Shop Meets

A rocking good  time was had at Pat Kerr’s shop. Our host Pat Kerr has a large professional shop in an industrial park in north Sarasota. It’s always fun to see the shop that we all wish we had. How does he reach all that wood? It must be the fork lift or maybe it […]

There was a good turn out on a drizzly night for Neil’s shop meet.         Who knew Neil had such a nice shop in his 3 car garage, or that he is such an accomplished craftsman.            The refreshments were great: pigs in a blanket, cheese sticks with

About a dozen people braved the rain to show up at my shop last night. I was so busy entertaining my guest ( that’s code for eating and talking) that I didnt take any pictures. So, I took some this morning, minus the people and food. It was raining hard as people showed up, and

Twelve to Fifteen lucky members attended this months shop at Pat Kerr’s shop.  Pat is a professional woodworker who makes almost anything out of wood. From what I saw he does a lot with burl veneers. He had many beautiful ones laying around.         We were all envious of  the professional tool

Jeremy’s shop is always a treat to visit. He has all the toys and only the best of everything. This year he has added a CNC ( computer numeric controlled) router and his friend Ed Tumolo  has a CNC laser he keeps at Jeremy’s shop. As usual there were good eats, and good company, plus

Greg has set up his shop in his garage in Venice with everything on wheels. Greg is a show bird, so when he leaves in the summer he has to put his car back in the garage; the whole shop has to roll to the side so he can get the car in.   Greg

Marvin showed us his beautiful shop and some of the turnings he has made. He also showed us the history of his sphere turning machine.

We were all blown away by Jeremy’s shop. I have never seen so many top of the line tools at one shop; Festool, Sawstop, Powermatic, Luguna. His has a power tool users dream shop.I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves:         Doesn’t everyone have three large band saws?     Just to prove

Fred’s shop occupies the area at the end of his garage. Everything is on wheels. He has top of the line powermatic  table saw, band saw, joiner, dust collector. He took us inside to show us the mantel that he made from a solid piece of mahogany. He told everybody to come a little hungry,