The shop had to get worse before it got better. Spent some holiday time getting shop reorganized to fit a surface plate I found up in York, PA at Hildebrand Machinery. It is a nice (a little bigger than I wanted) 36″x66″ and weighs in around 800 pounds. Will start working on the fixtures sometime soon. It is short too… need to work on a base although I might keep it short to prevent my from using for something else or piling crap on it…
Also got a fork jig from my nephew Lucas! He is a highschool machine shop student and has the bicycle bug much like me.