[SEL] OT (Maybe) - Home Workshops & Equipment

[Steve Royster]

Hi all,  I've always had a good shop full of mechanics tools and a fair 
woodworking shop, but when I got into rusty iron I started working on a 
machine shop to play with. Several years ago I picked up an old Southbend 
lathe cheep at the Florida flywheelers swapmeet. Then I discovered it's the 
accessories that get ya!  Of course  I had to have tools, bits, mics, quick 
change tool holders,chucks,boring bars, tool grinders, diamond wheels, and 
the list goes on. Just recently I found a deal on a milling machine and 
guess what, Its the same darned thing. Now I need more cutters, and tools, 
and and every kind of holding device you can think of, Then you can add 
power feeds and on and on until happiness really sets in.         BUT, I'm 
having fun in the warm shop when its 3 degrees outside and the wind is 
howling. and  its two months till the show season starts.    BTW after John 
Hammick's pictures of his nice clean shop .... ain't no way I'm gonna show 
pictures of my shop.  See  everyone at Portland, Steve Royster