jukngene

Just got a call: scheduled for July 23.

boltonblue

that's a lot of weight up on that rack.

engifineer

Yeah putting them all up there was fun. I should take them all down and put them back up 3 times a few times a week, that would be a good workout ...... or not ....

dlq04

You do good work. Wood work was never my thing.

engifineer

I have always enjoyed wood working. Worked at a cabinet shop for about 5 years right before and through part of college and always enjoyed that work. I love my pay these days but some days wish I was just going into a shop and building stuff for a living There will be 2 more cabinets under it later on as well. But those two allow me to put away a lot of stuff cluttering the shop now. Now maybe I can actually switch back to replacing the front calipers and brake lines on the s2k and maybe heading to the track soon! Plus, I have work to do on my and my friends trailers so the shop is clean enough to actually pull in there and work now

boltonblue

I have a friend who's an ME, he took two years off to take a fine cabinet furniture course.
Then he went back to work as an ME.

engifineer

For me, it was living in a small seasonal town. I was an electrical apprentice and work got very light, but had friend doing cabinets so he got me hired and trained. Have always enjoyed it and half of my shop is a wood shop now. I have always enjoyed construction in general as well.

boltonblue

never ever mix a wood shop and a meta shop. They are incompatible efforts.
Unless that is, you want sawdust in your oil pan and metal filing in your varnish.

engifineer

Well when you have one shop to work with, that is what you do If I could build another, I would. I do plan on creating an area for some woodworking stuff that I can close off (basically a large plastic curtain area) when I need to. I also have dust collection for my wood working equipment. For the other side, I am not worried about metal shavings too much as I am not in there doing production metal work. 99% is wrenching on my cars and I generally do not have a wood working project and a car torn apart going on at the same time. I bought a house with a 30x50 shop, so am using the space as I can. If I have to create temporary dividers for larger projects, That will just be something I have to do

dlq04

I originally built a 24x24 garage for my toys. I loved the idea building a man-cave and having a cool place to work on my vintage car and kick tires. But I soon realized wrenching on them was one thing but doing other things along side my car wasn't easy. I added another 24x10 separate addition for a space to do grinding, store engine hosts, etc. The addition cost nearly as much as the original. With a better plan I could have saved money and time.