"The Joinery Shack!"

[joiner_sim]

:shock: Right don't laugh! I'm only 20 years old and am trying to make the best out of my skills outside of my day job, with is a full time bench joiner. I have worked on many different types of joinery jobs, shopfronts, bay windows, conservatories, doors and well you get the point.

Anyway, I've cleared up my parent's shed as much as possible, although my pictures dont do me justice, there is enough room to do small pieces of furniture and I'm still trying to clear out a bit more space, but at the moment don't need it because i'm starting small and going larger.

I have a bandsaw, and the rest is all portable power tools. I have yet to make things like a router table and the what not, but I will aquire these things as the work requires.

Well here's the bandsaw, and the enterance to the shack!!! normally the floor space here is taken up by the work bench when i'm working.

This is the workbench, yes yes, i know looking at some of your pictures that you have solid benches, but at the moment this is doing me fine and with the lack of room is easy to change the layout of the shop. The blue thing you see is a bike and reclining garden chairs that take up alot of space in these 3 pics, if these are taken out there is a decent, but still small work area.

This next one is my excuse for a timber/ offcut rack! And it kind of shows the lack of space that i have.

This is my first completed project from the shack, before I got the bandsaw:

If you are not sure what it is you are looking at it is the flower planters hung on the concrete posts!

:arrow: Anyways, just thought I would share these pictures to show the other end of the scale from the medium sized garage workshops to the industry back garden sized ones! I would hope this pos encourages anyone else who has a small "SHACK" to share their pics, as I'm insterested in how other cope with the little space.

I will be starting a chess board project soon, most likley to be towards the end of july due to the commercial side of my joinery having to take priority this month, but be sure that I'm not going to compromise the quality of joinery simply because of the lack of modern machines and space! WIP post will be coming in a few weeks when it starts!

In the meantime, please feel free to visit my website and have a look at the more commercial side of my joinery, I do apoligise that theres has barely been any new pictures for quite a while now, but I will be adding new pictures soon of bays, shopfronts and conservatories, now I've said that I won't do any for ages!!!!! haha! Oh well you'll have to take my word for it! If you do visit my site please leave a guestbook message, thankyou, SIMON.

 

[skipdiver]

From little acorns,mighty oaks do grow.

Looking good.

 

[Shultzy]

joiner_sim, like you and many others I started small in a 6x4 shed in my dad's back garden. When I married and moved into my house I had the "luxury" of an integral garage to work in, which also had to house the car.

This is where I spent 35 years of woodworking before retiring and building a workshop.

BTW this was my TS, router and jigsaw table which I made in '73 and just shows you don't need vast amounts of space and expensive tools to make quality items.

Good luck and I hope you get pleasure from your new direction.

 

[pren]

Joiner Sim; I think you've raised a good point here. With all the members workshop tours/builds that get featured on UKW, it's easy to feel that 'I'm the only one with a titchy/rubbishy workshop'. :lol:

I admit to being envious of others workshops, with all the high-end toys ... I mean... tools.... but seeing what others have to contend with (and manage to turn out some very impressive things from), I'd have to say that I feel rather fortunate with my leaky, cold, plastic, 3m x 5m 'shack' filled with bottom-of-the-range tools. :roll:

It's not as big as it looks: This is one of them panoramic, stitched shots.

Seems I have no excuse,now, for not being better. :lol:

ATB.

Bryn.

 

[dennis]

Bryn

I think that the more basic the equipment used the more self satisfaction must be gained from successfully completing a project.I must say that the availability of relatively cheap electrical machines and tools must have encouraged more people to take up woodwork which can only be a good thing, but one thing that I find has happened with the advent of power tools is that you come across more tradesmen that cannot manage to do certain jobs if they do not have the relevant power tool.

Dennis

 

[floorman]

Hi Joiner sim. I have same things you can have for workshop for free.
I,m refit mine out , a small pillar drill and perform planer come to mind.
just pm me with a contact number . i live in coventry so not far away.
Gary

 

[OPJ]

Thanks for sharing Simon, it's always interesting to see how people manage to produce work in the most confined of spaces.

How big is your garden, by the way? Is there room to put up a small shed and dump all the furniture and gardening junk in there?? :wink: If you're got a roof space at all you can use that for storing long lengths of timber.

 

[BradNaylor]

When I married and moved into my house I had the "luxury" of an integral garage to work in, which also had to house the car.

I've never understood this. Why put a car in a garage?

A standard sized garage is a good size for a hobby workshop. I could work out of that space and earn a living from it.

Why spoil it by parking your car in it?

Dan

 

[Pete Robinson]

No matter haw small the space is, when there is a will there is always a way!! If you plan carefully you CAN make it work.

Pete

 

[Tusses]

My 1st workshop was a coal shed about 3x3x7 - to store my B&D workmate, jig saw and circ saw and router. I made jigs for the circ saw so it was inverted and used as a table saw - the router was used as an over head router table. This was 'my own invention' before I knew there were already table saws and router tables !

My workspace was a lean to plastic roof on the side of the house (or sometimes the dining room if it was cold outside )

made plenty of usefull stuff with that setup

 

[big soft moose]

When I married and moved into my house I had the "luxury" of an integral garage to work in, which also had to house the car.

I've never understood this. Why put a car in a garage?

A standard sized garage is a good size for a hobby workshop. I could work out of that space and earn a living from it.

Why spoil it by parking your car in it?

Dan

too right - if cars weren't suposed to live outside they wouldn't be waterproof , QED

 

[joiner_sim]

I can't wait to get started at the end of the month! :lol: 21st birthday soon, so should have some money to get a few odds n ends.

:arrow: I must say I do have the advantage of being able to work in between the commercial shop and my private one, so planing up timber is not a problem. The only problem i'm going to come across is when I haven't worked out sizes correctly and need new timber urgently haha, I'll see about that one when the time comes :roll: