Show your Shop

[Rossr]

4 hours ago, Mjolnir said:

The pics have slowed down, but there is still so much to discuss here! More pics please! going back to the beginning of the thread I thought some pics deserve a little shout out. Look at all of these stamps! And I'm pretty sure my 2nd grade principal bent me over that very desk for a paddlin'! ( Mrs. Montgomery, I still swear I didn't do it.)

Is that a slab of granite on its top?

That is a good question,  I don't really know what it is.   It kinda reminds me of the desk tops in the chemistry lab but its grey not black. I was able to cut it with an abrasive blade in a circular saw. .....Still deciding if I like it for tooling.  I used to have a hunk of granite that was a cut out from  a sink but I like it being the whole way across the desk.  Worse case I may do a full piece of granite down the road if this does not work out and budget allows.

 

Btw before anyone thinks those are all new stamps and I am wealthy.  The reality is craigslist and ebay has been good to me....or I spend way to much time looking for deals...you can decide lol!

 

The center part where most of the stamps are has three wood blocks made at home and most of the holes were labeled with a label maker with  the stamp numbers,  I got them on a craigslist buy. I have been slowly filling in all the stamps over the past few years.  I am down to about 40 I need to finish the numbers that are there.......Not that I need all them but its kinda a dream now!!  Im guessing they used to all be there but not all where there when I bought it.

Yep that desk has been around.  The wooden one of the left is old too all wood except the top is formica...picked that up at auction for a $1.   its great!

 

Ross

Edited December 22, 2017 by Rossr

[Rossr]

Ok so here is  most of the rest of the shop, debated posting it...but all you folks have shown your areas....so why not. Sorry the photos arent great they were just quick pics with the phone.

Always looking for ways to improve the shop and all these pics have great concepts and ideas we can all learn from for sure!  Thanks all

Edited December 22, 2017 by Rossr

[bikermutt07]

1 hour ago, Rossr said:

Ok so here is  most of the rest of the shop, debated posting it...but all you folks have shown your areas....so why not. Sorry the photos arent great they were just quick pics with the phone.

Always looking for ways to improve the shop and all these pics have great concepts and ideas we can all learn from for sure!  Thanks all

Wow! You have a lot of pressy, splitty, punchy things in your shop. And a lot of leather. Good job accumulating and acquiring.

[Rossr]

14 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

Wow! You have a lot of pressy, splitty, punchy things in your shop. And a lot of leather. Good job accumulating and acquiring.

While the stamps have been a lot of looking and some luck on craigslist ebay.....the bulk of the pressy splitty punchy things were due to a shop I purchased a few years back.   otherwise.  I would have mostly just the couple desks and the hand stamps

 

[Big Sioux Saddlery]

1 hour ago, Rossr said:

Ok so here is  most of the rest of the shop, debated posting it...but all you folks have shown your areas....so why not. Sorry the photos arent great they were just quick pics with the phone.

Always looking for ways to improve the shop and all these pics have great concepts and ideas we can all learn from for sure!  Thanks all

As I looked at the first couple pictures, I was thinking "Pretty nice set-up", and then I saw your stitcher, Landis 3 or Randall?  Couldn't tell.  But super sweet!  I'm in the process of putting up some slatwall in my new shop, and am really looking forward to being able to hang something wherever I want.  Handy stuff.

Edited December 22, 2017 by Big Sioux Saddlery

[Rossr]

32 minutes ago, Big Sioux Saddlery said:

As I looked at the first couple pictures, I was thinking "Pretty nice set-up", and then I saw your stitcher, Landis 3 or Randall?  Couldn't tell.  But super sweet!  I'm in the process of putting up some slatwall in my new shop, and am really looking forward to being ale to hang something wherever I want.  Handy stuff.

Thats a Randall and I am not sure how I lived without it before!   I mainly use it for knife sheaths.   Since I make knives.  But plenty of other things have been done on it.   Still learning how to use it but as I am sure you know those needle awl machines put down a nice stitch front and back

 

 

Edited December 22, 2017 by Rossr

[Big Sioux Saddlery]

4 minutes ago, Rossr said:

Still learning how to use it but as I am sure you know those needle awl machines but down a nice stitch front and back

None better, and most others don't even come close!

[Jake907]

@Rossr do I see a wood lathe with multiple polishing and sanding wheels set up on it? great idea man, love that.

[Rossr]

10 minutes ago, Jake907 said:

@Rossr do I see a wood lathe with multiple polishing and sanding wheels set up on it? great idea man, love that.

Jake,

 

If you mean the Green machine in the one pic...what that actually is...is a Landis Line finisher. They were used for shoe making  and you went from left to right to clean up the heels or soles, cut them down, sand them and then polish at the end.  Now I use it for sanding and burnishing purposes mainly.  Never made shoes and I cant say i need something that large.  But it sure can be handy.   A lathe setup as you mention would work nicely too

[KingsCountyLeather]

Rossr,

is that shop just for you?  Wow! Now that’s a workshop!

Because you have every machine you should ever need... Do you make your living from leather work? Or do you have another income?