That piece would then in turn be used for my next relative dimensioning. I used that for my relative dimensioning, marked and cut my piece. I placed the plywood on the mark and then got the vertical piece and placed it flush with the back. Since the bottom two pieces are the same length, I measured up 8″ and made a mark. The first thing I did was screw the back and bottom pieces so I had the basic shell and lay it on its side. Other than that spacing and the sides, I did not measure anything nothing was even checked for square (and believe me, nothing is). Each section is spaced 8″ apart and making it took about a total of 2-1/2 hours. The 24″ x 35″ pieces account for the guts and I used the full sheet for the sides. I wanted something for wide, rough cut boards I could lay down and also some vertical storage where my cut offs and misc pieces would go. I came inside and put it into SketchUp and came up with this design. So I began laying them out on in various ways on the floor and after about 30 min of doing so, I thought I had an idea.

I brought these with me from Pensacola and I have no idea why those were cut at those dimensions but I needed to use them up because they were just taking up space. I had 8 pieces of 3/4″ plywood that measured 24″ x 35″ as well as one full sheet. I looked for some ideas for cut off bins but I couldn’t find what I was looking for. Since most of my projects are small, once I get milling, I never really have pieces longer than 48″.

It was impossible for me to know my own inventory and of course once I dumped everything out, there were pieces in there that I completely forgot I had. That was pretty hard with a good amount of my wood in a two trash cans.

With the bench built, I’m starting to get the garage in a more productive state. Well in all reality I don’t have a good system for any of my wood but we’ll talk about that another day. I’m sure you’ve never noticed but I didn’t exactly have the best system for cut offs and shorts.

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