I'll play along. The shop is at my dad's house, and it's HIS. About 12 years ago, he added a 16'x25' addition to his home, this is the walk-in grade-level basement of that addition. I first gifted him a 17" Enco drill press, which now lives in his outside 10'x16' unheated woodshop.
The next machine in was the bandsaw, a 1998 MSC-branded 7x12, with coolant pump and the little attachment table to make it OK for limited vertical bandsaw work. It's not getting much run time.
The next item was the Bridgeport, right around 1999. It was used, and I regret that I didn't check it out well enough to notice just how bad the ways are worn. It's the first thing to get an upgrade, perhaps this spring. He then added a 24"x36" surface plate and stand, which now stands in the middle of the shop. His mistake was making a cheap but functional wooden cover for it, because now it collects stuff like any flat surface is likely to do. In this view looking from the southern exposure entry door in. You see the Victor 1640 lathe on the right, the saw sits just out of camera view further to the right at the tail end of the lathe. The Bridgeport occupies the northeast corner. I got the lathe for him for free, all I had to pay for was transportation from Mentor OH. It came with the DRO and Dorian CA QCTP, and needed only a new cross slide screw and nut which was covered by an shipping damage insurance claim. I later had to replace a reader head on the DRO system, that's it.
Dad recently moved an overstuffed reclining chair from the open space to the left of the Bridgeport, out to the sunroom he & I built this past summer. It's his solace for reading and napping, out of range from my mom's ever-increasing chatter from the onset of dementia. But I digress, Looking to the northwest corner there's the air compressor he made room for, then on the west wall is the surface grinder and it's coolant/dust collector unit. My stack of Kennedy toolboxes is what's partially covered by the holey red blanket, to keep any loose grinding grit off it.
In the middle of the west wall is a bench and cabinets that are so cluttered with tools and stuff that it's not worth showing. In the southwest corner is the Black Diamond 2B drill grinder I added last summer, next to it the Craftsman 8" bench grinder that my maternal grandfather once owned.
That's the shop as it is for now. I will probably help him reorganize all the spaces that are inefficiently used this summer, to help make it easier for him to find stuff. I live only 7-1/2 miles from him, and visit at least once a week. I am constantly adding tooling, materials and other stuff that may or may not be needed one day. He uses some of it, or the shop may sit idle for a couple of weeks at a time.
That's it for now!
