Basement Woodshop Tour - 2024

Awesome shop Mr John.

Happy Thanksgiving my friend 🙏🏼🔥⚒️🧙🏼

Thanks for the tour John

Nice, shop! Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂

Power tools in the wood shop is just like a power hammer in the blacksmith shop …they perform a job and do not take away from a person’s skill at woodworking/blacksmithing. Also,I like the idea of the scrap wood challenge, especially if you combine woodworking pieces and blacksmithing pieces.

Hello Mr John,how do you usually cut wedges for handles? It always takes me ages for a bad one

Thanks for showing us around, I am pretty sure my to do list is longer than yours 😂

Happy Thanksgiving John, my favourite blacksmith by a mile.

Thanks for the update. Happy Thanksgiving.

John, thank you for sharing!

I want the wood shop. It makes mine look like a caveman hole.

Very much looking forward to some wood working content.
I’ve always been interested in booth wood and metal working as well, and owe my current work to picking up woodworking as a hobby.
Thanks for the tour!

Love it. Everyone's woodshop is always in Flux. I've been working in my shop for about 19 years now and I still have big plan.😊

That's the very same drill press my grandfather gave me in '91 when I started my first wood shop! Though yours has all three quill handles. He'd only had it long enough to know he wanted a taller one, and to lose a handle ;-)
It's sitting in my smithy and does pretty much all the work I can throw at it.

nice woodshop John.

Your 'To-do' list inspires.

Love your videos always down to earth i of course watch your blacksmithing videos but im not into that I'm glad to see your woodworking shop. I have my shop in a detached two car garage one side for twenty six years. About six years ago thought I'd try smithing but then thought i don't do as much woodworking that I'd like to do glad I didn't go any further than the 77lb peddinghaus and sold it. I do have the vevor anvil that you did a video on i recently freed up a lot of space in my shop one thing I did was build a flip top cart for my planer and miter saw plus used folding shelf brackets for wings/infeed outfeed that i can adjust vertically turned out really good. As far as clamps go i hang them on the wall plus use french cleats.

very nice tour, thank you. I also enjoy hand tools,the power tools just help to get to the fun part. IMO

I have the same exact drill press. 12 speed model. I never use the tensioner. Like you said, shove it back by hand and tighten. My shop is a my wood carving shop. So, the drill press doesn’t see near as much action as my bandsaw(s). Bandsaw is the king of equipment in my shop.

That’s a beautiful shop! Norm would approve! 😂 A scrape wood challenge would be great! I have boxes of cutoffs that get used frequently!

Thanks for all your time and effort. 1in7

Very interesting to see the tools and shop setup--nice clamp rack! Personally I don't mind going between channels for video content.

If u made - how to - videos in the same style of your smithing instructional videos i,d watch that. as long as i can learn something. i suppose it would be tough to do both.

I worked in a 20x20 basement shop for thirty years until we moved. Gues what, I am back in a basement shop. Am using a combination of power and hand tools to make anything from small shelves to wall units. Been collecting tools for 50 years, some of which I am still using.

Such a fabulous shop! Fabulous that budget & desire came together to create such a delightful, powerful & organized shop. Thank you for sharing!

I like your shop, have fun in it.

Nice tour. Thank you John!

Thanks for sharing with us John. That's a great shop and having it inside the house can be an advantage as well as a disadvantage. Keep enjoying yourself in there . Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

Thanks for sharing good sir I can listen to you all day weather it be wood working or blacksmith you have an well of acknowledge

I liked seeing the Harvey bandsaw, that is the brand I am planning on purchasing. I have about 2, 000 board feet of rough cut lumber that I need to resaw.

Carpentry shops are always evolving based on the projects

Thanks for the tour, I enjoy your videos

I have the same same miter saw and I wish I would have kept my 12” Dewalt. The handle on the Festool is not at all comfortable for me to use. Much prefer the style handle on the Dewalt

Great shop! Hope some day I will have one half as nice ;) re-releasing all woodworking videos here in chronological order is a good idea. Generally, they will do better if this channel focuses on this exact topic, plus it will draw in new viewers for sure 👌

you can never have e nough gear.believe me at 74im still picking up tools.i may never use them mind but ive got them if that makes any sense.

I appreciate your shop tour because it looks like a shop that is used regularly. It isn’t pristine with all the dust swept up and every tool in its place. I took some ideas from your shop to use in mine. Thanks for being generous showing your space.

It’s the USA 😮 it’s big and over sized and not much use.

Wonderful functional shop John. Great to watch! Mine looks much the same! Merry Christmas Bud!

I thoroughly enjoyed your video, and the practice of making the video translates to life in general ...if you miss a line, just hit restart and just keep going.

You don't have too much toys, you just need a bigger shop. I started collecting wood working tools 60 years ago. In the late 1960s and through the 1970s it was automotive tools. In the 1980s I added blacksmithing and metal working. My shop is 30 x 30 and its not big enough for everything. Have fun. Good Luck, Rick

Nice set up !

Is that a GIANT chisel sitting to the left of your saw till?

Remember he who dies with the most tools wins

Boy, John, you had me worried when you walked through the doorway to the sharpening station with the hewing axe overhead! Been enjoying your content for years.. I remember when Blackbear Forge hit 5000 subscribers! You’re the definition of consistency and quality, keep up the great work, wish you a productive 2025, and thanks for everything 👍🏻

I have a wood shop but have no need for a table saw. First, I don't cut 4x8 sheet goods. The lumber shop does that. Second about 3 yrs ago I got an old and gently used Craftsman radial arm saw. It took me a year to learn how to use it and build the table for it. The saw cost me 200. It cuts everything after the lumber store breaks down a sheet. So I don't have to find space for a table saw. I agree with you that the workbench is the heart of any shop. Good video. thanks.