Handicaped shop design

[ctubbs]

I have been noticing a trend of inquires about shops for those of us not able to stand or move around our shops freely of recent. This month's "Wood" magazine, issue 206 September 2011, page 66, has an article about one of our returning wounded warriors and his shop. There are many ways to improve the shop for the handicapped wood worker. I hesitate to use the word, handicapped, for the stigma it dumps upon the individual, but it is the only one that encompasses the meaning. I would copy it and place it here but that would be a copyright infringement. If you can not find a copy, contact a friend or check your local library. It is well worth the read even if you have both legs working perfectly.
The article goes into shop layout and tool mods. "Wood" magazine design staff helped with the shop design. If many of us contact them, then they might place that article on their website for free viewing. Worth a try.
Charles

 

[JDJ309]

handicapped

As a disabled vet I can assure you we are not "handicapped" but rarher we are inconvenienced by our disabilities. I appreciate you pointing out the article and I'm looking forward to reading it.

 

[ctubbs]

David, I truly hated to use the word in the post. I have had the 'opportunity' to face that work for way too long. I was presented my peg leg at age 19 in 1963. A handicap is a handicap only as far as the individual allows it to be. Everyone I know has some kind of 'handicap' whether physical or mental so to throw that stigma upon someone because of a precieved defect is just being bigoted.
David, thank you for your service to myself and the rest of our country. I was not allowed to share that honor.
Charles