• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Small workshop

Thanks Bob and Malcolm I am not too worried about the suede but veg tanned leather is extremely sensitive to moisture mould grows incredibly easily.
I saw an oil filled radiator in screwfix this morning for under £20. As there is so much insulation in the workshop it is never actually cold out there.
My hot air gun stopped working again this afternoon so I will be back there tomorrow I might pick one up.
 
A popular misconception is that insulation keeps a building warm.

Left to its own devices the inside of a building will become exactly the same temperature as the outside (no sun and still air)

Insulation reductes the rate of heat conduction through the structure. Sun through the window will warm it up and stay warmer for a while once the sun has gone in and any heating will be more effective requiring less power for a given air temperature inside.
I see your proposed heater has a thermostat so the insulation can potentially save running costs.

Bob
 
Thanks Bob the window faces west and is quite small but the doors face south so it gets nice and warm during the day.
Believe it or not leather still darkens in sunlight and that is why there is only one window :D
 
I have not updated this workshop thread for a while progress has been slow.
The work benches are finished with shelves where required.
This bench has caused me some issues there is a joint because I am using leftover floor panels, Getting a joint I was happy with was not to easy.

2020-01-13_09-06-18 by my0771, on Flickr

This is the solution I have come up with.

2020-03-28_09-40-08 by my0771, on Flickr

When I shape and dye leather it is wet and I am always short of drying space so I have come up with this.
I should point out I only need 4 but for some reason I made 5 there you go.

2020-03-28_05-10-45 by my0771, on Flickr

They are not going to live in the woodworking area I just hung them there as I made them.
I need to make some sort of trolley on wheels for my bandsaw and another for my large bench sander or maybe one that holds both. If anyone has any advice or tips I would appreciate it.
 
Looking really good, Michael. Ask yourself, a couple of years ago would you have thought you'd been able to make all this? Good job!
 
Malc2098":3dtkkdm0 said:
Looking really good, Michael. Ask yourself, a couple of years ago would you have thought you'd been able to make all this? Good job!
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Thanks Malcolm without the help, by that I mean advice and support that has been given so freely from so many people here I would never have been able to get this far.
I think the same applies for the Covid 19 issue by supporting each other we will make it through.
 
MY63":yglwujh4 said:
Malc2098":yglwujh4 said:
Looking really good, Michael. Ask yourself, a couple of years ago would you have thought you'd been able to make all this? Good job!
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Thanks Malcolm without the help, by that I mean advice and support that has been given so freely from so many people here I would never have been able to get this far.
I think the same applies for the Covid 19 issue by supporting each other we will make it through.
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That's mutual. I've been sticking suede to cornflakes cardboard to fit them in my boxes. :)
 
BTW, I've been using double sided tape rather than glue. Works for me.
 
As my workshop design experience was at a similar level to my building experience I just went with what I thought would work. I had been working on a 600mm sq piece of plywood on my knee for many years so I thought anything would be great.
Down each side I had benches 600mm deep along the back wall I had a full width 2.4 m bench over 900mm deep. My idea was to use this for cutting larger pieces of leather and assembly.
Some of you may have already realised the problem I could not reach the back wall so all of the shelving space was lost and storage wise there was a lot of wasted space. Using left over timber meant the legs were in the way all of the time.

20200214_173139 by my0771, on Flickr

It does not look too wide but believe me it is.
I have also acquired more machines than I planned, In the short term the hot foil printer is much bigger than I wanted, I had not really planned on buying a sewing machine. But there you go I now have both.

Getting to the point I pulled out the bench and refitted it in line with the existing benches, the sewing machine will now fit on the back wall.

My plan always included a band saw and sanding station on castors, I waited until I had the sander I wanted as I now have that I started to think about how big it needed to be. I made it deep enough to take my compressor but also tall enough to take the extractor. Unfortunately it is not tall enough to take the cyclone and barell that are intended to go with it. I guess I need a smaller barell or maybe a box to go with the cyclone.

2020-09-20_01-13-09 by my0771, on Flickr

I made some work tables for a friend and as we did not use all of the wheels he gave me 4 for this station.
 
Just goes to show that stuff expands to fill the space made available for it :)

Oh, and workshops are never big enough.
 
Andyp":1jgp885i said:
Just goes to show that stuff expands to fill the space made available for it :)

Oh, and workshops are never big enough.
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I can vouch for that!!!

Coming along, Michael!
 
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