Another french shoppe

[Behemoth]

Hello FOG,

I've been reading your forums for some time now, I figured I'd share my shop for (hopefully) your viewing pleasure.

The family house was bought 2 years ago and is being renovated. My job is the woodwork, kitchens, staircases, tables, cabinets etc. I just finished my woodworking/cabinetmaking school in Amsterdam.

Recently one part of the shed wall was rebuilt, the start of a new season of workshop fun:

The workbench is a bought cabinetmakers bench, 2,5 metre long, beech.

I've built a smaller bench myself with an mft type top.

The toolchest is made from yellow pine.

The barn has a lot of oak beams lying around.

My midi vacuum with low tech (but performing) cyclone made from 2 buckets, some plywood, tape and old festo hoses. This is essential since i use this thing on my table saw and it fills up so quickly I would spend a fortune on bags. I need to make or buy another for a vacuum dedicated to the cs70 saw.

My sharpening jig for chisels, based on jigs i've seen on the internet/youtube. Works with stones, sandpaper etc and i dont use a grinder.

Turning some old beams into a kitchen worktop.....

This stuff is old, hard and beautiful  [smile]

bigger pictures here: http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=NUFPTGQN

That's all for now!

 

[Alan m]

welcome to the fog.
that wood is beatifull. i always love the moment you pane a rough board to expose the beauty within.

is that a cyclone or some other home made seperater.

does the chisel rotate on that bolt or does it just set the angle so you can move the whole assembly

 

[pghmyn]

I really like those beams!

 

[jmbfestool]

Them beams do look nice they do they do they do!

 

[Kevin Johnson]

Nice beams and nice space.  How large is it?  Is there glass in those windows?  They look wide open in the pictures.

 

[semenza]

Welcome to the FOG!  [smile]

Looks you have a nice space and a lot of projects to build.  Your shop seems to be a combination of traditional woodworking tools / techniques and modern.

Seth

 

[Behemoth]

Thanks for your comments.

welcome to the fog.
that wood is beatifull. i always love the moment you pane a rough board to expose the beauty within.

is that a cyclone or some other home made seperater.

does the chisel rotate on that bolt or does it just set the angle so you can move the whole assembly

The wood could be more than 150 years old, its definitely something special.

I do not know the difference between cyclone/separator, so yes it's a home made separator, and you can see the cyclone through the transparent bucket  ;D

The chisel rotates on the bolt. There should be another nut on top to keep the nuts from rotating, but im pretty happy with this simple jig because my freehand honing results aren' t as good.

Nice beams and nice space.  How large is it?  Is there glass in those windows?  They look wide open in the pictures.

Thanks, its around 10 metres by 7, so 33 feet by 22?

The windows we're the first thing I made after the shop was reopened, but my first post wasnt complete enough to include them. I tried to make them as simple as possible, so no fancy joints, just lots of screws. They were in just in time by the way, some serious showers tested them right after. So far so good.

Welcome to the FOG!  [smile]

Looks you have a nice space and a lot of projects to build.  Your shop seems to be a combination of traditional woodworking tools / techniques and modern.

Thanks. It's a nice space indeed. Also, I dont own big machinery, everything is portable, even the non festools. The scheppach planer/thicknesser with add on modules is great and sits on casters. I have a mortiser module which I dont use too much due to the df500 domino and a shaper module which I rarely use either. But its good solid german machinery even though its small and aimed at serious amateurs.

I would really like to have more handtools in the shop. For instance I have a block plane and a smoothing plane, so I'd love to have a nice nr.5 or a jointer plane.

I'll post some more pictures later, cheers foggers.

 

[Kristian]

Very nice shop! I'm jealous of all that space - actually your shop is bigger than my entire flat...! Looking forward to more pictures of your shop and the finished worktop.

[popcorn]

- Kristian

 

[Alan m]

a cyclone is like a dust deputy or clearview  or bill pentz design. it is a conical shaped seperater.
there are other shaped seperaters like the thien baffel where the shape of the seperater is cylendrical rather than conical.
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anyway id like to see more of that seperater

 

[jc]

Alan, you're always interested in separators aren't you  [wink]

Behemoth, very nice shop.  Wish I had something like that!

 

[Alan m]

Alan, you're always interested in separators aren't you  [wink]

Behemoth, very nice shop.  Wish I had something like that!

i realy like seeing peoples homemade seperaters. everybody does theirs slightly differeent and sometimes someone does something a bit radical (intentionally or acidentally) and increases the efficiency. it like the bell mouth fitting in a thien baffel . someone tried it and it works better now with less resistance on the system

 

[jc]

Interesting... I will have to look into that. Cheers.  [smile]

 

[Behemoth]

Some more pictures, first up are the windows:

I made them as simple as I could. They still need something to hold them up when opened. I made them pivot upwards so they wouldnt use up  potential storage space.

Here's a picture of the rudimental inside of my separator, as you can see it's as basic as it gets ( I was actually in need of one, out of bags and no festool store nearby).

At first I was very uncertain as to how to make an efficient separator. But after seeing lots of different but functional designs, one on youtube made from soda bottles, I figured maybe you cant go wrong that easily.

Some work in progress then:

I tried 'router planing' for the first time to flatten this 2,3 metre ( 7,5 feet ) long oak beam. This will be part of the countertop of which I've shown a bit before.

'Chip collection':

I started out handplaning a straightedge, resawing that on the tablesaw to copy, clamping the two to the board to be planed, made a 'sled' ( piece of ply with a slot)  to move the router equipped with 30mm copy ring and 19mm cutter, and spent about an hour planing the workpiece.

The result was pleasing, judged by putting the straightedge on the workpiece.

I then used the ts55 with the same straightedge to get a 'straight edge'  [huh]. For jointing I actually used the router again, with a long cutter. Man handling this along my tiny jointer would be a waste of energy.....

Then it was time to fill some holes.
I made a little jig to cut almost square mortices with the 30mm copy ring and 12mm cutter.

Little deeper:

And cut blocks on the cs70 to glue in place after chopping the corners square:

Worktop should be finished soon, updates coming.

 

[Eli]

Awesome, thanks for sharing! Love those beams, they will make an incredible kitchen.

 

[Behemoth]

The worktop has been glued together and I've made the doors for the cabinets.

The open mortise and tenon joints were cut on the cs70, clamping the framemembers to an auxiliary fence( taller) and using the pull function of the saw. This is a nice way of cutting since moving the wood along the fence is a bit fiddly and the fence isnt sturdy enough to use a sliding jig.

I made the tenons the same thickness as the panel (10mm) to reduce setup time. It was already time consuming to clamp and cut twice for every end of the parts.

I did forget to 'stop' the groove on the first rail I cut. Oh well, just stuff a piece back in later!

I used domino's in my last set of doors, which was very quick and easy, but lacked the looks of a nice woodjoint. What I like about this joint, besides the looks, is that you can clamp the face sides of the joint together so that even a less accurate fitting joint can be very strong. Mine fitted nicely, but it took a lot of testcuts.

Some pictures of the worktop with the fitting of the sink:

The door on the left is hingeless, because this space will contain the gastank and will only be opened twice a year. I used domino's for the bottom and made a hidden catch which is operated from the adjacent (sink) cabinet.

The cabinets will be painted.

 

[Kristian]

Very nice, Bohemoth. Looks real sturdy!

 

[wubears71]

Cool!  I just love that reclaimed top!