Call For Entries:
Show Us Your Shop!
The Taunton Press is seeking photos of workshops for possible publication in our upcoming Workshop Idea Book, by craftsman and designer, Andy Rae. We’re especially interested in the following detail shots: shop floors, dust-collection setups, doorways or other access points, lighting, heating and cooling systems, compressed-air setups, machine set ups, workbenches, assembly areas, veneering and finishing storage and setups, sharpening stations, sanding setups; wood, hardware, and tool storage, safety gear, homemade spray booths, and drying areas. Our audience wants to see unique workshops that utilize clever time, money, and space-saving solutions. If this sounds like your shop, please send:
- A color 2 ¼ or 35mm positive transparency or high-resolution digital image showing the device in use, rather than a static still-life. If it’s a tool or jig, put your hands on it; if it’s a shop floor, stand on it to give a sense of scale.
- Digital submissions must be photographed at the highest possible resolution that yields at least 4 x 6 @ 300 DPI printed image. Camera MUST be set at high resolution and low compression. Save files as JPEG or TIFF and submit them on a disk. Include a print-out of all images on the disc.
- Photos must be in focus, have good contrast, and show uncluttered but real backgrounds.
- Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2004.
Send all submissions to The Taunton Press, Books Dept., 63 South Main St., Newtown, CT 06470, ATTN: Robyn Aitken
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robin. Welcome to breaktime. Relax, tell us about yourself. And by the way, new guy buys over in the tavern.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
how about a few,"what a shop should not look like". You may get more reponses.
Or how about a "doin' with what I got shop", "a shop on a budget", or mayby "it's a shop, it's also a lawn tool storage shed, family bike storage shed, junk magnet".
I hate the annual Tools and Shops make me realize just what I don't have.
i am positive that taunton dose not want to see my shop.
james
All right everybody take pictures of their shop at its worst and lets compare.
ANDYSZ2I MAY DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOUR SAYING BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT.
Remodeler/Punchout
heh heh
you really don't want to know.
Is there a prize for the worst?
Edited 3/5/2004 4:56:16 PM ET by rez'b&g
I dont know if ya want mine inna book, its a bunch of beat up cabs, dented up/ stained and painted old desk top for a work bench the wall are just stud bays... in fact some folks might say it looks like a garage....
Darkworksite4:
Gancho agarrador izquierdo americano pasado que la bandera antes de usted sale
I,m afraid if my neighbor saw inside my shop they come steal all my tools.
Wow where exactly do you live.....:>)
Darkworksite4:
Gancho agarrador izquierdo americano pasado que la bandera antes de usted sale
Edited 3/6/2004 2:09:19 PM ET by RonT
if ya want to see my shop, ya gotta come to the next party -
bring hats -
And a beautiful shop it is. Plenty of room and a bunch of usuable crap..........stuff..........things of value.
What, need to clean it up again?Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
I just cleaned mine. Maybe 5 years ago. Guess I should take pictures before it gets really dirty. There are still a couple places you can walk without stepping on something.
"There are still a couple places you can walk without stepping on something."
Clean freak!Who Dares Wins.
I'm closing a 27 year old Cabinet shop, Building a new 1000 sf blding in my back yard. (Hip roof w/ office loft)
What do I do with rift saw 8/4 red oak. Birds eye cherry,ash alder air and kiln dried walnut and enough hdwr to build 5 kitchens.
My brother claims to have moved the same piece of 5/4 Quartered Red Oak 21 " x 8'6 three times.
How do you close a shop? ie. I won't need a 20' planer in the back yard
hey,why don't i come over and move all that scrap 1/4 and rift sawn oak,it's awful heavy and i don't want you to have to move it again! larry
Clean freak!
Yep. My friends are always making some sort of comment on my housekeeping skills. Next house and shop, I'm seriously considering using metal grate flooring. Like a bird cage. All the crud just falls into the basement. Shovel it out every spring. Use a magnet to find all the drill bits and screws I lost.
Take a picture of you standing on it and your in the book.Who Dares Wins.
I don't really like to shop that much anymore. Do most of it online since Al Gore invented the internet.
and he became a legend in his own mind...er...time.
"Send all submissions to The Taunton Press, Books Dept.,63 South Main St. , Newtown , CT 06470
Robyn,
It might also be helpful to the digital age people here for you to have a dedicated e-mail address in addition?
Jon
Edited 3/7/2004 12:28:45 PM ET by WorkshopJon
Okay, you asked for it.
The first pic is a shot from one of the three doorways into the shop. I like to have lots of doorways because sometimes I don't know whether I'm coming or going. This shows the paint and tool storage area, part of the stock storage, and a large metal garbage can containing food for my wolf, er, dog. The spray booth is on the other side of the wall behind the tool storage shelf; it's called the back yard.
The second pic is a shot from the other end of the shop 20 whole feet away. This shows the workbench, mechanics tools, hardware storage, and safety equipment storage. It also shows my unique system for storing assorted glues: a cardboard peach basket.
The third pic shows the dust collection system and the heart of my pneumatic supply system.
Of course, these shots reflect what the shop looks like during the winter season. During the summer season, just remove everything you see except the workbench and the garbage can of wolf, er, dog food, and stuff it into my truck.
Pay no attention to the bags of flour--they're supposed to be in the way on the floor in the laundry room, not sitting on top of my site box....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
NO!
Taunton does NOT want to see my shop.
I'd have to spend a lot of time cleaning to get mine looking as good as yours.
Hey, what a neat idea! A garage door in the shop so's you can back the pick-up right in for the load-out. Shoulda thought o' that myself--except I'd have to knock down a 6' high stone wall and a 40-year-old yellow birch to back the truck all the way down there.
That's what wheelbarrows (and helpers!) R4....Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Clean and uncluttered. You don't do any work in there? Still several inches of unused space near the ceiling and that whole aisle area is going to waste. Once I built a mahogany breakfront cabinet. Had to leave off the doors and back because you had to crawl through the cabinet base to get into the shop. Then had to crawl under a bench to get from one side of the shop to the other.
That's a hot little miter saw you got there. (Especially with both heaters on high!)
Those heaters are the shop version of a mitre-saw stand's extension wings to hold up long boards, LOL! Both would still work if I could find parts for the switches--and if I could figure out the @#$%?&*(&? circuitry on them. Any sparkies out there with a yen to decipher some electric spaghetti...?
BTW, Martha--sorry about your recent verdict. Obviously the judge doesn't understand feng shui as applied to the stock market....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Still don't see what Taunton wants with photos of me shopping.
I'll bet they want to see how you manage your DW as she carries all your treasures at the trade shows.
Probably to give other husbands a few pointers.View Image
With all your demands of what you need for the shops.all the years we spent putting our shops and ideas together....I see nothing about what you'd pay.
I'm getting really sick of this rag.
By the way you speak about what "your" audience wantsto see.
Cough cough....I'm outta here.
Be petty
This rag is starting to make TOH look like MAd Magazine
When you gonna have the back page have a fold together or a centerfold?
ac
My life is my passion!
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
When you gonna have the back page have a fold together or a centerfold?
Where did you think they were planning on putting the 'virtual house that breaktime built'? :o)
who cares...it'd just be a cartoon being that .....ahhh, forget it.
Be MArvel
andyCMy life is my passion!
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM