Hi all, sadly my shop is not my shop :( I have a very indulgent father who is just too damn nice a guy to kick me out. I've got big plans for my own shop, down size the house and seriously super size the garage, but patiently waiting for the not so little ones to fly the coop. Gotta quit cooking with cheese...
But I do have a couple of interesting tools
I am super proud of this guy, designed and built it myself. she works awesome
Also modified this lil guy, he worked awesome...
Reluctantly sold him to trade up to this lil beauty, currently making a new stand that will adjust to a sitting or standing position.
Got a lifter thingamajiggie that we cant get near...
While building the English wheel I thought it would be cool, so I had to have one of these
which I soon realized didn't have enuff horsepower. Endless Kijiji searches and auctions I found this, and I built another bench, (again, super proud)
Nothing at all wrong with that fella, but a buddy from work had a deal I could not pass up. Soooooooo
Got a couple super duper finger removers, The cold cut saw is freakin amazing, absolutly love it
The bender, will not bend the unbendable
The ultimate frustration station, dont have a pic of it but I carved out an old school wooden stump for hammer shrinking. It's surprising what you can do with an old baseball bat
Electro shock therapy
Maybe someday Ill build something that isn't another tool
Lastly and most important, I am blessed with an understanding wife who is helping me with my tool addiction. (Yea right, who am I kidding... TOOLS RULE!!!)
You my friend are a lucky Dude.. Great access to some great tooling.. I would have killed for that 30 years ago.. You are a lucky fella.. You should be able to build Riddler cars with tooling like that.. Nice.. Very Nice..If you wait till all the kids are gone to build your shop you will be like a lot of us worn out old grey beards.. My kids are all gone and so is my energy and health now that I could have a shop full of that nice stuff.. I can't help but wonder what this hobby will look like in another 30 years..
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There is no elevator to success — you have to take the stairs.
Although somewhat younger I'm on the same page as Chuk the older you get the quicker the years pass and am playing catch-up with the health then the trinkets & tools & toys . Still doesn't offset time and equity invested in our offspring tho. We'll get there tho .
Larry (Grumpy 50 )
Creeping up on 50 myself. 4 years ago i had no idea what metal shaping was about. Gotta give a shout out to PUGSY for hosting the metalmeet, something you all should go to even if your only curious. Good folks, good time.
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If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards and GET A BIGGER HAMMER!!!
My next question BamBam is when and where regarding one of these metal meets all Ive had to use in the past are different hammers/dollies a stump and a couple chunks of rail iron and occasionally a sheet metal brake to manipulate metal - mostly really good results but labour intensive .
Larry(Grumpy50)
