New Shop space

[Chuck Gedraitis Knives]

Well I finally finished moving my equipment into the new shop space and finished cleaning the old shop space. The space worked at the time but the new space is better.
Here is a pic of the old space.

And now the new space.

I partitioned the room to make a separate grinding room. Here's what's in it.

2 spark buckets. I just switch the elbow on the vacuum to the bucket under the grinder I am using.

Outside the grinding room is the main shop space. I have my main work bench.

To the left my 1974 Craftsman lathe

To the left of that are my drill presses.

Along the back wall are my 2 out of 3 bandsaws. I have a 16 speed 1960's Powermatic in the garage that will make it's way downstairs when the snow melts. It will go in the middle of the other 2.

Paragon heat treating oven and tempering oven.

View from the grinding room, you can see the old shop space. I also have to frame-in and hang the door on the left.

Now back to making knives.
Thanks for looking,
Chuck

 

[J. Hoover]

Looking good, nice shop, I like the seperate grinding room, I need to do that myself.

 

[Phil Dwyer]

Cool. It looks like all you need are a drill press or two to complete the setup.

 

[Sticky]

looks great! How do you have the tubes rigged in the bucket? I was thinking of doing something similar and having the infeed tube submerged in water a bit forcing the dust to go in under the water but wasnt sure if it'll work.

 

[Chuck Gedraitis Knives]

I based my design off of this drawing. Me, and the home depot and about $15 worth of PVC and the buckets were all it took. I used 3in couplers to 2in pipe. Then 2in couplers to 1-1/4in pipe into the bucket.

 

[Sticky]

awesome! i know what my next project is!

 

[plowboy87]

i'd invest in some HD rubber mats. all my barns are poured cement and i have mats down in any place i stand for extended amounts of time (ie the work benches)

it's one of those little things that makes life so much better

other then that it looks like one hell of a shop. 4 drill presses are better then 1. i'v only got one and it wobbles

 

[Railrider1920]

Nice looking setup. I like that lathe.
Instead of rubber mats made specifically for standing on, you could also get some kids mats. They are basically the same, only not as expensive, but not as good a quality.

 

[plowboy87]

i use stable mats, the kid stuff was too easy to light on fire with grinders and welders.

 

[Chuck Gedraitis Knives]

I've got a restaurant kitchen 1/2 thick rubber mat in the grinding room. Maybe something similar for in front of the workbench.

I started cutting out liners this evening.

 

[Railrider1920]

i use stable mats, the kid stuff was too easy to light on fire with grinders and welders.

Oh geeze, I figured that they would have been fire proof.

I'm glad I made my kid stop using them on the fireplace hearth

 

[Tait]

Interesting surface grinder - was that shop-built?

 

[Chuck Gedraitis Knives]

The table on the surface grinder says Builders Iron Foundry, Providence Ri. I bought it off of Craigs list about 3 years ago. It has a Brown&Sharp magnetic chuck and works great for folder blades.

The wheel at the top is the long range vertical movement. You lower the wheel to about 3/8 above the table and there is a smaller wheel that locks it in place. Then the smaller wheel above the guard is the fine tune adjustment.

The handle on the right moves the table on the x axis and the crank on the left moves the table on the y axis.

I'm thinking about converting it to a 2X42 or 2X48 belt.

 

[Fred.Rowe]

Congratulations; I know you must be excited about the new shop space. It will put new energy into your work.

Fred