What's going on everybody? I'm Johnny Brooke, welcome back to another Crafted Workshop video.
In today's video, I've got three more shop organization related projects for you.
I know it's been a lot of shop organization here lately with last week's French cleat
project but it is the beginning of the new year, and I'm getting geared up to film my
yearly shop tour video. I wanted to get everything nice and tidy before doing that.
The first project I'm going to show you is this plywood and sheet goods cart back here.
It's great for storing full sheets of plywood as well as offcuts, which I hang onto probably
way too many plywood offcuts.
The second thing I'm going to work on is this lumber storage system here. I've got a commercially
available lumber rack up here and then I repurposed the lumber rack I already had down here. The
combination of the two gives me a ton of lumber storage and it's out of way in this long,
vertical, weird hallway space I have.
And then the last thing I'm going to show you is this new LED shop lighting I installed
both here in this hallway and out in my shop. This is all from American Green Lights. Super
high quality LED light, really high Color Rendering Index (CRI), which means they represent
color really true to life.
Also, all of my shop lights are now the same color temperature, so when I move from one
area of the shop to another, I don't have to mess with the white balance on my video.
Hopefully you guys enjoy these, and let's go ahead and get started with the first build.
After searching around online a little bit for plywood carts, I found an example from
Wood Magazine that I really liked, and it's actually one that Jay Bates had built in a
previous video as well. I bought the plans for the cart, and I'll have a link to those
in the video description in case you're wanting to build one of these for yourself.
These l-shaped pieces provide support at the ends of the cart and also provide a place
for the casters to mount to, which you'll see later. I attached these pieces with glue
and a couple of 2 ½" screws.
Next, I started building the frame of the base. First, I attached one piece of 2x4 perpendicular
to the end of the longer 2x4 using 2 ½" screws.
I then attached one of the l-shaped pieces next to the first piece, again using 2 ½"
screws.
Working my way down the base, I added one of the center support pieces, which is spaced
roughly 29" from the left side of the base.
Next, I repeated the same process at the other end of the base, attaching the same pieces
but mirrored to fit the right side of the base.
With half of the base assembled, I then attached the 8 foot long 2x6 to the other side of the
base. This 2x6 will provide a lip for the sheet goods to rest against.
Again, I connected everything with 2 ½" screws. Also, while pre-drilling was really
necessary with the self-tapping screws I used, I found that the screws were a lot easier
to drive and also looked cleaner when I pre-drilled the holes first.
With the framing of the base finished, I broke the sheet of ¾" plywood down into strips,
the first of which made up the bottom panel on the base.
Before attaching the panel to the base, I needed to notch it out so that the side panels
could be attached later. I did this with the jigsaw.
To attach the panel to the base, I used 1 ¼" screws, making sure the heads were below
the surface of the plywood so that sheets of plywood could be slid on and off of the
cart without catching on screw heads.
Next, I cut the side panels to length from the strips of plywood I ripped earlier. The
center panel is shorter than the side panels here.
All of the panels are tapered from top to bottom, so that the sheets of plywood will
lean back when loaded onto the cart. I marked this taper using my track as a straight edge,
and then started to make the cut using a jigsaw before realizing that the pieces were too
thick.
I added some blue tape to connect the three panels, and then moved to the bandsaw to make
the cut on all three panels at the same time.
I ended up with a slightly wavy cut, it's probably actually time for this blade to be
sharpened, but I ran the pieces over the jointer a few times to just clean up the edge.
The center panel has a few notches cut out to accept the 2x4 cross supports, so I marked
those out according to the plans and then cut out the notches using the jigsaw.
Next, I attached the side panels to the base using glue and 1 ¼" screws. You can see
here why I needed to notch out the bottom panel for the side panels to fit into place.
Also, it really helps to drop one of the side panels during assembly.
With the side panels in place, I could go ahead and add the center panel. I figured
it'd be easiest to go ahead and attach one of the 2x4 cross supports to the center panel
before adding it to the cart, since it would help keep the panel upright during the assembly
process. I made sure the 2x4 was square to the panel and then attached it with two 2
1/2" screws.
Next, I put the center panel in place, making sure it was square to the base, and then attached
the side panels to the 2x4 support, again making sure everything was nice and square.
With one of the cross supports in place, I could go ahead and attach the other three
cross supports the same way, with two screws at each end as well as in the center.
After all of the cross supports were installed, I added a few screws off camera from the underside
of the cart, through the bottom panel into the center panel to just hold it in place
a little more.
The last piece to add to the cart was the casters, which I installed using a few 1 ¼"
screws.
Finally, I awkwardly flipped over the cart, which was massive at this point, and then
got it loaded up with all of the various sheet goods around my shop. This cart holds a surprising
amount of off cuts and full sheets and is going to be a super convenient addition to
my lumber storage system.
The next project for this hallway was improving my lumber storage. I have super tall walls
in this area, so I wanted to capitalize on that height by adding some vertical lumber
storage.
I found these Bora lumber racks on sale at my local Lowes for $20 for each pair, and
I figured I couldn't beat that price by building something myself. They go together
really easily, just a couple of screws hold everything in place.
To install the racks, first I marked 16" from the closest wall and then marked the
hole for the uppermost screw for the rack.
To attach the racks to my concrete block walls, I used 2 ¾" Tapcon screws. I used a masonry
bit that was matched to the diameter of my screws to pre-drill the holes, which is a
loud and messy process. I'm always a little jealous of people who have drywall and stud
walls in their shops.
After hanging the rack on the first screw, I checked the rack for plumb and then marked
the locations of the other two holes, using a drill bit to mark the holes. I then removed
the rack and drilled the holes to full depth, before reinstalling the rack permanently.
To install the second rack, I referenced off of the first rack, making sure it was level
with the first, and just continued the process of adding more screws, just like the first
rack.
I just kept working my way down the wall until I had all six racks hung, and then I could
get it loaded with all my lumber. For $60 total, I definitely don't think I could
have done better making this myself, especially when I consider the labor time involved when
trying to do a DIY option here.
The last update to this area of the shop was adding some lighting to make the space more
useable. In this hallway, I used six of these 4 foot 24 watt LED shop lights from American
Green Lights, who are a manufacturer of really high quality LED lighting.
These shop lights are available in different lengths and wattages to suit your specific
needs, but six of them spaced evenly along this hallway gave me nice, even lighting the
full length of the hallway.
Also, before moving on, I want to mention that I am not an electrician and that you
should check your local code requirements and consult an electrician before trying anything
I'm showing here.
With that out of the way, first I wired an extension cord to the first light in the chain
so I could just plug it into the existing outlet which is controlled with a light switch.
I then daisy-chained two more lights onto the first light, and repeated this process
for each half of the hallway, so that I had three lights running on each chain.
I used 14/2 Romex to connect the lights, since this is a 15 amp circuit, and before you get
outraged in the comments, I am going to go back and add EMT conduit between each light
this weekend once I have an extra set of hands to help me out.
These lights are super simple to wire, I just connected the hot to hot, neutral to neutral,
and ground to ground.
To attach the lights to my ceiling, I used self-tapping metal screws and used three screws
for each fixture. The lights come in two parts, the enclosure for the wiring and then the
panel with the LEDs on them. These parts are pre-wired with snap connectors that just snap
together, and the LED panel attaches to the enclosure with a few included screws.
Super simple to install and the lighting improvement is amazing.
Alright, the last upgrade I want to show you guys are these Retrofit Kits from American
Green Lights. These are LED strips that are designed to replace the fluorescent bulbs
in your standard fluorescent troffers which I happen to already have in my shop.
The really cool thing about these is the voltage required for these is super, super low, it
actually will run on doorbell wire, so you can surface mount these even if your shop
doesn't have a full ceiling, even if it's just joists, you can just screw these right
to the joists, and then run doorbell wire exposed, no need for conduit or anything like
that since it's so low voltage, and you get really nice lighting that's super easy to
add pretty much anywhere.
The way these are powered are with these drivers. Each one of these drivers will power two of
these 24W strips, that's the ones I went with, and then these just need to be hooked up to
your standard 120V.
What's really cool is you can put a bunch of these drivers in one enclosure, mount that
on your wall and run one line of 120V power into it, and then run doorbell wire all over
the place and get lighting where you don't have power available.
Andy Klein actually did this exact thing in a video on his channel with these American
Green Light kits and it turned out really great. I actually haven't done that yet, I've
just replaced them in my florescent troffers. I'll have a link to Andy's video in the video
description below if you want to check that out.
Let me go ahead and show you how these install in these florescent troffers just so you can
see how those work there.
To open these up, you just pull these two little tabs, there's one on each end, then
they drop down. There are always bugs in here, so look out!
Anyway, you can see how these are mounted. I just used some self-tapping sheet metal
screws and screwed them right into the troffers themselves.
You can see that one of these strips is the equivalent light output of two of these 4
foot standard florescent bulbs, so I only had to install two strips per troffer.
You can either remove the ballast like I did here, that powered the original florescent,
or you can even leave them in place, so that, if you were going to be moving, you could
just basically remove this, reconnect the line voltage back to the ballasts, and then
you'd be able to put back in the florescent lights.
Super, super simple to install, I did 16 troffers in here, and I did them all in less than a
day, and the light quality is just so, so much better.
This is a great option if you have these florescent troffers in your shop, and they're a lot less
power, I think they use about 50% less power then florescent, so you'll actually make your
money back depending on how long you're going to be using these.
Alright, hopefully you guys found some of these projects useful. I know I am really
excited to have this new hallway opened up for me and all of this new lighting in the
shop.
Now, I installed all of these Retrofit Kits a few months ago, and some of you guys actually
even noticed the lighting improvement in the shop, so I'm glad that's noticeable to you
guys, the viewers.
I want to thank the folks at American Green Lights again for supporting the channel by
providing all of the lighting for this video. If you guys want to learn more about them,
check out the link in the video description below.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. If you don't already, go ahead and get subscribed
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Also, I've started live streaming more so the notification bell helps to kind of let
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And last, I have links to all of the tools and materials I used in this project in the
video description below.
Alright, thanks again for watching everybody and, until next time, happy building!

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