show me your shaping bay...

Mine looks exactly like my garage. Exactly.

Resinheads: The Purple Shaping Cave, and the Glassing Palace.

shaping bay is 9x13

Shaping Room

A blue paint job is on the list of things to do.

Hey CHip

Amazing where boards are whittled out! There is a picture of my bay on my site. Just one wall but the other side is similar just with a workbench. wall clock and thermometer is essential. I have heat and A/C now too! Use Home depot foam to cover windows while doin U/V lams. Highly reccommend the U/V if you have the spot. I won't lam with mekp at all any more...
Good thread
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Krokus

Hey I take that back.I see now that it's the deck.I lost my glasses.Sorry RB

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Mine looks exactly like my garage. Exactly.


So does mine.

DMAN - I also drape my tool & storage racks with tarps when mowing foam. Makes for much easier cleanup in a small, multi-use space.

Last time I put a photo of my shop on here I caught flak. Surfore said his wife was yelling at him about the mess in my garage. It was even called "as bad as Spitzer's". So I cleaned it up & rearranged some stuff. But no new photos yet...

You guys make me quasi jealous....
mine has come a ways since this pic though.... will update later today.... that is the palooke wahine on the rack.

My wife made me bag the area.

here is the old bay...where board #1 was built and

here is the new bay still evolving but getting ready for the next project.

it is a smaller space but it will be a perminant shapping/glassing room/workshop.
hope to get it painted and get the lights shelved and mounted soon,
but for now they are just ballanced like in the origional bay.

b.t.w. what height are your lights?
a) level with the top of your shaping stands
b) above and by how much?

I threw up some walls in my moms garage in the late eighties, slapped together some 2x4s for shaping racks, hung some 4 foot lights on the walls, bought a Clark 8'2"M and started whittling away. Some 40 or so boards later, it evolved into having a vacuum system, steel shaping stands and is still in need of some 8 foot lights. I could also use use an a/c for shaping on them hot summer afternoons...

Photo no1 shows where I use to work. No2 shows shed under construction. No3, four walls and a roof.platty.

Sorry to resurect an old thread :)

Here's my shaping bay... finished it last night.

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my garage is a very crude shaping bay, if you could even call it a shaping bay.



My shaping bay is a very crude garage, if you could even call it a garage :)

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Am I the only one shaping in a college dorm room?? haha....the school thinks that it is a "science experiment," and my roomates hate me but....oh well



That's one of the most innovative things I've heard in a long time... have you managed to convince the school that as it is a science experiment, they sould be funding the cost of materials.

Also, try to hit them up for some "testing" time on the experiment :)

-Cam

PS: You gotta post some pics of your shaping room!

My shaping bay is in an open carport. Dirt, dust, dog hair, pollen,and the roof leaks when it rains. The light is always changing. The view is killer, though. I love it. mike

I use my shed... I use the seat on the lawn mower for a rack for my glass and the random plants are good for draining out the bowl with resin in it, and I got the vintage chlorine bucket shaping stands...

I've noticed a lot of shaping bays have blue walls. How come?

DanB, the blue backround is a nice contrasting color to the white foam so that you can see your outline, rails or whatever better..I use to have black walls but now use blue. I actually liked the black better,

Ben

I guess that I'll need to try and convince my wife that the garage NEEDS to be blue. I'm sure that I'll get a lot of eye rolling.

hah my parents love it when I come inside looking like I walked through a bilzzard because I'm completley covered in white foam dust... I got it everywhere...

hey chipper, actually the unlimited class paddleboard typically runs 17-19 feet, see examples at

http://www.eatonsurf.com/UsedPaddleboardsArchive.htm

Some pretty cool stuff in there...

Here's my *cough cough*...Uhhh....Shaping "bay". The only reason I'll even call it a bay right now is because the rains are making it look like one...But hey, it works.