Building my wood shop!, look for my shifterknobs maybe comming back on sale again Options

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Years ago my grandfather willed me all his tools, though after he passed my grandmother did not want to let go of the things that reminded her of him.

My grandmother died of a broken heart 5 months later, we are now breaking up her estate and last weekend I brought back his tools. I am now doing something that I have wanted to do - built myself a wood shop!

Not all the tools are the greatest, but their meaning to me is infinite. My grandfather gave me my love of working with my hands.

I am turning the attic over my garage into my wood shop. For the past several years it has just big a big empty space full of car parts. Now I am making it functional! So far all of my building materials have been either from my scrap pile or surplus from the shed build over the summer. I have no funds right now for new materials.

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Lathe and chisels. Many of the parting tools and scrapers are hand made from old files he had and was not using. The wall behind the lathe i NEED to seal up. The 914 and my wife's Prius live down there - and I'd rather neither of them get covered in wood chips. I am planning to start turning shifter knobs on the lathe instead of the usual eggs to practice. :-)

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The entire wall will have shelves similar to this. I would have made more but ran out of 2x4s. Ideally, the shelves will have doors to keep the majority of the saw dust off them. right now I just want to get stuff off the floor.

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The table saw is at least 30 years old. It currently wins as "most dangerous tool" that I own. But, man, it is USEFUL! I have never seen 3/4 inch ply cut like butter!

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Excited about these additions too. I know he bought the drill press in 1985, and then replaced the motor with one twice as powerful in the late 90s. As far as I can remember he has always had the band saw, but he probably got it about the same time as the lathe in the 1980s.

I think that Pop-pop would love to see what I am doing with the attic, and that his old tools are going to be used to make things again. There is no better memorial to the old man then continuing to build, create and learn.

My wife has already given me projects for Christmas!

Zach

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Another 24 feet of shelving up, giving me 30 feet of shelves plus the 8 foot workbench.
Its all still odd cuts left over from the shed, so none of the shelves are exactly the same. I've even got bits from my old bed from high school now reused as shelving. My garage attic is slowly becoming a somewhat functional space! At this point I have more plywood but don't have any more 2x4 or 2x3 for the up-rights. So I might be done making shelves for a while.

Made the first rips on the play table for my son. Man the table saw is nice for that. Cutting 1x4 down to 1x2 so that I can build an internal frame for the top to sit into. The idea is that there will be a 1 inch lip around the table to keep the train bits contained. So, the 1x4 will go around the table, with a 3/4x2 (nominal) ledge and framework. The table is going to be very simple to build.

Also had the table saw shoot a several pound timber across the room when it bound and broke free. Its just retaining its title of "most dangerous tool."

Zach