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My workshop is in the basement of our three bedroom house in Gladstone, MO (just outside Kansas City). Most of my tools where either gifts or sale items that I’ve acquired over the last five years or so. Some of them aren’t the best quality but they all do the job I need them to do.
I started out making my workshop with the vision of a powerhouse idea of all electric powered saws, planers, drills, and sanders. However, as I finally got to a point where I believed I could actually do some work, I have found much more pleasure doing things the old fashioned way: by hand. So I am currently pushing my way towards the use and education on hand tools primarily.
April ‘08 Update:
I’ve added a few pictures by popular demand. As you can see… It’s pretty bad right now. Low ceilings and all! I get by with what I have, but beside the actual floor space (roughly 20×20) It’s pretty small and lacking in storage. Notice the bedsheets draped over boxes in the background.
-- Happy Ripping!!!
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WayneC
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posted 350 days ago
I love hand tools as well. Any chance we can get some photos? Always learn stuff from folks shops. Thanks.
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Karson
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posted 349 days ago
I lived in Independence Mo from age 13 to 23. Then transferred to St Louis. then new york. Retired and living in Delaware. My mother-in-law lives in Raytown. Maybe when I’m up that way i can pay you a visit.
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Scott Bryan
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posted 197 days ago
Hi Dannyboy,
How about posting some pictures of your shop. Visual shop tours are one of the interesting aspects of this site.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
DannyBoy
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posted 197 days ago
I’ve been intending to do so for a while now. The main problem right now is I’m afraid of the “what the hell” responses I might get!!!
Seriously, My workshop has changed several times in the last year. It started as a basement with a door up on plastic saw horses and has evolved into a few workstations that are still pretty random and move around a lot. My biggest problem and fear with posting pics is that there is absolutely no traditional storage of any kind. I have one plastic box that contains screws and drill keys, a couple of random old tool boxes, and that’s about it. Everything else is scattered or in a card board box or on top of my workbench. In addition to that, we still use much of the basement as storage so there are old bedsheets covering shelves and boxes all over. Not to mention any power tools I use are hooked up to one of three extension chords that come from opposite corners of the shop (one of which extends out through the wall (not kidding) and into another room).
It’s a pretty irrational fear and a bit of a whine, but I don’t know. I’m still a little embarrassed about it.
Maybe I’ll take a few pictures and post them up as problems that I am intending to solve as time goes buy.
~DB
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Scott Bryan
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posted 197 days ago
Hey don’t be embarrassed. Been there and done that. At times I still do. I have to run my saws and routers outside (or I get yelled at) and I have extension cords running all over the place when I do this. When I am working on a project it seems that every hand tool I own ends up on the assembly bench and then I don’t have room to assemble the project without sweeping the tools into a pile. (And then I also get yelled at for working in such a “pig sty”)
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.