RidgeRaider
Active member
So, as a newbie cue maker getting my head wrapped around all of this, I am starting to consider long term solutions for shop conditions and climate.
I live in Wisconsin, where it's general not too humid or dry either way, but it's not california that's for sure. My main shop is in my uninsulated, no heat, no ac garage for the time being. With winter setting in soon, I am moving my lathe into the basement of the house.
Long term, the basement probably isn't a great solution because I live with a couple other people, and noise / the mess it makes is what prevents me from making the basement my permanent woodshop, but this winter it'll have to do.
I guess long term solutions would be finding a shop space that's climate controlled, but until cue making can pay those bills, I can't afford the $1,2000 a month rent for that. Another solution would be to install a prefab shed next to my garage, insulate and climate control that shed as my workshop. It'd be small, around 150sq feet, so It'd basically be enough room for the main / noisy operations on the lathe and a bench.
What are your guys climates / shop conditions like? I know wood is affected by weather, and there's cue makers across the globe. I see guys in the phillipines pumping out beautiful cues, working on them in rain forest like conditions. So, how anal is too anal about climate for a cue shop? Would putting a propane or gas heater in my uninsulated garage and just firing it up when I am out there in the winter turning wood good enough?
I store / season all my wood in my basement. It's a concrete basement, in a tiny room with a dehumidifier running. So, the wood has a good place, I am just concerned what would happen to that wood if I took it from my basement, to a hot / cold garage to turn it into a cue.
I live in Wisconsin, where it's general not too humid or dry either way, but it's not california that's for sure. My main shop is in my uninsulated, no heat, no ac garage for the time being. With winter setting in soon, I am moving my lathe into the basement of the house.
Long term, the basement probably isn't a great solution because I live with a couple other people, and noise / the mess it makes is what prevents me from making the basement my permanent woodshop, but this winter it'll have to do.
I guess long term solutions would be finding a shop space that's climate controlled, but until cue making can pay those bills, I can't afford the $1,2000 a month rent for that. Another solution would be to install a prefab shed next to my garage, insulate and climate control that shed as my workshop. It'd be small, around 150sq feet, so It'd basically be enough room for the main / noisy operations on the lathe and a bench.
What are your guys climates / shop conditions like? I know wood is affected by weather, and there's cue makers across the globe. I see guys in the phillipines pumping out beautiful cues, working on them in rain forest like conditions. So, how anal is too anal about climate for a cue shop? Would putting a propane or gas heater in my uninsulated garage and just firing it up when I am out there in the winter turning wood good enough?
I store / season all my wood in my basement. It's a concrete basement, in a tiny room with a dehumidifier running. So, the wood has a good place, I am just concerned what would happen to that wood if I took it from my basement, to a hot / cold garage to turn it into a cue.
