Addicted to my shop

[jester]

Had to put the finishing touches on my substitute Lego motors and they had to sit for twenty minutes to let the epoxy set. So I pulled out the bone and started making naalbinding needles until someone needed to jump in on the bandsaw and got his piece stuck in the machine. So I put the bone away and pulled out the knife blanks I cut out with the CNC plasma cutter and cleaned one up and tried my hand at rough stock removal. I'd still be there if I didn't have an early morning. What a blast.

The knife turned out a lot better than I thought it would. I've got to clean it up a little more and then I'll add a wood handle and rivet it all together. Fun, fun, fun.

[Halberds]

Yes... we must see pics of this shop funess.

[Jonny Deuteronomy]

Pics of the jestery mancave?

[Tom B.]

Guys, I think he is a member of one of those club / member shop things sometimes these are called HackerSpaces or Makerspaces.
You pay a monthly fee an get shop time. Usually they have lots of tools and gadgets that most people can't afford CNC, Plasma cutters, etc.

I toyed with the idea of opening one here locally but I let it drop due to already having too many irons in the fire.

Tom

[jester]

http://www.clubworkshop.com/

The pictures on the site are all from when it first opened a few years back. Now.... More equipment, more lived in.

[Jonny Deuteronomy]

...he is a member of one of those club / member shop things sometimes these are called HackerSpaces or Makerspaces.

They had a couple of places like this at Camp LeJeune way back when. I spent many happy hours there while on active duty. Helped keep me out of trouble.

[Johann ColdIron]

...he is a member of one of those club / member shop things sometimes these are called HackerSpaces or Makerspaces.

They had a couple of places like this at Camp LeJeune way back when. I spent many happy hours there while on active duty. Helped keep me out of trouble.

You find trouble? Unpossible.

I worked in one when I lived in Panama. It was nice having the access to equipment I couldn't afford. I also rebuilt my car at the Auto shop version on Ft Clayton.

[Armourkris]

Lets be honest here, speaking for myself, workshops have helped me get into just as much trouble as they should have prevented.

[Thomas Powers]

*different* trouble and often of a type more palatable to a SO....

Of course when I get what my wife calls "constipation of the soul" she sends me out to the shop and spending a couple of hours out there clears things up...

[Blaine de Navarre]

It burns me up that I live in such a cultural wasteland that there is no such place closer than an hour away. If it weren't for that nasty "employment" thing, I would already have moved to Oakland just to be near the Crucible.

[jester]

Want.