[Kenny_S]

Welcome Frank.

Nice paint box. I like it.

[wade clark]

Well, i've been working like crazy to get my shop set up and almost to the point of unpacking my tools. I need to unpack them just to make sure they're not starting to rust, wrapped up in boxes...what should I wipe my gouges down with to protect them...mineral oil, vaseline...what???
As soon as I'm unpacked I PROMISE to post pictures! My barn is gambrel roofed, 48x60 with a 24x60 loft. I like it, but it comes with a price...mortgage . Some things are worth paying a price for, I guess.
I've figured out my next (long over-due) carving project...a castle out of a cypress knee.
Wade

[Kenny_S]

Heard tell WD-40 works good!

[whitecree]

I could scare you all and post a picture or two of my shop, but I can't because my wife won;t let me use her camera.

How about a word picture?

Imagine a cosy little 8x10 corner of the basement. Build a lathe table against one wall, a workbench under the window on another wall, some shelving combined with a small worktable on a thrid wall, leaving about 3 square feet in the middle to work in. Now stuff a table saw in there, a benchtop bandsaw, a benchtop sander, a benchtop drill press, a full size bandsaw, and about a cord of assorted sizes and flavours of wood. Now include several boxes of partially completed or abandoned projects, add a broken down chair and about 6 inches of dust and chips.


Get the picture?

[kcwaterguy]

Ok... sounds real cozy... where do you fit in in there??? LOL

Sean - KC

[mark yundt]

Sounds like my first shop,had enough room to enter and shut the door.Now I should post a sign outside,,Hard Hat Area,,,Enter At Your Own Risk..I know when I start bumping my head on the rafters it's time to clean up the chips.

[mwilleson]

I knew one guy whose shop was so small he had to step outside to change his mind.....

[wade clark]

They say it's not the size of your shop, but what you do with it.

[mark yundt]

AHHHH....not goin near that one,,could be kids reading...LOL