Wow! Super great right place and time story! Very jealous! 👍

Wow have to use short pencils! Then yes a lot of thought before your adding in anything there! Bet you have some creative solutions!

@@BitnerBuilt I call it my “micro” shop, French cleats up the walls and storage racks on the ceiling. Band saw, drill press and work benches are all on wheels. All my wood stock is stored in racks made with threaded pipe that hang down from the ceiling just far enough so the garage door has about 1” of clearance when opening. Oscillating sander and thickness planer are on a revolving top carton wheels so they are easy to access but both fit in one small footprint. Compound miter saw is stored and clamped to the tailgate of my pick up in driveway when needed. Plan to purchase the saw stop job site pro with the folding cart If I can figure out what to move or modify to make the folded version fit against the wall under existing shelving. Any ideas on how to maximize space or improve work flow are helpful.

I'm currently figuring all my storage and tool placement in my 12x14 shop everything except my jointer is mobile and that's only a floor model because I inherited it but I'm really enjoying the content very inspiring

@@ericwatson101 thanks Eric! You know you can always put floor models on castors too, 3/4 board with 4 castors is all you need, will still be stable

I wouldn’t disagree at all Trust me I’m a spender too. And I’ve also been guilty of getting into some thing like getting hard-core into golfing, buying expensive clubs for my sons and I, building a full virtual golf suite in the basement and then not playing for 2 years 😂 so for a lot of people it is good to dip the toe in and then see if it sticks, both ways are good just have to know what type of person you are 👍

Thanks so much! Very kind of you!

Thanks! I actually already had a buyer for it when I filmed. Taking care of quality tools and you can make your case for their value. Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Very Much TW! Humbles the way to be!

Good to know thanks Anthony!

Good stuff Anthony!

Thanks Prinsa!

That’s great Woodrow! It’s funny how many people on here have told me how just like some guys like to buy an old car and restore them back to new, the same can be said with quality power tools. I had a real fun time last week taking apart that grizzly, cleaning, everything, re-wiring it, and putting on a new controller box and sealing up at dust collection system, so that it actually works well 😅. This will definitely be my jointer for the foreseeable future

Thanks Randy! It’s on the list! I actually want to rip it apart and make something better ( that would be it’s 4/5th iteration so I do that a lot 😅) so might do one before that to point out the pros and cons etc

Yea taste the rainbow of tool colors, they all have some winners 👍

Nice!

Hi Ellen, I think that’s a great idea for a video, I have a schedule for my videos at the moment, so I’ll get it on there, but it might be a few weeks. So in the meantime, just so your safe, here’s a few tips, particularly on safety for you you never want to get your fingers to close to the blade, and so a good safety rule is if you would be within 6in of the blade use a push stick, that could be as simple as just another piece of scrap wood to push the wood through the saw so that your hands are safely away from the blade, you use the push stick on the right side of the blade between the fence and the blade. You also need to make sure that your piece of wood is always perfectly flat against your fence as you slide it through the blade the most dangerous action that can happen with the tablesaw is called kick back and it happens when the wood gets slightly crooked and pinched between the blade and the fence and forces the wood to come flying back at you. or even for the wood to kind of have an explosion action, which is happened to me twice over 20yrs. To that note since he purchased a used tablesaw, make sure that the blade and the fence are perfectly parallel to each other. If the fence is crooked, it can cause this kick back simply due to this. To see if your fence is straight. You should move it to one of the miter slots, the grooves in the table top And see if it perfectly matches the edge of that groove. Also, make sure to always use the riving knife, which is the piece of curved metal that goes directly behind the blade. Again another thing to prevent binding and kickback. The table saws a bit different of a tool because you’re pushing the wood through the tool instead of pushing the tool through the wood.

Thanks very much. I hope I can keep bringing you good content!

You got it! Thanks Stephen!

I appreciate that!

I appreciate that!

Awesome, thank you!

Fantastic!

Fantastic angel! Feel free to reach out with any questions. I’ll keep trying to bring the good content

Very good tip. I’m always very big on safety. Totally agree!

Thanks, will do!

Thank you Jim!

Thanks, will do!

Yeah, somebody else mentioned that that’s good to know

Thanks, will do!

Much appreciated

Thanks!

Thanks Jason! Yes the older craftsman tools if upkept really will stay the test of time!

Nice would love to see some pics to see how you make it work! Make the best of the space you have!

Thanks jay!

Welcome!

Right! They made a very solid product with that one at a cant best price

Thanks so much!

Very true! I feel you on the power, feel like I’m running new breakers to the garage all the time 😂

Thanks Tony! Been filming a small build for days now that should post in a day or two, builds just take soooo long to film that I’ve been throwing in some talkies in between!

Workin on it! Hands on take a week or more to film so trying to do 1 every 4 videos. Todays will be incorporating a laser into woodworking process but then after I’m ripping up a corner of the shop and rebuilding it so that will be a few builds in a row

Aww thanks! Sure thing you don’t have to go $$$$ until your making the money to pay for it with those tools. I’m going to put our some “easy” builds this week and next like making your kitchen drawers hold 50% with a 15min $10 build!

I was in a similar situation and I went with the Bauer benchtop planer from Harbor Freight, it's been going strong for like 2 years now. It's not amazing but it's like 1/3 the price of the Dewalt that everyone raves about and it's a massive improvement over an electric hand planer, like night and day what you can do. Just like OP says, no need to go crazy and get high-end stuff until you need really high-end stuff because you're making expensive high quality product.

Wait they take the current batteries?!?! 😮

@@BitnerBuilt They do. I use LI batteries in 3 drills, a recip saw, a jig saw, a circ saw, a wet/dry vac, a dremel style tool, and a couple lights. All old blue tools that came with blue and yellow NiCad batteries.

@@rexseven93 wow good to know!

@@BitnerBuilt Yeah, still using my original Ryobis too!

I’ll be doing a rework of it in a month, it’s decent but I have an idea to make it even better so stay tuned 😅

Thanks so much! I agree, I will get a video out on that soon, like I said in the video and you said above, it’s really a very very nice saw on the town and then once you add in the price, it’s a no-brainer for many as a choice. I actually was waiting to see if my tool sponsor would send me a few other ones. I would like to remake parts of my miter fence and enclosure so I would like to compare it to some other miter saws, and then make a final decision on it as that might affect my rebuild.

In the works! It should be out within a week, trying to finish a build first!

Very true!

That’s the way Bobbg! Great job on all of that, that’s the way to do it. Bigger solid tools can last forever and you can find repairs and replacement for everything. It may be ugly sometimes but it’ll get the job done.

Well said Evan! Oh, I know the volume buy game well, one of the businesses I’ve owned, was a liquidation company where I would buy semi trucks full of returns and turn around and individually sell the items. You can always get a great deal when you purchase things as a lot.

hahaha! yes I do love how the Bosch has that much more compact form factor, could have given me another 6in in my shop by not having to make the enclosure so deep, but oh the shadow line.....the shadow line is life now.

Very cool! I would definitely say that modularity is the way to go, being able to maintain a large work surface, but then being able to bring out tools as needed to add onto that surface like what you’re saying, with the miter saw makes a lot of sense. Before I did the full build out of my shop, I only had my miter station, and the two carts that pulled out from those could be combine together to make a large work top, have my job site table saw, or one of my 10 other board mounted tools be able to click in with their board mounts then rolled back away when I didn’t need them. Sounds like your on the right track

That is awesome!

Well your table saw can perform so many functions, including if you utilize a jig it can perform actions like a jointer and plainer also if pressed for space you can usually mount a router to it as well.

Thanks Keith! Hehe yea when he said $5 I immediately asked if he had more incra to sell 😁

Glad it’s still rockin’ for you!

No sorry not my design but basically you just build a box next to your fence, and then L over the top of the fence with a way to attach it. My fence has a recess so I just put a block of wood there so it will move my stick box left, and right as the fence moves but if I just simply lift up on it, it will come right off. I need to do that if I move it all the way to the end of the saw.

Without reservation, I can give a full recommendation on that saw. I use it every single day for the past two years that I’ve had it. It works great. I’ll never get a saw without a shadow sight again, it’s just so easy with that and the price!

I was thinking about that saw as well. I have several Hercules cordless drills and drivers… as good as the brand names. Glad to hear from a fellow woodworker that actually uses it.

that woks lol

Well said

Haha yes it was! Gigantic no rust and maintained for $600 was a steal

Thanks for the tip!

Haha yes, make sure you throw in safety in there. Man I almost cut my finger I really should get a saw stop. 🤪

There will definitely be a video! In fact I really want to rip the whole thing apart and build a new one but I always want to do that with everything in the shop 😅

@@BitnerBuilt Well, speaking of progression, I'm in my "woodworking journey" probably where you were around 5 years ago. (I could go into a lot of detail, but I'll spare you unless you're super curious.) But my point is, where I see myself "progressing" is probably less in woodworking for woodworking sake but rather buying used and rebuilding woodworking and machine tools (there's definitely a continuity there). Some guys rebuild cars. I think I'm more interested in tools. Another possible branch is building tools to build tools, like Fireball Tool and Izzy Swan do, among others.

@@bradboyer1381 very cool, it’s totally a fun and useful thing to buy and repair tools. When I was in my 20s, I actually made a whole business around buying lots of paintball guns off eBay, cleaning them, upgrading them and then selling them individually for a really high profit over what I purchased it all for that then bloomed into a huge business to where I was buying semi trucks of items! I once bought 500 new Samsung computer monitors for $3 each they were all defective. I played around with them till I discovered they used a $0.10 capacitor on the board that was undersized. I repaired each one and sold them for $99 each on ebay.

@@BitnerBuilt Impressive!

I use the apron linked here, mine is 3 years old and hold up well, not incredibly high end but does the job amzn.to/3okCyCh

Yes most of them. When you have a tighter space it just makes it easier to be able to move things around for the best placement

Hey man I’m near New York, it feels like a freaking avocado is $500 around here 🤣

It’s in the video info section linked. It’s $125 now but was 100 back when I bought it. Buy that and add a wood top and it’s basically now the $1700 one. To note you need to add some legs since it will be very long and unsupported or like I did was add a cabinet carcas underneath to support it and casters on that so it can all roll around

@Bitner Built Woodworking thanks! I'm not sure how I missed that but it's currently unavailable anyway. But thank you!

Oh no, you're the 3rd to ask today! I need to start linking it in the video comments I guess! I use the apron linked here, mine is 3 years old and hold up well, not incredibly high end but does the job and doesn't get in the way! amzn.to/3okCyCh

@@BitnerBuilt thanks a bunch for the reply! Have an awesome day! Just went and bought one 👍👊 food for thought...you need to set up an Amazon affiliate page 🤗

He actually went and searched prices first and priced them 1/3 or 1/4th to move it all - wife and he got a divorce so he had to get it all out 😣