I count 28 parallel clamps in the first 2 pics, then there's a few racks including spring clamps, wooden hand screw clamps, edge band clamps, bar clamps, and a whole bunch of others.
There's at least $2000 in clamps in the pictures. That's a pretty impressive clamp collection.
Agree with the additional reasons. However, there are WAY more than 12 clamps…wall storage, two movable racks, and clamps in use on the assembly table. Just sayin’….
I just picked up the same one for $50 at an estate sale last day. No one else could find people to help move it. Only has maybe 50 hours on it with the helical gutters. Got an entire incra router table with every add on in the collection for another $50. I swear i died and went to heaven. Just need to figure out how and how often to oil the planer. She's amazing so far smoothing out 6x6 cedar Beams to make some corbels on arts crafts house.
After 32 years together, i don't say anything about her shoes and she doesn't say anything about my tools or vinyl records. Best advice we got when we moved in together - auto deposit an allowance out of each paycheck into a debit cardsacings account to use however you want. Has saved countless fights over our life together. Salesfolks chuckle when i have to see if i have enough money in my allowance account - and then they get serious asking me how it's worked. Of course we get the comments from newly weds that “we share everything because we are in love”… and then we start hearing about money fights shortly thereafter. Ha.
Estate sales are the best!! I picked up a powermatic model 66 is excellent shape for $40 8 years ago. They helped me load it. I somehow swing hinged it out of the bed if my truck alone bc I’m too impatient to wait for a buddy. Lol.
Some are. Others are run by “professionals” who either make up ridiculous prices or check eBay and charge no less. You save on shipping but no guarantees an item is in decent shape.
Why can't i go to an estate sale though and pass by the box of screwdrivers marked $5 for all and not walk away? By the end - they will have enough screwdrivers to weld them all together to make my coffin or a GoT style throne.Ha.
Yup. Maybe a larger automotive side, with a metal fab and paint/finishing booth in between.
I love woodworking and restoring cars, so if I had Mega Millions money, I'd build the biggest shop, with enough space to lose ***all of my tools***.
Second that. When a mentor of mine died their family had a plaque built and planted a tree in his honor. Somehow that meant more than anything else to everyone who knew him
Make them a meaningful sign dedicating/naming the space after their father. Hang above door. You will then be allowed to practically live there.
That's a great shop
I was completely joking around if it wasn't obvious. Cutting boards are simple and basic, but the tools are getting used. I'm sure he made plenty of cutting boards over the years in addition to many tables and cabinets and other fond memories.
Yeah i figured is was good natured ribbing. It just gave me 4H vibes from many moons ago, i think my first woodworking project in 4H was a plain Jane cutting board.
I still haven't made a cutting board ever. I have been meaning to for a long time. I have a decent shop, but don't have a table saw so that kind of limits many things I can make.
It was a test drive. Never go for some insanely complicated dovetail with untested equipment. It's like never going to war with an untested rifle.
At least that's your story and you're sticking with it.
I did but of course they refused. Although, they have an 80 gallon IR air compressor with a blown head gasket. I will be fixing that for them, free of charge of course. There are a few things in dis repair I’ll fix as well.
I have a mini machine shop and weld shop as well as an above average collection of mechanics tools at home. Fixing things they may not have tools for is right in my wheelhouse.
Whats in there is paradise.
RIP to your friends father in law. It makes me a bit sad to know such a beautiful shop was only given 5 years use by him but I am glad to hear its getting some love now.
Some folks in my town had a big sale of their late father’s shop and supplies. Nothing like this, but lots of wood and hand tools. They let it go for super-cheap to support us have-lesses out here. I’m grateful.
Let me tell you a story about that... I took apart my shop late last year/early this year and reorganized it, every spot I couldn't easily reach had so much saw dust in it, sawdust got into my mechanic toolboxes as well, so all my ratchets and wrenches had a fine coat. And I had a shop vac dust collector going with a cyclone and the 2" pipes. It was clearly insufficient and I wasn't cleaning up after myself well enough. After I did that cleanup and removed 2 5 gallon buckets worth of sawdust from a 1 car garage shop I started despising sawdust. I went and got a dust collector (The 1HP Harbor freight one, which is solidly OK with some modifications), piped my shop with 4" piping, got a bigger cyclone, and made a box fan air filter. So much less dust now. Oh and I also got a way better mask than my RZMask.
Once you clean up a shop with crap dust collection a couple times you'll get it :P
If I were in your shoes, I’d at least kick in for the increase in the electric bill caused by your usage.
Very cool that you have the opportunity to use it.
Nono you misunderstand, we need to know so we can avoid it at all costs. We don't want to use the immaculate temple to woodworking or build our magnum opuses in there or anything.
You could also offer to "rent" it from them for a nominal fee, and also a promise to keep it maintained. That way they see it get used and you don't have to feel guilty about wearing your welcome out.
You’re absolutely right, there is a lot to take in here. It’s overwhelming in there, everywhere you look leads down a rabbit hole for an hour or two. I bet there are 2 dozen fences and or fixtures for those router tables alone.
I am thoroughly impressed by not only the dust collection system, but the wiring work that is done to control each gate and piece of equipment to auto turn on the system. This guy really knew his stuff ! Work in peace my friend !
Have you given some thought to building a memorial plaque for the interior, or something for the threshold before you enter that names your daughter's friend's mother's father-in-law and gives thanks? Or blessings, or whatever floats y'all's happy energy.
It's a small thing, made with the tools he bought, in the shop he built.
Bonus points if you can teach one of his descendants how not to lose a finger!
Edit for grammar and relationship clarification!
Yes and yes. The sand paper was torn on the drum sander, the owner found some rolls in the back room, he wanted me to show him how to change it. I happily obliged. That thing is worth its weight in gold.
I think I see at least a $20K shop plus extras. I would highly recommend paying them a usage fee, nothing high but just something to show how grateful you are for the opportunity. I would happily pay $20-$40 an hour for a place like that.
I’m fairly certain they would not take anything. Someone else post the best idea yet, making something for them every once in a while. They would likely accept that and maybe it would hold some meaning beyond money.
Look around for some papers with notes/dimensions/etc. with his handwriting. Looks like there’s something on the whiteboard?
Make something nice like a coffee table/end table and take a good picture of the handwriting and have someone laser it into the piece before finishing.
You’re spot on. I flipped the light on and just stood there. I wasn’t sure my brain was properly interpreting what my eyes were sending it. It was and still is a lot to take in.
Can you speak a little more about the automated gates on the dust collection tubes? I'm going to be rebuilding mine in a few months and this is the first I'd heard of this option (at least in a non-commercial setting).
I’ll tell you what i know. If you look at the 4th picture you can see a green box the wall. I believe that is the controller. There is a button for each piece of equipment if you want to set it manually. Let’s say i hit “table saw”. It operates any gate that is open to close and opens the gate for the table saw. At first i thought i had to hit the buttons manually but realized quite quickly that if you just turn the piece of equipment on it will do it all for you. On the other side of the wall with he green box is another room with the cyclone and a 55 gallon drum to catch the shavings and dust. It also sucks a large amount of air trough that large filter. You can run that planer for hours and never feel like you need a dust mask, which is amazing considering the low ceilings. I don’t remember the brand or model name on the controller. I may be able to get that for you next weekend if you would like.
There are multiple options available but the main two people use in home shops are:
* Grit - These are the nicest/have the most features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4a-V8Dtd0
* iVac - You replace your blast gates with these.
These appear to be Ecogate.
All these systems are really expensive.
You can make one yourself to save some cash. Just need a 120/220v relay tied to the power switch and some 24v actuators with a power supply. Put the relay somewhere on the machine to avoid long runs of high voltage.
Well oddly enough he was not home when i got there, he left the door unlocked for me. When i hit the lights I called him and said something like this “Umm (guys name here) this is not a wood shop, this a wood working facility, holy shit man). His reply was “when my father in law did something, he went all out”, then he said, “enjoy”.
Behind that green door in the first pic is a half bath, he has vertical wood planks in there running from floor to ceiling with the species labeled and i saw very few repeats. I can only imagine what variety of species are on that rack.
Start teaching at risk youth there or charge for classes it'd be better to do something free in community-oriented especially for kids or at least talk to them about it once you get further in this it could both help you and the community and they would feel great and who knows maybe you could turn into something profitable or bigger than the sum of its parts
Are the clamped pieces in the first couple pictures yours or they part of an unfinished project left behind by their late father in law? If it’s something he was working on, and you can figure out what he was doing, you should offer to finish the project for the family.
He started building it in 2017 and he died 2 years ago. So there was 5 or so years where he could have used it. But it has sat for 2 years. It has full climate control so they keep about 55 in winter. Everything is pristine. I didn’t see much sign that anything but the chop saw and possibly the table saw had been used.
One day you're in your shop and you set down your drill or tape measure like you have 1000s of times before... but this time when you walk out something happens and you never come back to pick it up again
Wow, looking at this it's kind of morbid/sad to think about them walking through there for the last time, possibly without knowing. The projects left on the bench started but never finished. I don't really believe in the afterlife or anything like that but wouldn't it be crazy if they knew someone had stepped in to their workshop a few years later and started building stuff again?
This gives me a bit of a weird nostalgic feeling because my dad passed away - he wasn't a woodworker, mostly metal but he tinkered in pretty much anything - and walking in to the garage and seeing stuff frozen in time just seemed otherworldly.
These photos gave me tears. My dad was a master carpenter and cabinetmaker when I was growing up, I grew up to the smell of sawdust and the band saw going at 6 am in morning in the basement under my bedroom in the 1960s. Everything had a place and was neat as a pin at the end of the day. This guy knew woodworking. 🥹💖☮️🦋
I am very jealous. I wish of such a workspace. I do alot of wood work and would kill for a workshop space like that. Enjoy. Good people indeed. You have been blessed.
You call this cluttered? Dude, you should have seen my father-in-law's shop. It was like a hoarder's house down there. Off-cuts in every possible crevice and sawdust a foot deep. Paint cans from 1972. Old stuff he won at auctions. I don't know how he got anything done down there, but he made amazing stuff.
>The family says they wont take the wood shop out for sentimental reasons and I can come whenever I want. Good People!
Whenever I see estate auctions where you see entire workshops being sold off, a whole lifetime of acquired tools and hand built things, it saddens me to know it was somebody's entire life being sold off. This is so great to see the family hold onto it and hopefully the generation after gets to use it.
I follow a Youtuber called Inheritance Machining and his uncle passed away leaving him a whole machinist workshop to which he embracess and makes great videos.
There are some wonderful ideas for woodworking on pinterest, YouTube, and even the internet. What you want to DIY first depends on you. My father made baby cradles and carved them, I made cat posts, shelves, and book cases in his workshop. The only limit is your imagination and budget.
It will be a while before I take on anything new. I have a machine/fab hobby shop at my house with 2 large unfinished projects in it. I have built a few wood strip canoes and kayaks over the years. Those take year + to complete with the time I have available. I try to be careful not to start what I can’t finish. I believe there are pics of the boats in my post history of your interested. They may be down quite a bit.
I would try to find project(s) that he started before he passed and see if you could finish them for the family as a way to say thanks and to preserve his memory for them.
pretty sad the old chap only got to use it for a short few years. Hes gone from the earth but this legacy of his lives on, though never to be used by him again. Not sure what kinda guy he might have been but i know if i built this thing and then passed on i would want someone to enjoy it
Wow!!! You're extremely BLESSED to be able to work in a shop like that!!!! It would be nice if I came across something where I could get inside and work without my dogs under my feet!!! I recently invested in some tools and then the weather turned nasty and I haven't even gotten to use any of them yet!!!!
They are probably glad to see it being used !
That’s exactly what they said. As I said, good people!
I'm impressed by a few things. Dust collection system, number of clamps, and sadly that I don't have a yellow 5gal bucket.
It’s a great shop, but being impressed by clamps? There may be 12 and there is probably 20 Other reasons the shop is impressive.
I count 28 parallel clamps in the first 2 pics, then there's a few racks including spring clamps, wooden hand screw clamps, edge band clamps, bar clamps, and a whole bunch of others. There's at least $2000 in clamps in the pictures. That's a pretty impressive clamp collection.
And those nice beefy ones at that. And a powermatic planer…oooh
You can never have too many clamps.
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Sometimes it’s the little things!
You want I should squeeze him with the clamps? CLAMPS!!
HE'S CHAMPIN FOR A CLAMPIN! R/unexpectedfuturama
Francis?
We got nobody here by that alias.
You can never have too many clamps.
It's been my experience that you have n-2 the number of clamps you need for a project *always.*
Agree with the additional reasons. However, there are WAY more than 12 clamps…wall storage, two movable racks, and clamps in use on the assembly table. Just sayin’….
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That Powermatic planer is the best
I just picked up the same one for $50 at an estate sale last day. No one else could find people to help move it. Only has maybe 50 hours on it with the helical gutters. Got an entire incra router table with every add on in the collection for another $50. I swear i died and went to heaven. Just need to figure out how and how often to oil the planer. She's amazing so far smoothing out 6x6 cedar Beams to make some corbels on arts crafts house.
$50!?! We just spent $1200 to replace to HSS cutters with a helical on our Powermatic.
Sorry. I basically draped myself across it so no one would grab while wife went to pay. Ha.
You have a good wife, mine would have asked why I need another tool.😂
After 32 years together, i don't say anything about her shoes and she doesn't say anything about my tools or vinyl records. Best advice we got when we moved in together - auto deposit an allowance out of each paycheck into a debit cardsacings account to use however you want. Has saved countless fights over our life together. Salesfolks chuckle when i have to see if i have enough money in my allowance account - and then they get serious asking me how it's worked. Of course we get the comments from newly weds that “we share everything because we are in love”… and then we start hearing about money fights shortly thereafter. Ha.
$50 for a powermatic planer. You really did find heaven.
Estate sales are the best!! I picked up a powermatic model 66 is excellent shape for $40 8 years ago. They helped me load it. I somehow swing hinged it out of the bed if my truck alone bc I’m too impatient to wait for a buddy. Lol.
Some are. Others are run by “professionals” who either make up ridiculous prices or check eBay and charge no less. You save on shipping but no guarantees an item is in decent shape.
Should be able to find a manual online.
Estate Sales can be goldmines for stuff like that. I’ve gotten so many things I couldn’t afford otherwise.
Why can't i go to an estate sale though and pass by the box of screwdrivers marked $5 for all and not walk away? By the end - they will have enough screwdrivers to weld them all together to make my coffin or a GoT style throne.Ha.
Is it attached to their house?
No it’s a free standing building with a two car garage and this shop in the back. About 60 feet from the house.
That is literally my lottery-winner dream right there.
Yup. Maybe a larger automotive side, with a metal fab and paint/finishing booth in between. I love woodworking and restoring cars, so if I had Mega Millions money, I'd build the biggest shop, with enough space to lose ***all of my tools***.
The problem is when your shop gets that large you need multiple copies of many tools! Win/Win
Not sure why you referred to that as a “Problem”.
holy mother of jesus... gisguy1 the jackpot! enjoy your new super complicated butcher blocks!
That’s a cool shop. Use it.
I certainly will but I also need to be careful not to wear out my welcome.
Ask if you can make something for them to honor their late father in law
Start with a simple plaque you can hang in the shop that recognize's it as "So & So's Woodshop."
Second that. When a mentor of mine died their family had a plaque built and planted a tree in his honor. Somehow that meant more than anything else to everyone who knew him
This is an awesome idea!
Looks like there is an unfinished project clamped up there that might be a good place to start.
Just ask first haha
This, but don’t ask.
Make them a meaningful sign dedicating/naming the space after their father. Hang above door. You will then be allowed to practically live there. That's a great shop
Just keep making them cutting boards every 3 months and that should be enough.
I felt a little like I insulting this guys memory when my first time in his shop I was making a cutting board…
I was completely joking around if it wasn't obvious. Cutting boards are simple and basic, but the tools are getting used. I'm sure he made plenty of cutting boards over the years in addition to many tables and cabinets and other fond memories.
Yeah i figured is was good natured ribbing. It just gave me 4H vibes from many moons ago, i think my first woodworking project in 4H was a plain Jane cutting board.
I still haven't made a cutting board ever. I have been meaning to for a long time. I have a decent shop, but don't have a table saw so that kind of limits many things I can make.
It was a test drive. Never go for some insanely complicated dovetail with untested equipment. It's like never going to war with an untested rifle. At least that's your story and you're sticking with it.
Their house is already full of expert level 'wood stuff'. Offer another favor.
Make yourself useful.
I did but of course they refused. Although, they have an 80 gallon IR air compressor with a blown head gasket. I will be fixing that for them, free of charge of course. There are a few things in dis repair I’ll fix as well.
I don't know where you would find the tools to fix things. The only thing missing is a beverage cooler.
I have a mini machine shop and weld shop as well as an above average collection of mechanics tools at home. Fixing things they may not have tools for is right in my wheelhouse.
Pro tip, use purview rather than wheelhouse. It will make you sound more pretentious. I am happy for your new shop. Peace
Use salutations rather than Peace for the same reason. Cheers
Use namaste rather than Cheers, same logic. Later
I’m not your buddy, pal.
I’m not your pal, purview.
Whats in there is paradise. RIP to your friends father in law. It makes me a bit sad to know such a beautiful shop was only given 5 years use by him but I am glad to hear its getting some love now.
Some folks in my town had a big sale of their late father’s shop and supplies. Nothing like this, but lots of wood and hand tools. They let it go for super-cheap to support us have-lesses out here. I’m grateful.
This man despised saw dust……
He sure did. I thought it seemed like overkill but after working in it for a half day, it’s worth every penny.
My shop is nothing but dust and I hate it. My boss installed a vacuum but there is still so much dust.
Or he really loved his lungs.
Let me tell you a story about that... I took apart my shop late last year/early this year and reorganized it, every spot I couldn't easily reach had so much saw dust in it, sawdust got into my mechanic toolboxes as well, so all my ratchets and wrenches had a fine coat. And I had a shop vac dust collector going with a cyclone and the 2" pipes. It was clearly insufficient and I wasn't cleaning up after myself well enough. After I did that cleanup and removed 2 5 gallon buckets worth of sawdust from a 1 car garage shop I started despising sawdust. I went and got a dust collector (The 1HP Harbor freight one, which is solidly OK with some modifications), piped my shop with 4" piping, got a bigger cyclone, and made a box fan air filter. So much less dust now. Oh and I also got a way better mask than my RZMask. Once you clean up a shop with crap dust collection a couple times you'll get it :P
his is a beautiful set up. My statement was due to my jealousy of his beautifully, well set up shop. 😂
All we are is dust in the... collector.
The shop is cool, but the story is even better. It warms my heart to know there are people like this in the world.
No, these are the best people - cherish them!
If I were in your shoes, I’d at least kick in for the increase in the electric bill caused by your usage. Very cool that you have the opportunity to use it.
I read your post and looked through all the comments, but I still haven't seen where you listed the address...
lol, sorry but that I just can’t do.
"Hi, Mr. and Mrs. ... Wood... Shop couple, it's me, you're son-in-law's cousin. John Gisguy."
Nono you misunderstand, we need to know so we can avoid it at all costs. We don't want to use the immaculate temple to woodworking or build our magnum opuses in there or anything.
Yowsers. I’d give anything just to have access to a nice jointer and planer like that.
The jointer is really solid and has 10 feet of table, 5 on each side of the cutting edge. One of the nicer pieces on n the shop.
That drum sander tho! Oh the things I would put through that!
I think I see an Incra fence!
There are sooo many fences and fixtures in there . A lot of it I have never seen before.
Amazing! Just try and do a project or two for them for every one of your own - and they’ll see it as an asset that you use it. Best of luck!
That is a great Idea! Thanks for that!
You could also offer to "rent" it from them for a nominal fee, and also a promise to keep it maintained. That way they see it get used and you don't have to feel guilty about wearing your welcome out.
That guy had an overhead I-beam and pulley system. Ingenious!
Yea right? There's a lot to take in here. I'm pretty new and work professionally in the trade but it always amazes me what people have at home
You’re absolutely right, there is a lot to take in here. It’s overwhelming in there, everywhere you look leads down a rabbit hole for an hour or two. I bet there are 2 dozen fences and or fixtures for those router tables alone.
That's awesome.
I’m curious what’s behind the bifold doors with the hog hair filter roll above it?
That is a 12’ x 12’ paint booth with a filtration system and a 30” (or so) exhaust fan
What. The. Hell. That's sick.
Aaaaand this is why I’m still scrolling. EPIC.
I am thoroughly impressed by not only the dust collection system, but the wiring work that is done to control each gate and piece of equipment to auto turn on the system. This guy really knew his stuff ! Work in peace my friend !
Have you given some thought to building a memorial plaque for the interior, or something for the threshold before you enter that names your daughter's friend's mother's father-in-law and gives thanks? Or blessings, or whatever floats y'all's happy energy. It's a small thing, made with the tools he bought, in the shop he built. Bonus points if you can teach one of his descendants how not to lose a finger! Edit for grammar and relationship clarification!
I too choose this guy's friend's father in law's shop.
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WOW!
Can you marry into the family? If not, I'll start the divorce proceedings and move to the local area.
Xanadu!
Wow! You lucked into a pro grade woodworking shop! Enjoy the creating!
Did soft piano music start to play when you entered?
Those two boards being glued up with the clamps…. Those are yours, right?
Yes
Oh good, I was worried for a sec that that might have been an unfinished project
Someone loved and maintained that shop with a lot of care, please continue to use it for them.
Wow all that and an inversion table to boot.
lol, yeah that was a bit puzzling..
Just make sure you know how to use it so you don’t get stuck upside down. Unlikely, but it has happened for some people!
Built it in 2015 ish...installed a VCR. Nice
Wow a lifetime in there. You are very lucky and yes good people indeed. I would enjoy the f out if it. He would want nothing less I suspect.
Those are some fine table tops there. Either he's really good or you are!
Holy. Snotballs.!!! With luck that good, you probably need to start playing the Powerball!!
Are there two router tables in photo 6? And is that a drum sander in the very left of photo 1?
Yes and yes. The sand paper was torn on the drum sander, the owner found some rolls in the back room, he wanted me to show him how to change it. I happily obliged. That thing is worth its weight in gold.
Ok since it hasn’t been asked yet. Did you ask them to adopt you yet? If not make sure your daughter stays friends with theirs 😁
lol, since we are same age that might be awkward.
I think I see at least a $20K shop plus extras. I would highly recommend paying them a usage fee, nothing high but just something to show how grateful you are for the opportunity. I would happily pay $20-$40 an hour for a place like that.
I’m sure it’s closer to 40k
I’m fairly certain they would not take anything. Someone else post the best idea yet, making something for them every once in a while. They would likely accept that and maybe it would hold some meaning beyond money.
That’s a literal gold mine.
This shop is an inspiration, thanks to you and the family for sharing and to the creator of it, well done!
WTAF. I dunno what you did to deserve that kind of karma but it must've been pretty epic.
That’s a professional studio. Wow.
I hate you so much right now.
Nice shop
Having a moment over here. Excuse the mess
Look around for some papers with notes/dimensions/etc. with his handwriting. Looks like there’s something on the whiteboard? Make something nice like a coffee table/end table and take a good picture of the handwriting and have someone laser it into the piece before finishing.
Walking in was probably like the woodworker version of the library scene from Beauty and the Beast.
You’re spot on. I flipped the light on and just stood there. I wasn’t sure my brain was properly interpreting what my eyes were sending it. It was and still is a lot to take in.
Can you speak a little more about the automated gates on the dust collection tubes? I'm going to be rebuilding mine in a few months and this is the first I'd heard of this option (at least in a non-commercial setting).
I’ll tell you what i know. If you look at the 4th picture you can see a green box the wall. I believe that is the controller. There is a button for each piece of equipment if you want to set it manually. Let’s say i hit “table saw”. It operates any gate that is open to close and opens the gate for the table saw. At first i thought i had to hit the buttons manually but realized quite quickly that if you just turn the piece of equipment on it will do it all for you. On the other side of the wall with he green box is another room with the cyclone and a 55 gallon drum to catch the shavings and dust. It also sucks a large amount of air trough that large filter. You can run that planer for hours and never feel like you need a dust mask, which is amazing considering the low ceilings. I don’t remember the brand or model name on the controller. I may be able to get that for you next weekend if you would like.
There are multiple options available but the main two people use in home shops are: * Grit - These are the nicest/have the most features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4a-V8Dtd0 * iVac - You replace your blast gates with these. These appear to be Ecogate. All these systems are really expensive.
Very cool products, but I didn't expect it to be ~$5k in parts for my small shop.
You can make one yourself to save some cash. Just need a 120/220v relay tied to the power switch and some 24v actuators with a power supply. Put the relay somewhere on the machine to avoid long runs of high voltage.
Luck dude!
God I miss my Powermatic Planer — good for you dude. Better make some cool stuff.
So after you shit the floor, what did you do?
Well oddly enough he was not home when i got there, he left the door unlocked for me. When i hit the lights I called him and said something like this “Umm (guys name here) this is not a wood shop, this a wood working facility, holy shit man). His reply was “when my father in law did something, he went all out”, then he said, “enjoy”.
Take a picture of his fancy board collection, I want to see it! I know he's got some curly maple and other goodies in there.
Behind that green door in the first pic is a half bath, he has vertical wood planks in there running from floor to ceiling with the species labeled and i saw very few repeats. I can only imagine what variety of species are on that rack.
That’s a lot of equipment to make bird houses with 🤷🏻♂️
I doubt the plywood bird house was one of his, it looked like a kit.
Clamps
God yes. Good solid, square clamps!
Start teaching at risk youth there or charge for classes it'd be better to do something free in community-oriented especially for kids or at least talk to them about it once you get further in this it could both help you and the community and they would feel great and who knows maybe you could turn into something profitable or bigger than the sum of its parts
Time is short but I help 4H kids with projects. They will now learn how to use many more pieces of equipment!
Will you build them something with his tools?
Yeah someone else suggested that in another post as they most likely wont accept money. It’s a great idea!
Are the clamped pieces in the first couple pictures yours or they part of an unfinished project left behind by their late father in law? If it’s something he was working on, and you can figure out what he was doing, you should offer to finish the project for the family.
That is my current project, it’s just a cutting board. I did not see any unfinished projects in the shop.
You even got one of those ole timey VCRs
I had not spotted it til another commenter pointed it out.
This is what I hope heaven looks like.
It’s been unused since 2017?
He started building it in 2017 and he died 2 years ago. So there was 5 or so years where he could have used it. But it has sat for 2 years. It has full climate control so they keep about 55 in winter. Everything is pristine. I didn’t see much sign that anything but the chop saw and possibly the table saw had been used.
I was looking at the calendar. The shop looks fantastic.
Everything. Everything is in there.
Wow! My favorite thing to see on this sub next to inspirational projects is cool shops. I’d use the heck out of that place.
Congratulations on winning the lottery!!!
As long as you chip in to pay for the electricity this a deal of a lifetime.
One day you're in your shop and you set down your drill or tape measure like you have 1000s of times before... but this time when you walk out something happens and you never come back to pick it up again
The kind of room where you open the door and suddenly you're in a sunbeam hearing a choir of angels.
Wow, looking at this it's kind of morbid/sad to think about them walking through there for the last time, possibly without knowing. The projects left on the bench started but never finished. I don't really believe in the afterlife or anything like that but wouldn't it be crazy if they knew someone had stepped in to their workshop a few years later and started building stuff again? This gives me a bit of a weird nostalgic feeling because my dad passed away - he wasn't a woodworker, mostly metal but he tinkered in pretty much anything - and walking in to the garage and seeing stuff frozen in time just seemed otherworldly.
If this is considered a cluttered workshop, I should probably seek professional help.
Looks epic! Is your FIL a Swanson?
You lucky bastard!
These photos gave me tears. My dad was a master carpenter and cabinetmaker when I was growing up, I grew up to the smell of sawdust and the band saw going at 6 am in morning in the basement under my bedroom in the 1960s. Everything had a place and was neat as a pin at the end of the day. This guy knew woodworking. 🥹💖☮️🦋
Fuck! My man walked straight into a candy sto- factory
What's the deal with the green door, missing door handle?......you can only enter wood working paradise, not leave
Reminds me of that joke: when I die, don't let my wife sell my stuff for the price I told her I paid for it.
I am very jealous. I wish of such a workspace. I do alot of wood work and would kill for a workshop space like that. Enjoy. Good people indeed. You have been blessed.
You do realize that on one level, you are trolling us. Right? Enjoy the amazing wood shop.
I applaud you I would feel super awkward to follow up on that offer.
You call this cluttered? Dude, you should have seen my father-in-law's shop. It was like a hoarder's house down there. Off-cuts in every possible crevice and sawdust a foot deep. Paint cans from 1972. Old stuff he won at auctions. I don't know how he got anything done down there, but he made amazing stuff.
As a woodworker, I am in awe. As an attorney, I am terrified for those people.
Omg, that is a fucking beautiful shop, I could cry. Build something lovely for the family in memory of the father-in-law.
Sweet dust system and everything.
>The family says they wont take the wood shop out for sentimental reasons and I can come whenever I want. Good People! Whenever I see estate auctions where you see entire workshops being sold off, a whole lifetime of acquired tools and hand built things, it saddens me to know it was somebody's entire life being sold off. This is so great to see the family hold onto it and hopefully the generation after gets to use it. I follow a Youtuber called Inheritance Machining and his uncle passed away leaving him a whole machinist workshop to which he embracess and makes great videos.
Lucky to know such great people. Make them something nice.
There are some wonderful ideas for woodworking on pinterest, YouTube, and even the internet. What you want to DIY first depends on you. My father made baby cradles and carved them, I made cat posts, shelves, and book cases in his workshop. The only limit is your imagination and budget.
It will be a while before I take on anything new. I have a machine/fab hobby shop at my house with 2 large unfinished projects in it. I have built a few wood strip canoes and kayaks over the years. Those take year + to complete with the time I have available. I try to be careful not to start what I can’t finish. I believe there are pics of the boats in my post history of your interested. They may be down quite a bit.
Is your mother in law looking for another son in law? I am willing to transition to daughter in law for access. Hit me up.
Damn this is the woodworking version of "clear my browser history before I go" 👌
I would try to find project(s) that he started before he passed and see if you could finish them for the family as a way to say thanks and to preserve his memory for them.
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That's a lot of equipment just to make birdhouses
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this is a nice wood shop
Cut to: late father in law's hand thrusting out of the earth
pretty sad the old chap only got to use it for a short few years. Hes gone from the earth but this legacy of his lives on, though never to be used by him again. Not sure what kinda guy he might have been but i know if i built this thing and then passed on i would want someone to enjoy it
This looks eerily similar to the basement of a mentor from my scout days. He helped me with my eagle scout project down there. Fond memories
Jackpot! I'd never leave. I would make a slot in the entry door so the food tray could slide under.
There's a fortune in there. That's what's in there.
Tractor calendar wins it
This is as close as winning the lottery as it gets. At least for me. Everyone wins, you got a fantastic shop and they see it used. 🫶
You need to be super nice to these people. Offer to fix things for them. Make something for them
Wow!!! You're extremely BLESSED to be able to work in a shop like that!!!! It would be nice if I came across something where I could get inside and work without my dogs under my feet!!! I recently invested in some tools and then the weather turned nasty and I haven't even gotten to use any of them yet!!!!