All those jigs take up a lot of room though!

@tv1010101 Yep, we have to get inventive with storage. 

All those jigs take up a lot of room though!

My rainy days working space is getting smaller and smaller.

My rainy days working space is getting smaller and smaller.

@robin Maybe there is a shed build on the horizon for you Robin, a big one! Always keep in mind the possibility of an extension on it one day too. 

When I started making sawdust, and the occasional guitar, I set-up my workshop with more space than I could ever need.

I bought a 10' x 8' shed.

I put all my tools in there, and had loads of space to store all my wood, and work on it.

Perfect.

Over the following weeks and months, I seemed to acquire more tools, and more bits of wood, and found myself working outside the "workshop" whenever I could, because otherwise I had to spend more time moving stuff in the workshop out of the way before I could get to the tools that I needed, or to create enough space to work on something.

Lesson learned.

When we moved a few years ago, I chose a new workshop that was a bit bigger.  This one is 5m x 3.5m.  That's going to me more space than I'll ever need, I thought.  Put all my tools in there, and all my wood, and even some new workbenches.  

Loads of space.  Plenty of room to work in.

Then I bought a few more tools.  And some more wood.  And made some more jigs. 

And, a few years on, I wish I'd built a bigger workshop ...

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How many guitars is enough?  Just one more.

How big should your workshop be?  Just a little bigger.

My patterns and jigs live on high shelves - 7’ from the ground - don’t need them very often.....

How big should your workshop be?  Just a little bigger.

@tv1010101 My workspace is/was a garage. It’s smaller than a double but bigger than a single. It’s just not big enough! I am grateful for it and I manage but no matter how hard I try, I always fill the space and I’m always struggling to move around freely and with fear of tripping over something. Nightmare! 

How big should your workshop be?  Just a little bigger

@tv1010101     I'm a bit limited to what I can have on the caravan site, iv'e got two 8'x6' huts, one has a washing machine and clean stuff and I get a bit of grief from the missus when I encroach in there.

I get a bit of grief from the missus when I encroach in there.

@robin you could put the missus in there and use the whole caravan as a workshop! Hahaha...... 

@robin

I'm a bit limited to what I can have on the caravan site

That's a very blue sky for Scotland ... Photoshop???

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That's a very blue sky for Scotland ... Photoshop???

@tv1010101   No, not photoshopped, the sun does shine sometimes. There was also a golden eagle high up above us 5 minutes ago, but I would have blinded myself taking a photo against the blazing sun.

That's my truss rod slit routing jig tried and tested, no more wiggley slots now.

That's my truss rod slit routing jig tried and tested, no more wiggley slots now.

@robin Well done, it works well. I didn’t know we could upload video content on here. 

There was also a golden eagle high up above us 5 minutes ago

That must have been a sight @robin - congratulations on seeing that!

We've got a family of buzzards, nesting in the adjoining field/copse, and a kestrel that's taken up residence outside our log cabin.  I've sat/stood and watched both of those hunting in the fields.

But I'm pretty sure a golden eagle trumps both of those!

I didn’t know we could upload video content on here. 

@johnnierox-boo  I didn't know we could either, but thought I'd give it a try. Can you view it okay, if try to play it on here it's very stop/start.

@tv1010101  There's no shortage of wildlife here. We see the eagles regularly, not so many buzzards as there used to be, I think the eagĺes have chased them off. There are red dear that stroll through the caravan site during the quiet times. We have sea otters in the loch and there's a sea eagle that makes an occasional appearance.

@robin

Can you view it okay, if try to play it on here it's very stop/start.

It's very stop-start for me too.  I'd presumed that was due to my (poor) internet connection.

You'll be causing Mark to upgrade his server provision again ...

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There are red dear

Can't match that ... but we've got some of these guys living in the garden ...

... we leave chunks of it "untamed" as wildlife havens.

Can you view it okay, if try to play it on here it's very stop/start.

@robin Yes it’s fine to watch from here. 

There's no shortage of wildlife here.

@robin It sounds quite idyllic where you are with all the wildlife, I’m quite envious. 

Can't match that ... but we've got some of these guys living in the garden ...

@tv1010101 Great photos, great that they are in your own garden.