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WOW! I envy the amount of space you have!

Cool! I'm envious that you have a dedicated workspace. Love the look...sawdust, cut-offs, tools on all flat surfaces...a real working shop.

That appears to be one, huge router work top on the wall? I'd need help to retrieve/store it.

Thanks for the tour Mike. Always appreciate pictures of work areas.

Does your tile floor get a little slick with a layer of sawdust?  I have to keep my pergo flooring pretty clean...skating with a freshly sharpened gouge is much like running with scissors.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Cool! I'm envious that you have a dedicated workspace. Love the look...sawdust, cut-offs, tools on all flat surfaces...a real working shop.

That appears to be one, huge router work top on the wall? I'd need help to retrieve/store it.

Thanks for the tour Mike. Always appreciate pictures of work areas.

Thanks Dave for looking in. Yes I have a little space to work but I am pretty messy usually have 2 or 3 things going on at one time . The router table is huge and I could use your help getting it up and down from the wall it is pretty heavy.

It was made to fit on the metal bench that you see in the far left of the picture. The pictures here is the router table on that bench.

Thanks again for your comments.

(mike) calabrese55

On 7/18/2023 at 7:39 AM, forty_caliber said:

Does your tile floor get a little slick with a layer of sawdust?  I have to keep my pergo flooring pretty clean...skating with a freshly sharpened gouge is much like running with scissors.

 

 

Hello @forty_caliber No it isn't too  bad the tiles are very old 90 plus years and pretty scuffed up. I do tend to pay attention however to the dust in front of the table saw as i am leaning into the saw when using it and so my  center of gravity shifts forward of my feet. 

Thanks for looking at my post.

calabrese55

Impressive table. Cool jig for making the tapered legs. Thanks for sharing.

2 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Impressive table. Cool jig for making the tapered legs. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks  Dave, I really enjoy making jigs and fixtures that one worked out pretty well but it got a little beat up from the force I had to use to get the double sided tape  to give up the grip.

The small strips you see on the jig are reinforcements to the luan ply where it buckled from removing it from the blank. Four legs x 2 setups per leg it got pretty weak by the end of the work.

calabrese55 

Now that is a shop that looks like it is being  used !  Nice.

54 minutes ago, Al B said:

Now that is a shop that looks like it is being  used !  Nice.

Thanks Al,

It is definitely used a few hours every day including weekends. It is remote from my house but less than 1 mile. Unfortunately shortly after i get there I start to feel guilty because my wife is stuck at home . I usually can rationalize that every day for a few hours before  it is time to head home to see if my wife still remembers me .

so far it seems to work I am getting stuff done and she is still not locking me out.

calabrese55

On 7/18/2023 at 2:06 PM, calabrese55 said:

so far it seems to work I am getting stuff done and she is still not locking me out.

 On a good day, my wife would lock me out just as a "what fer".

 

Love your shop! It is well used and worked in, and the work you share with us shows that.

Just curious, it's offsite, not being nosy, well I guess I am, why is it offsite? Apartment living, not enough space in the garage, backyard, etc?

43 minutes ago, John Morris said:

 On a good day, my wife would lock me out just as a "what fer".

 

Love your shop! It is well used and worked in, and the work you share with us shows that.

Just curious, it's offsite, not being nosy, well I guess I am, why is it offsite? Apartment living, not enough space in the garage, backyard, etc?

No problem and you are not nosy at all pleased any time I get questions.

I have been self employed since 2001 after about 30 years screwing around in the  industrial pump market. My shop is a commercial building I came to own some years ago. Since 2001 I spent 3 years as a custom woodworker in that location. In 2004 I purchased a commercial embroidery machine and relegated  all my woodworking stuff into storage. Expanded into screen printed tee shirts and stuff while my woodworking stuff gently weept. Packed all that in about 2 years ago and got to know my wood tools once again .

The good news is it is a commercial building at about 1000 square feet less than 1 mile from my house. Right now my shop is a little little less than 1/2 the floor space .

The bad news it is in a historic preservation district where you can't blow your nose without a certificate of appropriateness from the  hysterical idealogues who want to turn a section of the town into a Currier and Ives postcard. This is what it looked like when I was putting ink on tee shirts. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9083301,-76.8001822,3a,75y,176.7h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA20ZtNlP89AlpL5w8uRN3Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu.

calabrese55

 

Sweet digs Mike. Are you constrained by noise or other type of ordinance restricting use hours?

Any donut shops near-by? Asking for a friend.

1 hour ago, Grandpadave52 said:

Sweet digs Mike. Are you constrained by noise or other type of ordinance restricting use hours?

Any donut shops near-by? Asking for a friend.

Hi Dave

No ordinance that I know of. I am often there very early in the morning and sometimes late at night. The neighborhood is commercial and residential intermixed. When I am early / late  I tend to keep all doors and windows closed or just work on low noise stuff. There was a donut shop about 300 yards away . The guy spent a ton of money improving the structure in and out. Put is a class A kitchen with all new commercial equipment unfortunately it didn't last one year. I went there once when they first opened, bought two fry cakes and two small coffee the ticket was little over $15.00. Seneca Falls is a small blue collar town population is under 11000 so the ticket was just a little tall for the locals I guess.

Far as I know all the equipment is still in the building  it just is closed up, signs removed from windows and not much happening there I don't even think it is up for sale?. Kind of sad.

Thanks for looking in

mike calabrese55