You were given the pleasure of the cat boxes too? I hate litter boxes

Yup, and as soon as I start working on something, one of our cats will need to do it's business. I should have taken a picture of the air freshened I keep on the shelf.

Hello everyone
This is my first post on BF. I really like this thread as I love to work on my bikes and enjoy seeing everyone's shops. My "shop" is currently in my basement. Normally I have a nice place to work on my stuff in my shed behind my house, but it is winter and I have no heat in there so here is my set up right now. On the stand I have my current project ('81 Miyata 210) stripped and ready for the paint shop.

Well that's a little picture. How does everyone else make a big one?

Most people upload their pictures to a flickr or photobucket account and then link them in that way.

Well if I put many more pics on I may have to do something like that.

I have taken over back room at daughters house for my escape/bike room.

I'm sure that it's in here somewhere! I really must get round to sorting this lot out - maybe next year?


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I had to take three bikes outside to get in to take these photos. Messy, I know - but it's dry, warm and secure.

Stuart, thanks for sharing your photos. Now I don't feel I'm alone with a huge hoard. My problem or opportunity, depending on your viewpoint, is there is no other co-habitant that I have had to be accountable too for the last few years!

My sweetie gave me the front bedroom to keep the ones in that I can't afford to fix if I break them - eight in there, and then six (some near duplicates of the bedroom bikes) that get ridden are outside in the shed.


These are eight of the fourteen that made it out West without being sold. The other six live in the shed outside. There used to be 28, when we had a full basement:



Now the rule is: if you want one, one has to leave. Curbs my enthusiasm and spending, and keeps things neater and more "normal" whatever that is.

So I guess technically that if they are kept inside they are less likely to be ridden, but they're also less affected by weather and thievery.

great shop
what type of leather work do you specialize in?

I am in NJ as well and found a few places to donate my time working on other people's bikes
There is a co-op in New Brunswick, near the college
And bicycle exchanges in Plainfield, Newark, Trenton and New Brunswick at the Boys and Girls clubs
Not sure how far south you are, maybe some of these aren't too far

more pics, just for fun. Mostly non-bike-related shop stuff. But you'll see a few mixed in here.

Ah, the rare and coveted South Bend drill press...(sigh)...
The way you keep your tools speaks to the quality of your work.
My compliments.

Okay I'm jealous. This is pretty much what I want some day. I need an old Bridgeport and would prefer an old monarch lathe if I could find one. Awesome shop.

Now that's my kind of shop!

what no hammers?....
looks great, love the stainless cabinet

That is perhaps the most display-like of the "dungeons", and with all of the bikes seem quickly accessible for riding.

Very forward-thinking, a reasonable number of bikes for the available space, and the two-tier arrangement seems to fit in with a standard ceiling height.

Great fleet of bikes I should add!

I make custom leather belts.

Heh. Hammers are all in drawers. All forty six of them.

That cabinet came from an auction at an Air Force base medical facility. Good old nineteen sixties heavy duty construction.

Pretty good dung!

Thanks. That is the "woodworking" side. The metal working machines are in another room.

It reminds me of my college job. I worked in a pretty extensive machine shop part time for 5 years but they also had a decent wood shop. I wish I had a nice wood shop with a couple of bits of machinery for myself. Pretty much what you've shown.

Matt,
I spent a considerable amount of time looking for, and acquiring, most of my machines, back in my Tool Acquisition Phase. In the 90's. I wanted all American made, cast iron "home shop" type stuff, made back when they really made great stuff. Those days are long gone. All of my machines are 1970's or older, with one exception. When I first started setting up my shop, I made one concession to modern machinery and the first thing I bought was one of these.

https://www.google.com/search?q=INCA...w=1006&bih=804

A really amazing, if slightly persnickety, little machine. Swiss made precision , and the finish this thing puts on a piece of hard wood is nothing short of outstanding. Rosewood looks like it was hand-scraped.

Just as I got my big, custom shop, that I built myself out in Utah, fully outfitted, we had to move across the country. One of the prerequisites in buying a house here was enough basement for a shop…or two…and a walk-in sliding door to get all my machines in here. I'll never do that again, I tell you, so this stuff is here for the duration, or until I croak.

Thanks, VV!