New shop under construction #5: The final inspection is done. Now it's all up to me.

Can I come over and play? What fun you have ahead of you.

-- Ron Central, CA

Mark,

This is gorgeous. It sounds like you are going to be soooooo busy for some time to come. I hope you have time to shoot some pictures as you go and post them so that we can see how it is going.

Have fun.

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

Whoa nellie – that’s a beauty. Better keep that picture around for memoris—- once you move in the equipment that will be the last you’ll see it looking so nice. Hopefully it will be covered by saw dust and wood chips soon.

Congrats on the new shop.

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

WOW!! Won’t that be fun???

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Great looking shop. And pictures too. And invisible machines.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

That is one fine looking shop to be!

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

Hi Mark

Looking forward to seeing your progress. Hopefully I can get started on my shop soon. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

And a garage door to make it easy to get tools and sheet goods inside.
Also to get finished products out.

Nice.

Lee

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Bummer about the door opener, must mean SWMBO wants to park the car in there :-) Before you enclose the space under the stairs think about putting a shop vac and compressor in there and then acoustically insulating the doors so you have access to but not the irritation of noise for these items. Add pneumatic and D/C ports in the drywall for a cleaner look. It is too shallow for full blown D/C or pneumatics but it would keep the noise down in a home shop garage. Just a thought . . .

Add me to the envious crowd, nice looking shop

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

Great looking shop, looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

There is something very special about a new beginning

-- Keep your tools sharp, your mind sharper and the coffee hot

Start by sprinkling wood chips on the floor. Then you won’t be afraid to use it! Way to go, man. Happy woodworking!!!

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Nice space. What’s upstairs?

-- Check out my blog and podcast "The Renaissance Woodworker" at www.rogersfinewoodworking.com/blog

Shannon,
The upstairs is just an unfinished attic. We’ll use to store some stuff form the house and I’ll put some jigs and other shop stuff that I don’t use very often up there.

-- Mark

I not have my first true regret with this shop and it has to do with the epoxy floor. The floor looks great, but unfortunately I let the installers talk me into putting down the anti-slip additive (which I had previously declined). The anti-slip works great – unfortunately it is not the optimum surface for a woodshop. The anti-slip consists if small plastic balls about 1mm diameter. The upside is that I don’t have to worry about my workbench moving around .The downside is that I can’t slide anything across the floor and I have to be very careful when I put any dimensioned lumber on the floor or it will end up with a bunch of tiny scrapes in it.

My recommendation for anyone who gets an epoxy floor is to skip the anti-slip. Take your chance on slipping and enjoy a nice smooth floor the rest of the time.

-- Mark

great space

Rick and I were just discussing how excited we were when we put the cement floor down in our basement and enjoyed “the huge” space we had.. Now? Ha.. not much walking room now.

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