Flying cutting blobs
Earlier in the year, I bought some fly cutters at a model engineering exhibition. The intention was to tidy up some of the castings I’d made last year. The first issue was how to hold an irregular shaped piece whilst
Posted in: Casting, Milling
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: fly cutting
Stepperhead
The stepperhead is a sophisticated multi-mode machine made by Alan Jackson. In other words, it’s both a lathe and a milling machine but it can also perform some functions not available on either. The video below shows one of these
Posted in: Lathe, Machining, Milling
Tags: stepper motor
Setting up a workshop shed
Over the last couple of years, I’ve written a few articles on how to setup your garden shed as a workshop. Here’s a summary of all the topics you might need to think about when designing your workshop. Storage and
Answer to Mechanism seen on the tube
It would appear my puzzle was a little too easy. Mike Morgan was the first to spot that it was “some sort fancy upmarket clasp on a bag?” followed by some lady readers of the workshopshed blog who new exactly
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: designer handbag, GGL
Mechanism seen on the tube
On the way to work this morning I saw the above mechanism whilst travelling on the London underground. Any guesses as to what it is?
International Shed of the Year
The winner of the International Shed of the Year is a Workshop. “The Shed” owned by Chuck Witmer of Scale House Design is a large timber framed design with reclaimed materials such as IKEA glass shelving for the windows and
Posted in: Beginners
Tags: Shed of the Year, Workshop
Desert workshop
Thanks to Michael Janzen I found John Wells and The Southwest Texas Alternative Energy and Sustainable Living Field Laboratory (aka The Field Lab). As you can see it’s pretty remote so anything needed has to be transported in or used
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Cooler, Solar Power, Workshop
Miniature Workshops
I like to think that the Workshopshed is a small workshop but it’s no where near as small as these two: The Science Museum has a minature steam powered engineering workshop as photographed by Nic Brown. David Brookshaw makes some
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
