1 Car Garage Wood Shop Tour - Visiting The Morris Collective - Custom Cutting Boards

[@markmiller-summer473]

Justin AND Steve, great presentation. The interview opening indicated 8x24 and immediately grabbed my attention. I (WE) have a 2-car garage approximately 16x24, allotting me Steve’s similar square foot floor space. Although I have many larger tools, I am finally getting antsy AND anxious to organize [my side] into a workable and productive space. Once again, Bitner Built Woodworking comes through. THANK YOU!

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks mark! Steves actually coming over to my shop in the morning so I’ll tell him 👍

[@fogsmart]

Thanks for the heads up on FB, great content, your voice and presentation are perfect for what you are appealing to - users of small shops.

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks Fogsmart! I was happy to show a smaller “real world” set up and business!

[@fogsmart]

@@BitnerBuilt looking forward to watching your channel. There’s so much content out there theses days competing for our time. And good content in many cases. Your stuff is indeed real world. And that’s what I’m looking for.

[@pazmaniaoh6341]

Thanks for sharing Steve!

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks Jacob! Steve’s a good guy!

[@heystarfish100]

I used to own a drum sander but my ideas of having it were quickly removed by the incredible amount of frustration with its inherent design and operation. Lowering the drum onto the wood via the drum support arm was always hit or miss with accuracy. Had the table been able to be raised to meet a fixed spinning drum my problems most likely would have been solved. I took a tremendous loss on its sale. The drum sander ruined a lot more wood more than it helped bring flat. I still wish that the tool could do what I had hoped and that I was able to bring wide stock to a level and smooth surface. The best use of the drum sander was for very short narrow pieces of wood. The 16-32 design had me thinking I was able to do much larger projects than what I achieved in reality. I see many of these sanding machines being sold on the used market. If you do buy one never put on any sand paper other than 80 grit. That seemed to be the sweet spot in my experience with the machine.

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks for the helpful tips! I personally haven’t ever used one and yeah, I have an idea in my head of what it’s gonna be able to do for me so good to hear from somebody who’s been through it. I actually had bought one at a garage sale for $400 excited to get it for that price. I gave him the money before I played with it And then asked him to turn it on and do a whole bunch of stuff and he was saying how the knob broke and he had to adjust the belt every time with an Allen key as a drifted etc. etc. etc. so I figured it was a lemon and I got my money back… maybe more on par?

[@heystarfish100]

@@BitnerBuilt When you rotate the vertical adjustment clockwise you raise the horizontal position of the drum and adjustments are more positive. The problem is that you need to do the opposite because the bed is fixed. There is too much friction in the vertical support plates that it doesn’t operate smoothly no matter what you try to do. This sequence of adjustment also changes the drums parallelism to the table and creates a taper across the width of wide stock. When sanding wide stock I was also left with a rippled finish that looked like waves in the grain instead of a constant smooth surface finish even while sanding long stock at a extremely light touch. Different woods gave much different results. Some woods would create extremely hard resin to build on the sanding paper in the middle of a long board being run through the drum and the resin buildup would ruin the surface. My sanding adjustments were limited to just kissing the wood very lightly. The process was long, arduous and oftentimes painful. A hand plane can give you much better results. I used my sanding drum for wider panel glue ups and to finish sand shop cut veneers. It just didn’t work out well. I looked into newer versions of these sanders and seemed to find similar results. I just don’t believe that the engineering behind these drum sanders to be very good at all. Rarely will I even see a skilled woodworker on KZbin using one or ever recommend one. It was in my experience that every aspect of adjustment to the machine was in a constant state of struggle to maintain. It flat out sucked.

[@BobAmarant]

Very nice, I do similar videos with my Bob's Woodshop Road Trip series. Well done!

[@BitnerBuilt]

👍

[@Mike-Holiday]

Very cool!

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks!

[@edt765]

I am about to move into a new place with a one car garage. This is awesome to see since I will be moving into the new shop space soon! I am stoked to get setup like this. Thanks!

[@edt765]

I am not super interested in doing etsy either but how does he get the interest on his own website? Does he advertise? I have been on his site and see he has instagram but what else does he do? Just wondering as I am going the same route

[@BitnerBuilt]

Awesome edt! Send a pic when it’s all set up would love to see!

[@jimrosson6702]

Great video love seeing other small shops

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks Jim!

[@DustyBootsWoodcraft]

Man, I love your channel…we all seem to be on the same trajectory. I decided about a month ago to quit chasing you tube products and build for my family. I’ll see how that turns out! 😮

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks I appreciate it!

[@allanwilliams679]

Enjoyable video. First time I’ve seen anything on your channel. Now subscribed and looking forward to more. Keep up the good work and thank you for your efforts… 👍🏻

[@BitnerBuilt]

Thanks Allen!

[@wayneosteen1539]

Good job on the video, and congrats to Steve for taking the next step! I'm thinking about it myself. Got any good tips for forming the LLC?

[@BitnerBuilt]

It’s easy to do on your states website, don’t pay anyone. I personally like doing an S Corp., he first sign up as an LLC, and then file an additional piece of paper called an S Corp. election. It’s slightly more beneficial tax wise. Make sure to also register for an EIN number with the IRS it’s a free process. Of course, every business is different, I’m just assuming that you’re doing it as a small woodworking business.

[@moxsexflex1]

Thank you and thanks for watching

[@taicronck9559]

Can you recommend a decent but not too expensive table saw?

[@BitnerBuilt]

Well depends on the “grade” your looking for. They start off with the portable Job site saws. The dewalt job site saw has a decent fence. If your looking for a decent cast iron table saw the delta sold at Lowe’s is what I own and it’s excellent for the price point ~$700 I have a video on table saws so you can see mine and what I have done to it there. Another option is to buy a used one and then spend money on a nice aftermarket fence as the fence is the big thing with all your choices.

[@philliphinkle2812]

I’ve never heard of a bandsaw box. Please explain

[@BitnerBuilt]

So a bandsaw box uses one large block of wood, solid, and then only using a bandsaw you end up creating what looks like a drawer inside a solid block of wood. It’s a little bit difficult for me to just explain here so I would recommend googling a beginners bandsaw box very fun to make, and come out really attractive, especially if before you start making it, you layer a whole whole bunch of species of wood to make your block

[@killawee118]

What's his website?

[@BitnerBuilt]

It’s themorriscollective.com/

[@killawee118]

@@BitnerBuilt Thank you!

[@YourStoryHomeDesign]

I’m selling my Laguna SuperMax 16-32 drum sander if you are ever in Indianapolis, hit me up.

[@BitnerBuilt]

Oooo very tempting!