Woodworking: Lumber Cart

Keeping up with the roughly one-post-a-month cadence, I can share that I got in a weekend of woodworking!

After just a handful of years of doing the occasional woodworking project, we had an abundance of offcuts, scraps, and other bits of wood spread across four or five bins in the garage. After coming across Steve Ramsey's video showing off a simple lumber cart, along with provided drawings, I decided that was probably the right solution for our garage shop. That happened probably a year ago, and we picked up the plywood sheets a couple weeks back when we had a truck rented to haul more materials for the library build. Only last week did we finally set aside from time to get the rough cuts done, and this past weekend I sank about 4 hours each day into cutting the dadoes and bevels, re-cutting pieces I'd screwed up, gluing and everything, and of course running to buy casters, washers, screws, etc. For a piece of shop furniture, it took a solid time investment; that said, the garage is so much cleaner and knowing where, for example, all my 3/4" stock is, will make it a lot easier to know what's needed for future projects. I didn't think to take photos until everything was done, so enjoy a corner of the freshly de-crowded garage.

Lumber cart, side
Lumber cart, side
Lumber cart, back
Lumber cart, back

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