July 30, 201114 yr I have the following;Hegner 18" scroll saw.Imported 14" bandsaw.Home Depot (???) 10" planerTerrco pantograph sign router systemVarious woodburning equipmentLarge inventory of carving tools (Swiss, Denny, Lyons hand tools)Vacuum system in ceiling of 20 x 30 shop. Lots of other tools too numerous to mention.
July 31, 201114 yr Author I will try Lewis.  I don't want to be a boaster, these have been collected over many years.  Pics soon Thanks for your reply. Gordie
July 31, 201114 yr Gordie, don't worry about being a boaster. We all love to see what everyone else has in the shop. It is great to see how they have it laid out also. Thanks for sharing.  John MoodyJohn Moody Woodworkshttp://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com
August 1, 201114 yr Let's see, stuff in the shop. My shop is a garage that has been converted for woodworking. Two scroll saws Delta and an Ryobi. Belt/disk sander. Two drill presses (1 has my mop sander always attached). Delta planer, two band saws (1 large, one small), table saw, miter saw,two air compressors (1 large, 1 small), router and table, and the second most used tool in my shop, my dremel rotary tool that is set up like a drill press and the router table that goes with it. Of course, all the smaller tools that you just can't do without!. I guess you are wondering why the duplicate tools-- my husband is a woodworker as well, but he only deals with the "big tools" so to speak. So while he builds furniture, peterson bluebird houses, roosting boxes, ect. I am working on my side with the smaller projects. I have already put in my request for my christmas present for this year, a gunivere sanding system.....hope Santa is reading this!
August 1, 201114 yr Melanie, Sounds like a nice set up. How about some pictures!!Melanie Hartman said: Let's see, stuff in the shop. My shop is a garage that has been converted for woodworking. Two scroll saws Delta and an Ryobi. Belt/disk sander. Two drill presses (1 has my mop sander always attached). Delta planer, two band saws (1 large, one small), table saw, miter saw,two air compressors (1 large, 1 small), router and table, and the second most used tool in my shop, my dremel rotary tool that is set up like a drill press and the router table that goes with it. Of course, all the smaller tools that you just can't do without!. I guess you are wondering why the duplicate tools-- my husband is a woodworker as well, but he only deals with the "big tools" so to speak. So while he builds furniture, peterson bluebird houses, roosting boxes, ect. I am working on my side with the smaller projects. I have already put in my request for my christmas present for this year, a gunivere sanding system.....hope Santa is reading this!
August 1, 201114 yr MelanieThat's great, sharing space like that.Care to share some some photos of the setup you guys share? My Mrs. does a different type of art work, she enjoys doing painted stain glass and the like. Trying to get her to learn the scroll saw but no luck to this point. Thanks for sharing. Wayne MahlerGod bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.
August 1, 201114 yr I thought I had some pictures on my computer of the shop, but they seemed to have turned to saw dust.. I will try to take some this week and post. You mentioned that your wife does stained glass work. Three of my most recent projects were stained glass patterns that I used for scrolling. I worked in retail as the manager for a large fabric and craft business for 17 years and always loved stain glass work. I guess I have dabbled in a little of everythingl through the years and alot of it has carried over into my scroll work. Wayne Mahler said: Melanie That's great, sharing space like that.Care to share some some photos of the setup you guys share? My Mrs. does a different type of art work, she enjoys doing painted stain glass and the like. Trying to get her to learn the scroll saw but no luck to this point. Thanks for sharing.  Wayne Mahler God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.
August 1, 201114 yr I just looked at your website! You have a true talent and gift for woodworking. Greg Aksdal said: Plain and simple TOO MUCHÂ Â Greg http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/
August 1, 201114 yr Using stained glass patterns for scroll saw work is pretty common. I have done that in the past. Since I can draw a straight line with out a ruler I have to rely on what I can find pattern ways. The wife found a great pattern for something she wanted done and brought it home for me to cut out, it was a stained glass pattern. Wayne MahlerGod bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.
August 1, 201114 yr Thanx MelanieMelanie Hartman said: I just looked at your website! You have a true talent and gift for woodworking. Greg Aksdal said: Plain and simple TOO MUCHÂ Â Greg http://www.thesawdustfactory.net/
August 2, 201114 yr I posted pictures of our workshop in my photo albums. It was orginially an auto bodyshop so it's not beautiful but it's functional. My husband built all the tables ect. Very basic and with lots of light. Unfortunately, we do not own the garage but rent it. The good part is though, that I walk across my driveway, and I'm there! My husband and I have spent many wonderful hours together crafting and creating memories. I hope to get some of his work posted soon. Have a great night!
August 2, 201114 yr Well I am officially jealous!  Nice Shop!!!Melanie Hartman said:I posted pictures of our workshop in my photo albums. It was orginially an auto bodyshop so it's not beautiful but it's functional. My husband built all the tables ect. Very basic and with lots of light. Unfortunately, we do not own the garage but rent it. The good part is though, that I walk across my driveway, and I'm there! My husband and I have spent many wonderful hours together crafting and creating memories. I hope to get some of his work posted soon. Have a great night!
August 2, 201114 yr My shop is a 8'x40' shipping container. yep it's hot as anything in the summer and colder than, well you can imagine in the winter, but it suits my needs for the most part. I have 2- 2 piece roll around tool boxes packed full of hand tools, a 10 gal. compressor w/ a spare 21 gal. tank from an old compressor, a 10" Ryobi bench top drill press, which is a good 15 yrs. old and still going strong, an 8" Ryobi bench grinder mounted on its own stand, a 10" no name portable table saw that has a home made wheeled base which for a $100 saw it is amazingly accurate, an older 12" Craftsman floor model bandsaw, my trust Hitachi scroll saw, an old plain jane Skil router table that I use as a bench top type, A B&D fold up clamp table that I picked up on clearance at Lowe's last year real cheap, it mainly holds my homemade sanding table (I'll post some pics soon, as it might be something other scrollers can use) and it also has an old Dayton portable drill press, the type you mount a regular electric hand drill in, 2 filing cabinets, a copier, an mp3 player for musical entertainment, 3 steel shelving units, somewhere in there is a portable arc welder, a sawzall and various other small power tools, 4-5 sanders, oh yea the last 15' are used to store all the Christmas decorations and such that we don't keep in the house. I have put 2 vents in the roof, and a gable type vent in each end of the long walls to help with ventilation, also put a window in one side last year, which helps too. I have another shop building on our property but it is about a 1/4 mile from the house so it has the power tools in it that I don't need all the time, such as a 12" delta planer, my 12" Dewalt miter saw, my larger Skil router table, and my pride and joy a 20+ year old Craftsman 10" radial arm saw, i love that saw.  Greghttp://www.thesawdustfactory.net/
August 2, 201114 yr MelanieNice shop setup. And the pictures of the work you guys do is outstanding. your shop is very well organized and clean. I am looking forward to the day i get to build my dream shop. For now I have a small shop. It is basically 9 by 19 and loaded with machines and tools. Too crowded and cramped for what all i do. The Mrs. came down the other night and asked me how I got work done. I guess you adapt along the way. I do believe John Morris ( site owner ) set up a forum for shops. Would you mind posting your pics of your shop there? I plan on it once I get mine cleaned up again. thank you so much for sharing this with the rest of us. The work you guys do is truly outstanding. Wayne MahlerGod bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.
August 2, 201114 yr Wow! We can never have enough tools, can we? I noticed you said you had an hitachi scroll saw. Do you like it? I had looked at one and liked what I saw for the price. My husband is a big fan of hitachi and we have always had good service out of that brand. In fact, we bought a new hitachi brad nailer this weekend. The Dewalt brad nailer has always given us trouble.Greg Aksdal said:My shop is a 8'x40' shipping container. yep it's hot as anything in the summer and colder than, well you can imagine in the winter, but it suits my needs for the most part. I have 2- 2 piece roll around tool boxes packed full of hand tools, a 10 gal. compressor w/ a spare 21 gal. tank from an old compressor, a 10" Ryobi bench top drill press, which is a good 15 yrs. old and still going strong, an 8" Ryobi bench grinder mounted on its own stand, a 10" no name portable table saw that has a home made wheeled base which for a $100 saw it is amazingly accurate, an older 12" Craftsman floor model bandsaw, my trust Hitachi scroll saw, an old plain jane Skil router table that I use as a bench top type, A B&D fold up clamp table that I picked up on clearance at Lowe's last year real cheap, it mainly holds my homemade sanding table (I'll post some pics soon, as it might be something other scrollers can use) and it also has an old Dayton portable drill press, the type you mount a regular electric hand drill in, 2 filing cabinets, a copier, an mp3 player for musical entertainment, 3 steel shelving units, somewhere in there is a portable arc welder, a sawzall and various other small power tools, 4-5 sanders, oh yea the last 15' are used to store all the Christmas decorations and such that we don't keep in the house. I have put 2 vents in the roof, and a gable type vent in each end of the long walls to help with ventilation, also put a window in one side last year, which helps too. I have another shop building on our property but it is about a 1/4 mile from the house so it has the power tools in it that I don't need all the time, such as a 12" delta planer, my 12" Dewalt miter saw, my larger Skil router table, and my pride and joy a 20+ year old Craftsman 10" radial arm saw, i love that saw.  Greghttp://www.thesawdustfactory.net/
August 2, 201114 yr Thanks for the kind words Wayne. But it's clean because I spent two hours cleaning it before I took the pictures. When we got married, Rick had a small building 6x6 that he worked out of. Whenever he wanted to work with the miter saw or the table saw, ect. he would have to pull everything outside because the building was too small to set them up. Then we bought a metal prefab building that was 8 x 10 and put a workbench in it for my scrollsaw and sander and dremel. That's what I worked out of for 6 years. We were lucky to have the opportunity to rent this garage. I will post pics on the forum hopefully this evening or tomorrow. Just got a new 3 tb external hard drive for the computer and am working on transferring stuff I don't want to lose if this computer were to crash. Of course, I have filled up one external hard drive (just 300gb) so this is a second one. LOLWayne Mahler said: Melanie Nice shop setup. And the pictures of the work you guys do is outstanding. your shop is very well organized and clean. I am looking forward to the day i get to build my dream shop. For now I have a small shop. It is basically 9 by 19 and loaded with machines and tools. Too crowded and cramped for what all i do. The Mrs. came down the other night and asked me how I got work done. I guess you adapt along the way. I do believe John Morris ( site owner ) set up a forum for shops. Would you mind posting your pics of your shop there? I plan on it once I get mine cleaned up again. thank you so much for sharing this with the rest of us. The work you guys do is truly outstanding. Â Wayne Mahler God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.
August 3, 201114 yr Melanie, for the money the Hitachi has been a good saw, obliviously not as good as a Dewalt or Excaliber, but overall a pretty solid saw. I bought mine in the fall of 08, and it has seen many many many hours of use since then. The stand that came with it was usable at best, after a year or so someone emailed me plans for a 3 legged wooden stand that has worked out great for me. If anyone needs them let me know. The light on it is a waste too. The blower is really not bad at all, but I have mine hooked up to an aquarium pump for a constant flow of air. Unfortunately hitachi doesn't make the saw anymore, but Porter Cable has it's twin at Lowe's, it's even the same price, the only real difference is that they used an aluminum table on the PC instead of cast iron. Last year Scrollsaw workshop magazine did a comparison of most of the saws on the market and the Hitachi was the highest rated in it's price range. I'm happy with it.  Greghttp://www.thesawdustfactory.net/
August 3, 201114 yr And here is my home made sanding table. Basically it is an 18"x24" 1x2" frame topped as you can see in the pics with 1/4" pegboard, the I used ordinary dollar store or walmart rubberized shelf liner to creat a non slip surface. It does have one brace in the center for a little more support. When I put the shelf liner on I stapled it on the bottom of one end then stretched it tight and stapled it on the bottom of the other end, I didn't want to put an staples in the top of it for obvilious reasons. It also has an 1 1/4" hole in one end for a vacum hose which creats a downdraft of sorts, I rarely use it though. I added the trays for the sanders later, you can set your sander in it before it stops all the way. This can be made any dimensions you want, whatever fits your needs. it is especially great for sanding fragile fret work pieces. And all you have to do is clamp it in place when you need it, ,mine stays there 99% of the time though. Â Greghttp://www.thesawdustfactory.net/
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