My shop is an addition built onto our suburban home on the corner lot. The chimney marks where the exterior wall used to be. You enter the shop through the garage. Behind the white door is the dust collector. The shop measures approximately 14' x 22' for around 300 square feet of space, perfect for building and repairing electric and acoustic guitars.

Twin skylights provide natural daylight. The walls are clad in T&G pine slats and the floor is bargain bin mixed oak hardwood flooring shorts...which made for a very lengthy and painful installation, but resulted in a nice patchwork look.

Here is a video that shows a timelapse of the shop's construction.


The picture above is a pretty old shot of the double doors at the back of the garage leading into the shop. Much has changed about the interior of the shop...and the guy standing in the doorway, in the 13 years since this picture was taken.


A view from the main entrance. The tablesaw and main workbench are centrally located. A rolling assembly table and electronics workbench can be seen in the back. The counter on the right runs the entire length and is home to the miter saw, jointer, CNC machine, and the disk and oscillating drum sanders. There's a loft in the back with additional space for wood storage.


My main assembly and repair bench doubles as parts storage for electronics and other guitar hardware like bridges, pickups, knobs, truss rods, etc. The electronics workbench is along the back wall.


The front corner of the shop is where my large buffing wheel lives along with various drills and fastener bins.


Another view from the front of the workbench with several guitars awaiting final finish work hanging from the loft.


Wood and paint storage is in the front corner by the slop sink. The lathe sits on a wheeled cart so I can move it around when needed.


My dust collector lives in a small insulated closet accessible from outside the shop for easy transfer to the garbage cans.


I've recently expanded a bit into the garage with this portable spray booth (left) and 60W CO2 laser engraver/cutter. The spray booth is used for spraying water-bourne poly. I built it based around an old HVAC cage fan I had left over when we replaced the furnace a few years back.



Lastly, some of my guitar work.