Workshop Tour

L/W you got me blushing :-) Awesome shop, you two have obviously spent years creating your woodshop! I really like the miter box/router table workbench.Beautiful wooden storage cabinets and thumbs up on your table
saw! Big stacks wood, you definitely have a great shop!

Great shop L/W.
You have a lot of lumber. It’s everywhere… What do you build with all that lumber?
Your setup is easy to navigate and has a lot of storage and work areas.
Dust collection seem well thought and electrical every 2 feet, oh my!

It’s has been a pleasure looking at your shop.

Oh my thats an awesome shop to. Just like steves very well thought out. The thing is ive never had much room to work in and when i got my 20 × 20 ithought it was huge. If i was able to get room like yours or steves id think i was in a stadium. Lol thank you for sharing very cool.

Thanks for your comments guys.

Steve, yes, it has taken us many years to make that much mess! This shop was built about 20 years ago.

Ianwater, we’ve gone through a couple of stacks like that. I don’t post a lot because of dial-up, but we’ve made several large projects that have used a considerable amount of wood. The reason for all the lumber is two-fold: we have oak wilt in the area so our forest is dying. We burn the bad stuff and mill the not-quite-so-bad stuff. Also, we had a major windstorm in 2011 which took down many of our trees that didn’t have oak wilt so we sawed up the better ones of those as well.

Jeff, the downstairs shop is just 18′ × 40′ and that includes what is taken up by the utility room (about 7′ × 12′) and the stairway. It’s only about 600 square feet downstairs. The area between the stairway and utility room gets pretty narrow (less than 8’). We thought we were building enough space but it is shared with too many other activities.

We have leaf wilt too I think. All the leaves fall off the red oaks and then the tree dies.Looking to saw them up as well.

It’s sad to hear about the trees dying…
First I heard about the ash borer that decimated entire regions now oak wilt.
I am sure there are many other that I have not heard about.

I am glad you can use some of it.
Who knows maybe google fiber will make it to your area soon:)

Dutch elm disease, tent caterpillars in the cherry, apple, plum, etc., emerald ash borer, and gypsy moths in the oaks and aspens — we pretty much have it all! I’m not aware of any disease in walnut yet, but it’s probably just because I’m uninformed.

L/W

Abbas, I’m not holding my breath for Google Fiber! About ten years ago I asked our phone company (at the time it was Verizon) when we might expect high speed. The man took one look at me and said, “Not in your lifetime, lady.” While I’m well past middle age, I’m not THAT old; my parents are still both alive at 97 and 96 so I’m not looking for high speed anytime before the Rapture! LOL

L/W

“not in our lifetime”: Hopefully much sooner:)

To say I’m impressed L/W would be an understatement. This looks like a place where almost anything could be made, and probably is, judging from your extensive lumber stash and more than well organized shop. It looks like a wonderful place to pursue woodworking in just about any direction desired!

What a wonderful, clean and organized shop you have, just the inspiration I need. Thank you.

First, that is quite an impressive shop. Loaded with lumber too. Looks like a great place to work.

Second, never print your address or you may find all your canned garden edibles missing. ;-)

Lastly, Verizon has a program for wireless phone and internet that runs off the cell phone network. My parents went from rickty copper phone and dial up to this and it works great. There is really no other alternative. It’s pretty rural. They will never run new wire again in rural places and they seem to be pushing this service lately so they can abandon copper altogether, which they have effectively done in cities already, although they are running fibre in denser areas. It’s worth looking into.

Mike and Jack, I’m learning how to take pictures from the angle that shows the least clutter! . . . and I didn’t show some parts because it would be too much of an embarrassment.

I think that no matter how large our shops are, it is easy to have them so full of equipment that we have no room for the project. We had our kitchen cabinets made by another cabinet maker because there isn’t enough room in our shop to make more than a couple at a time and we didn’t want to wait years to get it done.

Brian, Verizon sold our area to Frontier a number of years ago. While many in our area have cell phones, we don’t get a signal in the spot where we are. Looking at a coverage map, you would think we would be well covered, but all the towers are several miles from us and the maps actually just show the overlap edges where occasionally a signal can be obtained. Other family members in much more rural areas have had DSL coverage (from different carriers) for years. We’ve considered satellite, but the service is both unreliable and high-priced, and we don’t want to cut down what remains of our forest to get a signal.

And, don’t worry, Brian, I won’t ever print my address because I enjoy eating that food too much! LOL My husband is the gardener and keeps us quite busy with all the canning. He does more than his share of canning, too.

L/W

man ! you have it all . It takes years to get it all toghter , but it is worth it .

Awesome shop.Very clean and well organized.

I DREAM of having a shop like yours someday! Completely well organized and clean- a pleasure to work in! I just can’t think straight when everything is a mess and cluttered- I don’t know how some folks work in that kind of atmosphere. Since I am new to woodworking (almost 3 years now), I am slowly collecting tools with only a vision for my shop, but I am determined to make it happen! Thank you for sharing your great space! And the canned goods, too!

Cindy,

Thanks for taking my shop tour. I’m certain you’ll achieve a far nicer shop some day soon. (Photos don’t always tell the truth . . . especially today with Gimp or Photoshop! LOL And I did try to keep the lens pointed away from the worst.)

L/W