Show Off Your Shop

[TDHofstetter]

That looks familiar, Leo! Ya cleaned off the ww'ing bench, though...

[deepsplinter]

Here's mine:

[lexrex]

Here are the before pictures:







BTW, I have about 8'3" from floor to joist so I'll get pretty close to an 8' ceiling even with a suspended panel option.

[deepsplinter]

Chris, I see a lot of....uhh...a lot of potential!

[lexrex]

Jan 18, 2010 12:40:25 GMT -6 deepsplinter said:

Chris, I see a lot of....uhh...a lot of potential!

Yep, I have put my feet to the flames pretty good here. I have all of you to answer to and this thread to update with the after pictures.

[Leo Voisine]

Jan 18, 2010 12:41:52 GMT -6 lexrex said:

Jan 18, 2010 12:40:25 GMT -6 deepsplinter said:

Chris, I see a lot of....uhh...a lot of potential!

Yep, I have put my feet to the flames pretty good here. I have all of you to answer to and this thread to update with the after pictures.

Chris,

The pics will be REAL helpful when we make comments as you are putting it together.

One thing - while it is bare and stripped out like that. NOW is the time to do any wall and floor prep work.

Floor coatings and wall coatings should be studied and applied. I used a Sherwin Williams marine coating - but would highy NOT recommend it indoors because of extreme fumes. However Sherwim Williams also makes an equivelent water based product. I would also consider a concrete sealer paint for the walls. It's a PITA to apply - but you do it "once" - and it's worth the trouble.

LOTS of REALLY great shops here -- LOVE seeing this thread.

Thank You -- TJ - and World of Woods

[Ruffnek]

Some great looking shops here. Leo, I'm im pressed with yours. For some reason I thought it was much smaller than it appears in the pics. You've got a very well equipped shop there with plenty of room. That OSS looks just like mine...$89 new. ;D

Thanks for showing yours, Dave. it looks about as I expected...a practical working shop. Is that red machine a planer or a molder?

Chris, you certainly have plenty of potential with your space. It will be fun watching it come together.

[autobodyman]

Noticed the panel clamps in this pic of your shop.
And wondered how they were working for you.

Jerry, They work great, the wood in them is ash, I clearcoated them and sprayed with some heavyduty spray silicone (glue won't stick to them that way). I have two sets of arms, this one 28" long works very well.


I made a second set to clamp up a back panel for a gun cabinet I built for my father, they are 54" long and required some help in the middle of the clamps (weight).

The panel above is 52" wide. I was glueing 2 sections of 3/8" curly maple that I had already glued up, to a 3/8" thick section of baltic birch plywood.

Thanks ~Mike

[sawduster]

May have to get me some of those.

[Joe Lyddon]

Those are COOL looking clamps... making a panel glue-up look real easy!

Exactly, what are they called & where could they be bought?

Looks like you have to furnish your own wood... like Pipe clamps. ;D ;D

[Leo Voisine]

Jan 18, 2010 18:14:21 GMT -6 Ruffnek said:

Some great looking shops here. Leo, I'm im pressed with yours. For some reason I thought it was much smaller than it appears in the pics. You've got a very well equipped shop there with plenty of room. That OSS looks just like mine...$89 new. ;D

Thanks for showing yours, Dave. it looks about as I expected...a practical working shop. Is that red machine a planer or a molder?

Chris, you certainly have plenty of potential with your space. It will be fun watching it come together.

I never really allowed much of the shop to me shown, when I post pics - maybe that's why. It's 26x26 with 10 foot ceiling.

The Ryobi OSS500 - why they stopped making that I will never know. I emailed Ryobu when they discontinued it and I got a snyde reply. Go figure.

A lot of nice shops here - and lots of talented people too.

[brburns]

Mike,

Where did you get those clamps? I like the thought of them. Yuour shop looks nice too. I'm glad I'm not the only one that cutters up their shop like that.

Leo, I also was under the impression your shop was smaller than that. Looks nice.

I need to take pics of my shop here..........

[autobodyman]

I can't remember for sure where I got those, I think woodcraft but I could be wrong I've seen them in several catalogs. Looks like woodcraft still carries them, I don't remember them costing that much but that's the one nice thing about gettin older and not remembering (always a better deal in my head that way ;D )

www.woodcraft.com/Family/2000321/2000321.aspx

Thanks ~Mike

[wisardd1]

I vote Dave's as the coolest and Tim's as the most interesting!!! Leo, your shop is also very cool.

dale

Dave, I think you need a couple more clocks to make it more time efficent!

[deepsplinter]

I think Mike's is the coolest, simply because of it's size. I wouldn't get work done, I'd be gazing out the window all day.
I like TLC's, too. Cozy and easy to heat.
Leo get's the "Best floor" award.

Jerry, tell me about those big free form boards standing up. I like your dust collection system on your jointer. I have a jointer like yours (they're a tank). I had a little belt sander like the one you have under the DP, and could kick myself for getting rid of it.

Leo, nice SCMS and set-up (guard removed for clarity?). One of these days, I'll have a saw like that.

Mike, I see a lot of DC ducting but no DC. In the attic? Tell us about it. I see a little one on the wall, vented outside, but I know it's not doing it all alone. If I had room, I'd have one of those 55gal woodburning stoves. I had a two barrel set-up at the old place. It was the only heat I had for a 24x24 garage, but it did the trick.

Tim with all do respect, well equipped shop, but I wouldn't get anything done but look for stuff under those conditions. I guess I have a little "neat freak" in me.

Chris, uhh...good luck. I think it's tough setting up a new shop. It's nice when you're finally done, but a real bitch when you're in the process.

Cody, it's an American made RBI-Hawk planer/molder/gang saw. I've only used the molder once, to make about 60' of (hickory) crown. It's the only set of knives I have. I never have used the gang saw set up, probably never will. I was going to post a link to it, but I found out, just now, that they closed the doors last year.

[TDHofstetter]

I still haven't kicked loose the time to get my shop organized. It's broken into distinct work "zones", but not what I'd call organized. When I've gotten most of the higher-priority stuff outta' the way, I'll look to storage & organization, get some tools up on the walls where they belong, get some cabinets built, get that Iron Maiden router table down to a comfortable height on a stand, sell off some of the spare machines to free up space, like that.

Fortunately, I've got a pretty good live-catalog system in my head... I can nearly always reach to where any specific tool or piece of hardware is at any given time. 'Re's aware of that, so she NEVER relocates stuff in the shop...

[sawduster]

Jerry, tell me about those big free form boards standing up. I like your dust collection system on your jointer. I have a jointer like yours (they're a tank). I had a little belt sander like the one you have under the DP, and could kick myself for getting rid of it.

These big free form boards?



They are some mesquite planks that, according to the fella I got them from, were cut about 20 or 30 years ago. He had them inside an old abandoned farm house on his property and had them listed on Craig's List. I managed to jump on them before anyone else called so he gave me first choice. Apparently he had a couple standby buyers who were a little slower on the draw than me. Got them for $50 each. About 1 1/2" thick and though there are some splits and such, I can fill those with epoxy/sawdust mix and maximize the usable board feet. He had those three and I bought all of them.

The jointer did make quite a mess till I hooked up that bag underneath using some of those little bitty spring clamps. I got the jointer for $75 from a fella nearby. It was a bear to unload from the truck by myself. It do weigh a bit.

The bench top sander got relegated to sharpening duties after I bought the stand alone model from my next door neighbor. It is real handy to have and makes quick work of putting a new edge on a lathe chisel or a new bevel on a plane iron or bench chisel.

[lexrex]

Jan 19, 2010 8:42:04 GMT -6 TDHofstetter said:

I still haven't kicked loose the time to get my shop organized. It's broken into distinct work "zones", but not what I'd call organized. When I've gotten most of the higher-priority stuff outta' the way, I'll look to storage & organization, get some tools up on the walls where they belong, get some cabinets built, get that Iron Maiden router table down to a comfortable height on a stand, sell off some of the spare machines to free up space, like that.

Fortunately, I've got a pretty good live-catalog system in my head... I can nearly always reach to where any specific tool or piece of hardware is at any given time. 'Re's aware of that, so she NEVER relocates stuff in the shop...

I was thinking the exact same thing Tim! Your shop might not look organized to some but if I asked you for a 3/8 crescent or a skew chisel you'd come right up with it. I am the same way, organization among chaos.

[sawduster]

Jan 19, 2010 12:10:22 GMT -6 lexrex said:

Jan 19, 2010 8:42:04 GMT -6 TDHofstetter said:

I still haven't kicked loose the time to get my shop organized. It's broken into distinct work "zones", but not what I'd call organized. When I've gotten most of the higher-priority stuff outta' the way, I'll look to storage & organization, get some tools up on the walls where they belong, get some cabinets built, get that Iron Maiden router table down to a comfortable height on a stand, sell off some of the spare machines to free up space, like that.

Fortunately, I've got a pretty good live-catalog system in my head... I can nearly always reach to where any specific tool or piece of hardware is at any given time. 'Re's aware of that, so she NEVER relocates stuff in the shop...

I was thinking the exact same thing Tim! Your shop might not look organized to some but if I asked you for a 3/8 crescent or a skew chisel you'd come right up with it. I am the same way, organization among chaos.

That's what I used to say about my desk at work. Didn't go over real well when one of the big bosses was comin in. Seemed having a neat desk was more important than getting work done. Oh well, spilt milk. ;D

[autobodyman]

I think Mike's is the coolest, simply because of it's size.
Thanks Dave,
I'll tell you, it seemed quite large when we were putting the trusses up, now I wish we had built it bigger. It's 28' x 50' but I try to keep the area in front of the garage door with only things that are movable so I can get vehicles in there when I don't have room in my BodyShop (some of these pickups these days are to long to work on in my bodyshop, like replacing front bumper on a 4 door long box pickup).

Mike, I see a lot of DC ducting but no DC. In the attic? Tell us about it. I see a little one on the wall, vented outside, but I know it's not doing it all alone.
It is actually the only DC I have, it's a 2 hp reliant dust collector. It does the job just fine, If I had to do it over the only thing I'd probably do different is to run a 6" main line instead of all the 4" but it works well. I moved it up on the wall a few years ago to get more floor space and it's closer to my ceiling dust collector which catches most of the fine stuff that gets in the air.



My shop is so tight that the fine dust that would leak threw the dust collector bags would hang in there, so I ran it threw the wall and just have it dump outside, course you have to open a window when you use it, especially if I'm burning my woodstove, it will back smoke other wise.

If I had room, I'd have one of those 55gal woodburning stoves. I had a two barrel set-up at the old place. It was the only heat I had for a 24x24 garage, but it did the trick.
I have a 5 foot baseboard electric heater in the carving room that I keep set at 55° all winter, it keeps the building at 48-55° so my propane furnace which is set at 45° (at the time wasn't sure the electric would be able to keep up) and then the barrel stove which I burn when I am going to spend any time in the woodshop. Biggest issue with the wood burner is it gets a little to warm sometimes.

When we built the shop we used 10" of insulation in the ceiling and 6" in the walls, plastic lined over that then the sheetrock. I wish my house heated as easily as my woodshop.

Thanks ~Mike