The Nut House V2

[Chestnut]

I have a long list of shop updates. These are out of order for various reasons mostly because a lot of it is still work in progress.

Because of all the Gee Dub shop posts I've been motivated to improve my space a bit. I have a drawer that haunts me due to its messy state.

I always intended to make dividers for this drawer. Well i finally got around to it.

It surprises me that everything that came out went back in plus some new free space.

[Chestnut]

Another upgrade to the shop is a drawer unit for under the table saw wing. Since I got this saw I've never had storage here but have always meant to put something there. The straw that broke the camels back was turning a large portion of my larger off cuts into 12mm floating tenon stock. My current storage was to stack it on some empty horizontal surface and move it around as it got in the way. That got old FAST.

Construction is 1/2" BB ply. Drawers were a mix of pine and BB ply that I had laying around. I used a random piece of Cletus white oak i had laying around for runners. It had a ton of surface checks so it wasn't good for anything. I decided to make the unit 27" wide but instead of having really wide drawers i split the unit into 2 and there will be 2 banks of 13" wide drawers.

It's not nearly as pretty as some people's shop cabinetry but it took me only a couple evenings to build. I could probably put drawer fronts on it in the future to make it look a bit nicer.

I have 5 4" deep drawers and 1 6" deep drawer. One drawers is 12mm tenon stock. I'm going to make some dividers and use another drawer for my 8mm tenon stock.

The remaining drawers are empty. I'm going to try and organize other storage drawers in my shop to try and make things better in general. I need a better drill bit storage so that may end up in here. I also need a better storage place for the lathe tools, they might also end up in here.

The unit is on wheels so i can roll it around the shop if needed. It's a bit big and hard to navigate through so it's not likely to get moved all that often.

[Chet]

On 12/9/2021 at 7:56 AM, Chestnut said:

It's not nearly as pretty as some people's shop cabinetry

Does it work and serve a purpose?  If yes, then that is all, end of discussion. 

[legenddc]

I was going through some of the earlier posts in this thread since you bumped it to the top. Your dust collector has gone up from $2600 to $4000. I guess the Supercell has replaced it?

You’ve sure come a long way since the start of your shop!

[Chestnut]

14 minutes ago, legenddc said:

Your dust collector has gone up from $2600 to $4000.

I recently checked my main tools and was astonished at the price increases but this is nearly a 100% increase in 5 years. That shocks me a bit.

To be fair to Oneida my unit was one of the last of it's kind. The new units are 3 phase motors with VFDs that vary the impeller RPM based off static pressure load and objectively perform MUCH better than my unit does. That alone was a $500-$600 upgrade at the time I purchased.

 

[legenddc]

The new ones may have the varying impeller RPM but they still make a single phase motor for it. That's the $3,999 one. I know we're in strange times but the pricing on tools seems to be crazy. If you pull out an old tool catalog or woodworking magazine it makes you want to cry.

[Chestnut]

9 minutes ago, legenddc said:

The new ones may have the varying impeller RPM but they still make a single phase motor for it. That's the $3,999 one. I know we're in strange times but the pricing on tools seems to be crazy. If you pull out an old tool catalog or woodworking magazine it makes you want to cry.

The unit runs off single phase yes but there is an onboard VFD that controls the 3 phase motor. Single phase induction motors can't have varying rpms. ... it's complicated and probably not relevant....