A Real Workshop

[Sawdust Maker]

I won't mention the laws about disturbing the native fauna!

[Scally]

I have added a Dawn No 10 to my workbench.

I had dreams of a Patternmakers vise but haven't had any luck with Lotto.

This Dawn came up on eBay at a good price and it is in good condition.

Here are a few pics of my process to fit it.
The holes for the rails and screw were marked off the vise.

The silly part was chiselling the recess for the back jaw and its wings. The smart thing would have been to do it from the top of the bench but I didn't want the damage to the top.
Digging the recess while lying on the floor was a real pain and slow.

I found a pretty piece of Flame She Oak to make the front jaw which extends to the end of the bench.

The vise works well and assists the holdfasts further along the bench.

The Quick release is a great feature.

[Scally]

The big hardwood boards will be used to do the rest of the trim work on the shed.

Next job was to do the frame work for the four small front windows.

The wall is 280mm deep for the windows so I had to join boards to cover the depth.

It will be a big storm to push any rain onto the windows but I put in some flashing and a bead of Sikaflex to minimise any chance of water getting past the windows.

I cut a bevel on the sill with the table saw and trimmed it up with an electric plane.

Louver windows would be nice but for the moment I will put in a solid glass pane.

The outside of the shed is almost complete with only the trim work to do.

[Pat]

So I wasn't the only so and so to install a big blessed Dawn vice after "finishing" the bench. A second set of hands would have been very helpful.

Scally, I notice one thing missing . . . . Dust

Apart from that it's looking good.

[DaveTTC]

I can donate dome dust in varrying size grade and species

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

[Scally]

You guys must need your eyes tested or maybe I took the photo on a very windy day.

The one thing that I am never short of is dust but thanks for your kind offers.

I expected there would be other woodies who have installed a vice the hard way.
There is not much going for working upside down under a heavy bench with poor light trying to chop a mortice while chips and dust fall in your eyes.

I still have a Tail Vise which is supposed to go on the other corner of the bench. The thought of cutting a corner out of the workbench isn't that appealing.

It will have to wait for another rainy day when I am feeling the need for a Tail Vise.

[Scally]

I found a pile of money in an old mattress so decided I could afford to bite the bullet and get the power connected to the shed.

I had a plan......

Unfortunately I had to remove a huge pile of timber and tools from the shed so the electrician could get to the walls.
I hate cleaning up.

[NCArcher]

I like the plan Scally Can't say I recognise whose standards the symbols belong to though.

[Scally]

What?, aren't they standard woodworking symbols?

I was pretty pleased with my artwork.

The shed looks much bigger with a heap of stuff removed. I decided to just move some stuff around the shed as the electrician worked on an area.

He had given me the powerpoint plates ages ago and instructions about where to drill holes for the cables.

We still had a few extra holes to drill but I wanted to let the electrician concentrate on the electrical work and I wood do the woodwork.

After nearly three days he had miles of cable running through the shed.

[Scally]

The work would have been easier if I hadn't lined the back wall and built the ply wood rack.

A fair bit of buggering around to drill holes and feed the cables through the wall behind the ply wood rack.

I want the dust extractor, three phase, and the air compressor, single phase, to go in a small shed beside the main shed. The single phase cable bent around corners without much trouble but the heavy three phase cable was a challenge.

We pulled the three phase cable thought the conduit I had buried from the house to the shed. It took some jiggling and muscle to pull it through.
Especially the last few centimetres. A small stone had found its way into the conduit and kept wedging the cable tight.
There were a few nervous moments until it finally came through.

Pretty much all the wiring is in.

Now I need to fix the lining before the electrician can connect ll the bits.

[fletty]

I like the plan Scally Can't say I recognise whose standards the symbols belong to though.

What? Scally's Wires And Gizmos ..... well, that would be Scally WAGS

[Scally]

The shed is being lined with 12mm plywood so I can nail things to the wall.

You would think it would be straight forward to nail a few 2400 x 1200 sheets to the wall. That would be too simple.

The roof has a 7 degree slope, the wall studs aren't exactly 600mm apart and I had to cut out for the power point plates, light switches and power board. I am pretty sure that every sheet was different.

After careful measuring and checking and checking and measuring again I cut all the sheets for the walls.
I painted them all. One coat on the back and two coats on the front. The first tin of paint was a flatter finish than I liked so I upgraded to a Low Sheen so it wouldn't get as dusty as quick.
There was a bit of shuffling the sheets around to find space to lay them out to be painted.

As soon as I spread them across the yard and started to paint, it started to rain. No surprise.
It is tricky carrying "almost dry" full sheets into the shed in the rain.

Each sheet was marked with its location just in case I got confused.

[Scally]

I bought rolls of insulation and just cut to length, and width as I needed.

I pre-drilled holes for screws in the ply wood sheets.

To make it manageable to fit the sheets on my own, I nailed a temporary board to the studs so I could rest the bottom of the sheet on as I moved them into position.
Usually a bit of jiggling to line up with the cut outs for the power points etc.

Then I screwed them on.
I think I used screws so it would be easier to remove a sheets in the future, if necessary. Probably folly but screwing one-handed was easier than nailing one-handed.

The place looks nice and bright once I had all the sheets on the long wall.

[Sawdust Maker]

that looks good enough to wallpaper!

something like this perhaps

this would suggest that you're into storage

[Scally]

Wallpaper, you Heathen!!

In truth there wont be much white wall to be seen by the time I cover it with benches and cabinets.