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Shop tour
Since I see a lot of shop tours, I have decided to post mine.
As you can see it is an outdoor shop. Since I live in South Central Texas it is nearly always dry and Hot. Therefore an out door shop is perfect for me. When it gets too hot I go inside and listen to a book. When it gets too cold, I put on a sweater. This house that I moved into about 5 years ago did not have a garage. As I was going blind I did not think that I would need one. Thankfully things have stabilized and even gotten better, to where I now am able to post again on my favorite woodworking site.
Smithville is a wonderful small town with about 4500 inhabitants. I live on the south side and therefore no HOA. The town is about 60 miles south east of Austin and is full of arts and crafts. The last pic is my house hidden behind two Pecans which in Oct and Nov pay the house note.
Madts.
As you can see it is an outdoor shop. Since I live in South Central Texas it is nearly always dry and Hot. Therefore an out door shop is perfect for me. When it gets too hot I go inside and listen to a book. When it gets too cold, I put on a sweater. This house that I moved into about 5 years ago did not have a garage. As I was going blind I did not think that I would need one. Thankfully things have stabilized and even gotten better, to where I now am able to post again on my favorite woodworking site.
Smithville is a wonderful small town with about 4500 inhabitants. I live on the south side and therefore no HOA. The town is about 60 miles south east of Austin and is full of arts and crafts. The last pic is my house hidden behind two Pecans which in Oct and Nov pay the house note.
Madts.
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17 Comments
Function able shop. Glad the vision is stabilised. Outdoors makes dust control easier, better. Love the setting, Pecan trees adds.
Ron
First, it's great to hear your vision allows you to do things!
It's pretty cool you can do your woodworking outdoors. Nice set-up!
It's pretty cool you can do your woodworking outdoors. Nice set-up!
What a pretty place to work. The trees are impressive!
hey any place you can make dust is a shop.
working with my hands is a joy,it gives me a sense of fulfillment,somthing so many seek and so few find.-SAM MALOOF.
Well, you have a shop you can post pics of. Really nice that your vision remains! I'd sure hate to lose my vision.
The Other Steven
Good for you! Beautiful trees too…
Ryan/// ~sigh~ I blew up another bowl. Moke told me "I made the inside bigger than the outside".
I miss all the pecan trees from when I lived in Las Cruces. Nice shade, nuts wood!
I do remember they need an incredible amount of watering though!
Nice quiet shop space, peaceful and serene.
I do remember they need an incredible amount of watering though!
Nice quiet shop space, peaceful and serene.
My son lives a couple hours from you. Until I visited him, about five years back, the only experience I had with Texas was via Fort Sill, Oklahoma. I was amazed to learn how beautiful and green it was, elsewhere in Texas.
I was all in for the live oak, mesquite and pecan all but free for the taking.
If I was going to move from the Evergreen State, it'd be there, on a hill, above the water lines, and it would have a daylight basement (for free heating and cooling).
All that aside, your posts indicate you've carved out a nice spot for yourself there.
I was all in for the live oak, mesquite and pecan all but free for the taking.
If I was going to move from the Evergreen State, it'd be there, on a hill, above the water lines, and it would have a daylight basement (for free heating and cooling).
All that aside, your posts indicate you've carved out a nice spot for yourself there.
Very nice....looks like a good place to work!
Mike
It is nice to work outdoors Do when I can. Keeps sawdust under control.
Vision is precious, Grand Pa Fisher went blind from glaucoma.
Vision is precious, Grand Pa Fisher went blind from glaucoma.
daveg, SW Washington & AZ
Nice place.
Glad your vision has stabilized.
Glad your vision has stabilized.
So glad you can still see. Love the outdoor setup, especially like others mentioned for dust eradication.
Love your outdoor shop. The view, the sense of connection to the outdoors, the garden the weather. And the shade under the trees must be nice. Is it live oak? Looks a bit like mine eccept that it has glass sides (and I live in a much cooler climate).
Can imagine it must be nice and inspiring to be a neighbour passing by and seeing someone doing craftwork
Can imagine it must be nice and inspiring to be a neighbour passing by and seeing someone doing craftwork
"The good chair is a task one is never completely done with" Hans Wegner
Agree an outdoor shop is cool.
Petey
It remains special to have such a workshop outside. Unthinkable here.
Glad to hear your vision is stabilizing!! How do you pick the pecans? Shake the trees?
Cheers, Jim ........................ Variety is the spice of life...............Learn something new every day
Thank God your vision is stabilizing, that loss would be a loss to most of us, as we live through the great works of others.
Looks comfy, for the level of your work, I think many would have imagined more tooling. You do have what looks to be a good bench, and a good bench is the backbone of a lot of the shops I have visited.
Also wondering if having just a couple of trees gets someone with a tree shaker to your door, or is it hand picking? I only "know" 2 things about Pecans. 1 is a lot of folks argue if it's Pee can, or Paa cann, and they taste really good. :-)
Looks comfy, for the level of your work, I think many would have imagined more tooling. You do have what looks to be a good bench, and a good bench is the backbone of a lot of the shops I have visited.
Also wondering if having just a couple of trees gets someone with a tree shaker to your door, or is it hand picking? I only "know" 2 things about Pecans. 1 is a lot of folks argue if it's Pee can, or Paa cann, and they taste really good. :-)
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