Rob Keeble
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Yeah I shudder to think of this subject but that snow is already showing itself in some parts. With our Thanksgiving weekend coming up I am reminded by the color of the leaves and the quantity on the ground that Winter is not far away.
I thought I would get a post going for us to share some ideas on how to make it through the winter and do some woodworking at the same time, regardless of shop circumstances.
Last year was a bust for me and winter woodworking. With a temp garage shop not sealed up and tight on space given all its got packed in it, I tried to carve out a niche for some woodworking but it was futile. In fact I realized that heating a shop temporarily is the worst thing in the world we can do to our tools.
The heating cooling cycle did more damage in the way of moisture as a result of post heat condensation than leaving well alone would have done. All I did was to serve as a catalyst for rust feeding more than normal moisture into the environment.
So this year after the recovery (time wasted spent cleaning all the rust off) my game plan is to move a bunch of handtools indoors, I am just going to remove draws and carry inside and stack in the warm basement.
Then on the actual hobby side I plan on carving.
The other thing I wish to try is sharpening some hand saws that I have been itching to do for years but other things have always taken precedent.
Then rather than waste valuable shop time during the rest of the year I plan on getting all my sharpening out the way. So chisels planes and what have you in the way of items of hand tools with cutting edges (scrapers) etc.
These are three past times that don't take up a load of space, don't make too much dust and can be just as rewarding.
At the moment I have more than enough business work to keep me occupied and don't own the house so house maintenance as in painting or the likes is not on my radar at all.
I am looking for more ideas though given it don't take months to sharpen tools well ......unless your name is Rob
So what you got planned heated or non heated shop.........whats the winter goals ?????
I thought I would get a post going for us to share some ideas on how to make it through the winter and do some woodworking at the same time, regardless of shop circumstances.
Last year was a bust for me and winter woodworking. With a temp garage shop not sealed up and tight on space given all its got packed in it, I tried to carve out a niche for some woodworking but it was futile. In fact I realized that heating a shop temporarily is the worst thing in the world we can do to our tools.
The heating cooling cycle did more damage in the way of moisture as a result of post heat condensation than leaving well alone would have done. All I did was to serve as a catalyst for rust feeding more than normal moisture into the environment.
So this year after the recovery (time wasted spent cleaning all the rust off) my game plan is to move a bunch of handtools indoors, I am just going to remove draws and carry inside and stack in the warm basement.
Then on the actual hobby side I plan on carving.
The other thing I wish to try is sharpening some hand saws that I have been itching to do for years but other things have always taken precedent.
Then rather than waste valuable shop time during the rest of the year I plan on getting all my sharpening out the way. So chisels planes and what have you in the way of items of hand tools with cutting edges (scrapers) etc.
These are three past times that don't take up a load of space, don't make too much dust and can be just as rewarding.
At the moment I have more than enough business work to keep me occupied and don't own the house so house maintenance as in painting or the likes is not on my radar at all.
I am looking for more ideas though given it don't take months to sharpen tools well ......unless your name is Rob
So what you got planned heated or non heated shop.........whats the winter goals ?????