I had 2 4x8 sheets of plywood in the shop that I had used for garage doors during the construction of my shop. I tried to come up with a use for them that did not need to have a flat piece of ply, as they had curved over the 6 months that they stood as sentinels guarding the front. I finally decided the best use was for storage units, which you see in the attached picture. This did take about 80% of the wood and cleared out a huge space, both visually and physically. Leaning up against the metal rack the plywood separated the shop into 2 parts, one of which was tough to get to.
Once the shelf units were done, I removed the door I was using for temporary storage and collapsed the saw-horses and put them away. For now I have a piece of 1 ½" thick chunk of plywood for the top, but as you see it really is too short. I need to make a 6-8' long counter for the top to place move of my heavy tools. I currently am working out two ideas, laminate some 2x4' to make the top, or split a 4x8 sheet of MDF and laminating the two halves together for the top. I'm leaning towards the latter.
While I was taking pictures I took another one of the table I made to catch offcuts from the table saw, and a Myrtal wood bowl I am turning on the mini-lathe. When I started turning the bowl the support for the tool bar did not fit under the blank, so I had to move it over as I rough turned the wood. The wood also has a punky side, so it is not balanced and the table has a tendency to vibrate (when I started the table bounced.)
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