something I am working on right now. I was doing as you did in the past and saving way too much because I thought I would use it someday in a future project. But in the mean time I was tripping over all these small pieces that rarely got utilized and were more of a pain than they were useful. So, I gave a couple 30-gallon trash cans worth of scrap to a friend who has a wood stove and he was able to give it one last chance to do some good by heating his shop.
I finally organized all my plastic ties (I just had bags of them laying on a shelf). I cut various lengths of 1" PVC pipe to hold different sized ties; drilled about 8 holes every 2" in a piece of wood and glued the PVC pipes vertically, into each hole (the holes don't go all the way thru). Kinda looks like a church pipe organ. Panted the whole thing black and fastened it to the wall. Now it's just grab-n-go with them.
I have a bucket for to collect cut offs. If they are big enough, I measure and write widths on the wood with a sharpie. Sometimes needed for spacers and save in the bucket. When the bucket gets full, I go through and throw out what's not usable. If I threw out stuff smaller than my hand, I wouldn't have any wood to do small projects. Love your organizational ideas. Trying to get my house back in order after it flooded in 2020, so all the wood in my garage got flooded and thrown out and I've had to start fresh.
My #1 tip... while I hate the idea of typical pegboard storage, I purposely built my shop walls with pegboard. 1/4" inch, not the flimsy 1/8". It was mainly for permitting ventilation in my basement shop (allows the insulation in the stud cavities to breathe), but also permitted me to temporarily locate anything I wanted to mount to the walls before I committed. I'd use standard pegboard accessories to put things up and if I liked it after a month or two of use, I could make permanent mounts. A side benefit is since I screwed the panels it to the studs, they can be removed or replaced easily to get at wiring and/or the insulation, vapor barrier & concrete walls behind.
I'm looking to buy my first home and I am totally doing the sander storage idea once we move in. Love that! I do have to be that guy and note... Everything in ITS place, not it's. OK, I'll show myself out.
Dude, you're tickling the memories from my old Aircraft maintenance days with labels and container stacking!! Good times lol. That slide out magnetic bit holder is gunius and I can't wait to add one to my shop!
One quick tip is for the hardware and fastener items if too busy leave a small container beside the collection and discipline yourself to returning things to stock instead of random hardware lurking everywhere. Working pretty well so far for me. Thanks for the tips.
Yes, leave a small bin for extras to return. Much more time efficient to do a batch at a time. I have a large divider tray where I semi-sort them by category, and I find that it is very useful for taking to a work location when the job details might be unknown.
drawing a pencil outline of tools on the pegboard is also a great way to know which tools go where... also a little more motivating for kids to put things in the right place... a kid will see a label and not care if it is in the right place... but something about putting a tool that is a wrong shape for the drawing disturbs most people.
you know... I wonder if that now ubiquitous early development toy of the box with the different shaped holes wasn't actually first invented by some woodworker who was trying to make sure their kids always put stuff back in the right place.
One tip on the Brother label printer. To avoid the extra inch of waste on every label, just gang print a bunch of labels in one strip and cut them. Awesome tips here!
I get to set up my very first garage shop next month! Big upgrade from the current 30th floor balcony shop. I like your set up and I already have a not so subtle obsession with labeling things.
I use the 2-car part of a 3-car garage. I separated the two parts with some metal shelving. But, with the miter saw station on the side wall and storage and mechanical closets as the back wall, I had no walls at wall. So, I connected the metal shelving units with nuts, washers and bolts so they would move. On the side facing my shop area I attached plywood to make a wall. I attached the plywood to the shelves by using the holes on the holes on metal shelves. Put some trim to hide the tiny gaps between the sheets of plywood. On one section (there are 3) of the "wall" I put some really nice, glossy red metal pegboard for clamps. My air filter is currently on top but, I'm probably going to hang it from the ceiling. It's not yet complete. I'm making a cut-offs box to attach to the bottom of the center shelf, extend the top of the shelves for storage on the top for hand tools, and attach some cleats.
Excellent (and expensive looking) shop organization system, and especially the use of the p-Touch labeling system. I have been using them for maybe 30 years, after it got hard to get Dymo tapes. I can't see the little LCD screens easily, nor use the tiny keyboards, so I use one of Brother's printers that connects to my PC. My shop is never disorganized. However it is haunted by a force that randomly relocates tools and materials immediately after I put them down. Even if I accidentally put on in it's correct location!
Great video! It points out something I need to do. My garage hits 100°F in the summer. I need to build a tray for my lithium batteries to keep them in the house when not in use but easily haul them to where I need them.
Awesome video! A step up from labels are QR code labels. You can take pictures of each item and put it in a folder linked to a QR code to see what’s in each drawer while your anywhere. You can also take a picture of your idea set up and print it out so you or helpers know how everything fits like the nesting carpenter squares
Dude! Great video. I have a one car garage shop with one and a half wall. Storage is my biggest challenge. You had just a few ideas applicable to me but they were very good ideas. Thanks.
@@Fixthisbuildthat I built it! It works great. I actually built 4 of these that run on drawer slides; I had a nice little spot beneath one of my workbenches where this worked perfectly. I'm using one for long bolts, one for staples, and the other two are TBD. THANK YOU for this idea!!!
Excellent video Brad! I use the small pieces of wood for the fireplace. Very nice when starting a fire! Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work....... 👍👍😉😉
I know I have a huge wood hoarding problem 🤦🏻♀️. I keep cutoffs of my cutoffs 😭. I literally tell myself I will use the cutoff and "picture" what project I may use it on 🤣. The first step to recovery is knowing you have a problem. The 2nd step, I may never get there 🤣🤣🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️.
If you're drowning in off-cuts, it's time to plan a project that requires them specifically! I like your cubbies; what about putting other on the outside of the doors as well?
Inherited a nice 2 1/2 car detached garage when we bought our house. The original owner had a wood working shop in it. He took the time to insulate it and I have shelves on one side and the back wall as well as a corner desk and a shelf above that. He also left the speakers for a radio but I haven't found where he had the Radio yet. Since the back wall is a mix of everything from basic plywood shelves to an old counter section I might take those down and mount a French cleet system as I think it might be more useful for my electronics work which will be more frequent than my wood working.
A friend was in my shop one day and after watching me work for a while commented, "I wish I could find stuff in my shop as easy as you do in yours." I said that if you always put a tool in the same place (even the wrong place) you will know where it is. Of course, some degree of logical organization is handy.
For those with shelves, I have clear plastic storage containers the size of large shoe boxes. My weedeater has a box, chainsaw has a box, lawnmower etc. Everything seems to have some rarely used accessory that get lumped in a junk box so you can never find them or forget what they go with to. They also work well for sanders, sandpaper, grinders, screws, etc. A MUST is a bin on the bench for the times when someone borrows a tool but can't remember exactly where to put something back. I would rather put something back where it belongs than never find it again because they put it back in the wrong place.
Great tips. I bought your plans and have 2 of the 3 drawer done and the 2 five drawer cut out. I’m going to be using the 4 cabinets as part of my Bosch (GCM12SD) dual bevel sliding compound miter saw station.Once that is done I’ll be building 3 upper cabinets. I’ll send you pictures of the finished stuff. Thanks for the plans.
you can also put some masking tape on the drawers (white if you can), then epoxy one part to the drawer front so you can see the actual part...love doing that
I definitely needed this... Just finished up in a construction job and had to clear out my site container. 20ft shipping container FULL of screws, bolts, tools, fixtures.. It was a long process clearing tons of it out but i still ended up with a garage in shambles and an unusable woodworking space over it.
Hey Brad....I’ve deployed everything similar to your workshop but on a single small garage. Right down to the P-Touch labels. Took me 10 years but I pinched a lot of ideas from TH-cam. I use super magnets 🧲 in steel cupboards and just adore them. French cleats for clamps and so on. Great minds think alike. I’m envious of your cupboards though. All the best from Sydney, Australia. 👍🇦🇺
I save small offcuts of my hardwoods like walnut, maple, cherry etc. I love herringbone or chevron patterns and often just consume all my smaller offcuts to make these patterns for interior design details on walls, backsplash…
I think it would be a great video on the basics of how to use the pocket holes. Also, I can't wait to move into my new house so I can start adding these to my garage shop
Amazing. Damn, you are truly 'well-organized', possibly a little OCD, but nevertheless, it all looks great & certainly has a good 'feel' to it. Great job! You are truly a great presenter as well - you speak so clearly (somewhat quick) & you explain details (which many don't), so I find all your videos a real pleasure to watch. Keep on, keeping on - I've made some of your projects & your plans are very professional/ easy to follow as well!
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I see the miter stop T track. I want to do that with mine too but I didn’t see it in the plans. Can I add it as built or do I need to add extra material to the top?
When you're ready to get rid of your wood send it to me!
Waiting to give these a build til after lumber prices become cheaper than gold again
Hi! Are these plans available in metric sizes?
Bought the plans, but unfortunately my garage is not the best set up. I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up my 18' miter station. I have a crawl space access door and water supply line on one side, and an outside door on the other, leaving me with limited configuration options. Do you have plans for a rolling table/work bench that could substituted in place of a 60" run of base cabinets to maintain the base cabinet height? That would be ideal.
By far the best "Organize your shop" video I've seen. Most are very Basic and dont have anything amazing. 5his has so many little tips that make a huge difference. Thanks for sharing.
I’m 75 and getting back to furniture flipping for myself, family and friends. My son and dil are having a creative cottage built for my 75th birthday. I’m still trying to decide how to organize my tools and paint. Thanks for sharing. I got some great ideas👍👍👍
TIME STAMPS!
0:33 Have a scrap wood rule
1:49 Have a dedicated space for offcuts
2:25 Use all of your available space
3:31 Use bench top organizers for small parts
5:32 Use portable organizers for small parts
6:50 Add tray to drawers for extra storage
7:20 Use stackable containers in drawers
8:08 Create a space for cordless tool storage / keep frequently used items accessible, not hidden away
9:50 Think about your needs today and in the future
10:30 Use pegboard storage
11:57 Use a french cleat system
12:45 Customize your cabinets (i.e. cabinet drawers, door cubbies, etc.)
14:09 Build your own custom cabinets
I tend to refer back to this video to remind myself of best practices lol
Thanks for the timestamps. Very helpful
Excellent tips. Brad nailed it! I totally agree with "A place for everything and everything in its place", and "Use labels". A labeler is the first tool you should get for your shop. Well first after the bottle opener, that is.
Bottle opener - Fridge for the beer - labeler
I noticed your sandpaper drawer. One helpful change I've made in the last few years is adding a filing cabinet to organize sandpaper by grit and type. Plus, most sheets are 8-1/2 x 11, so they fit nicely in hanging folders. And over time, it's been a useful way to organize saw blades, manuals, reciepts, etc. It's been a game changer. Great job, and thanks for sharing!
I made a kind of folder book for my sandpaper.
My shop is not disorganized, tools are 'strategically' laid out on every horizontal surface for accessibility and streamlining
I too use the horizontal surface storage technique. Though I made it more efficient by stacking some tools to make space for others, just be careful grabbing stuff by the hand saws...
@@williamwalters3796 I to employ these methods but I also stack things in front of stacks so if I need to get something from the far bottom I have the luxury of reliving my childhood and playing Tetris as I move things around.
Pro Tip: Lay a generous coating of sawdust on top of all horizontal surfaces in your shop before you lay your tools out. The sawdust creates just enough friction to keep the piles - I mean, um, stacks of tools from falling onto the floor. Periodically re-apply sawdust on top of the tools as needed.
Lol same
Horizontal stacking is great. And naturally, the floor is the biggest shelf in your garage.
My life goal is to be half as organized as Brad!! 🔥🔥
😂 😂 I'll trade you some design skills for some organization, Mike
I like organizing my tools, but the Toddler Relocation Service that is employed at my house makes it difficult to locate small tools most days.
hahaha, I remember those days well!
lmao😂😂😂
a lock on the shop door tends to slow that process down a lot.
Big shop organization guy here, nice job 👍🏼
You might even say Brad achieved shop greatness.
Different rule for offcuts- save everything until dedicated space is full. Then replace pieces with better pieces as they happen. So the parts you keep are the best you could keep. Optimum.
Little drawers means that, even if they are labelled, you need to check exactly what they are (e.g. brass, domed countersunk, slot head, 25mm, dual thread, full length thread, no 8 screw is a long label...)
Having trays in a drawer means you can see them all at once. And still lift out the tray. You want slim drawers as wide as possible- nothing stacked in drawers!
Agree that open storage and pegboard is the best primary storage.
“I have safety equipment up top” right next to the safety glasses is the bottle opener :) my kind of safety equipment :) great video
I keep my bottle opener on the fridge door with an RE magnet.
Thanks to Brother...I appreciate you supporting this channel.
Brad, i am inspired to organize my shop.
My wife just bought a new Ptouch from Brother so I am set!
These are amazing tips Brad! I'm cleaning out my single car garage for my first humble but well organized (thanks to your tips) workshop. Thanks and I've learned so much from your channel. Super inspiring!
Whenever I need ideas or help…this is where I go. He is so helpful, specific, and always provides safety tips and extra hints based on experience level. Thanks!
The "French Cleat Rail" is a great idea!! I need that versatility to build different sized storage boxes as my tool collection gets bigger. The storage unit for extra project wood is great too. I have so many buckets of wood in my shop hogging up all that valuable floor space. THANKS!
Nice crisp video! I did all of the above except the drawer inserts (added to my to-do list) and the tool wall (no available wall space). #5 Portable Organizers for small parts works in the shop AND in my office for electronics, office supplies, phones/accessories, etc. I have more than 20 of them with labels!
Another tip -> add labels to your cabinet doors, not just your drawers. I have 2 label-makers and I use them often.
Label your power supplies. This has saved me big time.
Your storage is nothing short of amazing (Respect) So I have only one thing to say "please" come and sort my shop out.
thanks! and my family has me loaded out on storage jobs already, lol
@@Fixthisbuildthat 😂
Lots of good ideas here. Instead of labels I fasten a sample of the contents to the small parts drawers. Much quicker to find than reading labels. I can recognize sizes of screws and nuts by sight.
I don’t have heat in my shop, so I was thinking about building a wood stove to put in there, and only using scrap wood to keep ‘er heated. I figured it would be a lot easier to let go of that scrap wood if I was freezing my bottom off. 😏
Personally, my #1 rule is to not share your workshop space with your significant other. 75% of the stuff in my workshop is my wife's-stuff-that-she-does-no-know-what-to-do-with.
Mine tried, and there is some stuff that's storage but nothing major.
Great video!. Don't know if you have already done it yet but you should do a shop tour showing how and where things are located and stored. This will be helpful for those of use who are building a shop.Thanks
I glad i found this video. Im going to be opening my own Gunsmith shop and ice been trying to think ahead on how im gonna set up my tools and all the other things that come with owning a business.
I purchased my house 4 years ago now and it has 2 detached garages. The 1 stall already had cabinets in it and that's what I've turned into my shop but I've often questioned it I should remodel the entire thing. All the floor cabinets are stationary and take up a good 1/2 of the garage. I've customized it to my liking for now but your ideas have really gotten me thinking about making some new adjustments. Great video and thanks for the inspiration.
Brad, you are the man! I hope I get to your skill level someday! I just sold my house in New England leaving my basement workshop behind and relocated to Florida where I will be building a whole new workshop in my garage. I will certainly be using a lot of the ideas I watched in this video. Great job man! ...truly!
I also like the sliding tray cabinets, so easy to use, been slowly updating my shop as well.
I don't really do woodworking, but with slight adjustments most, if not all these tips are great for me as a hobby mechanic too
Man I thought I need to organise my garage a little, what you have is level 100+, what a inspiration.
I'm in the process of organising my tools and equipment at the moment. This video could not have come out at a better and more convenient time. Thanks for the tips, Brad!
That piece of wood was still usable, make friends with some pen turners.
I'm on my second Brother P-Touch in 25 years, I love them. Had a P-touch-PC until they quit supporting it so had to replace it when I went to Win10. Replaced it with a P-Touch 700. They aren't as portable as yours but they use all of the fonts and sizes on my computer. For all of the little plastic drawers I prefer White on Clear tape. It seems less garish and is still easy to read with the natural dark background.
Please keep bringing the GREAT videos !!! Thanks, Rickster
Getting off the 'save everything' addiction is something I am working on right now. I was doing as you did in the past and saving way too much because I thought I would use it someday in a future project. But in the mean time I was tripping over all these small pieces that rarely got utilized and were more of a pain than they were useful. So, I gave a couple 30-gallon trash cans worth of scrap to a friend who has a wood stove and he was able to give it one last chance to do some good by heating his shop.
I finally organized all my plastic ties (I just had bags of them laying on a shelf). I cut various lengths of 1" PVC pipe to hold different sized ties; drilled about 8 holes every 2" in a piece of wood and glued the PVC pipes vertically, into each hole (the holes don't go all the way thru). Kinda looks like a church pipe organ. Panted the whole thing black and fastened it to the wall. Now it's just grab-n-go with them.
By far the best layout method and workshop video, very helpful 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Appreciate all you do for Do-It-Yourselfers. 😁😁😁😁
This is the most underrated video on the internet.
In fact it's the most important video for disorganized makers!!!!!!!!!
I have a bucket for to collect cut offs. If they are big enough, I measure and write widths on the wood with a sharpie. Sometimes needed for spacers and save in the bucket. When the bucket gets full, I go through and throw out what's not usable. If I threw out stuff smaller than my hand, I wouldn't have any wood to do small projects. Love your organizational ideas. Trying to get my house back in order after it flooded in 2020, so all the wood in my garage got flooded and thrown out and I've had to start fresh.
My #1 tip... while I hate the idea of typical pegboard storage, I purposely built my shop walls with pegboard. 1/4" inch, not the flimsy 1/8".
It was mainly for permitting ventilation in my basement shop (allows the insulation in the stud cavities to breathe), but also permitted me to temporarily locate anything I wanted to mount to the walls before I committed. I'd use standard pegboard accessories to put things up and if I liked it after a month or two of use, I could make permanent mounts. A side benefit is since I screwed the panels it to the studs, they can be removed or replaced easily to get at wiring and/or the insulation, vapor barrier & concrete walls behind.
I'm looking to buy my first home and I am totally doing the sander storage idea once we move in. Love that! I do have to be that guy and note... Everything in ITS place, not it's. OK, I'll show myself out.
Rock on Brad! Love the magnetic drill bit holder. Thanks for posting.
Thanks, Jeff!
Dude, you're tickling the memories from my old Aircraft maintenance days with labels and container stacking!! Good times lol. That slide out magnetic bit holder is gunius and I can't wait to add one to my shop!
One quick tip is for the hardware and fastener items if too busy leave a small container beside the collection and discipline yourself to returning things to stock instead of random hardware lurking everywhere. Working pretty well so far for me. Thanks for the tips.
Yes, leave a small bin for extras to return. Much more time efficient to do a batch at a time.
I have a large divider tray where I semi-sort them by category, and I find that it is very useful for taking to a work location when the job details might be unknown.
Love that the bottle opener is with the safety gear. :)
drawing a pencil outline of tools on the pegboard is also a great way to know which tools go where... also a little more motivating for kids to put things in the right place... a kid will see a label and not care if it is in the right place... but something about putting a tool that is a wrong shape for the drawing disturbs most people.
yep, they call that shadow boarding. I talked about it on camera but that part hit the cutting room floor in exchange for brevity :)
That’s the old school way for sure
you know... I wonder if that now ubiquitous early development toy of the box with the different shaped holes wasn't actually first invented by some woodworker who was trying to make sure their kids always put stuff back in the right place.
Your custom drawers and cabinets are beautiful.
One tip on the Brother label printer. To avoid the extra inch of waste on every label, just gang print a bunch of labels in one strip and cut them. Awesome tips here!
yep, Chain Print is great! 11:43
I get to set up my very first garage shop next month! Big upgrade from the current 30th floor balcony shop. I like your set up and I already have a not so subtle obsession with labeling things.
I love love love that this video has 8k likes and not a single dislike. Fu*king love you guys. So pumped for the new projects!
I use the 2-car part of a 3-car garage. I separated the two parts with some metal shelving. But, with the miter saw station on the side wall and storage and mechanical closets as the back wall, I had no walls at wall. So, I connected the metal shelving units with nuts, washers and bolts so they would move. On the side facing my shop area I attached plywood to make a wall. I attached the plywood to the shelves by using the holes on the holes on metal shelves. Put some trim to hide the tiny gaps between the sheets of plywood. On one section (there are 3) of the "wall" I put some really nice, glossy red metal pegboard for clamps. My air filter is currently on top but, I'm probably going to hang it from the ceiling.
It's not yet complete. I'm making a cut-offs box to attach to the bottom of the center shelf, extend the top of the shelves for storage on the top for hand tools, and attach some cleats.
Excellent (and expensive looking) shop organization system, and especially the use of the p-Touch labeling system. I have been using them for maybe 30 years, after it got hard to get Dymo tapes. I can't see the little LCD screens easily, nor use the tiny keyboards, so I use one of Brother's printers that connects to my PC.
My shop is never disorganized. However it is haunted by a force that randomly relocates tools and materials immediately after I put them down. Even if I accidentally put on in it's correct location!
Great video! It points out something I need to do.
My garage hits 100°F in the summer. I need to build a tray for my lithium batteries to keep them in the house when not in use but easily haul them to where I need them.
I'm admiring the cabinets
I love this, I never seen such a well organized space
A lot of good ideas here. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Awesome video! A step up from labels are QR code labels. You can take pictures of each item and put it in a folder linked to a QR code to see what’s in each drawer while your anywhere. You can also take a picture of your idea set up and print it out so you or helpers know how everything fits like the nesting carpenter squares
Dude! Great video. I have a one car garage shop with one and a half wall. Storage is my biggest challenge. You had just a few ideas applicable to me but they were very good ideas. Thanks.
Thank you; this is an excellent and useful video. I have been needing a solution for my various brad nails, and I will probably adapt your idea.
That little tray is one of my favorite easy projects
@@Fixthisbuildthat I built it! It works great. I actually built 4 of these that run on drawer slides; I had a nice little spot beneath one of my workbenches where this worked perfectly. I'm using one for long bolts, one for staples, and the other two are TBD. THANK YOU for this idea!!!
Love the horor music with the 1st bench 😂 Great organisation! Picked up many things from u! Thank you!
Excellent video Brad! I use the small pieces of wood for the fireplace. Very nice when starting a fire! Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work....... 👍👍😉😉
I know I have a huge wood hoarding problem 🤦🏻♀️. I keep cutoffs of my cutoffs 😭. I literally tell myself I will use the cutoff and "picture" what project I may use it on 🤣. The first step to recovery is knowing you have a problem. The 2nd step, I may never get there 🤣🤣🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️.
Me too. 🤣
10:51 That beer bottle opener is definitely part of the safety equipment 🍻
In case of emergency 🍺
Beer has saved me more than once.
If you're drowning in off-cuts, it's time to plan a project that requires them specifically!
I like your cubbies; what about putting other on the outside of the doors as well?
Love the bottle opener as part of the safety equipment!
I've got some serious workshop envy . I need to up my game!
Incredible order! I'm impressed!
Possibly the most organized man on TH-cam!
Life goals
Thanks, I really need this. My shop is a mess, but not for long!
I love that there’s a picture of Norm Abrams on the wall. I want one. Love me some Norm.
Inherited a nice 2 1/2 car detached garage when we bought our house. The original owner had a wood working shop in it. He took the time to insulate it and I have shelves on one side and the back wall as well as a corner desk and a shelf above that. He also left the speakers for a radio but I haven't found where he had the Radio yet. Since the back wall is a mix of everything from basic plywood shelves to an old counter section I might take those down and mount a French cleet system as I think it might be more useful for my electronics work which will be more frequent than my wood working.
This is a thing of beauty!
Love the rolling carts ideas
Pretty fantastic tips, Brad! Thanks a lot! 😃
I'm definitely going to use some of them!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Gracias amigo por compartir los conocimientos de carpintería maestro saludos desde México y recibe un fuerte abrazo y gracias por todo.
I’m the same way with my shop. My daughter taught me a French word, you quoted it in your video, it’s called “Mise en place”
I too keep my bottle opener among my “safety equipment”. Well played.
A friend was in my shop one day and after watching me work for a while commented, "I wish I could find stuff in my shop as easy as you do in yours." I said that if you always put a tool in the same place (even the wrong place) you will know where it is. Of course, some degree of logical organization is handy.
wasn't mentioned but love the placement of allen wrenches with the adjustable cordless tool holder
For those with shelves, I have clear plastic storage containers the size of large shoe boxes. My weedeater has a box, chainsaw has a box, lawnmower etc. Everything seems to have some rarely used accessory that get lumped in a junk box so you can never find them or forget what they go with to. They also work well for sanders, sandpaper, grinders, screws, etc. A MUST is a bin on the bench for the times when someone borrows a tool but can't remember exactly where to put something back. I would rather put something back where it belongs than never find it again because they put it back in the wrong place.
Great tips. I bought your plans and have 2 of the 3 drawer done and the 2 five drawer cut out. I’m going to be using the 4 cabinets as part of my Bosch (GCM12SD) dual bevel sliding compound miter saw station.Once that is done I’ll be building 3 upper cabinets. I’ll send you pictures of the finished stuff. Thanks for the plans.
Awesome! Can't wait to see it 💪
I also look up to Norm. Nice addition to the shop!
you can also put some masking tape on the drawers (white if you can), then epoxy one part to the drawer front so you can see the actual part...love doing that
9:30 putting the drill bit hex key under the pocket hole jig slot is so clever!!!!!!!!
I definitely needed this... Just finished up in a construction job and had to clear out my site container.
20ft shipping container FULL of screws, bolts, tools, fixtures.. It was a long process clearing tons of it out but i still ended up with a garage in shambles and an unusable woodworking space over it.
Great ideas and handy tidbits, thank you! 👍
I love videos like this. ❤️
You are welcome!
Thanks for sharing those tips and the make!
You bet!
Hey Brad....I’ve deployed everything similar to your workshop but on a single small garage. Right down to the P-Touch labels. Took me 10 years but I pinched a lot of ideas from TH-cam. I use super magnets 🧲 in steel cupboards and just adore them. French cleats for clamps and so on. Great minds think alike. I’m envious of your cupboards though. All the best from Sydney, Australia. 👍🇦🇺
Excellent tips, Brad! Keep up the awesome videos man!
I save small offcuts of my hardwoods like walnut, maple, cherry etc. I love herringbone or chevron patterns and often just consume all my smaller offcuts to make these patterns for interior design details on walls, backsplash…
I think it would be a great video on the basics of how to use the pocket holes. Also, I can't wait to move into my new house so I can start adding these to my garage shop
Thank you! Exactly what I needed!
You're welcome!
Please start a donation pile to take to a local maker space or something similar. Your scrap is gold to newbies
Fab!!!! In my bookmarks for my new man shed in November
This space is awesome!
Everything looks brand new.
I appreciate you catching yourself on the brad nails
Amazing. Damn, you are truly 'well-organized', possibly a little OCD, but nevertheless, it all looks great & certainly has a good 'feel' to it. Great job! You are truly a great presenter as well - you speak so clearly (somewhat quick) & you explain details (which many don't), so I find all your videos a real pleasure to watch. Keep on, keeping on - I've made some of your projects & your plans are very professional/ easy to follow as well!
Very organised Brad. Like yr miter station
Excellent ideas!
Glad you like them!
What a dream!! Love love love the organization and labels! Thanks for some great ideas and for sharing!
Wow Beautiful setup...nice job