Wood Wisdom-Video Blog #6: Shop Tour 8.16.2008

Looks like a nice shop Tyler. You are certainly more organized than I ever hope to be. Thanks for sharing.

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very nice shop

-- jeanmarc manosque france

LOL. Very funny betsy. Trust me as soon as I start a project my shop doesn’t look like this. :)

-- Tyler, Illinois

Whew!

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Looks great, Tyler! Excellent work on the dust collection system…great addition.

Thanks for the video.

-- Patrick, Chicago, IL http://www.TenonAndSpline.com/blog

Nice shop Tyler, how big is your shop?

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Callum my shop is about 12×13 or so. It’s a bit small but I surely have cranes a lot of stuff in it haha. The big downside of my shop is that I can only handle about five foot boards on my table saw and even less on my other machines. This is okay for me now but I wish it was a bit bigger to do larger things.

-- Tyler, Illinois

very nice shop, just a bit of advise, store your hand planes on there side to protect the blade.good luck and have fun.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

Roper thanks for the advice. I have heard that before I think but never really did it because the plane I have is a very old one and isn’t good for doing much. I’ll start doing that though. Thanks

-- Tyler, Illinois

nice video tyler. what kind of music are u into? favorite bands?

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How is that tablesaw working when it comes to hard and heavy wood?

Anthrax I listen to a lot of music but mostly like pop rock and hip hop those sort of things. I really like One Republic, The Fray, and Coldplay. I don’t really like Heavy metal though lol, I know that you do :)

Corey My table saw is okay I guess it works pretty much flawlessly on 3/4 inch and under even on really dense woods as long as you have a good sharp blade. 1 inch and higher I change my blade to a ripping blade because otherwise my saw will bog down and burn like crazy and set off the fire alarms. ha ha. All and all I’m glad I made the purchase because it is a perfect size, if I need to cut things big it can cut up to 32 inches with the extension wings out, and it has pretty good power for its class of saw. If I could fit one in my shop I would save up for a long time and get the saw stop contractor version but there just isn’t a way to put that big of saw in my shop. My dad refuses to give up more of our already small basement. loll. O well it works for now and I can always get a bigger saw later on down the road.

-- Tyler, Illinois

Thats a nice shop, Tyler.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

nice dust collection. good work

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great blog. i saw what you meant about the DC, even if it was only on for a second. I like the ipod cover idea. looks simple and effective. you keep a clean shop. thanks for the update tour.

Man you got nice diggs dude. Great setup on the vac,to give yourself more room thicken the wall to the basement by a foot and make wall shelves in between the studs. Man your a cool kid! Keep it up

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