What does your shop look like?

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IMG_20220724_204756558.jpg i make do in this corner of the 1000 sq ft basement. my bench is one of two tables from the art department of the highschool that was my highschools arch rival. Got these because they were going to be thrown away. The other table is for my wife arts and crafts IMG_20220724_203533265.jpg
Some trophies. Many don't look so great. From left to right you can see my first to most recent attempts at skinning/ tanning. IMG_20220724_203548084.jpg i keep the Republic of North Carolina flag on the wall down here. Believe it or not this is what the place looks like after me spending the last 8 hrs cleaning up a little
 
1976B.L.Johns. said:
Sorry, can not like that!
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It's the work of harmless black rat snakes. however on the occasion that I come face to face with one I dispatch them humanely with pruning shears. Not because I consider them a threat, as they are not, but because they are not content to keep my shop rat free no they make a habit of indulging in the swallowing of eggs from the chicken coop
 
Appalachiannative said:
You Midwestern fellas lol. I have kin that use snakes for religious purposes. I don't believe in that sort of thing but I've always been around them so they don't scare me. My father in law is scared of em too so I don't blame ya
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Im not scared of snakes; i just have a deep down respect for what some of em can do to living tissue! Ill tell ya one thing, they are about the toughest thing to skin. A timber rattler got hit by the car in front of me. I stopped, chopped and buried the head, and took him home to skin. Too bad his rattles were damaged at some prior time. Only a couple left.

My shop just got a big "shipment" of resources...
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Thats a 12x6 trailer, stacked 16 to 18" deep with wood of all kinds: pine, spruce, poplar, willow, ash, birch, cherry, maple, oak, walnut, rosewood, and probably some others. I paid $210 and drove 1200 miles round trip to get it.
 
BigBlue 94 said:
Im not scared of snakes; i just have a deep down respect for what some of em can do to living tissue! Ill tell ya one thing, they are about the toughest thing to skin. A timber rattler got hit by the car in front of me. I stopped, chopped and buried the head, and took him home to skin. Too bad his rattles were damaged at some prior time. Only a couple left.

My shop just got a big "shipment" of resources...
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Thats a 12x6 trailer, stacked 16 to 18" deep with wood of all kinds: pine, spruce, poplar, willow, ash, birch, cherry, maple, oak, walnut, rosewood, and probably some others. I paid $210 and drove 1200 miles round trip to get it.
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reckon your all set for the winter
 
BigBlue 94 said:
Good god no. This is all quality lumber from an violin maker who passed on. Thousands of dollars worth if i were to buy it at a store.

And i dont have a wood burning stove :(
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The image wasn't working I thought you meant split up logs not good lumber. I'd like to have me a couple chunks of that. Been thinking about getting into building Mountain dulcimers like my Appalachian for father's. It was an instrument designed and built to be easily built
 
BigBlue 94 said:
Im not scared of snakes; i just have a deep down respect for what some of em can do to living tissue! Ill tell ya one thing, they are about the toughest thing to skin. A timber rattler got hit by the car in front of me. I stopped, chopped and buried the head, and took him home to skin. Too bad his rattles were damaged at some prior time. Only a couple left.

My shop just got a big "shipment" of resources...
View attachment 1092052

Thats a 12x6 trailer, stacked 16 to 18" deep with wood of all kinds: pine, spruce, poplar, willow, ash, birch, cherry, maple, oak, walnut, rosewood, and probably some others. I paid $210 and drove 1200 miles round trip to get it.
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Wish my shop was wide as yours. I just got two small bay doors. One would have been better as it is a real nail biter trying to squeeze two cars into here. our house was built in the 30's or 40's. Then in the 1970's my wife's great grandfather had it cut in half put on the back of a couple flat beds then hauled out to it's current location to replace the 1 bedroom log cabin he and his wife had raised a family of 7 in. A block foundation deep enough to create a dirt floor basement was constructed before hand and the two pieces of house were lowered into it then re attached. Later in the 1980's the concrete floor was poured and a laundry room (the roof of which is my front porch) was added as previously clothes had been washed in the creek at the bottom of the hill. The house passed from descendent to descendent before the Mrs and I bought it from her cousin
 
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BigBlue 94 said:
Mine is a 100x50 metal building with a house taking up about 35x50 of it. And i still dont have enough room for all my crap! Pondering an enclosed lean-to on the back for the tractor and gator and such.
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nice to know
I'm not the only one with more work space that living quarters lol. The house upstairs is 900 sq ft the basement more like 1200. You got a sweet set up. What do you do about heating that place in winter?
 
Appalachiannative said:
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I'm not the only one with more work space that living quarters lol. The house upstairs is 900 sq ft the basement more like 1200. You got a sweet set up. What do you do about heating that place in winter?
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Its a work in progress lol.

Propane furnace in the house and one in the shop. Walls have 6" insulation, ceiling has like 18" or blown in insulation. Lathe room and safe room are heated and cooled by the house unit. The shop stays at 80 if the doors stay closed in the summer. Got up to 83 the other day when it was 102° outside.

Not only do i do machinist and gun stuff, we can build furniture or cabinets etc, and i work on my 4x4 Fords in there. Just not much room currently, with a mower, tractor, gator, ATV, F350, and a bronco in there.

No matter how big you build, its never enough lol!
 
.38 Special said:
Okay, I'll be the first brave one.

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My gun shop is also my bicycle shop, archery shop, tobacco shop, and book shop. Plus my wife keeps parking her car in it. After a big project - in this instance, silver brazing a bicycle frame from antique tubing and lugs - it's a complete disaster area.
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I like the sound of a tobacco shop
 
.38 Special said:
Toward the left side of the picture, above one of the lubrisizers, you can just make out the jars of pipe tobacco that I mix. That little hobby got kicked clean out of the house...
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I see. I had to make the basement non smoking because of all the reloading and black powder making that goes on down there. Plus the wife insisted the smell was coming up through the floor
 
Appalachiannative said:
I see. I had to make the basement non smoking because of all the reloading and black powder making that goes on down there. Plus the wife insisted the smell was coming up through the floor
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I'm with you, pal. I do my mixing surrounded by explosives, and my smoking somewhere else. My wife knew my habits when she married me, but that ring conferred some kind of unholy power. You should have seen it when she found me using her big stainless salad bowl for tobacco...
 
.38 Special said:
I'm with you, pal. I do my mixing surrounded by explosives, and my smoking somewhere else. My wife knew my habits when she married me, but that ring conferred some kind of unholy power. You should have seen it when she found me using her big stainless salad bowl for tobacco...
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Lol I bet it was like when I was using the kitchen scissors to process squirrels for meat
 
Mauser fan said:
Here is my shop pulling double duty as I have been in the middle of a kitchen remodel job. At least now my wife will be happy until she comes up with another project for me. Truth told I had a big hand in planning it out and designing it.View attachment 1093609View attachment 1093610
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Man you got a similar situation to me with the low ceiling. I'm studying these pictures to figure how I can get my lighting situation more like yours
 
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