Plane Till – Step 1 – Make room

I am working on the plane till design. Based on the design I know the width and height of the Plane and Saw tills.  A big step is to make room for these two shop storage systems.

I am reworking the work flow in the shop to be more hand tool friendly. This means a massive rework of the “Tool Wall”. The tool wall has been a fixture in the shop for about 10 years. It has seen several reworkings over the years, this one being the first time everything has moved.

So I extened the left side of the tool wall by 2 ft.  I needed some extra space.   And yesterday I removed everything from the wall !!

    

Then I sanded the entire wall with 80 grit.   ( I did not fill all then screw holes.  I think it adds character ! )

And then I painted the wall.  Just used egg shell pure white on a 4 inch roller.    You can see the new 2 ft.  addition in this picture.  It is organized the way I think I want it.

I also started working on the design and layout for the “HI – LO” hammer holder.  I seem to have lots of hammers that I do use and they old system just wasted space and did not really organize them in a friendly way.

Oh yes !!!  The music stopped playing !!   I listen to music from my cell phone ( Pandora or my 400 cd collection ) on a small 25 year old amp on a pair of Radio shack metal speakers.  Well it stopped working, so I had to dig out an alternate sound source.  An old setup I had for a desktop computer.  Not as good, but will work for a while.