This week’s shop comes from Garry who writes: Your shop of the week has inspired me to take a few pics. I built this place mostly with recycled tropical Hard Woods. This shop, including the front porch and full bath is 35 x 16 and sits on a slope of about 35 degrees. The support posts underneath are TEAK logs some being 9 feet tall and 16 inches in diameter. The floor structure is ALMENDRO. The finish floor is t&g CENISARO. The walls are framed from MELINA and covered with FIBERBOARD on the inside with a wains coat of ROBLE. The exterior walls are covered in Board and batten ROBLE and MELINA with 6 coats of marine varnish. The doors are TEAK. The roof trusses are framed with recycled TEAK poles from a beach Rancho I built years ago Illegally. The government forced me to dismantle it so having a huge stack of TEAK poles became the inspiration for the shop. On top of the TEAK rafters Is CANA BRAVA. On top of that is CLAY BARREL TILES I brought from Nicaragua. Hope you enjoy and I do have guest rooms.
12 Responses to “Garry’s Recycled Hardwood – Shop Tour”
wow very nice! you should have entered that in the one mans trash is another mans treasure on lumberjocks! thats just great!
Gary
You SUCK of the highest order. That doesn’t even do justice to this drive by GLOAT.
That is an awesome shop you have built there. Did you have any of that hardwood left to build some furniture?
If you don’t mind can you take your shop apart and ship it to me. And I’ll ship you a similar amount of pine and cedar. I thought that you might like some exotic softwood. Very Nice shop. Claude
Wow, what an awesome environment you’ve created to build in. This is truly a space that speaks creativity! Love it!!
Teak is so expensive around here… can’t imagine having a shop built out of it and supported by full logs of it…
Beautiful shop!!!!
Great shop! Cool pic with the bananas growing outside the window! Where is the shop? Like to know so I can book one of those guest rooms!
Is it for rent ? That would be nice for vacation ;o)
Great Shop Garry
Great shop and great location. I’ll bet the winters are better than in Minnesota.
I love the liquor bottles on the shelf. Has other uses than just a disinfectant.
Remember, don’t drink and drill!!
Where in the world are you and do you have a guest bedroom? I can bring tools.
There is nothing about your shop not to like and I would say if there was a contest going, you would come it first palce.
That is nothing less than a DREAM shop! I give it a 10+
Thanks for the comments.
Tom … yep them be liquer bottles and we don’t drink and drill and yep the winters in Costa Rica are a bit better than MN
Robby … come on down, we can work something out.
Tedm … Bring it
The rest o ya …. Na Na na na na
I had to use Wikipedia to read about the wood you’ve used to build this great shop, WOW. i’ll bet that even your fiberboard flooring is made of what we would call exotic sawdust. Hey Claude, why the heck move it up here? This guy has bananas growing outside his shop window!! Niiiiiiiiiiice
Just shot a mini video of the shop as it grows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uycMPtgKH_k
Enjo