Shop transformation - garage to workshop

[@jcdrake01]

A table becomes a bench. A chair becomes an accessory holder. KP becomes a married person. And a garage becomes a shop. Transformative video!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

I didn’t think of it that way, well said! Thank you 😊

[@charmcitypicker8836]

I'm looking forward to many KP making cool stuff vidoes. Please keep them coming often. I love your ability to build, restore, and renew things that time has forgotten or left behind.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

More to come!

[@nick.caffrey]

In my whole life I've never had a 'shed' of my own. Life didn't go that direction. May you have many creative hours in it, KP!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

It’s a gift I hope never to take for granted. Thank you so much!

[@marcusdire8057]

I love that you made a kid bench and set aside space for littles to work with you! 😃

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

It’s just right 😁

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Nice work on converting the garage to a shop KP. You did great on converting the table to a bench. In answer to your question- a table becomes a bench when you clear the dishes and then begin making something on top of it. It becomes a shelf when you pile so much stuff on top of it that it can't be used as a table or bench. I have examples of both in my shop. Thank you for today's video and best wishes for a great week ahead.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahahaha I think you nailed it (har har)!

[@CodeSquares]

Well put!

[@TomLeg]

made me laugh!

[@TheCreat]

In case people don't know this, and you didn't go into detail: Masonry bits really want/require a hammer drill to work. The flared bit at the front essentially acts like a chisel, which requires the hammer action to do anything useful. The remaining twisty parts along the shaft are just to extract the rubble from the hole. Also a hammer drill is not the same (or even related) to an impact driver. With an impact driver, the impact actually drives the rotation, as the name suggests. So the hammer strikes are in the rotational direction and follow the rotational motion. With a hammer drill, the strikes are forward, along the drill into the wall, to periodically drive the chisel-head into to stone/wall and chisel out the desired hole.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Yes! Thanks for sharing that tidbit. I don’t have a hammer drill, but it would have been SOOO much easier.

[@philparmenter53]

And (certainly in the UK) the flaired bit at the end is a tungstan insert

[@jbayles1]

That first communion mullet, priceless!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahaha maybe I should grow my hair out

[@ClintSimonsen]

I've never seen a shop smith before. and i fear I'm about to fall down a google hole for the next few hours investigating this. Great Vid, congrats on the wedding. lookig fowards to the next one KP.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thanks so much! The rabbit hole is deep!

[@witerabid]

Ok, if I ever do end up being able to put together a shop I will have two benches at different heights. This is absolutely brilliant and not just for kids. Also, that was a huge chunk of work clearing out that space and making it usable. You should really pat yourself on the back or get someone else to do it. 💚

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thank you! It’s weird to see months of work shrunk into minutes, but your comment is much appreciated!

[@ChrisShute62]

Full marks for keeping a shorter child-friendly bench. After a hard day's work you might find it handy for seated fiddly jobs like soldering, engraving, sharpening and carving. But best of all, you'll give youngsters a chance to try things.

[@davidwarren9204]

True, and lower benches can be surprisingly handy and ergonomic for eg kneeling on a piece of wood to quickly clamp it, while sawing from an ideal position. KZbinr Rex Krueger uses one all the time...

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

We love doing little projects together. Thanks!

[@ChrisShute62]

@@MakeSpaceByKPMy kids loved using the hot melt glue gun to make stuff from off-cuts and random junk. It's a safer tool than a craft knife or chisel, if you turn your back on them...

[@peterhirt991]

I would like to make nice comments but is this really so interesting to watch how somebody cleans up a garage?

[@cosmicinsane516]

Not in itself no, but it’s a new channel, and regular content production is the best way to help a channel grow on KZbin. If cleaning a garage is what the creator is doing for the channel this week, then they might as well put it up. Pretty much every maker channel at some point posts shop cleaning/update videos. Besides, it reminds me how badly I need to convert my pole barn into a workshop, when it is presently a workshop covered in several tons of garbage and empty beer cans.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thanks for watching anyway. It’s not all glamor, that’s for sure. But it took weeks and it’s what I’ve been up to.

[@kevinmartin3859]

Very good kp lot of content with plenty of invention well done with both benches and the chair accessory holder 😊😊

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thanks a lot for watching!

[@stuartpowers2196]

Shopsmith tip: make some blocks/spacers to hold/take the weight of the accessories while you are changing things. And keep them in a milk crate or something.You could have broken a finger. Or worse! Take care of yourself.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Good idea. Sometimes I learn the hard way. Thanks for the tip!

[@michaelperini3268]

Great, A REALLY important step, A Place To Work. Until you get the sharpening station of your dreams , automotive silicon carbide paper on a 12x12 marble tile works. Grits to 3000, then strop. No fun working with dull tools. Lots of people are rooting for you, including me. Good Luck

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thank you for that! I got a tile and dropped it minutes after arriving home. 🙄

[@audreynelson1345]

I have an oak table I am going to turn into a beach too!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Let us know how it goes!

[@stephenlaw1202]

tungsten in the tip of the drill makes it a masonry bit ;)

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Good to know! Thanks

[@asakurad]

Yep... in need of a bench to build a bench... been caught in that mobius strip myself.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahaha it’s pretty funny, right? I think the lesson is to buy a bench, they’re cheaper that way.

[@richardsiddon610]

0500 here just off to work…. Keep chipping away and have a great weekend!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Have a great day and weekend! Thanks for watching!

[@Nena84734]

Hey, you’ve made yourself a space!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hooray! It’s quite exciting

[@charles.neuman18]

Looks great. Make it messy! That's the fun part!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

It is the fun part! And it’s a disaster right now, happy to say 😁

[@TomLeg]

You don't need "perfect", you just need "better than whatever you had before" --- repeat as necessary until you have something "good enough"

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Words to live by. Thanks for watching!

[@Mister006]

Love it! Love the ShopSmith! Wish I could have had one back in the '80/'90s

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

It’s great! I’m getting the hang of it, too.

[@johndtribuna1194]

Great shop! Looking forwaed to wonderful things happening there!!!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thanks so much!

[@mrsmithdaddy]

Someone just asked me yesterday if I knew what a shop smith is. Now I do!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Love it! There are other attachments like a lathe that I haven’t hooked up yet. It’s a pretty ingenious machine for a small space and limited budget

[@SJ8311]

One creates a bench at the precise moment one puts upon it something that has does not belong upon a dining table.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahaha somebody put that in the dictionary!

[@audreynelson1345]

Yes please show how you space and drill the wholes!

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

I just made up the distances and hoped for the best. To counter bore the wall boards for shelving I used forstner bits, the same bit type seen in the bench top holes.

[@CrustyRestorations]

Nice, very jealous compared to my shoebox workshop👍👍

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

It’s all relative, right? It feels really good to have a space.

[@jordanbahr203]

A rope becomes a line when it's cut from the spool and given a job! Unless it's a bell rope.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Tell that to rock climbers! (Which I am not)

[@kurtcraig3421]

every tool is a hammer.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahaha nice

[@jameslarson6555]

Except when it’s a screwdriver, then it’s a chisel!

[@paulsheler8212]

I used car wax on my shop Smith, helps things slide better and protect the metal. I also built a bench under the tube to hold other things

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Good call with car wax. I definitely want to make a shelf too

[@srperk6163]

When getting started it always looks worse before it looks better.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

It’s so true!

[@scottsorby7966]

OUCH!!!!! I just watched that big lump of steel land on your hand KP... and I dropped the F bomb 🫣 😭😭😭😭 I hope youre ok, workshop looks great now, well done and a great idea about a lower table for the workshop supervisor👍 Are you planning on adding extra outlets around the workshop for convenience? I would say that a table stops being a table and becomes a workbench when you stop caring about how clean and tidy it is and you defo don't care about the scratches chips and dings it collects 😂😂

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

I edited some words out. We need a full electrical panel upgrade to accommodate even one more outlet, so we’re saving up. I’m literally considering electrician training…

[@scottsorby7966]

@@MakeSpaceByKP Lol I bet you had to, thankfully I didn't need to be that careful with my industrial language. 😎 Aye when you consider the cost of the course and the savings you will make it might be very worthwhile.👍

[@ralphbendix]

1:09 is the best.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahahaha glad you appreciated it! It cracked me up too

[@craigweaver583]

outataning !! please keep up the good work looking to support in couple of weeks'

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thank you! I hope to keep up with every two weeks. The holiday slowed things down - but it was great

[@BrunoWiebelt]

looks good progress...

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Yes, thanks!

[@edwardhaigh4249]

Good skills KP, your workshop is looking great looking forward to following the resto cheers from OZ .

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thank you thanks you!

[@philrulon]

Three cheers for good visual progress. Carry on.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Thank you much!

[@CAPTJohn47]

KP, the best money you might spend in your shop would be to hire an electrician to beef up your electrical system. Oh, and rope becomes line when assigned a task.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Strongly agree, we’re working on it. Our first estimate is $15k, so… I’m literally considering going to electrician training. Convince a rock climber of your line guideline 😂.

[@CAPTJohn47]

@@MakeSpaceByKP well, I have decades of rock and ice climbing experience, but context matters, eh?

[@MrNotsureifserious]

I feel like bench tops are at hip height, but table tops are close to mid-thigh, which is a comfortable height when you're sitting down?

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

So I have a table AND a bench in my shop now. Sweet!

[@jamesallen712]

Far too many toys in the garage, Sorry workshop. The bike and kayak need to go (I can find a home for the bike.) Keep going KP, you'll get there.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Agreed. How far do you live, I might have a bike…

[@jonart9160]

Same as my shop.....never as clean again.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahaha exactly

[@mathijs58]

A table becomes a bench the moment you drill holes in it. Simple.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

I like this one. Seems right

[@eugene590]

Add A comment.... I felt it when you pressure tested your hand. A table becomes a bench the moment you put a tool on it... and get it dirty.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

It was high pressure. In that case, every table is a bench in my house. 😬

Don't tell me that you are drilling concrete with drill that is not hammer drill or at least vibration type!😂😂 Masonry bit does not help if it is not vibrating or hammering.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Hahahaha if only I had a hammer drill! Yeah, it was a nightmare. But I got there in the end. Thanks for watching anyway 😅

[@jimmyjohnstone5878]

First Communion...I was forced into that aged 7.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

I can’t believe I had the book still!

[@desotosky1372]

The dilemma in clearing out a garage for work space is that all the stuff in the way ended up there because there was no where else to put it.

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Lots of getting rid of, but largely it involved making shelves in the basement.

[@6666tank]

Surely you didn't buy a House from KZbin and without a job???

[@MakeSpaceByKP]

Of course I did! And I married the first person I found in town without a ring on.

[@6666tank]

@@MakeSpaceByKP female