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To start off, some homemade or adapted woodworking tools for use in the workshop or on site.

This is a chopsaw station that I made in the last few days before leaving for France, my friends and even I wondered if it was worth all the effort at such a crucial and stressfull time, - it was!

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I use it all the time yet it is still mobile enough to take back to England in the back of the car or in the trailer, the open length of the support tables is 8 feet (2.4m) and I have crosscut 600mm kitchen worktops with it by flipping them over to double the length of cut.

It also houses my thicknesser which adds weight, aiding stability and damping saw vibration.

From memory it used nearly all of two full 8 by 4 sheets of 3/4 ply.

Oh and it is on castors and also has screw down levelling pads which I have yet to use as it is so stable and heavy.

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JR,

My planer / thicknesser is on a roll-away stand, you cant see the castors but they are the "lock" type with a foot operated toggle on each. It beats having to put the back at risk every time it would need picking up.

[IMG]http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h17/powerdesal/01122006016.jpg[/IMG]

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Steve.

Ah but you cant see the polyurethane glue that I have dripped all over it! Also I also had to live in that cold open workshop for the first 18 months before completing my first apartment so I had got used to being obsessively clean. Maybe I still have a photo of my 9m2 emergency winter quarters.

Here is the space in the first summer, in fact it was quite convivial living and working in a bar

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That was until winter came, this was phase one insulation, I later had to cover all the walls as well, it was the first of two hard winters

[IMG]http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff295/jr7man/CIMG0683.jpg[/IMG]

I love my ancienne carrelage in the bar, in fact I saw some identical ones in a museum in Paris where they had recreated a period working kitchen. the tiles are laid on a bed of sand without grouted joints.

Sadly it wont be to the taste of my locataires when I complete the apartments and will probably be covered with YUK! laminate flooring, but at least they will still be there for when future generations regain taste!

If you look carefully you will see that my workbench behind is actually the old beer cooler fridge, it still works so if I have a real thirst on or want to cool my tools[:)]

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[quote user="Anton Redman"]You have clearly misunderstood the point of having a kitchen in you workshop. Hillman Imp pistons into the deep freeze. Cylinder block into the oven. Then and only then can you rebuild the racing engine. Looks like an impressive project.[/quote]

 hi ok

                     here we go .....de-tuned coventry climax engines ...the hours I have spent trying to get them back to tuned  ...them bloody cam biscuits .......

                     Dave

 when I have more time will tell you a tale  how ...Sir J .. St .... the greatest  drunk my pee......

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Chancer Newbie

Chancer

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Chris

Now that we have found your bête noire

Suffer baby suffer

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This was my old pleasure woodworking shop in England, I have since converted it into my living accomodation so that I could rent out the main house, but really because I missed living in a workshop after finishing the first flat here.

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That confirms it, you're a feak JR...a clean one! I can see the need to keep some sort of order in a smallish space though....personally if I'm hooked into a project the last thing on my mind is mess, I focus entirely on the piece and worry about the mess later.

I like the white punchbag...does it fight back?

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Mine were Pony lamps from Woodcraft or perhaps Woodtech, they cost a lot less than the axminster ones and a hell of a lot less than the Axminster Pony ones, from memory a few dollars each.

I also bought some "bigfoot" pads which whilst not looking as usefull as the Axminster ones, I like the way they stabilise and lif the clamp, again were much cheaper.

The Pony ones are made to quite fine tolerances and pull up square, you would only need slightly wider tolerances on the others, especially at the sliding end for them to be a chocolate teapot.

Buyer beware, but if you cannot arrange shipment from the US and given the difference in price it is worth a punt.

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Jonzjob Newbie

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I have used Axminster for about 15 years now and found them very good. Basically, they don't sell rubbish... Another plus is if you have any queries then the blokes on the tech line know and use the stuff they are asked about.

By the time you have paid the postage from the States. Well as is said you pays yer money and takes yer chance, especially with the tax that the customs can smack on anything coming in?

Buyer beware? Not with Axminster.[:)]

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I agree, amazing service for this day and age, the chopsaw in the photo I bought from them, it always smelt a bit which I wrongly put down to the blade brake, I used it only a few times before leaving on my travels.

By the time I found the smell was the windings, which was the firts time I used it in anger it was 18 months old but only had about 15 minutes of use. They were very sympathetic and sent me a new stator housing, when I told them that the design was different and not compatibel they sent me the complete head and motor assembly. They get my thumbs up.

I bought stuff twice from the states, both times they were large orders ie 10 sets of pony clamps, a stacked dado set which no-one is now allowed to sell in the UK, a table saw tenoning jig and various other bits.

The prices were really low by comparison even after the postage and customs duty, generally the things were very strongly made like the tenoning jig, and of course I had the ability to buy things that at that time I just couldnt find in the UK like the above.

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These have been posted before, but this is my workshop. Started life as a double abri, car port.

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/DSC06952.jpg[/IMG]

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Startright 301S bandsaw and a Record CL1 lathe. Not the best lathe, but it works wonders for what I want to do. Plus I can't aford 1000s of € for a really expensive one that I wouldn't get the benifit from anyway!!

Tat reminds me, I must get some more chain oil. The near empty bottle is on the bench. The work benches are best quality seconds kitchen work tops on a 4 X 2 frame. Good and steady, flat, cheep and easy to get the sh!t off... If you go into the sheds you can quite often get damaged worktops at a good price. Probably a bit to big for your hand baggage on a flight though Steve?

The insulation in the roof is not the cheap stuff from the sheds. It came from a firm in the Alps somewhere. A bit expensive, but it really does keep the temp down in the summer and helps keep it in during the winter. There is nowt above it but the tiles. Easy to fit and very effective!

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Insolatoin, buy cheep get cheep. From what I can make out Chris the stuff I have may be more expensive, but much better quality too. Brico Depot D'isolant Réflective 5 Composasants 2€75 M²: Yer pays yer monet, etc.

I tidied up a bit for those photoz, but not too much. I like to be able to walk around my workshop without going base over apex over everything!![:D]

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Cheeky bitch, I will scratch yer eyes out if yer not careful[geek]! If you were real butch like me then you would be able to work outside in shorts in the snow and sub zero temps! Never mind being a wooz in the warm... So there![:P]

I've been called lots of things in my life, but never tooo tidy?

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