new shop

[steven p selchow]

Certianly not the 690 square feet I use to have, but comfortable.

[steven p selchow]

another pic

[puddletown]

Are those audio tapes on your wall? Thats some vintage sh*t!

[TlkQ]

Is ventilation a work in progress or..?

[hwcglass]

I got $5 on building you a vent if you are not planning on one.

[hwcglass]

Your work is excellent. Love to know it's made in front of a vent.

[Albino Sasquatch]

im sure it is guys give him a break notice it says "new" shop. and nice collection of tapes man! looks like youll still have plenty of room though.

[smolder holder]

Tapes.....what are those? :D

Nice little setup

My son found some of my old tapes and asked me what they were for. Lol!

[Aussie]

Are those audio tapes on your wall? Thats some vintage sh*t!

dude, that sh*t is the soundtrack of our lives, don't call it sh*t



Nice workshop, Steve, but where do I sleep? ;)

[Jeffs Pieces]

I got a $5 for a vent as well, tanks should be outside, big space rock on :D

[Icarus]

Looking good Steve. Welcome to Garageland!

Ventilation makes the bullshit detector less effective.

Hope one of those tapes is a Clash tape.

[ALIEN!]

I wanna be one of them above ground glassblowers someday. Looks so comfy, and the possibility of sunlight and fresh air on a nice day while you work sounds so delightful. Someday, when I move out of this dump. Oh, and Im glad to see Im not the only guy with a bowling pin in the shop lol

[Headdi Retti's Glass Art Studio]

Man, Nice space...Love the cassettes too!... Is that a April Wine And a Johnny Cash...so Kool ...I know your are stoked..always nice being home!...

[Icarus]

I wanna be one of them above ground glassblowers someday. Looks so comfy, and the possibility of sunlight and fresh air on a nice day while you work sounds so delightful. Someday, when I move out of this dump. Oh, and Im glad to see Im not the only guy with a bowling pin in the shop lol

The funny thing is, I often wish I was in the basement like you. On some of those fuckin winter days where my fingers are just this side of being frostbitten, and every time I pick up a new piece of glass and it's so cold it makes my hand joins hurt, I think "damn, i should move this setup to the basement".

But yeah, yesterday having the garage door open and having fresh air coming in was nice.

I guess the grass will always be greener on the other side.

[Bruce Dille]

Are those audio tapes on your wall? Thats some vintage sh*t!

Those look like cassettes: Not that there not vintage but I still rock out to
8-Tracks most of the time while melting,there contunious so theres never a ending you just get tired of hearing the tape over and over so change it already.....:evilLaugh

[ZombieGlass]

Man, Nice space...Love the cassettes too!... Is that a April Wine And a Johnny Cash...so Kool ...I know your are stoked..always nice being home!...

I love me some April Wine and Johnny Cash! lolz

Your shop looks great!

[Aussie]

I guess the grass will always be greener on the other side.

hehe, not for me, our studio is in the basement of an 1874 building with thick bluestone walls, the main door opens out to a ground level alleyway which gets the sun after lunch time and we have the doors open most of the time. The fan we have in the back room is so strong that it makes it difficult to open the front door when its on. It's always several degrees cooler than outside in summer and several degrees warmer in winter. We have another year on the lease and hopefully, after having been in there for almost 6 years, we'll be able to extend it beyond that. I love that place, it's pretty much perfect, except that the ceiling could be a little higher.
This is an old photo of the building we're in. We're on the other side of it, the basement door is at ground level because of the hill :)
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/jcollins/0/1/3/im/jc013064.jpg

[p.j.]

^^^^ looks like you blow glass in a bank.

steve shop looks great.

[glassdocnc]

Seet shop space Steve.

Aussie, that sounds like the best of all possible worlds.

[steven p selchow]

Are those audio tapes on your wall? Thats some vintage sh*t!

Yeah..going back 40 years, have 300 of them, haven't unpacked the other 100 that go on top.

Ventilation, my hoods still at my old house, have to take it out its a small turbine type, had it since 1978 and done nothing to it, it mounts outside, cut an 8 inch hole, attach aluminum flex to it and hang my hood over the bench, usually had it 3 ft high over my bench.

Right now the eaves are all open except the ends, that brings in fresh air in one side and out the other, until it gets cold again. I'll insulate it this fall.

Thats my original Smith torch set up I've had since 75', keep the big torch at the resort cause I work out there everyday know for spring break.

steve

thanks for the comments..don't worry about me and ventilation, I wouldn't go without. The garage door was open when I took the pics, that might be the ventilation this summer, You guys know when the eaves aren't insulated, the air comes in and out the other side, unless the doors open? All you Need is a 8 inch fan put in one of the eaves between the 2x4's to make it happen, natural physics.

[LowTideGlass]

Is that an epic mound of beeswax or a wooden base on your bench?

I would love to have some sunlight in the shop. The florecents just don't cut it on the vitamin d thing. Shitty winter depression...

[steven p selchow]

No, thats a marble slab 12x12, I was taught that before graphite, picked up at a leather supply store, glass don't stick to marble. That reminds me, I have a 3ft by 2 ft slab my old neighbor gave me at the old house, should get it...that slab on my bench is the original one when I started in 1975, had to turn it over once is all.

steve

[LowTideGlass]

Nice ya I just got a nice slab of white marble from my uncle. Been using it as a workspace and marver occasionally.