My shop (at current development level)

[tom A nelson]

The jointer is a grizzly 12" with spiral cutterhead.

[Joe A Faulkner]

Great Shop Tour Tom. I can tell that you have put a lot of work into this. How long have you had this building and been at the process of equipping it? My shop remodel seems to be taking forever. I'm probably one or two more Saturdays away from being able to create saw dust again. I hope to start with some DC control, so I really enjoyed seeing all of your efforts on that topic.

[tom A nelson]

The shop was a retirement gift to (and from) my wife and me. We started in 2003 with the building and had most of it done (walls and electical and earlier dust collection with abs pipe) by 2006. I met Bill Pentz at a wood working show and listening to him convinced me to upgrade the shop's dust collection. He spent some time with me going over the basics and I started doing the collector in 2008. It took almost a year to get all the piping in and all the new shrouds on the machines. (I had to learn how to work with metal piping and strapping it and all the other things my brother in law taught me- he works in hvac. Bill P has been kind enough to come over and guide me occasionally in the dust collection. The vacuum system was his idea. I was basically done by 2009 and then had to upgrade a couple of tools so I could create new kitchen cabinets with olive wood veneer. (We have 200 olive trees). That of course dictated that I have a larger jointer and a bigger bandsaw which I reluctantly bought . Now I am starting on the kitchen and plan to get all the cabinets made in the next year. The model for the kitchen is the storage unit seen in one of the photos. My wife uses it for storing her gourd embellishments. We love the shop and enjoy spending time together out there.

[Van Huskey]

Thanks, shop tours are some of my favorite threads!

[Paul McGaha]

Great Shop Tom.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

[Bob Riefer]

Beyond all the smart ideas in your shop, I just love the feel of it. If you lived next door, I'd be over all the time

[Todd Kinsfather]

That shop building would be my dream shop. You are very fortunate and have done some great shop fixtures and DC work.

[Neil Brooks]

Wow.

Beautiful shop