Starting over

[PaulE3]

Putting together my shop / workspace

[PaulE3]

First things first, put together an old stereo.

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[PaulE3]

Built my work table.
4'x4' at 32" tall. Used 1" thick top, not messing around!

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[PaulE3]

Add the vise...
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[PaulE3]

oh ya, the truing stand!
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[PaulE3]

Tubes, glorious tubes

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[PaulE3]

Tanks!

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[PaulE3]

Check out these crazy ass speakers my buddy Jason hooked me up with! They sound great in a concrete and cinder-block room.
Oh, and I had no idea silver braze was gonna be that expensive... it's been a while...

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[Mark Kelly]

B.I.C. Soundspans, I think those are the 600s.

IIRC the first "omnidirectional" speaker made, introduced in the late 70's. People who like them tend to love them, people who don't like them tend to loathe them.

[PaulE3]

Having to flip the speaker over to make the connections is a PIA, but otherwise, no problem. For a second, I thought he was giving some Lesleys! The acoustic foam is wasted, too. Its amazing what people would like to give you when you are putting together a shop. I've also been offered a coke machine, which I will fill with beer.

[Mark Kelly]

Yeah, foam doesn't play nice with UV or Ozone so it lasts about ten seconds over here. Not hard to replace

[PaulE3]

Pine Wood Derby blockity blocks

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[PaulE3]

Recommendation for hand files anyone?

[PaulE3]

Hanging of the Shop Bike Art...

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[PaulE3]

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Wow, finally getting to work on my bike again. I have been making time in the evenings after work, dinner, house work, pet feeding, and my one year old son finally decides to go to sleep . Even though I have put together a shop for this endeavor, I find I've done most of my mitering and filing in my basement due to convenience. I rough cut the tubes with my grinding wheel at the shop and then finished with my hand files at home at my leisure. You gotta make time for the things you want to do.

[prolix21]

I just moved into a new house and am working on the same, setting up a small area where I can fuss around with frame #2 and it's likely siblings. No dreams of building for anyone else, just something I want to do for myself and place to tune out the day-job and various other distractions in life. I find the process of working on bikes is often more interesting/fulfilling than the result. Although the first frame I built is a ton of fun to ride.

[PaulE3]

I hear ya! I commute one hour each direction every day and have plenty of time to think about what I'd rather be doing with my life / free time and it has always gone back to building bikes and the process. I built my #1 back in 1993 and I still have it. I started building bikes with Nevil Cycles then and we made probably around 300 bikes or so. Now, fast forward some 20 years, I'm just getting to my #2! Still obsessed about making them… it invades my thoughts at 3am when I can't sleep...

[afwalker]

I hope your pine tubing blocks work for you, just a thought, I'm thinking the grain is running the wrong way to do much clamping pressure without splitting. The grain top to bottom might be better maybe on the next set:)
cheers
andy walker

[PaulE3]

You are correct! One has cracked because I drilled perpendicular to the grain. I have since installed a newel post on a landing in my house and had some scrap left over (5 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 12" Long) that is big enough for me to make the blocks the right way and with better wood.