Workshops My shipyard/your shipyard

[Rambo]

You have a Gerstner & Sons Tool chest! Wow these are great. I always looking out for one. For a good price ofcourse. Here in the Netherlands they are expensive. If you can find one. Maybe someone got plans for to build one of myself.

Agreed. Gerstner is pricey, I have had it for many years. I would love a smaller on to put on the table, but it is not in the budget. cheers

 

[Steef66]

Agreed. Gerstner is pricey, I have had it for many years. I would love a smaller on to put on the table, but it is not in the budget. cheers

Buy a bigger table, they are cheap

 

[Ab Hoving]

Since my kids are all gone I have a wealth of space in the house. A workshop for building and a study for writing (and flying on the simulator of course).

If there is anything that makes me jealous, seeing all your wonderful workshops, it is the neatness and the discipline they show. I'm a bum. My wife is not even allowed to enter my workshop (and she is very happy not having to visit me there).

There are a few things I would like to point out. As my eyes are getting worse (a beginning of cataract), I need a lot of light. So I bought me a strip of aluminium (4 mm thick, 4 cm wide), screwed that on both sides to my working table and pasted in three strips of led lights (the brightest one I could get). Total costs about 50 Euros. It gives me a wonderful bright light on my work. (Only the neighbours complaint that I live in a lighthouse.)

I have a lath, which can also be used as a table saw. I won it long ago in a contest.

My pride and joy is my workbench. It's a massive beech bench with two vices. When I was still teaching wood and metalwork it was my residence and I was allowed to take it with me when I left to work for the Rijksmuseum. On it I stashed a Dremel saw, a vertical drill and sander. That's it. Since I work in paper I hardly use them, perhaps I should get rid of them, just like my wood stack underneath the bench, but I can't (yet).

Furthermore it's a total mess. Models pile up and I don't clean (enough). And for a reason. The only time I cannot find what I am looking for as after I cleaned up (a bit).


Don't tell me that you can spot my careless behavior in my models. I simply have some different kind of discipline. Perhaps once I will learn to clean my mess, but if I were you, I would not hold my breath..

 

[Jack Sparrow]

great setup, congratulations.

 

[Dematosdg]

I am 100% like you concerning workplace order. My wife doesn't understand how I find things. But every time I follow her request and put order, then I can't find what I need. So slowly I return to my previous mess stage.

I love your Window view. I am sure is very relaxing when you are working on that bench.

I also love that vintage (antique) wood working bench.

Nice place. Thank you for showing it !!!

Daniel

 

[Steef66]

@Ab Hoving The light arch is a very smart idea. I was searching for panels but this is much cheaper. Yes I need a lot of light too to see things.
Your workbench is a jewel.

 

[olemale]

It's nice to have a big well lit workshop but...
I'm using my motorcycle garage for "harder" works..




..and my "office" for assembly..

 

[olemale]

@Ab Hoving The light arch is a very smart idea. I was searching for panels but this is much cheaper. Yes I need a lot of light too to see things.
Your workbench is a jewel.

Actually led panels are pretty cheap LED Panel 1200 x300

 

[Steef66]

Actually led panels are pretty cheap LED Panel 1200 x300

Thanks, but you need the extra set to mount the light. Price is 45 togheter. It is not necessary when you have a system ceiling.

 

[Wolle]

Hello, I'm not sure if I'm in the right section here and if it's interesting for you? Uwe had written that I must have quite a lot of space with so many ships. I wanted to show you my model workshop. I bought an old construction trailer from around 1963 that was in need of renovation. I completely renovated it and now I have my workshop in there. You might be interested in how I went about the renovation. Here are some pictures of what it looked like when I found it. Here in Germany, a trailer is used, among other things, as a construction site break room.

 

[badras-khan]

Hello Wolle ,
Seem to me is a small workshop 2x3 m perhaps?
how is your interior layout?
Kind regards , Daniel

 

[Wolle]

Hello Daniel Yes, 2 x 3 m. That is one room. On the right I have a 2.5 m workbench, on the left 2 cupboards and on the front wall I have shelves on which a few of my models are standing.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

That’s the most unique workshop I’ve ever seen!

 

[Wolle]

Ok, I've already moved into my workshop, but before I show you the end result, here's a quick walkthrough of the restoration. Here he is at our house now. I had to redo all the walls, outside and inside. Here the first pictures. As I said, without much comment, I'll let the pictures speak for you. I will of course answer any question you have.

 

[Uwek]

GReat idea with this "Wagen" - so all neighbours know during the cold season, when you are inside - when smoke is coming out of the chimney!

 

[Wolle]

Hello Uwe
Thanks for the feedback. There used to be a wood stove in there but I installed an electric stove. But I reinstalled the stovepipe, it's a dummy. So when it puffs out of the stovepipe in winter, then there's a fire in the trailer or I'm smoking a joint.

 

[Wolle]

Nachdem es nun seinen neuen Standort hat, konnte mit der Sanierung begonnen werden. Da der Vorbesitzer Bretter an die ursprüngliche Wand geschraubt hatte, mussten diese zunächst entfernt werden. Sieht ziemlich bunt aus, die Originalwand. Dann begann ich mit der Trennwand. Alte Bretter runter, neue Bretter gleich. Ich musste jedes Brett einzeln auf Maß sägen. Der Innenrahmen war insgesamt noch in Ordnung. Anschließend mit Farbe bemalen, fertig.

 

[Wolle]

Then it was the turn of the right wall, the same game, old off, new on. I closed the window on the side, otherwise it would not fit inside with the worktop, inside.

 

[Wolle]

Then came the left wall. This is where the original window comes in again. This is pulled inwards to open and lowered between the inner and outer wall.

 

[Steef66]

@Wolle Love your workshop. The biggest advantage of your workshop is you can take it with you on holiday. Never miss a day of working on your ships.