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[Robert Yarger]

Ok, you have seen pics of my shop at the beginning of a project.  Now you get to see what it looks like at the end.  This terrible mess is what is left over after 2 months of work.  You can tell I am not much for cleaning as I go.  It just seems to save more time to do it at the end of a project.

[Canuck]

Scott won't even be able to look at those pics

[Eric Fuller]

Man, you guys are gonna be jealous.  I talked my landlord into giving me more space.  He just moved the last of his crap out, so I have the back 1/2 of the warehouse...about 2000 square feet.  My biggest problem right now is figuring out where to put the hot tub 

[Eric Fuller]

Here ya go.  OTOH, you don't want to know what my rent is now 

[Scott Peterson]

Wow - that is a lot of space, Eric!  Congrats on the warehouse!

Robert, as hard as it is to look at those - I have to say I'm really sharing cluttered space to even have a shop in the house we are renting. 

My newest tool is a headlamp!  I need it when I kill the circuit breaker at night in the garage...it gets really dark fast!  My technique is pretty easy - hold really still until all the tools stop moving, then turn on the headlamp and go to the circuit box...   I rewired the garage in Seattle, and now I miss that and many other things.  But, this works for now...

[Eric Fuller]

Heh, that's funny Scott.  My building dates from the 40's and I still have the screw in fuses...every time I resaw I go through two or three of them.

[Robert Yarger]

You guys and your silly little safty systems.  You can easily bypass those old breakers by putting a penny in there.

Ok, now I really am just kidding.  I actually don't recommend putting pennies in the breaker box. 

[Kerry Verne]

My recent distractions -
Finally got the new saw in and tweaked out. I love the accuracy over my old Craigslist contractor saw.

The router table I figured was needed for doing my bathroom project (any day now). I found the shipping crate behind my office, and the top was off my old desk that had been moved and reassembled one too many times. I made the fence off the design in Pat Warner's Router jig http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Easy-Accurate-Router-Jigs/dp/1558704868/. Made from my cheapest/ugliest walnut stock, it's built like a tank.

[Thargo]

At the risk of providing Robert with more ammunition to use against me, here are the photos of my workshop ... er ... my dirty workshop.  One day I plan to actually finish building it and getting everything into place. 

[Thargo]

Rear view of workshop from back yard.  The air conditioned in the wall over my head feeds the machine shop when I work in there in summer. 

Yes, that is a beer in my hand Robert......

[Robert Yarger]

Is there any other way, and for national pride it had beter be a Fosters.  Personally, I like to relax after a hard day of sleep with a cold one before starting work myself.  By the way, your shop is 5 times a large as mine.  You should be making 5 times as many puzzles.  Also, my shop is the same temperature inside as it is outside, so I am jealous of your heating and cooling system.  Still, enough alcohol makes the coldest days feel warm in the shop, and you don't feel the pain when you cut a finger off.    

[Thargo]

I don't know about '5 times as many puzzles'.  I probably make 5 times as much sawdust and the finished project is neatly hanging up on the floor, as you can see in the pics.  I probably have 5 times as much rubbish too, which I should have cleaned out ages ago, but bad judgment prevents me from doing so, or is it the little voice in my head??  I still have all my fingers though, well for the moment anyway. 

[Robert Yarger]

I suppose all of us guy have a different definations about what shopping is.  For them, it is going to the shoe store.  Four us it is making layers of dust in a wood shop.