Efficient Shop Layouts

[buckarooTB]

Hi, I would like to hear your ideas on shop layouts... I specialise in chaps, chinks, and armita's, and have feet problems. So that causes issues if I can't walk as much as I'd like. Any of you have the same type of issues? A person always seems to end up running back and forth for this tool and that pattern, some glue, a hammer... The list goes on. Thanks for any input and ideas!

[Ragingstallion]

you should check out youtube, there are a lot of videos on leather shops, they show you around and how they set them up

 

[Albob]

After watching a few videos on leather workers one thing that hit me was they all wear a tool belt with the most common hand tools.

Other than that I set mine up in areas of work, cutting area where I cut pieces out of the hides, this is also where I keep my bulk leather. Then the sewing area. I have both a table top Singer 111W155 there and will add the a Cowboy 3200 sometime today. Lastly I have my tooling bench, I do all of my final cuts there and tooling of the leather. If the work is small I cover the bench with a tarp n do gluing and dying there also, If its a large piece I'll dye right our side of the shop with an air brush.

I'm in So Cal for weather is seldom an issue for working outside. One last thing is I set my shop up like an working kitchen, it is circular. So as I move through the shop I move in a clock wise circle.