Show your shop /shed

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RicSA

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Hi all,
What about posting some pic's of your shops / sheds to share what the average knife makers work areas look like?
Cheerion...RicSA
 
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you mean that you can find your bench? i faintly remember having one but that was long.......long ago
 
Bench...whatdayamean bench???? The belts on the grinders are still visible, there is something under them holding the grinders up??? even something holding the drill presses high enough to use effectively....bandsaw....just a table surrounded by other stuff.....metal cutting bandsaw.....too many cases boxes, and buckets of stuff hiding the saw other than the table and exposed bade.......all a blissful disorganized exhistance......
I found a vise and a Starret bench block the other day.....neat tools!

By the way, if you are gonna silver solder 410 to 410 0r 416 to 410. get the heck out of the shop...the flux fumes will screw up any good steel near the soldering location.....
 
If i was rich like jay leno i would have a big shop and somebody would clean it for me. that would be the day.
 
Ive been working on my shop all summer. Its almost ready to work in finally. Its a real "man cave" no women allowed! unless they have beer of coarse. ;)
 
Shop? Shed? Hell that would be nice. My "shop" consists of a 8' by 4' section of my porch with a 6' table that holds my bench grinder, my bandsaw (wood only), my belt grider, and my vice. Along with all the other "stuff" that doesn't have a dedicated home. My car tools are stuffed under the bench. My forge blower that I am refinishing is beside my vise, and my forge is outside. My steel is leaned up against the wall about 6" behind me when I am standing at the bench.

If I could get things set up for one of those 12'X10' sheds from home depot I would be in heaven. I'd have so much space I wouldn't know what to do with it.
 
Keith_H said:
If i was rich like jay leno i would have a big shop and somebody would clean it for me. that would be the day.
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Im thinking a workshop is too much like a personal place to have someone else clean it.
" Dammit who moved my half round file. I know it was right under my pile of steel which is right under my electric cables which is in the corner where all my other tools are thrown!"
 
langchop said:
....I know it was right under my pile of steel which is right under my electric cables which is in the corner where all my other tools are deliberately placed
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Yeah, but how did you know my 'filing system' ?

Donald, you cracked me up. It made me think of when I built a 14 foot kayak on a 5X16 balcony, 20 floors up. Had to take it down the center of the stairwell because it wouldn't fit in the elevator......D'oh !!
 
Yup im in the same boat as you at the moment Donald... and its not the Jolly Rogers!. My stuff is all in storage boxes and when I find a spot and an opportunity to get work done it means unpacking it all, and repacking afterwards... The bonus is that it does force me to tidy up after every session!

I miss my old garage.
 
I have a machine shop I built on my mother's land in Ithaca because she wanted to turn her garage into a living room and my 2 ton Leblond lathe had to go somewhere (I don't have to pay rent either, just have to let my stepfather use the machine tools when he wants, not a bad trade-off really, he financed much of the project 'cause he really wanted to play with my lathe and mill-drill and decided the shop needed to be bigger than I could afford so he could do wood stuff in it!) and I am building a shop in the basement of my house in Syracuse, and there is an 8'x10' rotted shed in the backyard that a tree grew up through before I got married and moved there that is in the process of molting since I probably can't get a permit for new construction. I am building a new shed within the ruins of the old one as I can afford it, and since the new one will be taller so I can swing my big hammer inside it it will really look like a bug shedding it's skin as the construction pushes whats left of the walls and roof out and they split apart:D right now I forge in the driveway, and that doesn't work in Syracuse in the winter:grumpy:

-Page
 
I spend most of Friday cleaning and straightening up in my knife shop and the garage. Got most everything put away. The mess from making the HT oven straightened out, etc. Then I did a mod on my forge and started a new knife so things are well on their way back down the hill. OH WELL. Jim
 
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