Thanks guys, I was a lurker on this forum for a long time so you can bet some of these ideas came from you.
Jim B - The heart of my shop is that i-beam table. It's actually a torsion box which gives me a dead flat surface to build on. I happened to have the i-beams from another project and used them to give me a perfectly flat base to build the torsion box on. It worked so good that I decided to keep the whole table on that awesome mobile base. Most everything in my shop is mobile as you can see.
Bottom Feeder - Nope I've not had any problems at all with dust in the grooves. You asked about the wood stove. Oh my goodness that stove does the most amazing job of heating my whole shop. We've had negative temps here in Iowa for several weeks and it was a wonderful 70 degrees in my shop. I will say though that I spent extra moola on insulation in the ceiling and it has paid off big time!
e-tek - That crazy curtain was suppose to be a temporary spray booth just to give me a feel for how big I wanted my REAL spray room. It's a discarded gazebo frame up on pedestals with cheap plastic tarps. I occasionally do big harvest tables and I worried the 10'x10' footprint wouldn't be big enough. This silly setup works so great that I don't plan on building any permanent walls. The great thing about this system is it's expandable if I need it to be so if I end up doing say a long 10' harvest table in the future I can just remove the end tarp and fix up something bigger. I have an exhaust fan located up high in the wall so the overspray is easily pulled out of the building.
BULL - Yes, was happily married for 17 years but lost my best friend (husband) to cancer 5 years ago. This shop is my way of moving on with life. Life is short so you better enjoy it while you have it!!
Zeke - When I was planning for dust collection and outlets I wanted a channel down the middle of my shop that would house some of my electrical outlets (110 & 220) and my dust collection hose/chutes. I didn't want overhead ducts clogging up my ceiling space. My concrete contractor was wonderful to work with and did an excellent job of creating a channel that allows me to drop a 2x12 down on a ledge which sits even with the concrete floor. It works very nicely. The only negative that I've experienced is I have to pop the 2x12s up a few times a year to **** out some sawdust and a few nasty spiders too. You asked about the sink. I was quoted a price of $5,000 to run water/sewer lines out to the shop and I said, ummmm.....I can live without it. My barrel system and sink works perfectly and if I feel like I want to move it to the other side of the shop it's easy to make the change.
Some of you asked about seeing some of my completed projects. I have a very lame website that needs a serious update or all together new look. I apologize.....I'm working on getting something new.
www.thewoodgal.com
Most of my latest projects are on my WoodGal Facebook page which is in my signature below.
