Alan Holtham
Established Member
Hello everyone,
I have an exciting project in prospect and would like to enlist help from any one willing to get involved. I have run this by the Mods first to check all is OK.
I am just starting on a new book looking at woodworking workshops, their design, construction and layout. It will be vaguely similar to the Scott Landis book but will feature more of the issues like storage, dust extraction, heating and most importantly, budget, that we all seem to struggle with.
I would like to illustrate it with practical examples from a range of workshops and also feature in detail the layout of these workshops and show how they have overcome the various constraints. I am particularly interested in the amount of working space you have and how you have set everything out to work within this and what you produce as an end product. I want to see everything from tiny little setups to full sized semi industrial workshops, professional or amateur, I want wooden sheds, converted garages and purpose built buildings
I know that we are all voyeurs when it comes to other peoples workshops as has been demonstrated by the interest in workshop threads on this and other forums, and hope that the book will become the definitive guide to setting up a workshop no matter what the difficulties you have to overcome.
This is hopefully where you come in. If you would like your workshop featured, no matter how big or small, tidy or disorganised, I would like to see it. I would need to visit you, draw a plan and take lots of pictures. There is nothing in it for you apart from the glory of seeing your haven in print and you would need to sign a release form allowing me to use the pictures of your property.
I think it could be a fascinating journey of discovery as we can all learn from the ideas of others as we have already seen on the forum. I just want to crystallise all these ideas into one easily accessible resource.
Although I have already made a start on the text, I anticipate beginning the workshop visits very early next year, I am only at the research stage at the moment. If you are not interested but know someone who might be please pass the message on.
If you are interested please either contact me through the forum or pm me with your details. Your location is obviously critical so I can plan a round trip of visits.
I hope this is all in order and my request hasn’t offended anyone, if it has then my apologies.
Best regards,
Alan
I have an exciting project in prospect and would like to enlist help from any one willing to get involved. I have run this by the Mods first to check all is OK.
I am just starting on a new book looking at woodworking workshops, their design, construction and layout. It will be vaguely similar to the Scott Landis book but will feature more of the issues like storage, dust extraction, heating and most importantly, budget, that we all seem to struggle with.
I would like to illustrate it with practical examples from a range of workshops and also feature in detail the layout of these workshops and show how they have overcome the various constraints. I am particularly interested in the amount of working space you have and how you have set everything out to work within this and what you produce as an end product. I want to see everything from tiny little setups to full sized semi industrial workshops, professional or amateur, I want wooden sheds, converted garages and purpose built buildings
I know that we are all voyeurs when it comes to other peoples workshops as has been demonstrated by the interest in workshop threads on this and other forums, and hope that the book will become the definitive guide to setting up a workshop no matter what the difficulties you have to overcome.
This is hopefully where you come in. If you would like your workshop featured, no matter how big or small, tidy or disorganised, I would like to see it. I would need to visit you, draw a plan and take lots of pictures. There is nothing in it for you apart from the glory of seeing your haven in print and you would need to sign a release form allowing me to use the pictures of your property.
I think it could be a fascinating journey of discovery as we can all learn from the ideas of others as we have already seen on the forum. I just want to crystallise all these ideas into one easily accessible resource.
Although I have already made a start on the text, I anticipate beginning the workshop visits very early next year, I am only at the research stage at the moment. If you are not interested but know someone who might be please pass the message on.
If you are interested please either contact me through the forum or pm me with your details. Your location is obviously critical so I can plan a round trip of visits.
I hope this is all in order and my request hasn’t offended anyone, if it has then my apologies.
Best regards,
Alan
