mcfly, 24 days ago

The space consists of 2 rooms. The main workspace room and 2 additional rooms.

The workshop room needs some work but is of decent size and has a lot of potential.

But also this area has a lot of breakins and vandalism in the past.

Tools and other things got stolen, things broken.

The door was broken open with a cowfood and clearly this has not seen a lot of overhaul in the last years.

The first focus will therefore be to fix the door and some obvious repairs to be done.

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mcfly, 24 days ago

This was the door on first view.

2 reinforcements are missing, there's break in damage and some spots of rot.

This will all have to be fixed before i can put the more expensive tools in here.

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mcfly, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

When the door is done and this room is a bit more break-in-proof i will focus on building a workbench.

The current workbench is nice but ahem has come to the end of its life.

Its basically a very long English Jointers Workbench also often called a Nicholson after the person writing a description over it. The current length is 3,60m.

The workbench is indirectly mounted to the bench via the tray that's put on top of that.

I will be building a replacement for it. A wand mounted English Jointer's workbench but with integrated tool tray and a bit less wide.

That's the plan so far. I have not started building that yet.

I still discuss with myself over the wood for the workbench.

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The new workbench should use normal woodworking vises with the ability to mount those steel-vises over plates in the dog-holes.

GustavinoBevilacqua, 24 days ago

@mcfly

I think that workbench could be "resuscitated".

mcfly, 24 days ago

@GustavinoBevilacqua

I was thinking that first too but if you start to look in detail not really.

I have 2 options:
a) Build a new one and put this one in the shed for historical reasons.

b) Spend a lot of money to fix this bench which has some constructional shortcomings.

And i want an alike bench, not the same.
So: higher, different depth, 2-3 wood vises, Dog holes. Drawers etc etc. The steel vises removable and the tool tray integrated and actually lower than the workspace so i can have a 3x80cm usable workspace.

The agreement that i have is "same style, same general measures, same rough appearance."

I can change the wood and details of the construction.

I added 2 further pics to the workbench-toot with detail views.

GustavinoBevilacqua, 24 days ago

@mcfly

Yes, seeing the other photos you posted it looks a bit chewed.

And I agree a lot on the need of a correct height table: just a few centimeters too low would make woodworking a disagreable experience, after a while.

mcfly, 24 days ago

@GustavinoBevilacqua
Its also not even close to be flat. The tool tray is higher instead of lower than the workspace meaning its again not flat.
The thickness is not very big and i want around 5cm to be able to use holddowns.
There's not really good possibilities to attach somewhat nice vises.

With the tool tray in the rear its at the same time a bit too deep to reach for tools potentially to be stored above and the usable width is too small.

I think the height and usable area of the workspace are rather improtant.

GustavinoBevilacqua, 24 days ago

@mcfly

Also, in such an old building, don't forget to match the table top with the floor to have it dead horizontal (been there, done that).

A laser level would be helpful.

mcfly, 24 days ago

@GustavinoBevilacqua The floor is surprisingly level.

Also the building is under historical protection which restricts some changes.