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Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby ramsbottommike » 15 Apr 2015, 20:21

Hi folks. Delighted to join your community. I love messing about with wood but sadly make my living in an office environment. My 'oldest' passion is stickmaking (walking and hiking) which I've been playing with for about 5 years, and I've recently taken to making small pieces of furniture (mock crate side tables, actual storage crate tables, tv/media stands, coffee tables) from recycled pallet wood. I desperately need a workshop so I can invest in some decent, bench power tools to improve my output and finish - am currently working out of a 5' shed, mostly full of pallets and hazel shanks, which means I generally only manage to get anything done on sunny days when I can work in the open air. I'm a tall fella, 6'3", and my current bench is a cheap work mate that is far too low for my back. Can't wait to have a full height work bench in a warm and spacious hut! Final issue is that the only decent space I have is in my landlocked garden, so I'll have to build my own workshop due to access problems for any off the shelf ones. And that's how I found you, whilst searching for shed build posts on the Internet.

I may have a few (dozen!) questions. :mrgreen:

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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Apr 2015, 20:26

Hi Mike and welcome to the forum.

Plenty of info to be gained from the folks here, and we love to see pics so photo's of anything you have made please! :)

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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby ramsbottommike » 15 Apr 2015, 21:59

Cheers Mark. :)

Here's a recent end table-crate fashioned from reclaimed pallet wood. I'm a coffee addict in case you wondered. ;)

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And my older interest - a trio of walking sticks -

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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby 9fingers » 15 Apr 2015, 22:59

HI and Welcome Mike.

How about making a pallet wood plinth on which to stand your workmate?

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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby Andyp » 16 Apr 2015, 06:44

Hi Mike and we one to the forum. Stick making is not something we see a lot of around here and sound like it could be very rewarding and addictive. I'd be interest to see how you fashion those handles.

As you have seen there are a couple of workshop builds on the go here at the moment and at least one more in the pipeline so plenty of useful information to be had and quite a few people who know what they are doing.
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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby StevieB » 16 Apr 2015, 10:28

Welcome from me too!

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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby RogerS » 16 Apr 2015, 11:29

Hi Mike and welcome to the forum.
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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby Robert » 16 Apr 2015, 12:06

Like the crate and very professional looking sticks too.

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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby tabs » 27 Apr 2015, 16:33

Welcome
Hi Mike, I'm also from Lancashire and in the prep stages of a wrokshop build - Just knocked down my old 6x8 shed and in process of reclaiming useable wood from it and burning the rest
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Re: Hello from sunny Lancashire!

Postby Mike G » 27 Apr 2015, 18:11

Ooooh, TWO more possible workshop builds! :eusa-dance: Any help I can give will be a pleasure. You'll find my recent build as a sticky in the WIP section of the forum. Since then, I have developed an idea for building smaller workshops without a concrete base, and yet avoiding the usual problems with timber bases.

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