New workshop

congratulations!

john jesseph

>I hope you get settled in quickly and enjoy it!

Congrats, Jim

Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

>Look forward to seeing those photos.

Best, Ted

Re: New workshop

dave jeske

>What fun! my only advice (not that you may care)- do it right the first time. Once you move in it is hard to go back and upgrade.

Enjoy, and do post some pictures.

Dave

I love your perspective!

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

>Workshop with a house attached. LOL! Congratulations on the new shop....oh and on that house thing too.

Tommy

Peter Egan influence again

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Peter Egan, one of the world's finest writers about things automotive, had a great column some years back about shopping for a house. I can't reproduce it exactly, but the general idea is like this: the real estate agent asks what he and his wife Barb are looking for, and Egan goes into a long soliloquoy about "at least a two-car garage, should have 220 electricity available for the welder, etc., etc." At the end, the agent asks, "Um, and bedrooms?" to which the reply is, "well, yeah, one of those would be nice."

Bedrooms?

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>There is one of those beside the interior plane storage room.

Re: New workshop

Dave Anderson Chester,NH

>Congratulations Jim. Expanding a shop or moving into a new one is one of lifes great pleasures. You get to start with a clean slate and correct a bunch of the errors you made the last time around. I'll bet you end up with a setup about twice as efficient as your previous one.

There's always that nice nook under the workbench

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

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Jack Guzman from Maine

>Congratulations on your new shop.I hope you get set up real comfy so you can put out lots of new steel.I'm sure I'll be looking for parts to something.---Jack

Projects

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>I am way behind. Need to make up some nickers for #289 planes and also parts for #40s. I have SIX of them that need blades and bladeholders. They are crying to get back to work. The metalwork shop is scheduled to be set up this weekend.

Looking forward to those pics!

Frank D. in Montreal

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Re: New workshop - Heat Treating room?

Brad in Ottawa

>Jim,

Will you have a dedicated room/space for heat treating or for metal work for your blades? Sounds like you are going to be set!

Brad

Metal room

Jim Reed @ Tallahassee

>There is a special room at the back of the garage that is about 4x20. It has two doors to contain the mess. I plan to build it out this weekend.