A guided tour through my personal crafting area…
My craft area, as seen from outside...
Clearly not a storage shed, even at first glance!
And as you enter the monolith... ahem... shed...
Areas to use hammer, torch, and flex-shaft...
For hacking... metal, plastic, wax, tufa... I want to upgrade the blade to diamond, though...
I keep my Paragon Q11-A Express under the table... and my fan on top... it reaches 104 during the day!!!
My pride and joy... A TAIG 2019 ER/CR Tabletop CNC mill... Note homemade home switches...
I control my Taig using a computer running EMC2/AXIS under Ubuntu 8.04
A few supplies and consumeables... and an acetylene bottle!
By the way, did I also mention that I had a drill press?
Responses To Comments:
Tina: Thanks for asking about outdoor temperatures! In the spring/summer it gets as high as 104 Fahrenheit and in the fall/winter as cold as 20 below. Normally I’m only in the shed at most a couple hours per day, since I do a lot of house chores for my family. So I do the sensible thing and pick the hours that are most comfortable for me. Summer that means I pick either sometime before noon or sometime after sunset, I turn the fans on full blast and I keep a lot of water handy. Winter that means I usually need to wait until the sun is at its highest, dress for the weather, and keep the shed door closed. Since the computer, control box, milling machine, and my own body are generating heat; then fairly soon the shed warms up to the cool side of comfortable. This winter I might invest in a cheap space heater, but if I run my Paragon Q11-A minikiln in the shed for ceramics anyway that sort of doubles for a space heater, doesn’t it? I run all power out of the plug from my family’s trailer through an outdoor extension cord, via a hole drilled in the bottom wall of the shed precisely to admit a cord for power. I then distribute that single cord through power strips to the various machines and appliances as needed. I discovered a couple years ago that I have enough amps through my connection to run the computer, milling machine, control box, and a glass monitor, and they had to be turned on in just the right order. This year I have changed my monitor to LCD to conserve amps for other needs.
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Looks wonderful but how do you deal with the hot and cold weather?
wow! wish i had so much space…LUCKY! is what comes to mind : )
I like the child’s bike in front of your shed. Adds a nice touch. I have a hard time with space in my work space. I seem to run out of space the more I acquire
Definitely a place I could work in….
I have told my husband a storage shed in the back yard would be a great workshop, thanks for giving it a try and showing it.
Thanks for the tour!