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Mark Pruitt
01-13-2007, 8:46 PM
I've been hearing of some folks referring to their woodworking shop as their "studio." Studio? What's up with that? I have to say, when I'm roughing out a wet piece and have shavings flying, covering me head to toe, it's a great feeling but it sure as heck doesn't feel like a "studio"!

Can you tell I'm having a slow evening?:rolleyes: (BTW don't any of you "studioites" take this wrong! Just having some fun.)

Dave Fifield
01-13-2007, 9:36 PM
Not me Mark. My "Studio" and "Workshop" are two separate and distinct places.

Studio:

http://www.woodust.com/Studio.jpg

Workshop:

http://www.woodust.com/Workshop.jpg

Two of my respectable hobbies! ;)

Joe Pelonio
01-14-2007, 5:32 PM
I've been hearing of some folks referring to their woodworking shop as their "studio." Studio? What's up with that? I have to say, when I'm roughing out a wet piece and have shavings flying, covering me head to toe, it's a great feeling but it sure as heck doesn't feel like a "studio"!

Can you tell I'm having a slow evening?:rolleyes: (BTW don't any of you "studioites" take this wrong! Just having some fun.)
I never refer to my shop here on the Creek as a "studio", but I do at times when talking to a customer. Only when talking about stained glass though. It's the exact same room just changes name for that more "artistic" work.

Michael Gibbons
01-15-2007, 10:10 AM
Geez Dave! I can't tell which place is busier:eek:

Jim Becker
01-15-2007, 10:50 AM
David has the studio I almost built a number of years ago...major jealousy here!!
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To the original question...well...sometimes when folks are more "art" tended, they will prefer the studio moniker.

Steve Wargo
01-15-2007, 11:37 AM
Yep, If you're talking to another woodworker than the shop is a shop... but if you're discussing a piece with a customer, its a "studio". Personally, I prefer to use the term shop, but the customer prefers to hear studio.

Jim King
01-15-2007, 12:40 PM
OK guys, someone call this a studio and keep a straight face. This is a workin shop, people get dirty here.

Mark Pruitt
01-15-2007, 2:00 PM
Yep, If you're talking to another woodworker than the shop is a shop... but if you're discussing a piece with a customer, its a "studio". Personally, I prefer to use the term shop, but the customer prefers to hear studio.
I guess I need to have someone else do my marketing for me! I just can't bring myself to calling it a "studio!"


OK guys, someone call this a studio and keep a straight face. This is a workin shop, people get dirty here.
Exactly!!!

Andy Hoyt
01-15-2007, 2:44 PM
Freeport, Maine is home to LL Bean and 2,305,394 "Factory Outlet Stores".

I'm thinking of countering that with a sign that says, "This is THE factory"

Wes Bischel
01-15-2007, 7:04 PM
I worked in a Design Studio - at home it's just a shop.

Wes

Curt Fuller
01-15-2007, 7:21 PM
I just wish my wife would quit pulling her car so far into my studio. It just doesn't do much for my exhibit of yard care equipment, snowblower display, and the art deco cat litter boxes.

John Shuk
01-15-2007, 8:06 PM
Don't despair. I know painters who call their studio a shop.

Dave Fifield
01-16-2007, 12:41 AM
Hey Jim, how big is your, er, "studio"? It looks cavernous!! :eek: :)

Jeffrey Fusaro
01-16-2007, 7:18 AM
... To The Batcave!

Art Mulder
01-16-2007, 7:25 AM
Not me Mark. My "Studio" and "Workshop" are two separate and distinct places.

Studio:

http://www.woodust.com/Studio.jpg


Hey Dave... do black cymbals sound different? I would expect paint to chip off a cymbal from hitting it. So if it isn't painted black, then what is it!?

Aaron Koehl
01-16-2007, 9:50 AM
I just wish my wife would quit pulling her car so far into my studio. It just doesn't do much for my exhibit of yard care equipment, snowblower display, and the art deco cat litter boxes.
Curt, ROFL!!!

Jim King
01-16-2007, 9:55 AM
Dave: If it is me you are talking to this shopudio is about 30 x 60 and it is where we experiment and generally play with the different woods we find to understand the working properties. We will try anything here.

The next attached photos are of our working shop where we actually work and produce for export.

Aaron Koehl
01-16-2007, 10:16 AM
Very nice studio you have there, Dave! I'm envious.
Mine currently consists of a Tascam 788, a Roland KR series upright, the Roland RD700SX, a collection of nice software, and a couple of Samson Resolv80a active studio monitors.

Currently in the market for a high end external sound card to top it off..

Dave Fifield
01-16-2007, 5:29 PM
Hey Dave... do black cymbals sound different? I would expect paint to chip off a cymbal from hitting it. So if it isn't painted black, then what is it!?

They go "thunk" when you hit them Art, not "crash"! :eek: They're made of some kind of rubber. It's an electronic drumset (a Roland TD-20SBK Set (http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=599)). It feels just like playing a real analog drumset but it doesn't make much noise at all. I can practice with headphones on and I can record the sounds directly and not have to mess with mic'ing up etc. No self-respecting studio should be without a set!

Dave Fifield
01-16-2007, 5:39 PM
Very nice studio you have there, Dave! I'm envious.
Mine currently consists of a Tascam 788, a Roland KR series upright, the Roland RD700SX, a collection of nice software, and a couple of Samson Resolv80a active studio monitors.

Currently in the market for a high end external sound card to top it off..

Thanks Aaron. I started very small way back in the early 80's with just a Technics piano (with a very poor MIDI implementation), a homebrew mono-synth, and an Atari SE running Steinberg Pro24 (Cubase predecessor). I had a Fender Rhodes Stage 73 Mk II (new!) at one point - I rue the day that I sold it! I did pretty well for myself at the turn of the century, so invested quite a bit in a nice set of studio equipment. Getting more time to play with it all is what I wish for most now!

Your set up sounds nice - you really don't need much to make great music with, right?! I like the RD700SX - I always gravitate to that one in my local GC. I just can't justify buying another keyboard though.....

Cheers for now,

Jim Dunn
01-16-2007, 11:03 PM
Thanks Aaron. I started very small way back in the early 80's with just a Technics piano (with a very poor MIDI implementation), a homebrew mono-synth, and an Atari SE running Steinberg Pro24 (Cubase predecessor). I had a Fender Rhodes Stage 73 Mk II (new!) at one point - I rue the day that I sold it! I did pretty well for myself at the turn of the century, so invested quite a bit in a nice set of studio equipment. Getting more time to play with it all is what I wish for most now!

Your set up sounds nice - you really don't need much to make great music with, right?! I like the RD700SX - I always gravitate to that one in my local GC. I just can't justify buying another keyboard though.....

Cheers for now,

Now just a darn minute here!! Don't we speeka da english here?:eek: Whats all thes atari se? and those steinberg (cubans) and what the heck is a MIDI? Is it a new lathe?

Just funnin ya Dave;):D

Bill Grumbine
01-17-2007, 8:03 AM
No offense to anyone here, but my opinion is that studio is pretentious. I used to participate in a studio tour. I told people there were seven studios and one shop on the tour. Or, I would tell them that my shop was a studio for two days out of the year, and I was an artist for those two days. I had to clean it up, get out my clip on ponytail, wear black, and stalk about looking sullen for the two days of the tour. :p

Bill

Mark Singer
01-17-2007, 9:00 AM
Studio has a more creative connotation and suggests that "learning" or "study" occurs there....I like that , but frankly I call my shop a shop or workshop...Shop tends to suggest where things are repaired such as a muffler shop....in a woodworking shop the work tends to be "designed" rather than repeated or repared. The same is true of architects offices...they are often called studios with the enphasis that original ideas are brought forward within...
In France the word Atelier is comonly used and means artists studio

American Heritage Dictionary (http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4.html) - Cite This Source (http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=atelier&ia=ahd4) at·el·ier (āt'l-yā') Pronunciation Key (http://cache.lexico.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html) http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/speaker.gif (https://secure.reference.com/premium/login.html?rd=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fbrowse%2 Fatelier) http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/premium.gif
n. A workshop or studio, especially for an artist or designer.


[French, from Old French astelier, carpenter's shop, from astele, splinter, from Late Latin astella, alteration of Latin astula, diminutive of assis, board.]




now if you thought studio sounded pretentious....use atelier....it has that Euro snob connotation:rolleyes:
what is really important is not what you call your "workspace" (there is another one) ...but what comes out of it! That really tells the story!
I know fellow architects who produce embarrisngly bad work and have the fanciest names for their offices...if you call it something exotic can you charge more:confused:

Joe Mioux
01-17-2007, 12:34 PM
I call my shop a garage.

Aaron Koehl
01-17-2007, 1:10 PM
Your set up sounds nice - you really don't need much to make great music with, right?! I like the RD700SX - I always gravitate to that one in my local GC. I just can't justify buying another keyboard though.....

Cheers for now,

Thanks,

I bought the RD700SX last November and haven't regretted it for a second! I have some trouble playing on keyboards without a graded hammer action. This one's a bit hefty for gigging, but completely worth it for the sound.

Rob Bodenschatz
01-17-2007, 1:24 PM
This is funny. My friends think I'm being pretentious when I call my shop a workshop. They wanna call it a shed. :mad:

Tell me, does this look like a shed to you?

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John Schreiber
01-17-2007, 2:37 PM
Tell me, does this look like a shed to you?
The one on the right or the left?:D

Mark Pruitt
01-21-2007, 6:18 PM
In France the word Atelier is comonly used and means artists studio

Great!
Next time I hear someone mouthing off about a woodworking "studio," I'm gonna say, "You oughtta see my Atelier!" That'll fix 'em.:p

Bill Grumbine
01-21-2007, 6:25 PM
Great!
Next time I hear someone mouthing off about a woodworking "studio," I'm gonna say, "You oughtta see my Atelier!" That'll fix 'em.:p


Watch out Mark, that could be illegal in some states! :eek:

Bill

Mark Pruitt
01-22-2007, 9:41 AM
Hmm...hadn't thought about that. I guess I'll say it quietly and make sure there aren't any badges around...;)