Thread: Hypotheticly Thinking

Originally Posted by Lignum

Hypotheticly if someone gave you a rent free shed and free Aussie native timber for life on the condition you can only ever purchase five things for it (except drill bits,screws and glue etc, and no CNC router or combination machine) what would they be?

For me a

Table Saw.
Domino.
LV or LN jack.
12mm Jap chisel.
power drill.

with those five and some clever ingenuity you would have a very interesting workshop

Err, . . . how are you going to sharpen your tools? Gonna build all your own clamps?, err, . . . . .Make your own vice (including screw)?

It would be an interesting challenge to work out the sequence of other tools that you would make from these.

As i said you can have sundries as in glue, screws,ect and sandpaper is part of that group, so that takes care of sharpening. Clamps? lots of different wedge configerations will take care of that.

Originally Posted by Lignum

As i said you can have sundries as in glue, screws,ect and sandpaper is part of that group, so that takes care of sharpening. Clamps? lots of different wedge configerations will take care of that.

Screws???? You don't have a screw driver. Don't tell me, . . . your allowing a screw driver under the category of drill bits or do you intend using the chisel as the driver?

Presumably you allow nails? Bearing in mind you don't have a metal hammer or pliers so I'd like to see drive the screws in with a wooden mallet, but maybe you can also do that with the chisel - I've seen it done before

I have a power drill for use as a screw driver what if you took the handle of the chisel and formed the end into a screw driver for when its needed, and whos to say you cant pull a bit of spare metal off the saw and screw it to a wooden mallet for a hammer? anyway its my list.

you can have your own five things to work it out. With my five im happy

Lignum, where is this going & why? Anybody offered you their shed & timber?

Five essentials:

Panel Saw
400 (16") over & under buzzer / thicknesser
Router
Domino
Festool sander.

But then I'd really miss my slabmaster, stroke sander, power drill, belt sander, makita scms, Meber band saw, radial arm saw, etc.

Actually I was going to suggest you drop by when you're next in Margaret River to discuss a shed / timber arrangement....

Richard

See the problem with you blokes is that you never think about how to maximise an opportunity:

Option 1: Sublease it to someone else, use the payments to pay off a loan for a shed and all the equipment you would ever need on your own property.

Option 2: Establish a cash-flow business, four beds one curtain...... = five items.

Option 3: Use it as a gallery to display and sell work you've produced elsewhere without the constraint of having only five tools!

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by Richardwoodhead

Lignum, where is this going & why? Anybody offered you their shed & timber?


Richard

Richard No, no offer I was just thinking about it as i was sitting on the train.

The other thread on setting up a workshop and all the different machines/tool responses got me thinking "if you could only have 5 things" what would they be. Its easy to say get this, that and the other, but if faced with a severe limit, the choice would be very tricky.

Like you choosing a Router and Domino, They are to close for my liking and would only choose one, plus under the free lease agreament the under and over is considered a "combination" plus i would want a chisel

desert island sheds???

Surprised no ones mentioned a Triton, or better still a woodsmith, they claim to do everything.

For me it'd hafta be,
Saw - (the motor would hafta be accessible so I could drive other (shopbuilt - not purchased) tools from the saw motor.)
Thicknesser
Drill
Chisel
A Credit - so I could pick the last thing later on, (possibly a ROS)

Mallet, chisels, whetstone, pencil, coffee machine.