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I have created a number of similar boxes over the year for family pets who have been cremated. Rather than a hinged top, I have used a removable bottom, set into a rabbet around the bottom edges, held in with small brass flat head screws. Both Woodcraft and Klockkit can provide small brass engraved name plates to nail or screw on.

Anvilhead... Tough question! I made lots of use of my 2D CAD program (MacDraft - same as PCDraft) to plan where things would fit best, although the old graph paper and scale cutouts of equipment works well too. Think alot about workflow... you don't want to move things back and forth alot, better if it can be linear, or around the room.

I "try" to have a place for every thing, and keep every thing in it's place, although if you opened the door this morning to put something inside in the dark you would be at risk! Too much of a packrat I guess - after 25 years teaching shop on a low budget, I can't throw away small pieces of wood! In a small shop you probably should exercise a high degree of discipline - weed out the things you don't "need". Can't say as I do that!

Boy, THAT didn't work! I will try the links again!

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q70/ebergh/FWW/DSCN1304_1.jpg

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q70/ebergh/FWW/DSCN1303.jpg

You may have to copy and paste them into your web browser...

-Eric

Charles, something you might want to consider...On my small shed, similar to yours, I replaced the single door at the corner with a wider, sliding door mounted on the outside, hung from an overhead track. With the tablesaw moved in front of the door, it allows me to make cutoffs of large pieces of ply, etc. I later added another sliding door on the outside of the back wall behind the saw as well, so I can rip long stock, pushing through the building. The doors secure with hasps.
Here are a couple of links to some pics,
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I don't seem to have any exterior ones at hand... maybe they will give you some ideas. -Eric

Really nice panel! After 25 years as an IA teacher, it looks just right to me, a place for every thing, and every thing in it's place! Nice and close to hand. Well done!

In my years as a cabinetmaker and a shop teacher, I have had my share of of cuts on the table saw and router and seen much worse in the cabinetshop... (fortunately only a few minor nicks to students) but there has been one common theme to all of the "accidents"*: being in a hurry! We tend to do dumb stuff around machines when we are in a rush, or think that we don't have enough time. "the truck is waiting", "gotta get it out before lunch", "the glue is going to set up" whatever. The result is the same, we move faster than our brains can keep up and get too close to the cutting edge. Funny, I have always had a "feeling" just before I got cut that what I was about to do was not right, then Ouch! Fortunately, still got all 10. Always managed to cut myself with the grain, not across! [*I told my students there was no such thing as an accident, you did something the wrong way, and need to figure it out so you do it differently next time!]