Robert Sherlock
Member
We have 12 entries in the Shop Life contest this year. There will be one round of voting and the poll will stay open for 3 days. You get to choose one Shop Life picture. The picture is BELOW the title (Shop Life *). Click the thumbnail to view a larger picture.
Here we go:
Shop Life 1:
All projects begin from humble origins.
Shop Life 2:
Where's my skew?
Shop Life 3:
Working with Marley on her youth penturners contest
Shop Life 4:
Just finished turning a few pine cone pens and the acrylic turned so smoothly but made a mess on my nice lathe!
Shop Life 5:
Important to be safe even when buffing a pen, even if you are 9 years old.
Shop Life 6:
This is a photo of my granddaughter sitting on my Powermatic 3520 to drill a pen blank she wanted to turn. She didn't have the leverage to turn standing up (too long of a reach), so she asked if she could sit on the lathe and crank the handle. After she got set up she asked for her safety goggles before she continued. She was 6 years old at the time. She now has her own Jet mini lathe!
Shop Life 7:
Lathe, Jig-saw, Sanders, Drill Press, assembly table, Nobex Miter, and Delta dust collector with cyclone. Looking for room - and an excuse - to fit a bandsaw. Got my eye on a Grizzly 555LX. Don't want to give up the liquid fridge though to get it. Not much working room when the two cars are home!
Shop Life 8:
A 15 foot long ribbon from turning a Delrin rod, laying nicely on the worktable.
Shop Life 9:
I recently found this large spalted Hackberry log lying on the side of the road, so I stopped & loaded it into my truck. It wasn't until I unloaded it onto a pallet in the log storage area of my wood shop that I noticed the angel-like pattern on the face of the log.
Shop Life 10:
I chose this photo of myself turning a pen because I thought it to be interesting on how I was able to capture the reflection of the pen and lathe in my safety glasses. This picture was a complete accident, as I was trying to video a close up for another project. I thought it showed a different aspect of what we do in the shop, with the intensity and concentration we have when doing such detailed work.
Shop Life 11:
This is a picture of a commission I was working on. It is Big leaf maple wood. Amazing wood and I tried capturing it in this picture.
Shop Life 12:
Whew, thank God it cooled off! Those killer days of August when the temp gets above 130F just make it unbearable to work in the shop!
Here we go:
Shop Life 1:
All projects begin from humble origins.
Shop Life 2:
Where's my skew?
Shop Life 3:
Working with Marley on her youth penturners contest
Shop Life 4:
Just finished turning a few pine cone pens and the acrylic turned so smoothly but made a mess on my nice lathe!
Shop Life 5:
Important to be safe even when buffing a pen, even if you are 9 years old.
Shop Life 6:
This is a photo of my granddaughter sitting on my Powermatic 3520 to drill a pen blank she wanted to turn. She didn't have the leverage to turn standing up (too long of a reach), so she asked if she could sit on the lathe and crank the handle. After she got set up she asked for her safety goggles before she continued. She was 6 years old at the time. She now has her own Jet mini lathe!
Shop Life 7:
Lathe, Jig-saw, Sanders, Drill Press, assembly table, Nobex Miter, and Delta dust collector with cyclone. Looking for room - and an excuse - to fit a bandsaw. Got my eye on a Grizzly 555LX. Don't want to give up the liquid fridge though to get it. Not much working room when the two cars are home!
Shop Life 8:
A 15 foot long ribbon from turning a Delrin rod, laying nicely on the worktable.
Shop Life 9:
I recently found this large spalted Hackberry log lying on the side of the road, so I stopped & loaded it into my truck. It wasn't until I unloaded it onto a pallet in the log storage area of my wood shop that I noticed the angel-like pattern on the face of the log.
Shop Life 10:
I chose this photo of myself turning a pen because I thought it to be interesting on how I was able to capture the reflection of the pen and lathe in my safety glasses. This picture was a complete accident, as I was trying to video a close up for another project. I thought it showed a different aspect of what we do in the shop, with the intensity and concentration we have when doing such detailed work.
Shop Life 11:
This is a picture of a commission I was working on. It is Big leaf maple wood. Amazing wood and I tried capturing it in this picture.
Shop Life 12:
Whew, thank God it cooled off! Those killer days of August when the temp gets above 130F just make it unbearable to work in the shop!
