My workshop is located in Whaler's Wharf, a cluster of artist studios and galleries located in the heart of bohemian Provincetown, Massachusetts.

 

 

  
 
View of the left side, main workbench, bandsaws (the smaller with a 1/4" blade for scrolling and the larger has a 1/2" blade for straight cuts), all the hand tools and measuring devices etc. I use are stored over the main workbench.

 

 

  
 
Against the rear wall are my drill press, bending irons & forms, many of the jigs and fixtures I use are stored under the rear workbenches...

 

 

  
 
Across from the main workbench are all the sanders, storage overhead, a router table that also functions as a base for the spindle sander (stored underneath) and an outfeed table for the drum sander.

 

 

  
 

 

Above the main workbench.

 

 

  
 
Tonewood storage overhead.

 

 

  
 
All the templates I use hang together behind the sanders...

 

 

  
 

I use dowels and the technique pictured at left (commonly referred to as "go-bar" clamping by guitarmakers) for several steps in the assembly process, among them gluing braces to the top and back, and gluing the top and back to the rim.

The cart, like most everything in my little shop, is on casters so I can move things around to clean up or make it easier to get at the piece I'm working on.

 

 

  
 

This device is a vacuum clamp. The base was manufactured by LMI and I made the clamping suface.

As pictured below, the thin clear rubber tube is attached to a small pump that creates a vacuum when something is placed on the clamping surface, like...

 

 

  
 
...a guitar soundbox. The resulting vacuum holds the soundbox securly in place, enabling me to quickly clamp or unclamp it and to work on the soundbox in virtually any position.

 

 

  
 
My workshop is very small and sawdust can get to be a serious problem really quickly, so all of the big tools that kick up lots of sawdust are hooked up to a central dust collection system by a series of tubes and blast gates...

 

 

  
 
...to the vacuum tucked under one of my workbenches.

 

 

  
 
And of course, it never hurts to have skylights.