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Sounds about right; I was thinking to myself "1 day". This assumes you had everything you needed and at least a rough idea of what you're trying to build. You did it right as far as I'm concerned.

A DIY lathe can absolutely be done - But as somebody who recently bought a brand new Precision Mathews lathe for a little under $4k (decent sized bench model), I think you'd be into a homemade job for at least a couple grand in all the parts you would need, much less the time and hassle...

Those look great, but I've always wondered what the 'legalities' about this. On one of my cars the plates look terrible (peeling, cracked, etc), and want to do something similar. I believe different states vary regarding if you can 'own' the plate or not, but I believe up here in Oregon these...

Awesome, thanks! Not many of the pics I Googled had them, but you're spot on: EDIT: ...and now I have a project to fab some up. ;)

Did a quickie resto on an inexpensive Wards V112 vise, but I'm not understanding what these square-drive bolts do. There's a total of 3 of them, with the one on the moving jaw a little longer than the other 2. They may have been used to hold onto a long-gone part in the inner part of the...

I'd suggest a Google (Drive) Form and having that save into a Sheet (spread sheet). I'm using this to do my home inventory and it streamlines the process. Just open the Form and fill in the couple of fields that you setup (i.e. tool type, who has it, etc) and the results get saved into the...

Another Trex customer checking in. I don't recall the specific product of Trex's that we went with, but since we were doing a fairly small porch we went with one of their top-tier product. Installed it about 5 years ago and it still looks basically new. For context, where I live it's fairly...

Nice. If I put something like that together, I'd be a little concerned about too much weight bearing down on the building structure. What do you imagine the capacity is?

I don't like encroaching on another guy's thread, but here's a quick shot...

Hello fellow Central Oregonian! Man, that jib crane would be super handy; would like to know more details. I'm also digging your Stanley parts organizer. I just finished building my second parts organizers, which resemble yours, but I went with cheap HF parts organizers. They resemble yours a...

I'm no expert, but I'm under the impression that rather than the operation, the type of material is more of a factor. Maybe this is more true with turning, but for aluminum I use WD40, stainless something like Anchorlube, probably Tap Magic for steel. Hell I've even used chainsaw bar oil on...

This is essentially what I have for my setup - one common shop space (inside my barn) with everything sharing the one area. The room itself is 50x30 in total and houses my welding, wood, and machine tools. While it's probably not ideal to mix the media like this (wood dust on the metal lathe...

About a year ago I built a 26x30 CF (kit) building and insulated it. I went with batt (walls) and roll (ceiling) insulation. I was able to stuff the insulation into the wall cavities and it held well enough until I could sheet the wall with OSB. On occasion I had to temporarily hold the batt...

It's probably of limited (or possibly NO) use to you, but I'll chime in that I'm on the other side of the mountains from you and less than two years ago I paid $9,*** for a 30x30 mono pour with a very similar footing. I did the grading, but the concrete contractor took over after that task...

When we built the house and barn we saw a ton of Widows. Enough to make us really pause and ask ourselves if moving to our location was smart or not. That first summer I had Widows in the barn, around the foundation of the house, in the wood pile, inside the house, garage, etc. It was a...

I have the same yellow tray thingy hanging from my parts organizer just like you have. When somebody is looking over my "parts tower" I usually also point out the tray since it's not a piece that many consider. These trays are super handy for quickly dumping out a bin, sift through it, then...

Just happened to stumble over a link to this product in case anybody cared: https://www.toolsid.com/hazet/assistant-original-tool-trolley-mpn-166c.html?singleid=847677760

We just have a propane firepit, but it's been pretty nice. When I built my patio, I also planned out the base for the firepit body using the same pavers. I routed PVC plumbing under the pavers which I eventually ran my gas line through which gives a clean look. We have two large tanks which...

Was going to suggest the same thing. I have OSB in my shop and, while it's not the most attractive surface, the endless options for mounting stuff makes it very nice. Inside my wife's building we also put up OSB for the same reason, but she gave it a coat of paint. Hers looks way nicer than...

Ok, so there's a lot good questions to unpack here... I'll give you my thoughts from my experience. FWIW, my "credentials" are that 5 years ago we had our house and pole building (50x72x16) built. Over the last 12 months, I just completed a DIY build of a 30x26 CF metal building for my wife...