Hi all, and thanks for having me.

USARMY vet here 89-95 82nd ABN now live in Las Vegas which is about as far from where wood grows as it is possible to be.

Just finished building a shop which has been a dream of mine for a while and I am gradually building it out as a wood shop. 

Looking to exchange ideas and advice.

Howdy and welcome from Texas.  Glad to have you here and thank you for your service.  What kind of things do you like to make?

 

Oh...and we need pictures of your new shop...lots of them! 

 

 

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Welcome to the forum!

Welcome aboard Static, glad to have you here.  Thank you for your Army service.

And pics are always helpful & welcome

Welcome from the great state of Indiana.  Keep us up to date on your progress.  

Welcome.  Look forward to your participation.

Welcome to the group.

Welcome aboard and thank you for your service. We kinda operate on it didn't happen without pics so looking forward to that.

Hi, and welcome. My brother was at Nellie AFB 80-84. He loved it out there.

Here are some photos of the build process, just got final signoff from the county this morning so I am really excited to start building it out.

 

 

Every job needs a snoopervisor.

Thank you for your service !  A friendly welcome from Massachusetts.

Both the shop dogs wanted their schnozzles in it

Welcome to TPW.  Nice progress so far.  Lots more to do, so little time.  That pesky job thingy gets in the way.  

If anyone is interested, I took a set of short videos chronicling the build process. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGXqe8seV5pfCX6q3ZTDEqVCAgg5SUTRv there are about 60 of them and they are all about a minute. 

 

It was an interesting experience and the most important thing that I learned is that sometimes you just want to hire a general contractor.

 

I learned a ton about everything from construction methods and orders of operation to how to deal with architects and plan revisions to how to write contracts for sub work to ensure liability coverage.  If anyone wants to know any of that, feel free to hit me up.  Some of it only pertains to Nevada but other stuff is useful across the board.  

 

When all is said and done though, I am happy with the way things turned out.

Well you have done it now . Full bath in the shop means you may never get back into the house. Looks good and now to fill it with equipment.

24 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Well you have done it now . Full bath in the shop means you may never get back into the house. Looks good and now to fill it with equipment.

I wonder if that was the wife’s plan when she insisted on the full bath out there

Welcome to the nut house of wonderful and skilled people.  Looking forward to your posts and projects.  

Welcome to the forum Static ! The shop is looking good. Its good to have another member here in Vegas. 

Paul

Well, the wife is happy, I have dragged most of the woodworking stuff out of the garage and have started to set things up and make some sawdust.  1st on the list is an outfeed/assembly table modeled roughly off the Paulk workbench.  Got to a point of frustration tonight as my old faithful dewalt cordless drill decided that it is finished.  Kaput.  It is now an ex-drill.  I have known this was coming for a while but it is time to replace it.  Next on the list are some stands for the tools I have to get them to a working height. After that a lumber cart will be in order. In between all that I will get the new dust collector hooked up as parts and hoses come in.

 

@Masonsailor nice to know there are other members in Vegas and I have a ton of questions about the local area for woodworking.