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I hesitate to call it my ‘work’shop as everything done within it’s confines is anything but work. The challenge of taking a naked piece of wood and clothing it into it’s finest ‘suit’ is one I rarely tire of.
A recent read of Dusty’s ‘This Old Crack House’ rang true when he said that he finds himself ‘doing more with less tools’. I guess we all go thru that and due to the fact that all my previously acquired tools are back in the US and my arms are not long enough to reach across the Pacific it has been a ‘search and find’ mission to re-tool myself.
After doing endless research on the net developing the unavoidable ‘wish list’ and then comparing it to the reality of Thailand it has been a compromise from day one. Dispite the fact that there are forests and trees in Thailand, the rape of the forrest has created an atmosphere of ‘wood is gold’ and strict and stringent controls are placed upon its harvesting and transportation. Needless to say that this has driven up the prices to the benefit of those in power.
Getting my head around exactly where I wanted to go with my wood creativity was seen as the frrst step in deciding what tools of the trade were required. I found myself crawling back into the ‘woodworking’ comfort zone of decades past and had to fight the urge to buy-buy-buy. It has now been 9 months of searching and things are slowly coming together. Pics to follow.
-- I can so I wood but why are my learning curves always circles
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Scott Bryan
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posted 616 days ago
How about some pictures of your set-up?
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
woodworm
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posted 447 days ago
Hello Douglas Krueger,
Being more or less in the same boat with yourself, I viewed you workshop pics with great interest and curiousity. There are numbers of decent ww power tools and machines in your workshop. The contractor saw, the jointer and the dust collector in particular are all very good and most suitable for home or small workshop. I just curious where you acquired these machines, because I think it is not easy to find these types of machines as compared to Industrial machinery in your area.
Or maybe you brought these machines all the way from US, I guessed. If so do they work with the electricity supply in Thailand. The voltage and frequency/cycle of electricity supply here in Thailand is 220V-240V 50htz, if I’m not mistaken. I might be wrong.
Myself in Malaysia, face the same problem finding good handtools & ww machines for DIY. I have had to purchase some of the handtools and power tools (corded or uncorded) in US. And you know that the shipping costs are always killing..but I just closed my eyes..
Thanking you in advance if you have some info to share.
Take care and work safe.
p/s : sorry if my English is not good.
-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.
Scott Bryan
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posted 447 days ago
Douglas,
You have a nice space in which to work. You appear to have organized it well. Putting an anti-fatique mat on the floor by the workbench is a good idea.
Thanks for the pictures. I enjoyed the visit.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
tenontim
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posted 401 days ago
Nice work shop area, Douglas. Very neat. Glad you don’t have any Singha beer bottles laying around. Spent a little time down in Pattaya.
-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com