We,ve seen and heard discussions on nice shops and organization. I think we can have fun on the flip side. If you have a shop that is not so impressive post a picture. we should have a vote on worst looking shops (in use).
with that, here is the first candidate.
My shop in Israel… It has everything I need. That is the important part.
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sorry about the pics. Here are new ones
The outside shot is most impressive -- my hat is off to you! The inside is like an operating room, or a CEO's office compared to the present condition of mine. Can't bring myself to post a photo just now though -- perhaps if some other brave souls join the fray....
LOL.. LOL.. I just fell offin' my puter chair laughing!Good One.. Ya' just made my day..I thought mine was bad because the Termites will not come in.. I have to throw a hunk of wood out every week to keep them from starving to death...
At least you have good clamps. Are those Besseys?
By the way how is the availability of lumber in your area?
Edited 5/8/2006 1:04 am ET by hobbyluthier
Its at least clean if not in a rudimentary structure. I'll post a pic of mine before I moved. aloha, mike
Looks pretty good to me. I like the a/c you have, looks pretty airy.
Neut
It's a study in constrast, that lovely table sitting in that shop.
If you're talking with a potential customer, you might want to show your work before showing your shop. hehe.My goal is for my work to outlast me. Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.
Apparently my idea of people contributing pictures of their shops didn't work out.
Instread it seems that I have been the laughing stock. Very well. Its okay, I have a good sense of humor. I have to, look where I work.
Ahh, I was responding with humor. Clearly it didn't come across.
I'd show my shop, but it's more pedestrian than anything. I'm a hobbyist shoehorned into a double garage with a ton of holiday decorations, miscellaneous storage, a hot water heater, laundry equipment, a deep freeze and a furnace. Sometimes laundry gets piled onto my table saw.
The truth is, I was complimenting you on producing such a lovely piece, and demonstrating that it's not the shop, it's the product. It's an encouragement to me, as my shop will never grace the pages of FWW.My goal is for my work to outlast me. Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.
Not to keep you lonely, here's my lovely shop. Most of the real nasty clutter and mess is along the wall facing the tools. Here you will find 3" of various saw dust, shavings, old rags, and my 100th attempt at putting together ducting for the DC.If you look carefully, you will see shoelaces descending from the ceiling. That was from the days my old cat, Rocky, had a fixation on shoelaces. To him, they were spaghetti.The ceiling is about 6' 8". Good thing I'm below the national height average (as well as my wife). But it is comfy and I love the time I spend there.We have DirectTV which includes XM. I bought wireless speakers so I can listen to XM music in the shop. Perfect!Let me know if the images are too big. I have a 21" monitor set to 1600 x 1200.Sutton
Edited 5/8/2006 5:58 pm ET by SuttonHoo
As long as you're comfortable with it should be fine.
Believe me or not, I am doing woodworking as a hobby at the air-well area (6'W X 18'L) sharing with 4'W x 3'L x 5'H domestic water-tank. There i put TS, RT and all my woodworking stuff from hardware to ww books & manuals.
Masrol
I like it!
Just park your camel outside and get to work....
I'll try to post a pic of mine soon.
If I only knew how to post pictures, NONE of you would ever be embarrassed about your shop. Mine was a disaster after building my pool house. I managed to reclaim it only after multiple trips to the dump. lol
Jim
Okay, another "brave soul" checking in.
Here is my basement shop. Not really too bad, but I would like to find enough room to add a lathe.
Of course, when I consider the enjoyment I get out of it - not bad at all!
Nice shop...looks like you have had to do some "creative cramming."
I like your cabinet and stool in the last picture...very nice work.
James
nice shop, very organized. for my taste, maybe a little too organized. but then i need a comfortable mess in order to feel productive....(haha)
I envy your square footage. If I can, I will take a few shots of my space tomorrow. Each project involves reclaiming tooltops and floorspace. Why is that? I am sure someone else is always leaving things where they don't belong. Because I ALWAYS put things away when I am done.Andy"It seemed like a good idea at the time"
A solution to expand layout/glue up/assembly area is to get a couple of 3/0 slab Luan doors, shoot'em with some lacquer or brush on poly, and set'em on saw horses. When you're finished, leanem' against the wall out of the way. The folding horses are space-savers too.
I love it! I don't imagine that theft is much of a problem! More importantly, what bandsaw is that? Is that the Mini Max "S" series?
John
Awwwww, the inside is way too neat, LOL!! I'd post pictures, but you qualified "in use" and with spring hitting the Great Northwest, I haven't used my shop in weeks now.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
I was interested in the table.....I made a reproduction of one that is very similar for a historc site here, but mine had a curved and carved front apron.
I am located in Gush Etzion...
Surprisingly enough, I have everything I need in that shop to do pretty much anything.
And being that it doesn't rain from april to november, the open spaces are an advantage.
Most impressive, your optimism that is. I feel like I work in a castle now. This just shows once again if there's a will there's a way.
I lost my dream shop in a divorce four years ago, heck it even had an inground pool 20' from the door. Now I work out of a rented building with a leaky roof 15 miles from from home. I'm flat broke, a month behind on damn near everything, except the shop rent and I love every minute I can get in my "new" shop. I even managed to get most of my tools that were held hostage for over a year. I'm pursuing my dream come hell or high water and got lucky enough to find a new wife that's behind me all the way.
If it works for you more power to you.
Sorry no pictures to offer...
Heck I don't think there are any bad looking shops. No matter what they look like, after you cut cherry for a while they all smell the same.
http://www.furnitology.com
How's about the worst looking work bench?
at least you have a vice.
Have a vice? Hail, I got more vices than Carter has liver pills....drinkin', cussin', and behavior unbecoming to genteel society.
But only one vise.... ;-)
BTW, my first shop was a tractor shed that I shared with a possum and a couple of cranky rattlesnakes.
Here's my 2 car garage shop I'm working out of now. It's tight!!! LOL:) Everything on casters.
MK
OK, I said earlier that I'd post a photo if some other brave souls joined the fray, and MiKro's shots have inspired me to action. I bought the jointer and planer in these shots used, about 17 or 18 years ago and moved them into my basement shop with the help of 5 friends. I have nightmares about getting them back out someday. My basement is chopped up into a maze of little rooms; hence the arrangement you see here. The second shot shows where I had to punch a hole in the wall so I could move the jointer closer to it and allow room to get by to the rest of the little rooms in the shop. Very cramped, but the almost 7' ceilings make up for it.
Mike,I'm glad I inspired you, Very nice, As we all have to adapt to our special circumstances. I find it refreshing that we laugh at our situations and want for more. But in the end it comes down to necessity and will.Mike K aka MiKro"The path we walk, is full of decisions. The direction we choose is the destiny of life." (mikro)
Edited 5/10/2006 10:40 pm by MiKro
Loved the hole in the wall. What's the old saying, necessity is the mother of invention.
Edited 5/12/2006 1:12 pm ET by bones
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