296 days ago
by MtnManMEP |
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I think I have all the preliminaries taken care of. Got the profile done, the email preferences set, a couple of projects listed and now I’m in and ready to start being humbled. Seriously, there are a bunch of outstanding looking projects here. I’m confident I can gain knowledge and ideas from this site. I look forward to future exchanges and comments.
Update: OK, since I got some grief for no photo, even though I wasn’t touting a project or some other accomplishment...
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319 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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This month’s visit is to Lebanon, New York, at the garage-shop-laboratory of Dadoo. In his own words, he is a; “Mad Scientist, creator, salvager, grandfather (Dadoo), husband, home builder/wrecker, sawdust and grease spreader, designer, dreamer, computer geek, photographer and Licensed Nurse. I’ve also been a volunteer Firefighter/EMT since ‘92.” And a slippery slope ridin’ Galoot. He’s pretty worked up about his recent reclamation project. a 1927...
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323 days ago
by DocK16 |
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Here is a little fun item on shop safety and hearing protection. It is my first attempt at downloading a video without my son’s help I hope it works.
http://s204.photobucket.com/albums/bb8/DocK55/Hearing%20Protection/?action=view¤t=MOV00586.flv!
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375 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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This week’s tour is at the Colorado shop of Ray “Dataman” Merrell.The home and shop are dome shaped, which makes for interesting storage, lighting and insulation considerations. Ray is very inventive, with most of his tools and assembly tables built on mobile bases for optimum configurations for the job at hand.
Here Deb takes a read on the great lighting provided by the windows and a skylight in the 14 foot ceiling.
We both liked the under-saw storage unit, based ...
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382 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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This week’s tour is in Delhi, CA, just down Hwy 99 from WayneC and Bill Brooks. Lot of Californians on this tour. Could it have anything to do with the advancing winter in Canada (and Nebraska for that matter)? I expect more Midwesterners to step and volunteer for a tour!Ron is a roofing contractor who has annexed a 20×30 foot area of his 40×60 metal building for a wood shop. The rest of his building is reserved for his business as a roofing contractor.
Here Deb takes note ...
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390 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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This week’s visit is to Blake's shop in Santa Cruz, CA. Blake is a part-time firefighter and student, who eventually wants to fight fire full-time. He has been a member for only twenty days, but burst on the LJ scene with his claw box challenge, and has been active in posting boxes, jigs and blog topics since signing on.
He has a great shop with a host of good tools, some new and some handed down from his Father-In-Law. And he has posted the rehabilitation of a 1959 Dewalt Radial Ar...
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396 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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Our inspection this week is to a another garage-based shop in Great Britain. We visited YorkshireStewart, whose facilities are “just a half mile or so from the rapidly eroding boulder clay cliffs of the East Yorkshire coast.”
Here’s a map to identify the location of those of us that were daydreaming about shop class while we were in geography class.
In this shot it’s apparent that there is no small measure of wonder being manufactured there. This is a wooden ...
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396 days ago
by mot |
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WARNING! Reading this blog and watching the included video will take 8-10 minutes of your life that you will never get back!
Bob #2 and I were meeting up last Saturday to attend the Edmonton Woodshow.
The show had offerings from Delta, Hitachi, Steel City, General, Dewalt, Lee Valley, Lie Nielsen and a mixture of local guilds and arts and crafts distributors.
Overall, the show was quite good. There was lots of machinery there and Bob and I were able to meet up with Jim Lindsay, inv...
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403 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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This week is a continuation of a homage to the Lumberjocks California Highway 99 group (including Bill Brooks, Obi and WayneC). Wayne, as many know who follow his blog series has a passion for rehabilitating older tools with an emphasis on hand planes of all types. And he has awakened the desire in this woodworker (for one) to brush up my hand tool skills, as well as to give new life to tools that are looking for a new home. He also has a fair menagerie including birds, cats and (surprise) do...
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410 days ago
by Douglas Bordner |
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Bob2 has described his current shop digs as “A collection of tools at or near electrical outlets.” The space is in his business warehouse until he is able to pour concrete for a dedicated home shop. I feel instantly at home in this environment as there is a lot packed into a small space, and it’s none too organized. No sense burning brain cells on prettifying and organizing when the thrust to learn and create is where the true fire exists.
As long as you know what pil...
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