My new workshop

[kev@frames]

Thanks Kev Frames. That's a proper framing outfit you've got there!
Are you the large chap with the goatee beard? Yes Sir I will pay whatever you want to have my artwork framed and is there anything else I can buy whilst I'm here?
I am not certain a motorbike tyre mark would look good running the length of my body..... How long do I have to run for until you set off on your bike???

Seriously great set up, I am very impressed.

Still after ideas please?

Regards
Deepjoy

the current set up is rather cramped and always in complete disarry

Thats not me, thats our "little" Dave. You wouldn't like a trye track from daves bike if he was riding it, hes about 20 stone lol. For want of a better term he's "freelance head of security, lifting heavy things, management consultant and collector of late bills" Actually people make the age old mistake of thinking dave is a thick because he is covered in tattoos and has odd shaving habits but he has a management degree, is very well spoken and used to be one of those troubleshooters who went and sorted out retail and online businesses. A handy chap to take advice from! He's motorbike instructor by day now, as well as a pretty handy joiner/carpenter.

Im the miserable g*t with the paper

John is also there, he's on the yellow bike, although he's just gotten himself a Harley.

Well thats dealt with the people without much hair left.....

Tom is the one on the right wearing the christmas hat, next to him is Al (who has left now) who had the biggest moustache anybody in penzance had ever seen in real life.

Sue is the one holding the picture frame "framing the door" , sigh, a predictable sterotype picture taken by the Cornishman newspaper.
Have to update that page, lol, the bikes are all out of date - nobody here rides anything under one litre

I tried to get some pictures of the workshop, but unfortunately i have not got a camera with a wide angle lens - i guess thats the drawbacks with a lot of digital cameras
I'll see if i can figure out how to stitch photos together.

Perhaps thats a pretty good idea for us to show what our workshops look like if its not too much of a mission.

[DEEPJOY]

Thank's Kev

Great to see how the other half live.

You remind me of some off the telly, I just can't think who it is for the moment.

[Moglet]

....Kev ....You remind me of some(one) off the telly ....

Me too! Hence my "Ross Poldark" comment earlier this week.

RTÉ did a rerun of the first series of Poldark a few weeks ago, which I thoroughly enjoyed (again!), and which reminded me of less stupid times. What I loved about the Captain Poldark character was his utter contempt for things that were legal but unjust: something our Kev has in spades. Gotta be a Celtic trait, and one which Kev has elevated to an artform.

[kev@frames]

Ross Poldark.
Lol moglet you smooth talker, it wasn't the looks you were talking about then

[Moglet]

Grow a pony tail, and we'll negotiate ...

[Moglet]

Btw, my favourite character from the series was Demelza.

(Just as well Robo's in Vegas....)

[Dermot]

I tried to get some pictures of the workshop, but unfortunately i have not got a camera with a wide angle lens - i guess thats the drawbacks with a lot of digital cameras
I'll see if i can figure out how to stitch photos together.

Perhaps thats a pretty good idea for us to show what our workshops look like if its not too much of a mission.

Kevin

You might be able to use this service http://www.ptgui.com/

It was mentioned on the G

[DEEPJOY]

I'm always amazed where these threads go to and how very easily they move off track of the original theme.

Has anyone seen that part of Monty Python's 'Holy Grail' film, where the king son says - 'but I just want to sing'! Well I'm having one of them moments, Where I'm thinking - "I just want some help with my bench'?.......

We can deal what Kev looks like later, in actual fact, it could be a thread of it's very own. Ideas at the ready.

Please help, you have had the experience to know what is best. Let's say if you needed to redesign you bench, what would it look like?

[prospero]

The height is the main factor for easy working. This depends a lot on how high you are. My main bench is about 33 and a bit inches high, which is the same height as the round bit on the front of the Morso. The bench is roughly in the middle of the room, against the wall. A handy thing I find is to have a surface near the bench to chuck all your tools and other small items of apparatus onto to keep the main bench clear.

I have several other work surfaces. I do mountcutting on two plan chests side by side with a sheet of 3/4" chipboard on top. Co-incidentally this setup is the same height. For assembling mounts and lining, etc I have an A0 drawing board with a green cutting mat on top. this is about 6" higher, which is more comfortable for ruling lines, and you can tilt it a bit. All the other work surfaces are covered with short pile kitchen carpet.

[Moglet]

The height is the main factor for easy working. This depends a lot on how high you are.... My main bench is about 33 and a bit inches high, ...

I do mountcutting on two plan chests side by side with a sheet of 3/4" chipboard on top. Co-incidentally this setup is the same height. ...

Comfortable working height is key!

My main assembly bench is comprised of two Keencut Proteus mountboard storage racks with an 8'x4' sheet of MDF on top, covered with a number of jumbo green cutting mats. (I use a towel over the surface for protection of delicate work as required). It is just over 36" high. I do most of my work at this bench, and its height means that I don't have to "stoop" over the work.

By comparison, my mountcutter is on another bench which is only 30" high. I prefer this because:-

a) it allows me to stretch easily over the bench when cutting apertures in larger mounts.

b) it is easier to climb onto the bench ( ) to cut apertures in very large mounts. (I'm only 5'6", btw.)

I also have my glass cleaning station on the 30" bench: again, the lower height gives me a better "reach" when cleaning larger sheets of glass.

[DEEPJOY]

Thank you all it is a great help.

I would like to keep this thread going, it is helping me to formulate which way to go with the workshop layout and bench build.

[Moglet]

Remember to allow good clearance on both sides of your mitring equipment. Stuff can always be "tucked behind" the path of the moulding.

[prospero]

(I'm only 5'6", btw.)

Is that with or without the 8" stillettoes?

[birdman]

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b) it is easier to climb onto the bench ( ) to cut apertures in very large mounts. (I'm only 5'6", btw.)

I also have my glass cleaning station on the 30" bench: again, the lower height gives me a better "reach" when cleaning larger sheets of glass.

It also allows Moglet to clean the glass with her hair. It's also about 5' 6"" long.

[DEEPJOY]

It also allows Moglet to clean the glass with her hair. It's also about 5' 6"" long.

Oh no!!! Moglet is not cousin IT off the Adams family Movies???

[Moglet]

More blimmin' surveillance cameras!!!!!

No. The stilettoes are only 3½-4" high, which would then put me at 5'10"

Yes most of my wardrobe is black (.... BLACK...... BLACK!!!)

Not It, but I have been referred to as Mortitia on occassion...

Yes I do have feline familiars.

And, yes, I was born on Oiche Shamhna!

So!!!!!

[DEEPJOY]

Mortitia!!!! Deepjoy and Excitement...

You certainly bring him out of us..

[Moglet]

Mise?

'nuvver tip:

If you're installing a sheet cutter in the workshop, leave enough clearance on your preferred side to be able to comfortably load larger sheets of glass (e.g. 40x60"). I didn't, and had to shift my (very full) moulding racks along by 18" when I started using speciality glass.

[Moglet]

Oh, and by the way...

Let's say if you needed to redesign you bench, what would it look like?

Easy answer, in two parts:-

1. Positioning within workshop space: bench positioned to allow one to work at any of the four sides.

2. Sizing: H-U-G-E

Check some of the posts from last year with workshop pics from Robo and Alan (Fineedge). Robo's main bench is enviously large (incidentally, so is one of his calf muscles... ), and Alan has done a really neat trick with the positioning of his underpinner. Indeed, all of the pics on both threads should give you some terrific ideas about creative/clever use of space, lighting, etc., etc., etc.

[birdman]

Have a look at the following thread for photos:

http://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2708

Rolf