Recent content by MikeSav

Looks like he makes some fine work, and has a speciality in the outdoor seating.

I'm in my mid-forties and only realised I want to work with wood around five years ago, taking several short courses in fine furniture making before investing several years in a now aborted timber milling venture, from which I learnt some of the nature of wood, cutting and seasoning it etc. My...

Unless I find myself leaving college with customers queueing up to buy my furniture from the end of year exhibitions - but I think I'm drifting into fantasy land !

This is great advice! I don't have a product yet, I'm still learning how to make fine furniture. I'll finish my course July 2024, and from what I've learned on this thread (and at an established makers open workshop day I just attended), it would be sensible to go and work for someone else for a...

Thank you so much for your detailed reply, this kind of advice from experience is just what I was looking for. The units I've looked at locally on industrial estates tend to be around £12k a year for a bit under 1000 square foot, which seems like a huge overhead. Seems that asking around farms...

Do you mind me asking, how much is the rent on a 900 square foot place? Thanks

I'm glad to hear you're busy. I don't have expectations of making any serious money woodworking, I just love it. It certainly seems that the rent and rates can be the killers, and that's what makes me wonder if there's a way to minimise the damage by either sharing a workshop with several...

So I'm getting from this that it's a bad idea, unviable, unaffordable and without a market.

None, probably. But all those machines and materials will take up lots of space

P.S I have been looking at bench spaces to rent and can't find any in Hampshire at all - I am also considering and researching the option of setting up a workshop to provide this purpose

13 years later... I'm guessing that most of this information is still relevant to someone wishing to set up a workshop, except perhaps the figures. As someone who is looking into the subject with a view to setting up a workshop (primarily for freestanding and fitted furniture), could anyone...

Sorry, now Sold

£850 My trusty Hammer N4400 bandsaw up for sale, I'll sure miss it. Some light rust on table, nothing serious, runs great, 240v 16 amp lead included, fusebox will require a 16 amp fuse to run. 2014. SO18 area of Southampton, 5 mins off the M27. £850

Those look great. I wish there were some in Hampshire - I wonder why there isn't