Introduction to George's New Workshop

Well it's been a crazy, busy month for me. I moved from my old shop location that you've seen on a gazillion videos to a new shop here. Miguel, show 'em the building. It's about 3600 square feet total. Some of that is broken up into cold storage, and break rooms, and bathrooms. So, net is about 3100 square feet. C'mon Miguel, let's look inside. It's way too cold out here, and a little noisy with the road right there. The shop itself in here, is about 3100 square feet, and yes, I'm thrilled, because that's really big. Way more space than I had before. High ceiling on this side. So, this is the side we chose to get the main stationary tools set up on. The camera crew had some input on this. Now, look at the icky side over there. Oh my gosh, that's a lot of junk. Right now, what's happening is just stuff that came from the old shop that I ran of time to deal with. It's just being piled up and warehoused. And, had a video shoot this week, so we had to hurry up, get the shop functional for the video. I'll have to deal with that stuff later. Couple of things that are really cool. You know, I do this guitar-build event once a year, so we've got men's and women's bathrooms over there in the corner. It's gonna make it a little more comfortable for everybody who comes for the guitar-build. We actually have a break room. The crew is really excited about this. Big table we can sit around and eat our lunches at. Then, over this way, we got a little bit of a store room. So, for the wood workers who wanna know how this is all gonna shake out, we'll look in a second. I've got cold storage out there. What'll happen in here is, I'll get some lumber racks up, so this time of year when it's freezing outside, I can bring lumber in and stage it. It can have a chance to acclimate before I use it. So that's what'll happen here. Plus, big over-the-shoulder shot, Miguel. I've got storage up high on the wall there, for stuff that I don't need to get at on a real regular basis. Out here, I'm really excited about this. Two car garage. So this is gonna become lumber storage. I'll be able to rough-cut material out here. Solids and sheet goods. For my solids, I went with heavy-duty shelf supports from a home center. This will all turn into a big lumber rack over my miter saw here, so I can get stuff roughed-out. Let me get past you, Miguel. We're gonna dance just right here. There we go. Did the Miguel two-step. Here we are back in the nice, warm shop. So, I just wanted to give ya an initial overall of the new shop. As time goes on, things will progress. We'll have a lot of changes, especially on that other end, as I have a chance to clean things up. And, we'll keep you in tune with those changes as we go. So you have more opportunities to see what my new shop is looking like.