in my last job I meant to do a shop tour at some point but first I wanted to get it set
up and then we decided to move and I never got around to doing a shop tour so I thought maybe
I should just do a shop tour of this shop now even though it's in complete chaos right now
so what happened is when I was shooting on this workbench this corner has always been sort of
this chaotic dark corner in the background so I decided to paint this wall and before I painted
I decided to mud the drywall but before I do that this part here was easy to remove and that sock is
on its own circuit so I decided to run another wire from that up through the ceiling along the
joists to put another socket back here there's actually a fair number of sockets along this
wall but they're all in the same circuit so this is on a different circuit from the rest of them
now so that I don't overload the sockets because the planer and a dust collector and a heater they
all have to be on separate circuits and while I'm painting I figured I should also paint the columns
because those are kind of visible in the shots here like this one this one and then this one
that's right next to the wall and I used to have stuff in this corner but I had to move all that
out so I can paint very well so next thing is to paint and then I'll do a shop to her properly well
my workshops gone from bad to worse because while I was painting I was figuring I don't really like
the color of that yellow drywall so I started painting behind the Shelf even though I didn't
really clear it out for that so that was kind of messy and here and here and I might have painted
that part too if I hadn't run out of paint I did remember to put a second coat on here though now
the painting is done now I just got to clean up making progress but still not ready for a shop
tour because after I wired in that socket back there I decided I'm gonna put some more sockets
on this pole here and I ran a wire from another circuit that doesn't have much on it and then I
need to put some piece of wood around that and this time I decided to make that piece of wood
split as two parts which made it easy to cut this notch out here for the wire and it'll fit around
the pole like this and in here I've got holes for where the sockets are going to attach got the
sockets wired in no I'm ready to combine those two pieces together now how to attach this wooden post
to the metal one with drywall screws of course because they're so hard to happily tap themselves
into an under sized hole in the steel well it's another day and another painting aftermath because
when I went to the hardware store to buy these electrical boxes I also picked up a can of white
paint and I figured before I put this lumber rack back on here I should put a second coat on here
and then I might as well paint behind the shelves so I moved all this crap onto the table and while
I'm painting and might as well put paint on this drywall which is relatively new and put another
coat on that wall as well as finish the area where I ran out of paint and then I might as well use
up the rest of the paint so I painted a lot of drywall in another room for the first time and
now everything is a big mess it's now been almost two weeks since I got sidetracked with this shop
tour and the shop is now more organized than it's ever been although really that's not saying much
I've been tweaking the lighting a bit I moved that light here so it gets more light on a table
saw and this corner has always been kind of dark and there was this light fixture here they always
wondered to what does that hook up to that lights which of course is just all the bulbs and it were
burnt out and there's another one back there just like that so that really helped to put bulbs and
those fixtures and this room that I've got for my workshop here is 93 square metres or a thousand
square feet so as YouTube woodworkers workshops go it's actually a pretty good size except I
don't really need that much space for a workshop so realistically only about this half here is for
workshop and back here is just storage and stuff like that and this corner being kind of a dark
corner before I just put another light up here so now when it shows up in the background from
here it's not so bad and in this shop recently a few months ago I moved this workbench in from
the other room and that's really handy and I like having these drawers and then I made a bunch more
drawers to go in this workbench and these are super handy because there's such a convenient
height to keep stuff in except I think I might move these nails because there's no need to have
them that conveniently located I don't use nails that much and I figure I'll add some more drawers
to this table using these boxes here that I used to organize the kitchen cabinets and a house three
years ago and I took time with me when we moved so that'll be a nice simple project to finally
get back to building stuff I also added another drawer to this table using a box I had kicking
around I still need a drawer handle for it and I haven't put stuff in there yet and of course this
big table is a recent addition and it's already starting to fill up with clutter but that's the
whole idea I like horizontal surfaces because you can just put clutter on there and not really think
that much about where things need to go so this is sort of a antique John heist philosophy because
he likes to eliminate his horizontal surfaces because they always catch clutter and then he
ends up with all of his clutter on his workbench and on his table saw whereas if you've got a lot
of horizontal surfaces it's much easier to keep your table saw and your workbench clear without
having to think about it that much now I've got three dust collectors in this room this one here
is just hooked up to the table saw and it turns on automatically when I turn on the saw and then I've
got this one back here which is only hooked up to the jointer it doesn't have that much suction but
that's okay because it's only sucking through a short a little bit of hose and it just has to get
their wood chips in there so that's what really well and it's nice and out of the way and then
I've got this big one here that I bought more than 20 years ago which I use with this planer
as well as with a long hose just to vacuum up all the sawdust on the floor oh and of course I have
to dust collectors back here hooked up to those to belt Sanders and I have one dust collector
like that just the one for a belt sander back here which is not hooked up to anything because
I got rid of one belt sander when we moved and I like having lots of drawers to keep stuff in
because drawers are so handy for organizing I've got more drawers here this is mostly electronic
stuff and then these are discarded office drawers which I've just recently kind of attached to each
other a bit better so these don't move around like they used to kind of ugly but very handy
for storing things and of course this tall drawer thing which I made in our old place and then this
one which I made a long long time ago and this is just an old dresser and lots of little drawers
that I made oh gosh thirty years ago I think and then I have some cabinets here that are full of
just power tools in here and this one here this is a horizontal filing cabinet and of course this
is just the main room I also have this smaller room which is about 15 square meters and this is
great for smaller projects especially because this room is easy to warm up just because it's small
and it's got a window which is nice for a natural light and I've got my big drill press and my big
bats on here the big bandsaw I always use for the smaller stuff because that's where you need
the most elbow room so I just keep a quarter inch blade on that and of course my old table saw that
I bought 25 years ago it was old back then not a see older it's only a nine-inch saw but works nice
and that's hooked up to its own dust collector back here and another dust collector here and
the bandsaw doesn't really need one because it just collects all the dust into a drawer
and the new workbench that I built last fall and then this drawer thing I haven't filled all these
drawers just yet oh look at that snow drifting around and then this thing here is actually a
Raspberry Pi zero W based time-lapse camera there is a little white angle lens on there and I like
that just to have more pictures of what I've done and figure out how long things have taken and I've
got another one here and this one I originally set up to figure out where I actually am using
just motion analysis so they could then drive a stepper motor to turn this heater to constantly
aim it at me except since I put this workbench here there isn't really a good spot to put that
heater where it sweeps everything I thought about maybe mounting it to the ceiling but that would
be a bit dangerous and this thing actually also needs to be tilted up or it overheats it relies
on convection to get the heat away from the dish if I just tilt it forward a little bit like that
by putting on something inclined then it'll trip the overheat thermostat so it definitely needs to
be on the floor and there just isn't a great spot for it now not one that can sweep the entire shop
so I just manually place it to aim where I'm working if I do need a bit of heat but I have
been working quite a lot lately on this software that runs on this mainly the thing for visualizing
all the images because it takes a lot of pictures and so just by hovering over this it shows me what
I've been doing today so I've had Oh at least three hours in the shop today and then I wrote
this image flipper thingy which I can flip through images relatively rapidly like this or even just
to drag across the screen so I can really figure out okay what I do here what I do there and then
on the bottom there's a little thing that shows what minute of the our I'm actually showing and
of course I can click to any minute and this shows the timestamps of all the photos and if I'd like
one I can click on save and that puts it in a special place for photos I want to keep long-term
because of course I can't keep all these photos it just it's too many after after about a year the
flashcard is full and there's different ways of looking at it like just looking at thumbnails for
what was going on in here and a number of you have been asking about this software I've been trying
to polish it up for release and that's been taking a lot of my time in the last two weeks I have now
uploaded onto github so if you want to use it go there and get it but you have to be fairly expert
in terms of using raspberry PI's and editing text configuration files because it's not a
super user-friendly piece of software but anyways that's the shop tour I originally thought I'd use
the smaller room mostly but now that I've got this big room kind of set up nicely I kind of feel like
using this room even though there's no natural light it's just bigger and also it's a bit warmer
by default without heating it up I can get the other room much warmer but if I come in this room
it's already almost just the right temperature already anyways the next thing will be some
drawers to go on this table and I think I will make a video talking more about this software soon
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