If a man has golden hands and likes to equip the house at his discretion, a carpentry workshop must be at his disposal. Woodworking is an exciting and creative activity. It’s nice to work with him, but it smells like in a forest. Many interior items and furniture are made of wood. So there is always an object for manufacturing. How and where to equip a joiner with your own hands?
Workspace
Before choosing a place, you need to know the requirements for a carpentry workshop. Since tools and machines make a lot of noise, the room should be away from housing, especially grouchy neighbors. In the future, the workshop should be supplied with electricity, at least 220 V. Lighting is mandatory over each machine and general. Natural sunlight should fall on the workbench.
It is also necessary to immediately think over the question of how the territory will be heated. To work with wood, the room must be dry and preferably with the same air temperature. Damp products will dry out in the room and cracks will appear. In the cold glue will not seize. Need a middle ground. When buying an oven, think about where to put it safely and what you have to heat.
Having a private house, allocating a place for carpentry and joinery is much easier. It can be a stone garage, a barn, a summer kitchen, and just a separately built room. It’s more difficult to think of a place in a city. It will not be possible to equip a good workshop in the apartment, except to put a small workbench and a cabinet with tools on the balcony. In this case, there is no question of any complex work. It remains, again, a stone garage in a garage cooperative. Nothing will work in metal because of the heat in summer and the cold in winter. In the best case, you can do all sorts of little things there.
Tool for carpentry
To create a full-fledged carpentry with your own hands, you need machines and hand tools. Many believe that the most convenient option is a universal machine, but this is not entirely true. When you turn on one process, the rest automatically turn on. From this equipment wears out, and it is dangerous when working. Strict, you can crawl under a moving circular, etc. It is better and more professional to have several separate machines. When organizing carpentry with your own hands, you first need to have a circular saw, a planing machine, a planer, a slotter, a lathe.
Other operations can be performed with electric hand tools: milling cutter, drill, grinder, screwdriver. Also used are planers, joists, chisels, clamps, miter boxes, measuring tools, metal squares, saws and others. For painting and varnishing you will need a paint gun, brushes. The most important place of any joiner is a convenient workbench, which in its structure has several additional functions.
Room lighting
When working with sharp tools that rotate at high speed, safety rules must be observed. First you need to clearly see everything you do. Proper lighting will create comfortable conditions for the work of the joiner. With insufficient natural light above the workbench is carried out additional. If the do-it-yourself carpentry will be located in a garage without windows, then the lighting should be combined. To ordinary incandescent lamps add fluorescent.
The light should be even and not flickering. Lighting should not create shadows on the product, they can visually distort the proportions and sizes of parts. Since there are a lot of electrical equipment and lamps in the workshop, think in advance about the number of outlets and automatic shutdown in case of overload. This is not always good, especially when work is done on machines. Adjustment of loads on electric and lighting devices falls on the shoulders of the master. The best option to ensure the safe operation of the workshop is to consult with an electrician. This will eliminate problems in further work.
Workshop heating
An ideal building would be a building with central heating. But this is very rare in the workshops. Therefore, each owner comes up with his own ways to keep warm. Use fireplaces and oil radiators, heat stoves (fireplace with a fan), air convector, infrared heater. These devices heat the hermetically sealed room well, but consume a huge amount of electricity. And it is expensive and unprofitable.
In carpentry workshops, a lot of sawdust, wood scraps, pickling and other waste are collected. All this needs to be taken somewhere. The best option is to use such waste material for space heating. The furnace can be welded from a simple metal barrel or ordered by the welder. Install it away from the machines, for the pipe you need to punch a hole in the wall. It is imperative that the oven or barrel be placed on a metal sheet for fire safety purposes.
Posting Rules
1. Each machine in the workshop should be located at a distance from one another, have free access from all sides.
2. Machines should be away from the desktop. In the middle of the workshop, you need to leave a large unallocated space for the assembly of large-sized furniture, cabinets, tables and chairs made of wood.
3. The floor should be cement, with a smooth surface of the screed. Machine tools are installed stationary, tightly adjacent to the floor surface. And be sure to ground them.
4. In the carpentry workshop a lot of wood and shavings. All of these are flammable objects. It is necessary to equip a box with sand somewhere in the corner and have a fire extinguisher. Do not stint and get. For your own safety.
Furniture manufacturing
Wooden furniture is always appreciated. This is an environmentally friendly material, and people who care about their health try to use natural materials. The manufacture of any furniture begins with the idea, planning and measurements. Then a drawing is drawn and materials are selected. Valued oak, larch, linden, beech, walnut looks very nice. The wood available to all is pine.
The next step is to prepare the purchased boards for work. They need to be aligned on a planer and beautifully processed on a thicknesser. Further, the details on the circular are cut to size. Then comes the assembly and painting. Thus, according to the drawings, it is possible to make cabinets, shelves, beds, tables and chairs made of wood.
Making furniture with his own hands, the carpenter enjoys the realization of his ideas, puts his soul and skill into the manufacture of a beautiful product. Wooden furniture has been used for many years, it is strong, therefore, it is in demand among buyers. Having your own carpentry, you can upgrade your interior yourself, and also earn money.