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lol! can you spot the “helpers”? 😀

Since I purchased the near new shopsmith mark v 510 for only $200 I decited to turn my old 500 into a decated drill press. However after I finished the transformation I decited that I needed a better quill lever handle but after checking prices for a three handle one I decited I would make one myself. You can see the results in the attached picture. I allready had a round piece of aluminum so I used the new drill press to drill a 5/8" hole in it so it would fit the guill feed. I then drilled and threaded it for a shopsmith set pin to secure it to the quill feed. After that I drilled and threaded four holes for the arms. I used 3/8 steel rod for the arms and th…

My Shop Layout at this time

I have no idea where this should post but as it is a part of my shop I dropped it here Like many of us wood workers music in the shop is as ubiquitous as the saw dust we create. I have a million favorites and am captured by the many lines and phrases penned by the writers and performers. Pretty near the top of my list is Hotel California. If I could hear this song one hundred times a day it still would not be enough. Some time ago I came across someone who presented their version of the real meaning behind the lyrics of Hotel California. Since then I have enjoyed many others who offer a completely different interpretation. I believe the Youtube video linked her…

I'm looking at a Oneida Supercell system for my expanded shop area (a very big investment!). Looking at ways to run the tubing around the perimeter and then have connections/gates at each tool. Curious if anyone has a setup they would be willing to share. Trying to think through and balance what will be effective while trying to not totally break the bank.

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My Shop hasn't changed much😊

“The DeVere Zone” (echo echo echo for effect) Enter, if you dare… This is my special place, my calm space. Doggone it, it’s my downright Bob Ross happy space! i had a 36 x 24 shop, a real nice space. But, i put up a wall and reduced my wood shop side by a third. Now it’s easier to cool and heat. It actually increased some useable wall space. I’m much happier now, Bob would be so proud. Except for my scroll saw, drum sander, and drill press everything else in on wheels. Anyway, hope you enjoy perusing “The DeVere Zone” (echo echo echo, but this time with the reverb turned up to about 10 for maximum effect and premium coolness)

Now It doesn't look like much yet... BUT............. I have to figure out how to move it... And pour some concrete, and tear down the old one

Made a bending jig for hickory stick furniture. Hydraulic press with form with slight bend angle. Made steam box and use a Wagner wallpaper steam remover for steam. Works really well.

If you've installed a ceiling fan in your shop (or home), DON'T follow the standard industry advice about "clockwise" or "counterclockwise". Fan blades are designed in both tilt directions, and thus some fans should turn one way, others the opposite. The proper selection/sensing is "down flow", with the air coming toward you as you stand under the fan. This direction works both summer AND winter. Summer: obviously, the air motion cools exposed skin and this cools the body. Winter: if you want heat drawn from the top of a room and distributed down and around, run the fan so the air goes DOWN. If you reverse it to "upflow", the air will circulate up against the ceil…

Does anyone have any of these? Legacy Mill and a Mill Route. Let me know and we can exchange info. and how to use them. Steve

So this project began way too long ago, and was interrupted by a career change, a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. The building itself is a poorly built 20x22 garage in Houston, TX with some termite damage that gets repaired along the way.. Anyway... This is how it started: As one can see this is an exemplary shop, streamlined and purpose-built. How its going: The main line for the dust collector is…

Nothing special. Just Tinker Town.

You may have a use for some of these tips.

In watching various YouTube woodworking videos, almost all of them (amateur and professional) seem to be in a garage. Sometimes one car, sometimes two. My shops have always been in a basement. Besides sometimes having to haul stuff up and down steps (one did have an outside entrance), I have enjoyed the heating, cooling, and privacy. I understand that some parts of the country do not typically have basements. I understand the advantage of opening the door for fresh air access, or moving big things to the driveway. Or some people can't afford the space or zoning for a separate building. In our last move, we looked at houses for 9 months before we found one with ei…

Well it has been a crazy project building a shop and actually starting to set it up so I can make things. There is an ever-increasing list of to-do’s but I am at a point where it is workable. I started with the hard problems… Actually building a shop, but this gave me the opportunity to make sure that power, heating/cooling etc… were all in place. Now I am on to the little things like shop layout, dust collection, tooling, organization, jigs, and storage solutions interspersed with actually making things for around the house. I am sure there will be many more updates as things get whipped into shape around here

Amazing the set up in a one-car garage space

One of those priceless gifts left behind by my grandfather Wallace Kunkel – not a piece of machinery or anything I can hold in my hands – but this video he produced in the mid-80’s, alongside his sons, on the setting up of a home workshop — A whole array of vintage machinery featured throughout – heavy on Powermatic. I’ve watched this countless times at this point — while restoring it from how I found it, in a storage box and unseen for decades — and I still find myself putting it on when I’m alone in my own workshop – forever a work in progress – enjoying his company, and somehow always taking away something new I’d missed each time before. …

I have a friend who owns every expensive tool and machine that ever been maid but he never makes anything, says its just for looks and to make his wife happy for she is always telling him to go to his shop and make something. I don't have many drawers for things get hid in them and can never find them. Got lots of more areas to show but am running out of ink.