Shop Tour

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Жыл бұрын

Just cleaned the shop so I supoose I should do a shop tour. I walk around talking about everything in sight, including but not limited to: machine islands, horse stall mats, lighting, lumber racks, defunct treadle powered grinding wheels, gardening(?), salvaged filing cabinets, and pencil sharpening retro robot toys.
Relevant video links:
Actually, everything in this playlist is relevant:
• Tools and Shop
And here's the link to my sharpening video: • Sharpening With Steel ...
More info about my shooting board: • The Most Important Han...
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@J4Julz 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Got a few new ideas for organizing from your video, and now I might not get rid of the under-utilized filing cabinet I've had for years.

@TheSMEAC 7 ай бұрын

There’s never an inopportune time for a shop tour, build video, or tip that includes your shop. I particularly like that your bench and tool cabinet automatically inspire you or at least give you that little dopamine hit when you come into the shop. Often that little ‘hit’ can inspire you to build something wonderful or inspire you to do something you may have been putting off.

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 7 ай бұрын

Good point.

@MikeAG333 4 ай бұрын

At last! An American woodworking channel focused on hand-tools, and without an aircraft-hanger-sized workshop dominated by a massive (unguarded) table saw. Best of all, you didn't shout "What's up KZfaq" in an over-enthusiastic manner. I looked at your back catalogue, and subscribed instantly. As for your workshop.....I prefer a level floor, so those rubber mats would have to cover the entire floor, or none of it at all. (Oh, and it's a concrete floor, not a cement floor). Anyway, it's great to have found you, and I'll watch a video a day until I've caught up.

@jason.b896 Жыл бұрын

I store my sandpaper the same way. Love it.

@franky47 Жыл бұрын

That desk looks amazing, looking forward to see more of it!

@keithtimelessacres Жыл бұрын

Nice shop.A lot of great ideas.

@JamesWilliams-en3os Жыл бұрын

Hmmm… liking the idea of having all the power tools in the middle of the shop like that, with the overhead power pendant thingy…

@GeorgeLowrey Жыл бұрын

I love it. In my ideal shop I would separate and isolate all power tools that generate sawdust, leaving the rest of the space for hand tool work and assembly. At least that's the dream.... If I were a KZfaqr I would put a system of rails on the ceiling for holding cameras, lights, backdrops, etc. No more tripods or stands to knock over or get in the way. Where's your dog?

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

Don't have a dog yet. I love dogs but we travel too much and I don't want to leave a pet behind so often.

@dragomirdichev1196 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. You are living the dream!!

@anthonyseiver7000 Жыл бұрын

As you said watching other's shop tours gives you great ideas for your own.

@jasonhammond4640 Жыл бұрын

Splendid. There are lots of good ideas there. 👍👍 I've followed you on IG for some time but was always curious about your shop layout.

@joeleonetti8976 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. I have three of four years of at least weekly temp and humidity readings I've captured for my shop. The time part of the clock has died so I may go out and get an atomic one as well. At this point, I don't write it down as I have enough historical data. One of the things I do to help with lighting is to wear a 500 lumen head band light for some of the darker areas in my shop. Might be handy for you.

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

I've been known to use a headlamp on occasion myself.

@ABrazHouse 6 ай бұрын

What was that bench dog accessory that you used for your desk lamp? I heard you say Lee Valley Tools, but I couldn't find it. Shop looks great by the way!

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 6 ай бұрын

Just do a search on their site for "lamp bushing" and it should pop up.

@ryanmccrae9491 9 ай бұрын

If your gardening’s anything like your furniture making, I’m sure it would be an interesting video.

@andrewpinson1268 Жыл бұрын

A good shop tour always gets a subscribe from me as yours did.

@markclem593 Жыл бұрын

I have questions about your new three-legged saw bench. Do you like it better than the old one? Are there significant drawbacks? I currently have no sawbench, and that three-legged design would fit and store better in my shop. I appreciate any feedback.

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

This should answer those questions and more: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNF-mrCpr7XFlKs.html

@createmomentum 2 ай бұрын

Great video! I am interested in your lighting. Can you tell me what make and model of light you use? You mentioned LED 4’ 4000K, wondering where to get those. And if they flicker during slo-mo playback (I’m sensitive to light flicker and test this way)

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 2 ай бұрын

I bought them several years ago so they might not be available anymore. The brand is Parmida LED Technologies.

@FearsomeWarrior Жыл бұрын

Great tour. Enjoyed you talking about everything. I just got the same dust collector and assembled it a week ago. Happened to scroll your Instagram again and saw the old grinder wheel setup and that table saw you eluded to. Looked like a rarer saw like those fun Inca saws with the mortise cutter on the side. Would love an Instagram post of your shoe rack. Curious how you mounted the rods. Maybe cap nuts with tubes in the middle of a threaded rod. Looks cool. Love the ledge strip on the conduit box.

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

Oh, that shoe rack was store bought by my wife before I even met her.

@FearsomeWarrior Жыл бұрын

@@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 It looks cool and unique. Go figure. Thank you :)

@andypickard9603 11 ай бұрын

Interesting 🤨

@TheArborNut Жыл бұрын

Love your content! Thanks for sharing! I'd love to learn more about the object (sculpture?) on top of your tool cabinet and below your clock, if you are willing to share?

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

It's a center piece/shallow bowl I made from some figured birch and some walnut that was made to look like a rain storm over a eroded mesa in the desert.

@shagha8832 Жыл бұрын

Hi. Thanks for another great video, and for sharing all the fine details of your shop. So, without a jointer, do you joint by hand? Or use a sled with the planer? What I'm really asking is: how did you joint all the boards for your bench? Cheers. (P.S. Donald Knuth, the Gandalf of computer science, analyzed kitchen usage and determined that the optimal kitchen would have the garbage can at the very centre... the way you've clustered your power tools in the middle, with the dust collector right at the heart of it... top marks! It's like you just made an entire woodworking problem disappear.)

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

I joint everything by hand. Thankfully, most of the stock for my workbench was already pretty flat.

@alainbriot Жыл бұрын

Very detailed tour of your shop. Thank you. Just one question: what's the overall size of the shop, in feet, length x width ?

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

About 24'x19' minus about 20 square feet.

@alainbriot Жыл бұрын

@@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Thank you Ryan.

@toddlajiness Жыл бұрын

Great video. How do you keep you planes from rusting?

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

Two things: The humidity is very low in my shop (usually around 30%) so that helps. I also wipe down my tools with a rag with a bit of 3-in-1 Oil soaked into it before putting them away.

@BuckSterling1 Жыл бұрын

I’m curious about the Lie-Nielsen box.

@themountaintopjoinersshop8422 Жыл бұрын

It's the box my No.51 Shooting Board Plane was shipped in and I continued to keep the plane in it until I built my tool cabinet. Now I just keep it around with the intention of repurposing it for something... someday.