David Johnson
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You going to pack the whole thing up and move to the farm? That is awesome space and the job looks great.
David
David
Some day I will, but that is still a ways off at this point. Her grandfather has decided to move back home, her grandmother is still at the nursing facility, so we've got a little more time before we move down there. We're in no rush, we would prefer to have him there and enjoying it. We're still going to be going down to work on things and help him out. Will be nice getting to be able to talk with him about things regarding the farm and get more history on it.You going to pack the whole thing up and move to the farm? That is awesome space and the job looks great.
David
You'll love the drill press sucker. I would find it hard to go back to blowing chips out of the way myself or just letting them pile up and foul things.
They have things called 'Dust Boots'. As long as they don't go up and down with the z axis, they work pretty well, lol.It got some use last night, and did a really nice job. Kind of wondering how one of them would do riding on the cnc's z-axis for times I'd like to keep an eye on the cuts rather than trying to follow along with the shop-vac.
That will be a thread I will look forward to with great anticipation. Not only to satisfy my "shop build" posts enthusiasm but also knowing you have reached that woodworker nirvana of being able to build your "dream shop". You deserve it!The next one will be closer to Glenn's level of planning. Heh, we'll let's be honest, none of us will even get that close, but you know what I mean.
I have got to wonder how many projects you would have going at one time if you had that kind of space. At the very least it would save you from having to move project pieces around so much.That is one big space!
Having separate wood and metal spaces would imho be huge. I'd also like a separate but slightly attached to the metal space blacksmith shop while I'm at it. I do think there's a lot of value in adjacent spaces and accessibility between the spaces but enough isolation to keep the dust & cross contamination down would be super useful.I'm not just a woodworker, so my shop needs to be multipurpose
One thing I've kind of half done, but should do more of is task specific tools. This also goes along some with organizing the place to have task specific spaces. For instance I have all of the wrenches the tablesaw needs at the tablesaw. My storage for this leaves a LOT to be desired and I don't have all storage laid out for all of the other table saw parts (inserts, blades, etc..) which I should have. But where i have done this it has made things a lot better. I really really need to do more of this. You do end up with some duplicate tools but you can also focus and invest in fewer quality tools where you need them instead of a bunch of junk in a pile (so guilty).Given a lot of my projects just required tools elsewhere I would just grab what I needed and eventually bring back a pile of tools and leave them on the bench from time to time.
Yup, I end up doing motorcycle (there are 3 of them) work on the tablesaw.I'm not just a woodworker, so my shop needs to be multipurpose.