I had a nice weekend relaxing in the woodshop. Lots of little chores waiting to be done.

I bought a set of sturdy casters for my mobile bench (as well as 3 other sets for the other mobile stands). It rolls super smooth now!

My goal is to have everything mobile, and at the same level, so any of them can be pushed together to make room for working on bigger projects.

Sherry gave me a cabinet that got water damaged when their water heater broke and flooded the garage. I removed the water-logged bits and added plywood to get it back to shape. That’s going to be my new paint/finishing cabinet. Right now that stuff is everywhere!

That was some good practice using the table saw. Definitly getting more comfortable with it. I thought this was a good time to build the push stick and push block for safer table saw use.

And then the final project was to move the vise. The vise has been mounted on the back corner of my stationary bench, which was fine in the old house, but completely unaccessable in the new layout, and I’ve been tolerating it for 8 years because I don’t need it often, but it’s frustrating when I do. So I removed it and mounted it to a piece of plywood that can be clamped to the bench when needed, and stores under the mobile bench when not being used.

And while puttering around, I organized my sandpaper into these nice plastic containers leftover from Dave’s shipping labels. He went through enough of them at Christmastime to organize my sandpaper perfectly.

Next project, the extra fancy paper tray! And I picked up some hardwood to do a little intarsia project with. Oh, and I have a nice set of hinges coming to fix the somewhat saggy wings on my miter saw stand, and when I do it will get the upgraded casters too. Also, I’m going to clean up the garage shelves and remove some of them to make parking the woodshop tools out of the way easier. Lots to do in the woodshop!