What did you do in your workshop today ?

[custard]

The first finished chock. My letter carving skills aren't that great and the recessed background wasn't as smooth as I would have liked, so I used a nail punch with a domed recess to create the texture. I was pleased with the effect and, as I had hoped, it disguises a multitude of sins. One more to go and a few coats of Danish oil will see it done.

Jim

Nice job!

=D>

 

[n0legs]

Painted the inside of a fire extinguisher,





with RAL 9001 in Lesonal 2K

 

[memzey]

At long last finished the interior of my new workshop:


Three layers of soundproofing and 16 sheets of 18mm OSB 3. I hope I never have to see the stuff ever again!

 

[LancsRick]

Started a little project to test a few skills. Need a little shelving unit to replace the "temporary" (15mm MDF, spraypainted, now been in place 2 years...) one that I built previously. Going to make it out of solid oak, with loose fit drawer boxes, and all joints will be dovetails (yup, practice project).

 

[MattRoberts]

After snaffling an ex demo triton TRA001 for £140, I installed it and this:

 

[John15]

I made myself a new 350 x 275mm shooting board from 20mm MDF and plywood with a plastic insert to hold the plane off the vertical surface (a la Rob Cosman).

John

 

[Neil S]

Matt,
My Triton TRA001 is mounted in one of those Kreg insert plates. Its a really nice plate but it sagged in the middle along the long edge. I have had to add some bolts that screw upwards to give extra support and lift the middle back up to flush with the table.

Keep an eye out for that happening in yours.

Cheers

-Neil

 

[MattRoberts]

Matt,
My Triton TRA001 is mounted in one of those Kreg insert plates. Its a really nice plate but it sagged in the middle along the long edge. I have had to add some bolts that screw upwards to give extra support and lift the middle back up to flush with the table.

Keep an eye out for that happening in yours.

Cheers

-Neil

Thanks Neil - I've actually used a series of screws all around the perimeter to level it, so will keep an eye on it for sag. Cheers

 

[MarkDennehy]

Finished putting the soundproofing MattRoberts pointed me towards up in the shed to save from going deaf in there (works too btw, thanks Matt!)

 

[MattRoberts]

Finished putting the soundproofing MattRoberts pointed me towards up in the shed to save from going deaf in there (works too btw, thanks Matt!)

Oh awesome - looks great, much better than the black ones I have. Where did you get them?

Cheers

 

[MarkDennehy]

Ebay, from croatia of all places. Not the least expensive thing ever, but if I'd put black foam up there, it would have swallowed the light and I would have undone all the work spent lining and painting the shed white and I'd be back in a cave again. A very quiet cave, but still. So it was either shell out, go deaf or work in a dark cave. Not the best range of options

 

[NazNomad]

"What did you do in your workshop today?''

I took another broken Tuffsaws blade out of my Burgess BK3. Broken at the weld again.

I'm not buying another blade for it, it'll go in the For Sale section real soon. I give up.

 

[LancsRick]

Finished putting the soundproofing MattRoberts pointed me towards up in the shed to save from going deaf in there (works too btw, thanks Matt!)

You say soundproofing - what are you proofing? Looks more like absorption material to stop echoing?

 

[MarkDennehy]

Primarily yes, it's to damp down noise inside the shed, I just call it soundproofing because I don't have any other name for it!

 

[memzey]

After the horrendous job of lining the walls was finished, today I put up a load of spur shelving as my timber rack and for general shelves:

 

[MarkDennehy]

Found that if I tried to plane on the bench in its current location (up against the side wall of the shed), I'd run the #7 straight into the back wall of the shed. Way too close. $DAYJOB gives time off in lieu if you get called out-of-hours when on call and I got called at 0300 one day last week for three hours work, and then after work that day, got called again at 2300 for more work, and there was some time on the weekend too, so I get today off.
So, out to shed, pull everything out including spare tyres (don't ask) and a tumble drier (don't ask), moved the bench against the back wall so it had two feet between either end and the side walls. Knocked up a quick shelf for under the bench, and finished the last two panels of soundproofing (echo absorbers? still don't have a word for it) and moved everything back into the shed.

I really need to build that 8x4x2' shed for the lawnmower and patio furniture and garden tools and stuff, just to get more room in the shed for proper stuff.

Then I got the 8' boards that weren't fitting in the shed properly and just roughly broke them down (these are the ash, walnut and poplar boards for the sidecar cot project I'm trying to get done for xmas).

15 minutes work, stretched to an hour by sitting staring at the plans in my notebook trying to figure out how long I needed the rough-cut planks to be to not pineapple my design irreparably. I need to learn to work faster
But at least it's all tucked away in the shed relatively tidily now, and I can now work in there even when it's raining (instead of having to stack 8' boards outside in the rain which I didn't want to do really).
Need to fit the new stronger hinges and hasp on the door now (the ones there now wouldn't give me a lot of confidence about keeping opportunistic burglars out) and then I can start moving tools from boxes in the kitchen into the shed and getting on with things.

 

[MarkDennehy]

Need wall storage for stuff, and finished this off today. It's not permanent, but it'll buy me a few months to get something proper made up. Have to do a few more over the next while as well for the other stuff.
Other than that, was too knackered from the weekend to do much, but over the weekend I got a bench hook, shooting board and thicknessing jig built and got the first slat for the next project made up (it was a test piece to get the jigs and process sorted, I have twenty or so more to make yet), and before all that had to resaw a 30" 8x1 piece of ash down to two boards which were meant to be just under a half-inch each but... well, it wasn't a crime against trees, but it definitely wasn't as good as a bandsaw (a piece of machinery which I now covet rather strongly, but I have nowhere to put it ).

 

[MattRoberts]

I got fed up of the crappy chip board router table I had, so I installed a solid oak worktop and reinstalled my router into it

 

[giantbeat]

I got fed up of the crappy chip board router table I had, so I installed a solid oak worktop and reinstalled my router into it

Nice

 

[MarkDennehy]

Very classy looking - how clean and tidy is it 0.73 seconds after you start using it?