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shop is coming along

#1

shop is coming along

john lucas

Well I finally got the new garage done and out of my hair. Been working hard on the little shop which is attached to the old garage which will be know as the Big shop. Got it all stripped of cabinets, cleaned and painted. It has plenty of outlets and I discussed with my friend how to rewire it to the new box. All it needs is a heater and air conditioner. Temporarily it will be filled with a lot of the junk and tool boxes in the garage so that hopefully I can get all the stuff out of the old garage and into either the new garage or the little shop. That way I can start stripping things out of the old garage and start the wiring, painting, insulation, etc to get it ready. I have to order 5 more windows and then install all of those. Still a lot of work to do but hopefully by maybe the middle of September I'll have a new shop. Bet you money it's more like late Sept or October but I'm going to work hard on this. Here is a photo of the new shop and the view out the back door.


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#2

Nice shop, and what a beautiful view!

Jim K from Trappe, PA

Are there fish in there? How great it would be to take a break from turning and step outside and fish! Or is it take break from fishing and go inside and turn? :-)

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#3

Re: Nice shop, and what a beautiful view!

john lucas

It's full of fish. I'm just not a fisherman. Tried it. Most boring thing I've ever done. did some Bow fishing once when I was into archery. Not challenging enough. I do love swimming and rowing for exercise.

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#4

Joe Fleming

Re: Nice shop, and what a beautiful view!

Joe Fleming

Fishing and golf are both boring sports best done with a good friend and a beer in the other hand. :)

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#5

Re: Nice shop, and ...FROG LEGS!


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#6

Nice to have a sink!


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#7

Re: Nice to have a sink!

john lucas

Well sort of. It doesn't have running water. Apparently the pipes were buried too shallow and it freezes a lot so they disconnected it. I'm going to put a rain barrel outside to supply cold water. I also don't have any idea where the drain goes. Probably into the lake so I don't want to dump anything even remotely toxic into it. So I'll probably just use it to mix water based paints and maybe wash my my hands or supply water to the wet grinder or water stones.

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#8

Re: Nice to have a sink!

don stephan

Underground detectives can show path of a buried drain or pipe so you know definitely.

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#9

Re: Nice to have a sink!

Michael Gibson

I thought you knew how to use a dowsing rod.

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#10

Looking Great!

Don Orr

Man you are gonna be set up for good now. That all looks like paradise to me. Looking forward to seeing more progress.

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#11

Re: Looking Great!

john lucas

Don I would have killed for a shop like that 20years ago. My shop and skills have grown considerably since then. Cleaning and clearing stuff out of the existing garage for the next few days to get ready to redo it. Man that's a lot of work and the humidity is not helping at all.

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#12

Re: Looking Great!

John K Jordan

You will have to throw a shop-warming party. Everyone can bring a chunk of wood.

(And I sure wish my shop had a sink!)

JKJ