So you think your shop is small and maybe your bench isn’t strudy enough? Check out these pics. My wife and oldest daughter recently traveled to China and took these pics for me. These are from a village in south west China near Burma and Tibet. It is a poor but touristy village. They actually stayed with this family for a couple of days. The villagers are ethnic minorities known for their weaving. This guy builds looms for tourists and locals. His wife taught my daughter how they weave.
Check out this dude. No bench no problem!
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(Dude)!
No vise, no problem.
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(Dude with drill)!
No router required.
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(dude with knife)!
Bad pic of finished loom.
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Working loom.
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(loom)!
Fresh vegitables
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(veggies)!
Fruit maybe…
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(Fruit)!
-- HenryH - PA
12 comments so far
MrMark
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#1 posted 1532 days ago
that pic with the drill (and bare feet!) is kinda scary. Definitely makes me appreciate my shop :)
Rob
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#2 posted 1532 days ago
Wow that is a different world! I wouldn’t be doing anything if my employer required me to do that. I guess you get by with what you have.
kiwi1969
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#3 posted 1532 days ago
I see this in the Philippines as well. I,m still impressed everytime I see it.
-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand
Joel Tille
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#4 posted 1532 days ago
Makes you wonder what some of these guys could accomplish with a workshop full of tools. Thanks for posting.
-- Joel Tille
mmh
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#5 posted 1532 days ago
And to think our workshop is too small because it’s too full of tools and stuff!
-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
daltxguy
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#6 posted 1532 days ago
I wish my shop was so big!
I’d like one of those SUV bicycles too.
Likely if these guys got into a shop with all of our tools, they would move everything against the wall and continue to do things the way they learned.
I think the question might be better phrased ‘I wonder what we could accomplish without a workshop full of tools”
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Sawdust2
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#7 posted 1532 days ago
When I was stationed over in the Far East we always said that we had three thousand years to catch up to the Chinese.
Lee
-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.
Karson
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#8 posted 1532 days ago
A great series of photos. Sometimes we don’t appreciate what we have.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
TraumaJacques
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#9 posted 1532 days ago
I will never complain about the size of my shop again…well maybe less anyway lol. Interesting post thanks.
-- All bleeding will eventually stop.
anotherbrick
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#10 posted 1532 days ago
i’ve been living there for half a year.south weat china is abolutely a touristy(thanks HenryH,i’ve just learned this new word from you) place. welcome to china.
-- china
dustygirl
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#11 posted 1531 days ago
That’s what I call determination.Great blog.Thanks for sharing it.
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scottb
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#12 posted 1531 days ago
I don’t complain about the size of my shop, save for the height of the ceiling… I guess I could chop the legs off my work tables and I’ll be fine… but will my knees get stronger from the activity, or worse from all the squatting?
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