Shop Tour Challenge Entry

We be a jammin’...Liked the background music. Nice endorsements! I like the way you did the router table for a tight or small area. Happy woodworking!

Love that new quick release bench vice you have…is it still under warranty?

Great job Giz. Thanks for sharing.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Thanks Panama….. The vise is under warranty. But it was more user error. I have not had that happen before. Inspection time.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Thanks for the tour John and thank your camerawoman as well. Lots of fun to watch. The vice almost had me rolling on the floor.

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

Thanks Wayne..

I have to say .. It was pretty funny to watch me with the vise. At that moment I was getting cranky.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

I thought you rolled with it quite well. I’m glad you left it in some folks would have edited it out and reshot it.

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

Don’t get the ”big head” Giz, but I think it’s one of the best. It’s all natural and fits your personality well. Thank you for sharing….and not editing.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Panama—Too late.. My head is giant. If you listen closely during the quiet parts, you can hear my small brain rattling around in its oversized cage.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Thanks for the tour! It’s a great time in a man’s life, when he’s mastered his vise! :)

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

thanks for the tour!

Do you get finger oil at the same place as elbow grease?

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh

Thanks mot and Scott.

Yes Scott.. you do.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Nice landscaping leading up to your shop. I don’t understand why you have no handles on your shop doors, but they do look nice. There were a lot of “dings” in there and it was fun seeing the raw video without any editing of when you had trouble demonstrating your vice. Thanks for the fun tour.

-- Jesus is Lord!

John: Great Video. My daughter sent me an e-mail and said are you going to make one. I replied are you crazy.

Thanks for the tour.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Thanks Karson and Oscorner.

Oscorner. That was edited. I just haven’t installed the handles. It is low tech security. I always go in through the side door and push the doors from the inside.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Thanks for the tour! Great looking space – I enjoyed the prior posting on building your shop. You have a great collection of tools and a wonderful supply of wood. It is great to now put face, character and voice to your postings! Thanks again.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Thanks for the wonderful tour.

I loved it. Ding

-- Fred Childs, Pasadena, CA - - - Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Good stuff, John. Silly vices and magnets anyway… I got a big LOL-kick out of the whole experience.

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

Thanks David, Fred, and Jeff…

Now let’s see your tours…. Come on now…

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

mot and scott… now that sounds like a good “late night” follow up to woodtalk online ;)

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh

Thanks for your adventurous tour.

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

Just watched the video, great to see it. In the spirit of Lumberjocks, it is light hearted and not afraid to laugh at mistakes and miss – fires. I liked the fact that you and the “person behind the camera” were laughing together!

Looks like you have a beautiful yard and a great shop. Thanks for posting.

-- John

Thanks Dick and Woodspar.

Woodspar..That is about how everything goes around here. Mistakes and missfires. and lots of laughing.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Great shop tour video. I like the tunes. What is the name of that song?

Thanks…

Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five… The Message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6e9G-ump3Y

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Thanks for the info. I’ve heard that song sampled a few times in newer music but I never knew the original artist.

Nice choice on that.

Hey Giz,
Why didn’t “Buckettas” didn’t get a DING?

-- Rick Snail, Omaha, NE --The only stupid question is one that isn't asked.

Good point. Bucket boss. DING!

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

I have visited John’s shop in person and it’s as good as it looks.

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

Well done and excellent shop. Nice exterior or the shop too, would door handles ruin the decor? Or just haven’t found or made the right ones yet?

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Thanks Rob. I have door handles, I just have not installed them. On the list.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne