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Where do you do you're work...

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 shops as small. 440sqft, 600sqft, all "small shops." I laughed at the idea. Is that really a small shop? It sounds huge to me! My shop is 75sqft and at times has been smaller and

Over the years my workshop has evolved and de-devolved and evolved again. When I was in high school living with my folks, I had my dads workshop at my disposal. Nothing too fancy, 200sqft, just right for most work that we wanted to do. Then in College I set up shop in my apartment. No power tools, 1, 6 foot workbench and pegboard everywhere. Then I moved and moved again and again and again and tools started getting lost or sold. For a short while my shop was set up in a 10x12 wall tent in the back yard. Then the kitchen table. A roll out table in the closet. Before long all my woodworking tools fit into one box. By the time I built my first CBG I was working out of a cardboard box of tools on the living room floor (only when the wife was gone). That was a year ago, almost to the day. Now I'm in the garden shed out back cranking out CBG's and furniture and whatever I want. So as all this ran through my head and I laughed about these 450sqft "small shops" I began to wonder, where do other people work. What is your shop? Are you working on the kitchen table or living room floor? Or do you have some huge shop out back? Where is it that you create your CBG's?

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Permalink Reply by Suspect Device on March 29, 2013 at 3:45am

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 downstairs to stand in front of that stove.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Phillips on March 30, 2013 at 3:19am

And then a dip in the baptismal pool. Or is that the last step for the guitars??

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on March 29, 2013 at 8:42pm

real luxury is having space - amazing place, bet the acoustics sound cool, and you can play as loud as you like! (-:

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on March 29, 2013 at 2:59am

In my dungeon

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Permalink Reply by Suspect Device on March 29, 2013 at 3:15am

Ahh! So that's where you find all those bones.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas "Duck" Petry on March 29, 2013 at 3:01am

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 have to stack stuff out of the way to access the area. and much of the work is done on a 18" X 24" "work top" board that clamps into the bench vise.

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Permalink Reply by Delvero on March 29, 2013 at 11:43am

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Permalink Reply by gary herget on April 1, 2013 at 3:01pm

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.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Phillips on April 2, 2013 at 1:13am

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.

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Permalink Reply by Tyler on May 3, 2013 at 11:43am

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 in a patio chair using rasps and files. Southern style. Too damn hot to work standing up.