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Poor Man's Drill Press:
For quite a while, this was all the drill press I had. Now I have an 8" and 10" Craftsman Drill Press. I am thinking something of a date around or about circa 1982 - 1986 for this rig. What is very interesting is the 1/2" drill is branded "J.C. Penney". Some youngers on here may not know that JC Penney once sold tools.
The drill press works as good as brand new, and I have it set to drill perfectly vertical holes. I made a little drill press wooden table for it, but I can't find it now. This portable DP is excellent to take with you to a job. You can clamp it to your table saw and it is "shirt pocket" handy!! I am going to tweak it a little for 2014 use and start using it again!!!
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Herb
For quite a while, this was all the drill press I had. Now I have an 8" and 10" Craftsman Drill Press. I am thinking something of a date around or about circa 1982 - 1986 for this rig. What is very interesting is the 1/2" drill is branded "J.C. Penney". Some youngers on here may not know that JC Penney once sold tools.
The drill press works as good as brand new, and I have it set to drill perfectly vertical holes. I made a little drill press wooden table for it, but I can't find it now. This portable DP is excellent to take with you to a job. You can clamp it to your table saw and it is "shirt pocket" handy!! I am going to tweak it a little for 2014 use and start using it again!!!
Best Regards
Herb
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Poor Man's Woodworking Shop:
This is the beginning of my new woodworking shop (I hope). This is part of my "get woodworking out of the garage" campaign.
It does not look too promising right now, but give old Herb a couple days!!
Now I won't be working "in" the building. I am going to build a deck at the doors and be able to push my table saw just out on it. I plan to have a table saw, router table, and chop saw there. I am running a 60 amp supply there this week.
On my earlier post, well, the Ryobi Radial Arm saw did not work out. Seems Ryobi has a "stop use" message on it. The motor case tends to blow up during use. Not good. But, I can ship Ryobi the motor cut off at the cord, and they will give me a $75.00 check for that. Anyway the thing was free, so I am not losing anything.
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Herb Spencer
This is the beginning of my new woodworking shop (I hope). This is part of my "get woodworking out of the garage" campaign.
It does not look too promising right now, but give old Herb a couple days!!
Now I won't be working "in" the building. I am going to build a deck at the doors and be able to push my table saw just out on it. I plan to have a table saw, router table, and chop saw there. I am running a 60 amp supply there this week.
On my earlier post, well, the Ryobi Radial Arm saw did not work out. Seems Ryobi has a "stop use" message on it. The motor case tends to blow up during use. Not good. But, I can ship Ryobi the motor cut off at the cord, and they will give me a $75.00 check for that. Anyway the thing was free, so I am not losing anything.
Cheers
Herb Spencer
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WOW, that's some job you got going there.
Have a good one, Gerard
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The tools forum would be appropriate i think.
With some thing like "Let us see your vintage tool collections" or similar.
We had better check that there has not been a similar thread previously.
What do you think?
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With some thing like "Let us see your vintage tool collections" or similar.
We had better check that there has not been a similar thread previously.
What do you think?
Cheers
Flea market today.
Art Deco Desk Lamp----asking 35.00 offer 20.00 buy for 20.00
Art Deco Ash Tray ----asking 10.00 offer 6.00 buy for 7.50 ( I don't smoke, but the ash tray matches the lamp so well and its genuine old art deco!!)
New style Craftsman 1/2" Ratchet and
Extension--------------asking 20.00 offer 12.50 buy for 12.50
Pretty good buys. I had been looking for the desk lamp for a long time.
Now I sit at my desk and feel like Humphrey Bogart.
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Herb Spencer
Art Deco Desk Lamp----asking 35.00 offer 20.00 buy for 20.00
Art Deco Ash Tray ----asking 10.00 offer 6.00 buy for 7.50 ( I don't smoke, but the ash tray matches the lamp so well and its genuine old art deco!!)
New style Craftsman 1/2" Ratchet and
Extension--------------asking 20.00 offer 12.50 buy for 12.50
Pretty good buys. I had been looking for the desk lamp for a long time.
Now I sit at my desk and feel like Humphrey Bogart.
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Herb Spencer
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Last two days were mostly clean out of shed in preparation for setting up as a woodbutcher shop. I really do think I am on the right track here. I love woodworking, but hate the mess. You really need to do woodbutcher in a place that most of the time, you don't care what it looks like. Just cutting a few boards in the garage means a "all hands on deck" clean up. Hopefully with the shed/shop, I will lean more towards wanting to saw boards, and less towards worrying about the mess I am making. When you woodwork, you drag out a tablesaw, a router, a sabre saw, a jointer, a belt/disc sander, a hand held sander, rules, squares, pencils, glue, mess on top of mess. Plus if in your garage, you shower your tool boxes full of sawdust which means a month of cleaning them like I just went through. I think the shed is going to solve my problem.
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Herb,
I think you're on the right track. Of course I think that because I have a butcher shop as well. It's 18' x 12' and houses most of the woodworking, cutting, grinding and buffing tools. If I ever get the garage straightened out, that shop is next.
Are you going to insulate and put up wall covering? Even if you don't air condition the woodbutcher shop, I think the insulation reduces temperature swings so hot humid air doesn't become condensation when it cools off at night. Mine is insulated and so far (18 years) I don't have a rust problem with the tools or materials. OK, full disclosure, there's a little rust from the times I've gotten caught with tools outside the shop and it started raining. Not a rare occurrence down here in the waiting-room state.
I think you're on the right track. Of course I think that because I have a butcher shop as well. It's 18' x 12' and houses most of the woodworking, cutting, grinding and buffing tools. If I ever get the garage straightened out, that shop is next.
Are you going to insulate and put up wall covering? Even if you don't air condition the woodbutcher shop, I think the insulation reduces temperature swings so hot humid air doesn't become condensation when it cools off at night. Mine is insulated and so far (18 years) I don't have a rust problem with the tools or materials. OK, full disclosure, there's a little rust from the times I've gotten caught with tools outside the shop and it started raining. Not a rare occurrence down here in the waiting-room state.
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I can certainly agree. I do metal and woodworking so either its sawdust or black dust everywhere. Having a shed to turn into a messy area will be great. It takes me few hours of cleanup after a project with sweeping and blowing everything off. Your place...... HOLY ****.... Is more like interior space than a garage. Its so neat and clean I can't imagine the clean up time to return it back to normal. That shed shop is going to save so much clean up time you'll have more time to put your feet up and have more coffee. LOL
Have a good one, Gerard
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Hi Bob, it is great to hear from you again!!
You raise excellent points about insulation of the little shed. Now is certainly the time to do that. Later this summer I will regret NOT doing it. In Arkansas in the June and on time frame, it will get hot enough to fry an egg on the floor in there. With the doors on each end of the shed, it creates a wind tunnel effect, and that will be my cooling. I do, however need to follow your suggestions on preventing condensation. Also, I plan on installing two turbine fans on the roof. My little place is already adding up in COST--LOL.
Thanks so much for your comments and I do appreciate your visit to my thread again!!
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Herb Spencer
Right now I am planning my small portable table saw, my portable belt disc sander, a wall full of carpenter tools, all the nails, screws, glues, paints, etc to be out there. I have a Delta chop saw already out there, but I need a new carbide blade for it. The radial arm saw (disappointed) would have served as a "one tool" shop, had it worked out. I may look around and try and find something else that would work for that.
Another idea I have is building an "outside" only workbench out of treated lumber. It would be a "who cares what it looks like" bench that stays at the back of the shed. I could use one of my router tables on it, and the little drill press shown in this thread. The whole thing will be about ease of use.
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Herb
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This teaser would be a multitool of it's day?
Did it do any job well or just enough to get by?
Did it do any job well or just enough to get by?
I think this tool would have found use on the farm. Possibly carried on the tractor to tighten bolts, etc. As a pipe wrench it seems pretty well efficient.
Maybe also for the automobile or truck. Manufacturer show to have been discontinued about three years later.
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That is an awesome tool, I have never seen any thing like it before. Thanks for posting.
I must get my backside into gear and get some pictures up of what few tool I have this weekend.
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I must get my backside into gear and get some pictures up of what few tool I have this weekend.
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From earlier post making a little progress with my poor man's woodworking shop. At least got the components in it. These photos show table saw, router table, chop saws, and portable power tools in a cart. Also wood storage, painting materials storage, and what junk I have not yet found a place for. Still to do is build a deck at the end to roll out tools to work on wood. Slow but getting there.
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Looking good Herb, I think I may have mentioned it before but I have similar issues in terms of space and do most of my wood and metal work for that matter, outdoors.
The mobility aspect of your gear, to be able to move it around is the way to do it and that is one of the many standout lessons I have learned here on the GJ.
The other is to be really organised with your storage solutions as your is, this helps no end making what you do in the shed a pleasure and not a chore.
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The mobility aspect of your gear, to be able to move it around is the way to do it and that is one of the many standout lessons I have learned here on the GJ.
The other is to be really organised with your storage solutions as your is, this helps no end making what you do in the shed a pleasure and not a chore.
Regards..
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Looking good Herb, I think I may have mentioned it before but I have similar issues in terms of space and do most of my wood and metal work for that matter, outdoors.
The mobility aspect of your gear, to be able to move it around is the way to do it and that is one of the many standout lessons I have learned here on the GJ.
The other is to be really organised with your storage solutions as your is, this helps no end making what you do in the shed a pleasure and not a chore.
Regards..
Thanks 1/2 Cup.
I am taking cues from those contractors with their trailers about 16 feet long who seem to pull up and take out about whatever they need for a job. I am liking this a lot more than I thought at first. I am thinking of the shed as one giant toolbox for storage of whatever I would need for a job. I want to be able to jerk out a table saw or a router very easily, and go at it. I will keep it neat and organized, but never will it be pretty!!
I will try and post some more antique tools soon. I am also enjoying the extra space in my garage!!
Best Regards
Herb Spencer
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Since you plan on cutting and routing wood outside, does this mean you have to plan ahead for nice day outdoor work and do the assembly inside on rainy/ bad weather days. I ran into a gentleman at Sears years ago and he said he did all his woodworking in his shed out back and was going to put up another one since he had acquired more power tools.
In one of the woodworking magazines a reader had designed his shop with 2 exterior doors with decks so he could take advantage of outside space and leave the debris outside.
In one of the woodworking magazines a reader had designed his shop with 2 exterior doors with decks so he could take advantage of outside space and leave the debris outside.
Hi Captain14. Thanks for your comments. My goal is to keep as much sawing, routing, jointing and sanding outside as possible. I have left my compressors, air nailers, and clamps inside the garage. If I build a cabinet or a similar item, I will do all the cutting outside and use my assembly table in the garage to put it together.
I also left my larger tablesaw and a chop saw in the garage to use in inclement weather if need be. Plus I am pretty crowded in the shed as it now stands. Time will tell how things work out.
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Herb Spencer
I also left my larger tablesaw and a chop saw in the garage to use in inclement weather if need be. Plus I am pretty crowded in the shed as it now stands. Time will tell how things work out.
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Herb Spencer
Since I got the shed set up, wife decides to have a craft workshop in the garage. She likes working in there and loves the oldies but goodies radio station I have set on the boom box.
I sure didn't need, but wanted badly a new Porter Cable Jig Saw. I already have three more in the shed. This is not made in the USA, but seems Original Porter Cable quality. Every adjustment and blade change is tool less.
Final photos are of an old Delta Jig Saw I am posting for 1/2 Cup. I will try and get up some further antique tools soon. I am planning on a full restore of this old scroll saw. I hope to find a motor for it somewhere.
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Herb Spencer
I sure didn't need, but wanted badly a new Porter Cable Jig Saw. I already have three more in the shed. This is not made in the USA, but seems Original Porter Cable quality. Every adjustment and blade change is tool less.
Final photos are of an old Delta Jig Saw I am posting for 1/2 Cup. I will try and get up some further antique tools soon. I am planning on a full restore of this old scroll saw. I hope to find a motor for it somewhere.
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Herb Spencer
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YOU BEEN INVADED!!! I hope not being moved to the shed. LOL
Have a good one, Gerard
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Herb, once again thanks for posting, the scroll saw looks great.
You are really going to get an electric motor that fits the era to do it justice.
My wife has said on numerous occasions that she envies me that I have the shed to work from, she does jewellery making and collects antique dolls amongst other things. I have not had any invasion threats at this point in time as she has taken over the third bedroom here to set up as a craft room.
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You are really going to get an electric motor that fits the era to do it justice.
My wife has said on numerous occasions that she envies me that I have the shed to work from, she does jewellery making and collects antique dolls amongst other things. I have not had any invasion threats at this point in time as she has taken over the third bedroom here to set up as a craft room.
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Found a couple of items at the flea today:
A steel stamping set, and it is complete. The stamps are case hardened and I shot a couple of them on a piece of steel and also on wood.
An old 3 1/2" vise. Worked well, but not sure if worth a full redo. Might hold this for a rainy day.
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Herb
A steel stamping set, and it is complete. The stamps are case hardened and I shot a couple of them on a piece of steel and also on wood.
An old 3 1/2" vise. Worked well, but not sure if worth a full redo. Might hold this for a rainy day.
Best Regards
Herb
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Herb, once again thanks for posting, the scroll saw looks great.
You are really going to get an electric motor that fits the era to do it justice.
My wife has said on numerous occasions that she envies me that I have the shed to work from, she does jewellery making and collects antique dolls amongst other things. I have not had any invasion threats at this point in time as she has taken over the third bedroom here to set up as a craft room.
Regards..
Thanks 1/2 Cup. I am thinking maybe an Industrial Sewing Machine motor would power the saw. I can fabricate an adjustable belt tension take up, and I will need to find a round rubber belt of some size.
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Herb
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Did you ask him how long it took to design the layout? I am sure he has done some modifications over time to make it work great. Now you have me thinking again about a shed and deck area to do my wood sawing work outside, I do know that would be good to keep the sawdust out of the washed and dryer area in the basement ( one big room)
Thanks for the thought. Maybe a small table saw on a stand I can move around.
Thanks for the thought. Maybe a small table saw on a stand I can move around.
Hi Cpt14
He says he has had the box truck for around a year. He moved from a flat bed trailer and pick up to this truck. Says it is so much better as he needs the flat carpeted bench on one side to lay out his metal forms, and the other long side to mount his bending brake. He really has it set up nice, with many comforts in there. Makes me wish I had one myself!!! BTW--his price was comfortable and his work was top drawer!!!
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Herb Spencer
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Shed looks great! You're certainly packing a lot of useful goods into a small space, and I really dig those old stamps. I'd love to find a full set like that for myself too someday. I've got 2 that my great grandfather used back in the 20's for his initials, but that's it.
Looking forward to progress on the 'extended shop space'
Looking forward to progress on the 'extended shop space'
LET'S SEE YOUR SHOP ROCKING CHAIR!!!! LOL
Here's mine:
The center chevy emblem on the head was all that was left of an S10 that got totaled. A guy crossed the center line at about 45 MPH on me. I walked away with only frazzled nerves and ruined underwear.
My wife made the gray cushion for me. I plan on several sessions of relaxing in this chair!!
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Herb Spencer
Here's mine:
The center chevy emblem on the head was all that was left of an S10 that got totaled. A guy crossed the center line at about 45 MPH on me. I walked away with only frazzled nerves and ruined underwear.
My wife made the gray cushion for me. I plan on several sessions of relaxing in this chair!!
Best Regards
Herb Spencer
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Thanks for your visit! The shed shop is working out really well. I plan to build a 6 foot work bench in there, but not making it very elaborate, as it will be no fun in the dead of winter. Right now, I am having to share the shed space with storage of my "good" junk. But for now it is working great.
I enjoyed your recap of your shop!!
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Herb