Shop Tour: Austin Russell's Metalworking Shop

On my recent trip to Michigan, I was lucky to get a shop tour from my good friend Austin Russell. Austin is a fellow metal shop tinkerer (@russellmakes on Instagram), and he took the same bicycle framebuilding class as I did (with Doug Fattic in Niles, MI). His shop features a big workbench (with a SWAG Off Road portaband!), a sheet-metal foot shear, an awesome manual lathe, a welding corner, a currently in-development tube bender, some cool motorcycles and bicycles, and more. I always enjoy seeing how other people set up and build out their shops, so hopefully this is of interest to some of you, as well!

Follow Austin on Instagram:   / russellmakes  .

If you're interested in bicycle framebuilding tools, be sure to check out my array of beautiful tools at http://cobraframes.net!

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