Critterman's Workshop

It’s nice to know that you get to do a load of clothes while sawing and cutting wood.

Great little shop. I’m a couple of hundrend miles north of you come up for a visit.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

As I was viewing your pics, I thought it was amazing how clean you keep your shop! Then I saw the pic of the laundry, and that explained it all…

Don’t feel bad about a small shop…everyone’s got their own challenges, and some poor LJ’s have to work out in their driveways!

-- Living on the square...

Karson: OH MY GOD!!! I could put my whole house in your shop….both floors…LOL Maybe someday I’ll come by and drool!!! And, yes…I’m often tending laudry while woodworking….lol Actually, usually tripping over that along with everything else [GRIN]

Damocles: LOL, yeah I just completed my semi-annual cleaning….pull everything out in the driveway and clean away. Figured it was a good time to take pics….won’t stay this way for long.

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

Critter…I’d never let my wife put all that white rectangular looking appliances, (I’m not familiar with what they are for) in my workshop. You are a saint. Karson eluded to something to do with laundry? I’m baffled, but, oh well. Nice tools!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Jim, It is a good use of space. I can see how tripping over something could be a problem. In my small shop I to rely on wheels on tools, course lately I find them sitting around cause I don’t have a stand for them. But working on that.

One other question, where are all the other LumberJocks’s from Virginia? There has got to be some around here. Good luck on the selling of the house and finding a nice workshop and house.

CtL

-- Chris L. "Don't Dream it, Be it."

What an awesome shop. You have some excellent tools.

-- Making sawdust is what I do best

Here in Virginia! 5 to 6 hours west in the mountains
Nice small shop layout. Good quality time sharing it with the wife or are you in charge of the laundry too?
My wife won’t let me get near her new laundry appliances. (Who-wee!!)
God bless

-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia

Hi guys, thanks for the words of encouragement…fact is I’d like to say I love my shop, but that would be a big lie. I hate the darn thing, too small, trip hazards, and extention cords running every which way, but it’s home…for now. House been on the market for a year and a half now with no takers, the market is terrible, but eventually I’ll get out of here…I hope. I do love my tools though, lots of research on the internet and magazines before I buy anything has payed off well. And, I’m not sure where all the Virginia woodworkers are, I know there are a lot of woodworkers here though, met a bunch at last years Woodworks show in Richmond. Guess this year I need to wear a Lumberjocks T-Shirt at the show to advertise the site ;>)

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

Jim, man, are you organized or what? The use of your floor space is incredible. Very nice shop.

-- Brian, Virginia Beach

Hi Jim,

I apologize for just now getting around to looking at your shop. To tell you the truth when I first saw it I wondered if my wife had been in there and “organized” you shop. :) She arranges mine like this all the time. It does make for an organized shop but if you want to get to a tool invariably you have to move two or three others out of the way. I feel your pain with respect to the water heater and washer/dryer. But you are making efficient use of your limited space. And you have some nice tools to play with as well.

Thanks for the shop tour. I really appreciate it.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

very nice shop.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker