Then I must have a teensy-weensy shop -- a one car garage that shares space with a freezer and two exercise machines. Plus there is a door in each of the 4 walls so one one wall can be completely used.
-- Mark
I've got a small shop (2 1/2 car garage...no cars allowed). In this small space, I've built tables, kitchen cabinets, tons of bookshelves and a pretty big assortment of odds and ends. It sometimes takes a little creativity , but it always has worked out. Even at it's fullest, I've found place for more.
When my boss commissioned me to put a little something together for him, I jumped at the chance. After all, it's January, cold and work is traditionally slow this time of year. Well, this project has taxed my space limitations.
"Come up with a Carriage House Door and display that we can set up at the local home shows. Make it portable, safe and easy to set up. Sometimes, we'll want the door to go up and down, other times it'll just be a static display. The whole thing can only be 8' wide. Oh and sometimes we'll want to display entry doors and windows. First show is in 4 weeks."
So, working part-time (between spurts of heavy day job work) it's all coming together. It all leaves in the morning on it's way to it's first showing. The scary part is this will be the first time it's been in an area big enough to be fully assembled.
It's been fun but I'll sure be glad to get my shop back. I've been afraid to eat a Twinky. If I were to gain an ounce there's no way I could fit into the shop!
Some photo's and other details can be found at:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:23:08 -0600, Larry Laminger brought forth from the murky depths:
You'd burn off a full box of Twinkies just moving that thing.
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Would you believe 5x8 usable, in a 9x12 room shared w/ 4 sets of utility shelving, 5 file-cabinets plus some other clutter.
I win. My shop might be a one-car garage when it grows up, but right now it's 12X16. It's all in how ya 'range things. I think I could probably fit an executive nine-hole par 27 in your basement. ;>
Btw, I've found "exercise" machines take up a LOT less room if I position them exactly halfway between the dumpsters at the recycling center. :)
Michael
Hah! Not even close, Buckwheat. Yes, I did say Buckwheat. Here's my *shop*:
stuff!!!
I, on the other hand, have to EARN my way around wooddorking. I have to put off "lights" until summer when I can crutch my way around the grassy strip between the freight cars hoping to mayonnaise-jar some lightening bugs so they can cast their glow over the broken-legged ironing board _I_ have to do my woodworking on.
And what's THAT? Is that a plane I see? And vices? I has to use a old '59 Michigan licence plate (
You didn't notice the fancy schmancy outdoor shaving/mulch converter in the lower left of the pic? Shameless display of wealth, we have to crush them up with rocks. And pots for his plants - luxury! Holes in the ground is all we can afford.
Groggy from the third whirled
BTW, what are license plates?
Yeah, I noticed. But I couldn't concentrate on it because I got all fixated on what's up with the random shotgun pattern of board jack peg holes over the right leg. Man, they're like _microns_ away from each other. I can't help it-- trying to imagine what the _problem_ was that caused _that_ to be the solution. :)
"I need a board jack.... and a beer." VVVVVVVVVVVvvvvvvvvrrrrrrrrrr...
"Damn! I need this board jack 3 millllllllimeters higher....and another beer."
"Sh*t!!! Too high! 1 milllimeter LOWER! Where's my beer?"
"Damn!" ...etc., etc., etc. A maniacal O'Deen goes berserk with the Hammuhdrill.
You get the picture. I have a strange imagination.
(But even so, dat's a lotta holes. Ya just gotta _know_ there's a story there.)
I do this a lot when looking at pictures on ABPW. I really shouldn't be allowed over there without adult supervision and some serious meds. Some justifiably proud guy will be showing off his life's-work took-him-hundreds-of-hours Chippendale Highboy, and I'll be fixating on the kitty litter and the Costco sized case of PEZ three shelves up the wall. :)
Michael OBWW: I poly'd the workshop floor today. I'm blaming all this on the fumes.
Looks OK, but I thought it rained in California? Seems like that might be a tad rough on workbench tops.
it is California after all....
Michael Baglio wrote, like a freaking month ago:
They weren't random. Take a close gander at the guide-rod/vise screw pattern on that euro-style wooddorker vise:
These holes were all carefully bored by hand, using a 10" brace and bit. The operator of the brace and bit was a bit tired by the time he got to that last set of holes, and to put it plainly - couldn't think for shit. Alcohol was not immediately involved, althought it did serve to take the edge off things once the third and final set of clearance holes were bored (in the apron and wooden jaw).
The shotgun pattern of mistakes was left because the operator was too broke and too tired to go back to the home center and purchase a nice new 4x6 apron blank. They also serve as a harmless reminder of my human imperfection. On a not unrelated subject, I had the occasion to bore a hole to house a holdfast, and there was just enough wood to manage it.
I'm sure I would have done better were I to have had a cabinet saw sitting nearby to serve as inspiration. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
O'Deen
This is the little seen intersection of Brownian Motion with Chaos Theory.
Certain medications will ameliorate this effect.
If taken in appropriate dosages.
On a Friday.
Thomas J. Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) (Real Email is tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet)
On 1 Mar 2004 19:14:26 -0800, snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Patrick Olguin) brought forth from the murky depths:
Um, Ouch! Too much ale, wot?
I can imagine. What takes a 10" bit, anyway? And where on Earth did you find one?
But since you were tired (big dude like yourself), you prolly should have whipped out that auger bit file _before_ doing the job.
That's a nice bit of jaw there.
I have similar markings (chipped laminate) around one edge (4") of the kitchen sink, Paddy. They ruined the first countertop, I did the second.
Well, at least you don't have to work on 2-piece Workmutts any more, eh?
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