Show us some WORKSHOP PICTURES

[jdm61]

Still in the midst of installing and rearranging stuff.

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

I'm truly thrilled for those that have facilities they can keep like an operating room - I just don't happen to be one of them!
About once a week I open the doors and clean out my shops with a Stihl leaf blower!
Here's the lane to get to Andersen Forge!

The house and shop back in the woods:

Andersen Forge!

A few forging shop fotos:

And the finish Shop:

Hard at work:

 

[DanGraves]

Karl, I would feel comfortable in your shop. I to use a blower to clean my shop. Looks like you have a little peice of heaven. I know some folks that have spotlessly clean shops, they never seem to get anything done.

 

[D lisch]

Karl I would feel right at home in your shop looks like all the tools are right where they should be.

 

[ddd]

Great pictures guys!

I am sure that quite a few knifemakers will get great ideas from
just exploring every corner in them...

Keep them coming!

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)

 

[peterinct]

Looks like a great shop Karl. Nice property and house too!

Peter

 

[Gary Mulkey]

Karl,

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who has a shop that has that "cluttered" look to it. If you blow it out once a week than you're doing better than I.

So far my new forging shop is still in the set-up stage but I'm sure before long it will have that "lived in" look as well.

I noticed that your welding table is an I-beam. I just found an old 14" channel from a large truck bumper (cut off all but 4' of it) at the local junk yard that will be mine. I hadn't thought of putting wheels on it like you have though. Good idea!

Gary

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Karl,
I noticed that your welding table is an I-beam. I just found an old 14" channel from a large truck bumper (cut off all but 4' of it) at the local junk yard that will be mine. I hadn't thought of putting wheels on it like you have though. Good idea!

Gary

Good eye, Gary!
I'll bet there's a few other makers watching this thread as well, so here's a better shot of that "portable" welding table.
I have lately welded some additional tool holders to it, as well as made the bottom portion more capable of holding "things" by welding on some stops.
Also, notice the 1/2 "C" clamp welded to the end for clamping billet handles while grinding scale off!
It also works in tandem with the mill vise and will other wise just be a third hand during welding tasks.
(Those are 1" square 5160 legs!)

 

[ddd]

Here are two pictures I shot when visiting Francesco Pachi in Italy.
For health reasons Francesco has left his very successful career as
a world-class custom knifemaker and gone back to full time
professional photography.

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)

From my book "... Modern Custom Knifemaking" (2006)

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Here is a snap shop I took of a cramped machining area in my shop for a "dirtiest shop picts thread" a while back.

 

[erik markman]

Here is my new shop I built this summer, still needs a bit of finishing here and there. I have another shop at work where I have my weldingforge and regular forge and my BigBlu in my forging area.

 

[Steve Nuckels]

Can anyone tell me who's shop this is?

The Flagstone forge where the Master worked and rediscovered Damascus!

25 lb. hammer

Wire inlay vise

Master Smith Jay Hendrickson demonstrating.

I recently had the opportunity to visit this "Mecca" for Bladesmiths for the second time! The first time was in 2005 when Mr. W.F. Moran was there in person!

Steve
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Potomac Forge
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IN GOD WE TRUST

 

[NickWheeler]

Here are some somewhat random pics that might be of interest to some of the folks here

Here's some fat, ugly guy forging away...

Here's a blade coming out of the salt bath...it's kind'a hot and stuff.

same goofy guy, different view

Here's where I spend most of my time.... this is my hand-work area. It's specifically set-up for hand sanding in this pic. Look familiar John White??? Great minds must think alike?

Here's the view looking toward my 100# Little Giant trip hammer... in the midst of being rebuilt (sometime, lol)

 

[ddd]

Great picture Nick!
Available light photography at its best!

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)

 

[ddd]

Here is my book creating "workshop" as of 2006.
I really should get an updated picture as my "equipment"
has been upgraded since then...

This is where each book begins and ends...

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)

 

[Snody]

I am really enjoying this thread.
Here are a few "shop tours" including a new one shot Yesterday (Jan 8)
Much Respect...

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[thompsonblades]

I don't have much of a shop to show, but here goes.
My forge. Just a cinder block on a steel tray with a blower from an old gas furnace. Cost: $30

My anvil. A piece a railroad track I got for free, mounted on a log. I'm glad it had the holes drilled in it already, otherwise I would have had a heck of a time mounting it.

Wood storage rack with power tools in back ground. My dad and I share the shop. He makes wood projects and I make my knives. Taken on one of the few clean days.

Forging toolbox with hammers.

My handle material stash. Hickory and walnut pulled of old crates.

 

[Snody]

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[Snody]

Much Respect from Texas

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[Mike Turner]

Karl nice shop, I too would be at home in it.