Mark Shymanski's Workshop

Looking forward to seeing some pictures of your shop.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Hi Mark,

Let me echo Gary’s comments about the pictures.

Nice set of chisels too.

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

I think you have some formatting errors. Nice chisels, though.

-- Maplewood, MN

Hmmm, yes the formatting seems wacked… didn’t looked like that when I previewed, back to the manual for me.

-- cough...cough....next big purchase is wood for the next project, Mark

Mark,

Thanks for the pictures. They look fine to me. You have a nice shop and some interesting tools to play with. I like the extension wing on the saw. I am sure that this helps with sheet goods.

Thanks for the shop tour. I 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.

Now all I have to do is clean it up from the winter deluge of stuff and start doing some woodworking. The extensions on either side of the saw are nice. I’ve cut some sheet goods on it, it is a bit light and will start to walk if I push too hard on whatever it is I’m cutting. I think I got a pretty good deal on buying the jointer and the thickness planer used from The Wooden Edge here in Brandon. They’ve been pretty decent about providing advice on tools and tolerating me wandering through their showroom.

The drill press I inherited as I did with much of the hand tools. I’ve just treated one of my #4 planes to a citric acid bath and it came out great. I discovered and interesting stamping on the side with the word “Imperfect” stamped into the side of the casting. I thought they would destroy imperfect tools but apparently this one made it into circulation. I think it was my Dad’s father’s plane so I guess it is fairly old. I’ll see if it is still usable as I cannot see what is imperfect about it. I’ll post more pictures as I get the ceiling in and as I get a bit more organized. We haven’t been in the house long so the shop (I mean garage :-) has been kind of a lower priority

-- cough...cough....next big purchase is wood for the next project, Mark

Very nice shop.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Nice shop!

-- Kip Northern Illinois ( If you don't know where your goin any road will take you there) George Harrison

Another well used shop, tree-mendous. glad to hear the weather is warming up Mark. Good for us though cooling down.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Thanks for checking out my shop. When I checked out your shop I was surprised to see that you are so close to my Father in law’s shop in Regina SK. It really is a small world!