Poll - Where is your shop located ?

[Michael]

Covered patio, next to my woodworking shop in the yard. About 20 feet behind the house. There's a power outlet for the blower, covered on 3 sides but the 40 yr old corregated metal is rusted and leaks. 8 inch flue pipe running up thru the roofing. Burning charcoal.

[the_sandy_creek_forge]

Glenn:
I didn't see a "built as a shop and slowly converting into storage of followed-me-home-items" option
-Aaron @ the SCF

[ThomasPowers]

Well after about 25 years I finally got a purpose built shop, 20x30, 10' walls, each end has a 10'x10' roll up door and I've scrounged almost enough stuff to put the 20x20 coal forge extension on it, didn't want to soot up my *pretty* new building so only propane in it.

Prior to that:
1920's collapsing detached garage

Collapsing chicken coop---firing the cannon down the groundhog holes *inside* did help!

Nice two story "mini-barn" shop, concrete floor, 110 & 220 power, wood stove

Detached garage with brick floor

Shade tree

Carport

Shade tree

Access to a swordmaker's shop

Collapsing detached Garage

This covers 4 states, 6 cities and with the new smithy about 27 years

Thomas

[Hillbillysmith]

Mine is just outside next to the house for easy acess to power for my grinders, blower, etc. it's all open, which is a rel pain cause I have to carry in & out all of my tools hammers, anvil, grinders, etc. I do, though, have an old vise bolted to my bench outside. It stays there, but I keep it well greased, and i have to leave my coal forge out there, but I tarp that off too. i have enough room to make a perminant building, but ( and I think alot of you could agree, I don't have the funds to put up the building, and right now), and I have to clean up alot of junk that is left over from my grandfather. But, for right now, outside will have to do while me and a friend of mine scrap the junk metal (I keep what I can use of coarse) and burn the collapsed buildings.

[Marc]

My shop takes is in what the previous owners of my house called a "garage". Other than being a nice word for Scrabble, I can't find much use for something called a "garage".

It's 24 X 26, with a 7-1/2 ft ceiling. Most of it is the forge and related use, but 3/4 of one bay has the table saw and other wood-related stuff.

[proudwhitetrash]

My lab is out behind my house in the "garage" is bout 24x24. It has a fuel oil furnice and is insilated. One 8ft door and a man door and two windows. Right now its a catchall. But as soon as i can im going to put up building of somesort. I don;t have a forge right now. My anvil is just a railroad tie that my grandpa gave my dad many years ago (at least now it has a purpuse)

[metalmaster1766]

My workshop is a pole building/barn, whatever you want to call it. 24' by32' with a 10 foot wall, 4/12 pitch roof. it was built just for a small workshop, to fix my cars and to gather small machinery for a machine shop, well i took up blacksmithing, and collected way to much stuff. this spring (well right now) i am adding an addition to the building, 10' by 32' long lean-to, may possibly use a 10' wall all the way around, but this section is going to be dedicated to only forge and foundry work, i probably wont be putting walls around it till next spring.

Ron Smith

[Blackbeard]

I dont have a workshop yet.Set up my forge in the backyard. Have plans to build a little workspace soon though!
Bb

[Archie Zietman]

My forge is just under a roof on poles, I dunno the dimensions but it's kinda small, like ten by fifteen feet or so, and most of it is filled with clutter and mess.

[cheftjcook]

I am fighting for elbow room around the tractor and snowblower in the garage right were my wife says her car should be. Oh well, a man has to have priorities, Right?
But it works fine for now, I hope to build a large shed for a shop this year right behind the house. Kind of Out of sight, out of mind from the neighbors.
Tim