What goes on in your shop?

[mbcabinetmaker]

I build custom cabinets for any room in a home. Also some custom funiture and occasionaly some store fixtures. I have been building cabinets for 25 years and have been self employed since 1988. This weeks projects are a 30"x72" kitchen island and a 60" built in china hutch. Next week its a bunch of whirlpool tub fronts. I have a 520 and use it mostly for its drilling ability. Also have an old total shop clone. I took it off its stand and bolted it to a wall with homeade brackets. Both are the best woodworking drill presses money can buy.

[sawdustman]

I usually do a good job of making sawdust. My favorite tool is the scroll saw. I make name plates out of wood for my friends, etc. It's a lot of fun to give them something for free and they always tell me I should charge but it wouldn't be fun if I did that. I make other things for the grand kids.

[ksdaddio]

Much of my work has been construction type. I am currently digging and pouring piers for the landing on a stairway for our new deck. The deck is 25' x 16', and has been a real challenge. My wife has been my helper, and has been a wonderful help. The deck is a second story deck, standing on 7 piers, and we have managed to hang joists, and apply the decking, and it looks pretty good. During the Winter, we finished her sewing room, making our own trim, and laying a engineered wood floor. We started a bathroom, but Spring came, so we moved outside.

Our next project will be a garage/shop, probably next Spring.

I recently retired, and am having a ball!

[etwoodmiser]

Just finishing 2 Cherry wall cabinets with my son-in-law. Also an Arts & Craft end tablel with my daughter, Carved a mystical wizard walking-staff. Built a Shaving-Mule(horse). Carving a trophy for the local Chilli cook off. Will be making my own spoke shave soon. So far 2006 has been a productive one!
Oh, did I say I am retired?

[drrugby]

When I got my 510 last summer I jumped right into turning and now have more chisels and gouges than I can use. Pens, walking sticks, clocks, rattles and stoppers have been great for killing time and giving as gifts. I'm in the middle of a quest to have enough Christmas ornaments to decorate a whole tree this Christmas. Once I figured out the hollowing bit, I was good to go.

Right now I'm working on a cherry medicine cabinet for our bathroom with a sassafrass panel in the door. If that comes our correctly I'm going to modify the design for a similar looking cabinet for the other side of the mirror to hang our swimsuits out of the way to dry. I have some vinyl sheeting that I'm going to make into a back panel and trough so we can take it out for cleaning.

This is all warm up for the bedroom suite I'm planning to build for my daughter out of knotty pine. I've only got a few months before she's out of the crib so I'd better master this stuff in a hurry.

[dasazer]

I am new to woodworking and try doing a little of everything to get use to working with the shopsmith. Master of noe but having a great time.

[bills2006]

Since my job keeps me 200 miles from my shop most of the time, I only get home for three days twice a month not a whole lot gets done. BUT...... when I am home, I get a lot of day dreaming done. I will retire in about 15 months and I have a lot of things already planned. Woodwork three days, fish three days and rest on the seventh!

[redferd]

I am making an old metal school desk into a planer table. I have put two angle iron supports on it with a lawnmower wheel on each end and pipe handles that fold at the opposite end of the table/desk. Kind of like a dual wheeled wheelbarrow set up so I can roll the planer around and out of the way or get it out when I need to use it. I have limited shop space and a lot of tools so I put wheels on everything to make them portable. After I get the planer project done, I am going to make a box joint jig and the boxes on my SS. I'll use the planer to make 1/2" thick boards for the boxes I want to make. :)