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Shop Tour
You know what they say, "Sometimes you get lucky"? Well this is one of those... Big Time!!! Above is a picture of the main work area in my shop. If you were standing at my bench facing the back wall (to the right) you would be facing North. The sun glare in the middle of the picture on the left is from the evening sun shining in my entry door. Facing the tablesaw you would have one of two single garage doors at your back, 10 feet from the saw with the other to its left. My shop is approximately 30' deep and 50' long.
This is looking east toward what I consider the back of my shop. Wood storage, chop-saw, jointer and tablesaw. The chop-saw has to move in the winter because that entire end of the shop gets taken over by my loving wife's' tropical plants. I gotta get her greenhouse built...
Back at the back there, is my steel workbench (3' x 6' 1/2" plate on 2 1/2" sch.80 legs), my anvil (a cheapie cast steel), grinders, vices, etc... this is the area where I do my metalworking. My torch and welder are located at the front beside the garage door, so I can take that work outside. Left of my steel bench is a partition that holds a collection of the mechanic tools that I use most, sockets, wrenches, etc. It's hard to see but between the bench and the wall is 1958 Delta drill press; that needs to be rebuilt. The brown and gray upright left of the partition is my heater, it'll keep the shop comfortable till it gets down to about 10 deg. F outside. Of course a lot depends on how much cold air is being blown in around my drafty garage doors.
Fastener storage, small parts, welder at bottom left and torch next to it. The MIG machine sits by the steel bench but wasn't in place when that picture was taken. This is the wall to the west of the garage doors (they are just to the left).
To the east of the garage doors, center right one of two air conditioning units in my shop, behind it the air compressor and hose reel. Mower that won't fit in my shed. Parts and paint, etc. storage.
This is looking along the back from east to west.
This is my lathe area, excuse me, our lathe area; big lathe is mine , little lathe is SWMBO's. The partitions provide wall space, storage area, and mess containment. If the placement of the planer seems odd, it is placed for in-feed and out-feed room and proximity to the dust collector.
Looking back into my lathe area...
Sanders and the dust collector on the left...
This is my "I'm just in the shop to relax" area; TV, stereo, lounge chair, icebox, and my dartboard, my bookcase is hidden by the wall on the right.
This bookcase holds a selection of books on woodworking and about 3 years worth of magazines. Obviously this is a power tool workshop...but I'm focusing more on hand tools now. I'm still using the power tools at this point but now I am using handtools for more things than ever before. And as I learn to do more tasks by hand I will use the power tools less and less. My bench area and the wall area I built have become the focus of almost all my wood working now days. The wall was originally built just to support a sagging ceiling (attic overload) but became the natural place to keep my hand tools. The chop-saw used to be in front of the wall for awhile, bu that didn't work. It is always a work in progress as I am constantly changing and adding tools. None of it very well built just kinda thrown together as I experiment with what I want. The assembly table is an MDF torsion box affair with a dead flat top and a leveling system. The workbench, although it has served me well for several years is lacking and needs to be replaced. A project that has already been started but was put on hold due to space constraints.
JUST A TEASER...This is the "field" of my new workbench, without skirts or vices as you can see this project stops almost all other work because of the space it takes up.
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