First Personal Shop #1: First Pic

congrats on your first shop, Its nice to see more young people in the craft.

Welcome to the site. Glad you have a good place to work. Is it a basement?

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas only 4 miles from the mill

KnifeL:

That’s just a COOL looking shop.

And … for those of you who don’t know it … this guy lives in a seriously neat town !!

It’s OVER 10,000’ above sea level (nearly 2mi). Last time I visited, it was to cheer on a buddy who … wasn’t QUITE up to the 100 mile trail run, but did REALLY well in the 50 mile trail run.

Me? I felt like I weighed 400 pounds :-)

Welcome, Knife !!

-- -- Neil

Nice start Will. Just think of all the neat tools you will get to buy over the years. ENJOY

-- Ray , Florence Alabama

Thanks all! Gary- Nah, its a shed at the house I’m renting well I’m up here for school. It’s only 1 board thick behind that plastic, so before I fixed it up it was pretty drafty. Luckily my dad hooked me up with a propane heater and my uncle gave me some giant tanks, so after covering the walls it keeps fairly warm, and has good solar gain. NBeener- Glad you know it, pretty crazy little town, here’s a pic I took back in September-

From First Shop

Yarydoc- Definitely am, I’m (sorta) patiently awaiting my Veritas detail rabbets, I’ll post pics of the box I make for them. Those set me back a couple months of tool buying… :)

-- Will in Leadville, CO

Looks like a great little workspace. I would recommend some white or some grey paint on the ceiling to lighten the place up a bit.

The best part about a shop is building shop furniture!

-- Dothan, Alabama Check out my woodworking blog! http://woodworkingtrip.blogspot.com/

Glad ya like it. I agree the paint would make it look nice, but with this building it would look more out of place than the plastic… but I’ll think about that. :)
Oh and I just moved my lathe, sander and set up my 10” unisaw! Tis a good day.

-- Will in Leadville, CO

Welcome to Lumberjocks..

-- Tim, Missouri ....Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened

Welcome aboard. Nice first shop.

-- Larry "I'm growing older but not up!"

Nice way to start, some day you will look back on these times with great memories. I wish i had taken photos about 50 yrs. ago of my first dedicated area for wood working. This is a great time for the young to get into woodworking. Have fun…Jim

-- Lumberdog.. Michigan

Cool, I plan to build a dedicated shop some day. Been fighting with the county to let me build it. Until then the garage will have to do.

looks great – word of suggestion – replace those 2 light bulbs with fluorescents :) better energy usage, and better spread light

-- ㊍ When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

Glad y’all like it. PurpLev- Sadly the fluorescents I had in initially burned out because of the cold weather up here, only the incandescence are able to survive… I can’t even keep glue in my shop.

-- Will in Leadville, CO