My Last Workshop.
The shop building is designed for a cold climate with long winters, heavily insulated with south facing windows and white pines for a windbreak on the the north.
Retired millwork engineer builds a workshop on a retired dairy farm in the Penokee Hills and fills it with retired machine tools. My tools of choice were built by and for American industrial craftsmen of the 20th century–built without compromise to machine tool standards, built to last forever. I watched, and helped, as industry evolved beyond hand powered and hand guided machinery and these became obsolete. I picked up a few as they crossed my path, and now we just putter around.
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The shop building is designed for a cold climate with long winters, heavily insulated with south facing windows and white pines for a windbreak on the the north.
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The SE corner is the toolroom and loading dock. Pratt & Whitney engine lathe, Reid Brothers tool grinder, Yates American planer. At 3800 lbs the lathe put to the test the A frame hoist and my 1985 F250.
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The stock prep area. Beach table saw, Northfield jointer, DeWalt radial arm saw, Davis & Wells band saw.
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The SW corner has my workbench, built a bit at a time starting in 1975 or so; a small Yates American shaper that mostly does endwork, and a small Delta shaper.
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The shop's grand old man is the Baxter D. Whitney double spindle shaper, built between 1918 and 1925. I rebuilt it extensively in 1987. Motorized spindles are switched electrically to run at 3500 rpm off line frequency or about 8500 rpm off a GE 5kw 150 cycle frequency invertor. Right side is a conventional shaper. Left side works like a small side head sticker with a shop built fence.
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AWESOME...¡¡¡¡
Blessings to you !
Enjoy your retirement !
My heart goes out to you as you obviously have a serious addiction to old cast iron. But, as I know of no 12-step program aimed at curing this dependence, let me say "turn on, tune in and cut up".
I really admire your shop. It just strikes me as what a real shop should look like. Especially with the older iron machines. Your layout looks to be perfect. Congrats
Wow! I'm impressed. Awesome wood machines and a metal lathe and surface grinder to boot. Excellent setup.
you have a serious shop, I can't image how you installed all that heavy equipment. Good luck in retirement. watch out todo list
Shop Envy!
Nicely done.
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