04/01/2026
A clean shop is a productive shop.
Building a productive shop is a constant goal of ours and it feels like it is always evolving.
We have recently invested a lot in our woodworking end and have a professional grade cabinet shop with a Sawstop cabinet saw setup, a 5 hp 20” helical head planer, a 8” helical head jointer and a bunch of other stationary tools.
Our dust collection system, air compressor, blast cabinet and plate steel storage is tucked away in a fully insulated room, preventing a lot of sound from drowning out the rest of the shop. We have air piped all around the shop to retractable air lines and the dust collection is also piped around the woodworking area to a lot of stationary equipment.
Our mezzanine above our woodworking area doubles as a home for our cnc router and a dust free paint area that we spray latex finishes on our woodworking projects.
We haven’t invested much in the last year with the metal fabrication end of the shop but had brought a lot of metal fab tools in the previous year. We have a a multi process welder, a cnc plasma water table, a 30” 3 in 1 brake, shear and roller and a 60 ton shop press capable of forming 1/4” plate steel at 48” wide.
Above the metal fabrication area is another mezzanine where we store a lot of consumables for our tools and we also store some extra power tools and truck/excavator parts.
One day we are milling out cabinet parts for a kitchen and the next day we could be building a custom steel ski rack.