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Object Culture

Ron Paulk's Super Mobile Woodshop is Complete, and He's Posted the Sketchup Plans for Free Download

By Rain Noe - August 16, 2012

When last we looked in on Washington-based builder Ron Paulk, he was on the verge of completing his kick-ass Mobile Woodshop. Contained inside a 1,000-cubic-foot box truck, Paulk's comprehensive design ingeniously incorporates every major power tool a contractor would need, features copious parts-and-materials storage, and is loaded up with a plethora of clever design solutions.

Since our initial coverage, Paulk's uploaded a video tour of the completed project:

Even better, Paulk has uploaded his complete Google Sketchup plans free of charge. We admire both Paulk's design ingenuity—as one example you can see in the video tour above, he wisely eschewed expensive drawer slides and found simple dados in plywood to be a superior solution—and his generosity in sharing the final design, which is the result of not only the several months he put into drawing up and constructing the project, but of his decades of experience in building things. The plans are available here, and our thanks go out to Paulk.

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Rain Noe

Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.

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Billy Dawson

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Ron Paulk

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Kevin

5 years ago

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What a nice truck design. I really like the simple materials being elevated by the clever / useful design. This design could be readily adapted for a garage work area. I hope you installed a Lojack system as it'd be terrible if some jerk stole your truck with all those tools inside. It was really nice of you to share all your thoughts as you've designed so many different iterations of the portable workplace. thank you for sharing!
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Chris

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Enrique, the plans can be bought through his website- www. paulkhomes.com He sends you a PDF building set. He just released a new version of the workbench.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnNi6Tpp-ac
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Aaron Mc

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It is a Sketchup model which can be downloaded from the Sketchup 3D Warehouse (there is a 'download' button below the p[icture of the moedl). You then open it in Sketchup.
It is not a set of plans per se, but you can view the 3D model and take measurements off it, or re-model it to suit your needs - which I will be doing!
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Enrique Agois

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Looks great, but cannot download the plans. Can somebody tell me how?
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