Tom Awesome
01-16-2007, 11:21 PM
Hi there everyone! Great site here, I found it while doing some comparison shopping for a new TS. I haven't had one since I moved from my parents house before college (graduated from college in 2004) and was only able to work wood begging and borrowing tools.
I bought my place in mid 2005, mostly because of the 900 sq ft shop in the back yard. It came fully equipt with a bathroom (shop sink, toilet, water heater) BIG gas heater, double paned windows, insulated door and garage door. Oh, and nearly 2500lbs of scrap metal, and almost 3 FULL 30 yard dumpsters of random garbage....
Fear not, I have cleaned, fixed, remodeled, painted, repainted and fixed again the house and yard for the last year. I am finally to a point where I can enjoy the shop. You can see first my new TS, which after much searching I could not pass up for the recent craftsman club price.
I spent nearly 14 hours setting it up, mostly due to the fact that it was initially impossible to align the miter slots and blade. I will post a bit on epinions about it. Long story short the table top came on and off a dozen times to enlarge holes to allow alignment. From the factory the blade hit the underside of the table when being raised....
Anyhow, I mostly work on older IH Scouts, have lots of them, and prefer to work in cherry. Immediate plans will be a saw blade box, shown in progress on the saw, lots of honey-do's on the house, then finishing a hall table I have 80% done, getting into night stands, and a bed. All the while finishing a restoration on the scout in the background :D Anyhow, enough with the typing, and on to the pics. I have lots more, so let me know if you have any requests! An don't worry, I have LOTS of work to do on the shop too... ;)http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/360185486_e78af6ffff.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/360185490_f437d57a12.jpg?v=0
THE IH beer (soda,water) fridge!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/360185488_428e14028b.jpg?v=0
My shop is a total disaster, which drives me NUTS, so I will post more, clean pics when I get settled in. Turns out the table saw took up a lot of room :D
The beginnings of my wood area...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/360190452_f3a5157994.jpg?v=0
ugh...the nightmare... so much to clean and reorganize! did i say yet i have a LOT of tools? hehe....
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/360190449_5d8c9211ab.jpg?v=0
Thanks for looking, and drop me a line!
Tom (real last name not) Awesome
I bought my place in mid 2005, mostly because of the 900 sq ft shop in the back yard. It came fully equipt with a bathroom (shop sink, toilet, water heater) BIG gas heater, double paned windows, insulated door and garage door. Oh, and nearly 2500lbs of scrap metal, and almost 3 FULL 30 yard dumpsters of random garbage....
Fear not, I have cleaned, fixed, remodeled, painted, repainted and fixed again the house and yard for the last year. I am finally to a point where I can enjoy the shop. You can see first my new TS, which after much searching I could not pass up for the recent craftsman club price.
I spent nearly 14 hours setting it up, mostly due to the fact that it was initially impossible to align the miter slots and blade. I will post a bit on epinions about it. Long story short the table top came on and off a dozen times to enlarge holes to allow alignment. From the factory the blade hit the underside of the table when being raised....
Anyhow, I mostly work on older IH Scouts, have lots of them, and prefer to work in cherry. Immediate plans will be a saw blade box, shown in progress on the saw, lots of honey-do's on the house, then finishing a hall table I have 80% done, getting into night stands, and a bed. All the while finishing a restoration on the scout in the background :D Anyhow, enough with the typing, and on to the pics. I have lots more, so let me know if you have any requests! An don't worry, I have LOTS of work to do on the shop too... ;)http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/360185486_e78af6ffff.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/360185490_f437d57a12.jpg?v=0
THE IH beer (soda,water) fridge!!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/360185488_428e14028b.jpg?v=0
My shop is a total disaster, which drives me NUTS, so I will post more, clean pics when I get settled in. Turns out the table saw took up a lot of room :D
The beginnings of my wood area...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/360190452_f3a5157994.jpg?v=0
ugh...the nightmare... so much to clean and reorganize! did i say yet i have a LOT of tools? hehe....
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/360190449_5d8c9211ab.jpg?v=0
Thanks for looking, and drop me a line!
Tom (real last name not) Awesome