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JayCanale · #1 06-01-2008, 07:05 PM

Well,
I am slowly starting to get my engraving spot set up in the house. If I was to put it in the shop then I would never go home. I've been dying to get a bench in the house set up. Here are some pics of the progress. Soon I should have all the goodies to get started!

:whoo:

Before

After

SVD · #2 06-01-2008, 09:08 PM

Looking good! :thumbsup:

Mine is in the corner of the garage. Built my own bench but I'm pretty sure we have the same light hanging over it.

I see much happiness in your future.

mckeenh · #3 06-01-2008, 10:38 PM

There are many good reasons for putting your engraving in the house. I had mine in the shop for a while but it took too long to heat up the ball here in Montana in the winter as I heat with wood. So the ball would get cold at nite and then I had to put a glove on to turn the ball. Now that it is in the house it not only stays warm but I spend more time in the house with the wife and rather than watch tv after dinner I can go engrave and not leave the wife alone while I am in shop. Works well for me.

Neil:yesnod:

SVD · #4 06-02-2008, 05:47 AM

Yeah - minor problems in my case. It gets cool in the garage in the Winter and a bit warm in the Summer but it's ok.

But it is the most isolated spot in the house so the ever-indulgent wife and the cats tend not to come join me.

JayCanale · #5 06-02-2008, 07:58 AM

Yeah I thought about the coldness in the basement this winter and what effect it will have on me. What you don't see in the pic is a small wood stove on the left of the bench. I was thinking about replacing it with some sort of pellet stove or something more efficient. It's not something that needs to be run everyday, but just when I am down there. Any suggestions?

Jay

SVD · #6 06-02-2008, 06:35 PM

I've just got a little space heater / fan under my feet and a light soft jacket for the Winter.

For the Summer I've got a fan and, as needed, a sweatband (I lived in the desert for 13 years and learned how to sweat professionally).

mckeenh · #7 06-02-2008, 11:04 PM

I don't think you will have as much of a problem since you are in the basement. My shop is separate from the house and gets real cold over nite at 20 to 20 below

Neil:yesnod:

SVD · #8 06-03-2008, 05:38 AM

Neil's got a point - most of my temperature control in the garage is because it's the garage. Opening the garage door lets out just a bit of the warmth in the Winter and boy does a car engine dump a lot of heat into the space after you park in the Summer!

mckeenh · #9 06-20-2008, 11:48 PM

Oh the trials and tribulations of the aspiring engraver, what we must endure to try and find that little spot of fame, I only have fame in my neighborhood cause they don't know a thing about engraving.They never met a real engraver.

Neil:yesnod:

tonytigerhk45 · #10 06-21-2008, 07:50 AM

Jay, that is way more room then what I have to work in. If you take the before pic and put a vise on either side and then double the stuff around it. You have my size of space I am working in. I do have a window unit air conditioner but no heat source yet. If the temps get below a certain degree it doesn't take long not to want to do any work. You don't get much work done when the piggies are freezing and cold.

mckeenh · #11 06-21-2008, 09:36 AM

Tony, I agree, I can suffer the cold to do alot of things but when it comes to engraving I want to be as comfortable as possible. No distractions that way.

Neil:yesnod: