Author Topic: Let's try this again..... Show and Tell. (Read 6094 times)

Paul Taylor · « **on:** January 09, 2007, 12:29:09 PM »

The last thread got hi-jacked so I deleted it.

Go to your work area and show us what your shop looks like today. Don't clean it up before you take the photo.

Everyone should be in the middle of a build by now. ( my air hockey table is clean, the Scrapper is done.)

Show us what you got..... and then tell us about it.

Bob Reeves · « **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2007, 12:35:33 PM »

Well not really a picture of the whole shop, but one of the projects I am working on.. This is a test trim scheme for my Nobler. Going to be a bear to cut out of Monokote but can be done... I think.. Was pretty easy in Photoshop

Clancy Arnold · « **Reply #2 on:** January 09, 2007, 01:31:20 PM »

You asked for it!
Here are pictures of my Shop / garage. Notice in some places they are hanging two deep.
Clancy

steve pagano · « **Reply #3 on:** January 09, 2007, 01:41:19 PM »

Is that p-38 and what looks to be a f-18 hornet control line?

Clancy Arnold · « **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2007, 01:48:34 PM »

YES!
The P-38 was in the Model Aviation in March 1986 magazine as a construction article.

Pictures of the F/A-18 are here in "Stunt Grunt" under "My friend Jack Sheeks".
Clancy

bruce malm · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2007, 02:43:27 PM »

Sorry I can't post pictures of my shop. The wall and ceiling paeper is PB Centerfolds fdating from 1970 and I'm not that good with photoshop.

Bruce

Phil Coopy · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:45:50 PM »

Gotta get this project I agreed to do off the bench before I can get back to CL stuff. $:-\$

Phil

Leester · « **Reply #7 on:** January 09, 2007, 05:47:48 PM »

Metaphor II on da bench.

Harleyman · « **Reply #8 on:** January 09, 2007, 06:00:09 PM »

Quote from: bruce malm on January 09, 2007, 02:43:27 PM

Sorry I can't post pictures of my shop. The wall and ceiling paeper is PB Centerfolds fdating from 1970 and I'm not that good with photoshop.

Bruce

Aww, come on Bruce! You can't throw a teaser out there like that and not come through.

Show the ceiling man!

Gordon Tarbell · « **Reply #9 on:** January 09, 2007, 06:09:34 PM »

Bruce's shop if full of really nice models! Airplanes too!

john e. holliday · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2007, 09:26:55 AM »

You don't want a picture of my dungeon. I have one path to the furnace and one where I sit to work on planes and watch the tube. DOC Holliday

bruce malm · « **Reply #11 on:** January 11, 2007, 12:54:48 PM »

Here's some pictures if Sparky doesn't have to delete them

Darrell Mims · « **Reply #12 on:** January 11, 2007, 01:23:10 PM »

Nice wall paper !

Garf · « **Reply #13 on:** January 11, 2007, 01:25:46 PM »

I'm impressed. 2 full size tool boxes, side by side refirgerator freezer, A/C, TV, and inspirational pictures. Wow.

bruce malm · « **Reply #14 on:** January 11, 2007, 03:54:20 PM »

The fridge is actually a gun cabinet for rifles. The old Craftsman tool box is empty and I need to get rid of it. After my first back operation, 20+ years ago, I was told not to be a mechanicanymore unless I wanted to get a second one within 5 years. I therefore had to combine 3 different tool sets into one box and the one I bought from Costco makes it much easier to find things. I have to walk to the garage about 40 feet away to get a cold beer. But I could use the exercise.

Bruce

RC Storick · « **Reply #15 on:** January 11, 2007, 04:15:45 PM »

Quote from: bruce malm on January 11, 2007, 12:54:48 PM

Here's some pictures if Sparky doesn't have to delete them

Why would I do that?

bruce malm · « **Reply #16 on:** January 11, 2007, 04:40:29 PM »

Sparky,
I just wasn't sure if somebody would complain about the wallpaper and I didn't want you to get in trouble. You just never know.

Thanks for the great website that allows everybody to be who they are.

Bruce / Wackydaddy1

Bill Little · « **Reply #17 on:** January 11, 2007, 05:12:29 PM »

For now, I refuse to show any pictures of my shop................

Let's just say that it's so bad that when Tom Dugan came over it scared him so much that he won't come back!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leo Mehl · « **Reply #18 on:** January 15, 2007, 10:00:31 AM »

You have picture of my shop but here goes. this ios one corner the other corner has larger tools and home made tool box made of wood.

Jim Treace · « **Reply #19 on:** January 15, 2007, 12:27:27 PM »

OK, Paul, maybe not the biggest shop in Tennessee, but it works for me. Two views, first shows in background, my newly installed 6' long 1400 cfm paint spray booth. I can now paint/spray inside and don't have to keep doors open or wear a re-breather! Smoothie on the table is under construction. Thunderbird and Ringmaster are hanging on the wall. Projects also in the works, but not shown, are J.D. Falcon and Bellanca Viking, kit parts from Blue Skys, Tom Niebuhr.
Maybe sometime I can get down to Memphis for a fly in with you. My shop is near Paris, TN.
Jim

roger gebhart · « **Reply #20 on:** January 15, 2007, 05:23:16 PM »

OK It's not my shop, but Jim let me know how you do with the Bellanca short kit. I bought one as well and have promised myself I won't start till something else is done. Kinda like a new years resolution. Made to be broken. anyway i'd like to hear. rog

Paul Taylor · « **Reply #21 on:** January 15, 2007, 05:47:47 PM »

Quote from: Jim Treace on January 15, 2007, 12:27:27 PM

OK, Paul, maybe not the biggest shop in Tennessee, but it works for me. Two views, first shows in background, my newly installed 6' long 1400 cfm paint spray booth. I can now paint/spray inside and don't have to keep doors open or wear a re-breather! Smoothie on the table is under construction. Thunderbird and Ringmaster are hanging on the wall. Projects also in the works, but not shown, are J.D. Falcon and Bellanca Viking, kit parts from Blue Skys, Tom Niebuhr.
Maybe sometime I can get down to Memphis for a fly in with you. My shop is near Paris, TN.
Jim

Jim,
Nice looking shop. You will have to drop in on us this spring. If you send me your email, I will add you to the email list when we gather the gang.

Paul

Jim Treace · « **Reply #22 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:12:25 AM »

Roger:
About the Bellanca Viking kit, I just received it last week (absolutely well done by Tom, as usual). Parts are laid out and with the plans, now going to figure out how much/type of wood to get. So, it will be a while before I get to a point that is worthy of a picture, but I will post it once there. Anyway, I am pretty excited about it as I use to own and fly a 1978 Bellanca Viking and I am going to paint scheme it to match my original, see picture.
Oh, Rog, to heck with new year resolutions, challenge is the spice of life, go for it, start the build!
Jim

mark eisenhut · « **Reply #23 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:56:41 AM »

you guys are lucky your shops are bigger than my hole apartment 550 sq.feet. and when i start building the hole place is a shop.if Bruce's shop was mine I'd never leave. i mean he's got everthing tools, TV,space guns and porn. you did it right Bruce!
mark

Scott Jenkins · « **Reply #24 on:** January 16, 2007, 11:52:30 AM »

Talk about small shops just to give you an idea about small. I am 6' tall and if I stretch out both arms I can touch both walls on both length and width. Just as soon as I find the top of the work bench I will post a few pictures.

Scott

john e. holliday · « **Reply #25 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:52:40 PM »

Quote from: Jim Treace on January 15, 2007, 12:27:27 PM

OK, Paul, maybe not the biggest shop in Tennessee, but it works for me. Two views, first shows in background, my newly installed 6' long 1400 cfm paint spray booth. I can now paint/spray inside and don't have to keep doors open or wear a re-breather! Smoothie on the table is under construction. Thunderbird and Ringmaster are hanging on the wall. Projects also in the works, but not shown, are J.D. Falcon and Bellanca Viking, kit parts from Blue Skys, Tom Niebuhr.
Maybe sometime I can get down to Memphis for a fly in with you. My shop is near Paris, TN.
Jim

Just two things wrong with this shop. One it is just too clean and neat. No. 2 is I think I see some fuel jugs sitting on the floor. I was always taught by Ken Wilson who I used to purchase fuel from, was that if fuel is stored on the floor, put a peice of wood or plank of wood under it. Especially the fuel in plastic jugs. Claims they absorb water sitting on tile or cement floors. DOC Holliday

Warren Leadbeatter · « **Reply #26 on:** January 17, 2007, 05:58:51 AM »

Here you go...

Paul Taylor · « **Reply #27 on:** January 17, 2007, 06:40:52 AM »

That is a neat shop.......... I like the old phone in the background, and the old black and white photo.

Jim Treace · « **Reply #28 on:** January 17, 2007, 07:53:18 AM »

Doc:
Yes, some of my fuel sits on the floor (tile), the stuff I burn up rather quickly. But my shop is completely A/C w/complete humidity control. It is a separate building from my house. I keep it at a constant 72 degrees/35-40% humidity. I agree with you in a more open shop environment get it off the floor and that is a good thing to know. Rest of my fuel is stored in cabinets, well above, mostly just to keep it out of the way. Oh, and by the way, thanks for the compliment, but shop looks neat because I know where to take the picture!
Jim

Keith Spriggs · « **Reply #29 on:** January 17, 2007, 08:13:43 AM »

I am not going to show a picture of my shop because there is not one model under construction. I am just getting back in to CL after a 35 year layoff so I dint even have a bench built yet. My shop is 24x48 with a 12x12 room out of one corner that has a rocking chair and 5 folding chairs for guest. The first guest gets the rocking chair. There is also about 4-5 hundred books including all of the old model airplane magazines that I bought starting in 1959 and continuing till about 1971. The rest of the shop has the following major tools 3 metal lathes, a mill/drill, a horizontal mill, a metal shaper, two drill presses,two grinders, three belt sanders, a table saw,wood jointer.band saw for metal, band saw for wood,acetylene torch, MIG welder, 13 foot of workbench, large air compressor, plus the usual hand electric tools and hand tools. A rack that holds about 60 "chicken boxes" that frozen chicken came in. I use these for storage.

Can everyone say TOOL NUT?

frank carlisle · « **Reply #30 on:** January 17, 2007, 11:42:20 AM »

Can't get it all in one picture, but the rest of it is in the same state of disarray. The floor is even worse. I love it.

frank carlisle · « **Reply #31 on:** January 17, 2007, 12:10:11 PM »

And here are some of the places I keep my planes.

Robert W · « **Reply #32 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:00:40 PM »

Here are pictures of the garage/ model shop. It is not to bad building out there now, but summers get hot.

minnesotamodeler · « **Reply #33 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:28:08 PM »

S'pose I oughtta get in on this thread...here's a couple shot from a year or so ago, when the shop was neat. One end of the basement, best amenity (sp?) it has is a bathroom to the left.

Steve Moore · « **Reply #34 on:** January 18, 2007, 01:48:11 PM »

Beard,
Momma let me move a table inside (the garage is cold this time of year). Working on a BRO Vampire for OTS, kit has nice wood but I'm not use to building with thinner stuff, comming along though. Hey, hows about posting some pic's of your new Twister, built one last year and still have it...

Paul Taylor · « **Reply #35 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:22:52 PM »

Hey Steve,
The Twister is not new. It has been rebuilt after I ran out of air space on a outside loop.

My building table is empty. I am just tweaking a few things. I will be working on some new landing gear for my SkyRay. Put on a new stooge wire to replace my oil soaked string on it also.

You asked for it.
The TwistStang

Mike Spiess · « **Reply #36 on:** January 18, 2007, 06:23:13 PM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on January 17, 2007, 11:42:20 AM

Can't get it all in one picture, but the rest of it is in the same state of disarray. The floor is even worse. I love it.

If Thats disarray then mine's a disaster

Steve Moore · « **Reply #37 on:** January 18, 2007, 06:43:46 PM »

Ha yes,
I remember picking it up @ your contest down there in Tenn., a little heavy, but a solid performer. Get out there and fly that thing, find you a Mentor (everyone in this endeavor has one). Get you an ARF to build if you are too attached to your Twister (we understand). I really enjoyed you-alls contest, a great bunch of folks down there...

Attached some pic's of my Twister straight off the board...

frank carlisle · « **Reply #38 on:** January 19, 2007, 05:28:03 PM »

Quote from: Mike Spiess on January 18, 2007, 06:23:13 PM

If Thats disarray then mine's a disaster

You're right Mike...........I didn't think anyone would have more clutter than me. But you sure do.

Bill Little · « **Reply #39 on:** January 19, 2007, 06:10:48 PM »

Quote from: frank carlisle on January 19, 2007, 05:28:03 PM

You're right Mike...........I didn't think anyone would have more clutter than me. But you sure do.

You guys are mere "ROOKIES" in the disarray/disaster arena!

Just ask Tom Dugan, and he saw it BEFORE it got ll messed up!

Bill <><