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Title: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 08, 2010, 10:32:00 PM
Here is mine.

 http://www.motionbox.com/videos/7a98d8b91418e6c5f5
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: SteveD on January 09, 2010, 07:10:00 AM
Nice Shop. I wish i had one like that
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Dano on January 09, 2010, 10:06:00 AM
Very nice, and clean I like it. Nice touch with the PBR in the fridge.    :bigsmyl:    

Here's some pictures of mine.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/dlgren/New%20shop/newshop001.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/dlgren/New%20shop/newshop001-2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/dlgren/New%20shop/newshop001-1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/dlgren/New%20shop/newshop002-2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/dlgren/New%20shop/newshop003-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: kennym on January 09, 2010, 10:15:00 AM
MAN!!  I don't think mine was that clean when it was brand new!!

Nice shops!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: 2treks on January 09, 2010, 10:25:00 AM
DANG DANO! that looks pretty cool. I wonder what it will look like AFTER you start makin bows in it? Do you lve in the other half?
VERY COOL SHOP!
Chuck
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: 2treks on January 09, 2010, 10:30:00 AM
DANG ROY! that looks pretty cool. I wonder what it will look like AFTER you start makin bows in it?
VERY COOL SHOP!(even tho that one PBR can was not facing the front like a good boy)
Chuck
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Diamondback59 on January 09, 2010, 10:54:00 AM
OK DANO NICE SHOP  I SEE 1 LIL THING MISSIN  WHERE S THE FRIDGE  AND WHERE YA HIDIN THE LEMONADE HAHA BROCK
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Broke another one on January 09, 2010, 11:04:00 AM
Why is it that everyone here has a shop and i got a 10' by 15' square spot in my garage...
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: bjansen on January 09, 2010, 11:13:00 AM
I feel your pain Brokeanotherone....but one of these days!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 09, 2010, 11:16:00 AM
Gezze Dano, ya need some Osage dust on that floor:) My video was when it was first completed, it's a little bit dusty in there now:)

I used to make Bows in the basement of our house. We have logs on the walls and black walnut hardwood floors. Any idea how much Osage dust found it's way upstairs? The wife never complained, but she gave me a few shots now and then. When I said I wanted to build a bow shop outside, she was all for it:)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: SteveD on January 09, 2010, 12:14:00 PM
Wow Nice Dano. Beautiful
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Pat B on January 09, 2010, 12:32:00 PM
Here are a few pics of my shop in my basement. Unlike Dano and Roy, my shop is used! d;^)  This is in one half of the basement and the other side, where I do glue-ups and my leather work is clean(er).
 Dano, is that one of Bernie's Dinosaurs?  Haven't seen much of Bernie lately.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/forpa049.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/forpa051.jpg)
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/PatBNC/forpa052.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 09, 2010, 12:34:00 PM
I like it Pat:)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Dano on January 09, 2010, 12:38:00 PM
Pat that would drive me crazy, I clean my shop everyday, yep I'm sick   :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Pennsyltuckey pete on January 09, 2010, 02:46:00 PM
I wish I had a shop like those!  Mine is an 8 x 10 bedroom on the first floor!  SPACE is my final frontier!

(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc105/longbowpete/reflex%20deflex/DSCN7152.jpg)

(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc105/longbowpete/Longbow%20Research%20and%20Development/DSCN8694.jpg)

these two pics show most everything.  Tools are pulled out in to the center of the floor or put on my work bench as needed. I do have a shed where I keep my table saw.  I have to use it outside.


pete
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Dano on January 09, 2010, 04:30:00 PM
Been there done that Pete, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Some great helpers ya got there too.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: pronghorn23 on January 09, 2010, 06:37:00 PM
Nice shops. I'm in the process of finishing my workshop now...bout 13X19, in the basement.

Dano, as clean as that shop is you gotta do something about the rat sitting there   :goldtooth:
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Osagetree on January 09, 2010, 10:02:00 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/Osagetree/Picture1181.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Pennsyltuckey pete on January 09, 2010, 10:17:00 PM
Dano,

My wife and I have talked about digging a basement under the house by hand!  I think that it would put a damper on the bow building for quite some time though!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 09, 2010, 10:18:00 PM
Clean looking Osage Joe, ya have any idea where a Pa boy could get some of that?
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: AALLFAB on January 09, 2010, 11:35:00 PM
Ok you did it, I have to clean the shop. Darn.  If this thread is still alive maybe a pic or 5. Jim
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: mikieg on January 10, 2010, 01:51:00 AM
ahh yes. radio control. yet another demon to occupy my thoughts and pocket book!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: BigJim on January 10, 2010, 08:16:00 AM
I once told someone that you can never have too big of a shop. I have been both wrong and right in that statement. If you are just storing things in it and utilize ocasionally, big is fantastic.
I converted my wifes horse barn into a bow shop and got too busy to finish insulating it. It is now too big and expensive to air condition or heat. My wife has somewhat grown used to the idea and helps me clean it (or I should say cleans it for me). Even though the shop is big though, (24x70) there is never enough wall space for shelves and racks and such.
Oh well, I've never had enough time to build and organize anyway.
BigJim
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Dano on January 10, 2010, 08:24:00 AM
What I like to do now and then is tour the New Yankee workshop online, to get ideas. Now there's a shop to die for    ;)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Osagetree on January 10, 2010, 08:35:00 AM
Sorry Roy, that picture is about 5 years old. None of that sage left but, the building is still the same 12' X 12".

Dano, I prefer the woodrights shop!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Paul/KS on January 10, 2010, 09:44:00 AM
Yep, The Woodwrights shop would do it all for us. Woodworking tools for bows and shafts then over to the blacksmith section to forge the arrowheads...
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Peckerwood on January 10, 2010, 04:31:00 PM
Here is my shop. It is not as clean as Dano's. I guess that is why I can never find stuff.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/warrenjr/100_0131.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/warrenjr/100_0128.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Mike Most on January 10, 2010, 05:37:00 PM
Mine is more like Pats. I like it Enough said.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Dano on January 10, 2010, 06:50:00 PM
Real nice shop Bill, that's the way I want mine to look like once I get it broke in.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: jsweka on January 10, 2010, 07:51:00 PM
I am jealous.  My bow shop is in the basement of my 100 year old house.  I have my workbench positioned just right so my head doesn't hit my hand hewn timber floor joists.  When I'm working in the spring time or after a heavy rain I have to where my rubber boots down there.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 10, 2010, 08:50:00 PM
Some dinky racks on the wall there Peckerwood:)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Peckerwood on January 10, 2010, 09:05:00 PM
Roy  ,

Them are my Pa. mountain buck trophies !  Some day , when the deer become totally extinct , they will be a collectors item.

The good stuff is in the house.

Bill
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: bjansen on January 10, 2010, 09:15:00 PM
Nice finishing station I see back there Bill.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 10, 2010, 09:49:00 PM
LOL Bill, I understand.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Pennsyltuckey pete on January 10, 2010, 10:22:00 PM
Deer are practically extinct in my area of the state!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: DVSHUNTER on January 11, 2010, 12:10:00 PM
I don't really have a shop so much as a small space in my garage, but it has everything I need to build selfbows. (http://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss13/dvshunter/CIMG0124.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: DVSHUNTER on January 11, 2010, 12:37:00 PM
even has some split today osage I'm gonna work on soon as the stove heats up and the baby goes to bed
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: scrub-buster on January 12, 2010, 07:57:00 PM
I am in the process of building my new shop.  We had a pole barn built.  The front is going to be a garage, but I am sectioning off the back 8' or so.  My shop will be 8x24'.  Just got a price locked in for concrete come March.  I can't wait.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Jack Skinner on January 13, 2010, 02:04:00 PM
My bow building bench. To the left I have another bench for arrow building. Just to the right of the picture is a row of power tools.
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/JackSkinner/Bow/MakingBow034.jpg)

Not a lot of room but I have to share with my wife's Baby. She hates it when I cover it with yellow dust.
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n274/JackSkinner/Bow/MakingBow044.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Osagetree on January 13, 2010, 04:39:00 PM
Jack, just tell her the tannin in the dust is a good preservitive. Great for the paint, tires and interior!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Paul/KS on January 13, 2010, 06:07:00 PM
Whoa...!

That's yer Wife's car...? NICE.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Firstarrow on January 13, 2010, 06:23:00 PM
I had to look twice for the car. I was admiring the shoot through carp reel!
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Pennsyltuckey pete on January 13, 2010, 07:52:00 PM
Nice Ride!

I double dog dare you to sand down a piece of wood, let the dust settle, and then write your name on the hood!

  :bigsmyl:  

pete
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Jack Skinner on January 14, 2010, 09:24:00 AM
Osagetree I like the sound of that but she wont go for it made me buy a cover for the car.

Yes Paul its hers, gave it to her for our 25th wedding aniversary, any woman who stays with a trad hunter that long deserves something nice.

First arrow that is my favorite bow fishing set-up have tried others nothing has worked better for me than this shoot thru reel.

Pete I want to live to see my next hunting season.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 14, 2010, 10:44:00 AM
Jack, you need to remember these two words.
YES DEAR:) LOL

I always say that to my wife to agree with her. But I have a great wife and we get along super well. She even shoot's a stickbow I made for her..
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: skeaterbait on January 21, 2010, 08:56:00 AM
Well, here it is. It's not compeltely finished yet but it is usable. 18x20 just seemed so big to start with....

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/reflx-shtr/Shop/Shop1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/reflx-shtr/Shop/shop3.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/reflx-shtr/Shop/shop5.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/reflx-shtr/Shop/shop7.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/reflx-shtr/Shop/Shop9.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: broketooth on January 21, 2010, 09:11:00 AM
wow nice job. did you frame it yourself?i like the use of the t111. gives the rustic look with out the maintanance that lap siding requires, also not as pricey.ive been a framing carpenter for 20 yrs,i appreciate your work  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: skeaterbait on January 21, 2010, 09:48:00 AM
No, I have zero carpentry experience so got the pros to do the framing. Finished the inside myself that way everyone who walks in will know I have still have zero carpentry experience.

I am kind of smug about the wiring though, I do have a LITTLE bit of experience with that so it turned out ok. And by ok I mean no electricutions and the building is still standing. My buddy did get a bit of a buzz when we were putting the wall sheeting up, wrapped his fingers too far around the outlet when pushing it back in the box.  :jumper:
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Dano on January 21, 2010, 02:37:00 PM
Your going to be sorry if you don't paint them walls and ceiling, it will help with lighting. I like it Lonnie, looks like a good shop. How are you going to heat it?
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 21, 2010, 04:11:00 PM
Nice shop skeaterbait. But I am with Dano, if you paint it bright white, the lighting will be so much better. What's a few gallon of paint compared to the money you already invested.. Another suggestion, your air cleaner in the ceiling, should be set at an angle across a  corner of the room. The air will bounce off the walls and circulate better around the room.

 (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f165/ROY-CHRIS/bowshop.jpg)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 21, 2010, 04:21:00 PM
Like this Lonnie. The instructions which came with my air cleaner showed to mount it like this. Or if that is a heater, I apologize.
 http://www.motionbox.com/videos/a697d5b7191ee0c029
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: razorback on January 21, 2010, 04:48:00 PM
Not sure why everyone keeps saying Dano's shop looks so clean. Looks like it is infested with bloody big rats to me. Did you import that thing from NY City or something.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 21, 2010, 05:14:00 PM
Would be great if Dano forgot his hat out there some night, and them rat's chewed a hole in it:)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Tractor on January 21, 2010, 05:44:00 PM
Yikes!  That thing is huge.  Makes me wonder if Dano didn't just post a pic from a trail cam he has set-up in his shop.

If not that is one bold rodent.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Dano on January 21, 2010, 07:19:00 PM
Boy's that's my little buddy, he watches the shop for me.   :bigsmyl:   He doubles as a target too.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: Roy from Pa on January 21, 2010, 07:40:00 PM
And ya can't hit him Dano? :)
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: skeaterbait on January 21, 2010, 09:10:00 PM
QuoteOriginally posted by Dano:
Your going to be sorry if you don't paint them walls and ceiling, it will help with lighting. I like it Lonnie, looks like a good shop. How are you going to heat it?
I may end up painting but first I need to get my garage back in order so I can put my truck in before we get anymore snow. Then come spring time I have to get the outside painted. Sadly we were already in the bad weather before the guy had it done so I didn't get to paint or put the gutters on.

The heat is a combo heat/AC unit from Lowes. It's rated for 640 sq ft and does a real nice job on my 360 ft.

I am looking forward to getting setup and started on a lam bow, I haven't done one of those yet.
Title: Re: Show us your Bow Shop
Post by: scottm on January 21, 2010, 09:16:00 PM
Dano how can you work in that shop!i couldnt fined anything in there.If its not piled on top of my work bench or in the floor some whare i consider it lost.LOL!