The lumber visualization tip was huge. I would have thought that shop was huge. I continue to under estimate the sheer pita a full sheet of plywood can be.
Pool tables make great assembly tables, they are heavy enough to take a lot of pushing and shoving, they are perfectly level and they make a great addition to any man cave when not in use. I was the production mgr for a major sauna manufacturer for 15 years, cedar it excellent for a sauna, but be very careful with boards with knots over 1/4 - 3/8” as they can pop or fall out when the wood is heated. Also use the driest wood possible as it will shrink after assembly leaving gaps in the t and g joints. Nice shop!
Definitely agree on the pool table. When I first put the pool table in the shop years ago, I figured I was wasting shop space and would regret it... couldn't be further from the truth. Thanks for the tip on the knots. Will keep an eye on that when the time comes to put up the paneling. I have a healthy supply and can afford to be picky. The wood is definitely dry... it's been air dried for years, planed to final dimension and has been acclimatizing in the shop for months.
Thanks! I realize that I left out an important detail about that workbench. The wood it's made out of came from trees that my father and I cut down from my uncle's farm and had milled by a guy who came to the farm with a portable sawmill. I plan to do more of the same sometime soon, so will probably post some videos of that.
Yes, I think the barn is a big part of what made me fall in love with the property originally. Reminds me of my grandfathers (smaller) barn that I used to go into as a kid to work with HIS tools and make little wooden boats.
Thanks for sharing. I watched the entire video and when you mentioned Pittsburgh when entering the CNC cave, I HAD to subscribe (I was going to anyway). I'm originally from Pittsburgh so if you're gonna mention it, I'm going to subscribe. Lol
Great video Judd! Great to see your layout as I continue to brainstorm ideas for the overhaul on my dads shop. Anything you’d do differently about your dust collection? That’s the next big project for the shop overhaul!
The dust collection system is working VERY well. The only small change I'm thinking about is moving the duct for the planer so that it drops from overhead, so I can leave it connected without having the hose in the way. I'll likely tackle that as part of the rebuild of the chop saw station when I incorporate the radial arm saw. Of course I also wish the table saw duct went through the floor, but I'm not sure I care about that enough to bust up the concrete floor (I currently have to step over a 4" duct when I walk around the back side of the table saw). The switched blast gates are really convenient. Fully automated blast gates that open when the machine is turned on would be an upgrade, but I'm not sure the cost is justified, for a home shop.
Very nice set up. Life has been good, hasn't it? Beautiful house, beautiful land and the means to improve. Only a fool would want more. The one little convenience I think is cool is the blast gates turning on the dust collection. I've watched a lot of shop tours and I'm not sure I remember seeing that before. One thing I have to ask, how tall are you? When you first walked into the shot at the assembly/outfeed table, it seemed like everything was way below waist level for you.
I have been blessed indeed. As for my height, I'm 6'4"... or was... at my last medical check up the doc informed me that gravity was beginning to exact its toll, and I'm now 6'3".
And yes, I like the blast gate setup. The only improvement you might wish for are the ones that are truly automatic and open (and turn on the dust collector) when they sense current to the machine in use. However, those are a bit pricey, and I'm quite happy with my setup.
very nice! gives me ideas for getting things setup in my barn. though with the cost of led's these days, i wonder why you didn't use led direct wire tubes instead of fluorescent tubes...
as you have the bulbs burn out, you can replace with led (without replacing the fixture). they make tubs that can be just a direct replacement... or... you can do some re-wiring and pull out the old ballast and put in a tube into the current fixture as well. :-)
hah... i've had about the same use out of the ones in my pole barn (haven't had to do anything since 2008)... i'm having to finally replace them in the barn and going to led so i don't have any wait period for them to warm up in these michigan winters! :-) i switched the lean-to's of the barn over to led several years back and has been great.
Answered at 2:12. 720 sq ft including both the shop area and the hallway on the other side of the stairs. What I don't specifically say in the video is that the interior footprint of the basement is 34 ft x 24 ft.
Im sitting around watching videos because my heat just ran out in my uninsulated shed i call a shop. Michigan winters suck if you dont have a good spot to work
Very nice shop. Thank you for sharing this with us. I would say that there is a lot of dust hanging in the air. Almost as if there is a fog of smoke. You may want to blow out the hanging air purifier on the ceiling and/or the cartridges of your dust collector. I look forward to seeing some of your projects. Best of luck!!
Thanks. Air quality in the shop is pretty good, particularly since I upgraded the dust collector. I clean out the filter and air cleaner pretty regularly. Not sure what you're seeing in the video. It's possible that I just needed to clean my camera lens. For some of the projects past, check out the instagram or pinterest links in the video description. For future projects, more videos will be coming, so I hope you hit Subscribe.
Hi, thanks for sharing. How do you source your timbers for your timber framing projects? Do you cut your own or do you have a local source? Thanks! (btw, I live just outside of Grand Marais and also took the build your own timeframe class in 2001...
I envy you your location. We fell in love with Grand Marais and the North shore. The first timbers came from the course itself, so from that mill just outside Grand Marais. Since then, I've cut my own from poplars growing on a friend's farm in Pennsylvania.
@@SalemWoodworks Thanks! I'm interested in your setup for transporting and milling the timbers. I'm planning an addition to our timber frame and deciding if I want to do my own. There are some mature poplar (aspen), on my land here. Curious to find out how they behave after milling.
I'm lucky in that my friend in PA has some good machinery available at his farm for moving the logs and lumber. You can see some of it in this short video: ruclips.net/video/4Y4AnqCmj9E/видео.html - He has two skid steers, one with a grapple bucket that makes it easy to handle the logs. Milling we have done by a guy who comes to the site with a portable band saw. To move the resulting lumber, I have a 20 ft trailer that I purchased since making the above video. That one shows a 16 ft trailer I used to borrow from my neighbor.
As for how the lumber behaves after milling I have a couple of suggestions. One is to make sure you have it carefully stacked and stickered and if possible strap the stacks down during drying. I got more twisting than I'd like because we were working with less than ideal hybrid poplar logs. For the timbers, make sure you box the heart when milling.
Man, no matter what my barn does with it's life it has never been in a pbs wood working show Ford sponsorship ad. My chest got hairier just saying that.
The old shop in the barn still has a couple of old dressers in it left over from the earlier incarnation of the shop. Come to think of it, I need to dig through those and see what's still in those...
Of course about a year after that, our neighbor applied for and got a variance to build a garage that didn't comply,. So, I learned that I could have gotten a variance if I tried. In retrospect, it's the best "bad" thing that ever happened. We love the addition and the basement shop.
Nicely edited video which so well highlights your shop. The CNC "cave" was a great surprise and something that I am certain will bring a new chapter of enjoyment to your woodworking life. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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The lumber visualization tip was huge. I would have thought that shop was huge. I continue to under estimate the sheer pita a full sheet of plywood can be.
So proud of all the beautiful hard work that my dad has done
Wonderful shop, thanks for sharing 👍
Great shop set up thanks for sharing.
Love it! Great to see another Michigan maker on RUclips (I grew up in SE Michigan).
Thanks. Looks like you're getting started in YouTubing as well. I subscribed to see how it goes. Good luck!
VERY NICE SHOP NICE AND CLEAN
It's only clean intermittently :-)
Fantastic Tour!!
Love anything Oliver blue. Nice setup.
Yes, it's a great old lathe. I was REALLY blessed to have been given that lathe by a very talented friend who upgraded.
Gosh, you've really got some nice toys here.
DAMBBBBB...WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF...IS ALL I CAN SAY.....
Pool tables make great assembly tables, they are heavy enough to take a lot of pushing and shoving, they are perfectly level and they make a great addition to any man cave when not in use. I was the production mgr for a major sauna manufacturer for 15 years, cedar it excellent for a sauna, but be very careful with boards with knots over 1/4 - 3/8” as they can pop or fall out when the wood is heated. Also use the driest wood possible as it will shrink after assembly leaving gaps in the t and g joints. Nice shop!
Definitely agree on the pool table. When I first put the pool table in the shop years ago, I figured I was wasting shop space and would regret it... couldn't be further from the truth. Thanks for the tip on the knots. Will keep an eye on that when the time comes to put up the paneling. I have a healthy supply and can afford to be picky. The wood is definitely dry... it's been air dried for years, planed to final dimension and has been acclimatizing in the shop for months.
Your workbench and tool cabinet are awesome man! Love the layout in SketchUp! Such a great idea!
Thanks! I realize that I left out an important detail about that workbench. The wood it's made out of came from trees that my father and I cut down from my uncle's farm and had milled by a guy who came to the farm with a portable sawmill. I plan to do more of the same sometime soon, so will probably post some videos of that.
Nice shop! Thanks for the tour. Subbed.
NIce video and shop!! And the barn is awesome!!
Yes, I think the barn is a big part of what made me fall in love with the property originally. Reminds me of my grandfathers (smaller) barn that I used to go into as a kid to work with HIS tools and make little wooden boats.
Salem Woodworks nice memories! Sounds similar to my grandfathers place in Asheville.
Great shop tour - thank you for sharing. Just subscribed. 👍
Thanks for sharing. I watched the entire video and when you mentioned Pittsburgh when entering the CNC cave, I HAD to subscribe (I was going to anyway). I'm originally from Pittsburgh so if you're gonna mention it, I'm going to subscribe. Lol
Looks good! I bought a california air tools quiet compressor... it is SO quiet. I LOVE it. Comfortable to talk over. I HATED my old compressor.
Might have to look for one of those.
Really nice workshop mate, some lovely tools and it sounds like you have really enjoyed the process of getting to this point. 😊
Yes, I certainly did. One project at a time, adding a tool that was needed at the time, and here we are.
Great video Judd! Great to see your layout as I continue to brainstorm ideas for the overhaul on my dads shop. Anything you’d do differently about your dust collection? That’s the next big project for the shop overhaul!
The dust collection system is working VERY well. The only small change I'm thinking about is moving the duct for the planer so that it drops from overhead, so I can leave it connected without having the hose in the way. I'll likely tackle that as part of the rebuild of the chop saw station when I incorporate the radial arm saw. Of course I also wish the table saw duct went through the floor, but I'm not sure I care about that enough to bust up the concrete floor (I currently have to step over a 4" duct when I walk around the back side of the table saw). The switched blast gates are really convenient. Fully automated blast gates that open when the machine is turned on would be an upgrade, but I'm not sure the cost is justified, for a home shop.
BTW, did you catch your cameo appearance in this one? ruclips.net/video/FNhrDe9soGo/видео.html
Very nice set up. Life has been good, hasn't it? Beautiful house, beautiful land and the means to improve. Only a fool would want more.
The one little convenience I think is cool is the blast gates turning on the dust collection. I've watched a lot of shop tours and I'm not sure I remember seeing that before.
One thing I have to ask, how tall are you? When you first walked into the shot at the assembly/outfeed table, it seemed like everything was way below waist level for you.
I have been blessed indeed. As for my height, I'm 6'4"... or was... at my last medical check up the doc informed me that gravity was beginning to exact its toll, and I'm now 6'3".
And yes, I like the blast gate setup. The only improvement you might wish for are the ones that are truly automatic and open (and turn on the dust collector) when they sense current to the machine in use. However, those are a bit pricey, and I'm quite happy with my setup.
@@SalemWoodworks, I did see a set up with that. The only thing missing would be a machine to sense your thoughts and make the stuff for you. Lol
@@awlthatwoodcrafts8911 now what would be the fun in that? ;-)
Very nice... no small undertaking there
very nice! gives me ideas for getting things setup in my barn. though with the cost of led's these days, i wonder why you didn't use led direct wire tubes instead of fluorescent tubes...
Was originally set up with fluorescent bulbs (were I to do it over, I'd use LEDs). The new fixture over the work table actually IS an LED.
as you have the bulbs burn out, you can replace with led (without replacing the fixture). they make tubs that can be just a direct replacement... or... you can do some re-wiring and pull out the old ballast and put in a tube into the current fixture as well. :-)
@@northernprod a reasonable plan. I'm amazed how long the bulbs have lasted. I installed 7.5 years ago and the bulbs are still going strong.
hah... i've had about the same use out of the ones in my pole barn (haven't had to do anything since 2008)... i'm having to finally replace them in the barn and going to led so i don't have any wait period for them to warm up in these michigan winters! :-) i switched the lean-to's of the barn over to led several years back and has been great.
Nice shop! subbed
Thanks. Check out the shop flood video... it'll horrify you.
Great shop and tour! How big is your shop?
Answered at 2:12. 720 sq ft including both the shop area and the hallway on the other side of the stairs. What I don't specifically say in the video is that the interior footprint of the basement is 34 ft x 24 ft.
Im sitting around watching videos because my heat just ran out in my uninsulated shed i call a shop. Michigan winters suck if you dont have a good spot to work
Precisely why we built my current shop. May you have yours in the future.
Very nice shop. Thank you for sharing this with us. I would say that there is a lot of dust hanging in the air. Almost as if there is a fog of smoke. You may want to blow out the hanging air purifier on the ceiling and/or the cartridges of your dust collector. I look forward to seeing some of your projects. Best of luck!!
Thanks. Air quality in the shop is pretty good, particularly since I upgraded the dust collector. I clean out the filter and air cleaner pretty regularly. Not sure what you're seeing in the video. It's possible that I just needed to clean my camera lens. For some of the projects past, check out the instagram or pinterest links in the video description. For future projects, more videos will be coming, so I hope you hit Subscribe.
Hi, thanks for sharing. How do you source your timbers for your timber framing projects? Do you cut your own or do you have a local source? Thanks! (btw, I live just outside of Grand Marais and also took the build your own timeframe class in 2001...
I envy you your location. We fell in love with Grand Marais and the North shore. The first timbers came from the course itself, so from that mill just outside Grand Marais. Since then, I've cut my own from poplars growing on a friend's farm in Pennsylvania.
@@SalemWoodworks Thanks! I'm interested in your setup for transporting and milling the timbers. I'm planning an addition to our timber frame and deciding if I want to do my own. There are some mature poplar (aspen), on my land here. Curious to find out how they behave after milling.
I'm lucky in that my friend in PA has some good machinery available at his farm for moving the logs and lumber. You can see some of it in this short video: ruclips.net/video/4Y4AnqCmj9E/видео.html - He has two skid steers, one with a grapple bucket that makes it easy to handle the logs. Milling we have done by a guy who comes to the site with a portable band saw. To move the resulting lumber, I have a 20 ft trailer that I purchased since making the above video. That one shows a 16 ft trailer I used to borrow from my neighbor.
As for how the lumber behaves after milling I have a couple of suggestions. One is to make sure you have it carefully stacked and stickered and if possible strap the stacks down during drying. I got more twisting than I'd like because we were working with less than ideal hybrid poplar logs. For the timbers, make sure you box the heart when milling.
Man, no matter what my barn does with it's life it has never been in a pbs wood working show Ford sponsorship ad. My chest got hairier just saying that.
Hahahah
I use a second hand big ikea dresser for storage. Finally I see someone else use something unconventional in his shop lol
The old shop in the barn still has a couple of old dressers in it left over from the earlier incarnation of the shop. Come to think of it, I need to dig through those and see what's still in those...
Nice shop. What type of blast gates do you have?
www.amazon.com/PSI-Woodworking-LRGATE-Additional-Multigate/dp/B0006FKJFA/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=psi+woodworking+blast+gates&qid=1579482193&sr=8-1
Prohibited from building a garage on your property due to zoning problems in MI. Says a lot about zoning and MI.
Of course about a year after that, our neighbor applied for and got a variance to build a garage that didn't comply,. So, I learned that I could have gotten a variance if I tried. In retrospect, it's the best "bad" thing that ever happened. We love the addition and the basement shop.
Drum sander agree; lots of time changing paper and time consuming.
Yeah, I keep saying I'll devote some time to mastering the damn thing, but so far it's collected more dust than it's manufactured.
Nicely edited video which so well highlights your shop. The CNC "cave" was a great surprise and something that I am certain will bring a new chapter of enjoyment to your woodworking life. Thank you for sharing this with us.