Some Shop Shots

Once the beer fridge was removed from the garage, I was amazed to see how much space had opened up. I decided to take the opportunity to clean the shop and rearrange things, again. An added bonus was a trade with my dad for an old workbench he salvaged from a high school woodshop over 20 years ago. He got some drawer storage units that I couldn't figure out where to put. He's happy and so am I.

The first pic below is how the shop looks as you walk in the door. The lathe area is way in the back and can be seen better in the third pic. I need to get a few cabinets made and put up on the walls and then it will be time to get back to turning and making the shop dirty again!

A New Workbench!

I managed to finally finish a bench I've been building for over a year. I couldn't find anything to make the top out of, at least not in my price range (free). We rearranged a few things in the house recently and needed to downsize the computer desk. I had made it out of an old table and some doors long ago. The table top is made from 1.5" strips of pine...now I have my bench top! The drawers were salvaged from Drake University when they rehabed some dorms and were giving away built in desks. The rest is just 2X material that I found at building sites. My dad gave me the vice, he found 3 of them when packing up his shop in KS! It's 46" wide, 28" deep and 38" tall (I like tall benches)