After what seems like forever progress is being made!
It’s a funny L shape, dictated by local zoning restrictions on the house setbacks, but it’s 440 square feet, dedicated and mine! Electricity is being finished as we speak, and more machinery will start to move in sometime this week/weekend…..one heavy piece at a time…
Edited 8/28/2007 4:29 pm ET by SpeakerScott
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Your pictures are much too large to be viewed.
a little better...
Nice! And a wooden floor too.Frosty"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Yes, I got tired of standing on unforgiving concrete, and dropping a chisel used to cause tears. Even if it didn't hit my foot. The floor is utility grade cherry from Lumber Liquidators...it turned out far nicer than I ever thought it would...but it was a lot of work to put down. More progress last night...the heaviest machine has been moved in. It's not 100% set up....but it's getting there. Last night I aligned table top to blade...lubed and cleaned everything...Scott
I was (am) thinking about using some of the utility grade wood from LL. Did you find it to be good enough for a shop or was it messed up a lot?
Doug Meyer
It was pretty rough, you have to sort and work through the lumber much more than you normally would. I did find that the lumber was amazing though, curl, burl, and even some birds-eye looking lumber was in the bundle. I'm not sure if "soccer-mom" doesn't like variation in the floor, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out why some of these were so nice...Now, others...were completely unusable...they say expect 40% waste which takes some of the savings out of it. I was probably at 20% to 25% waste, but I set up to re-do some of the milling...so I could use boards otherwise unusable.Scott
PROGRESS!
Moved in the big machines, a few wounds to show for it, no damage to the machines.
Built some workbenches..too. First set of built-ins...wasn't paying close attention to grain on the drawers, and didn't want to cut into a new sheet of plywood either. I call it Grain Randomization Technology (GRT)...everyone has to have a "signature" technique. I'm hoping this one isn't mine.
Oh, and you can't see it in these pictures, but I have a new joint. I call it the 5/8-3/8 lap. I mean half-lap is soooo overdone.
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Scott
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