 Well, I would work here's Paul Carlson here a small workshop guy This is part of our my new YouTube channel That's about reviewing the latest videos that have come out during the week and also Touring workshops all around the world last week. We visited Mike new it in British Columbia And he had a fantastic and nomadic Workbench that was incredible and this time I just decided for a change We go all the way around the world and visit a guy named Gary Podger I believe in Brisbane, but we'll clear that up with him when we bring him on camera here and I saw Gary's workshop the first time in a Facebook group called small workshop woodworking community And we said I show us your workshop. Who's got the best one? I gave the award to Gary So I I needed a more detailed look at it. And so I invited him to be our guest Workshop tour today. So Gary. I'm gonna bring you on the screen here and you are on and we're both Going up. Okay I always wondered something how do you guys since you're down under how do you stay on the earth? How come you don't fall off? Anyway, so I've not heard that I should say Robin. Hello. I should say good day Everything gets turned around Everything gets turned around down there. I know a June the 7th for us is oh six slash oh seven for you as Oh seven slash oh six. So that's the way everything's reverse But anyway, the water goes out the drain the wrong home the wrong way Yeah, and we also drive on the wrong side of the right And then the other problem I had I'm originally from the south of the United States so I have a little southern accent and I Little trouble understanding Aussie's often. I Visited there once Sydney and Melbourne and we went out to What do they call that? What's the mountain range west of Sydney? The blue bands. Yeah. Yeah, that was I thought I was just driving out And I thought okay, I could just got the little town here And I went down to the end of a what I was street and I went over the edge There was a Grand Canyon. I said holy mackerel. I Didn't even know I'd gone anywhere, but anyway, I love your country I'm so sorry about all the fires that you had last year and I guess you had some bloods recently, didn't you? Some fires recently at the beginning of the year Yeah, there are a lot of communities in well all the eastern states of Australia that were affected by it. Yeah I was very fortunate here. We didn't see anything Near where we are, but I know a lot of people were evacuated a lot of houses lost. Yeah, a lot of lives were lost too So Everybody that's gonna see this you can see what you're in the treat for because you just see that clamp rack behind Gary's head there and that gives you some idea of what we're gonna see. So Gary Let's get the tour started. Is it Brisbane? Is that where you are? Brisbane. Yeah, not Brisbane. Brisbane Brisbane It's not a hard eye at the end. All right, I got you and that's in Queensland. Yeah, which is north of tropics northeast Which if we were in the US that would be like New York area But yeah, it would be that's comparable and I'm like I'm more like in purse For you. Yes, are you all straight? I understand that. Yeah. All right. Yeah, so Gary's on a iPhone He can pick it up and carry it around and show us his tour and so Is there any way to show us kind of the big picture 360? Yeah, I can turn the camera around My shadow I'll start off. It's 10 meters by six meters Which I did some sums for you guys over there So 10 meters equates to 32 foot 9 and a half inches or thereabouts And six meters equates to 19 foot 8.2 inches So roughly that's about 660 square feet. How's that? 660 I'm glad you converted that because I was in trouble to you did Mine is uh Mine is 200 square feet. So you have three times my space No, I hate you all I hate you already. I'm going to do a quick video here or a quick view of my workshop for the recording so If I can find the right camera, so there's For those watching, this is my one-car garage workshop And it truly is wide enough for one car and long enough for one car So about about 10 feet by 20 feet 200 square feet So still trying to figure out how to shove more and more stuff in I've got a little mezzanine level up above the garage door opener where I can store some wood. Let me Oh, that's the other camera. I can't move my computer All right. So anyway, that's my workshop We're going to go uh back to gary now and take me completely off the screen. So Gary right out turn turned it around All right. Yeah, I'll just see I'll just grab it. You know, I've got to be careful where I put my hands, haven't I? I'll just show you this is uh the entrance to my shed. It's just through a roller door And that's my outlook So I live on uh some acreage. That looks like a golf course Yeah, kind of does doesn't it? So that's just looking due east so I can look up into the hills And uh when I look north, which is the preferred aspect here and where we are in some hemisphere north I look over a valley, which is really nice Hang on on that yard gary. You must have a riding mower Oh, yeah, I've got a ride on all right. I've got one of those Zero turn mowers. Is that does that come in your workshop at night or is that stored somewhere else? Oh, I've got another shed. I've got a I'll just bring you outside. So I don't know if you can still see me Well, the connection's okay. I've got another shed, which I refer to as my lawn locker there. All right And um, you know, that's my veggie garden. I got a bit of a timber rack out here Beautiful homage to the old woodworking days. So I don't use that axe, of course It just looks like someone's stranded in the chopping block. I walked away from it Yeah, uh, you're a little time of the year where you need the wood, right? Yeah, yeah, and that's um a lot of old Oh, wow, look at that. Yeah, just just some rough. I have a here. We are coming into my workshop I think before this is over. I'm never going to talk to you again Well, that's fine But I mean There's all the workshops that are so much better than mine. So I'll just do a quick pan around so I can have a look Yeah, very slowly very slowly Otherwise we get dizzy and I get Hard to go and fall off my stool here Sorry, I'm not a cameraman by any stretch of the imagination. That's why I don't do youtube Oh, man. Look at I'll have an instagram profile if anybody wants to look at have a look even got laid on your wood Yeah So that's that's a quick All right, anyway, so if I start on my left when I come in the door I've got a uh Hello air airline there that's linked down to a air compressor quite noisy, but it does my shop I mean, I only use the air compressor just for pin nailing and brad nailing. So it's good enough So you don't use it to blow off dust and stuff just when you're going Oh, I do occasionally blow off dust. Yeah, but I um, it's a secondary to what I really use For which is and you know, you can bring in greg nailing Do you uh, Laguna lay? That I honestly haven't used a great deal. Um, it's one of those pro one of those tools that I Hope to learn more about once I'm fully retired. Yeah, Gary as a rough. Are you good? Are you retired? Is this a hobby or? I'm not retired. I'm probably Six to 12 months max away from retirement. So I started doing this workshop About two and a half years ago and brought it up to the standard you see today I framed all the walls Lined all the walls with insulation and put what we call yellow tongue, which is a flooring material It's just like a composite sort of Board of like a particle board, but a lot more dense Yeah So I'll put that up on the wall and I just use a lot of dowels and screws and just hang things as I see fit So I've got you know the big the uh, chucks and all the chuck jaws. Sorry my Pen blanks and all my chisels Electric heater down there because it does get cold here in the mornings Uh, my hardware storage Wow up the top there. I've got uh bowl blanks I've got uh Sticker collection. I've only I've only got Australian stickers if any of your followers would like to send me a sticker I'd absolutely love that. Oh, cool. But um, I'll follow all the Australian youtubers And I'll do follow americans, but uh, I only collect the Australian ones, but I'd love some From your guys if you got them. All right, so All these cupboards I've built uh, just from watching youtube's. So I just googled how to Build a cupboard and just uh Just did it myself did all my handles a word on the cabinets that that's just a marine plie with a bit of poly on it That's all nothing fancy Uh, all right What have I got there? I've got a a robert sorby Belk sander for sharpening these tools And I've got a tourmac that I use for all my chisels and my plane irons Is that uh, what do they call it the 450 that the 7 the tt 8 that one's a t8 here. Yeah Uh, obviously fire extinguisher clock and my besi clamp rack Now I must thank you for because I had a love hate relationship with besi, but after watching your Explanation on how to open and close the damn clamps That video you did that time remember that one. Yeah Had to use them or I fell in love with them. So yeah Oh good besi's beautiful got an incra sled there A couple of sleds that I've made up. That's a Veritas Oh you dog. Yeah. Yeah That's a cross cut sled that I've made and Look good. That's the shooting board that you can change the angle shooting board That's what I was trying to think of. Yeah, and I made a What do you call that a modest sled? Oh some Sorry, I'm just trying to best the accessories up there. Yeah Woody, he's my shop's supervisor. All right And a little brother down there. He features sometimes in my photos on On instagram And then uh, sorry my jacket's in the way there. I'll just move that I've got a two horsepower Dusty that I've just hooked up to the cyclone and then I've vented outside because I'm on acreage. I can do that And then the rest of it is all ducted All through the shop. I've made a whole bunch of slide valves Up in the main manifold and I can open and close them as I see fit. So Sorry, I'll just Let me close Yeah, I can isolate all the various manifolds and various machines So that my dust collector is a lot more efficient, right? I guess Uh, I've got some wood screw clamps and my woodpecker wall. I like woodpeckers Wow Just some mallets and dust brushes First aid kit my chop saw or mitre saw tube. We call it. That's just a Bosch glide Um, I made these I'll put it in a in a box just to try and stop the uh, the dust I still need to make some more modifications But these are just held on by Rare earth magnets. Oh, wow And like, you know, I can take them off when I need to and I can sit in there That's an inventive idea Yeah, I'll probably stall that from somebody. I can't remember who but yeah It is a clever idea. I've got uh on the mitre saw dust collection. I have found an absolute totally 100 percent perfect solution I got rid of it. I got rid of my mitre Now you did has a story with your uh, you've joined a pliner. You got that bed new bed back for that yet Yeah, uh, you know, as you know, the original one was broken. Uh, I had a lot not much trouble with amazon You just can't reach them but they sent me the new one And I only sent them back part of the old one and because I had destroyed the packaging But then I got an email yesterday. I said we've accepted your return We'll refund your money and I'm sitting here with a second motor Already and the base I guess I'll find a way to get it back to him, but it was kind of like Keep that motor for a backup Well, you could have said maybe that I want it back because the fright's too deep Yeah, so I'm using uh, I saw somebody suggest And he was a professional at carpentry and he said he does all his uh stuff that you normally do with a mitre saw just with a jigsaw and so I've got my uh, my saw horses Set up with my match fit dovetail clamps on them and I just throw it, you know I'm cutting a two by four or oak or something. Yeah, as long as it's not more than eight quarters thick I just cut it rough cut with a jigsaw and that's working out great So I've got a shelf there with some bird uh, don't burn that's festool Uh, what what all do you have from vestool? um, I've got a rytex 150 and uh, ETS 155 I think it is domino boxes I've got uh, the domino of excel and and the 500 i'm a bit greedy. Wow I've got a ts 55 and also a OF 1400 the router. All right Now I now I not only hate you but everybody who's watching hates you Sorry, yeah Honestly, I don't mean to scot. I really don't so I want to get into more hand to woodworking. So, um, I'll just start my drawers. I don't really like to show off So that's uh, my chisels with my stainless suede hats and uh, I've got some woodriver I don't know. What do you call those little stumpy ones? Yeah, did you make all those handles? All my pines all the veritas pines that I've got there. Oh block pines and yeah No, actually veritas scary veritas is your bench plane of choice um Yeah, I think they're a little cheaper than um Then the the other ones that uh, What's that other brain that's quite popular there? Lee Nielsen Lee Nielsen, that's the one. Yeah, I get Lee Valley Lee Nielsen mixed up. It's um, yeah So I know you've got some Lee Nielsen's yourself, haven't you? I've got a few. Yeah Yeah um What else can I show you? I've got a dot this center there Um The jet uh Variable speed uh drill press It's got a uh digital Digital uh speed indicator on the front there and around the side That handle I can push and pull that and I can vary the speed from about 300 up to about two and a half thousand rpm cool, uh woodpecker tabletop from my drill press I've got uh Super max 1938 you dog Yeah And interesting you guys might find this interesting. I've got uh You would know them as rigid, but they are branded aeg over here. So you can see I've I've got uh aeg there, but I did Want to buy a impact driver. So I bought one from the states was a lot cheaper than buying one here. So that's the rigid Rigid there. Can you see that? All right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they're they're identical aeg and rigid. They're they're identical Yeah There's a youtube channel, uh called A ve and he tears all of the tools apart and looks at them and looks at the molding and And he'll have them compete with each other and burn one out He really you know, he's he's expert at showing the difference between a harbour freight drill driver and a milwaukee Uh, oh, yeah, yeah a ve and it's really really funny Yeah, uh I've got the big spindle sander the big jet spindle sander. No with the 24 inch square tabletop Actually, I've just took the cover off that before for this tour and I notice it's a little got a bit of surface rust Yeah to get around it the good thing about doing a workshop tour is it makes you get everything off all those horizontal services Yeah, true true put them away Got some any rise with boards there. I don't know if you guys know you're getting Beautiful a lot of figure on that. So that's um, that's a odd dining room table. You're looking at there. Believe it or not And then of course my wood rack. I've got uh Lots of australian and american timbers Jacaranda, silky oak. I've got some white ash and western red sea. There's some american oak Victorian ash or um, tazmania and oak as we call it Uh, what is your favorite thing to make? Are you making fine furniture? Are you make? Well, I'm I'm learning still I'm learning still. I've made some lovely, uh end grain cutting boards I've made um I've made a couple of desks for my wife and my daughter I'm pretty much going to try anything, you know, well, yeah I wouldn't call what I do is fine furniture. I don't have the skills for that, but um You know, I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. It comes it comes with time Yeah, yeah, you get better everything you do and I always try and with each project I do I always try and push myself a little bit harder and do something I've not done before and Try and learn something new Because that's the way to learn obviously is to push yourself push belong beyond the you know the comfort zone Well, you're getting you're getting yourself set up for years and years of oh, definitely pleasurable work That's what I've always taught my wife. Yeah when you're finally require Okay, yeah I've got the lagooner 18 inch basil At the moment on there. I've got the um, one and a half one a quarter inch Ripping blade. There's fancy name for that. I can't I Pardon me happy with that bandsaw. I extremely happy Yeah, the only thing I dislike about it is um access to the The lower guides under here, you know, that's very tight for space and My old hands are getting a little arthritic as I get older and it's quite hard to To get in there. Yeah, right I think most of them are that way Yeah, a good idea that I'd styled from someone else too. I don't know if you can see this is so I've got this Tag hooked up to my belt tensioner So that I leave that sitting on the table top like that And that reminds me that I need to tension the blades I can just swing that up. Yeah And now I'm down my blades tensioned. You know, I don't know Whether it's something that's necessary to do but I do it anyway And uh, yeah, it's a handy little thing. I think you're supposed to know a bit Yeah, you're supposed to detension it when you leave the shop and then well, I like to think so But there's a school of thought out there says you don't need to but I don't know Did I see a dog somewhere? Uh, yeah, my dog. Yeah, she came in the chair. I didn't see her Millie. She's a labradoodle Oh, I've got a incur Uh, router table. Oh that I just uh finished I'll just finish building a cupboard in in there actually That's only mdf or craft foot or whatever you guys call it. I don't know with the Yeah, they The the one millimeter screw on it Wow Yeah, it's a and I want one that's uh, it's equivalent to your port cable port a cable two and a quarter Motors, you know, yeah, right router motor, right? Um spinning around I got the jet belt sander I should say I got the ct 36 which I bought second hand that I use for all my Festival tools when I'm sanding or doing dominoes, right and then just the midi there. That's based where my shop back That I used to clean the floor. I might highlight on the floor there. Um, I've got a rumble floor It's a concrete slab But I've got a rubber floor and these are I don't know you have them in the gyms over your way These are rubber mats. They're using the gyms. They're They're a meter square or you might have them a three foot square or whatever they are, right and they're about or about Three quarters of an inch thick. Wow and um, yeah, they're very soft under underfoot And um, they're really comfortable because I spend basically all day out here, you know, and uh, yeah Easy to walk on help your feet in addition. They're great when you drop all your tools. So Exactly, you don't you don't ruin any of your sharp edges on your Yeah, your chisels or your play lines. All right Trouble is that when you drop something you can't hear where it's got worth roll to because yeah Because I used to be a jet mechanic in the in the air force and we used to work on the jet engines and Yeah, if you dropped a nut or something you can you had to listen to it tink tink tink tink tink It goes all the way down to hit the floor and then you knew where it was If it stopped tinking you had you had a A big day in front of you trying to find it. Yeah What's what do you got there in the upper left of the screen? upper left up there. Oh, sorry these uh These ones you're talking to those ones. They're um, they're called front line clamps So, uh, you open them up if you're making uh dining room table So you clamp they're like the the woodpecker version of those What do you call them the clamp zillers? You know the woodpecker clamp zillers? Well, they're uh They're a version of that uh big chunky bits of aluminum and they open up and you put your Your boards in there and you close it down and you just crank on that screw And it clamps all the pieces together But of course it's sandwiched in between the two big chunks of right aluminium right and so Holds it all square so you don't get any boat or cup boards when you do you you glue up And the machine in the front and the bottom left. Uh, that's just the uh, the belt sander the disc Oh, okay. All right. Wow. Yeah, and then there I've got the uh, 12 inch or 300 millimeter uh jointed planar Which is really good. I suppose it's what your paramatic one you're getting is it uses a joint planar, isn't Uh, oh my just a jointer. So that's the jointer play. Yeah, combo. Huh? Yeah, that's Just lift that tile up. Yeah. Yeah That becomes uh a planar. It's a jointer at the same time. Yeah j baits. I saw has one of those Okay. Yeah, they've he's got a hammer though. They're They're the really expensive ones aren't they? Wow, and if there's one of my beautiful valves Beautiful And I guess the other thing I've got Is my saw stop I just recently got my saw stop. So that's a pcs three horsepower one All our electricity over here is 240 volt. We don't have any one team. So it's a 240 volt one I've got the uh sliding Oh Able attachment on it. Oh I did put a uh A wixie digital Uh meter on there for a bit more accuracy. Wow, and then I constructed these These drawers under here to hold all my Uh mag switch And uh, yeah my daydays and my brakes and all that kind of stuff And of course I had them And that's made out of plywood. I just painted a gloss black and painted my normal wooden handles and a gloss gloss red So it you know, and here's the perfect gear You've even matched the color of the saw stop base With your cabinet you matched the red in the label with the red handles Yeah, you are Well, I had that red previously because you know, I painted the The valves so the valves have got a green end and a red end so I can look in from anywhere in the show Obviously with an open or closed. Yeah, so I did have that red Already anyway, so uh, that was just a fluke and it ended up being the same color as the saw stop Yeah, so that's a beauty. You must be pleased with that saw stop Oh, I am. Oh, and the other thing I should show you which is a must in every show Of the course is uh the beer fridge Full of adult refreshments, and I actually keep my uh super glue in there or my what are you guys calling you call it super glue, don't you? It's five o'clock. There's five o'clock here gary, so You go ahead and have a drink even though it's only one noon there or something. Yeah, it's a bit of workbench a little more in there Oh my workbench. Did you build that? I did build that. Yeah I've got some benchcrafted hardware on there. You know, I've got the Obligatory uh leg vise. Yeah, I'm slapping that up for the uh, the veritas What do you call those things again? I've it slips my mind Hold fast hold thinking of yeah, and uh my twin screw at the end. Well, I've got the uh, the little pop-up Um dog for I've only put a few dog holes in there. So that's all made out of uh various Australian hardwoods Uh, I've got a new guinea rose with on the the boss jaws So gary go back to that uh end bench All right. Yeah ice Yep Yours is a fancy one. You covered yours. I I just gotta point out that I finally found one thing in my workshop that Probably not any more practical, but it looks better You have to send me some planes if you got some so I wouldn't mind having a crack at that. Yeah, you're I'll send you the plans. There's nothing more than uh, a certain width, you know skeleton around it and then just some yeah It's pretty simple really, but yeah That uh, that's beautiful Yeah, and that and that they're uh Four it's also they're five inch legs, you know 125 millimeters and the whole thing weighs I'm guessing 200 kilos upwards about 450 pounds. Oh, yeah It's not going anywhere anytime soon not going anywhere particularly when it's on those pads Yeah, yeah It's um, not even going anywhere if you want it to No, no, that's true. Yeah And which is I I'm saying well, I don't think a workbench should be movable, but uh No, well, I I have made it I'll take the camera down and show you on the basic lock. I have made it so that I can uh Unscrew the top which is bolted over some cage bolts um, so I can't take the top off if I ever move or Well, yeah, so I can't take the top off which would lighten the load a little bit I suppose. Yeah All right. Well, I'm gonna bring you let's switch back to you Anything else uh major you want to show? I don't know how you Man that was beautiful that was absolutely beautiful. I am. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Oh I've got this, uh I've got this sign. I'll just grab my phone I want to make up a sign because um, I've got a quote and I'm gonna use I'd love one of your shapers to do some fox But I think I'll have to do it freehand with my dremel on a little plunge router base but I've got this quote that I want to put up in my shop and um It was attributed to to Hippocrates apparently But um, I might just show it to you. I don't know if you can read. Is that back to Yeah. Yeah. No, I yeah Okay, so what that says is the life and life is spelled l y f So short The craft so long to learn and learn is spelled l e r n So I think that's a a really good quote, you know the craft so short The sorry the life so short the craft so long to learn. I think that's very very apt. Yeah Well, if you were Learning that school really. Yeah, if you're 78 like me you say you say jeez. I wonder if I get enough value out of this stuff with the life expectancy, but Yeah, well true. I'm a couple of months away from being 60. Yeah Oh, I and I always thought I was tired 60 so hopefully I've at least got 25 years of woodworking in front of me And uh, my son can look forward to inheriting all my tools. Yeah, and your wife knows where they find you Oh always He sends it tends me a text. Sorry. She sends me a text and said the coffee's ready and I'll go and meet her outside All right. Well, I I appreciate so much seeing that shop and uh, now I got it recorded and now I gotta go trying to duplicate But I don't have the room so I have to whilst I got you can I just Say a few things about some of our Aussie youtubers and that some of you guys might Be interested in in in watching. Yeah There's quite a few that I follow my stickers or their stickers are up on the wall, but I don't know if you know Paul Jenkins of the wood night Paul at the wood night He's uh, does some good work. Yeah Another guy called kuffy k u double f y at cuffies woodworks. He's very good Uh, down under woodworks. You'd remember that one. That's a big down down under woodworks. Okay Uh, we've got a uh, South African born Australian robin lewis from robin lewis mates. They're all good Uh, dirk He's at sumo's projects. He does some good funny stuff We've got um, ashley a lot of you guys probably know him ashley or ash from woodwork and whiskers Yeah, a couple more james from fixit fingers Dave at dave stanton and chris at built by chris now. They're all Australian youtubers and instagrammers Yeah, I see uh, if stanton has a little bit of a follow them because they're all really good guys Yeah, really good guys. I'd write all that down, but I don't need to because i'm recording that you've recorded it Yeah, so all right If I don't can't comprehend that some of those i'll get a hold of you so that I can put those in the comments Down below. That'd be nice if you wouldn't mind. Yeah and put some links to those uh people as well All right, I uh, thank you for a bit of pleasure so much. We'll see you online And man, enjoy that workshop. That was thanks for see you tonight everybody. Bye. Bye Oh, that was pretty good