Some news + designing a dream workshop?

[demonx]

New benches have arrived!

Some assembly required.

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[demonx]

Longest of the workbenches is now framed off, having a coffee before I start another.

This one measures in at 4.8m long, 970mm high and 650mm deep. Made to fit between my heater and a doorway, with the height just right for me to work without bending over.

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[GregL]

Hi Allan,

Looks really good!
What are you going to use for benchtops?

Thanks,
GregL.

[demonx]

Hi Allan,

Looks really good!
What are you going to use for benchtops?

Thanks,
GregL.

Just MDF. It's cheap, easy to rip into size and if it ever gets wrecked it can be pulled off and it's cheap to replace.

In saying that though, I've got a "bash the crap out of it" bench that is used mostly for working on cars and metal work, jobs like smashing out bushes on car A frames, and the MDF on that bench as dirty as it is has never needed to be changed and it's lasted for about a decade, so it's good value.

[kiwigeo]

Hi Allan,

Looks really good!
What are you going to use for benchtops?

Thanks,
GregL.

Just MDF. It's cheap, easy to rip into size and if it ever gets wrecked it can be pulled off and it's cheap to replace.

In saying that though, I've got a "bash the crap out of it" bench that is used mostly for working on cars and metal work, jobs like smashing out bushes on car A frames, and the MDF on that bench as dirty as it is has never needed to be changed and it's lasted for about a decade, so it's good value.

Ive got MDF on my benchtops...when it gets worn I turn the tops over and get a second run out of the stuff. Some of the benches are dressed with a sacrificial masonite topping which gets ripped off if it gets tired.

[demonx]

This is the second one I made today 3.3m long and will go behind the CNC to hold tooling and jigs etc,

I threw a thick coat of black on the two of them this arvo to take the pine look away. Unpainted parts won't be seen once shelving is in place.

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[demonx]

The big one is now shelved and bevelled, as is the CNC bench. Only four more to make now...

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[demonx]

I haven't posted many pics of inside the new workshop, so here is one - this is the east wall and the long bench under the window is used as a lay out table and glue station.



Piece of figured Blackwood that I'll be making Hamish's scratchplate out of.



Michael has chosen his body blank, pretty sure the smile says it all!



Neck blanks are underway:

[kiwigeo]

All looking good there Allan. Nothing better than working with some space around you...my workshop is getting tight. Yesterday I bent down to pick a dropped screw up off the floor and ended up with a Queensland Maple neck black sticking into my butt....nothing worse

[demonx]

All looking good there Allan. Nothing better than working with some space around you...my workshop is getting tight. Yesterday I bent down to pick a dropped screw up off the floor and ended up with a Queensland Maple neck black sticking into my butt....nothing worse

Yeah, I was always getting braised or bruises around hip/waists height in the old one as there was no room to move. It's a much more pleasant working environment here.

[simso]

I like the way you cnc the neck scarf joint

Steve

[demonx]

I like the way you cnc the neck scarf joint

Steve

When I first converted to CNC it took my a LONG time to work out how I wanted to do the headstocks, this is what I came up with.

If I had a 5th axis I can assure you I'd be doing it differently!

I say 5th, as my 4th axis is a slave to the 3rd as there are two X axis

[seeaxe]

All looking good there Allan. Nothing better than working with some space around you...my workshop is getting tight. Yesterday I bent down to pick a dropped screw up off the floor and ended up with a Queensland Maple neck black sticking into my butt....nothing worse

Sorry have to disagree. I would have said a piece of Wenge would be much worse. The splinters on that stuff are horrific.

[demonx]

All looking good there Allan. Nothing better than working with some space around you...my workshop is getting tight. Yesterday I bent down to pick a dropped screw up off the floor and ended up with a Queensland Maple neck black sticking into my butt....nothing worse

Sorry have to disagree. I would have said a piece of Wenge would be much worse. The splinters on that stuff are horrific.

When I carve necks I have a habit of running my hand along it to get a gauge of how it's going, on wenge necks that can be a real bother, you only have to look at the stuff and it's shooting splinters at you!

[DarwinStrings]

All looking good there Allan. Nothing better than working with some space around you...my workshop is getting tight. Yesterday I bent down to pick a dropped screw up off the floor and ended up with a Queensland Maple neck black sticking into my butt....nothing worse

"Nothing worse" hmm a matter of opinion I guess. I was building a formwork for a concrete path once and bent down to pick up a lump hammer, I sat squarely and with great accuracy on a 12mm reo bar that I had only minutes before driven vertically into the ground. It tore through my king gees and my reg grundies as well as some flesh. I pity the poor labourer who got the job of pulling out the formwork.

[kiwigeo]

All looking good there Allan. Nothing better than working with some space around you...my workshop is getting tight. Yesterday I bent down to pick a dropped screw up off the floor and ended up with a Queensland Maple neck black sticking into my butt....nothing worse

"Nothing worse" hmm a matter of opinion I guess. I was building a formwork for a concrete path once and bent down to pick up a lump hammer, I sat squarely and with great accuracy on a 12mm reo bar that I had only minutes before driven vertically into the ground. It tore through my king gees and my reg grundies as well as some flesh. I pity the poor labourer who got the job of pulling out the formwork.

Nasty stuff....