My Grenada West Indies workshop

Dean2, member

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I am retired and live in Grenada, West Indies. One of the best things is that I have cuban/West Indies mahagony available. I build furniture and custom cabinet work. My shop is 1500 sq ft which I share with my wifes stained glass art work. I air dry the rough cut lumber for about 2 years before using it for any given project. We also have a white cedar lumber which looks and works much like white oak. Happy to answer any questions.

Cheers and happy wood working.

Dean Schopp

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Enginerd writes: Dean - any thoughts on the Laguna SUV you have? I saw a post online you made saying you love it. I'm thinking of dropping some coin on the unit but wanted to get a real world review - you would seem to have a good perspective given all the work you've completed (presumably) with the saw. Any feed back is greatly appreciated.

Cheers to you for following a dream and starting your shop down there...may we all be so lucky!

Patrick
Posted: 9:00 am on July 29th

Navy1 writes: Grenada is a beautiful island. I was fortunate to visit many places while stationed at Gitmo in the early 60's, and later after going to the fleet, the destroyers that I was on spent time in the Caribbean sea,and North and South Atlantic. Your shop is most immpressive, and living in paradice, too. Well done.
Posted: 11:42 am on July 24th

TRexF16 writes: How about some more pics of that bench! And your tool cabinet too. Nice work, Thanks.

Rex
Posted: 4:30 pm on July 9th

Sawdust4real writes: Cuban mahogany ..that's great, would love to have some of that in St.maarten .
Posted: 9:52 am on July 3rd

Dean2 writes: I do feel pretty fortunite to be in the position I am. I love my shop, the weather here is always great, and of course there is that wonderful mahagony lumber.
The work bench is purpleheart, I just thought the design in Popular woodworking, I think, was great so I used that as the basic starting point. I'm a handtool and machine woodworker and this bench is great for that. The bench is about 500 pounds so it's pretty stable.
Cheers
Dean
Posted: 12:54 pm on June 30th

kerfwerks writes: What a nice bench;purpleheart? Like my fellow poster, I envy your nest!
Posted: 10:33 am on June 30th

Fire_Chief writes: I was there once (actually twice) first time I arrived by parachute on October 25th, 1983 (operation Urgent Fury) second time was for a frontline show regarding the invasion. Beautiful Island and great people.

Must be nice.

Scott Custer

Posted: 8:30 am on June 25th

aaronpetersen writes: A 1500 sq. ft. shop and you get to live in Grenada? You did something right, my friend.
Posted: 9:11 am on June 22nd

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