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[momo]

Hi all, sorry if this is in the wrong place but its a bit confusing for me as to where to put it.

Ok where to start, well 48 yrs old, and used to do a lot of woodwork when younger, had to stop due to Asthma and kept coming up in weird rashes ( never got to the bottom of that one apart from using various creams ). Lately I took up beekeeping as such so joined the local association and then we get to where this really starts. I needed to make some beehives and yep, I went and got bitten by the bug once again, I couldn't get it out of my head all the things I could make and used too and how I missed it over the years.

So I went into my work room as I laughingly call it. Then I walked back out again feeling very depressed. Dangerous, a mess and a laugh.

See pics.

The room is a small 9x7 old coal shed attached to the rear of the house.
Now look at the rear garden.

I bet you can't guess in a million years what I want in it.

So I went throught the forums looking for advice on planning etc and guess what, I'm now so confused as to think .... why start what will never be allowed or will cost me a fortune I don't have.

This week I will hopefully be adding a perfrom thicknesser from axminster to my collection. Sadly my wife may not be too happy with this as the kitchen gets used when I want to do something.

I am also rather annoyed with my table saws rip fence, I want a better one but can't find one anywhere or in fact a place to get the t-slot aluminum to build one.

My favourite tool is my Trend router, although I do have a cheap B&Q one in a table top it came in. So I scrounged a trend table top I was going to put into a home made cabinet, but now I'm not sure.

So there you have it.

Point of this post?, just to say hello and share my misery with all those of you who posted their workshops and make me feel more depressed and drooling. :lol:

 

[CHJ]

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[George_N]

Hi Momo, welcome to the forum.
Don't get too hung up on "workshop envy" or "tool envy". You have already have a workshop and a set of tools that will let you make all sorts of things (your workshop is tidier than mine for a start). Decide what you want to make first , as that will go a long way to help you decide if the tools you have are up to the job, then only buy new tools if there is no other way to do the job. It is amazing what you can do with a router and some home made jigs.
The asthma/rash thing sounds like you may well have an allergy to one or more types of wood. The dust from iroko, for example, is well known for this and quite a few forum members can't touch it at all. A good dust mask helps, as does a barrier cream but fine dust from routing and sanding gets on your clothes and in your hair and can cause problems hours after you've stopped work. Do you remember any specific woods you might have used in the past that could have triggered a bad reaction?

 

[momo]

Workshop envy isn't the word, I keep looking at that concrete base outside and it looks prime for a workshop. , as for tidy in my little room, well its defo dangerous, cant work in all that mess.

 

[MrJay]

Bees! Bee (ho ho) sure to show and tell when you build your beehive so I can copy. Working in a titchy space is what got me into hand tools. Trying to power tool on a budget and without any room just leads to frustrating fences (how is the Rexon planer by the way - I improved mine no end using a bin for the old one and a bit of MDF), limited capacities and dust and mess and noise and cables and clutter and oh god it was hell. The last of my horseless DIY specials will be headed to the charity shop next week. Awesome garden - there's nothing like Veg with your honey.

 

[Woodmagnet]

My old coal shed is 8'x6'8'' momo, but i also have a small shed too so i know what it's like. I used to do all my projects outdoors (weather permitting) but even with only a small shed extra i can now do most things in the coal house/workshop. It all comes down to having a good system of storing what you don't use everyday but keeping it accessible.
I am still changing things around even now after 3 years, it's a never ending problem because i and everyone else keeps seeing another new toy/tool to buy. You need to get organized and not let it slip cause before you know it you re back to being swamped.
Hope this can help in some way momo, i look at others workshops and think "if only". :wink: but i will never have it (i don't do the lottery).
I still prefer being outdoors though.

 

[momo]

MrJay, Erm Bin and mdf ?, what did you do, throw it in the bin and shove the mdf over the top to make sure it didn't get out, why am I expecting a weird reply here!.
As for beehives, join the www.britishbee.org.uk/forum/and ask
about, or go here http://s64.photobucket.com/albums/h187/adamsm/Plans/
I'm sure Martin wont mind you "pinching" his, he lets us all have them, or you could have the ones I have if you want them, their for a british national and printed by the MAFF bunch.

Kevin. Why juggle with a garden like mine, I wonder if I could sneak a "garage" onto that base without the council noticing!!.

 

[Digit]

Untill a few weeks ago Momo my machines were under a carport and my workshop was 2 mtrs square, I had to build the work bench in the lounge. My new shop is 16ft by 8 ft and all the machines are in there.
I spent months gathering the building materials from auctions, cadging bits and pieces, and the final bill, including work benches, glass and electrics was about £450, so it can be done.

Roy.

 

[Rich]

Hi Momo, I see from your pics you have a mac table saw, that was my first purchase, I have an APTC TS200 now, I use the mac as a router table as the holes are already drilled in the tabletop, the extension table moves back and forth and I have fitted a fence from a cheap Aldi router table, this gives me double the adjustment, I only have a 1/4" bosch at the moment but when I get round to purchasing a 1/2" unit I'll put that underneath, the table as you know is cast ally and ribbed below so it's plenty strong enough, just thought I'd add a suggestion as this saves room in the workshop as you can still use it as a tablesaw.
regards,
Rich.

 

[MrJay]

MrJay, Erm Bin and mdf ?, what did you do, throw it in the bin and shove the mdf over the top to make sure it didn't get out.

That's not a bad idea. Thing was no end of pesky nuisance. What I actually did was note that the stock fence was concave (vertically) and therefore useless as a guide for truing edges and even were it not the fence assembly was so wobbly that putting any pressure on it causes it to move out of true, making it useless as a guide for truing edges. I bolted a bit of mdf to the side of my jointer. Win. After which I bought a hand plane and never used it again.

Thanks for the linkys. Bees and Chooks are on the cards this year.

 

[momo]

Rich. Yeah its a mac but its hopeless on the fence so I need to get a clone bessemeier (sp) made soon, as for a router table I have 2 so dont use it for that although I do have a mac router on its own table, funny thing is I wanted a decent router table and was taken by the trend one but never got it, then someone gave me an old trend table top only ( no legs etc etc) which I was going to put into a home made top to give me rigidity and size, then I found out that my Trend would fit into the mac router table so its all in the air right now.

MrJay. No problem, your welcome. just think of all the lovely beeswax you will have for the furniture :lol:

 

[Adam]

Bees! Bee (ho ho) sure to show and tell when you build your beehive so I can copy.

I built some nuc boxes which I detailed on here, and some brood chambers I think. I'll see if I can dig out a link.

Not really beehives but:

Landing Boards

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1958

Lots of info on Dave Cushmans site though.

http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman/nat.html

I'm writing up a section on embedding support wires for 14 x 12 frames at the moment.

Annoyingly, I posted both here, and the BBKA forums about building beehives, getting all the profiles right etc. I've search carefully and can't find it.

A good selection of photos here, although its making a nuc box, but the principle is the same.

http://www.pbase.com/asleitch/beehive

Adam