Furniture workshop for beginners: the choice of instrument

Many novice masters believe that without a large range of expensive and professional tools it is impossible to make high-quality furniture. The result of this approach is well known. Newbie or does not dare to start work in the belief that "without this device I have does not work", or falls into the other extreme - "run" to the shops, buying everything, even without understanding, and whether he or that tool is needed, and how they use.

An illustrative example of such an approach - a bed made spouse member of our portal with the nickname ReginaPite

ReginaPiter (User FORUMHOUSE):

My husband and I moved to the country for permanent residence. We needed a double bed. Husband decided to make it myself certainly, although this and a hammer in his hands did not hold, and generally do not master. The husband explained to me my vision, and I drew a bed in a special program. As a result, we decided on this variant.

Planks and balusters, who went on foot of the bed, were purchased at a local store building materials. Work in full swing and there you are a novice master in the end.

Most interesting is that the bed was made with a minimum set of hand tools, and all the parts are cut "taken away" from the wife of garden hacksaw!

ReginaPiter:

It was possible to buy ready-made bed in the store, but enjoy their work, and most importantly - the final result, with nothing compares. Husband, they say, got a taste, carpentry and continued after the bed made insulated front door, and then the table.

Conclusion: The need to start making furniture from the production of simple products, which require the most basic tools for woodwork: stools, simple beds of simple tables, shelves, etc. It was only over time, with increasing skill, you can think about purchasing an expensive and professional tool. The only way to ensure that the purchase will be demanded, and will not be a waste of resources.

The "furniture carpenter's shop," the main thing - to "feel" wood, learn to use the tool to see whether you like this business. Only in this way you will create a product that will become the subject of your pride.

Also kindly figure out what furniture you do cabinet - cabinets, kitchen sets, etc., or soft - sofas, armchairs. Or soul no longer lies to the furniture of a copyrighted work, with an abundance of complex shaped and carved elements. Each requires a different direction, a certain tool, but you need to start with the formation of basic and universal set.

Tool for wood joinery

To simplify your task, all the necessary tools can be divided into three large groups:

• Hand tool;
• Accessories and consumables;
• Power tools.

Let us dwell on each of these groups.

To hand tools include:

• Handsaw for wood and metal;
• Hand Planes;
• Handheld jigsaw;
• A set of chisels on wood;
• Iron hammer, crowbar;
• Mallet with a rubber or wooden striker;
• Furniture stapler;
• Pliers;
• Boot knife;
• Awl;
• Adjustable wrench;
• A set of screwdrivers with straight or cross tip;
• clippers.

Accessories and consumables:

• Vice to the workbench;
• Clamp. They act as a "third hand", allowing to capture details when processing or gluing;
• Pens and markers;
• Forstner drill. Used for drilling non-through holes with a flat bottom (under the inner loop) in wood and board materials: Chipboard, MDF, etc. Due to their design, these drills do not break the fibers of the wood, leaving a smooth, surface;
• Ring crown of the tree. They are used for cutting through a circular hole of large diameter (20-130 mm) in wood, chipboard sheets, etc;
• Drills for metal diameter of 2 to 10 mm, in increments of 0.5 to 1 mm;
• Drills with carbide tip. Used for drilling of concrete to hang shelves, etc .;
• Set for screwdriver bits;
• Set of drills for wood with a diameter of 2 to 12 mm.

These include:

• Tape length of 3 to 5 meters;
• Metal line length of 50 to 100 cm;
• Metal square with a side of 30 cm;
• Level 50 60 cm length.

Complementing this set only impact drills and screwdrivers, a man "with hands" can do a great deal. Apart from furniture, these instruments will find application for any repairs to the building or in the country.

Also do not forget about the need for bench, because normal work "on the knee" and get a quality product possible.

Sitnikoff (User FORUMHOUSE):

Furniture workshop is unthinkable without the work bench. His first bench I made of boards 100x50 mm. The boards were "junk" - the rest of the waste on the site. Therefore, the bench did not have so good, but it still serves me as a mounting table.

Choosing a power tool for carpentry workshop

If a choice is usually no problem hand tools, when it comes to selecting the tool, a lot of questions there. Therefore, it is important to draw up a list of basic necessities.

By the so-called basic power tool, without which it is impossible or difficult to make furniture, include:

• Electric drill;
• Electric screwdriver;
• jigsaws;
• Belt sander.

This set is enough to start doing even if not the most difficult, but the quality of the product. In the future, as the growth of skill and complexity of works, the list will grow.

When choosing a power novice master importantly - do not fall into the extreme, buying only the cheapest models or chasing expensive professional products of the same brand. Is to adhere to the golden mean "price / quality" and select the tool that will be convenient for you to use.

This article explains in detail the difference between amateur from the professional power tools.

For starters, carpenters often the question arises: whether it is necessary in the workshop power tools such as milling machine, planer, marking gauge, circular saws and at what point they should be purchase.

Archimed (User FORUMHOUSE):

I thought about the equipment of his workshop. Be treated boards for wall and in the future, I plan to make furniture. With the hand tool everything is clear, but the electric lot of questions, and the budget is necessary to "climb". Need advice specialists that I would need in the future. While I am planning to purchase the following:

drill;

screwdriver;

sander;

jigsaws;

elektrorubanok;

circular saw;

manual frezer;

thickness planer.

Topic created Archimed, I had a great response. Many professional masters offered their versions of the workshop acquisition.

Sitnikoff:

When I first engaged in woodwork, I needed to make a simple workbench, and I only were bowsaw, drill, old plane, a few chisels, drills Forstner and a boot knife. Everything. But I made the bench. Now, after 10 years of carpentry, my arsenal consists of the following tools:

Milling table with a router;

Manual frezer;

Band and random orbit sanders;

Miter saw;

Table saw;

Several electroplane;

Electric jig, electric drills and screwdrivers;

dust extraction system;

Grinder;

Compressor for carpentry workshop with a spray gun;

Thickness Planer.

Moreover, Sitnikoff stop and think does not plan to acquire:

• jointer;
• Band saw;
• Drilling machine;
• Lathes for wood;
• Mount chip removal system and ventilation.

This is - the choice of "pro" well knows that he needs, and he will use it.

Summarizing

Responding to a question raised Archimed-m, we can say that the possible tool kit furniture maker is directly proportional to its budget, the planned volume and complexity of the work and, most importantly, - the workshop area. After all, the entire instrument will have somewhere to place - so that they were easy to use, and access to it was not limited or difficult.

You can make furniture, working and in a limited area, the apartment on the balcony, in the hallway. But any master, sooner or later comes to the need to build their own workshop. Moreover, the workshop of well-planned, with summed communications, well-warmed, in which you can work all year round, without regard to the weather conditions and the duration of daylight.

To be a reference point for the future and understand what is required to equip the furniture workshop "for growth", you can use the following list. It:

• Stationary circular saw and milling machine;
• Miter saw;
• Disc plunge-cut saw with a guide rail;
• Band-saw;
• Thickness Planer;
• Stationary jointer.

In the last two machines should focus, as sometimes confused novice carpenters in their appointment.

In jointer cutter shaft is in the table, ie at the bottom, so this machine sets a flat surface - "base". Planer, unlike thicknesser, does blank of uniform thickness.

At the planer blade is located on top, so this machine does a plane parallel to the "base". If marking gauge run in the workpiece with a "screw" or "hump", the output curve planed obtain workpiece.

Therefore Asking first workpiece plane (do "base"), removing the "screw" or "saber" fugankom then planed workpiece in a predetermined thickness surface gauge.

Conclusion: to purchase expensive, sophisticated, professional tool should not be "in reserve", but only by going to the next stage of its development as a master. In other words, you buy a particular tool only when you realize that your carpentry workshop developed into a small shop and make any furniture parts without it does not work.

When working with power tools and machines need to observe safety precautions. Namely, wear safety goggles and thick clothes, fasten hoses, remove the hair under a hat. In the carpentry shop in a prominent place is necessarily first aid kit.

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