Ha! That is where my speakers ended up too! Don't sweat the lack of "major" projects - I have to keep reminding myself that small steps forward are still steps in the right direction.
Below 265 SQ/FT Clint's Kiwi Shed
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Ha! That is where my speakers ended up too! Don't sweat the lack of "major" projects - I have to keep reminding myself that small steps forward are still steps in the right direction.
The back of the shed has been getting some attention lately with a timber/whatever rack, a house for the air compressor & a wheel rack.
It's nice to have the compressed air plumbing all connected finally.
Inside we got started on the partition around the bike corner.
Cheers
Clint
It's nice to have the compressed air plumbing all connected finally.
Inside we got started on the partition around the bike corner.
Cheers
Clint
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Clint, top job.
It makes things so much easier when things are in their place..
Regards
It makes things so much easier when things are in their place..
Regards
About 18 months in the new place now so best I keep this up to date with some more pics!
The storage & motorbikes corner is now all done with the addition of the Bailey cabinets. The curtains mean that this area can be easily screened off from any dusty or dirty goings on in the rest of the workshop.
Through the partition from the bicycles I just finished a beefy set of shelves to fill that gap:
The layout down this end is all working really well, although one day I need to make a mobile base for the big mitre saw
The main workbench area is all good apart from needing to paint over the green one day when I'm really bored...
Metalworking corner serviceable but still needs work, scored some heavy flats & RHS steel a while back that I need to make into a table for the press & to store the bender & drop saw under. Need to build a welder cart too.
Cheers
Clint
The storage & motorbikes corner is now all done with the addition of the Bailey cabinets. The curtains mean that this area can be easily screened off from any dusty or dirty goings on in the rest of the workshop.
Through the partition from the bicycles I just finished a beefy set of shelves to fill that gap:
The layout down this end is all working really well, although one day I need to make a mobile base for the big mitre saw
The main workbench area is all good apart from needing to paint over the green one day when I'm really bored...
Metalworking corner serviceable but still needs work, scored some heavy flats & RHS steel a while back that I need to make into a table for the press & to store the bender & drop saw under. Need to build a welder cart too.
Cheers
Clint
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Clint, well done.
Yours is a very practical layout an I like you curtain screening as well..
Regards
Yours is a very practical layout an I like you curtain screening as well..
Regards
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Thanks guys! We also cut out & stapled up some old sheets around the trusses etc above the cabinets & curtains in that area to close it off totally which has worked really well at keeping that area clean.
It has certainly had a good test out over the last few months due to vast quantities of sawdust being produced in a furious frenzy of furniture fabrication
First up was a shelf/desk thing, I had the sides laser cut to my design then welded in some angle at the back & cut out some acacia benchtop for the shelves:
Then Rosie had to clear out a shed at her work which had all kinds of random timber so we took the chance to make a shelf/cupboard thing for the spare room to her design using about 6 different types of wood:
I'm currently converting more of the random timber into sawdust & also some side tables for the lounge as we need somewhere to put our beers when we're sitting on the couch.
The other woodwork project was a new floor for the boat. I bought a '72 Hamilton Jet 53 earlier in the year, it runs well but the inside needed some work, biggest job was making new plywood sections for the floor:
Also got the seats re- done & tidied up the bases, much nicer now.
Cheers
Clint
It has certainly had a good test out over the last few months due to vast quantities of sawdust being produced in a furious frenzy of furniture fabrication
First up was a shelf/desk thing, I had the sides laser cut to my design then welded in some angle at the back & cut out some acacia benchtop for the shelves:Then Rosie had to clear out a shed at her work which had all kinds of random timber so we took the chance to make a shelf/cupboard thing for the spare room to her design using about 6 different types of wood:
I'm currently converting more of the random timber into sawdust & also some side tables for the lounge as we need somewhere to put our beers when we're sitting on the couch.
The other woodwork project was a new floor for the boat. I bought a '72 Hamilton Jet 53 earlier in the year, it runs well but the inside needed some work, biggest job was making new plywood sections for the floor:
Also got the seats re- done & tidied up the bases, much nicer now.
Cheers
Clint
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About time for another update instead of just lurking around looking at everyone else's cool stuff...
We have been doing more working in the shed than on the shed lately, with a few more furniture projects for the house. I did design some side tables for the couch in such a way that I had to buy a router to make them though
When I made this rolling bench years back with a mount for the circular saw underneath I made the centre section removable so I could also use it for a router table sometime in the future:
So it was just a matter of making a new middle section & a fence.
This let me make this, with several different interesting timbers in the top, plus another similar one for the other side of the couch.
Other furniture projects have been a wood & stainless steel rolling bench to go over the previously naked dishwasher, & a microwave shelf with laser cut sides designed by Rosie to match the blinds she made.
Some shelves for the kitchen...
A few jobs on the Landcruiser to optimise it for touring & camping with a fridge & table in the back:
Some quieter mufflers...
After trying some home brewing with simple extract kits we decided to take it to the next level & set up a proper full grain brewery in the shed. An old hot water cylinder provided the mash tun / kettle for our 'Brew in a Bag' setup. Unfortunately my brother had backed over it in the digger so I had to re-shape it first:
Made a stand & a basket, Rosie sewed up a bag for the malt. The most expensive part was the copper cooling coil.
We have done 6 brews now & they've all been drinkable & better than our kit brews, most actually pretty damn good.
The most recent shed project was a fold-up ceiling mounted bicycle repair stand. I'd been thinking of making a bike workstand like this for a while & it finally made it to the top of the list.
Made mostly out of junk from the shed.... & a $$$ Park Tool clamp
The handwheel at the bottom locks the top hinge when deployed. When not in use it is spring loaded to retract up out of the way.
Next on the shed projects list is a sturdy steel bench to sit my press & dropsaw on. I've had some rescued steel out the back of the shed waiting on that project for a while.
Cheers
Clint
We have been doing more working in the shed than on the shed lately, with a few more furniture projects for the house. I did design some side tables for the couch in such a way that I had to buy a router to make them though
When I made this rolling bench years back with a mount for the circular saw underneath I made the centre section removable so I could also use it for a router table sometime in the future:
So it was just a matter of making a new middle section & a fence.
This let me make this, with several different interesting timbers in the top, plus another similar one for the other side of the couch.
Other furniture projects have been a wood & stainless steel rolling bench to go over the previously naked dishwasher, & a microwave shelf with laser cut sides designed by Rosie to match the blinds she made.
Some shelves for the kitchen...
A few jobs on the Landcruiser to optimise it for touring & camping with a fridge & table in the back:
Some quieter mufflers...
After trying some home brewing with simple extract kits we decided to take it to the next level & set up a proper full grain brewery in the shed. An old hot water cylinder provided the mash tun / kettle for our 'Brew in a Bag' setup. Unfortunately my brother had backed over it in the digger so I had to re-shape it first:
Made a stand & a basket, Rosie sewed up a bag for the malt. The most expensive part was the copper cooling coil.
We have done 6 brews now & they've all been drinkable & better than our kit brews, most actually pretty damn good.
The most recent shed project was a fold-up ceiling mounted bicycle repair stand. I'd been thinking of making a bike workstand like this for a while & it finally made it to the top of the list.
Made mostly out of junk from the shed.... & a $$$ Park Tool clamp
The handwheel at the bottom locks the top hinge when deployed. When not in use it is spring loaded to retract up out of the way.
Next on the shed projects list is a sturdy steel bench to sit my press & dropsaw on. I've had some rescued steel out the back of the shed waiting on that project for a while.
Cheers
Clint
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What he said! Really nice work on the furniture.
What he said! Really nice work on the furniture.
Must be time for another update. Back in March 2020 NZ went into a month+ of a quite strict covid lockdown, no hardware stores open. Fortunately we had just got stocked up for a couple of projects at home so had plenty to entertain ourselves with, but some improvisation was definitely going to be required. The first job was to build a new garden bed out the front to expand our vege growing capability.
More importantly, this gave us somewhere to put the excess fill from where we were levelling a site behind the garage for a new storage shed, soon to be known as the 'lockdown shed'
But first, I needed to finish the re-decking the trailer to get that out of the way.
I built this trailer 10 years ago & it's been great. The deck had been shown no mercy though so time for a new one. This time I epoxy sealed the holes & cut edges so it might last a bit longer.
In the background above you can see the genesis of the lockdown shed project, a bunch of seismic-test wall panels that were free from the timber engineering lab at Rosie's work.
Next on the critical path was to build a rough beach trailer to move the derelict 470 sailboat that was sitting where the new shed was going. Fortunately the house came with plenty of scrap pipe & I had some old hubs & stubs. No wheels though so the remains of the old trailer deck were jigsawed out & voila. The 470 was sold for parts soon after lockdown ended.
So then it was on to the foundations. There used to be a few trees along this back fence so our normally easy digging soil was interrupted by lots of nasty roots but we got there.
The shed was sized at 4.8 x 2.4m, or 8' x 16' - to have 4x 8'x4' plywood sheets as the floor, so much time was taken to get everything ultra square so the ply would line up nicely.
Used proper flooring ply with a groove + strip that needed jacking together. I'm usually a bit wary of plastic tools but these Irwin clamps have been doing very well so far.
Once the floor was done the wall framing/lining went up ridiculously quickly, being mostly pre assembled. Fixed it all with 14g bugle screws, should be stupid strong given all the doubled up studs. The test panels were 8x8', 8x4', 8x2' & lined with either OSB or fibre cement. Some were cut down to suit.
The project was helped along immensely by the fantastic weather we had through most of the 2020 lockdown.
By the time I got to the rafters timber supplies were getting very depleted but we just got there. Purlins & roofing would have to wait until after lockdown. However along with the free wall units came a bunch of surplus fibre cement panels, that was all on site so that made the decision on cladding easy. Also in stock was a window left over from a friend's bathroom remodel.
With bad weather coming some tarps were sewn together to make a roof & some temporary doors made. Then a few of the smaller test panels were made into shelves inside.
By this stage I don't think there was a piece of 4x2 timber longer than 2' left anywhere on the section Other projects took over for a week or two before covid restrictions eased & building supplies were again available. My job was not fully back to normal though so I still had plenty of time for building. Which was just as well, making a decent roof is a big job for a novice chippy like me, lots of hours & head scratching were required. Didn't get many pics of the rest of the build but the finished product came out fairly well.
Cheers
Clint
More importantly, this gave us somewhere to put the excess fill from where we were levelling a site behind the garage for a new storage shed, soon to be known as the 'lockdown shed'
But first, I needed to finish the re-decking the trailer to get that out of the way.
I built this trailer 10 years ago & it's been great. The deck had been shown no mercy though so time for a new one. This time I epoxy sealed the holes & cut edges so it might last a bit longer.
In the background above you can see the genesis of the lockdown shed project, a bunch of seismic-test wall panels that were free from the timber engineering lab at Rosie's work.
Next on the critical path was to build a rough beach trailer to move the derelict 470 sailboat that was sitting where the new shed was going. Fortunately the house came with plenty of scrap pipe & I had some old hubs & stubs. No wheels though so the remains of the old trailer deck were jigsawed out & voila. The 470 was sold for parts soon after lockdown ended.
So then it was on to the foundations. There used to be a few trees along this back fence so our normally easy digging soil was interrupted by lots of nasty roots but we got there.
The shed was sized at 4.8 x 2.4m, or 8' x 16' - to have 4x 8'x4' plywood sheets as the floor, so much time was taken to get everything ultra square so the ply would line up nicely.
Used proper flooring ply with a groove + strip that needed jacking together. I'm usually a bit wary of plastic tools but these Irwin clamps have been doing very well so far.
Once the floor was done the wall framing/lining went up ridiculously quickly, being mostly pre assembled. Fixed it all with 14g bugle screws, should be stupid strong given all the doubled up studs. The test panels were 8x8', 8x4', 8x2' & lined with either OSB or fibre cement. Some were cut down to suit.
The project was helped along immensely by the fantastic weather we had through most of the 2020 lockdown.
By the time I got to the rafters timber supplies were getting very depleted but we just got there. Purlins & roofing would have to wait until after lockdown. However along with the free wall units came a bunch of surplus fibre cement panels, that was all on site so that made the decision on cladding easy. Also in stock was a window left over from a friend's bathroom remodel.
With bad weather coming some tarps were sewn together to make a roof & some temporary doors made. Then a few of the smaller test panels were made into shelves inside.
By this stage I don't think there was a piece of 4x2 timber longer than 2' left anywhere on the section
Other projects took over for a week or two before covid restrictions eased & building supplies were again available. My job was not fully back to normal though so I still had plenty of time for building. Which was just as well, making a decent roof is a big job for a novice chippy like me, lots of hours & head scratching were required. Didn't get many pics of the rest of the build but the finished product came out fairly well.Cheers
Clint
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Welcome back Clint! Nice work all around. That new shed should prove to be about hurricane proof.