Hello, I'm Simon, Welcome to my workshop, in this video part of the workshop organisation
series I'm going to be creating a solution for all my hand sanding supplies, let's get tinkering.
I start by emptying my boxes of sanding supplies and organising them,
I'll store the sanding belts and disks with their respective machines,
and throw away some used paper that really wasn't worth keeping, I then organise what
remains into - full sheets, part sheets, precut material, sanding sticks and sanding blocks.
some of the sheets are for an electric sander that I no longer have
so I cut off the curling sides - these are very old - so that they will fit the sanding blocks.
I find some old adhesive strips - they are no longer sticky but can still be used if I
glue them to sanding sticks so I make up a few on the band saw, from old scraps.
I sand down the sides to remove the saw marks.
the bits I can't sand on the belt sander I finish with a sanding stick.
I'm going to glue the sandpaper strips to the sticks using impact adhesive,
this is a water based one by EvoStick and works really well.
once the impact adhesive is dry I stick the paper to the sticks,
this sand paper is very old so is a bit curly at the edges,
so I clamp them in the wood vice for a few minutes to ensure they are flat.
I use an off cut of 18mm chip board flooring material to make the back board of the sanding
storage station, cutting it to length using my track-saw and MFT style table.
I'm making this up as i go along really, but I'm sort of thinking,
there will be three pockets at the front here for, cut stuff, odd shaped stuff and then
full sheets. They will project out of this backboard, I'll then have a couple of nails
to hold the sanding sticks, and then a shelf here, so this board at the moment is a little too tall,
I'm going to cut it about here, and then I might even use this piece to make the shelf,
and then all I've got left to do then is to actually build this pocket thing, not quite
sure what I'm going to build that out of yet, if I build it out of 18 mm chipboard, or MDF or ply,
then there's not going to be a lot of room for these sticks so I might try to make it
out of something a bit thinner, but I'll have to have a look to see what I've got.
so I cut the backboard down to size again using the MFT style table and track-saw.
I use the off-cut to make the shelf, but it is a bit to wide so i also cut this down to size,
note the use of the speed square under the track to help ensure a
square cut - without the speed-square it would be very difficult to do this on the track saw.
I put a round over on the front of this shelf using my home-made router table and accessories.
At the band saw I rounded off the edges off the
top corners of the back-board - just because I thought it would look nice.
Another design I've been playing with is to put the paper here and have a larger place here for
the sticks, I think I prefer this, it also means I don't have to have this completely centralised,
so there is less marking out to do, so I might go with this option because I think it
just looks a bit nicer not being evenly spaced and symmetrical,
I don't know, let me know in the comments what you think.
I found some 6mm (that's 1/4 inch) low-grade plywood which I draw out a
design on and cut out using the band saw , I make a second using the first as a template.
Then using 1/4 inch MDF I make the fronts of the pockets,
rather than straight edges I decide I'd like the tops of these pockets to be curved
so use the lid from my shopvac project as a template for the main pocket.
and cut it out on the band saw - note the MDF has a few battle scars - which
I make a mental note to remain before painting but then promptly forget.
I use my steel rule - flexed between a couple of
bench dogs to mark a curve in the top of the the other two pockets.
and cut them out on the band saw
This saw originally didn't come with any form of dust collection,
now with my dust collection mod it works very well indeed - if you have
one of these saws it's worth looking at the video I did on how to make it..
I did a dry fit and I really didn't like the gap here and the gap here, so i re-cut this piece,
so this now goes in here, I think it looks a lot nicer.
I could now start the glue-up. you might notice how free flowing the PVA is, I'd left the lid
off once too often and it had become a bit too thick so I watered it down, but added a little
too much water so it is a bit runny and uncontrollable - with time it will thicken again.
These joints are all just butt joints as they don't need to take any weight.
I can now make a base for these pockets using an off-cut of chipboard,
cutting it to size on the band saw.
then glueing it up - you can see here how fluid
the glue is - hopefully it will still be OK - I used quite a lot!
I've marked the area where these are going to go,
so I can pilot some holes, so I can add some screws to it once it's all glued.
I pilot the holes.
I can now begin painting the inside, I'm going to avoid painting the parts that
will be glued to the backboard and I'll paint the rest once it is all assembled.
This paint is a waterproof, water-based exterior one coat paint
that needs no undercoat, it applies best on raw material, not so well on previously painted wood,
and being water based it is easy to clean-up, it seems to provide a hard wearing coating -
this tin is almost empty and I'll definitely get some more.
I can now countersink the holes I previously drilled.
I then piloted the holes in the shelf.
and did the same for the sand paper pockets.
I can now glue them up, because of the slightly thin glue I put glue on both surfaces
and use the screws in the back board to locate the sand paper pocket
in the right place and then tightened the screws to act as a clamp.
I did the same for the shelf.
Now it is all glued up I can finish the painting.
I have to put in some pins to hold the sanding sticks, so I pilot a couple of holes
The pins will be screws, but these are a little too long so I shorten them first.
then screw them into the piloted holes.
Using my Proxon rotary tool I make some lovely sparks to remove the head of the screw.
Finally I pilot the holes that will be used to fix the sanding station to the wall.
and screw it to the wall.
I have finally got all my sanding supplies off of horizontal surfaces
and onto the wall making my workshop a little bit more organised.
would you have done the same? or built something different? Let me know in the comments.
Well I'm really pleased how this turned out what do you think? let me know in the comments,If
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