You can build anything you want in a Small woodworking Shop. My father has had a small woodworking shop ever since he retired. He builds scroll work relief clocks out of plywood. He has a small workshop behind the house with a scroll saw and a router and is quite happy turning out clocks and push stools for small children. His work shop is on about 6 feet, 2 meters, by 6 feet, 2 meters.

He buys plywood from one of the big box stores and has them cut it to size so he can handle the pieces on the scroll saw. So when he gets a sheet of plywood he has several pieces that he can use for his clocks. Then he uses tracing paper to trace the pattern on the plywood and cuts it out on the scroll saw. When the pattern is cut out he finishes the outside edge with a round over bit in his bench top router.

When the clock is finished he stains the plywood, installs the clock works and sells the piece at the local market, or gifts it to his grand children.

I also knew a man that basically had a table that was about 3 feet, 1 meter by 3 feet, 1 meter, and that was his workshop. He made copper animals and mounted them on wooden backing boards. All of the cutting of the copper and the backing plates was done with a coping saw and all of the relief tooling of the copper was done with a small hammer and copper tooling tools.

The finished products were given away to family and friends.

Just this morning I watched a TV show about a man that builds everything out of recycled wood. His contention is that we are wasting too much wood and in fact are putting about 6 Billion board feet of perfectly good lumber in the land fill every year. So most of the things he builds are built out of recycled Pallets and Plywood.

Because he doesn’t have any room for a larger workshop he built a mobile cart out of recycled pallets and wheels his complete workshop in and out his garage as he uses it. I wouldn’t be able to do that where I live, with snow for at least 6 months of the year and cold below freezing most of the time for those 6 months. I would only be able to work in the Summer season.

In his small portable workshop he builds lawn furniture, porch swings and other items that can be build out of small pieces of wood recycled from pallets.

So it does not matter how big your workshop is, it just matters that you get some tools and put them to work building things out of your imagination.

What you can build in a Small Woodworking Shop is only limited by your imagination.

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