Charitable Woodworking Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Hi, new to the forum. Thought it would be fun to share some pictures of a woodshop available to the troops here in Djibouti, Africa. They call it the Self Help Shop, and it's really intended for the CB's but they are kind enough to open it up for the rest of us. Panorama of one main work space, pretty standard bench tools; scroll saw, sander, drill press, chop saw. They also have a Makita planer in there which is hard to tell, but it's on a plywood bench right in front. They did a nice job integrating the chop saw into this bench. They had a guy hurt himself on the table saw a while back so they justified the SawStop. It's the first time I've used one. As I get my own home shop tailored out I'd love to be able to get one of these, especially with my ambitions of teaching. More details about my deployment and my business venture, Charitable Woodworking, can be found at www.charitablewoodworking.org. Cheers! -Matt Harry Brink and Ernie Richardson (BAA Bugler) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Super Space!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Dudelston Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Sweet! Thanks for sharing Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Richardson (BAA Bugler) Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 Hi, new to the forum. Thought it would be fun to share some pictures of a woodshop available to the troops here in Djibouti, Africa. They call it the Self Help Shop, and it's really intended for the CB's but they are kind enough to open it up for the rest of us. Panorama of one main work space, pretty standard bench tools; scroll saw, sander, drill press, chop saw. They also have a Makita planer in there which is hard to tell, but it's on a plywood bench right in front. They did a nice job integrating the chop saw into this bench. They had a guy hurt himself on the table saw a while back so they justified the SawStop. It's the first time I've used one. As I get my own home shop tailored out I'd love to be able to get one of these, especially with my ambitions of teaching. More details about my deployment and my business venture, Charitable Woodworking, can be found at www.charitablewoodworking.org. Cheers! -Matt Really nice shop with a good amount of space. Reading your tool list, it appears that you don't have a lathe available to you. Is that correct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charitable Woodworking Posted November 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 That's correct, Ernie. No lathe in the shop. What's not shown are lots of framing tools to include circular saws and sawzalls and such. The recent manager, who is leaving soon, just started branching into the finer woodworking tools. Hopefully the new guy will pick it up and keep it rolling in that direction. More to follow, thanks for the interest! -Matt Courtland 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Moody Posted July 30, 2016 Report Share Posted July 30, 2016 Super nice and lots of space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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