theworkshop.ca Renovation - Phase 3
Pattern Making Shop - Part II
Where I left off, there were walls coming down and new walls going up. In this picture the walls are done and painted.
I even opted to paint the floor.
All materials as mentioned earlier were recovered from the renovation of the drive shed except for 5 lbs of nails, the paint and electrical fixtures and wire.
The guided tour starts with the lathe as the center piece. Not that it is used for pattern making, but does get a lot of use for other projects and it's great having it close at hand.
The small panel on the wall is fed by my original welder line and has four 15 Amp breakers that feed the new outlets.
I just need to get some heavy staples to tack the line up.
In this corner is the band-saw and a heavy counter top that will be used for rough cutting foam blanks, and finish cutting milled foam molds.
The shelving unit that is hung on the wall will be to hold on-going projects while their in the process of drying after being painted, plastered or waiting for a batch process to start.
The empty space to the right is reserved for a 24" by 24" mill that will begin construction once I get my winter supply of firewood in.
This is "off the hook" as they say in Oakland (or so I've been told)...
The mill is running off a mold as this image is being taken. The Control PC will have to be upgraded before it can be tied back into the network, which will save having to flip diskettes for each job.
The matching counter-top and shelf are courtesy of MacDonald Construction located just west of Ottawa... Thanks to Steve & Ted!
Immediately across from the lathe is the "Lars-Gorton". These two machines stare each other down day and night.
It has been killing me all summer to be NOT working on the Lars-Gorton restoration. The days are numbered now before that project gets underway.
The shop is better than I could have ever imagined. It has been a miserable slog, working long days for months on end. The worst part of all these renovations is that my eye-sight has deteriorated to less than 10 degrees field of view, so I never get a true sense of how any of this looks until I take pictures and see them on the computer. Also numerous errors in measuring and cutting have had some humorous, though time consuming results.
In the first picture of this page, I found that the white walls were just a wash of snow and dis-orienting, so I opted to paint a blue stripe at the 5ft level to draw my eye to corners. The effect is exactly what I wanted and breaks the walls perfectly. If I had my way I'd paint the same stripe through our entire house.
Also as a "Low-Vision" workshop, I've installed 7 dual 4ft fluorescent fixtures, and one single fixture as well, totaling 600Watts of illumination, I think that I could add another 4 fixtures and still not find it too bright.
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