FINALLY, a little shop!

[Trent Mason]

Hi everyone,

I haven't been on here as much in the past few months, but I always think about you all. About a month ago, I moved into more of a permanent place to live down here at the beach. Since then, everytime I get home, there is someone to talk to or something to do, whether it be playing guitar on the porch, surfing, running, or a walk down to the bar, it's non-stop, 24/7.

I've had my tools stashed in various places for the last few months, but I finally got them all here yesterday. The shop is a very small (10x15') storage room on the ground floor of the house. But it IS a shop. Today, I continued where I left off on my nightstand, that hasn't been touched in nearly three months. I have to tell ya, it never felt so good to stand in an un-airconditioned room, sweating bullets and making sawdust! So here are a few pics. Now if I only had some casters.......







The tablesaw is a sneak gloat, by the way








My first actual project in the new shop was the surfboard rack. Thank God for that drill press.




Finally, as much as I love the shop, this is my favorite place on the planet.




As always, I wish you all the best.

Cheers,


Trent

[TracyP]

Good to finally hear that you are alive and kicking. We have missed your input here. You got a lot of catching up to do. Great looking shop by the way.

[skeeter]

Congrats Trent, glad to hear you're getting things together. It's about time you started making some sawdust. Too long without it and you start having withdrawl!!!

[sawduster]

Woo Hoo !!! Good on ya bro !!
Long ways from where ya were just a few months ago huh ?
Awesome to see your smilin' mug again dude


....oh wait , that's not your face in your sig still good to see it

[ScottM]

Trent, glad to see you back with us and making sawdust again. There is nothing like the smell of sweat and sawdust except for maybe air conditioned air and sawdust.

[Bas]

Originally Posted by wtf21

Since then, everytime I get home, there is someone to talk to or something to do, whether it be playing guitar on the porch, surfing, running, or a walk down to the bar, it's non-stop, 24/7.

I feel soooo sorry for you.....NOT! Must be simply AWFUL, having to do things like SURFING! Or playing GUITAR on the porch. What's next, having a GOOD TIME?

Congrats on getting the new shop! It may be small, but a shop is a shop. Besides, as everyone here knows, a shop is always 20% too small, no matter the actual size Congrats on the table saw, looks like you've got the arsenal complete - table saw, band saw, drill press, jointer, planer....now you get to spend the rest of your life upgrading, expanding the shop, upgrading, expanding the shop, upgrading....

Good to hear from you Trent. Nice looking surfboard rack.

[JackLeg]

Trent: some of my most enjoyable times were in a shop about that size in Greensboro. Everytime I moved, I had to step around or over something! But, that's where my woodworking began, and I still think of those days.


AND, I sure didn't have the view or access to the beach!! (That came later!)

Welcome back, Bro.

[RandyJ]

Welcome back to the fold, Trent. You Rock! Looks like a nice shop, except it's way too clean! So get busy messin' it up.

Enjoy

[DaveO]

10' x 15' is better than no shop in my book. Good for you for having it, I look forward to seeing what comes out of it.


Dave

[Gotcha6]

Hmmmmm....... A shop at the beach. What kinda word can we think of for that?

ConSURFulations seems about right.
That's an ocean green ain't it?

[Mike Davis]

Good for you Trent.

Just keep on keepin' on.

[Trent Mason]

Thanks so much for the kind words.

I'm still very much in a transitional period, but believe me, I have a few interviews coming up and if any of those work out, you will see some good stuff coming out of that shop. Right now I'm just doing what I can with what I have to work with.

While I was in the shop this evening, I thought a lot about Mike Davis's topic about challenge. Being a beginner, I entrusted several things in my past projects on a few of my friends, who were more experienced woodworkers. As I worked tonight, I recalled some of those past projects and it occured to me that most of the mistakes in my past projects were actually mistakes made by others. I noticed that I spend a very long time thinking things out and measuring every cut a handful of times before cutting. It made me think a lot and I think I came to the conclusion that my biggest challenge with woodworking is very simple to explain. It isn't a small shop or lack of funds to buy wood. It is that I can see what I want to build, the challenge is figuring out how to do it.

Thank you all so much for your kind words and support. Your inspiration is truelly priceless.

Cheers,

Trent

[JimmyC]

Dude,
The shop's definitely big enough, you just gotta clear out some of the garbage like that quiver of surfboards that the previous owner left in there.

Good Luck with the new shop.

Jimmy

[Glennbear]

Thanks for sharing pics Trent and congrats on having a work space . The picture with the porch view reminds me of my old home in NJ which did not have a water view but was only 20 minutes from the Atlantic

[Mike Wilkins]

Looking good.
That balcony looks like a great place to hang out in the evening and have a cigar and a cool drink.