Small Two Car Operation
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Today I got the shop sort of back together. The rebuilt bench in it's place under the window. I made a small cabinet for the bench top holding battery chargers, WD40, etc. Next step is to re top the island bench with the T&G Oak, and it will get the little blue Craftsman vise mounted. All that after the holidays, I suspect.
All have a wonderful Christmas, and a great 2015!!!
Best Regards
Herb Spencer
All have a wonderful Christmas, and a great 2015!!!
Best Regards
Herb Spencer
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impala4speed
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What a really nice job on that bench Herb. Your workmanship and attention to detail continue to inspire me to do a better job in my own shop. Thank you for documenting so well what you've accomplished so that we all can benefit from your efforts.
And a Very Merry Christmas to you!
And a Very Merry Christmas to you!
don long
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Merry Christmas Herb
Thanks for posting the latest pictures of your work shop
I spotted a coke box that looks like a new addition
Your vices look right at home an your top surfaces
I like the looks of your newest bench and spotted the new home for your vintage Craftsman saw cases
I must admit that I really enjoy looking over your shop with all of your organizational skills glowing from frame to frame.
Enjoy the hollidays
Your friend
Don
Thanks for posting the latest pictures of your work shop
I spotted a coke box that looks like a new addition
Your vices look right at home an your top surfaces
I like the looks of your newest bench and spotted the new home for your vintage Craftsman saw cases
I must admit that I really enjoy looking over your shop with all of your organizational skills glowing from frame to frame.
Enjoy the hollidays
Your friend
Don
Don
Great to hear from you again. Thanks for your kind comments, and thank you so much for all your encouragement and friendship over the past year. The coke box story is earlier in my thread. I have had it a long time and it works really great. It got a full restore this year. It is a 1955 model, and you have to strain to hear it run.
Best wishes to you and family for the coming year!!
Herb
Surreal001
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Merry Christmas Herb. Great garage!
Sunbimmer
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Herb,
Best wishes for the new year in good health with lots of garage joy too
Hugo
Best wishes for the new year in good health with lots of garage joy too
Hugo
Herb,
Best wishes for the new year in good health with lots of garage joy too
Hugo
Hugo
The very same to you and yours my friend. I do plan on getting a lot more shop stuff done next month. January time frame is pretty cold here, but I can heat my shop toasty warm. I have a lot on the to do list, so I am hoping for some quiet time to get out there. Wife will have left shoulder surgery next month and I will be the chief cook and bottle washer for a couple of weeks.
But I learned the drill well when she had the right one done in 2013. All in all, I have had a very blessed year, and I hope your 2015 is top of the mark!!
All the best
Herb
don long
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Herb
As the year comes to an end we always look back at the events of that year.
One of those great events was making a new friend.
Iwant you to know how much I have enjoyed comunicating with you this past year. I really admire your work shop and how you share so freely with all of us
I hope you are enjoying the hollidays and I want to wish you a very happy new year.
Stay warm
Don
As the year comes to an end we always look back at the events of that year.
One of those great events was making a new friend.
Iwant you to know how much I have enjoyed comunicating with you this past year. I really admire your work shop and how you share so freely with all of us
I hope you are enjoying the hollidays and I want to wish you a very happy new year.
Stay warm
Don
Lyndon
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Herb
Long time looker - don't say much, but your shed is one of the ones on here that inspired me to get my own shed and garage in order, and it's a treat to behold.
By the way, it's nearly the end of 2014 here, so have a Happy New Year!
One question - when you are using the benches and tools in the garage, do you find the bench grinder creates much mess on and around your compressor?
I'm about to get a new bench grinder (the first purchase from our CL - Gumtree - had a bent shaft and became garbage after I tried to use it the first time, weeks after buying it - Damn it!
), and don't know whether to mount it to my workbench, or make a new smaller bench on wheels that I can take outside to use.
Your input would be appreciated.
Regards
Lyndon (In hot and almost sunny Sydney)
Long time looker - don't say much, but your shed is one of the ones on here that inspired me to get my own shed and garage in order, and it's a treat to behold.
By the way, it's nearly the end of 2014 here, so have a Happy New Year!
One question - when you are using the benches and tools in the garage, do you find the bench grinder creates much mess on and around your compressor?
I'm about to get a new bench grinder (the first purchase from our CL - Gumtree - had a bent shaft and became garbage after I tried to use it the first time, weeks after buying it - Damn it!
), and don't know whether to mount it to my workbench, or make a new smaller bench on wheels that I can take outside to use.Your input would be appreciated.
Regards
Lyndon (In hot and almost sunny Sydney)
rixtrix1
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MoparTrucks really mirrored my thoughts, Herb. I wish the same sentiments this time of year back to you!
rixtrix1
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I really like your attitude, Herb, especially beating everyone to the " you ****" on your mats, lol. Great look on the oak worktops. I visited a painter friend today who did a 1957 Chevy pickup hot rod. He painted the oak bedboards with satin black, sanded the top off and added ten coats of clear. The effect of the grain, like yours, was outstanding as the truck is painted black too.
Hope your Christmas was merry and your New Year will be Happy in all ways!
LyndonHerb
Long time looker - don't say much, but your shed is one of the ones on here that inspired me to get my own shed and garage in order, and it's a treat to behold.
By the way, it's nearly the end of 2014 here, so have a Happy New Year!
One question - when you are using the benches and tools in the garage, do you find the bench grinder creates much mess on and around your compressor?
I'm about to get a new bench grinder (the first purchase from our CL - Gumtree - had a bent shaft and became garbage after I tried to use it the first time, weeks after buying it - Damn it!
Your input would be appreciated.
Regards
Lyndon (In hot and almost sunny Sydney)
Thanks so much for your comments and question. I have just this week changed my arrangement, and mounted my 8" Delta Grinder on a portable metal cabinet. I am also topping my drill press stand with the 3/4 Oak to exactly match the height of my workbench. The grinder itself, is not too messy, but the buffing wheels I use a lot are. I have that portable so I can move it away from the bench or outside. Also, I will be swapping my 10" inch drill press out for the 8" I now have mounted. I will use the 8" in my back shop, where I do lighter work.
Thanks so much for your greetings and I wish you a great new year and every success!!
(I envy your warm weather!)
Best Regards
Herb
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Don
Those are very kind words, and I am especially pleased to be a friend of yours. Your place is simply amazing! I have big plans for 2015-shop/garage wise, so I will be working at it dilligently (when not trout fishing).
Thanks again my friend, and wishing you the best of the best!!
Herb
taumac
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BIG PLANS..... I'm interested on how you your beautiful clean shop any better. Have a Happy New Year and best in 2015.
WarrenJ
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Well, I will tune in to see what else you can come up with. Good wishes for 2015.
BBChevro
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Be careful what you wish for Herb, I took this pic up in the loft yesterday...
Some where in between would be good.
Happy new year.
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Gerard
Right now, my shop looks like Bull*hit, BubbleGum, and Barbed Wire in one big roll. However, I am taking now thru the weekend to get some more Oak topping done, and some put off repairs that I need.
Big plans for next spring will include my having an eye on a 14X20 Portable building with a roll up door. Problem is I will have to tear down my 25 year old lawn shed to have a place to put it. Idea is to move ALL woodworking into the 14X20, run Natural Gas and Electric, and insulate it of course. Then all the lawn shed stuff would transfer to my current small woodshop, the one I have been posting pictures of.
So will I do this? Anyone's guess on that. I have found the building and it will fit my proposed space. What is distasteful is my tearing down a perfectly good 10X12 lawn building that I built 25 years ago. Seems to be pretty non-frugal. I guess I am still fighting the woodworking devil.
Best Regards
Herb
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captain14
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no way to connect the buildings or move the shed to dry store materials?
BBChevro
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Unfortunately it is Celsius on the left and Fahrenheit on the right (110 f) - admittedly, that was on the mezzanine (the coolest spot in the garage was near the door - 95 degrees F).
I don't know how much space you have, but I thought you might be able to move the old (wood working) shed and have the new one as well.
I don't know how much space you have, but I thought you might be able to move the old (wood working) shed and have the new one as well.
Captain14 and BBChevro
The old lawn shed would not be worth trying to move, as it would just tear up, being a stick built on a slab. I would want it gone, and make a clean start with a new larger building. This is something I will be thinking about for spring/summer of this year. LOL--by then the sun is shinning and I will be happily chewing up boards in my neat little woodshed I already have!!
Best Regards
Herb
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Herb,
Looking forward to your 14 x 20 Wood working shop, sounds like a plan and maybe I can steel some of your ideas.
All the best for the New Year..
Regards
Looking forward to your 14 x 20 Wood working shop, sounds like a plan and maybe I can steel some of your ideas.
All the best for the New Year..
Regards
Herb,
Looking forward to your 14 x 20 Wood working shop, sounds like a plan and maybe I can steel some of your ideas.
All the best for the New Year..
Regards
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Hoping as well for a wonderful 2015 for you and your family!! I am thinking about the new building off and on. What I really need is a big old barn, complete with heat and lights. One that looks like a barn, is big like a barn, and is not too clean like a barn. I have many books on woodworking shop set ups. Most of the ones I liked the best are in rather unkempt spaces. We will see if in fact the 14' or 16' X20' proves to be of any use. Wood butchering by nature is a rather nasty business, best done outdoors.
All the Best To you!
Herb
don long
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Well Herb I wanted to start the new year off right by posting on your thread
If you can get the new shed and keep the old one just think (less grass to mow)
I've been cutting wood in the party garage due to the cold rainy (snowy) weather and did that make a mess for me to clean up tomorrow.
Dust off every car and blow off the collections and signs (OOPS)
Hope this year is even better than last year
Your Friend
Don
If you can get the new shed and keep the old one just think (less grass to mow)
I've been cutting wood in the party garage due to the cold rainy (snowy) weather and did that make a mess for me to clean up tomorrow.
Dust off every car and blow off the collections and signs (OOPS)
Hope this year is even better than last year
Your Friend
Don
jon72vega
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Herb,
I spent several hours yesterday reading thru your thread.
I am impressed!
You do excellent work!
Great creaftsmanship!
I spent several hours yesterday reading thru your thread.
I am impressed!
You do excellent work!
Great creaftsmanship!
taumac
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Wow, that's exciting news.
Herb,
I spent several hours yesterday reading thru your thread.
I am impressed!
You do excellent work!
Great creaftsmanship!
Jon04
Thanks so much for stopping by. Your kind words are very humbling to me.
I am so pleased you found something on this thread to interest you. I am also enjoying your thread---great job!
Best Regards
Herb
taumac
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I know it takes time. I know we plan, plan, plan, think, dream, and plan some more. I've been planning one wall for months. I'm so tired of planning and thinking of it I'm already tried of the project before I even started it. LOL. No matter what comes I'm sure it would be good.
BBChevro
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I flipped back through your thread a bit, in an unsuccessful attempt to find the pics of the shed.
If I remember correctly, it is situated parallel to the garage (as I said, I couldn't find it - so I could easily have it completely wrong
) - if it is, you could put a roof between them.I realize that it may be too cold in your neck of the woods to just have a roof, but I'm sure you could rig some temporary "winter walls" - and you'd have a shady spot to work outside in the summer.
All the best for 2015 to you and your family Herb.
I flipped back through your thread a bit, in an unsuccessful attempt to find the pics of the shed.
If I remember correctly, it is situated parallel to the garage (as I said, I couldn't find it - so I could easily have it completely wrong
I realize that it may be too cold in your neck of the woods to just have a roof, but I'm sure you could rig some temporary "winter walls" - and you'd have a shady spot to work outside in the summer.
All the best for 2015 to you and your family Herb.
Gerard and BBChevro
Thanks guys!
Another problem I would have is getting a new building into position. It would most likely have to be brought in sections and assembled on site.
Where I would want it has poor access for a truck or trailer.
I will do something even it's wrong!
Best Regards
Herb