SOME PICTURES OF MY SHOP
For the past 7 years I have been a self employed wood worker (the previous 12 years I carried a briefcase, now I carry a hammer) and now I have my dream shop at our new home. My super duper (former) wife graciously found a home with a stand alone 1000 square foot heated and insulated, 220 volt 70 amp service, and, air line plumbed shop. In this shop I will build deadly serious Sonus Faber like tribute stand mount speakers, custom fine furniture, specialty fabrication orders as they come along and dining room tables from locally harvested Burr Oak and Green Ash. This is the shop and the interior design is all my own creation. I didn't even need the help of an interior designer - maybe the next shop!
These are some additional photos of furniture pieces under construction and other stuff. I should also mention that the Sonus Faber Cremonia Auditor tributes that I am building below are being built with many off-cuts from three different runs of shaker style cabinet doors that I made. To sculpt the speaker cabinet sides I stacked, laminated and clamped the red oak pieces to give me a large slab that I profiled on the band saw. I thought I should explain the rough appearance of the speaker's inner walls. At least I will not get any standing waves!
I have also been busy upgrading my shop with additional and necessary equipment like: a 220 volt cabinet table saw, some expensive chisel and plane iron sharpening tools, another band saw, several more routers and rechargeable drills, and a very effective wood chip and saw dust collection system. It is a mix of flexible 4” and 5” metal duct work with multiple blast gates and remote turn on capability. It is a two stage system with the debris being collected in a large ¼” thick cardboard barrel that has a cyclone lid on it. It is rated, the Power Point Dust Collector, quite optimistically, at 1670 CFM and it does a fabulous job. I also fabricated a movable, Plexiglas, over arm, blade guard that effectively captures most of the saw dust thrown up by either of the two table saw blades. This guard has the ability to be used on either of my table saws, as they are side by side. I am in the early stages of turning my 14” King Industrial band saw into a horizontal band saw, saw mill. I will be adding a 10” spacer and will turn the band saw on its side and then mount 4 solid rubber wheels on it, so I can push it through the smallish logs I will mill. The solid rubber wheels will roll on my super flat concrete floor in a simple track system. Of course this means I will need to equip this retrofit band saw project with at least a 4 hp, 220 volt electrical motor. I bought an old beaver band saw (as mentioned above) to replace the one I will upgrade to a horizontal band saw mill.
These are some photos that show of the amount of wood and work that was required to transform the old ash baseboards into recycled, as new baseboards and casings. These nice long pieces of ash came from the long demolished Eaton's Building that once sat where the V.2 Jets now play.