Building The Woodshop
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- This is about how I built my wood shop. We decided to move from our previous home for a variety of reasons. I saw the move as an opportunity to gain a bigger shop for my wood working hobby. The house we found had everything we wanted, except for a shop or even a garage. It did have a non functioning indoor pool. We thought this space would make a nice wood shop. I could just build a floor over the pool and have a shop. As we got further into the inspection process, it was looking as though fixing the structure over the pool was going to be expensive. It looked like we would have to put a bunch of money into a structure that was not really a wood shop and not a functioning pool either. It made more sense to take out the pool and structure, and then build a wood shop from the ground up. We started this project by regrading our side yard to gain access to the pool in the backyard. Once we had access, we took out the pool. We half filled the hole where the pool was with compacted gravel. I realized that if we sank the shop into the ground I could have the ceiling height I had always wanted in the shop and preserve the view from the house. The design of the shop is a box with a shed roof. The roof wraps down the east side of the structure. I like to think of it as a slightly open toolbox. The entire shop is laid out on a 24 inch grid. The windows and doors fall within this grid. I had a general contractor built the shell and then I built the windows and interior. The interior walls are comprised of a 34 inch concrete stem wall at the base. Above that is a 9 foot, plywood wall. In the space above the plywood wall and below the shed roof is poly carbonate panel to form a clerestory. The tool layout in the shop is divided into 4 areas: an area near the door for material storage and prep, a central area for general wood working, and two areas near the back of the shop, one for turning and one for metal working.
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Frank, I've came from 9 years in the future to tell you your workshop just gets better and better....and so do your videos.
Thats not a Shop , thats a Master Piece, You're not a Carpenter or whatever, You are an Artist , from the Idea , design , details, execution, computer demos, Well Done Well Done !!
thanks!
Never would have thought a time-lapsed construction video would be so mesmerizing :)
I know this has been three years... but it's the sound effects and how he pulls you into the video as if you are in it. This was a fantastic video
As an architectural major student I love this video. Simple as that
I love the old power tools, all the old green Powermatic stuff takes me back to memories of Junior High School. The school was built in 1935 and the shop looked it! But the tools were awesome, you could not destroy them, even with a room full of 12-14 year old kids banging on them all day for like 50 years.
Wish they still made em like that!! That's why i restore old machinery to like new conditions!! Preserving the American traditions both of us appreciate! Its really not hard to restore them ..just pick away at it here and there, the next thing you know you have something the neighbors and friends can't believe with their eyes!!
Came across this video just a few months ago but it was an inspiration as we began to design a shop/art studio next to a modern prefab we're getting ready to build in the California desert. We opted for a series of tall, narrow windows and horizontal clerestories. On the wood side, stationary tools will sit in between the vertical windows. My workbench will be flanked by vertical windows with a clerestory above that will leave wall space behind the bench for a hand tool cabinet. On the art studio side (for my wife) windows are oriented for the best views and northern light. I worked out most of the details in SketchUp and then our architect converted that into buildable plans. Thanks for all the good ideas.
I am interested in seeing more about the sound dampening ceiling. I would love to modify this process for use with an air compressor cabinet, and I wonder if dust is problematic with your system. btw, I really appreciate the level of commitment you have to your videos; this film must have been in the works for a long time... and now it stands as a work of art.
I have been a DIY woodworker for the better part of 50 years and I absolutely love your shop and your ability to think things through and provide very informative videos in such a precise, calm and enlightening manner
I am officially jealous....What an awesome space to work in. My shop has no windows except on the north side... not so much natural light. Maybe someday I can have something half as nice! Thanks for the inspiration.
Lucky you... I have no workshop at all, I must rent an old metal garage near my block,since i havent got any space in my flat, i have only could use a small balkony for some hand working like chisel and stuff but any bigger thing I must go to this garage,without any windows, without air conditioning and Im worried all the time about my tools I left there,because its an old building and only small padlock keep my stuff safe... I wish I had my own workshop, even 5 m square would be fantastic. Maybe some day....
We did have a structural engineer on board. The polycarbonate does not go all the way to the short long wall. There is 6 feet of wall on the north and south that provide shear. There are big anchor bolts holding the wall to the concrete stem wall in that area and along the short long side. I remember the building inspector was very keen on those being in the right places.
You have had your shop a few years now. With hindsight, what would you have done differently? Big changes yes, but even little changes also. As many have said, your video was excellent and I thank you for it. It will influence others as it has me. Best wishes to you and your family.
I love how you have a clear idea of exactly where all the tools go in the order the material is milled. That's something I would've never thought of, and I love organization.
Best. Shop. Ever. Seen. ... Very practical. And of course, another great video, thanks for sharing!
I am so impressed not only about your shop, but all of your skills! Videography, narrative, animation, woodworking, planning, vision, etc! Wow!
Loved the video, probably one of the best shop builds on UA-cam.
I hope you enjoy your time in the shop.
We had a general contractor do the shell, and I did all the small finicky bits, windows, trim, landscape, and everything on the interior. So we did not need lots of different skilled people working on the project. It's really a very simple building.
Cool shop, I love the natural lighting.
Love your new shop I have been downsizing for the last twenty years and now I'm down to a 8 X 16 ft shop . Sold most of my stuff but now just working on some new design tools and small things for the house. My problem in the past was the bigger the shop the more stuff came in taking up my valuable space. Sort of a black hole for woodworking tools and supplies. I wish you were my neighbor , I'll send you a tour of my shop some time,
Frank, I think you're video is really neat.
+Dennis Lindberg *your
Thanks
An incredibly complex, basic building. I love it!
Hello Frank, this video can see it a million times, I love it! This year I will build my small workshop. I hope it is at least half good as yours! ;)
Greetings from Bulgaria
Thanks, good luck with your shop
Frank beautiful work both The Shop and the Video, Very detailed, On point and inspiring, can't wait for the Tour
Love the video, great extra detail on the animations.
That was interesting. My shop is in the cellar of our 125 year old rowhouse. When I stand up, my head is between the joists. So yeah, I am envious and impressed.
Frank, your videography is amazing! Thank you!
+Christopher Robertson thanks
I second that. Your talent is amazing
I m gonna lawyered that as well
amazing!!
The foley work when the walls were going up made me smile.
Great shop and awesome design - love the perimeter windows light at the top of all the walls. Thanks for sharing!!
Frank, you have some amazing talents and I am impressed both with your skills and film making. How do you heat your shop? I'm a bit concerned with the long sleeves from a safety standpoint. Keep up the great work!
Thank you. I just have a 40 amp electric heater. It's not keeping up today.
@@frankmakes radiant heat would have been great since you did the slab and knee wall.
I'm a video maker (and amateur woodworker) and I found your video to be very "interestingly" made. I enjoyed it. Good job! Blessings!!
Do you have trouble when it rains? Does the lower floor fill with water? It seemed from the video that rain runoff could easily flow into the workshop from the yard and driveway.
I would hope will all the adjustment from the pool they would have put a drainage system through that gravel but I didn't notice it during the time lapse.
@@jacobivey8947 I think in another video I saw recently he said that the concrete border around the shop is higher than the surrounding ground/driveway so it doesn't/hasn't flood. looks like his backyard is a slight slope and it doesn't take water much to move so I think it's fine :D.
Wonderful place !!! I'm gonna have a look at your second video right now, can't wait !
Thanks for sharing your joy of having a dream made reality
I just want to congratulate you for a excellent video on your process of looking, planing, disdaining and building you shop, it´s amassing the way it turned out.
you are Inspire man and super professional
I know this video is a few years old but this is a beautiful shop. I just started getting into wood working and this is the kind of shop I will want in the future. This is my dream shop.
Really nice shop and video.I like the time you spent designing it.
2 issues in my view.
1. Needs a rest room and a refrigerator and a hot plate. Then I can move in. LOL
2. Don't know what type of wood working your doing? Subbed and Like but I need to watch more videos. What about a finishing room. While paints and stains take time to dry do you have to stop doing other woodworking?
Masterful work, Frank, clean and clever and very entertaining.
This is really a beautiful space inside and out. Love the way the light streams from the windows at night to light the yard and the contrast of the sky above in that night shot. Also, great job on the video production. Those shots of the drawings plus your hand with the sound effects are really great illustrations of how things work. Just enjoyed this start to finish. Thanks for making it!
Your video gave me an idea for my garage. Simple, elegant, modern and can be customised - just put in a dividing wall and keep a car on one side and have the shop on the other. Great job!
30' by 43'
I love all the light inside.
very nice shop, but man it must have cost a fortune.
My shop is about triple the size and cost around 15.000€. Not really that expensive.
It's just a big shed, built quite cheaply, try building it from brick and steel, then it would be expensive!
I agree, comparatively speaking wood is a cheap and plentiful resource. I doubt this was by any means inexpensive with all of the paid labor but the materials involved could have easily tripled the cost if it was steel, brick and mortar. But he wasn't building a fallout shelter, was he?
Other than changing the plans, 3 times it looks like the price would be very reasonable. Everything is on 24s so very little waste and he seem to have done much of the trades work him self other than the mud and frame. He even built his own windows that saved $$$$.
From what comments and replies I read, he mentions in a few its a ballpark of $95k, third to half was the concrete and formwork alone. had he used ICF instead of removable form would have saved on the form rental and labor and gave a nice built in noise insulation below grade. But seeing I watched from start to finish i get why he stuck with bare concrete wall, yet still would have saved on time and material with ICF as it finishes off much like wood stud wall with the built in fastening strips.
This must be one of the most good looking wood shops in the world. Honestly even 95 per cent of the houses doesn't look good as this. I hope it'll serve good for your workflow.
That was really interesting! How about drainage? I'm imagining the shop flooding if it rains..
The door at the south is at the floor, so it can't really flood more than and 1/2". So far I have not had a problem with water getting in.
Just wait more couple years and maybe they will have flooding or alot of moisture.
You know mother nature.
Super nice job! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Most houses are smaller than that in the UK
Johnny Blacksmith true true
Houses that small only exist in slough… and other shit cities.
Socialism? The UK is the birthplace of Adam Smith and the birthplace of capitalism. Ironically, the UK has had the smallest new homes in Europe due to the fact that it was the only country in the EU which didn't have minimum-space standards for homes.
Johnny Blacksmith Yeah! fuck the weekend, bank holidays, my rights, the nhs and public services etc., privatisation is fantastic haha The sizes of houses in our country has nothing to do with socialism.
Johnny Blacksmith Without the Western Europeans America would've never been a decent country
Wow what a shop !!! This is what I love about youtube, so many talented people out there sharing their hobbies weather it be wood working, arts and crafts, film work, with us the viewer... Love your work Frank, your videos are just a real pleasure to watch and I find them well presented and relaxing....
Fun to go back and re-watch this after seeing you finally use the beams for your dining room table. Time sure flies.
Thanks Frank for some ideas for a country shack love the exterior especially the polycarbonate
I do tend to come back to this one video just to relax and decompress while watching a piece of art be built
What was the cost on all this? It had to be quite expensive.
Way more than I thought when we started - about $95k
LOL That's more than I just spent on an entire house. Great wood shop though. I like your vids. Your animations make things interesting.
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Must be nice to have 95 grand to burn on a hobby.
M. Herbert Why hate for man? Rome wasn't built in one day...
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Hi Franck thanks for sharing the total cost for your project however what was the cost for materials only ?
Thank you for sharing both your chair and the building of your shop. I look forward to hearing about the details of the shop and the types of things you plan build in your shop
Frank, I love how you know how to tell a story. Good job.
Very impressed by your videos. The time planning prepping and execution is evident and appreciate the in depth explanations on the projects, thanks for sharing.
If only we all had millions of dollars from our wife’s father to build a dream shop and play make believe woodworker
Would your wife's boyfriend be willing to chip in?
Well made video on a great project... I love the stop motion video with the hand moving "lumber" into the shop. Awesome.
how ironic.. you searched for a "quiet neighborhood" and then became the world's loudest most annoying neighbor. your little burlap panels are hilarious. I was shocked when you didn't sound proof the shop and had those paper thin poly windows. neighbor from hell.
Got myself some neighbors who work outside their garage, do not hear them unless my windows are open, they live across the road and my bedroom is in the back of the house. Heck the railway runs next to their house and II often do not hear it unless its hauling oil and coal supplies, or my window is open.
Sounds simply like your house is well insulated. I'm guessing it was built with awareness of the railway.
Cassette, not sure how well insulate you mean? My closet gets cold in the winter and so it leaks into the bedroom if not for a draft sock at the door, this house was never remodeled since it was built and if it was it was not redone to modern day specs. Heck the floor I live on has no insulation in the floor and the basement is so uninsulated and drafty even it gets cold down there, knock on wood my plumbing has yet to burst and flood my stored items down there sitting in the cold in winter. Its the fact my bedroom is so far from the road I hardly hear the neighbors unless I have the closet door open and window in the closet also open when its nicer temps that i can then hear my neighbors making noise, I still hear the train rumble by let alone feel it shake the neighborhood when its running coal/oil supplies.
Not sure when the place was actually built or the still current previous reincarnation of the interior is a remodel since it was built, but yeah its at least 40 years old, older than I am from what I could tell from the basement wall originally build of stone masonry wall with a brick skirt that the house structure sits on. If I was able to buy this place from the previous landlord I would of had it inspected and shadow them as they explain this and that and decided from there how much it would cost to rebuilt versus the market value if I was to rebuilt from the ground up compared to how much I originally paid for it and the property around it.
I'd live there. the shop it self is a super cool looking building!
Her gravely voice is disturbing.
Probably suffering from a cold
It's a very common female trait when you start hearing it. Usually pitched a bit higher tho and often towards the end of sentences. Shallow breathing while talking.
Ok that's right on the money Frank...Lots of mold in the old pool building so you did good to get rid of it...It was good you had the work done by a contractor...Saved you time, mistakes, building permit issues and time for the neighbors' to re think if they wanted you there...The waterproofing and water drains look well done so you should not have any water issues...If you can get the grade to your sewer you could add a small bathroom at ground level with a step going up to it...Bring water to the shop would give you a eye wash station whatever in case something happened...I'm just thinking out loud...You did very good...Your gifted with your hands...My father was like that...You did great on all your videos...I enjoyed watching them...
Really like the design with the windows. Very cool!
Hey Frank, what a wonderful workshop. Love the poly window strip to let in the light. Natural light is the only way to go in workshops, especially woodworking.
Best video I've seen so far as I prepare to build a shop of my own. Thanks Frank
I have been watching lots of different woodworking channels in my life time, but only recently found this one. In few days i have watched every one of your video. They are so well made, artistic, interesting, teaching, and just great. You are artist at so many levels.
Great attention to detail. Love the space you've created. Two things I'd like to hear more about are how you heat the shop and what electrical service you run to the shop including number of circuits and breakdown among those circuits between 100/220 and number of phases.
never heard of 100 though know there is 110 or 120 and 220 - 240, overseas they use 220 and 400
This is by far the best visualized construction video I've ever seen. Credit where credit is due. It was alot of fun to watch!
The graphics and animations were the best part in my opinion!
Very helpful and illustrative.
At the door shown at 12:50, build a ramp. Have it fold up, since it will just eat floor space when not needed. For some reason, a Tommy Lift came to mind. Maybe that'll be the solution, especially if you find one cheap. A TL may be too narrow, so have it stretched like a limo at an iron shop. Your kid a have a blast with that!
Nice Shop!!!! Frank I'm in the midst of finalizing my dad's and my shop. Like you it's about 65% set up watching your video makes me remember all the trials and tribulations of building our. It was all worth it to see my Dad's smile when he got to rip the first board in his shop
Superb looking shop and excellent video as well - thank you!
Amazing, you can create a whole new world in this wonderful place...
Envy, Jealousy, Lust, and a whole other range of emotions don't even come close to what I'm feeling watching this video. Congrats on building your dream. Someday I hope that I too will be able to build my dream.
A shop like this......just a dream ! Perhaps one day....
The shop is a marvel with its shed roof, full span trusses, sound proofing, and the great size. The sunken floor although nice for head room would not work for me just because of where I live (south Texas), but I understand why the view was so important. Anyway, enjoyed the build and the video work and will look forward to seeing anything else you produce in the future.Thanks for sharing.
Still, to this day, this is the most beautiful workshop I have ever seen.
Yes, across the pond here it's fiberglass insulation, but it's the same a glass wool. I put the unwrapped face behind the burlap of the panel. trying to make the most porous surface possible to trap sound waves.
I’ll never be able to afford a shop like that but if I could I’d do it just like yours! Thank you for sharing the process!
This is a great video to watch, I enjoyed the fingers running the radial arm saw.
We had a steel frame of 1" square tubing made and the door was made around that. the track is just geriatric track. I toggle clamp the door to the shop to lock it and seal it. There are some small holes at the top but for the most part I have filled them. The bottom is the only gap. I need to get a long door brush, for now I keep a 2x4 there to stop the draft in the winter. I have not had any trouble with critters getting in.
That's a dream shop. I love the light story and the simple layout.
Hi Frank, I really enjoy all your videos a great deal. You are calm and unassuming while being very bright and thoughtful. I so appreciate seeing and hearing how you think things through and solve problems... It's very impressive and captivating to watch. As an engr who loves thinking, I can't stop watching. 😃
I just finished my workshop, but I wish I had seen your shop first. Really beautiful work.
The job on your shop I'm happy for you
I to have to go down into my shop , for me the stem walls are necessary, and after renovating the whole shop roof structure . i had the same open wall effect which I also used poly on for the light ,and color Green , it's a nice effect , loved this Video it''s cool to share in so many things , looking forward to see what comes out of this Shop
This was fantastic to see, how a shop is literally built from the ground up :) Thank you for all of your great videos.
That band saw looks pretty awesome. I would like to see more on that. I would like to see you clean it up and repaint it. Let your kids pick out the colors!
J. A. Fay & Egan Co. 950 Lightning Bandsaw
Really.... That's nine years ago? Then big thx for nine years of best carpenter stuff and entertainment Frank!
I want to build storage facilities and work shops out here in California. You have given me a lot of great ideas about shop construction. The polycarb windows are a great idea. Plenty of light is important.
Congratulations Frank. Great project.
Thoroughly impressed at the story board of this video as well as the workshop itself. I love the style! Great job, Frank!
I love this channel, Frank you are artist.
Incredible shop and channel Frank. I like the way you think.
14:26 Brilliant use of light; warm and very welcoming.
I literally cried watching this video... out of joy for someone to have a shop like this, then sadness because I will never be able to. And then I got very mad.
Been watching all your videos, finally went back and watched this. Wow, beautiful shop. One day I'll build myself a dream shop
Wow Frank this looks Awesome. I bet your neighbour love what you did to the place. The place looks amazing.
Holy cow that's a lot of work. Looks nice.
absolutely the most epic video ever. hats off
A really enjoyable tour of the project as it was built. thank you.
Great video, very envious !! Lovely workshop and by the sound of it a lovely family too !! Keep up the good work !
Brilliant, your talent it's beyond barriers.
Your shop is the Disneyland of my dreams! I will built myself one just like it someday. Congratulations. The project is awesome!