Workshop project help needed

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Hi Guys ive been registerd on here for a little while but usually just have a nose on here at some of your projects and I must say some of the work posted is amazing and shows true talent. I spend hours on here just trawling pages of wood work porn, haha.

My reason for this post guys is I need a little help I own a small company called newwavecustomconversions, we design and build interiors and exteriors for the very popular VW Transporter, over christmas I have decided to build a new joinery shop inside my 3000 square foot factory its a 8M square box built from concrete blocks 11 courses high and I have fitted a very nice drop ceiling in there. Im looking to try and get the set up perfect for me and my other joiner. 99 percent of work is done from jigs, patterns and perfs so as you can imagine I have hundreds of birch ply patterns and Im looking to try and design a system to keep the organised.

Heres a pic of what we do guys I hope you like

DSC07414.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr

DSC07922.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr

Animated Seats by Philip Warren, on Flickr

DSC08774.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr

DSC07585.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr


DSC05617.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr

Here is my little wood shop but we have out grown it now and most of the time there is two of us in there and its becoming a little crowded

Any ideas and input I would really appreciate it, thanks festool fans and have a very happy Christmas.
 
Welcome to Fog, Philip - I visited your Flickr page and browsed a lot of your photos.

You have some really nice designs.

In terms of jigs, I assume you are talking about are the flat templates you use for routing the panels.  Looks like a lot of them are just hanging on the wall in your shop.  You might try making a cabinet with some rods across the top or even two sets of rods and just create a series of hangers that would allow the jigs to hang in it, almost like a clothes rack if Im understanding your question and the type of jigs.

Don't know if you have considered it, but you might also consider some kind of color coding and numeric system that would use colors or stripes of colors on the edges to denote the particular cabinet or style or even van model that you are retrofitting.  That might ease locating the right jigs from the edge. 

Thanks for sharing and hope to see more of your work. I'd love to see more of how you do the cabinets with more construction and assembly details.

neil
 
Maybe bin the jigs and buy a cnc

[dead horse]

Just kidding, love the look of what you do
[welcome]
 
This is my little wood shop at present it was only designed for me but I now have two joiners so Ive had this new shop built but its pretty much just a empty box at present I'm trying to get it all set up by January the 2nd. I currently use different colour circle stickers to label them up  to the job specific.


DSC04184.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr
 
As far as storing jigs, it looks like you do a pretty good job with organization. I would think vertical slots groped by job, and if you have allot a data base to find them easily.
 
Maybe a map, blueprint or flat file cabinet is big enough? They shouldn't be too hard to find on gumtree or other classified website.

generic flat file cabinet
used%20steel%20flat%20file%20(1).jpg
 
Nice work there, very stylin' indeed!  [thumbs up]

Also have to say that is one heck of a clean shop, looks great!

Have a good one,  :)

Vi_k

 
Wow! Awesome work Phillip. Love the shop. I like the flat file idea.
What about a flip folder sort of thing like they used to have in poster shops? Don't know if it would work....
 
I've been working on this for a few days now and it's really taking shape now, but I'm exhausted with it all, the suspended ceiling is going up tomorrow cost a bomb for the materials but it should look amazing and keep the dust from escaping. Whilst cleaning out everything and moving it into the the wood shop I've dug out all my sustainer boxes which I have never ever used from new I have 8 in total are these worth anything they are useless to me as I never take the tools from the bench.

I will post a load of pics up of the new shop when I'm a little further on. Happy new year guys and girls. [laughing]
 
Try looking for the systainers on ebay you will find they fetch decent money , especially if they are tlocs .
 
Hi guys as above I've been building a new sod workshop within my factory unit, for a few reasons really but the main reason is to control the router dust.

Let me know what you think it was built over Christmas and apart from the ceiling and block work I carried out most of the construction and I can honestly say I bit of more than I could handle as I was physically drained by our return day 2nd jan.


DSC08937.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr


DSC08933.jpg by Philip Warren, on Flickr
 
Welcome to the FOG.  That workshop is pristine, far too good to do any work in  [eek]

Your vans are pretty sweet & I too would like to see some work in progress pics of them, materials used etc.
 
Wow, that seems like a great shop. I wish I had that kind of space.
/Michael
 
It's a lot better workers really well with the two of us in there I'm still having terrible trouble extracting my mitre saw though.
 
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