Community Workshop?

[clare]

KW Woodworking and Craft Club in Kitchener Waterloo Ontario works that way. I don't need any stationary woodworking tools at home any more.

[charlie]

a friend of mine moved from florida to sun city az just for

and creek, az

[Robert Haar]

This may not be exactly what you are thinking of, but in my community (Rochester, Michigan) the Older Persons Center has a woodshop that acts something like this. Members, after taking a basic safety class, can use the equipment and it acts as a gathering point for local hobby level woodworkers. I am a member but only use it for access to some of their large machines that I don't have in my home shop. When I a actually retired, I will likely spend more time there.

[dpb]

As long as it's one-on-one you're probably safe; more than that or on a regular basis it can get dicey, unfortunately.

That's basically how the case I read of got started; they had a few guys showing up at a member's shop once a month or so. In that case, there were about a half-dozen present and the shop owner's wife had made refreshments. That was the extent of the involvement as a club/guild other than they had established a history of doing this at various places over time.

When a member got fairly seriously hurt his (the injured party) insurance came after his (the shop owner's) who refused coverage on the basis of wasn't a covered use of the shop and the lawsuits stemmed from that and it went downhill from there for the guy whose shop it was.

I think he finally beat the rap of liability/negligence but it wasn't pretty.

It's a scary world out there... :(

[Martin H. Eastburn]

Yes there is.

There are some in the south bay area - a.k.a. 'silicon valley' California.

One of the issues is insurance. The place there is a machine shop that has no work but training and lending - and I think there are fees.

Nice concept.

Mart> Is there such a thing as a community workshop where people come

[Lew Hodgett]

Remember the outfit in West By God where Charlie Self worked for a while?

A few years ago, they had a retail facility with a workshop available on a for fee basis.

It was located next to the "55" freeway in in Orange County here in SoCal.

Today, about the only thing left if an empty building.

Lew