Basement Workshop

My current woodworking workshop is located in my basement. A basement workshop has some obvious disadvantages such as the noise and dust not being completely separated from the house. I have built a wall across the middle of my basement so that my workshop is in one half and the furnace and laundry area is in the other half. This helps to keep the dust and mess away from the common portions of the house. The best way to build a basement workshop would be to have a good dust collection system. I don't currently have this however.

The greatest advantage of the basement workshop is that it is already heated. I plan to move my workshop to a dedicated building soon, but that will mean either working in the cold in the winter or spending more money on heating costs.

This weekend I received an old patio door that was no longer suitable to be used as an exterior entry, but worked great for a door to my workshop. The original frame for the door was badly damaged over the years, so I just used the stationary panel and the door itself. Below I have attached some pictures of my workshop after I installed the door.

Below is the view of the workshop from the common area of the basement. The new glass doors turned out pretty nice.

View of the door from the inside of the workshop.

Below is a view of the inside of the workshop from the new door. You can see my workbench in the back with my wooden stool. Both of these are homemade and I will be adding articles about their construction soon. They are both made out of common pine lumber available at any hardware store.

Here you can see my table saw, planer and miter saw. I use a second simpler workbench as the out-feed for the table saw. The miter saw is currently on a makeshift bench made from two plastic saw horses and a couple of 2x8s.

Here I have my homemade router duplicator project. This hasn't been completely finished yet. It consists of a small router and a stylist and is intended to let you follow a three dimensional shape with the stylist and make a copy in wood with the router. It is built with water pipes, steel rod, some wood and some linear bearings from eBay. When I finish it I will put up an article about it.

In the back of the below picture you can see a small office type area. Here I have a bookcase with some of my books and magazines on it as well as a wooden desk. I have separated the area with a shower curtain hanging from some PVC pipe in an attempt to keep out a little bit of the dust.