How many of you guys have home shops. I know all the guys making calls have at least a few pieces. Any one want to show off your shop? Any of the history behind it?
I'll Start. I went to a trade school in high school. I took carpentry. We built a house our senior year. I learned how to use a lot of wood working tools. I have spent the last almost 30 years collecting wood working equipment for my shop.
The last 3 or 4 years I have gotten into machining and metal working. I have found I really love the metal working and am having a ball learning how to use my equipment I have bought.
Here is a link to a list of pictures of my shop. Just click on the different lines to see the picture.
I hope some of you other home hobbiest will join in and show some of your own shop photos. Might give me and idea of something else I need. Dont worry I won't tell my wife who turned me on to something I need for my shop. :eyebrow:
Steve
OOPS Here is the link to my shop pictures.
http://www2.wcoil.com/~buckrun/Metal/ (http://www2.wcoil.com/~buckrun/Metal/)
Steve
Buckrun, I've never seen a bandsaw welder how does it do ?
This could get ugly....... :huh:
DO NOT let the wives look over your shoulders while reading this thread.......... :wink:
Quote from: wv_yoter on January 05, 2008, 06:58:35 PM
Buckrun, I've never seen a bandsaw welder how does it do ?
I have a bulk roll of bandsaw blade. There is a cutter on the side of the welder to cut it to the length you need. Then you have to line up the ends in the welder. You want them to be touching and even on the cutting side. There is a button that when you push it, it will weld the two ends together. Then you have to anneal the weld. There is another button that when pushed it will heat the blade in the welded area. Doing this several times, a little less each time anneals it so it won't break at the weld when turning around the wheels of the band saw.
It took a few trys to figure out how to make a good weld but the last one I did has lasted for a long time.
Steve
:bowingsmilie: :bowingsmilie:
I wouldn't live long enough to use 1/2 of those tools more than twice!! One heckuva shop you got there Steve. :congrats: :congrats:
Quote from: Buckrun on January 05, 2008, 09:20:35 PM
Quote from: wv_yoter on January 05, 2008, 06:58:35 PM
Buckrun, I've never seen a bandsaw welder how does it do ?
I have a bulk roll of bandsaw blade. There is a cutter on the side of the welder to cut it to the length you need. Then you have to line up the ends in the welder. You want them to be touching and even on the cutting side. There is a button that when you push it, it will weld the two ends together. Then you have to anneal the weld. There is another button that when pushed it will heat the blade in the welded area. Doing this several times, a little less each time anneals it so it won't break at the weld when turning around the wheels of the band saw.
It took a few trys to figure out how to make a good weld but the last one I did has lasted for a long time.
Steve
That sounds like a pretty cool process.Thanks for the info :biggrin:
Wow, mindboggling. My little 10x12 even looks smaller now! I am SO envious.
Man that is a lot of stuff.
I wondered why there were so many pics, but I guess to get the whole shop you have to make a movie. LOL
Thanks for the nice comments about my shop everybody.
Come on Id like to see some of your shops! Also lets post some pictures of some of the things you have made. On some other sights I have seen lots of neat things people have made.
Here is one of the last things I made. It is for jeweling or fluting Rem. 700 bolts. I made it so it could be used on short or long action bolts. It has a long bolt in it for the picture.
(http://www2.wcoil.com/~buckrun/300winmag/Jeweling9.jpg)
Steve
Nice!!!
Joe
Ok you asked for a couple pics here is a few things I made
A christmas gift I made for my wife. It is made of Kiln dried black walnut
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r300/bnccont/DecCandleHolder001_edited.jpg)
And a set of candle sticks made out of spalted maple soaked in linseed oil before I turned them
And yes that is my oldest daughter
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r300/bnccont/Christmas07011_edited.jpg)
Nice! :highclap: She sure looks happy. Always nice to make something for your daughter so she can say Daddy made these for me.
I coppied from THO and made a couple candle holders and a dried flower holder out of Bocote for my wife last year.
What kind of lathe do you have? Mine is an OLD craftsman lathe that belonged to my wifes father and his father before him. Hopfully it will go on to belong to one of my furtue grandchildren.
When I got it I couldn't get anything to turn smooth. It had a bad belt and vibrated just enough that I couldn't get a good finish. Replacing the belt salved the problem. Who would think a belt would go bad in only 50 years or so! :confused:
Steve
I have an Ohio forged made by craftsman prolly looks just like yours I didn't go through all your pics so I didn't see your lathe
Just went and looked at your wood lathe and they look different
The shop aint much to brag about really. Just the usual woodworking tools. I do have a Jet mini tho. Here's what I like to do. :biggrin:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34/grs204/Brightwood%20Turnings/pens011.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34/grs204/Brightwood%20Turnings/morepens002.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34/grs204/Brightwood%20Turnings/crowsornaments005.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34/grs204/Brightwood%20Turnings/amboynaburlmapleburl001.jpg)
THE END!!!!! :whew: :biggrin:
The End :roflmao: Whats up with that? :laf:
Just figured y'all would be bored after reading a couple pictures is all. :shrug:
:roflmao: :roflmao:
Those are really nice HaMeR. I turn pens and such also. Here is some of what I gave away for Christmas.
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/alpenliter/BSGroup3.jpg)
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/alpenliter/BSGroup2.jpg)
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d169/alpenliter/BSGroup1.jpg)
Quite the shop and inventory Buckrun. :bowingsmilie:
Nice turnings guys ! :highclap:
Those pens are freekin awsome :yoyo:.
Lucas
Very creative alpenliter!! Those are nice. I'll get into those too eventually. :wink:
Thanks Lucas!! :biggrin:
HaMeR Are those perfume bottles? They look cool. So do the pens. I work with a guy that is really big into making pens. I only have seen one that he has made though. Didn't hold a candle to yours though. Amy shop is worth bragging about! :yoyo: Does the Jet lathe come with a chuck for the headstock? 3 or 4 jaw?
Those bottle stoppers are cool also. What kind of lathe do you have?
I have been thinking about making some turning mandrills. They would be about 12" long or so. You would mount one end in a chuck and the other end would be tapered for a live center in the tailstock. The one I made for my calls is 1/2" in the center then it steps to 5/8", 3/4" 7/8" then 1". I think those were the measurements. The different sizes were for different types of calls. Predator, coon squaller, crow, mini doe bleat, buck grunt and I was going to try to come up with a owl hooter. They would be steel but not hardened. So they would bend if someone was really heavy handed in their turning. What do you think?
Steve