The shop is where most of the other rooms become possible. It is part workspace, part laboratory, and part accumulated capability: tools and machines collected over decades because each one makes a different class of problem solvable.
The spaces
The Shop
A home for the benches, machine tools, fabrication equipment, storage, and work areas that support everyday repairs and longer restorations.
The Warehouse
The larger machines, vehicles, stored projects, material, and improbable collection of things that may yet become useful.
Tools and practical judgment
The Essential Tools of a DIYer
The basic hand tools, power tools, and equipment that allow a fixer to handle most ordinary jobs without buying the whole hardware store at once.
Ladders for Fixers
Types, ratings, materials, safe use, and the hard-earned reasons to take ladders seriously.
Eric’s Tools
The original EricRedifer.com tool page, preserved with its photographs and observations on hand tools, cordless systems, shop machines, toolboxes, buying used, and buying quality.
