Studio Tour
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Built up over 30 years, my shop is capable of
doing all kinds of things- we are equipped to work with wood
and plastics, but the primary focus is metalworking. There are
tools to do blacksmithing, machining, welding, sheet metal work
including hand metal shaping, fabricating, and some things that
defy categorization. The main metalworking shop is 2500 sq ft,
with a second 1200 sq foot shop across the driveway. Then there
are another 5 buildings of offices, storage, clean studio space,
and my wife’s studio, with well over 10,000 sq ft total
under roof. I am not a tool collector- every tool I own must
earn its keep, and be ready and willing to work- but I do own
machines from the US, Japan, Taiwan, China, Turkey, Spain, Germany,
and Italy. Technology ranges from ancient to CNC. Generally
2 or 3 guys work there, in additon to myself. They do all the
hard work- I just get to do the first one, or fix things when
they break, or talk on the phone, or put out fires.
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Looking out across the fields of the Samish River Delta,
towards Mt. Baker, with its year round glaciers.
A row of powdercoated silver windsor chairs I made several
years ago in the foreground. The field in the background
is probably planted in potatoes.
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Ben Wilson is cutting stainless steel parts
with my 4'x8' Optical Trace Plasma cutting machine.
We cut a lot of parts with this machine,
which reads a life size drawing, and cuts it out with the
plasma torch.
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Ben Pope is forging the end of a textured
stainless steel bar that became part of the Del Mar Station
fence, on my 88lb Anyang Air Hammer. I do a lot of forging
of stainless steel, heating it in a propane forge, then
shaping it with this hammer, as well as by hand with hammer
on the anvil.
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Ben Pope is punching holes
in some stainless parts with the hydraulic ironworker.
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