EverydayCommentary: Building a Knife Making Station, Part I

It was inevitable. A fascination with knives AND with building things led, inexorably, if slowly, to knife making. It took a while to get there though.

In my first workshop, I didn’t have much room. The space was about 11’ x 10’. I barely had enough room for a table saw, and I certainly didn’t have enough room to have it set up all the time. Instead, I had to store the saw in a corner, then pull it out, and set it up. The space was so small that I had to open the door to the bulkhead to rip long pieces. There was no possibility I was going to have room for household tools, woodworking tools, and a knife making station. Physical separation is important to me—I don’t want grinder sparks causing a fire.

I hear the call as well. Just too stinking busy to pick up another hobby right now.

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