Dad
You have to love photos from the 70s, right? Dad was an engineer, a woodworker, and a coach. All of these are traits that I learned from him and strive to pass on to my own children.
The building
After Dad passed away in 2018, I had an inspiration to create a space in an overgrown corner of our yard. I put the skills he taught me to use and built the DadLab. The only two things I hired out were the foundation and the roof. Dad helped to equip me for everything else.
The inside layout changes roughly every 18 months to suit my needs, but we have most of the standard woodworking equipment, a CNC router, a 3d printer, and flex space for working on cars or other big projects.
Teach the kids
As the kids grow older, I'm teaching them new stuff, whether it's how to run a miter or table saw or wire circuits or design stuff for 3d printing or CNC machining. Hopefully they can pass it along!
It's not all work
With all this room, I dedicated a corner of the shop to one thing Dad could never master... golf. With room for a golf simulator and a ping pong table, we're able to have fun inside year round!