Sketchup models

I have created a few Sketchup models that you can use in your own shop design drawings. Simply load up Sketchup and open 3d warehouse. Click onto advanced search and enter terrymck or tmcwoodworks in the Search by Author field and you will see a load of RecordPower and Startrite models I have created.
At the moment these comprise:

• Record Power (Startrite) MDE-HCE dust/chip extractor
• Record Power DX1000 dust extractor
• Record Power CX3000 dust/chip extractor
• Record Power TS200C table saw
• Record Power BBS100 oscillating spindle sander
• Record Power AC400 air cleaner

I don't work for Record Power but have been using some of their great products. I'll add more models in the future.

Shop update (updated with ductwork)

I've got the shop layout on the Google Sketchup drawing board again and moved everything about .. again. It is so easy once you have everything measured (and to scale) to move things around to suit your workflow. My wife and I had a look inside the existing shop last night and made notes of the items I hadn't included on the layout. No sense in designing something and leaving all the existing stuff out in the back yard.


I have tried to maximize the available space by moving upwards.  If it's good enough for skyscraper designers it's good enough for me. The shop internal height has been increased by about 300mm (1 foot) and the pitch of the roof increased from less than 15 degrees to around 18 degrees. The shop is around 400 square feet and it's housed in an existing 2 car garage.

Main layout. Entry door is left side at the lower edge.
Main double doors are on bottom side.

That has given considerably more storage room at a higher level. It also means that some of my taller friends won't bang their heads on the trusses as they do now! (Dave and Ethan you will know what I mean).

Dunluce II-L lapsteel

Here is one of my designs for a six string lapsteel guitar.
The guitar is tuned in G6 that is, from lowest to high, B G E D B G although any tuning can be used.

The full specification is below:

Dunluce II-SC "Rapter" Guitar

Dunluce II-SC Rapter

Dunluce II SC Rapter

Specification:

• 6 string double cutaway electric
• Nut width 43mm at headstock end. Made from bone.
• 25.5" scale length
• 21 fret finger board
• Schaller M6 machine heads chrome
• Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB (Jeff Beck) in the bridge position
• Seymour Duncan SH2N-4C Jazz in the neck position
• Schaller hardtail bridge with thru stringing