Frank Pellow
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I wrote a journal about the construction, population, and use of my shop and "published it on the web. That journal includes, among other things, a shop tour.
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Dec 2008 Update: I have just "published" Issue 3 of my shop journal. I also redid the shop tour. Both of these are available for free download.
It is about 35MB in size and contains 260 photo-filled pages.
Here are the preambles to the 3 issues of the journal:
Preamble to Issue 1: (Issue 1 was dated 28 May 2005 and was entitled "Planning, Building, and Equipping Frank Pellow?s Workshop") This document contains a condensed version of my notes about the planning, construction, population, and initial use of my new workshop. The notes cover a period of approximately two years. As you will see, the notes make extensive use of photographs. While building the shop, I filed regular reports and asked many questions on Internet woodworker‟s forums. In the past, almost all my construction projects have been undertaken with one or more other people. That has many benefits and, for me, the greatest benefit, is to be able to discuss design alternatives both initially and as unanticipated problems and opportunities arise. This time, I started out alone but, as soon as I utilized the Internet, many folks came to my assistance. Throughout this document, I will shade text that references the Internet forums in green. Unless specified otherwise, the prices in this document are in Canadian dollars. The conversion rate between the Canadian and US dollars has varied a lot during the period covered by this document. The average rate was such that $1.00 Canadian cost about $0.80 US. You will also observe that I mostly use metric temperatures and distances because that is the norm in Canada and my decided preference. However, the building trades in Canada have been dragging their feet when it comes to conversion to Metric , so most of the building dimensions use Imperial measurements.
Preamble to Issue 2: (Issue 2.1 was dated 27 December, 2006) I am updating this journal to reflect some changes to the shop in the year and a half since I released Issue 1. Also an index of sorts has been added, there has been some reorganization, some new material has been added, the title has been changed, and several typos have been fixed (and, no doubt, new ones introduced).
Preamble to Issue 3: I am updating this journal to show changes to the shop in the last two years. Also, the description of a few projects from earlier issues have been removed and have been replaced by the description of more recent projects. The size of document has increased from 188 pages to 260 pages.
Stuart Ablett (who is a Canadian living in Japan) has agreed to let people download a PDF version of my journal from his web site.
To do this: simply
(1) connect to: http://www.ablett.jp/frank/
(2) open the document: The Story of a Woodworking Shed 3.0 Public Version.pdf
(3) select the ?diskette? icon in the top left of the Adobe Acrobat tool bar in order to save the file to your computer
If you download this file, I would appreciate you sending me a note to tell me that you have done so (fpellow AT sympatico.ca) and, of course, I would also like to receive any feedback that you might have about the document.
The latest shop tour is part of the above journal. If you onlky want to see the tour, the file containing it (about 4MB) is also availble for d ownload at the above site. The file name is Tour of Frank's Woodworking Shed - November 2008.pdf
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Dec 2008 Update: I have just "published" Issue 3 of my shop journal. I also redid the shop tour. Both of these are available for free download.
It is about 35MB in size and contains 260 photo-filled pages.
Here are the preambles to the 3 issues of the journal:
Preamble to Issue 1: (Issue 1 was dated 28 May 2005 and was entitled "Planning, Building, and Equipping Frank Pellow?s Workshop") This document contains a condensed version of my notes about the planning, construction, population, and initial use of my new workshop. The notes cover a period of approximately two years. As you will see, the notes make extensive use of photographs. While building the shop, I filed regular reports and asked many questions on Internet woodworker‟s forums. In the past, almost all my construction projects have been undertaken with one or more other people. That has many benefits and, for me, the greatest benefit, is to be able to discuss design alternatives both initially and as unanticipated problems and opportunities arise. This time, I started out alone but, as soon as I utilized the Internet, many folks came to my assistance. Throughout this document, I will shade text that references the Internet forums in green. Unless specified otherwise, the prices in this document are in Canadian dollars. The conversion rate between the Canadian and US dollars has varied a lot during the period covered by this document. The average rate was such that $1.00 Canadian cost about $0.80 US. You will also observe that I mostly use metric temperatures and distances because that is the norm in Canada and my decided preference. However, the building trades in Canada have been dragging their feet when it comes to conversion to Metric , so most of the building dimensions use Imperial measurements.
Preamble to Issue 2: (Issue 2.1 was dated 27 December, 2006) I am updating this journal to reflect some changes to the shop in the year and a half since I released Issue 1. Also an index of sorts has been added, there has been some reorganization, some new material has been added, the title has been changed, and several typos have been fixed (and, no doubt, new ones introduced).
Preamble to Issue 3: I am updating this journal to show changes to the shop in the last two years. Also, the description of a few projects from earlier issues have been removed and have been replaced by the description of more recent projects. The size of document has increased from 188 pages to 260 pages.
Stuart Ablett (who is a Canadian living in Japan) has agreed to let people download a PDF version of my journal from his web site.
To do this: simply
(1) connect to: http://www.ablett.jp/frank/
(2) open the document: The Story of a Woodworking Shed 3.0 Public Version.pdf
(3) select the ?diskette? icon in the top left of the Adobe Acrobat tool bar in order to save the file to your computer
If you download this file, I would appreciate you sending me a note to tell me that you have done so (fpellow AT sympatico.ca) and, of course, I would also like to receive any feedback that you might have about the document.
The latest shop tour is part of the above journal. If you onlky want to see the tour, the file containing it (about 4MB) is also availble for d ownload at the above site. The file name is Tour of Frank's Woodworking Shed - November 2008.pdf
Dave you are doing a great job and I enjoy reading your posts...keep up the great work...just ribbing you!
