Steve’s Garage Shop

Shop Tour - Submitted by Steve Lyde from Altus, OK
Added on July 2, 2015

I’m Steve, a hobbyist woodworker from Oklahoma. I have been into woodworking since I was 16 years old, I’m 51 now, but only into finer tools and woodwork for the past 5 years. My shop is my 2-car garage, 20’ x 22’ with a 2’ x 4.5’ alcove in the back where I have my dust collector and air compressor. Some of the storage solutions in my shop are store bought and some I built. My real journey in building up my shop started with the building of a Roubo work bench with Benchcrafted hardware. After that I have been hooked on turning my garage into a woodworking haven with good tools and storage. My real work is seasonal, so I’m lucky enough to spend half or more of each year off work with nothing better to do than play around in my shop. I like to keep my shop clean so all of the large tools are connected to a cyclone dust collector via 6” pvc with automated blast gates and dust collector controls. Most of my smaller tools are Festool which are always used with the Festool dust collectors. Most of my projects consist of furniture builds and home remodeling for myself, along with a few small items for friends.

My desire now is a detached shop in my back yard that is bigger than my current garage, I’m running out of room for tools!!! Thanks for looking.

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Christian July 2, 2015 10:42 pm

Is that a hammer jointer/planer combo?

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- Steve Lyde July 3, 2015 10:04 am
  
  Yes it is a Hammer A3-31, 12″ with silent power helical cutter head. Great machine!!
  
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Tuck July 3, 2015 8:26 am

If it weren’t so clean I would think I’d be looking at my own shop here. I too have that Hammer a3-31 combo jointer/planer – with the helical head, a Sawstop ICS, a roubo bench built with Benchcrafted parts, the Incra LS router table system, and the Kapex and Domino.

Even though I toured the Sawstop facility and watched them test a prototype slider I never purchased that. Instead, I’m about to sell my Sawstop and replace it with the Hammer K3 Winner; 48×48. How’s that slider working for you?

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- Steve Lyde July 3, 2015 10:06 am
  
  Thus far I really like the slider for smaller items such as furniture parts. If I were cross cutting plywood sheets I would rather have a euro style slider.
  
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Steve Sagovac July 3, 2015 2:04 pm

That’s such a neat, well thought out set-up. I can’t believe how much you got in to that space and still have so much room to move around.
Great job.

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Eric R July 3, 2015 6:59 pm

Very nice indeed !

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Rick R July 4, 2015 7:03 am

Very cool – I’m in Macomb (via Broken Arrow, via Mpls, via OKC!) and just setting up mine. I have the Jet 12″ Jointer/Planer.

I have struggled with my layout because while it’s an oversized 2-car, 1 entire wall is kinda lost to a fridge, freezer, utility closet and hot water closet. On the same wall as the overhead door is a side entrance, but it is in the corner next to the hot water closet, so I effectively lose that corner and the entire 21′ wall.

I’ll have to try that placement of jointer/planer and table saw.

Very nice shop!

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Mark Dolce July 5, 2015 5:05 am

Once you start using a euro style slider you’ll wonder how you ever worked with out one. The main function on my Robland HX 310 combo machine is the slider table , absolutely love it.

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- Tuck July 9, 2015 7:57 am
  
  I’m really looking forward to it. One big advantage to the Euro design is that the slider table is positioned right up against the edge of the blade. This, by way of the main cast iron design, differs greatly from the SawStop add-on version, and seems to make for much more controlled cuts and is safer. I’ve changed my investment plans and am now working out the final build of a Felder 500 series slider so that I can use the technology they’ve built into their engineering.
  
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Phil G September 1, 2015 9:10 pm

Nice shop! I saw your clear vue in the corner and wanted to know how loud it is for you being unenclosed and out in the open. I recently purchased a clear vue myself and am debating on leaving it exposed in my identical sized shop vs. closeted.

Thanks for the tour!

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John November 26, 2015 8:49 am

Steve great shop. I can appreciate your high end tools and layout.
I’am one of the new guys on the block and setting up my shop again since i moved.I was going to build a workbench for my miter saw but after seeing your bench and top I would be able to save some time by doing what you did.Would you mind me asking you where you got your bench top and cabinets?I See the top says FESTOOL but Can’t find it on their website.Thanks for your help.

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- Shelby November 27, 2015 8:13 pm
  
  I believe those are from SAMs club
  
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joe pardo June 17, 2016 1:01 pm

Very, very nice tools . Give Santa my address.

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Derek July 15, 2016 2:27 pm

Steve, Nice set up. Are those Seville cabinets from Sam’s Club pretty durable? I’m always leery about quality when I can’t check them out myself. The nearest Sam’s is a 90 min drive and they don’t have any in stock so thought I would ask before ordering.

BTW I used to live in Snyder, OK. Little town on 62 in between Altus and Lawton about 30 min form you!

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