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NOTE: This thread originally appeared in part at http://www.luthierforum.com and http://www.luthiercom.org on Jan 2009 under the title of " New Shop n New Doggie"
The Story of me New Shop
So after putting up with techies and musicians who, hung around and produced nothing in my upstairs studio, I said enough is enough and I kicked them and their gear out. (Ever noticed how gear stinks of beer, cigarettes and road dust.) Maybe if they had produced just one track ..(all them videos I shot and posted myself). Besides they wern't paying rent or even offering to shoot me some bucks, just hung around drinking my beer and smoking.
Me then pulled the carpet and made a few work benches. Yup! Is now my new shop. Assembly is in now gonna be upstairs where it is warm. With windows and light. Yay!
See old space full of computers and techie junk. Eight years in television, I don't need no more techie junk around me.
See new space, all nice clean, new workbenches. Yay.
This was last January
Then me settle in to do some work and here is what me build over this last year. The shop is now finished.
Built out of # 3 SPF (spruce pine and fir) from the local lumber yard. Some glue and some screws hold it all together, Often wonder what holds me together.
Heres pics on doing all the shelf brackets for hanging the instruments and the tool shelf racks.
Me wanted a really funky shop, just like the old guys that taught me a thing or two use to has.
So...
Notice the threaded dowel for me new vice. NO! It was not done with a die cutter.
Yup, hand cut threads, just like the way they use to once upon a time, long long ago, in
our distant future when the system shut down and the electricity ran out. You hearin what
me saying?
All the brackets, shelves, vices, counters drawer fronts and doors have been carved to match. As I started building this new shop right after Christmas last January, I guess my mind was into a "Santas workshop" sort of like the "old timers" would have built. So I started carving everything...not a fine detailed carving job, but enough to set the mood for a pleasant shop to work in. Didn't realize how much of a shop I had to haul upstairs. Is gonna look great once the winter plastic is down and I get proper storm windows built for next year. (Me been saying that for 17 years now)
Heres the new bench doggie with a hand carved wood screw vise.
The doggies name is Buddie~Satva. I am training him to be a bench dog. tongue.gif He is 4 months young, half a poodle and half a Tibetan Terrier . Him shouldn't grow to more than 15-18 lbs. just big enough to sit on my lap and sleep on the end of the bed. Him don't understand "end of the bed yet" and thinks the pillows are for him...him also thinks the floor is his toilet....me teaching him otherwise, but is hard to house train a small doggie in the winter.
Other than that him and me, well we gets along just fine.
workbench with drawers....
carving the drawer fronts
carved drawer fonts on the bench with shavings from the cabinet doors that arevcoming up next.
after one year this vise is really holding up well...
So its been one year now and the shop has gone to this.
Yup ...me built a wall, with windows and doors to keep the grand kids out and the sawdust in.
then me built a wall hung cabinet,
and a counter under it....
that runs along the inside of the wall....
with the doors and a rack to store long stock like banding strips, another counter and
a shelf unite for me all hand planes...
All that crown molding is actually a drawer to hide stuff in....
also got rid of the "Tommy bar" ... this is much more convenient and easier ...
So it has been the building of all the above, then all the carving of it that has kept me away from
posting and builds for the last 3 months...Now that its all built...I figure about another 2 or 3 days
of emptying the cardboard boxes into the new shelves, reorganizing, sharpening all the blades
and then me and doggy should be making sawdust again. Actually doggy don't make sawdust...
but him real good at chewing any thing that hits the deck... is what dogs do.
Here is pic of doggy inspecting an inlayed mando board.
Yup ...him my bench dog. and thats my fantacy work shop.
Hope you liked this little trip.
blessings
?admaNOTE: there be updated pics further on in this thread.
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Even at 50% off............
of woodworking for it's own sake!
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. I have one little 24" window and its behind the drill press