Another Stinkin Show Us Your Shops Thread :)

[Hesh1956]

This morning I didn't feel much like making a nut which I have to do... so in my efforts to slack off... I noticed how the light of one lamp, with one of those Al Gore light bulbs..., looked on a Koa guitar. I thought it looked pretty cool and I wanted to take a pic of it and preserve how it looked to me. And no - I was not high....

After getting out the tripod (my nickname in high school...) and taking a few pics I still didn't feel much like making that stinkin nut. So I decided to waste some time by taking more pics of my shop and starting another "show us your shops" thread since we have lots of new members since the last time we did one of these threads.

Here is the shot that originally caught my slacker eye:



And some refinement:



And making sure I surrounded the event:



Here is the rest of the shop. It's pretty messy in as much as it's now a working guitar shop with several projects going at once:











And here is the most important part - the break room...



OK let's see your stinkin shops please?

[Nick]

Here is the rest of the shop. It's pretty messy

I wouldn't mind some of that messy "Tripod".

[Localele]

The photos are very nice Hesh but I must say every shot that shows that Vacuum Hose with its little Kink just waiting there to grab someone is really just making a mockery of the Workplace Health and Safety Rules which we take very seriously over/under here.It almost invites people to start leaving things just wherever they fall and not bother with safety at all.

[Ricardo]

After looking at those picture i feel sense of shame. I think my work space is everything opposite to what i see here. I AM INSPIRED

[xray]

yep i thought so. very well done hesh. I hope you never take on an apprentice who has to master the clean workshop before he or she can get their grubby mits on your tools.

[Lillian]

You did a great job building your shop Hesh. But that's no surprise really.

I will admit that I thought I saw Sony under your bench looking serious scruffy, well actually dirty. Three pictures later I realize that it was your duster. I should have known better. My apologizes to you and to Sony.

[ozziebluesman]

G'day Hesh,

My stinkin workshop is a work in progress. It has taken about three months to get the shop to this stage. Inside area is 3.5 x 10 mtr.

Here are some pictures:

The area was originally the single car garage and laundry. The laundry has been re-located around the other side of the back wall. The aircon is going to be moved to the back of the new room and I have tried to keep as much natural light in the shop as possible. We were lucky the area is also under the home's roof span so it is really a matter of filling around the sides, fitting two doors a windows and some glass around the top. All these things take time and money though. Almost finished!

This was the original area before renovation.
This after the blocks where layed.

Inside from the front view

Inside from the back view

From the front of our home


Just the window and glass to be fitted now and the holes in the wall filled and the whole room painted inside and out. The floor is going to stay concrete for the moment but will be sanded to remove some small oil stains.

I have built an island bench 1500 x 750 that will be the hub of all creation in the workshop. Looking forward to be able to spread out a bit, have a nice level and stable surface to work off and a vice to use.

Good things come to those who wait!

Cheers

Alan

[Nick]

Looking great Alan and a good utilization of space! tell the Guitar widow her laundry space has been relinquished for a good cause Bet you can't wait to fill it with all your toys and wood shavings

[John Steele]

Hesh, let me just say I am oh so envious.....
My shop is a modest single car garage that was insulated and finished and includes a laundry area and room for the 4-runner usually...
The dust collector is above the ceiling in the attic along with the compresser.
Some pics:
Kind of the main "work-flow shot..

Some of the stash prior to re-sawing...


Mostly top wood & back/side sets that have been thicknessed. On the shelf is the last of some billits of some Uber premium sitka and some redwood that I have had for about 30 years.
The current " projects" Padauk & sitka.

The jointing planes. The wood one I made and am very pleased. The other is a old Stanley #8 I picked up many moons ago for $15! Score!
The Lounge area... Recent patio furniture awaiting the wife to apply finish (part of the deal) Nice having her come in and hang out, so no rush.

Kind of a secret weapon I picked up from the local university for a cool $100. A HP 2500CP. Basically a large injet plotter than can do E size plots. Great for templates, patterns and such.
I know its not much but I call it home...
J

[seeaxe]

Hesh, thats more like a surgery than a workshop! What is in there that could possibly be malodorous??

Personally, unless the woodshavings are up around my calves, I feel I am either not working hard enough, or I need to be using a more powerful tool. My current favourite is the thicknesser, because it makes such a prodigious amount of interesting looking mess in a short time. The belt sander used to be the favourite, but I've gone off that because my shed is so small, I cant see anything when I am using it anyway.

Having just made a coulple of moulds using the router and template method, the router did a pretty good job of mess generation, but the thicknesser rules.

I am going to take some pics of my stinkin workshop at the weekend when I have made a bit more mess, so you can see how we do things in New Zealand (Actually, I can't back that up, Nick, Dave, etc might make more mess than I do), That is, once I find the camera I left on the bench. If it's fallen down behind the tablesaw, I'm buggered, cos Ill never find it in there.

[Allen]

Hesh, the newbies don't know your penchant for cleanliness, so showing off that workshop is only going to scare them off. For God's sake man. let some dust and chips settle!

[J.F. Custom]

Hesh, the newbies don't know your penchant for cleanliness, so showing off that workshop is only going to scare them off. For God's sake man. let some dust and chips settle!

...or at least Photoshop some in - make us feel a little better...

not that I want to, erm, 'dirty up' your nice 24" iMac screen

nice touch btw with the ANZLF up on it ...

What I don't get is if that nice looking camera on the bookshelves isn't taking the photo... what is? Oh, and your mop/duster does look like a shaggy wombat or dog in the first photo too... But there is NO dust on it either... scary.

It's been said before but ought to be said again, that is a nice Festool stack... Evidently you post this to make others such as myself very envious indeed...

What a workspace

Jeremy.

[Bob Connor]

What is in there that could possibly be malodorous??

I'll let Hesh answer that.

[Hesh1956]

Nick buddy - me, I'm not proud....

Michael good point on the vac hose being a potential hazard. Maybe I can rig up something more retractable and safer.

Lillian Sony is getting fatter and fatter and he now looks like a giant egg plant with legs.... He weighs over 15 pounds now and was supposed to only weigh about 7 pounds when fully grown... He is also no longer interested in hanging out in the shop either - all he wants to do is eat....

Alan that is what I wanted to see - other folk's shops. Your new shop looks great and my hats off to ya for building it too!!! The natural light is fantastic too and something that I miss greatly down here in the basement.

Congrats and keep us posted as your shop takes shape please?

John buddy your shop looks great too - and lots of light as well. I also see lots of cool tonewood!

Richard I wouldn't want to have surgery in my shop... It's as dirty as an American hospital....

My favorite mess making operation is using the William's Binding cutter jig. That thing slings chips a pretty good distance and usually results in a vac bag change when I am done.

Jeremy buddy I have two old and tired cameras. You are seeing the Nikon and these pics were taken with a Sony 8 MP camera. Both cameras were in their day the top-of-the-line and even now 6 years later they work great. Both cameras also had to have the image sensors replaced they have had so very much use. Many camera manufactures used Sony image sensors and Sony made a bad batch years ago that resulted in a bunch of recalls. Fortunately both Sony and Nikon stood behind there products even years out of warranty and replaced my image sensors, quickly too, and all is well.

Richard and Bob the only thing in my shop that is from time to time, depending on the diet here..., "malodorous" is me... But fear not I have an exhaust fan, 100CFM, that vents offending gaseous vapors to the outside world. Perhaps I need an explosion proof exhaust fan?

Let's see more shops please?

[Dennis Leahy]

Let's see more shops please?

Nope!

It's a construction zone right now, and the piles of junk would send Hesh into convulsions.

Dennis

[Dominic]

Heres mine, behind me on the long wall in this shot I am busy installing 6 inch metal duct that I bought with my stimulus money. Thanks uncle kev. It runs along the wall where all my machines will go at just under bench height in order to keep the runs as short as possible and the dust extractor is on the other side of the wall. I went for 6 inch after reading Bill Pentz web site. I'll show some more shots when its done.





Since the drought seems to be over in the ACT we have had lots of blue wrens move back in and i can sit at my bench near the window and watch and hear them twittering around just outside while glue dries. Ahhhhhh, relaxed.

[Allen]

Hey Dom, did you get that vise from StewMac, or did you find a source closer to home?

Oh, and the shop is looking a bit like Hesh's. Do you ever work in it?

[Dominic]

Hey Allen, it is a SM vice and it is brilliant. Very fast action and great for neck carving. I think they are called gun stock vices in the US. I've seen them on US wood work sites but not in oz.

That was a clean day. Hesh would have a fit if he came into my workshop 90% of the time. But it is attached to the house (unlike the old space) so I gotta keep the dust down as much as possible. And I have built heaps of storage so I can just chuck stuff in drawers or cupboards.

I was tracking maple curls all over the house last week while doing the archtop which pissed off Julie but just seemed to add to the experience for me.

Cheers
Dom