If you are serious about woodwork and planning on building a shop, you would need to have wood shop plans. This is basically a sketch or rough idea of how you want your shop to look. The main things to remember is “bigger is always better”, don’t limit yourself when it comes to space. As your business grows from strength to strength, you will have more customers who will bring with them more demands, so it’s always nice to prepare for what the future has in store for your wood shop. Remember to always plan with the future as a major consideration.

4. Is it alterable? In other words can you easily modify it with the information given so that the piece will fit your needs if necessary.

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3. Is there a fastener list? This isn’t a top priority, but it is very helpful to know what screws, bolts, glue types, brads, or nail types go into the project.

Is your paint booth in a corner of your woodshop? Placing your paint booth in the corner where you can hang a curtain on two sides of the booth can eliminate many problems. Put the curtain upside down on the bar with the shower hooks put through the curtain, make your own holes. On the bottom where the rod would normally be insert some small lead weights like you would see on a casting net. Space the weights six inches apart and sew the ends close. Your curtain should be six inches from the ceiling and just touching the floor. This will eliminate 90 percent of the dust particles, bugs, and draft blowing through the room. It truly makes for a much easier finished product with little or no do overs.

When looking for a good woodworking plan there are a few things that need to be considered.

The rocking chair is one of the most beloved pieces of furniture ever invented. It is also one of the most popular. Who doesn’t have a memory of some kind that involves their Grandparents rocker chair? I know as a child I would run to the rocker and rock as fast as I could. Now as an adult I wander over to the rocker and rock nice and peaceful like.

Making mistakes is going to happen whatever you do in life, and working with your hands and wood is no different. However, having good projects and plans in your possession will greatly reduce the chances of making a time consuming or expensive mistake. Nothing frustrates a woodworker more than getting through the majority of the project and finding out that a few steps previous that we have left something out that should have been performed, causing a total failure in the build.

Wooden space shuttle: for those who crave more fun in their woodshop projects, this is an interesting idea. Although it may require a lot of energy to fine tune the design and time to complete the process, the results will prove to be not only creative but also entertaining.