Sounds like a fantastic shop space! Mortising machines are not that uncommon in shops, we had one in my school and also a school I went to take woodworking cla

Sounds like a fantastic shop space! Mortising machines are not that uncommon in shops, we had one in my school and also a school I went to take woodworking classes as an adult a year or two back. Those machines tend to be high maintenance (requires skill to sharpen the bits!) and at least where I took classes they were out of order. > with the Turtle guy in a GI helmet, telling you what to do in the event a nuclear bombing! Hah! I know that guy. I was visiting the US recently and the San Francisco public library (best library I've ever been to!) had a cold war exhibit and some videos of that GI Turtle! > I don't know if any of it still exists, if kids there are taught that stuff any more I've heard that shop classes are in a decline (sad), but I there are regularly students showing off their high school shop class projects over at reddit's /r/woodworking, so at least some places have that as an option.