I suppose I got lucky with shop location. I live out in the county so I can do pretty much anything I please as long as its on my property. As far as neighbors I have 3 One across the street and over 100 yards or so, another about 50 yards from the house and on the other side one about 500 yards but with a, and I quote, " Redneck taxidermy, butcher, general auto repair, and odds and ends repair shop." I've had the cops called once for an unrelated event loud music on the fourth of July. Forget they had illegal fireworks and we had no problem with it lol. I just make sure to shut down before 10 p.m which isn't a problem for me. Though I may try the trinket deal just to be neighborly.
Course I scare almost all the neighbors anyway, which if I must say, I'm a pretty nice guy most the time v.v.
~TS