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My Grenada West Indies workshop
Jun 22, 2010
I am retired and live in Grenada, West Indies. One of the best things is that I have cuban/West Indies mahagony available. I build furniture and custom cabinet work. My shop is 1500 sq ft which I share with my wifes stained glass art work. I air dry the rough cut lumber for about 2 years before using it for any given project. We also have a white cedar lumber which looks and works much like white oak. Happy to answer any questions.
Cheers and happy wood working.
Dean Schopp
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A 1500 sq. ft. shop and you get to live in Grenada? You did something right, my friend.
I was there once (actually twice) first time I arrived by parachute on October 25th, 1983 (operation Urgent Fury) second time was for a frontline show regarding the invasion. Beautiful Island and great people.
Must be nice.
Scott Custer
What a nice bench;purpleheart? Like my fellow poster, I envy your nest!
I do feel pretty fortunite to be in the position I am. I love my shop, the weather here is always great, and of course there is that wonderful mahagony lumber.
The work bench is purpleheart, I just thought the design in Popular woodworking, I think, was great so I used that as the basic starting point. I'm a handtool and machine woodworker and this bench is great for that. The bench is about 500 pounds so it's pretty stable.
Cheers
Dean
Cuban mahogany ..that's great, would love to have some of that in St.maarten .
How about some more pics of that bench! And your tool cabinet too. Nice work, Thanks.
Rex
Grenada is a beautiful island. I was fortunate to visit many places while stationed at Gitmo in the early 60's, and later after going to the fleet, the destroyers that I was on spent time in the Caribbean sea,and North and South Atlantic. Your shop is most immpressive, and living in paradice, too. Well done.
Dean - any thoughts on the Laguna SUV you have? I saw a post online you made saying you love it. I'm thinking of dropping some coin on the unit but wanted to get a real world review - you would seem to have a good perspective given all the work you've completed (presumably) with the saw. Any feed back is greatly appreciated.
Cheers to you for following a dream and starting your shop down there...may we all be so lucky!
Patrick
Dean: I'm very interested in your combo table saw/router cabinet. Are their plans available?
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