Each machine lovingly presented! Some grandpa's, some brothers, some sons! Some with warts, but all adored through use! Watched this, and I got all sentimental. Realizing all the stuff in my shop is 35 years or older. Hence, the upper phrase. You, sir, have a treasured bunch of buddies there!
My shop is over near Glens Falls...mostly machine shop, but upstairs is the wood shop...your tour was great! I'm hoping to make a 0 size guitar soon. My first. Walnut back sides and neck.
I will be lucky to set up my 9 ft. x 10 ft. converted bedroom for guitar building. I do have a 2 car garage, (unheated here in MI.), that everyone wants to go and fill with trash (as I see it). I had the good fortune to work in well equipped commercial cabinet shops in my career, minus the lathe, sander and milling machine. We did not do extensive wood finishing though.
Just found your channel Kevin - what a great shop ! I'm looking forward to binge-watching everything you've posted so far. A friend of mine owns one of your guitars... it took me a while to put 2 and 2 together. It's the end of March now, so only 2-3 more months of winter in Whitney Point LOL 🤣
Aren't they just tasty? I bought mine with loads of chucks , steady rest, tooling, centers, faceplates, dogs and bit stock, along with about six hundred pounds of round stock, steel, aluminum, brass in diameters up to three inch. The whole package was $2000.00 and I consider it a great bargain. Been happy ever since.
Hi That was a great workshop tour and I loved the video. Just found your channel and worthy of a subscription. I will check out more of your videos and I look forward to the next one. Regards James One Handed Maker - Australia
Thank you. You must understand that as an old shop teacher, my work space is as, if not more important to me than my living room. it's exactly the same as clubs to professional golfer or a kitchen to a chef. In short, I can't help myself:)
While me and you are exactly Opposites , I could watch and listen to your Knowledge all day Long ! While your Literate in education up North , I got mine from Hardly any Formal Ed. and Hands on ! I was Blessed with Need to Know How and why & had a Pap-paw that knew and patience to show me ! But I could Listen & Learn all day with you ! I truly believe that your a surviving Warrior of the finest teachers the world had to offer ! From your region of the world , Came skilled tradesman immigrants of all Crafts in Iron & woodworking ! My Hats off to ya sir ! Love all your Videos !🙂
Thanks Kevin. I’ve been hoping you would give a tour. It was a lot of fun to be able to see your shop, your equipment. And always interesting to hear you talk shop and guitars.
Incredible. I’m in a 12x32 foot shed, right in the process of adding out 8’ lean to’s on either side to add a spray booth, assembly room/office, and more tool space. I wish I had the space and tools and not to mention lumber that you do!
I don't want to put my thumbs behind my suspenders, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to add another 200 square feet this summer, to be used as the machine shop.
Love the rolling cabinet for the Go-Bar deck. So nice to have the space for it. Fun video. Also, never enough clamps. I love my cheap HF clamps but nothing beats a really nice clamp, other than 20 more really nice clamps.
You have a wonderful shop - efficient, organized and aesthetically satisfying. You specifically mentioned a dehumidifier; do you have a way to increase humidity for those cold winter days? Thanks for sharing your shop and your accumulated wisdom.
I do run a humidifier when necessary and I have a kettle off water on my heating system to provide humidity. Fortunately, our conditions here rarely require additional humidity in the shop.
Holy-Molly! & wow! That makes us here want to give a tour of our facilities. Won't be so impressive though. Making guitars is a new thing here so the tooling is coming, but prototypes had to be made first. Prototypes are done. 10 of them, No. 11 on the way.
seems like your happy place!.....love your selection of machinery.....i collect old machines and im wondering if you know of a place that still sells those collets for router bits? .....ive got the same shaper but it came without collets!
If you can find parts for a Jet 2hp shaper, made at the same time, you may be able to buy those collets. If not, a good machine shop may be able to make them for you; probably expensive, but i guessing VERY well worth the price.
I have always been fastidious, but as a shop teacher, having everything organized and visible was a necessity. If you couldn't look at an accessory board or tool cabinet and immediately tell if something was missing, everything would soon be missing.
Wow! we have a big lathe "similar" a real beauty, that came from a WW2 battle ship. But really can't use it for any guitar work,,,,what do you use it for?
Each machine lovingly presented! Some grandpa's, some brothers, some sons! Some with warts, but all adored through use!
Watched this, and I got all sentimental. Realizing all the stuff in my shop is 35 years or older.
Hence, the upper phrase.
You, sir, have a treasured bunch of buddies there!
Thank you. If only the Delta bandsaw belonged to me instead of my wife:)
Thankfully and true, my wife only owns the scroll saw! Lol
Awesome Shop....Thanks for the tour!
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the tour.
Beautiful shop! Very well organized.
My shop is over near Glens Falls...mostly machine shop, but upstairs is the wood shop...your tour was great! I'm hoping to make a 0 size guitar soon. My first. Walnut back sides and neck.
Palatial , good description , very nice shop .
What a beautiful shop! Thank you for the tour, it is very inspiring!
Nice shop, enjoyed the tour
thank you Kevin
I will be lucky to set up my 9 ft. x 10 ft. converted bedroom for guitar building. I do have a 2 car garage, (unheated here in MI.), that everyone wants to go and fill with trash (as I see it). I had the good fortune to work in well equipped commercial cabinet shops in my career, minus the lathe, sander and milling machine. We did not do extensive wood finishing though.
Just found your channel Kevin - what a great shop ! I'm looking forward to binge-watching everything you've posted so far. A friend of mine owns one of your guitars... it took me a while to put 2 and 2 together. It's the end of March now, so only 2-3 more months of winter in Whitney Point LOL 🤣
I'd love to know what number guitar your friend owns.
That looks like a nice functional space to work, and that it was all designed AI! That's insane. Thanks for the video.
Thanks. It's the old shop teacher in me; not my first clam bake:)
I’ve got the same Logan lathe. Love mine, too.
Aren't they just tasty? I bought mine with loads of chucks , steady rest, tooling, centers, faceplates, dogs and bit stock, along with about six hundred pounds of round stock, steel, aluminum, brass in diameters up to three inch. The whole package was $2000.00 and I consider it a great bargain. Been happy ever since.
Hi
That was a great workshop tour and I loved the video.
Just found your channel and worthy of a subscription.
I will check out more of your videos and I look forward to the next one.
Regards James
One Handed Maker - Australia
Thanks for subscribing. I hope you enjoy and benefit from my video presentations.
What a great shop. So thoughtfully laid out. I am envious beyond words. Thanks for the tour!
Thank you. You must understand that as an old shop teacher, my work space is as, if not more important to me than my living room. it's exactly the same as clubs to professional golfer or a kitchen to a chef. In short, I can't help myself:)
While me and you are exactly Opposites , I could watch and listen to your Knowledge all day Long ! While your Literate in education up North , I got mine from Hardly any Formal Ed. and Hands on ! I was Blessed with Need to Know How and why & had a Pap-paw that knew and patience to show me ! But I could Listen & Learn all day with you ! I truly believe that your a surviving Warrior of the finest teachers the world had to offer ! From your region of the world , Came skilled tradesman immigrants of all Crafts in Iron & woodworking ! My Hats off to ya sir ! Love all your Videos !🙂
Thanks Kevin. I’ve been hoping you would give a tour. It was a lot of fun to be able to see your shop, your equipment. And always interesting to hear you talk shop and guitars.
Incredible. I’m in a 12x32 foot shed, right in the process of adding out 8’ lean to’s on either side to add a spray booth, assembly room/office, and more tool space. I wish I had the space and tools and not to mention lumber that you do!
I don't want to put my thumbs behind my suspenders, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to add another 200 square feet this summer, to be used as the machine shop.
Great set up
Love the rolling cabinet for the Go-Bar deck. So nice to have the space for it. Fun video. Also, never enough clamps. I love my cheap HF clamps but nothing beats a really nice clamp, other than 20 more really nice clamps.
You have a wonderful shop - efficient, organized and aesthetically satisfying. You specifically mentioned a dehumidifier; do you have a way to increase humidity for those cold winter days? Thanks for sharing your shop and your accumulated wisdom.
I do run a humidifier when necessary and I have a kettle off water on my heating system to provide humidity. Fortunately, our conditions here rarely require additional humidity in the shop.
Thanks Kevin enjoyed the tour
Very nice shop Kevin. It's fun to see the whole thing, and how you have it set up to build guitars.
Thoroughly enjoyed the tour!
brrr, it's cold enough for out here in the desert sw. great shop.
Thanks for the video! I have to rearrange my space and you have given me lots of ideas.
loved the shop! Thanks for sharing!
Holy-Molly! & wow!
That makes us here want to give a tour of our facilities.
Won't be so impressive though.
Making guitars is a new thing here so the tooling is coming, but prototypes had to be made first.
Prototypes are done. 10 of them, No. 11 on the way.
Great shop! Nothing artificial about you sir.
seems like your happy place!.....love your selection of machinery.....i collect old machines and im wondering if you know of a place that still sells those collets for router bits? .....ive got the same shaper but it came without collets!
If you can find parts for a Jet 2hp shaper, made at the same time, you may be able to buy those collets. If not, a good machine shop may be able to make them for you; probably expensive, but i guessing VERY well worth the price.
yes i started with the Jet option....no luck yet!...thanks for the reply.@@thepragmaticluthier
And I thought it was so tidy !
I have always been fastidious, but as a shop teacher, having everything organized and visible was a necessity. If you couldn't look at an accessory board or tool cabinet and immediately tell if something was missing, everything would soon be missing.
Wow! we have a big lathe "similar" a real beauty, that came from a WW2 battle ship.
But really can't use it for any guitar work,,,,what do you use it for?