My Shop Tour

Great tour. Your shop is very well organized. I wish mine was a well organized.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

David, your shop/garage is awesome. I think I should like to have such a space someday. It is also nice to see someone else with some of the same tools (tablesaw, router table (less the lift for me), dust collector, planer). The cabinet storage is outstanding! Good luck with filling the rest of them as time goes on.

What are your thoughts on your hybrid TS?

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

I think you should win just because it sounds like you have your acceptance speach already down pat. I’ll be driving through Portland on my way to Seattle in a couple days…maybe Wednesday Night or Thursday. I would like to make it to Portland by Wednesday because there is a musician up there I like and I’d like to catch him at a local place. His name is Stephen Ashbrook.

Great shop. I really liked your video. Funny, you’re personality is much like I thought it would be. Maybe because I am still an Oregonian at heart.

-- Steffen

David, nice shop tour. As for your personality, it matches my imagined image also. Interesting how you really get to know fellow Lumberjocks through the combined process of posting and video-casts.

Thanks,

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.canterburybaptist.org/

That was a great tour, David. It has to be handy knowing where most things are and being so organised. I often misplace tools that I was just using 5 minutes ago, when I havn’t moved my feet in 15 minutes. If I didn’t have an assistant to get me through my day, I’d have a tough time finding a pen. That looks like a great shop. Did I hear a jet fly overhead? I used to live about 5 miles away from PDX airport and the ANG F-15’s used to shake the cupboards.

Great shop and didn’t I read that, “Thou shalt not covet thy imaginary friends, Domino?” LOL

Good tour and great to have your daughter help you out as camera person, guest star!

Cheers!

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

My first thought of course was, oh boy I’m going to get to see where my loom was made. I never guessed thought that it was built in the most organized shop I’ll probably ever see again. Wow, your shop is so nice, I can see why you enjoy working in it so much. I bet you have a hard time getting your friends to leave once they visit your shop. I wouldn’t be surprised if you win the contest. I think your daughter did a good job getting your video off the ground and helping with the finishing touches that made me laugh.

Diane

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excellent tour (Your daughter did a superb intro!!! She’s a natural)

And your tools were covered!! We’re lucky if we get the sawdust all swept up.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Thank you all for the kind comments!

These shop tours are a lot of fun and it has been wonderful to get to see inside some of our fellow LJ’s castles, as well as, put a face and voice to thier postings.

Mot, before shooting our video I had to swear on a stack of Fine Woodworking to not covet my imaginary friend’s Domino or other tools! You did indeed hear a jet fly overhead – we frequently hear and see the ANG F-15’s fly by. The ex-Navy in me always loves that sound and sight.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

david really nice tour and i love the intro very funny. my son loves his rockets too!

That reversible finish table is a great idea. Just to let you know it might be borrowed. Did you make those big cabinets your other tools are stored in?

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Very nice video produced by a very nice person. It’s sure nice to see a shop that’s as well organized as yours.
Be sure and give your daughter a pat on the back, for her great intro.

-- Dick Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

PanamaJack – Thanks! I consider it stolen. It works out well for my space saving needs. I did not make the cabinets – they were installed in our garage by a garage cabinet company. I am planning on copying them for our house in Sisters, Oregon. (Not sure if that requires any new tools . . . most likely will need something for that project!).

Dick – Thanks for your kind comments! Kelsey appreciates your approval. She was very excited to see all the comments.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Hey David. My wife and I had a good laugh with your video. Nice Mac!! “does mom know you’re watching that?” Classic!

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Thanks Marc! Its been fun watching all the shop tours.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

I really like your shop. Well organized. It’s also a pretty big garage. Your Video stopped on me when you were at the hvlp sprayer and I tried to get it start back up, but no luck. Otherwise you did an excelent job. If I was you by the festool, everything they make kicks but.

-- Brandon Parrow, Wilmington, N.C

For some reason, I could not get the video to play on windows/IE. Any chance this is an issue related to your recent upgrade?

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Wayne -

I think it is working now . . . the link needed updating!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Thanks David. It is working for me….

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

No worries!

I am learning a lot on Lumberjocks. Not only woodworking but a steep digital curve as well!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Always good to learn….

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Agreed! I know I will be adding to that when I start on the “plane path” – but you have inspired me and I will be on that road soon . . .

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Cool. Welcome to a new part of the slippery slope.

Two more days to vacation…

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Wayne – we have a lot in common . . . we will be on vacation at the end of the month. Hope you guys have a good time. Well deserved I must say after all of your road travels and time away from home. Where are you going?

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Just hanging around home and not working. Trying to get some shop time. Am planning to get some time in the Redwoods sometime during the time off. Frank has inspired me.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Shop time . . . I am jealous! I will have to post a couple of photos of my shop. It is full of siding supplies, windows and tools from the siders. Are you going to try and obtain some redwood burl?

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

No Redwood….. I’ve already got a big stack in my shop waiting to be made into benchs and chairs.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

LOL

I thought you had a big stack of redwood!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Yup and I’m not a real big Redwood burl fan. Give me some big leaf maple or Myrtlewood and I would be happier.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Wayne -

I understand. I would live to have some Myrtlewood in the shop!

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

I think your closer to the source than I am…. : ^ )

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

You are absolutely correct . . . just don’t have a source yet! Might have to contact Schroeder in McMinnville.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

David, I really liked the tour. You and Kelsey did a great job with the presentation.
God bless

-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia