Setting Up Shop: The Practical Guide to Designing and Building You

by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

Overview

To a woodworker, there is nothing more personal than the workshop. Creating your ideal sanctuary involves hundreds of practical decisions from where to locate the shop and which machines and tools to buy to where to put the lights and electrical outlets.

With the expert advice of professional woodworker and author Sandor Nagyszalanczy, you'll make the right choices to fit your space and budget. Detailed illustrations and useful tips help you handle every job, from insulating walls and organizing storage to installing dust collection. 'Shop Profiles' give you a look inside the shops of well-known woodworkers, so you can see how they've tackled common shop problems.

With all the ingenious solutions in Setting Up Shop, you'll never run out of ideas for improving an existing shop or planning the shop of your dreams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561588381
Publisher:	Taunton Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/17/2006
Edition description:	Revised and Updated ed.
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Sandor Nagyszalanczy of Bonny Doon, California is a professional furniture designer and freelance writer, photographer and consultant. With nearly 25 years of experience building custom furniture, he is a former senior editor of Fine Woodworking magazine and has appeared on The History Channel's "Modern Marvels" and ABC Television's "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings." Sandor has authored and photographed nine books published by the Taunton Press, including: Woodshop Jigs and Fixtures, Fixing and Avoiding Woodworking Mistakes, Woodshop Dust Control, The Wood Sanding Book, The Art of Fine Tools, Setting Up Shop and Power Tools: An Electric Celebration and Grounded Guide, The Homeowner's Ultimate Tool Guide, and Tools Rare and Ingenious.

Table of Contents

1. The Quest for Shop Space
2. Walls, Ceilings and Floors
3. Electricity and Lighting
4. Heating and Ventilation
5. Equipping Your Shop
6. Shop Layout
7. Benches and Work Areas
8. Storing Tools, Lumber, and Supplies
9. Dust Collection and Compressed Air
10. Shop Safety