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I was walking back from getting the mail today and it occurred to me that I’ve never really had a good look at the shop from the “B side”. Hu... feels like when you get your hair cut and they hold up the little mirror and ask “how’s it look form the back?” like it really matters.

Really diggin’ the top!

As stated, it’s a CJ5... no such thing as a Wrangler until ‘87. Depending on where you’re located, there’s salvage yards that only deal with Jeeps. Good used frames are out there and really aren’t that bad to swap if the hardware comes apart. 304 in a CJ is a fun little ride. They make a nice noise but really aren’t that much more power than the 258. If you do pick it up and the engine gives up the ghost, consider a 360. They’s tons of Wagoneer donors out there. Good looking rig!... not sure it’s worth $1000 though.

So rad, BJ!

Digging’ the green.

Bending over is such a young man’s game.

Ready for wainscoting. Going nice and tall with it at 48”. Never broke up the walls in a shop before, but I want to jazz it up this time. All of my outlets will me at the top of the wainscoting because I’m tired to bending over. They’ll all blend in with the bare galvanized panels. Panels for the ceiling and the wainscoting were ordered yesterday. I’ve never trimmed out a shop before outside of J-channel but this one will be a little more fancy. In the past I’ve ran the steel panels all the way down to the floor. This makes sweeping the floor more difficult to do a good job and it gets annoying clanking the broom on the panel ribs. I’m using treated lumber for the base board trim and then regular ol’ 2x4s for everything else. My table saw will be taking lead on making all the trim. I’m definitely making more work for myself but I’m striving for the look of an old service station. Definitely getting to the fun(ish) part of building a shop.

I’ve got a whole bunch of boring stuff to do! Today I finished up the insulation, cleaned up some material scraps by mostly finishing the walls in the compressor closet, cut up and threw out a bunch of small scraps, and I even managed to return three batts of extra insulation. What’s next on the list is running all of the horizontal nailers for the steel siding panels on the interior walls. That’ll be done with all of the good material scraps I still have. At some point I’ll need to go and get more material, but the plan is to see how far I can get with what I’ve got. Along with that, I picked up material for making all the trim. I know I’ve said it before, but hands down one of the best tools one can pick up before tackling a project like this is a table saw. It’s time consuming but it’ll be a day of processing through material for getting the walls ready for finishing.

Lumber yard creeping.

Neat! Thanks for the update.

No, no! My grandpa is very much alive! He’s 87 years young and my grandparents recently moved. They needed to downsize is all. This past year I got a tattoo of him going off to Korea that I was eager to show him. He knew about it. I think he just wanted to surprise me too. My folks are right in the middle of the ‘sota. I’ll let you know when I’m going that way.

The dream team has been dormant for about five years now minus my wire feed welder. It lived at the cabinet shop I was working at for a while. I noticed the water lines for my TIG welder leaking about a month ago so I got a new torch. Looking forward to getting the band back together! As of recently, I inherited my grandpa’s old stick welder and his old helmets. The welder is still up in Minnesota... not sure when it’ll be heading my way. The helmets are here though. I’m sure I’ll use them once just to say I did. Otherwise they’re a couple of good looking wall hangers!

I’m up in the house when I take pictures of the mountain. My shop roofline is the cut off for holding my phone. Slight elevation change from one to the other. Edit: apologies for the lack of snow per the thread. Stock photo.

Hot off the press. Got a fresh 6” of snow last night.

Agreed. Well done!

Still a low mileage Jeep. 157k?... 557k? Who knows with this rig.

Well done. Looks like a great time!

Dang... all the pictures died. Still rockin the same headboard in case anyone was concerned.

Correct. Only ‘87s.

Such a good looking rig.

Dang, dude! That’s a lot of work! Pretty sure you can handle it though.

Check you out!... hanging around in the “Regular Ol’ MJ” build threads.