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A handmade home for woodworkers and admirers of woodworkers. Our community icon is submitted by @[email protected] whose father was inspired to start woodworking by Norm and the New Yankee Workshop.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Early in my carpenter career I worked for a compony called Panalpina. All I did was build shipping crates for oddly shaped and sometimes huge stuff. The only interesting part of the job was trying to guess what the stuff was we were crating up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you do it often enough, it'd get so routine as to be super boring. But at least you get to think a bit about it if each case is distinct -- as opposed to assembly line construction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It was graveyard shift so anything to stay awake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lots of Kobalt gear I see, let me know how those hold up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The blue stuff is Canadian Tire Mastercraft. Which is likely different from the US Mastercraft brand. Not sure what Kobalt is.

The only real tools in the photo are the mini metal lathe by Proxxon and a higher end 3D printer from Makergear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ah, Kobalt is the house brand of Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, their trademark colors are royal blue and grey.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love it and your workshop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The back room of a much larger building, which gets the distinction of being "room that is tolerant of dust". The 3D printer also lives here because it's noisy. ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Will the dust bother the 3D printer? I don't have one but they look kind of delicate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Honestly I should have a plastic cover for it -- like computers in the 1980s! But mostly I just take the air duster to it before starting, and make sure the rails are not binding. If they are, I swab them out and add a little lithium grease.