Justus's Workshop

A Rexon electric scroll saw in my 40 m2 PhD-student appartment was the beginning of my woodworking career – a good start I can recommend. Quiet, safe (I did not hurt myself in 10 years (fingers crossed!)) and yet providing in a short time some kind of success. Some years later I owned a jigsaw and in 2001 I made my first tables.

Two appartments later I had already transformed the broom closet into some kind of workshop – but still only the scroll saw was silent enough for working at home. The cellar did pose an opportunity, but I do not like working in a cellar.

The real breakthrough came when a friend of mine had rented a 15 m2 studio in my home town – in an art noveau building where only artist studios are located. I managed to convince him to share this study with me – and eventually took over. We are still good friends – he never used the studio anyway.

So now I am the proud owner of 15 m2 of studio in a cool building right in town (walking, say bicycle distance from where I live). Since it is a dedicated studio building noone minds if I let the miter saw talk at night or weekends.

2 years later my son entered my life and time in the studio is getting scarce. Quite fortunately I managed to convince my parents to leave the garden house of their holiday house to me, so that I can spend part of my holiday time in the beauty shown in the last three pictures.