What's going on in your shop? Show us whats going on, and talk a bit about your work!

some shop photos. i did some sprucing up, gave the kmg a new coat of paint and freshened up the white. it kind of looks like a hospital surgery room, but i like it bright. the grinder and buffer are enclosed in clear plastic hanging curtain cubicles. i have dust collection, but its nice that everything stays in its particular room. the white board over the kmg with the gooseneck clip lights on it is screwed to the ceiling rafter with one screw, the whole thing swings back and forth and lets you put the light right where you need it.



 
Working on a hunter in w2.

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woodster said:
some shop photos. i did some sprucing up, gave the kmg a new coat of paint and freshened up the white. it kind of looks like a hospital surgery room, but i like it bright. the grinder and buffer are enclosed in clear plastic hanging curtain cubicles. i have dust collection, but its nice that everything stays in its particular room. the white board over the kmg with the gooseneck clip lights on it is screwed to the ceiling rafter with one screw, the whole thing swings back and forth and lets you put the light right where you need it.



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It does looks something like an operating room....That, or something from the T.V show Dexter...... :)
-Adam
 
thanks adam ! i don't know if the foil behind the grinder comment was directed at my shop, but there is none.
 
woodster, I think he was talking about the plastic hanging behind the grinder... but I could be wrong.
 
i thought he might have been talking about the aluminum dryer hose that goes to the workbench. no sparks there. i have had the plastic behind the grinder for more than a year, i put it up because there is a small ledge, and the cement wall is rough and would catch little piles of dust for sparks to rest on. everything trickles down the floor so far with no melted pinholes or anything. i have a dust cyclone under the grinder with water in it for sparks before it goes to the collection unit and a smoke detector inside the grinder room. so far so good.
 
Just finished these up. Both are 5" petty kitchen knives in cpm154 at 61rc. Ivory micarta and cocobolo handles. I still have an 8" chef's and a hunter to finish before Christmas. Next year I'm going to try and have a bunch of blades finished up and just waiting on handles. This past month has been a little crazy to say the least. I also had a show this weekend that almost wiped out my stock pile of hunters.
 
PEU said:
The previous photos of this knife had the handle a tad big, many local knifemakers told me the same, so, I acknowledged them (they were right!) and reduced its size...

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I love this knife's blade! :)
 
Greenberg Woods said:
Those look great Matt! Whats the height at the heel on those two?
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Not a great pic but here you go! These have been very popular. Lots of folks aren't comfortable with big knives and these work well for small task like carrots, small potatoes, tenderloin etc. My wife has the first one I made and it's her go to in the kitchen. I used to make these plungeless but I couldn't get consistent results so I went back to a plunge. favorite
 
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My first try at a design using small wheels and Micarta. There are some finishing work left to do.

It's made of O1 hardened to 61 HRC with SS pins and black/red Micarta. The blade is taken up to A45 and then Scotch Brite.

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Camber said:
Pardon my ignorance (I know very little about this stuff but am very interested), but are the walls poured? And does the pad just sit on the foam? It doesn't squish it?
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Sorry bud... I missed this one. The foundation is completely poured. The back wall is 9ft+, sitting on a 2ft wide concrete footing that is 1ft thick. The side walls are stepped down to follow the contour of the hill. The foam you see is applied to the entire wall before it is back-filled. The inside floor starts with a few feet of packed gravel, then 3-4 inches of foam, plastic vapor barrier, then 5 inches of concrete. There is a web of rebar in the slab to keep it from cracking. The foam is rigid enough to easily support the slab because the weight is spread across the entire surface.(they build entire houses on floating slabs... my walls are separate from the slab) What you end up with is a floor slab that is essentially floating and walls insulated from the ground. I added in floor heating lines that were embedded into the floor when it was poured. I'll run hot water through then to heat the pad. That way I can avoid have a heat source which requires nothing that'll blow dust around the shop or compete with my dust elimination system.

Mine is the top right configuration... but with foam under and around the edges of the slab to isolate it for heating.


Here, the footings are dry and we're putting in the drainage tiles for the outside perimeter of the building.


The forms for the foundation are being made. They will pour the concrete walls after this.


The forms were removed after the wall set. Then we painted a membrane on and installed the foam insulation.



After that, they trucked in a certain type of soil that would allow for drainage without being mucky. There was a high sand, low clay content to it.

Does that help get your head wrapped around it?
 
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