Setting Up Shop: The Practical Guide to Designing and Building You

by Sandor Nagyszalanczy

To a woodworker, there is nothing more personal than the workshop. Creating your ideal sanctuary involves hundreds of practical decisions from where to locate the shop and which machines and tools to buy to where to put the lights and electrical outlets.

With the expert advice of professional woodworker and author Sandor Nagyszalanczy, you'll make the right choices to fit your space and budget. Detailed illustrations and useful tips help you handle every job, from insulating walls and organizing storage to installing dust collection. 'Shop Profiles' give you a look inside the shops of well-known woodworkers, so you can see how they've tackled common shop problems.

With all the ingenious solutions in Setting Up Shop , you'll never run out of ideas for improving an existing shop or planning the shop of your dreams.

Genres: Woodwork, Reference

240 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

Reviews

[Jon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of what could've been useful wasn't explained. The rest I couldn't use.

[Don · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice overview of what’s important but some subjects are dated. Would be nice to see the entire book updated to include current 2023 technologies

[January · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Nothing different than I've seen in Wood magazine.