Careful there Stick...  Everyone else seems to want to keep me around. I'm tired enough to do it LOL Granted... I'm already home. 

*thumps you with a wrapping paper roll

so much for thinking there were bennies here...

bennies?

benefits... perks..

Edited January 13, 20197 yr by Stick486

8 hours ago, MaDeuce said:

 

Doesn't work that way... if you're going to volunteer others for beatings, you get volun-told to participate as well!

 

Yes, mam, may I have another...?

8 hours ago, schnewj said:

Yes, mam, may I have another...?

You weren't supposed to enjoy it! I should have known better!

54 minutes ago, MaDeuce said:

You weren't supposed to enjoy it!

why not???

54 minutes ago, MaDeuce said:

You weren't supposed to enjoy it! I should have known better!

17 hours ago, MaDeuce said:

Everyone else seems to want to keep me around.

I feel the same way...

quality entertainment directors are hard to come by...

On 1/12/2019 at 12:01 AM, Woodbutcherbynight said:

I strongly recommend 10,000 sq ft.  Go big or go home!!!

I have a friend that has a one-man shop in 5000 sq. ft.   He spends a lot of time as his one workbench or one or his two table saws.  There is a miter saw station on one wall.   In the middle are a couple of clusters of machines -- band saw, sander, jointer, planer, router table.  One corner has a vacuum press, the other a spray station.  Some problems I see: He spends a lot of time walking between workstations.  It's too expensive to cool, so no A/C, and he keeps it about 60 degrees or less in cool weather.  To say nothing of the cost to build that hopefully he'll someday recover.

Just now, kmealy said:

I have a friend that has a one-man shop in 5000 sq. ft.   He spends a lot of time as his one workbench or one or his two table saws.  There is a miter saw station on one wall.   In the middle are a couple of clusters of machines -- band saw, sander, jointer, planer, router table.  One corner has a vacuum press, the other a spray station.  Some problems I see: He spends a lot of time walking between workstations.  It's too expensive to cool, so no A/C, and he keeps it about 60 degrees or less in cool weather.  To say nothing of the cost to build that hopefully he'll someday recover.

Maybe you could give him a bicycle for Christmas? LOL

26 minutes ago, Artie said:

Maybe you could give him a bicycle for Christmas? LOL

roller skates..

1 hour ago, kmealy said:

I have a friend that has a one-man shop in 5000 sq. ft.   He spends a lot of time as his one workbench or one or his two table saws.  There is a miter saw station on one wall.   In the middle are a couple of clusters of machines -- band saw, sander, jointer, planer, router table.  One corner has a vacuum press, the other a spray station. 

I'll take it, the other issues I can work with, after all I will have won the lottery.  

Stick, you remind me of the Navy about 50 years ago.  Gee, am I that old?

1 hour ago, FlGatorwood said:

you remind me of the Navy about 50 years ago. 

in our case it was out behind the barracks...

but tad further back than 50 years...

Oh, how well I remember the guard towers with armed guards and seeing recruits being slammed up against the chained linked fences with a few punches to the guts and face.  Whew! I never got first hand experience of that but I saw it a few times.  That was before the New Navy in 1970.

17 hours ago, kmealy said:

I have a friend that has a one-man shop in 5000 sq. ft.  

 

My shop is at the end of my double-car garage. Work space dimensions are about 24'x 9'. Inside that space I have a 3x5 workbench w/drawers, table-saw, jointer, band-saw, drill press, router cabinet, dust collector, disk/belt sander, and planer. I have built a 4x6 expanding dining table and 6 chairs, coffee table, end tables, 2 dressers, bookcases, storage cabinets, and many smaller projects. Wood storage is in a 3x16 space along a wall outside the work space. I back out one vehicle when I assemble a large piece. I have a 600 BTU heater for the frosty winters. I don't feel cramped at all. 

hat

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by hatuffej

On 1/12/2019 at 6:30 PM, Artie said:

This seems to be a touchy subject on the WW’ing forums, I’ll just put my .02$ in, I don’t see the difference in using a cnc machine or a router table, as far as it being woodworking. Different knowledge maybe? But still need the skills to make it happen. Either way a cord gets plugged in, and bits cut the wood/medium. I agree that pictures are a must.

It has been discussed in the past that using modern machines isn't WWing. I'll bet that if we could talk to the long gone WWers they would resoundingly cheer the new technology available. 

hat

Different strokes for different folks. If a good CNC machine weren't so darned expensive, I'd have one to play with. And a big laser cutter, and a Shopsmith Power Pro and, a 5000 sq. ft. Shop and..and...and...

3 hours ago, hatuffej said:

It has been discussed in the past that using modern machines isn't WWing. I'll bet that if we could talk to the long gone WWers they would resoundingly cheer the new technology available. 

hat

Yeah I wasn’t trying to ruffle any feathers with that comment, just that there may be several, or more, definitions of what’s a woodworker. I got no idea what the proper designation for what I do, and want to be able to do, is. I am with Gene in that if I had the $ means, I would have a CNC machine and a laser engraver, among others. They seem to open a whole world of possible qualities (not quite the word I was searching for), that I most likely won’t have enough time left to live, to learn how to do, satisfactory, by hand.  I am also enthralled watching the process Steve is using to make that project with all hand tools. Anywho I hope MaD makes the choice that makes her the happiest.