DIY Plan Chest and Workshop Photo's

[HTF]

Hello folks,

I'm setting up a shop in Dublin City Centre in the next few weeks. I am relocating from my workshop currently above 'The Bernard Shaw' pub and am in the middle of renovating an unused derelict building a couple of doors down, formally a hair salon last opened in 1997. I have negotiated a years free rent as there is a lot of repairs to make and also have a very reasonable second years rent.
Thus far this project has given loads of work to many of our tradesmen friends, like builders, electricians, plasterers, painters etc. who are out of a job at the moment, creating some synergy for the 3 small businesses taking on the lease. There are some communal costs between the graphic design studio, online shop office and myself which of course helps, but I'm looking to cut corners on shop fixings by building them myself.

Which leads me onto asking...

Does anybody have any photo's or sketches of homemade plan chests, workbenches, shelves etc.
Or even any photo's of framers workshops could be interesting to look at over lunch.

Kind regards and stay dry

Hang Tough Framing

[David McCormack]

A few photos of framer's workshops to browse through over lunch on this post

http://theframersforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=7273

[HTF]

Wow, great studio Dave

[framemaker]

I have various models in skecthup, which I can send you

[HTF]

Nice one Framemaker. I'd be grateful if you could send them on!

[framemaker]

This is a storage rack/shelf type thing, could easily be modified:
I did have a plan chest design but can't find it at the moment...

[framemaker]

and a mount cutting bench:

[HTF]

Ace!

You've given me some inspiration, thanks.
Just one qusestion, did you use MDF or Ply?

[Steve N]

Framemaker, what's with the measurements 47 63/64" on the storage rack, about time you turned metric, my first thought was you were in the USA. just kidding, I take it that it's the software you use, very nice design by the way.
When I plan any bench or storage system I try to use full sheets, or half or even quarter sheets of the material such as Ply, MDF or Chipboard, my benches are 8x4 feet and 4x 4feet.

Steve

[framemaker]

Yep Steve, we are set in our ways, most paintings and frames are discussed in inches round here, and by our customers.
Google sketchup can be used in metric or imperial, I just prefer inches, but found sometimes you could easily create a dimension like 96" x 48" (8'x4') and other times my mouse movement would not stop on the dimension I wanted, and go a fraction either side! The designs were just useful to work out the layout and amount of materials needed.

I used MDF and some chipboard for my workshop units.

BTW, clicked on your website link Steve, you seem to have some trojan called: HEUR:Trojan.Script.Iframer on your link, unless it is my computer...

[Steve N]

Thanks for telling me about the links problem, just had a look, looks like my sites have been hacked , there is some code which I did not put there, so I'll have to get on to my hosting company to check the access logs to see when it was done and rectify it, just uploading the original page to the server.

Many thanks for the info

Steve