Shop porn *LINK*

Re: Shop porn

Barry Irby

I saw that yesterday. I have to admit I was dumbfounded. He talked about taking a year to make some (small) aspects of the shop. The shop was bigger than my house and cleaner. I just can't imagine how much work it would take to keep a shop that clean. He had more supplies than a hardware store and lumber yard. My thought was that he spent more time working ON the shop than IN the shop. Amazing.

The different approaches to woodworking

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

In my early years of woodworking I made stuff because I needed stuff. The woodworkers I met early on also made stuff because they needed stuff. It was common to hear someone say that they wanted a (fill in the blank), could not afford to buy one, so they learned to make it. Go to the Member Gallery, look up Mayberry, and see where this motivation led one of these people. Fred Stanley, a SAPFM winner who lives nearby, is another that was driven by this motivation. It was neighbors like these that pulled me along and I presumed that is what "woodworkers" did in their shops.

WC participation has shown me that there are other motivations for the people that identify with woodworking. Apparently creating a shop is one of them. I expect this person takes great pride in what he has created as well as satisfaction from showing it off. I was not sufficiently interested in his woodworking life to get beyond the introductory picture.

I attended a gathering of SAPFM members from a local chapter. My neighbor at lunch who I had never met before introduced himself with a question. "How much have you spent on your shop", to which he promptly answered the question for his situation? I could not answer, having never considered a need to prepare to answer such a question from a "woodworker". We didn't have much in common to talk about.

"Woodworking" is wide field. Whatever our motivations we learn from one another.

Re: Shop porn

Paul Blackwell

No where near enough clamps, and no sawdust. He must have a cleaning crew to keep the shop that spotless.

Re: Shop porn

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

Sorry Ellis ... that is totally OTT, and too busy, busy, busy for me. I think that we need to take a poll of how many had a seizure after watching. I lasted 3 minutes.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Shop porn

Yonak

He sure likes to make fancy cabinet doors and drawer fronts. Although he had plenty of clamps I didn't see a glue-up station. He must do his glue-ups on that huge bench he's re-finished so many times.

Also, I didn't see a finishing area. Did I miss it ?

Get out in the shop and make something

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

You are too good to quit making stuff. The world needs more of it. I miss discovering special features in your pieces under way. Your stuff was more fun to study than anyone that posts here. Go make something.......if nothing else a place to store your socks, with some novel twists no doubt.

Re: Shop porn

William Duffield

That's not a shop; it's a museum. I wonder if he is trained as a curator, or if he's looking for one to hire?* Even a quick scan of the YouTube playback bar, with the inset mini TV screens, was too much for my sensibilities.

*Woodworkers need not apply.

Re: Shop porn

David Yoho

I watched most of the video - skipped ahead several times. This guy's voice and manner of speech turned me off. He does have an incredible workshop stocked with all the equipment and supplies one could want and a place to display his woodworking talent. I figure that's fine if it's what makes him happy, which it seems to. Nothing wrong with working in a space that one enjoys or is inspired by. I'm guessing either he makes enough money from his work or from some other source to afford everything in that shop. Good for him. Not my cup of tea, however.

Another shop with OCD

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

This shop is equally OCD, but at least resembles a woodshop. I recall watching this video set several years ago. It is interesting enough and has some genuinely useful ideas but, mercifully, short ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pKSqjPuR1k4&feature=emb_logo&ebc=ANyPxKpyFVYOBjW0BbXHf9PgQpxMNqoGPzE9VRTzG8l6XZx2-v6jCqYRYPtP6bMr_6WgSFglLCyJdgCRsWaoOUxTkXTWyt5yXw&time_continue=7

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfXlnGoT6U

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Shop porn

North of Border

No need to apologize. This ain't a workshop.....too big (to maintain), too many machines and tools (some duplicates) to be left idle, too large to walk across or around, too....obscene, for lack of a better adjective.

No. I'd send it back if it were a prize won by me. I enjoy woodworking, not upkeeping a hardware store and machine showroom.

Re: Shop porn

Clint Searl

Whatever he doesn't make, at least it ain't poorly designed ugly.

XXX

Kevin French

How did this get by the Net Nannie filter?

My local hardware store isn't stocked that well

I may be a more extreme

David Weaver

version of you, except i make less stuff.

I couldn't tell you the last time I spent an hour in a weekend organizing or making something for the shop - except for making a bench (but breaking another bench forced my hand).

At the same time, as much as i like to make tools and trinkets, I can understand that if these guys really love building their shop more than they love studying furniture, etc, then I hope they get the same satisfaction that i get in making shop fixtures and benches that I feel free to beat and mistreat.

That guy's shop is sort of the anti-knots (knots being a place where guys thought it was cool to harass people about what they were making and make claims of doing more than anyone else with less in resources).

Re: I may be a more extreme

William Duffield

Where's the challenge in trying to figure out how to make something, if you've got every woodworking tool and machine known to humankind? I have a different kind of challenge: Where'd I put it? And I have a lot, lot less tools than he does.

Re: Seriously!

BobS12

My dad just passed away two months ago and we've been clearing out his shop, it's very sad as I can't possibly take all his collections to my shop. And don't really want to since I run my shop in a much different manner. I'm only able to bring a few of the things I really liked and the rest is going to schools and Goodwill.

This is the shop of someone who just has a shop to have a shop and there's nothing wrong with that. His love is the shop not the stuff he builds in it, that's obvious by the large number of repeat tools that he has that aren't at all necessary. I think he's got every tool Proxxon makes several times over and what possible reason is there for that!

I wonder about classes...

David Weaver

...I know a guy here (well, I've met him, he's a friend of a friend) who gives classes and at a fairly high volume.

I'd never have a clue that he gave classes or that anyone did outside of woodcraft and rockler (and home depot if you want to build bird houses).

A shop like this guy has would draw in white collar mid life people (like me, if I was still a real beginner instead of a more experienced beginner) .

The point I'm neglecting to make is the fellow here who gives classes has a bunch of tools that he keeps on hand. I kind of wonder with the giant bench that this guy has if he does small classes.

another guy south of here who is a retired teacher has three phase power access and has two nice shops - one is a vintage power tool dream (more or less a mill room with things like a 24" jointer and a beach 52" oscillating drum sander), and the other is an open shop that's more modern with a giant bench in the middle (he gives lessons).

some of the things in the shop date it...

David Weaver

...if you look at some of the storage and jig stuff, it's screws, red oak and a heavy router round over. I remember that look being the woodworking standard when I was a kid.

Heavy round over on everything, and light oak finish. On oak.