-Matt-
Established Member
This is basically a thread in which I'm throwing pictures into to catalogue and display the little area in which I make... stuff... out of wood and metal.
Its not the biggest nor the best compared to some of the awesome spaces others on here have but I'm making it useable and I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures.
This is not the whole compendium of pictures so some bits I'll chop out for the sake of it being a bit dull but should be able to show enough and explain whats going on.
The whole thing starts about two years ago or so (maybe three) wherein I asked my dad if I could have a little more space in the garage. Its a double garage and was quite untidy and I was making little projects on a board balanced between two workmates:
This of course is no and a plan was hatched to board over the up-and-over door (its broken and couldn't be used anyway due to a caravan on the other side)
This was duely done, a sort of benchtop was made using the top and bottom of an old wardrobe which I aquired and cutting a few pics out it then came to be this:
Things got added to the walls as they tend to do, storage was made and thats how it was. Jan 2013. I bought my lathe. The stand was £70 and was essentially four bits of steel tube. I decided I could make a better one and so I did.
I made a sort of A framed thing out of angle:
Got it painted and got the lathe on top:
And that was good. It worked. I was happy that it was stable and essentially free. The old chipboard box underneath is full of misc bits of metals.
I was then given (!) a drill press which was something I'd been after. Its a little rattley, the paint is tatty and the table was cracked but it was free so I guess no-ones going to complain at that. I got the table welded back up, and my girlfriend and I set about making a good sturdy stand for it out of palletwood which I'd also obtained for nothing.
The stand is.. shall we say 'over-engineered' but its certainly sturdy:
The table top of it has two bits of 12mm bar through the planks, drilled and tapped for M8 bolts which keep the top sandwhiched nicely.
After all that, a massive sort out and move around happened, my dad had given us half the garage to work in and this meant a more organised space.
A quick overview of how it looked on the left, and how it would look after:
White wall shelving moves to middle:
Boarded out on our side (the other side still being my dads storage area)
Bit of worktop rescued from a skip becomes adjoined to the existing bench (essentially given to us to use since it wasn't moving anywhere)
I got a new workbench, worktop was a fiver off Gumtree, cupboards for free from Gumtree again, more palletwood for the legs and 1"½ x 2"½ timber battening from B&Q
End of my old 'bench' which was really just a bit of old computer desk got attached to wall as shelving:
And so that brings me to Christmas. I'd decided to modify and improve the lathe stand. More shelving space and what not.
How it looked before Christmas:
I'd forgotten to take intermittant photos, but I attacked the back of it with the angle grinder, got fresh steel and created the uprighted bits, replaced the middle of the A bit to extend to the back, more cutting and welding with more angle and some box-section from a dismantled treadmill gives me this profile:
Lower bit with supports added and a fetching coat of dark green Hammerite (closest I could find to Records green, and it was a free tin)
Bandsaw came into play with the plywood, it is hardboard backed but that slimmer piece of of ply acts like a kickboard would, stops it getting too out of shape 20square in the corners, screwed through the frame to trap the ply in place:
Top on, ready for doors:
And pretty much nearly done:
Door handles to turn, magnets to glue to doors that sort of thing.
Now I know the doors look a little wonky.. because they are a bit.. its cheap pine battens with a bit routed out of the inside for the ply. Woodwork is my hobby and theres many little disciplines about it that I'm learning. The stand serves a purpose and it needed to be done. After all, make a nice place to work/play and then you can concentrate on making some really nice stuff![Stick out tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Sorry if its a bit of a long read, I do apologise for that, I'd meant to create this thread ages ago.
Thanks for reading![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
-Matt-
Its not the biggest nor the best compared to some of the awesome spaces others on here have but I'm making it useable and I hope you enjoy looking at the pictures.
This is not the whole compendium of pictures so some bits I'll chop out for the sake of it being a bit dull but should be able to show enough and explain whats going on.
The whole thing starts about two years ago or so (maybe three) wherein I asked my dad if I could have a little more space in the garage. Its a double garage and was quite untidy and I was making little projects on a board balanced between two workmates:
![Originally.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/0c2/0c2c281c60a0c3f551f777ca7c20ff03.jpg)
This of course is no and a plan was hatched to board over the up-and-over door (its broken and couldn't be used anyway due to a caravan on the other side)
This was duely done, a sort of benchtop was made using the top and bottom of an old wardrobe which I aquired and cutting a few pics out it then came to be this:
![Moredone.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/5dc/5dcedd2b7eb35b1b5379abc7473909f0.jpg)
Things got added to the walls as they tend to do, storage was made and thats how it was. Jan 2013. I bought my lathe. The stand was £70 and was essentially four bits of steel tube. I decided I could make a better one and so I did.
I made a sort of A framed thing out of angle:
![Trapezium_zps789e0818.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/e60/e608fb929368c79e075f5db5b29cc317.jpg)
Got it painted and got the lathe on top:
![StandComplete_zps04f59ff6.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/add/add8428625bc1a9a2033ae976b90a994.jpg)
And that was good. It worked. I was happy that it was stable and essentially free. The old chipboard box underneath is full of misc bits of metals.
I was then given (!) a drill press which was something I'd been after. Its a little rattley, the paint is tatty and the table was cracked but it was free so I guess no-ones going to complain at that. I got the table welded back up, and my girlfriend and I set about making a good sturdy stand for it out of palletwood which I'd also obtained for nothing.
The stand is.. shall we say 'over-engineered' but its certainly sturdy:
![Drillstandresized_zps4f704bc4.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/d87/d87fbd2fb370080920b36668b569477b.jpg)
The table top of it has two bits of 12mm bar through the planks, drilled and tapped for M8 bolts which keep the top sandwhiched nicely.
After all that, a massive sort out and move around happened, my dad had given us half the garage to work in and this meant a more organised space.
A quick overview of how it looked on the left, and how it would look after:
![oldnewplan_zpsc965e968.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/521/521ea5cac9b6de9d24b8c72c17da6a9a.jpg)
White wall shelving moves to middle:
![shelvingmoved_zps351e3b90.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/689/68928b2667cc418e993849fcd03d1220.jpg)
Boarded out on our side (the other side still being my dads storage area)
![shelvingboardedinside_zpsfd2cbafc.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/63e/63e0557deed6b2c245e84906f54615c5.jpg)
Bit of worktop rescued from a skip becomes adjoined to the existing bench (essentially given to us to use since it wasn't moving anywhere)
![CornerBenchDone_zps7c0f58f1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/4eb/4eb664cd956e512cdd34d2d4f591cd3d.jpg)
I got a new workbench, worktop was a fiver off Gumtree, cupboards for free from Gumtree again, more palletwood for the legs and 1"½ x 2"½ timber battening from B&Q
![BenchDone_zps6870774b.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/57e/57e17a4c1a1c48ae5a3c824fa9253df7.jpg)
End of my old 'bench' which was really just a bit of old computer desk got attached to wall as shelving:
![ShelvingThingy_zps8e59c2e1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/a2f/a2f3d7cca3c01b6b4d41db0779424a8a.jpg)
And so that brings me to Christmas. I'd decided to modify and improve the lathe stand. More shelving space and what not.
How it looked before Christmas:
![BeforeAsAFrame_zps7f6a8d1a.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/4fd/4fdf1e68c9cffb669ff8fa23d6a9512f.jpg)
I'd forgotten to take intermittant photos, but I attacked the back of it with the angle grinder, got fresh steel and created the uprighted bits, replaced the middle of the A bit to extend to the back, more cutting and welding with more angle and some box-section from a dismantled treadmill gives me this profile:
![HalfFramed_zps1f0fa9d9.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/728/728bafd6e4bff8c23cac98bf97338808.jpg)
Lower bit with supports added and a fetching coat of dark green Hammerite (closest I could find to Records green, and it was a free tin)
![Painted_zpsc47bd7b4.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/bfe/bfe1409b587300734a46b7db3bfe382a.jpg)
Bandsaw came into play with the plywood, it is hardboard backed but that slimmer piece of of ply acts like a kickboard would, stops it getting too out of shape 20square in the corners, screwed through the frame to trap the ply in place:
![SemiBoarded_zpsa865f70b.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/6ef/6ef96c1c0735aca96b2df474cf2ab139.jpg)
Top on, ready for doors:
![Boarded_zpsa05deb40.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/236/2363a7c6a42489801974e8c7c7b19aad.jpg)
And pretty much nearly done:
![Finishedish_zpsad1ada43.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/298/2981992a3ebc5bfc7fcb149484f3e242.jpg)
Door handles to turn, magnets to glue to doors that sort of thing.
Now I know the doors look a little wonky.. because they are a bit.. its cheap pine battens with a bit routed out of the inside for the ply. Woodwork is my hobby and theres many little disciplines about it that I'm learning. The stand serves a purpose and it needed to be done. After all, make a nice place to work/play and then you can concentrate on making some really nice stuff
Sorry if its a bit of a long read, I do apologise for that, I'd meant to create this thread ages ago.
Thanks for reading
-Matt-