Shop Tour

What's with all the empty space? That place is so big you must need a golf cart to get around in it.

Nice shop.

John
 
Ricky, that's SOME SHOP! Compared to mine, you have enough room for a golf course inside and a timber to hunt squirrels, right next to the pond! It's really nice, and so is your web site. Nice looking knives, too.
 
nice but the thumbnails won't open to bigger pictures to get a better look?
are they suppose to? or is it My puter???
 
That is a fantastic set-up. It's way too clean (I like a messy workspace, myself), but other than that, it looks really well equipped and the set-up is well thought out. I especially like the dust collector closet! Nice home-made grinders too!

By the way, Dan - it worked for me. Just clicked the thumbnails and a new window popped up.
 
Wulf said:
That is a fantastic set-up. It's way too clean (I like a messy workspace, myself), but other than that, it looks really well equipped and the set-up is well thought out. I especially like the dust collector closet! Nice home-made grinders too!

By the way, Dan - it worked for me. Just clicked the thumbnails and a new window popped up.
Click to expand...

:confused: I did that too but I got a page saying, page not available :confused:
 
Wow, very nice shop! Everything looks well organized you have some nice equipment.
 
space indeed! I have an 8 x 8 building......but i love it so far :eek:
 
Hey...

Great looking shop..
god,, would it be Nice to have a Clean shop like that.... Geez!

I like the closet for the vacume.. I had similar thoughts ,,and thing I will now do just that...

That was a cool tour..
Dang,,now i gotta go sweep.. LOL

ttyle

Eric....
 
Thanks guys

The reason it's so clean is I haven't started yet, but I do try to keep it clean. This is also my garage with enough room to work on my truck when needed. The other side of the wall I didn't show, it has a cherry picker, a shop press, a welder, and a 60,00 btu gas furnace and is also wired for a bigger air compresser and air conditioner. The room between the buffer and main work bench is big enough to put a 4' x 12' bench. I designed it so I would have room to add equipment, like a mini-mill, a mini-lathe,etc.

Rick
 
Thanks for the tour! You have given me a bad case of "shop envy" with no cheap cure in sight.
I suppose you'll be at the forthcoming ABANA conference?
Lynn
 
I dont like it. Its too clean.

Only joking im just jelouse!!!
Very nice.


B.C
 
Why a mini mill and mini lathe? With all that room and the low prices on good used machinery today you look primed for a Bridgeport and a nice full sized lathe. You can find them for not much more than Chinese mini machines these days. I dearly love my little Hardinge lathe, but have already come across a few times where something larger would have been nice. Unfortunately my dinky shop is only 12'x14' so something probably isn't in the cards in the near future.

John
 
jmxcpter

I wanting to make some liner locks later and thought they would help, I never thought about a bigger mill are know anything about them.

Lynn
what is the ABANA? I'm going to the Blade show first time in 5 years

Rick
 
Rick,

A mini mill can be quite useful. It's a lot better than no mill at all, but when you compare the rigidity and additional capabilities a 9"x42" size Bridgeport (or clone) style machine will give you for the few extra square feet it takes up is tremendous. Not only would it help you with liner locks, but things like integrals (think Scott Cook's Lochsa) become an instant possibility, as well as the fabrication of fixtures and tooling for specialized operations on other machines. They're even useful to build other machines themselves (like grinders). While it's by far not the biggest or strongest of mills, one of the reasons a Bridgeport style mill is so widley available is that they've been such a staple to so many types of manufacturing for so many years that they've become sort of a ubiqutious benchmark for milling machines. Because of the collapse of the American manufacturing sector and the manual nature of most of these machines, one in good working condition can be had for less that $1500.00 these days for a prudent and patient buyer. They're also great for precision drilling and boring with the power downfeed.

A shop with that much space is just cryin' for a nice mill.

John
 
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