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This page to show the current working conditions... We are in the process of building a new home, so are working out of a rental house, with only a carport and a tent.
Despite the lack of a formal workshop, these pictures show that good work can be done in a limited space if you want to badly enough. If anything is to be learned from the exercise of working in this space, it is that the new workshop will be much more efficient than the last one. (It better be, the new one in Volcano will be barely over half the size of the old one in HPP.) Click on any image for a full size picture in another window. You may need to have pop-ups enabled for the new window to appear. This is what the neighbors see... We live on a dead-end street, so people arrive from the right. From the house, looking through the carport at the tent in the driveway. Looking into the carport from the outside. Visible are the grinder needed to sharpen chisels, behind it is the cabinet saw (which also doubles as a work table, a rack on the left for various items, and behind the saw, a planer on a table (when in use, it is clamped to the cabinet saw). Looking into the tent from the edge of the carport. The lathe is on the left, another wire rack on the right, with a refrigerator/kiln, and beyond are boxes being stored until the house is done. The lathe is on the left. Behind it a large (23" diameter) blue sanding disc is visible that can be used to sand rings when it is mounted on the lathe spindle. The large ring with wheels is called a steady rest, and helps when turning long items. This lathe was shop built, has a 3 horsepower 3 phase motor running on an inverting controller, and can spin a 43 inch diameter blank. Even sitting on a tarp on a gravel driveway, it is heavy enough to be stable for this sort of work, but I wouldn't spin a 30 inch log with it right now! From the back of the tent looking out. The fridge on the left is actually a kiln. The kiln is a refrigerator that has been converted by stripping out the refrigeration equipment and inserting a light bulb at the bottom. There is also a hidden heating element and fan controlled by a thermostat, but not currently in use.. Usually there are shelves inside for various bowls, but when working on tall items, they have to come out. Some things don't fit into the kiln, so they have to go into the house for the glue to dry, and finished pieces also live here until they go to gallery. |
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