A wet day or two has kept me from bricklaying, so I did some stuff in the workshop.
Firstly, I have always had a shelf behind the bench for the most commonly used tools, so I bought a piece of 200 x 25 PAR and made one. The variation is that it extends beyond the end of the bench and to the corner of the workshop.
Previously, I have had individual holes for screwdrivers, but thought this time I might just have slots. They were great, except, when I tried screwdrivers in them, they just fell over like a pack of on-end dominoes. So I thought for a minute or two, and came up with this underneath:
Here is the completed shelf, with lipping (with C.3mm upstand):
Next I turned my attention to my almighty pile of scraps and off-cuts. I haven't ever found a satisfactory way of storing them such that I can see what I've got and get to it, but I thought I had a good idea, so gave it a go. This is fairly agricultural, just being some cleaned up scrap, butt jointed and screwed. The idea is that the wood doesn't just lean on a pile of wood behind it, because that ends in chaos. It is divided into 6 segments, each with a back, front and sides, so stuff leans on that without falling over.
It seems to work:
The black plastic box (an unused header tank) beside it is my scrap bin, for DaveL to collect........
Right, I pushed the brush around briefly, and so thought I would give you a little tour, going clockwise from the door:
My bench. Most of the power tools to the right are permanently plugged in, so there is no faffing around if I need to use them at the bench.
Shelves for fixings, finishes, odds & ends, then my quarter-ton cast iron floor standing pillar drill, and a sash cramp rack shamelessly copied from Alan Hudson. Turning up the long wall, I have a setting-out bench, currently hidden under my big site-saw (a sliding compound mitre saw, 12"). Underneath are tool drawers full of unsorted tools lying loose and in a tangle from the move. These drawers are ripe for some attention.
The woodracks I hope to keep empty until I bring in wood for a specific project. Under my setting out bench alongside the drawers are my smaller saw-horses. To the right of that, hinged off the front of my radial arm saw bench is my fold-out router table, with router permanently fixed to it. Under the saw is my welder and compressor:
You've just seen the woodrack, and the scrap bin (always in a corner so that offcuts can just get thrown in the general direction and they will hit the wall and bounce into the box. Moving into the smaller part of the workshop, I have a narrow bench with a metal working vice, my scary sharpening stuff, and a grinder. Below it is a tea chest which is my general bin, so drawers & storage. Above, more shelves, more bits 'n pieces.
Planer thicknesser in the foreground. The middle of the far wall will have a hatch (not for a while). To the right, sheet material storage below my clamp rack.
In the corner next to the door is my bandsaw, with spirit levels and straight edges, squares etc behind.
Most of all, I have loads of floor space. Room to work around my projects is what I was after: