AaronK's Workshop

Hi Aaron, how about posting some pictures of your shop?

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for adding me in your Buddy's list. Doing so you gave me the opportunity to look at your projects, which I never noticed on LJ.

The first thing I noticed from your pictures was all the natural light that comes from so many windows in your shop (read I'm jealous). All your furniture have what I would call a 'personality' probably from your personal touch when designing them. These are great looking pieces of furniture. Congrats. According to me, you're on a good path to get lots of satisfaction in your life.

I also noticed that you added in your workshop page a list of the tools you communly used and I like this particular idea. I now realized that with such entry level power tools you have great talent for having built such beautifull furniture.

Cheers,

Serge

Look forward to seeing some shop photos

thanks serge. i will post pics of my shop as soon as i'm done with my current project. it's a little messy right now! the one thing i have to say in favor of it is that there is PLENTY of natural light - all windows on 3 sides. other than that it's small, cramped, and the roof leaks! also I need to update the tool list - i've gotten a few more tools recently: planer, jointer (a couple weeks ago), bandsaw… those are a big help.

imo, a messy shop is by far more interesting then an overpolished one

it will hardly be overpolished!

I tried to be ironic!
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I meant: "in order"

ok, finally some pics once things got cleaned up (slightly).You can see the nice natural lighting that I get… the whole thing is about 10'x15' but the roof leaks, so it limits the usable space even more. some notes:

- the jointer is sitting on the router table. not the massive auxiliary fence I added in order to get it true 90º to the beds.
- note my tiny makeshift workbench. cost about $20 including the reinforcing dimensional lumber, auxiliary MDF top, and pipe clamp bench vise hardware. It is unbelievably solid, and I've never had a problem handplaning on it. the bench vise also works surprisingly well and only has problems on really long (5+ feet) pieces that are really too long for me to handle properly in my small space.
- i repurposed some old kitchen cabinets for storage. the one in the back holds finishes and sanding/sharpening supplies (i use scary sharp).
- i store my clamps under the bench on the stretchers.

wow, your shop has lots of potentiality, it could be a paradise with a wooden floor imo. I like a lot that type of window, I'm not sure but I guess they are not produced anymore, at least here. The atelier of Charles and Ray Eames had those windows.

yeah, if I was staying in my house longer, I would redo the shop. It needs to have the roof fixed, gutters redone, and floor leveled. It's still small, but with 100% usable space (instead of ~75 as there is now) it would be a whole lot easier to work with.

It's a real shop, faults and all.

I could be happy in it.

Jamie

I'm not sure what I would do if i had a large shop space… just wouldnt feel right with adequate room. Nice shop, and use of limited space.

Aaron, thats a nice shop.