Brian Thomas
01-29-2007, 9:17 PM
Howdy all! I've been lurking on SMC for a couple weeks and decided I'd introduce myself and post a few pictures of my modest shop and modest creation. I've really enjoyed reading the threads on this forum and have already learned a lot. This seems to be a great community - it's nice that folks use their real names.
Ok on to the photos. As you can see I share my shop with one of our cars. We have a drive-under basement/garage so the space is a little deeper than most two-car garages.
I have to do a small tool acquisition gloat. One of my other hobbies/obsessions is fly fishing. I'm a member of the local trout unlimited chapter and one of our former members was getting rid of all of his bigger tools as he was moving to another state. He said the moving company was going to charge him more to move the tools than it would cost to replace them. So for $2000 I got the PM 66 with Bies fence and extension tables, Delta drill press, Jet 14" bandsaw, Delta 6" jointer, Delta 12" planer, and the Delta sanding center. He also thew in the work bench (pretty cheap) and a shop vac. I thought that was a pretty sweet deal.
The cabinets in the shop came from the local Habitat for Humanity reuse center. It's nice to have that place so close - it's a good resource for all sorts of building materials.
Ok - hopefully this will work. Bear with me if the pictures didn't get posted correctly. I'll try and post pictures of my work in a follow up post.
Ok on to the photos. As you can see I share my shop with one of our cars. We have a drive-under basement/garage so the space is a little deeper than most two-car garages.
I have to do a small tool acquisition gloat. One of my other hobbies/obsessions is fly fishing. I'm a member of the local trout unlimited chapter and one of our former members was getting rid of all of his bigger tools as he was moving to another state. He said the moving company was going to charge him more to move the tools than it would cost to replace them. So for $2000 I got the PM 66 with Bies fence and extension tables, Delta drill press, Jet 14" bandsaw, Delta 6" jointer, Delta 12" planer, and the Delta sanding center. He also thew in the work bench (pretty cheap) and a shop vac. I thought that was a pretty sweet deal.
The cabinets in the shop came from the local Habitat for Humanity reuse center. It's nice to have that place so close - it's a good resource for all sorts of building materials.
Ok - hopefully this will work. Bear with me if the pictures didn't get posted correctly. I'll try and post pictures of my work in a follow up post.