Dungeon Tour and an introduction

[Stu in Tokyo]

Greetings all!

I'm Stu in Tokyo, Japan. I see some familiar names here 

My workshop is in the basement of our 7 floor building (Us and the bank own the building).

You can see more here

Stu's Dungeon
VERY picture heavy  :

Here is my video.....

YouTube Dungeon Tour

I own and very much like the TS55 with a few rails, sure helps me out in the Dungeon, as wrestling sheets of plywood through the TS is not fun.

I'm thinking of adding a sander to my collection 

Cheers!

 

[Dan Clark]

Stu,

Welcome aboard the Flying Festool train!  ;D    It's very good to see you here.

For folks who haven't met Stu, his story is fascinating.  He lives and works in Japan.    Stu is one of the most creative and productive guys I know.  He pursues his woodworking hobby with a passion that amazes me constantly and makes do under conditions that would have the rest of us throwing up our hands and giving up.  If you are one of those folks (like me) who looks longingly at pics of 40' X 60' well-stocked woodshops and says, "If only I had a big wood shop...",  check out Stu's woodshop.

His woodshop is underground and accessed ONLY through a 4' trap door.  The third pic down on this page shows a 14" log being lowered through his woodshop trap door.  (Warning - lots of pic!) http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/woodlot.htm.  The page also shows the story of where and how got the tree logs, cut them into slabs, and resawed them into planks.   

Oh, you say... "I don't have a saw mill!"    Do it Stu's way - just cut the slabs from the trees with an electric chain saw, a jig, and a flat board (about 1/2 way down on the page.)    Or, "I don't have a way of getting the wood home!"    Check out the second pic!

On this page, Stu documented a wood turning demonstration by a fellow named Jean Francious Escoulen:http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/jean_francious_escoulen_demo.htm.    He has some very good descriptions and drawings of Multi Axis Turning turning techniques.  (Apparently M. Escoulen is a master at it.)

I HIGHLY recommend perusing Stu's website.    Besides some fascinating pics of creativity in action, you'll get a rare chance to see what it's like for a real westerner to live in Japan. 

Again, welcome aboard!

Dan.

 

[Christian A.]

Nice to meet you here, Stu.

Greetings from Austria,

Christian

 

[Stu in Tokyo]

Hey Dan, the cheque is in the mail 

Man, with an intro like that I'd better get some more stuff done!

Nice to see you here too Christian, no big surprise to see you!

Well, now I should get back to looking around this new place.

Cheers!

 

[Brian 57]

Happy to see you here. You went missing (along with a few others, similarly missed) from SMC.
I was never quite sure what happened and I'm not being in any way contentious now, (nor, I hope, have I infringed any protocols).
Again, look forward very much to your posts here.
Regards

 

[Stu in Tokyo]

Thank Brian.

SMC is still a place filled with great people!

We are happy at Familywoodworking.org but it is nice to have a Festool place to get ideas and such from too.

It is called the World W-I-D-E Web after all, so there should be room for all.

Cheers!

 

[HappyCamper]

Totally loved the tour of your shop and the articles.  Very inspirational.  What, if you don't mind my asking, are the dimensions of your shop?

 

[johnbro]

Just spent an hour reading some of your website. Plan to read it all soon! AMazing--if someone had told me you could have a shop in a dungeon I'd never have believed it. You get high marks for sheer guts and persistence, let alone skill and creativity. Keep it coming!

 

[woodshopdemos]

Welcome Stu,
  I have missed you and I am delighted to find that you have found your way to the FOG. It is a good group here. Is your roof top stack of wood still there?

 

[dheisner]

Don't forget to check out Stu's killer dust collection system.

It rocks!  I can't wait to build my own.

Danny