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Veneering panels with the Thin Air Press. This was the first time using the system, and I’m very pleased with it over all. The only fussy part is unsealing the bag and keeping all the sticky sealing stuff on one side of the bag so it can be re-used. For the amount of veneer work I do, I think it will last me a very long time.
Cleaning up the face of a plank of walnut for a “bourbon” cabinet to keep some fine Tennessee (maybe Kentucky) bourbon. The birch ply veneer cores are completed and on the bench in the background.
Resawing an 11″ wide chunk of walnut. Good thing I did a practice cut before cutting into it and decided that my current blade was a little to dull and causing a bit of drift. Luckily a had a good Timberwolf 3/4″ resaw blade on hand. After a few tense moments everything turned out sweetly!
After the sale of my other insanely expensive hobby, a 1967 Chevelle set up for 1/8 mile drag racing, we decided that we wanted to use the cash to start finishing out our basement to add a guest bedroom and a bonus/play room for our expanding family. My shop currently occupies a large portion of what we are going to finish so the plan was to move the machinery to the single bay of the garage vacated by the chevelle. Here’s a befor shot during the pre-move chaos.
Part of the space will be retained as my bench room, so the first step was to bust a hole in the wall and frame up for a double door opening connecting the two spaces.
Then, like all projects, it inevitably bread more projects. First, I decided that the hodge podge of a dust collection system I had previously was not worth moving and I wanted to re-plumb the whole system in 6″ sewer and drain pipe. During this process it became painfully obvious that my old 1.5 HP bag type dust collector was not going to be able to make the length of runs I had planned. So, while not in the budget, I went ahead and purchased a new Penn State 2.5 HP cyclone unit and installed that as well. I also added a bank of base cabinets for some much needed storage and did some minor wiring for all the 220V equipment. Here are some shots of the finished space. A little messy with another couple projects already in process.
Here’s a shot of what will eventually become the adjacent bench room after a separating wall is constructed just to the right of the window to the right of the bench. 
Aaron M. Wells 