Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bird on May 04, 2014, 12:26:13 PM
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Hi guys, I took a few pictures of my shop--- not that exciting to some, but it is where I live most of the time!!!
(http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/af81/11numnum/shop/th_SDC11704_zps14439e6b.jpg) (http://s996.photobucket.com/user/11numnum/media/shop/SDC11704_zps14439e6b.jpg.html)
(http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/af81/11numnum/shop/th_SDC11702_zps85f3233e.jpg) (http://s996.photobucket.com/user/11numnum/media/shop/SDC11702_zps85f3233e.jpg.html)
(http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/af81/11numnum/shop/th_SDC11695_zpsb356951b.jpg) (http://s996.photobucket.com/user/11numnum/media/shop/SDC11695_zpsb356951b.jpg.html)
(http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/af81/11numnum/shop/th_SDC11718_zps6f491592.jpg) (http://s996.photobucket.com/user/11numnum/media/shop/SDC11718_zps6f491592.jpg.html)
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(http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/af81/11numnum/shop/th_SDC11712_zpsce833da5.jpg) (http://s996.photobucket.com/user/11numnum/media/shop/SDC11712_zpsce833da5.jpg.html)
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Great shop, looks like a good true working shop. Great group of tools on hand. It must be nice already having a good variety of wood on hand for projects. I would say the best part there is the shelf of hand planes.
I am curious, do you use cordless or air tools? I didn't really see any photoed.
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I am envious of the simplicity and space. The wood storage is also much admired. My shop is smaller, too crowded and I have too many disciplines trying to share the space.
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WOW!! you got Space!! Wish I had that much room...
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I should probably confess that my shop pretty much has never looked this good...... Normally, you can't see the floor...... but, I've spent about a month reorganizing everything and pretty much stopping building anything but what I had do in order to clean/organize. This is the result! I should probably remind myself to look at these pictures a month from now!!!!! My shop is the bottom level of my house, so it's 1200 sq ft.... with windows and glass doors!!!!! It's pure heaven to me...... to me, I live in a mansion.
cheers,
bird.
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Great shop! You had us believing it was a disaster area all this time! I see potential all over it.
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I should probably confess that my shop pretty much has never looked this good...... Normally, you can't see the floor...... but, I've spent about a month reorganizing everything and pretty much stopping building anything but what I had do in order to clean/organize. This is the result! I should probably remind myself to look at these pictures a month from now!!!!! My shop is the bottom level of my house, so it's 1200 sq ft.... with windows and glass doors!!!!! It's pure heaven to me...... to me, I live in a mansion.
cheers,
bird.
Glad for the confession! My shop *may* look this clean in a month from now -- I just pulled almost everything out to get electrical in, and while it was empty, it seemed like a good idea to insulate and put up sheet rock. Even the wood storage came down from the walls. And then the rains came, and everything went back in all jumbled like. It's supposed to rain again today, so what little is still outside (primarily my 4' X 8' work and layout bench) is under a tarp, and mostly the rest is sitting wherever I could get it dumped back in in a hurry last night.
Dear, you*do* live in a mansion. You've got almost four times the space I have.
Good on you. But don't neglect to sent the pics of your shop as it really looks...
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Bird, what type of work do you do in the shop? That is an awesome workspace. Neat little rolltop desk - do you use that or is it a fix-it job?
My garage is mainly for mechanical repairs and metalworking. I do have one of those ancient Craftsman 8" table saws for doing home improvements, repairs.
Al
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Bird, what type of work do you do in the shop? That is an awesome workspace. Neat little rolltop desk - do you use that or is it a fix-it job?
My garage is mainly for mechanical repairs and metalworking. I do have one of those ancient Craftsman 8" table saws for doing home improvements, repairs.
Al
I don't know too much about mechanic stuff---- I leave that to my dad. He lives about 45 minutes away. I've had the same old 24o volvo station wagon since....well, it's the only car I've ever owned!!! It's been in my care and I in its care for 17 years. It keeps running thanks to dear ole dad. He's got a car lift in his shop..... nothing like walking underneath a car to change the oil!!!! It only has a drivers seat.... so I can fit 10 ft of lumber in it with the doors closed! People always tell me I need a truck. ..... but, I wouldn't trade this car for anything!
I wouldn't trust me around metal working or plumbing, either. So, what I do is all woodworking---- it's what I do for a living along with catering, when I feel like it or need the money. Before woodworking I was a chef (well, still am!) --- the only job I've ever had in one form or another (teaching cooking lessons, working in restaurants, and catereing). I build alot of smaller stuff--- stools, cutting boards, coasters because I come across a lot of gorgeous wood given to me from others cutoffs. I like to "show case" cool grain patterns that would work for some larger stuff.
I build chests, tables, book shelves, ect. But, I've found a good target customer---- grandparents! They have saved up some money, done raising the kids (for the lucky ones!), ect. So, when that first grandchild comes along, I try to make something that's a "keepsake". I started building kids outdoor furniture (adorondak chairs, tables, ect) and benches that look much like a park bench, but out of wood and smaller. I can't compete with the all the stoors that now mass produce furniture, and I certaintly can't charge by the hour. But, I can build out of all local woods-- fallen timber rather then supporting loggers.
I've been catering for folks in Charlottesville (1 hour from here) since I was literally fifteen years old. So, I have a large clientel of wealthier persons that love to buy things from me. If I'm lucky, I can rope persons into buying a chair for each of their grandkids!!!!! Or, get someone who decides to buy cutting boards for all their Christmas gifts that year.
I love making benches for homes because I can often save one big beautiful board for the project. I'm also in the process of coming up with some wood projects for kids to do. ....... even a little kit of five peices of wood for a box, with predrilled holes, ect. for a kid to paint and put together. THAT is my latest way to use up every scrap of lumber!!!! I might try coming up with a "bird house kit" ----- fitting name, being Bird----
Anyhow, that's a long answer.
cheers,
bird
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I should probably confess that my shop pretty much has never looked this good...... Normally, you can't see the floor...... but, I've spent about a month reorganizing everything and pretty much stopping building anything but what I had do in order to clean/organize. This is the result! I should probably remind myself to look at these pictures a month from now!!!!! My shop is the bottom level of my house, so it's 1200 sq ft.... with windows and glass doors!!!!! It's pure heaven to me...... to me, I live in a mansion.
cheers,
bird.
Glad for the confession! My shop *may* look this clean in a month from now -- I just pulled almost everything out to get electrical in, and while it was empty, it seemed like a good idea to insulate and put up sheet rock. Even the wood storage came down from the walls. And then the rains came, and everything went back in all jumbled like. It's supposed to rain again today, so what little is still outside (primarily my 4' X 8' work and layout bench) is under a tarp, and mostly the rest is sitting wherever I could get it dumped back in in a hurry last night.
Dear, you*do* live in a mansion. You've got almost four times the space I have.
Good on you. But don't neglect to sent the pics of your shop as it really looks...
I'm sure it will be back to normal soon...... my dog's pissed at me. She normally lays in a HUGE pile of sawdust in front of my jointer and planer. I have to admit, I couldn't help myself one day. As Bean was sound asleep, having grown accustom to hum of tools at work, I turned on my planer and shoved a board through just to see how quick I could wake Bean up! Man, she didn't know what hit her!!!!! (the sawdust, not the board!!).
cheers,
bird
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My shop is the bottom level of my house, so it's 1200 sq ft.... with windows and glass doors!!!!! It's pure heaven to me...... to me, I live in a mansion.
cheers,
bird.
Gosh, that's just ten times the size of my shop (not counting the driveway where a lot of work goes on in tolerable weather). Not hardly any room at all.
Bill, telling himself that he looks good in envy-green
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Bird, I like that you re-use left over materials. That explains all those short pieces of wood on the shelves! 10 ft boards in a Volvo wagon! I was loading 8' deck boards and 2x4s in my Chevy Tracker (R.I.P.) and some guy kept glancing over. As I closed the back window I turned to him and said "Betcha didn't think that was gonna fit did ya?" He laughed.
I don't work on cars if I can help it. Never was a car mechanic but municipal type equipment, tractors and small engines. I enjoy working on and modifying old bicycles. And self-taught amateur Brit bike mechanic. The motto of Brit riders is "Wrench, ride, repeat" with the percentage of time being about 75% wrenching - at least on my bikes.
Al
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Nice shop! Go Bird! Double French doors! Considerable room to work. Good ceiling height.
Lovely.
Couple of really interesting things too. I liked the
"overhead planer". Having it up high means better clearance and if a lot of your work is smaller work, hoisting the stock up is no problem.
A shopsmith used as a vertical drill press is also unusual. I see them used as horizontal presses a lot, but I didn't even know they could tip up and be used vertically.
Thanks for the pictures.
yours Scott
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A shopsmith used as a vertical drill press is also unusual. I see them used as horizontal presses a lot, but I didn't even know they could tip up and be used vertically.
Dang! How did I miss the ShopSmith? Set up vertically they make an exceptional drill press. The way the machine sets up for vertical use makes it possible to get all the use you would from a floor mounted drill press. In the vertical position, it becomes also a drum sander, a jointer for edge work, a mortising machine, and a shaper. Mine spends close to half its time in vertical mode.
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Scott,
You clearly didn't read the advertising for ShopSmith in your youth. The ability to tip up for vertical work was one of the whiz-bang features.
I'm holding on to a 10ER that I don't have room in the shop for in case I win the lottery or go to a garage sale at which they're actually selling the garage, and I can bring it home (the garage, that is). The two major uses I imagine for it are horizontal boring and drill press use.
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I just got a shopsmith (Vintage) about a month ago. I unloaded it and haven't looked at it yet. I don't have any idea what it is missing. They offered to sell for $150, I gave $200 (It was a charity.)
Has anyone seen any good sites showing the Shopsmith evolution? I've looked hither and yon, but I haven't found anything. Vintage machinery didn't even have much paper to speak of.
Chilly
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1950 barely qualifies as 'vintage', so not surprising...
The Shopsmith's were heavily advertised in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Searching google books for these turns up quite a lot of versions...
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=%22shopsmith%22#q=%22shopsmith%22&tbm=bks
Alternate link because google is being weird:
https://www.google.com/search?q=shopsmith&tbm=bks&tbo=1
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Thanks for the Popular Science / Popular Mechanics tip - those ads should get me what I am after.
I think i understand what you are saying regarding the use of the word "vintage." Most people have a Shopsmith wouldn't be posting on the Vintage Machinery site - but when searching around, the VM site had some of the most useful info, just not much of what I need.
Actually, vintage can be 2013. Your use of the term was most accurate, as vintage is correctly used with a date.
Ex:
Abc wineries white wine, vintage 2008.
Other common accepted use is over 40 yrs = vintage, over 100 yrs = antique.
More and more commonly it simply means anything that is not the current style.
Vintage machinery has almost always been my best source for power machine paper. They had some of the only paper on my 1936 Yates-American scroll saw.
Chilly
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Chillylulu, try www.shopsmith.com
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Has anyone seen any good sites showing the Shopsmith evolution? I've looked hither and yon, but I haven't found anything. Vintage machinery didn't even have much paper to speak of.
Chilly
Everything you want to know can be found on the ER forum at:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Shopsmith10ERusers/info
There are examples of members' machines, a whole documents section that even includes the early blueprints for building your own stand for the ShopSmith that came with
each order, and pictures, discussions, original manuals and so forth for just about everything. Whatever you need to know, it will be there. I have almost all the documents that
came with my ShopSmith back in 1949. If I can be of help, let me know. I really love the old ShopSmiths.
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Thanks guys.
I'll post it up soon.
I'm working in a bunch of pictures of tools to share, just slow.
Chilly
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Thanks guys.
I'll post it up soon.
I'm working in a bunch of pictures of tools to share, just slow.
Chilly
You're not slow unless it takes you literally YEARS to do that! So, no worries!!!
bird
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Chillylulu, that shopsmith.com site that I mentioned, has a Mark V serial numer list
with dates.
also, Shopsmith Mark V tool history; how to tell the age of your machine by colors.
also has parts list to order replacement parts.
good luck with yours.
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Chillylulu, that shopsmith.com site that I mentioned, has a Mark V serial numer list
with dates.
also, Shopsmith Mark V tool history; how to tell the age of your machine by colors.
also has parts list to order replacement parts.
good luck with yours.
That's the site for the current ShopSmith company. Their product is a different creature from the Magna ShopSmith. If Chillylulu has an E or an ER
ShopSmith, it won't be much use to him, though *some* parts are interchangeable (just not many). They are not a source for replacement part for the early Magna ShopSmiths. The E and ER dates will not be there, either.
Chillylulu, which model ShopSmith do you have? Does it have two way bars or four?
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I would feel right at home in the OP's shop. It reminds me a lot of mine, only larger. It also appears we have the same type of "peg shelving" for our wood storage. I used 5/16" steel rods, 12" long. Drilled 5/16" holes in the studs at the same angle with the use of a jig, and tapped the rods into place. It's the only way to go for storing wood if you ask me. You can check your inventory and access something in a 8' high stack of wood in seconds, when it would otherwise be buried.