Jack, nice article in Hot Rod. I didn't get my subscription issue, asked for a replacement copy, they said they were already out! Must have been your garage article LOL. I had to do some looking to find that issue, most stores were already sold out too!
Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT The 12-Gauge Garage
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Workspaces sized between 265 and 485 squarefeet.
NASBackyard
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I like what you have done, totally opposite of my clutter cave, but I have managed to keep long term storage items off the floor. That's a great lead on those HD cabinets also, I will have to keep an eye out for those. I just got on this site again.
HOTFR8
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Still waiting to find a copy here. We are usually a couple of months behind.
Finally got a copy of the magazine.
Well done Jack.Garage Coffee Roaster
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After reading all 167 pages I had to join and post a big Thank You Jack for the great read.
In addition to the your eye for cool design; you have,as my wife puts it, an articulate style of writing.
There are not many people that are willing to share everyday life as much as you have.
It has motivated me to get out in my small one car garage and improve it more. When I first moved here, the floors were old rotted planks. I have ripped that up and added concrete. That has made a world of difference as I can roll my woodworking, and metal machinery around now.
I'll provide a better intro in the proper section later, and maybe start my own thread on making two or three car garage worth of machines fit in a one car detached.
I have become a convert in the Church of Jack Olsen's Garage. Can I have a hallelujah
In addition to the your eye for cool design; you have,as my wife puts it, an articulate style of writing.
There are not many people that are willing to share everyday life as much as you have.
It has motivated me to get out in my small one car garage and improve it more. When I first moved here, the floors were old rotted planks. I have ripped that up and added concrete. That has made a world of difference as I can roll my woodworking, and metal machinery around now.
I'll provide a better intro in the proper section later, and maybe start my own thread on making two or three car garage worth of machines fit in a one car detached.
I have become a convert in the Church of Jack Olsen's Garage. Can I have a hallelujah
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HOTFR8
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Also interesting to learn how that 12 Gauge name came into play. 
OP
Thanks, guys! I keep opening the door hoping to see the young lady from the Hot Rod article back up on the center bench -- no luck so far. But it did bring some exposure to this site, I think. Hopefully we'll see some cool cars and shops as a result.
I'm glad my garage (and this thread) played a role in reimagining your place as a kind of Swiss Army Knife for machinery. In my experience, it's meant some tough compromises. On the one hand, I ended up returning a horizontal steel-cutting bandsaw because I just didn't have a place to put it. On the other hand, when my son wanted his own bench, I let the 'no space' issue slide. I couldn't say no.
I look forward to the intro and the thread on your one-car shop. I'm curious if one of those pieces of machinery is a coffee roaster. I've heard of it being done with a hot-air popcorn popper.
That's right. It all started with this guy:
Still boggles my mind to think that someone could safely store 5,700 pounds -- 2,600 kg for most of the world -- in and on that one little cabinet.
After reading all 167 pages I had to join and post a big Thank You Jack for the great read.
In addition to the your eye for cool design; you have,as my wife puts it, an articulate style of writing.
There are not many people that are willing to share everyday life as much as you have.
It has motivated me to get out in my small one car garage and improve it more. When I first moved here, the floors were old rotted planks. I have ripped that up and added concrete. That has made a world of difference as I can roll my woodworking, and metal machinery around now.
I'll provide a better intro in the proper section later, and maybe start my own thread on making two or three car garage worth of machines fit in a one car detached.
I have become a convert in the Church of Jack Olsen's Garage. Can I have a hallelujah
I'm glad my garage (and this thread) played a role in reimagining your place as a kind of Swiss Army Knife for machinery. In my experience, it's meant some tough compromises. On the one hand, I ended up returning a horizontal steel-cutting bandsaw because I just didn't have a place to put it. On the other hand, when my son wanted his own bench, I let the 'no space' issue slide. I couldn't say no.
I look forward to the intro and the thread on your one-car shop. I'm curious if one of those pieces of machinery is a coffee roaster. I've heard of it being done with a hot-air popcorn popper.
Also interesting to learn how that 12 Gauge name came into play.
That's right. It all started with this guy:
Still boggles my mind to think that someone could safely store 5,700 pounds -- 2,600 kg for most of the world -- in and on that one little cabinet.
HOTFR8
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Garage Coffee Roaster
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Jack
One of my machines is a 10 pound capacity Coffee Roaster. This is a professional grade machine left over from my days of owning a coffee house and roasting facility.
The picture shows it in the back corner of my garage.
Coffee is one of my passions in life. Fresh Coffee is the best. People do use a hot-air popcorn popper to start on the road of at-home roasting. Fair warning it does become addicting
Jim
alpinewhite
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Just for you Jack.
Wow. She seems like a very sweet gal.
Tman
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That Hutch was cool. My in laws deal in antiques and prob would have put a $350 price on it. FWIW, literally.
OP
That's cool. I used to live and work near a place that roasted coffee every morning (back in Connecticut) and I always liked the smell of it.
I'll bet you're right. We got it when the previous owners of our house left it behind. It was made with rough-cut hardwood and even the nails look like they were home-made. But we didn't have a place for it, and needed something for the deck, so even with the financial part not making sense, I'll stick with the way it went. (If I didn't have the thing on hand, I would have ended up cheaping out and making the thing out of fence slats.)
Tman
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No worries, it could be a cheap import as well. Lots from Mexico and India. Good job.
That's right. It all started with this guy:
Still boggles my mind to think that someone could safely store 5,700 pounds -- 2,600 kg for most of the world -- in and on that one little cabinet.
You know, after a statement like that, we need to see the Porsche on it.
OP
It could hold two.
Jack Olsen stole the folding table idea!
The horror!
Everytime we visit ny grandmother I head into the archives and grab a volume of grandpa's old 1953 Popular Mechanics Encyclopedia. This time I ran into the workbench section and discovered this:
So people had the same ideas 60 years ago.
Of course I'm just ribbing, I just thought of Jack's infamous garage the second I saw this.
For the record, the encyclopedia set us the coolest thing ever. The level of danger and liability in 2/3's of the projects is out of this world. Build your own arc welder, wooden frame go kart, chicken wire baby cage for outdoors, dog carrier for the trunk of a car, etc etc. I really hope I get one of the 2 sets someday, I literally bust them out every single time we visit. No one else seems to understand the smiles they give me.
Yes, I am a ****. Both self proclaimed, and verified by my wife.
Sent via morse code
The horror!
Everytime we visit ny grandmother I head into the archives and grab a volume of grandpa's old 1953 Popular Mechanics Encyclopedia. This time I ran into the workbench section and discovered this:
So people had the same ideas 60 years ago.
Of course I'm just ribbing, I just thought of Jack's infamous garage the second I saw this.
For the record, the encyclopedia set us the coolest thing ever. The level of danger and liability in 2/3's of the projects is out of this world. Build your own arc welder, wooden frame go kart, chicken wire baby cage for outdoors, dog carrier for the trunk of a car, etc etc. I really hope I get one of the 2 sets someday, I literally bust them out every single time we visit. No one else seems to understand the smiles they give me.
Yes, I am a ****. Both self proclaimed, and verified by my wife.
Sent via morse code
Outlawmws
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I have that set of PM Do It Yourself Encyclopedias; Mine is a 1955 edition, as well as The Do It Yourself Encyclopedia from Popular Science, also from 1955.
Stuart in MN
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I also have a set of the PM encyclopedias from 1955, they are fun to read. Back when first got out of school and was renting, I built one of those folding workbenches for the skinny little garage I had at the time, it worked great.
PhantomEB
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This thread sure has helped my rethink where I want to go down the road, and its just gonna be an oversized double with room for an outside deck!
BigAl62
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Jack Olsen stole the folding table idea!
The horror!
Everytime we visit ny grandmother I head into the archives and grab a volume of grandpa's old 1953 Popular Mechanics Encyclopedia. This time I ran into the workbench section and discovered this:
So people had the same ideas 60 years ago.
Of course I'm just ribbing, I just thought of Jack's infamous garage the second I saw this.
For the record, the encyclopedia set us the coolest thing ever. The level of danger and liability in 2/3's of the projects is out of this world. Build your own arc welder, wooden frame go kart, chicken wire baby cage for outdoors, dog carrier for the trunk of a car, etc etc. I really hope I get one of the 2 sets someday, I literally bust them out every single time we visit. No one else seems to understand the smiles they give me.
Yes, I am a ****. Both self proclaimed, and verified by my wife.
Sent via morse code
That's cool! My grandfather had all kinds of PM books and magazines. When he passed my uncle (his only soon) got them and when he passed his 2 sons (my cousins) got them. I would have loved to have them, I love reading old magazines, they have a lot
of still useful info that you can't find now.Outlawmws
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You know what would be a really short thread?
"S**t Outlaw Doesn't Have... Yet"
On another forum (Non- tool/automotive related) a few years back we got taking about having the right tools and that sort of came up, so I started a thread for people to name a tool they didn't think I had. The thread went on for months and well over 500 posts, and the margin was 2-1 in my favor.
Hey Jack, this garage is amazing! The first time I saw it was on Petrolicious and I haven't been able to get enough since. Kudos to you for your creativity, frugality, and of course that beautifully purposeful 911. There's no way I could pick a favorite on this forum, as there are so many good garages but yours is definitely a contender. I'm inspired!
Outlawmws
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Jack, getting back a few pages to the workbench you made for your son; I mentioned I had made one for my son many years ago. These are pics of the workbench when we gave it to him on his 3rd birthday. He was totally hooked on "Norm Abram's New Yankee Workshop" and would watch them in preference to anything else on the tube, (I had a dozen tapes worth of the shows on VCR, and we would have to pry him way from it at times. We could punish him if needed by "grounding" him from watching!)
Back to the work bench: It's a scaled down wood workers bench, complete with a tool tray built in. Well over 20 years later, we still have it but it's currently stored.
We distracted him while we set it up, and it had one of those giant bows on it. When he saw it he gasped, ran over to it, ripped off the bow, tossed it aside, got behind it, and started to recite the "Safety Speach" Norm always prefaced the shows with. One of the funniest things I've ever seen a small child do over a present!
Back to the work bench: It's a scaled down wood workers bench, complete with a tool tray built in. Well over 20 years later, we still have it but it's currently stored.
We distracted him while we set it up, and it had one of those giant bows on it. When he saw it he gasped, ran over to it, ripped off the bow, tossed it aside, got behind it, and started to recite the "Safety Speach" Norm always prefaced the shows with. One of the funniest things I've ever seen a small child do over a present!
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That is an awesome story! Great memories
Zengineer
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If you are looking for PM, Google has published every copy since 1905 onto the web free to view.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=N-I...issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1900#all_issues_anchor
http://books.google.ca/books?id=N-I...issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1900#all_issues_anchor
Stuart in MN
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And if you want to look at Popular Science, they also have that all the way back to 1872: http://books.google.com/books?id=iigDAAAAMBAj
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Man, I just plowed through 168 pages and I have to say, well done! Also, it's going to be pretty tough to top having models do photoshoots in your garage. (no pressure, I'll wait)
BigAl62
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Thank you for posting this!
Hot Chop shop
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Hey jack-
I wanted to thank you for your recommendation on the milwakuee cold cut saw... I sold my chop saw and picked up the cold cut on craiglist and the difference in precision of the cut and clean up (and noise) is night and day.
I wanted to thank you for your recommendation on the milwakuee cold cut saw... I sold my chop saw and picked up the cold cut on craiglist and the difference in precision of the cut and clean up (and noise) is night and day.
Jack, check out the new November issue of Car and Driver magazine, 50 years of Porsche 911. Lots of retrospective, lots of 911 stuff. Not really anything we didn't know but still kinda neat. I'm enjoying it.
R&T had a similar issue a few months back.
Many of the newer models make me feel like an old coot. I'm even an old coot about the newest GT3 vs the previous ones. What? No clutch pedal?!
Okay, okay, I'll take one, twist my arm....
R&T had a similar issue a few months back.
Many of the newer models make me feel like an old coot. I'm even an old coot about the newest GT3 vs the previous ones. What? No clutch pedal?!
Okay, okay, I'll take one, twist my arm....
OP
Thanks, guys!
I've been neglecting my own thread.
That's pretty cool that someone had thought of it that much time ago. I'm sure I saw examples of it here on the forum before I built my own. I think the real distinction you want to go for in this arena is not so much that you're a pioneer or original thinker, but that you're smart about which things you copy.
That is incredible. Woodworkers always shame the rest of us when it comes to work benches. It's just a whole different category -- and you did one in a child's size. Awesome.
You're welcome! I've still got a stack of abrasive blades sitting around, but I don't think I'll ever use them.
I'm itching to drive one of those new GT3s. But for me, I just have to hope that a student shows up with one.
Thanks for the tip on the issue of Car and Driver.
I've been neglecting my own thread.
Jack Olsen stole the folding table idea!
The horror!
Everytime we visit ny grandmother I head into the archives and grab a volume of grandpa's old 1953 Popular Mechanics Encyclopedia. This time I ran into the workbench section and discovered this:
So people had the same ideas 60 years ago.
Of course I'm just ribbing, I just thought of Jack's infamous garage the second I saw this.
That's pretty cool that someone had thought of it that much time ago. I'm sure I saw examples of it here on the forum before I built my own. I think the real distinction you want to go for in this arena is not so much that you're a pioneer or original thinker, but that you're smart about which things you copy.
Jack, getting back a few pages to the workbench you made for your son; I mentioned I had made one for my son many years ago. These are pics of the workbench when we gave it to him on his 3rd birthday. He was totally hooked on "Norm Abram's New Yankee Workshop" and would watch them in preference to anything else on the tube, (I had a dozen tapes worth of the shows on VCR, and we would have to pry him way from it at times. We could punish him if needed by "grounding" him from watching!)
Back to the work bench: It's a scaled down wood workers bench, complete with a tool tray built in. Well over 20 years later, we still have it but it's currently stored.
We distracted him while we set it up, and it had one of those giant bows on it. When he saw it he gasped, ran over to it, ripped off the bow, tossed it aside, got behind it, and started to recite the "Safety Speach" Norm always prefaced the shows with. One of the funniest things I've ever seen a small child do over a present!
That is incredible. Woodworkers always shame the rest of us when it comes to work benches. It's just a whole different category -- and you did one in a child's size. Awesome.
Hey jack-
I wanted to thank you for your recommendation on the milwakuee cold cut saw... I sold my chop saw and picked up the cold cut on craiglist and the difference in precision of the cut and clean up (and noise) is night and day.
You're welcome! I've still got a stack of abrasive blades sitting around, but I don't think I'll ever use them.
Jack, check out the new November issue of Car and Driver magazine, 50 years of Porsche 911. Lots of retrospective, lots of 911 stuff. Not really anything we didn't know but still kinda neat. I'm enjoying it.
R&T had a similar issue a few months back.
Many of the newer models make me feel like an old coot. I'm even an old coot about the newest GT3 vs the previous ones. What? No clutch pedal?!
Okay, okay, I'll take one, twist my arm....
I'm itching to drive one of those new GT3s. But for me, I just have to hope that a student shows up with one.
Thanks for the tip on the issue of Car and Driver.
OP
Video shoot yesterday. This is an 18-foot jib with a fully-articulating head for the camera. They were able to get shots moving from high above my roof that would swoop down into the garage and then move around through the place. All in high-definition.
Pretty incredible.
http://scontent-a-ord.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/1173670_416254171831426_1723916695_n.jpg
Then also a lot of those slow tracking shots inside the place. And, of course, a lot of (probably) cringe-inducing commentary from me -- as a guy in a steadicam suit followed me around. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out -- for a garage program on MAVTV coming in January.
http://scontent-b-ord.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1450159_416254378498072_1124047265_n.jpg
Pretty incredible.
http://scontent-a-ord.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/q71/s720x720/1173670_416254171831426_1723916695_n.jpg
Then also a lot of those slow tracking shots inside the place. And, of course, a lot of (probably) cringe-inducing commentary from me -- as a guy in a steadicam suit followed me around. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out -- for a garage program on MAVTV coming in January.
http://scontent-b-ord.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1450159_416254378498072_1124047265_n.jpg
VMX42
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Oh Jack,
Another day... another video crew at the 12-Gauge... Ah, the life of an international garage superstar!!!
Who would have thought?
Where will it end? And the Academy Award goes to...
Cheers,
Jeff
Another day... another video crew at the 12-Gauge... Ah, the life of an international garage superstar!!!
Who would have thought?
Where will it end? And the Academy Award goes to...
Cheers,
Jeff
akdiesel
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Jack
Congrats on the publicity. You certainly have a lot of accomplishments to be proud of.
Congrats on the publicity. You certainly have a lot of accomplishments to be proud of.
Garage Coffee Roaster
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I can see it now-
Some time in the future.....
Some blockbuster movie....
Fade in to a green cabinet...
Zoom out shows...
The 12 Gauge Garage
(plot to be determined)
If only we knew a screenwriter...
Congrats on another video shoot.
Jim
Some time in the future.....
Some blockbuster movie....
Fade in to a green cabinet...
Zoom out shows...
The 12 Gauge Garage
(plot to be determined)
If only we knew a screenwriter...
Congrats on another video shoot.
Jim
VWPORSCHEGT3
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that old popmech article has shown me how exactly im going to do my fold up bench.. Awesome! easy build only about a hour worth of work
alpinewhite
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Jeff who?