Well I thought I'd show my knife making shop...just part of my unheated garage.  This time of year my propane heater makes it possible & rather nice to work out there.  In warm weather I just open garage door & try to work out side as much as possible especially forging.  Most of my benches come from our dump...excuse me Re-cycling Center!  So nothing fancy except the KMG grinder.  I used my drill press, bandsaw, & bench grinder plus the KMG the most.  
 
 
 

Here's the KMG grinder with the attachments.

Platen for flat grinding.
 
10" wheel for hollow grinding
 
Small wheel for getting in just about any tight spot.  
 
Interchangeable small wheels.
   
For small detail filing & finish work this little vice mounted on a para pedestal works great.  It can rotate 360% without taking the knife out of the vise.
 

OK let's see your shops...Doc

Here's the Workcave.

Ground floor - knifemaking, motorcycle works & general dirty, fun stuff!



My Forge (ok, I know, It's a brake-drum from a truck, but hey! It works! Notice alsotheclever bellows ducting, scaffold tube, for my hi-tech bellows/hairdryer!)



The Gift Anvil (2-1/2 CWT, given tme by a friend)



Trusty MIG welder (I don't know how people managed before these things were invented!)



Grinders...



grinders...



and more grinders!!



St. Judes knife, roughed out & clamped in the 6" vice, for scale.

Doc, I would LOVE to get my hands on that there KMG grinder! It put's my li'l bench linisher/polisher to shame! One more useful thing, not imported into the UK  :rolleyes:

Rob, Now it's not so lonely knowing a bro is out pounding & grinding away too...on steel!!

Nice bangalong,I see you have one of them old solid vices that stand on the floor, They are much sought after these days.
 Bue--.

Bue, They really absorb the blows without your bench coming apart.

very nice. Love the bike Rob.

nice guys, real nice, not even close to mine  :( ..hahah Rob is that there a big ol 250"?...saweet.....

QuoteOriginally posted by jgbennett6:
..hahah Rob is that there a big ol 250"?...saweet.....

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drool, droool.... awwawawaww, that thar is sweet, whats teh heart of the beast?....i'm currenty (taking forever) finsihing a 74' Iron head hardtail chop.but i just found a sweety of a shovel head that i really really want!!..I may have to sell the ironhead    .....

Yamaha XV1600, now bored out to 1860. Mighty fast!

How in the world do you guys keep your shops so clean? You guys are almost as bad as Dano. How do ya find anything?<>< BTW I gotta get me a ANVIL! Those things look so cool and I bet it beats the heck outta banging ona flat piece of steel that jumps everytime I smack it.LOL<><

Frank. Do you have a railyard nearby? If you do, go and beg yourself 18" of track. Sit it upside-down on a big block of timber & you've got an instant anvil! (for around 1% of the price of a real one!) If you need to use the horn-end for bending & pre-forming, just flip it over & use the top face.
My first anvil was just such a thing & it worked a treat. Only thing is, you need at least 18" to get th weight needed to stop it bouncing. I had mine sat in a piece of 4" channel, bolter to a tree stump, so I could easily flip it over. If I hadn't been given my big anvil, I'd still be using it now!

Dang , this makes me want to go to Home depot or Sears and have some tool time ...Im so jelious...      

Jeff, these are pictures of my shop when I finished setting up.  I do hope to do what you guys are doing one day and forge my own steel, that is a goal of mine.  Nice shops boys!!!

Remember, its that clean because I had just finished putting it together, right now,its a mess..LOL

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel

Thats just not right how you guys keep everything so clean. Do ya ever work in them shops?<><

It's kinda like your Mom making sure you got clean undies incase of ending up at the hospital...clean only for pictures  

Ok now that makes sense. If I took a pic of my shop right now all you guys would flip out. Messy don't cover it by a longshot. Just ask Leroy.LOL<><

Here is my hidey hole. Trying to get it set up for woodworking, and is a work in progress yet.  Having a place like this to hang out in makes winter weekends much better!  I can always find something to do.

I can see now where my escrow account went        

This is a great thread keep em commin