Thad Swarfburn III
Well-Known Member
Great to see other people's shops - and shared interests.
Here's my Emco Compact 8 on its bench.
And an image gallery of my shop and stuff I've done in it:
http://enginemusic.jalbum.net/workshop/
My shop is set up in the 10x10 foot space at the end of the steel garage we built two years ago. I would have made the garage a bit longer but the council approval process is much different for buildings with walls of longer than 9 metres (28 feet) - the fees go up quite steeply. I've insulated and drywalled the walls and put styrofoam (polystyrene) insulation on the ceiling. This makes a huge difference in the summer - there is a large temperature differential between the shop and the rest of the garage. No opening windows yet - just the single panes of glass pop-riveted to the siding. They build these things to a price, for sure.
Two benches are at standing height and one is at sitting height. Each bench is lit by a pair of 55w fluoros, though I'll need some task lighting as well. I ran network cabling to the shop as well for future net access and streaming of music from home server or the 'net. (I hate commercial radio with a passion!)
Equipment is pretty limited so far - the Emco, a small Taiwanese drill press, and bench grinder. Not in the shop is the Emco-star, a multi-purpose woodworking tool that I don't have running yet. Future plans include more small tools and hopefully a small mill-drill.
In addition to machining, I'm also into slot cars, guitar tinkering, bicycles, and the occasional plastic model, so the shop has some sacrifices to accommodate this!
Matt
Here's my Emco Compact 8 on its bench.
And an image gallery of my shop and stuff I've done in it:
http://enginemusic.jalbum.net/workshop/
My shop is set up in the 10x10 foot space at the end of the steel garage we built two years ago. I would have made the garage a bit longer but the council approval process is much different for buildings with walls of longer than 9 metres (28 feet) - the fees go up quite steeply. I've insulated and drywalled the walls and put styrofoam (polystyrene) insulation on the ceiling. This makes a huge difference in the summer - there is a large temperature differential between the shop and the rest of the garage. No opening windows yet - just the single panes of glass pop-riveted to the siding. They build these things to a price, for sure.
Two benches are at standing height and one is at sitting height. Each bench is lit by a pair of 55w fluoros, though I'll need some task lighting as well. I ran network cabling to the shop as well for future net access and streaming of music from home server or the 'net. (I hate commercial radio with a passion!)
Equipment is pretty limited so far - the Emco, a small Taiwanese drill press, and bench grinder. Not in the shop is the Emco-star, a multi-purpose woodworking tool that I don't have running yet. Future plans include more small tools and hopefully a small mill-drill.
In addition to machining, I'm also into slot cars, guitar tinkering, bicycles, and the occasional plastic model, so the shop has some sacrifices to accommodate this!
Matt
