Thanks dude! I haven’t yet, I feel as though I’ve not even had time to think about it lately 🙈🤣 But one day I’ll get around to doing something about it 🤙🏻
Love your small shop! Amazing all you have in there. I REALLY love your LED lighting strips around the perimeter and in you dust collection tubing 👍🏼👍🏼
Great video! Making me think I really need to sort out my own garage workshop 😂 Any chance you could do a video about your background and how you’ve got to where you are now? I’m just starting out with making my own products so would be fab to hear your story
Cheers! Haha yeah get stuck in and sort it 😜 I can do indeed if people like to know, it’ll be a very short video though 😂 I’ll write it on my UA-cam video list 😜
Thats a nice workshop. As a owner of a small workshop it's good to see that there is people that can make fantastic things in a small workshop. Looking forward to see more videos in the future😁
Awesome video buddy!! Love how much you have crammed in to such a small space! Looking forward to your verdict on going “mitresawless” as they are space hungry beasts!! FYI bloopers….love it!!!!…….”it’s really difficult to get ha”……bet you are glad you didn’t finish up where that sentence was heading 😂😂😂
Thanks dude 👊🏻 Yeah a lot has been crammed in to it but it all works well I think! Ha oh I love me some bloopers, they’ll definitely be a regular occurrence on my channel! Oh I’m glad I didn’t indeed 😝😂😂
Very nice workshop. Not sure about England, but here in Scotland I was told when I converted my single garage to a workshop that I wasn't allowed to put in 'fixed' heating otherwise it would be deemed a 'room' which wasn't granted for in the plans. To make it a 'room' would have required full planning and for it to have more than a layer of kingspan and plasterboard to insulate it. Mobile/portable heating is allowed.
Thank you very much! To be fair I didn’t check haha but knew it was okay to install as I converted a friends garage a few years previously in to a room for their eldest son for when he was back from uni. In England you don’t need planning permission to change the garage in to a room, as long as the works are internal and there’s no change externally then you can do what you want basically. It’s a shame you have to get planning, portable heaters are expensive to run 🙈
@@iainmatheson5190 Unfortunately, you have to tell your housing insurance company/mortgage lender if you've converted a room because it affects the value of your property, otherwise your insurance is void, so you are forced to get an evaluation estimate done, which is then recorded. The local council can regularly check the current estimated valuation of your property and see if you are paying less tax than you should.
Sam, your thicknesser jig that you show made from MDF, is it treated ? Varnished or waxed. I’m currently making a bench for my thicknesser that I mentioned to you on Instagram and not sure if to go with white melamine shelving or MDF like yours for the top surface.
Hi Terry! Yes, I coat with a layer of wax every now and again which works really well but I am hoping to make a new version soon and was planning to make the top out of a melamine faced plywood. You’d obviously still have to wax it but I guess the melamine version would be a little more durable 👊🏻
Great video, who doesn’t like to see someone else’s work shop, and how the fit everything in. I have the utmost respect for how well you manage in a relatively small space, well done 👍
Cheers Adam! We make the best of what space we have don’t we ☺️ Glad you enjoyed it though mate and hopefully you managed to have your Sunday roast before watching the videos haha
Great video, I think I'll just clone this for my single garage workshop 😂 A question though: How do you heat the shop and at what temp do you keep it in winter? Do temperatures ever drop below zero where you live?
Cheers! Haha go ahead and clone away 😜😂 So I had a radiator installed (I can’t remember if it was installed before or after this video or not, but it’s behind the surface planer (aka jointer). Luckily we had a radiator on the other side of the wall so it was pretty easy to install. The temperatures do drop pretty low, no way near as much as the states mind you but as I’ve insulated the walls as well and so it doesn’t get CRAZY cold in there which is nice 🤙🏻
Well I’m lucky for sure! This is the biggest shop I’ve had so far, my first was about a fifth of this size if that, so I know what you’re working with 🤙🏻
Love seeing someone with the same size shop as me make such lovely things. Gives me hope for my future career. Can’t see mine, need to get that sorted!! Piece out 🤢🤮🤣
Haha I mean I’ve been talking to myself since day dot dude but I was probably referring to “we” as my wife and I (I haven’t a scooby doo what I said in this video it was so long ago 😂) as we both run the business and work in the shop ☺️🤙🏻
Cheers! Haha oh you have you to be tidy in a small don’t you, otherwise you wouldn’t get anything done other than tidy up every time before even starting anything 😝😂
nice workshop! Simple layout but looks really efficient! What clamps do you use on the dovetail table saw sled as I have only ever seen micro jig do dovetail clamps and yours aren't? Thanks!
I’m just doing my single garage out now into a mini joinery workshop. Mines 2440 x 5600… so 8ft wide by 18ft 4”… I’m in the Rotherham area of South Yorkshire
No they’re not illegal, you just have to have particular table saws that can take a dado stack. Axminster sell one (the table saw I have) as well as the dado stacks to go with them 🤙🏻
Cheers Robert, glad you enjoyed it, I need to do a new one soon as it’s nearly a year old 🙈 I have the Axminster AT254LTS, thanks for letting me know the link doesn’t work, I’ll update it 🤙🏻 To be fair I think they have changed the name of it. It’s a great saw, no complaints from me what so ever ☺️
Ah cheers mate! Yeah it’s a tight fit but everything has enough space to work around, just haha I think when you’re working from a small space it has to be organised, there’s still loads I can do to make it better but I’ll let future Sam sort that out 👊🏻😂
I really enjoyed this, some great ideas. Did you have to earth the dust collection pipes? Subscribed and looking forward to more videos - will also check you out on IG 🤙
Thanks Barrie, glad you enjoyed it! I haven’t earthed them no and I don’t think I need to to be honest especially after speaking to some electricians ☺️ Thanks for subscribing, it really means a lot and I’ll see you over on IG 🤙🏻
Great layout and video and subscribed! Where did you get your blast gates from please? I assume you are happy with them and they block the suction from the other side? Thanks.
Cheers mate and thanks for subscribing, very appreciated 🤙🏻 I got them from Axminster, I’ve never had problems with them so I’m happy with them but I know you can get better ones out there for sure but for the money they do the job ☺️🤙🏻
Keeping your nice sander by the workbench implies you use it a lot.... Why not make a wooden sander holder to the wide of your workbench? Thanks for your videos.
That’s exactly what I’ve been planning on doing for a while now but haven’t had the time to just do it, even though it’ll be a very quick job 🙈😂 No thank you for watching my videos 🤙🏻🐵
1st one I've seen but an enjoyable video. I'm in the process of selling my Axminster professional scroll saw and looking to purchase an Axminster band saw but,, having seen your video am wondering if I may be better getting a table saw. I don't cut much sheet material so thought the band saw would be better, especially as it takes up less space and my garage is even smaller than yours lol?
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it! Ah sweet, well it all depends on what you build, I don’t have a scroll saw as I don’t have use for it, even though it’ll be nice to have one haha But I definitely use my table saw more than my bandsaw and I don’t work with sheet materials either, the table saw is super handy and that’s also why I now don’t have a mitre saw because I use the table saw instead. So at the end of the day it’s up to you due to what you build which dictates what tools you think would be necessary ☺️🤙🏻
Nice video, gives me some inspiration for sorting my workshop out! Feel your pain with getting materials during lockdown too, now it's just the prices to contend with!
I'm in the process of building my very first workshop and I am wondering about the floor covering 🤔 that inmind I see that you have put down the Penny matting, do you know what the thickness is that you have down plus how happy are you with your choice of flooring?
Amazing, hope the build out is going well so far! I do indeed, if I remember correctly it was 3/4mm and very easy to lay and cut, I stuck it down with spray adhesive. It’s way better than standing on hard concrete (and easier to sweep sawdust too) but to be fair it could be better. It’s doing the job for now but in the future I may look at upgrading the flooring to something thicker and that’s better for my knees ☺️ But for the price it’s definitely worth it 🤙🏻
I do have and I would recommend it over the smaller one indeed, purely because you can get an adaptor (which I now have) that allows you to make all the cuts the smaller domino can do. Where as you can’t do it the other way around I believe. 🤙🏻
Ah see I did something I probably shouldn’t scream about but I inserted a washer on to the NVR on switch so essentially it stays permanently on. I hadn’t foreseen this when buying my collector and it was my only solution at the time, 2 years later and it’s been okay so far 🤷🏻♂️
Cheers mate! Yeah nothing fancy, just a run of 13amp sockets and then I have two 16amp sockets ready for any bigger tool changes I may make in future ☺️🤙🏻
Thank you very much! Yeah it’s working so far but there’s always room for improvement and I have lots of ideas and upgrades I’d love to do in the future 👊🏻☺️
Haha I can’t remember what I said in this video but if I’m saying “we” I’m probably referring to my wife as we run our furniture making business together 🤙🏻
Hello mate! Cheers glad you like my content and business, appreciate it! I plan on making some jig videos soon, so stay tuned for when they come out 🤙🏻
Lovely shop and reminds alot of my own. I do have the similar axminster tablesaw and curious how you attatched the wooden wing extension? i've tried making some but they all end up being flappy and loose and can't handle weight on it.
Thank you very much! This is actually quite a common question that I get. It’s a thick block of wood I’ve glued together and simply cut out holes on the underside similar to how you would connect two kitchen worktops together, then bolted the wing through the already existing threads on the cast iron and it’s solid as a rock 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop oh snap. Your in for the ride of a life time. It gets rough but it's so worth it. Best wishes and enjoy that first little smile she gives you. You will never forget it.
Hi Monkey Boy, love you vlogs, some real nice pieces of furniture. I have a new white oak handrail for my next project and an engineered oak floor which I’m going to sand back. I’ve done a test patch out of site and it’s not far of the colour of the handrail, my question to you is two fold. 1) What Rubio colour would you recommend? and 2) can Rubio be used on an engineered oak floor? Thx Jay
Hey buddy! Thank you so much, glad you like my videos 🤙🏻 Awesome, I do love me some white oak 🤤 Colour wise is totally up to you, but for a natural look we tend to use Rubio ‘Mist’, and then sometimes ‘Smoke 5%’. The colour ‘Pure’ (which is their natural colour, so don’t get confused between their actual ‘Natural’ colour sample 🙈😂) tends to make oak very warm. And you can definitely use it on floors as it was actually made for floors in the first place. Hope that helps dude 👊🏻
Nice! Did you get build regulation approved for electrical and insulation, ventilation and heating systems? If so, how to do it and where do I go with it? Thanks ☺️
Thanks mate! From my knowledge you don’t need permission as you’re not changing anything externally or turning the garage in to residence such as a bedroom etc So you can do whatever you want within reason 😜 My brother in law is a town planner here in the UK so he knows the rules and regulations 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop I done a bit of research and found that you don't need planning permissions when doing internal changes , but you have to have a building regulations approval, everytime you mess with electricity or central heating, insulation and many other things. Check: "planning portal"
@@calmdymon Cheers buddy, I’ll check that out. The regulations may differ depending on where you are in the UK and my brother in law hasn’t mentioned anything about that for where we live but thanks dude 🤙🏻
Ah thank you very much, so kind! No of course I don’t mind, we source it from a variety of places, sometimes Surrey Timbers, sometimes Joe at The Rustic Tree Company (you’ll find him on Instagram, he’s our slab guy and he’s wicked) and then if none of that works, we scroll through eBay 🙈😂
Love that you’ve said goodbye to the miter saw. Until the day I start remodeling and installing loads of moulding and trim, I just don’t see a use for one.
Agree. I bought a power miter saw for installing trim. Used it for crown molding and barely since. It did work well for those. Very messy and noisy as well.
I’ve insulated, plasterboarded and plastered the walls and ceiling (although ceiling has yet to be insulated) which has soundproofed the workshop somewhat. We’ve never had any complaints from neighbours, we’ve actually had orders from them. Most of the noise escapes through the up and over garage doors which I’m hoping to upgrade at some point 🤙🏻
Thank you, you have given me some inspiration for tool storage. My Makita charger particularly irritates me and i was thinking of wall mounting it, but seeing your setup is food for thought.
Thanks mate! It’s taken me a while to get the layout right but it’s definitely working/on the right track so far 🤙🏻 One of the best investments for the shop I reckon 😜
They’re attached using worktop connecting bolts, just like you’d find in a kitchen counter. There were existing threads in the cast iron top on the table saw so I utilised those, made some holes in the wooden wing and then attached them and it’s very strong, I’ve stood on it many times and it doesn’t budge 🤙🏻
Anytime! I’m not sure I’d like to disclose even a guess as to how much I’ve spent on tools online 🤦🏻♂️😂 Obviously well up in the thousands but that’s been over 15 years of accumulating them throughout my woodworking journey 😜🤙🏻
Anytime! I’m not sure I’d like to disclose even a guess as to how much I’ve spent on tools online 🤦🏻♂️😂 Obviously well up in the thousands but that’s been over 15 years of accumulating them throughout my woodworking journey 😜🤙🏻
Anytime! I’m not sure I’d like to disclose even a guess as to how much I’ve spent on tools online 🤦🏻♂️😂 Obviously well up in the thousands but that’s been over 15 years of accumulating them throughout my woodworking journey 😜🤙🏻
Thank you very much! Personally I prefer parallel clamps, I have both Axminster brand and Bessey brand which are good quality clamps and I’d definitely recommend those. I’ve also heard Pony Jorgensen are good clamps too but I haven’t tried them personally 🤙🏻
@@jonathannewby2720 Ah I see! I do want to do a video on that, it’s just tricky coz I’ve already made it, and to show how I’ve built it I’d have to make another one so I’ll end up with two 🤔😂 But leave it with me 😜🤙🏻
love your small shop! Question: What size dovetail bit did you use for your track clamps on that sled? I just got a bunch of track clamps and that's a dandy little idea you have there. I miss that makita planer (thicknesser). I loved it when I owned it.
Cheers dude! Ooo that is a good question and I can’t remember for the life of me what size bit it was, when I get in the workshop I’ll dig it out and let you know. But yeah it’s a great little jig ☺️ It’s a great thicknesser isn’t it (I know you guys call it a planer 😜)
Hey dude, just got in the workshop, I used a half inch dovetail bit but I remember having to shift it over a touch on each cut to make it slightly wider. Hope that helps mate 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop Awesome, I think I have one, and I should give that jig a try. I whole-heartedly agree that the english nomenclature for jointer = planer and planer = thicknesser makes so much more sense than the american versions.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking Great, let me know how you get on with it, I’ve used mine on pretty much every project since making it. Yeah I’m afraid to say I have to agree, much more logical, which is rare for us English folk 😜😂
Just curious how you deal with the noise factor. I'm going to assume you are close to your neighbours, do you get complaints about the noise of the machines?
Yes we are very close to neighbours but we’ve actually been really lucky where we are. The neighbours have never complained, we actually get a lot of interest in what we’re doing and we’ve also had orders from neighbours too haha I think insulating the walls was a good shout as it does reduce the sound but there is still more that can be done to help reduce it even more, like an insulated garage door and ceiling too 🤙🏻
Hey buddy! Sorry it’s taken me so long to reply, I’ve been on holiday and wanted to give you exact measurements once I got back to the workshop ☺️🤙🏻 So the cast iron section is 550mm, with the add on supplied (the white part top) it goes to 1125mm, but the bar goes to 1336mm (as in from pushed up against the wall on the right all the way to left of the cast iron top! Hope that helps mate 🤙🏻
Fancy seeing you here! Great stuff dude! 👍
Haha thanks Keith, glad you enjoyed it, especially seeing as you’re a master of the old UA-cam now 👊🏻😜
Great shop tour. Have you made your mind-up on the garage door yet?
Thanks dude! I haven’t yet, I feel as though I’ve not even had time to think about it lately 🙈🤣 But one day I’ll get around to doing something about it 🤙🏻
Love your small shop! Amazing all you have in there. I REALLY love your LED lighting strips around the perimeter and in you dust collection tubing 👍🏼👍🏼
Busy researching for my own workshop tour. Nice to take another look around yours. Take care. K.
Cheers mate! I think I need to do a new one soon as it’s been over two years since posting this workshop tour 🙈🤣
Great video! Making me think I really need to sort out my own garage workshop 😂
Any chance you could do a video about your background and how you’ve got to where you are now? I’m just starting out with making my own products so would be fab to hear your story
Cheers! Haha yeah get stuck in and sort it 😜
I can do indeed if people like to know, it’ll be a very short video though 😂 I’ll write it on my UA-cam video list 😜
Great shop Sam, especially for only two years and a pandemic. Just sub’d 👍🏻👏🏻🇬🇧
Very kind of you mate 👊🏻 Yeah it took longer than I’d planned but it all worked out in the end ☺️🤙🏻 And cheers for the sub 😍🐵
I've waited so looongg welcome to youtube!! So happy ( the video is amazing 👏 )
Haha hopefully not too long 🙈🤣 Glad you like my videos though after all this time waiting 😜
Thats a nice workshop. As a owner of a small workshop it's good to see that there is people that can make fantastic things in a small workshop. Looking forward to see more videos in the future😁
Cheers mate that’s very kind of you, you should never feel limited by the space you’re working in I always feel ☺️👊🏻
Congrats on the first vids mate, looking great! 🙌🏻 😃
Thanks Gareth, much appreciate dude, it feels great to finally be on here, I’m sure you felt the same 👊🏻😍
Awesome video buddy!! Love how much you have crammed in to such a small space! Looking forward to your verdict on going “mitresawless” as they are space hungry beasts!! FYI bloopers….love it!!!!…….”it’s really difficult to get ha”……bet you are glad you didn’t finish up where that sentence was heading 😂😂😂
Thanks dude 👊🏻 Yeah a lot has been crammed in to it but it all works well I think! Ha oh I love me some bloopers, they’ll definitely be a regular occurrence on my channel! Oh I’m glad I didn’t indeed 😝😂😂
Very nice workshop.
Not sure about England, but here in Scotland I was told when I converted my single garage to a workshop that I wasn't allowed to put in 'fixed' heating otherwise it would be deemed a 'room' which wasn't granted for in the plans. To make it a 'room' would have required full planning and for it to have more than a layer of kingspan and plasterboard to insulate it.
Mobile/portable heating is allowed.
Thank you very much! To be fair I didn’t check haha but knew it was okay to install as I converted a friends garage a few years previously in to a room for their eldest son for when he was back from uni. In England you don’t need planning permission to change the garage in to a room, as long as the works are internal and there’s no change externally then you can do what you want basically. It’s a shame you have to get planning, portable heaters are expensive to run 🙈
Don't tell the government anything, local or not.
@@iainmatheson5190 Unfortunately, you have to tell your housing insurance company/mortgage lender if you've converted a room because it affects the value of your property, otherwise your insurance is void, so you are forced to get an evaluation estimate done, which is then recorded. The local council can regularly check the current estimated valuation of your property and see if you are paying less tax than you should.
Love your workshop! and the video! :) Great work!
Ah cheers Pierre, very kind of you 👊🏻
Sam, your thicknesser jig that you show made from MDF, is it treated ? Varnished or waxed. I’m currently making a bench for my thicknesser that I mentioned to you on Instagram and not sure if to go with white melamine shelving or MDF like yours for the top surface.
Hi Terry! Yes, I coat with a layer of wax every now and again which works really well but I am hoping to make a new version soon and was planning to make the top out of a melamine faced plywood. You’d obviously still have to wax it but I guess the melamine version would be a little more durable 👊🏻
I liked the brick...
Well it’s all gone now I’m afraid mate 🤙🏻
G’day Sam, very nice workshop you’ve fit into this space mate & im interested to see some of your other videos now.
Greets from DownUnder 🍻🇦🇺👍
Hey mate! Thank you very much, it’s a somewhat tight fit but it all works well 🤙🏻 Thanks for watching dude 👊🏻☺️
Great video, who doesn’t like to see someone else’s work shop, and how the fit everything in.
I have the utmost respect for how well you manage in a relatively small space, well done 👍
Cheers Adam! We make the best of what space we have don’t we ☺️ Glad you enjoyed it though mate and hopefully you managed to have your Sunday roast before watching the videos haha
Absolutely 😂and very nice it was too!!
Great video, I think I'll just clone this for my single garage workshop 😂 A question though:
How do you heat the shop and at what temp do you keep it in winter? Do temperatures ever drop below zero where you live?
Cheers! Haha go ahead and clone away 😜😂
So I had a radiator installed (I can’t remember if it was installed before or after this video or not, but it’s behind the surface planer (aka jointer). Luckily we had a radiator on the other side of the wall so it was pretty easy to install. The temperatures do drop pretty low, no way near as much as the states mind you but as I’ve insulated the walls as well and so it doesn’t get CRAZY cold in there which is nice 🤙🏻
ppfff your shop is about x50 bigger than mine
Well I’m lucky for sure! This is the biggest shop I’ve had so far, my first was about a fifth of this size if that, so I know what you’re working with 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop its a battle, but when i get a big shop it will be even better 👍
@@blameusa7082 It certainly will mate 👊🏻
Love seeing someone with the same size shop as me make such lovely things. Gives me hope for my future career.
Can’t see mine, need to get that sorted!!
Piece out 🤢🤮🤣
Ah cheers mate, yeah we shouldn’t feel limited by the size of our workshop ☺️ Yeah hell knows why I said that 🤣🙈
Who's the "we" dude? have you reached that talking to yourself level that the rest of us have... 😀
Haha I mean I’ve been talking to myself since day dot dude but I was probably referring to “we” as my wife and I (I haven’t a scooby doo what I said in this video it was so long ago 😂) as we both run the business and work in the shop ☺️🤙🏻
Are doing film on how to make the table top sledge.
Nice looking space man, I've subbed up! G'day from an expat Brit living in NZ. Cheers!
Cheers dude! G’day to you too, although I’m still a Brit living in the UK so maybe I can’t say that! New Zealand is awesome, I’m jealous!
Great video.Nice to see a fellow small shop buddy. Teaches you to be clean and organised..which I never was before 😂😂
Cheers! Haha oh you have you to be tidy in a small don’t you, otherwise you wouldn’t get anything done other than tidy up every time before even starting anything 😝😂
nice workshop! Simple layout but looks really efficient! What clamps do you use on the dovetail table saw sled as I have only ever seen micro jig do dovetail clamps and yours aren't? Thanks!
Thanks Adam, yeah I’ve got it working pretty well for the space 🤙🏻 Those clamps are makita and Bessey ones if I remember rightly , hope that helps 🐵
I’m just doing my single garage out now into a mini joinery workshop. Mines 2440 x 5600… so 8ft wide by 18ft 4”… I’m in the Rotherham area of South Yorkshire
That’s awesome! Yeah your shops only slightly smaller than mine, hope the workshop build is going well 🤙🏻
I thought dado blades were illegal here in the UK?
Hope I am wrong though...........
No they’re not illegal, you just have to have particular table saws that can take a dado stack. Axminster sell one (the table saw I have) as well as the dado stacks to go with them 🤙🏻
Great video! Which table saw do you have? (The link didn't work). I'm trying to work out if I can upgrade......
Cheers Robert, glad you enjoyed it, I need to do a new one soon as it’s nearly a year old 🙈 I have the Axminster AT254LTS, thanks for letting me know the link doesn’t work, I’ll update it 🤙🏻 To be fair I think they have changed the name of it. It’s a great saw, no complaints from me what so ever ☺️
Very impressive how much you've managed to fit in there and be able to work there as well ☺️. I'm well organized myself and respect people like you!
Ah cheers mate! Yeah it’s a tight fit but everything has enough space to work around, just haha I think when you’re working from a small space it has to be organised, there’s still loads I can do to make it better but I’ll let future Sam sort that out 👊🏻😂
I really enjoyed this, some great ideas. Did you have to earth the dust collection pipes?
Subscribed and looking forward to more videos - will also check you out on IG 🤙
Thanks Barrie, glad you enjoyed it! I haven’t earthed them no and I don’t think I need to to be honest especially after speaking to some electricians ☺️ Thanks for subscribing, it really means a lot and I’ll see you over on IG 🤙🏻
Great layout and video and subscribed! Where did you get your blast gates from please? I assume you are happy with them and they block the suction from the other side? Thanks.
Cheers mate and thanks for subscribing, very appreciated 🤙🏻 I got them from Axminster, I’ve never had problems with them so I’m happy with them but I know you can get better ones out there for sure but for the money they do the job ☺️🤙🏻
Very well thought out, thank you for sharing, stay warm, safe, happy and healthy, from Henrico County Virginia
Thank you so much! Anytime, I’m hoping to get more videos out as soon as possible! Hope you’re well and stay warm and safe too 🤙🏻
Keeping your nice sander by the workbench implies you use it a lot....
Why not make a wooden sander holder to the wide of your workbench?
Thanks for your videos.
That’s exactly what I’ve been planning on doing for a while now but haven’t had the time to just do it, even though it’ll be a very quick job 🙈😂 No thank you for watching my videos 🤙🏻🐵
1st one I've seen but an enjoyable video.
I'm in the process of selling my Axminster professional scroll saw and looking to purchase an Axminster band saw but,, having seen your video am wondering if I may be better getting a table saw.
I don't cut much sheet material so thought the band saw would be better, especially as it takes up less space and my garage is even smaller than yours lol?
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
Ah sweet, well it all depends on what you build, I don’t have a scroll saw as I don’t have use for it, even though it’ll be nice to have one haha But I definitely use my table saw more than my bandsaw and I don’t work with sheet materials either, the table saw is super handy and that’s also why I now don’t have a mitre saw because I use the table saw instead. So at the end of the day it’s up to you due to what you build which dictates what tools you think would be necessary ☺️🤙🏻
Nice video, gives me some inspiration for sorting my workshop out! Feel your pain with getting materials during lockdown too, now it's just the prices to contend with!
Thank you very much! Haha I know right they’re bloody ridiculous but what can we do hey, it’s a passion that we still need to take part in 🙈😂
Looking good. Your shop inspires my ideas. I'm going to create a shop in a 4x4 mtr. space. Let's see how much stuff I can get into it! Cheers :)
Awesome, glad it inspires you 👊🏻 Hope the shop build goes well, a decent 4m x 4m square shop is plenty of space ☺️🤙🏻
Great shop tour, love the layout, will be adding some of your brillant ideas to my own shop, stay well. Louie
Amazing, so glad you enjoyed it and got some inspo and ideas, that’s my job done 😜👊🏻
I'm in the process of building my very first workshop and I am wondering about the floor covering 🤔 that inmind I see that you have put down the Penny matting, do you know what the thickness is that you have down plus how happy are you with your choice of flooring?
Amazing, hope the build out is going well so far! I do indeed, if I remember correctly it was 3/4mm and very easy to lay and cut, I stuck it down with spray adhesive. It’s way better than standing on hard concrete (and easier to sweep sawdust too) but to be fair it could be better. It’s doing the job for now but in the future I may look at upgrading the flooring to something thicker and that’s better for my knees ☺️ But for the price it’s definitely worth it 🤙🏻
You mentioned having the Festool domino xl, would you recommend it over the smaller domino? Thanks
I do have and I would recommend it over the smaller one indeed, purely because you can get an adaptor (which I now have) that allows you to make all the cuts the smaller domino can do. Where as you can’t do it the other way around I believe. 🤙🏻
Really well done mate 👏👏👏👏
Cheers Tim, glad you enjoyed them dude 👊🏻
Hi
How did you overcome the problem of fitting a remote switch for your dust collection which has a NVR switch on the machine.
Ah see I did something I probably shouldn’t scream about but I inserted a washer on to the NVR on switch so essentially it stays permanently on. I hadn’t foreseen this when buying my collector and it was my only solution at the time, 2 years later and it’s been okay so far 🤷🏻♂️
Top darts video - what's your electrical setup - standard or anything fancy?
Cheers mate! Yeah nothing fancy, just a run of 13amp sockets and then I have two 16amp sockets ready for any bigger tool changes I may make in future ☺️🤙🏻
Would love to see a video on how you made your table saw sleds ✌✌✌
Okay sweet, I’ll add it to the list, cheers for suggesting it 👊🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop oh forgot to say great video dude ✌
@@jamiewillan372 Ah cheers mate, much appreciated 🤙🏻
Love you workshop space, great video.
Just subscribed
Mark
Cheers Mark, glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate the subscribe 🤙🏻 Have an awesome day mate. Sam
Hell yeah. Good to finally see you on UA-cam man. Hope to see you many more times greetz!!!
Thank you so much mate, really glad to finally be on UA-cam too 😂 Got more planned and filmed already so there’s definitely more to come ☺️👊🏻
Well done mate. All looks great. Cannot wait to do my garage. Same time, can wait, it's going to be a rough ride.
Cheers! It’s going to be rough but it’s also going to be oh so worth it 😍👊🏻
Just discovered your channel - this looks fun! Have a sub :)
Ah cheers dude, that’s very kind of ya 🤙🏻 It’ll always be fun on my channel mate ☺️😜
Excellent video tour. Great use of space in your shop.
Thank you very much! Yeah it’s working so far but there’s always room for improvement and I have lots of ideas and upgrades I’d love to do in the future 👊🏻☺️
Who is the "we" you keep mentioning? Is it your spouse or another personality? LOL!
Haha I can’t remember what I said in this video but if I’m saying “we” I’m probably referring to my wife as we run our furniture making business together 🤙🏻
Hi
Love your videos and how you’ve build a business from your hobby I would love to see a video on how you use your jig
Hello mate! Cheers glad you like my content and business, appreciate it! I plan on making some jig videos soon, so stay tuned for when they come out 🤙🏻
Very nicely packed! Thank you for giving me some ideas for my single car garage.
No worries at all mate 👍🏻 I’ve somehow got to fit a CNC machine in there now too 🙈😂
@@monkeyboysworkshop wow impressive!
@@yuegan1939 Haha we’ll see if I manage it first 😂
Lovely shop and reminds alot of my own.
I do have the similar axminster tablesaw and curious how you attatched the wooden wing extension?
i've tried making some but they all end up being flappy and loose and can't handle weight on it.
Thank you very much! This is actually quite a common question that I get. It’s a thick block of wood I’ve glued together and simply cut out holes on the underside similar to how you would connect two kitchen worktops together, then bolted the wing through the already existing threads on the cast iron and it’s solid as a rock 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop il give that way of attaching it a go next time then. cheers again
Nice shop! ... and nice to see someone work from a space not to dissimilar from my own!
Cheers! So many of us work from a smaller space don’t we, so it’s nice to share that ☺️🤙🏻
Wow nice shop. It is small or super size machine
Cheers thank you very much ☺️🤙🏻
please do a video on how you set up and build your dust collection setup. thanks
It’s on my list of videos to film dude, just been so busy with work and getting prepped for our baby girl arriving soon ☺️🤙🏻 All in good time 👊🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop oh snap. Your in for the ride of a life time. It gets rough but it's so worth it. Best wishes and enjoy that first little smile she gives you. You will never forget it.
@@jasonchristiansen9063 Oh we certainly are 😝😂 Thanks mate, we’re super excited and we’re just gonna take everything and take it day by day 🤙🏻😍
I'd love to see the setup of the dust extractor as well. Looking forward to the future video. Keep up the good work
Hi Monkey Boy, love you vlogs, some real nice pieces of furniture. I have a new white oak handrail for my next project and an engineered oak floor which I’m going to sand back. I’ve done a test patch out of site and it’s not far of the colour of the handrail, my question to you is two fold. 1) What Rubio colour would you recommend? and 2) can Rubio be used on an engineered oak floor?
Thx Jay
Hey buddy! Thank you so much, glad you like my videos 🤙🏻 Awesome, I do love me some white oak 🤤 Colour wise is totally up to you, but for a natural look we tend to use Rubio ‘Mist’, and then sometimes ‘Smoke 5%’. The colour ‘Pure’ (which is their natural colour, so don’t get confused between their actual ‘Natural’ colour sample 🙈😂) tends to make oak very warm. And you can definitely use it on floors as it was actually made for floors in the first place. Hope that helps dude 👊🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop great thx for your help, il look take a look 👀👍🏻
@@sxworkshop No worries at all, happy to help where I can 🤙🏻
your volume keeps on changing levels it:s hard change volume while watching
Oh really, this is the first I’ve heard of it, I’ll look in to it, thanks for letting me know 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop It's only on the first section and the last section of the video.
Nice! Did you get build regulation approved for electrical and insulation, ventilation and heating systems? If so, how to do it and where do I go with it? Thanks ☺️
Thanks mate! From my knowledge you don’t need permission as you’re not changing anything externally or turning the garage in to residence such as a bedroom etc So you can do whatever you want within reason 😜 My brother in law is a town planner here in the UK so he knows the rules and regulations 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop I done a bit of research and found that you don't need planning permissions when doing internal changes , but you have to have a building regulations approval, everytime you mess with electricity or central heating, insulation and many other things. Check: "planning portal"
@@calmdymon Cheers buddy, I’ll check that out. The regulations may differ depending on where you are in the UK and my brother in law hasn’t mentioned anything about that for where we live but thanks dude 🤙🏻
Really good channel very NICE shop. where do you get your wood and sheet good from if you dont mind saying
Ah thank you very much, so kind! No of course I don’t mind, we source it from a variety of places, sometimes Surrey Timbers, sometimes Joe at The Rustic Tree Company (you’ll find him on Instagram, he’s our slab guy and he’s wicked) and then if none of that works, we scroll through eBay 🙈😂
@@monkeyboysworkshop 😊 thanks very much
Love that you’ve said goodbye to the miter saw. Until the day I start remodeling and installing loads of moulding and trim, I just don’t see a use for one.
Oh absolutely and I haven’t regretted it since either. The table saw does everything a mitre saw can do, pretty much 😜☺️
Agree. I bought a power miter saw for installing trim. Used it for crown molding and barely since. It did work well for those. Very messy and noisy as well.
Do you use soundproofing ?
I’ve insulated, plasterboarded and plastered the walls and ceiling (although ceiling has yet to be insulated) which has soundproofed the workshop somewhat. We’ve never had any complaints from neighbours, we’ve actually had orders from them. Most of the noise escapes through the up and over garage doors which I’m hoping to upgrade at some point 🤙🏻
Looks great. Given me a few ideas for my next workshop
Cheers Matt! Glad it gave you some new ideas coz like me I know you’ve had a few workshops in the past 😜👊🏻
Thank you, you have given me some inspiration for tool storage. My Makita charger particularly irritates me and i was thinking of wall mounting it, but seeing your setup is food for thought.
No worries at all and that’s great to hear! Yeah always good to use up that wall space to have extra space where it’s needed most 🤙🏻
I think Jon peters (UA-cam channel) son is selling 3d printed wall mounts for the makita charger. Super inexpensive.
@@bsdbryn thank you thats appreciated, i made one from 9mm ply, but it didn't look right as it was too chunky.
Nice organized garage/ workshop.
Ah cheers mate, I try and keep it organised, it’s not often the case 😂
Nice workshop. Its about the same size as mine but much better laid out. I think I need a radiator too!
Thanks mate! It’s taken me a while to get the layout right but it’s definitely working/on the right track so far 🤙🏻 One of the best investments for the shop I reckon 😜
The radiator I mean haha
Roughly a 20 foot shipping container
It is roughly the same size yeah 🤙🏻
A garage built for an Austin 7. LOL!
Haha exactly, tiny, we definitely couldn’t get our car in there 🙈😂
May I ask where to find the clear pipe from?
Of course you can ask ☺️ I got it from Axminster here in the UK 🤙🏻
if thats small, my shop is pobably is a coffin
Hahahaha 🙈⚰️ Sorry 🤦🏻♂️
How did you attach the wooden wing on the left of your table saw?
They’re attached using worktop connecting bolts, just like you’d find in a kitchen counter. There were existing threads in the cast iron top on the table saw so I utilised those, made some holes in the wooden wing and then attached them and it’s very strong, I’ve stood on it many times and it doesn’t budge 🤙🏻
Interesting 🤔
Thanks so much for sharing. If you had to guess, how much have you spent on tools in total for this shop?
Anytime! I’m not sure I’d like to disclose even a guess as to how much I’ve spent on tools online 🤦🏻♂️😂 Obviously well up in the thousands but that’s been over 15 years of accumulating them throughout my woodworking journey 😜🤙🏻
Anytime! I’m not sure I’d like to disclose even a guess as to how much I’ve spent on tools online 🤦🏻♂️😂 Obviously well up in the thousands but that’s been over 15 years of accumulating them throughout my woodworking journey 😜🤙🏻
Anytime! I’m not sure I’d like to disclose even a guess as to how much I’ve spent on tools online 🤦🏻♂️😂 Obviously well up in the thousands but that’s been over 15 years of accumulating them throughout my woodworking journey 😜🤙🏻
Hi very nice workshop would you be able to recommend any clamps
Thank you very much! Personally I prefer parallel clamps, I have both Axminster brand and Bessey brand which are good quality clamps and I’d definitely recommend those. I’ve also heard Pony Jorgensen are good clamps too but I haven’t tried them personally 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop great much appreciated
@@Steve-dr7rr Anytime mate 🐵
Glad to see you on YT! Ttfn
Cheers mate, glad to finally be on UA-cam 🤙🏻
Had to subscribe because you are a madman 😂😂 great little shop.
Haha hilarious! I’m taking that as a compliment 😜😂🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshopcompliment it was. Great content here👍
Hi bud,
Are you doing a film on how to make the table top sledge.
Hey mate! Table top sledge, which do you mean? 🤔
@@monkeyboysworkshop table saw sledge.
@@jonathannewby2720 Ah I see! I do want to do a video on that, it’s just tricky coz I’ve already made it, and to show how I’ve built it I’d have to make another one so I’ll end up with two 🤔😂 But leave it with me 😜🤙🏻
Loving the videos Sam keep em coming
Ah cheers dude! When’s your next one coming out, I loved your first one 👊🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop I’m starting filming today !!!!!!
@@SteveBellCreates Woohoo! Can’t wait to see the next instalment 👊🏻
Peace out ✌️
Haha I know what an idiot 🙈🤣
MAKITA 👍
Haha of course 🤙🏻
love your small shop! Question: What size dovetail bit did you use for your track clamps on that sled? I just got a bunch of track clamps and that's a dandy little idea you have there.
I miss that makita planer (thicknesser). I loved it when I owned it.
Cheers dude! Ooo that is a good question and I can’t remember for the life of me what size bit it was, when I get in the workshop I’ll dig it out and let you know. But yeah it’s a great little jig ☺️
It’s a great thicknesser isn’t it (I know you guys call it a planer 😜)
Hey dude, just got in the workshop, I used a half inch dovetail bit but I remember having to shift it over a touch on each cut to make it slightly wider. Hope that helps mate 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop Awesome, I think I have one, and I should give that jig a try.
I whole-heartedly agree that the english nomenclature for jointer = planer and planer = thicknesser makes so much more sense than the american versions.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking Great, let me know how you get on with it, I’ve used mine on pretty much every project since making it.
Yeah I’m afraid to say I have to agree, much more logical, which is rare for us English folk 😜😂
What pipes and fittings do you use for your dust ducts
I use the dust pipes and fixings from Axminster Tools, great shop and they deliver fast 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop thx
@@kevinb6102 No worries at all 🤙🏻
What? no lathe?
Haha I wish I could fit one in 🤦🏻♂️😂
@6:35 yes please!
Ah you’re on about my wooden extension wing?! It’s on the list of videos to do 🤙🏻
I don't believe it! 🤣
How dare you 😂
@@monkeyboysworkshop I'll just fetch my coat 😂
Just curious how you deal with the noise factor. I'm going to assume you are close to your neighbours, do you get complaints about the noise of the machines?
Yes we are very close to neighbours but we’ve actually been really lucky where we are. The neighbours have never complained, we actually get a lot of interest in what we’re doing and we’ve also had orders from neighbours too haha I think insulating the walls was a good shout as it does reduce the sound but there is still more that can be done to help reduce it even more, like an insulated garage door and ceiling too 🤙🏻
For door isolation, I'm use hanging two old carpet. Working 👌
What is width of the table saw, from side to side not including you add on
Hey buddy! Sorry it’s taken me so long to reply, I’ve been on holiday and wanted to give you exact measurements once I got back to the workshop ☺️🤙🏻 So the cast iron section is 550mm, with the add on supplied (the white part top) it goes to 1125mm, but the bar goes to 1336mm (as in from pushed up against the wall on the right all the way to left of the cast iron top! Hope that helps mate 🤙🏻
@@monkeyboysworkshop thanks that helps alot
bigger than my shop with less tools and/or space to make things.
Congratulations, I’d love to see what you’ve done with your workshop, you made any videos on it?
Don't see the point in the background music. Distracting and annoying.
Thanks for that lovely constructive criticism, I really appreciate you being so kind ☺️🤙🏻
Weird question, are the LED lights behind the dust collection lines? Thanks
Hahaha not weird at all, it’s quite a common question 😜 yeah they’re just behind the collection pipes 🤙🏻