Workshop Design #4
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Here is a quick update of where I am on the workshop design. If you remember from my first article, the footings and frost wall already exist so I cannot modify anything with them, but every thing else is fair game.
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Mary Kay Give Away Display
Mary Kay Give Away Display
A couple of years ago, I had a client who sold Mary Kay cosmetics. She wanted me to build her a display that she could place near the cash registers at local businesses. People could fill out an entry form and place it inside the display in order to win prizes.
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Workshop Design #1
When I first start woodworking, my wife and I lived in a two story house with a very small detached garage. The garage was actually not very suitable for a workshop, at least not without a lot more work than I was willing to put into it. Besides that, I didn’t want that much money sitting in the garage in that particular neighborhood. Therefore my workshop was in the unfinished basement of the house. It would have made Matt proud. (more…)
About the Maple Grove Woodworks blog
Welcome to the Maple Grove Woodworks blog. Maple Grove Woodworks is my own personal woodworking business. Being a professional woodworker has long been a dream of mine. I am not quite 100% there yet, as I still have my day job.
My day job actually helps my woodowrking business. I use a Computer Aided Design (CAD) workstation to design tools for the plastic injection molding industry. I have been able to design projects on my CAD workstation during lunch hours, or coming into work early. This has been a huge help when figuring out complicated joints.
The CAD software I use is called Unigraphics. It is quite a high end piece of software. I don’t know for certain, but I think it is around $20,000 for a single license. It is not something I would buy for a small single man woodshop. But as long as I can use it for free it works great. 
The initial purpose of this blog (I say initial because the purpose may change as the site evolves) is to document how I design and build my projects as well as a showcase for them. Feel free to make comments or ask questions about any of my postings. I hope to learn as much as I can from the woodworking community at large and help anyone else on their woodworking journey as well.
