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Where do you do you're work...
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ted Crocker May 4. 25 Replies 0 Likes
I was looking through a workshop edition of Wood magazine the other day, studying the layouts of a dozen and a half shops of all shapes and sizes when I realized that people kept referring to there…Continue
just saying howdy.
Started this discussion. Last reply by Phillip Robert Dec 14, 2012. 8 Replies 1 Like
Hi all, names Robert. Just joined up a bit ago, thought I should make an introduction. I live in North West Montana if anyone lives out this way or ever makes this way let me know, I'm excited to get…Continue
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Clock The Wolf replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."๏ ๏ It used to be the living room...
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Tyler replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."I work on my apartment's 2nd floor balcony/patio. I have a rolling used ikea bakers rack/cutting board thing i use as a workbench. If it doesnt involve a drill or dremel i do everything by hand. I.e. I dress my frets and shape my necks sitting…"
Robert Phillips posted a discussionSelling my first guitar on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/121099231044?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649Its a 4 string electric, Corina Westerns box. 25" scale, fretted, rosewood fingerboard, pearl fret markers, imitation bone nut and saddle. Pezieo pickup embedded in a rosewood bridge with on-board volume adjustment. Please take a look.See More
Robert Phillips replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."Sometimes those are the best set ups. Just a turn from everything. I have a friend up the road who's shop is so huge, you get tired just walking from one tool to the next, and the workbench always seems to end up 20 feet away. "
gary herget replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."I have a 12x16 shed out back, with tool stations around the walls and table saw in the middle of the floor all I can do is walk in circles."
Robert Phillips replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."And then a dip in the baptismal pool. Or is that the last step for the guitars??"
Slowpaw Steve T replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."real luxury is having space - amazing place, bet the acoustics sound cool, and you can play as loud as you like! (-:"
Suspect Device replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."Oh, it is expensive to heat. Oil boiler, plus a pellet stove -which helps ALOT. I don't normally heat the upstairs.. or the steeple. It the winter, it gets down to @ 40-degrees in the shop. I just bundle up ...and every once in a while I run…"
Suspect Device replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."Ahh! So that's where you find all those bones."
Suspect Device replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."Yes. I bought an old church. We live on the first floor. The second floor is where I have my shop/studio (the old sanctuary). The room is @ 2400 sqft."
Thomas Petry replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."Most of my work gets done on the bench under the yellow bins in the back corner of the garage behind the race car project. Don't let the clear floor in the foreground fool you, a lot of stuff was moved out to get the picture. Most of the time I…"
Randy S. Bretz replied to Robert Phillips's discussion Where do you do you're work..."In my dungeon"
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