Whip,  From the looks of your wood woodwork shop, I'm going to stop putting handles on my knives...They are all headed to Michigan  

Whip I see ya got a old nasty saw mill blade cluttering up that nice wall in the great looking shop. If ya like I will get rid of it for ya if ya like?    <><

I added on to my house two years ago. The "Man Room" as it is now called, is 18 by 24 deep and has a single garage door in the front and a service door in the back which goes out to a 18 bt 12 roofed over patio. It also has a side door that joins it to the existing 2 car garage. The "Man Room" was initially intended ro be a deer processing and sausage making area as well as a 2nd kitchen for our house. I built the entire addition myself.



The "Man Room" features a natural gas furnace that heats both garages, an epoxy coated floor, A complete kitchen, A phone line, Cable TV and a hoist built into the ceiling for raising deer for butcher.





While I mainly use it for deer processing and sausage making with the help of my sons.

Right now, due to the CO the forge puts out I'm forgin' on the back of the patio.
The rest of the stuff is in my basement across from the washer/dryer.
My son's looking at building a smithy for me in the spring where I can put everything in the same place with doors & a roof vent big enough that I don't get killed by CO.
I'll try to get some pics tomorrow if I can the the #**%#!! camera workin'!

Larry

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It is decorated in true "Man Room" fashion

 

When the processing and sausage making is done for the year, the "Man Room" turns into the project room for finishing knives. The dirty part of knife making takes place in the other garage where all the big tools are.

 





or making hunting gear like trees stands

 

Or other projects.



It is also an indoor archery range in the winter
 

Trust me you DO NOT want to see sticshooters shop.LOL!! Can you say fire hazard! LOL. Sorry buddy but you know it's true.

RGK, That "Man Room" seems to do it all.  Nice job of building.  I certainly liked your birch handle build-a-long...Great Idea.

Leroy you got loose lips. Now don't be begging to go in there next time you come up. My shop is CLOSED TO YOU.<><

RGK where did you say you were located in WI? I may have to stop by and taste test some of them there sausage stix.LOL <><

Here are some pictures of the shop I just finished this fall.  Still not completely set up but workable.  It has heat which has been nice the last couple weeks.  (-27 degrees here last week)  


 

WOW...you guys must have OCD....those are some clean shops.

Great shops and workplaces.........Great thread

Not many knives made, but I have alot of fun in a 12x12 unheated out building.

Gee at least Osagetree
 has a mess on the floor. Holmade I could live in your shop. Just like RGKs place I could call that home also.<><

Think them Guy's had the wife spruce up the shop for their pictures?  

I have posted this before. This is an older picture. I have a different band saw now.

 

Here is a newer view of the back of the shop. Mike droped by to learn a little bow making.  

 

Todays picture that shows the way my shop stays most of the time. Just finished removing the bark and sapwood from a special short osage stave and working on my first gun build, a golden age flintlock.

I could look at other guy's shops all day, even messy ones    some of us are just plain anal about a neat shop. Functional, that's what counts.

sticshooter , I am in Delafield. I see Whip is practically my neighbor too.

Jeff, knife handles are one thing I do want to learn to do.  I have tried a few, but there is much to learn yet.  Sure would love to put ome wood on one of your beautiful blades sometime!

Frank, I picked that blade up at an auction last summer.  I think I had to give something like $30 for it?  They had two - probably should have taken them both.

Dang RGK Delafield is not that far from me at all. out there by the smileing Barn. I live in Franklin. Whip $30.00 you should have snapped both of them. Great knife making stuff there.<><