How to Make Your Own Furniture

If it is necessary to deal with large pieces of wood, room will be required to work on them from either end.

Sometimes a small room with strategically placed doors or windows - through which to poke the free end of a long piece - will serve just as well as a bigger room.

But it is much better not to have to rely on such borrowed space, especially in bad weather.

If there are one or more power tools, it is well to have them movable so that large pieces can be fed to them from either side. This means a sufficiently long electric cord (or alternative outlets) and a solid base for the tool that does not need to be fastened to the floor.

Usually, the tool that benefits most from this arrangement is the bench saw. In any case, before installing either bench- or floor-type tools and equipment, it is wise to make a scale plan of the room (of at least half an inch to the foot), and cut out pieces of cardboard to the same scale to represent the tools, etc.

Then by shifting the pieces around they can be located efficiently. The locations of doors and windows should be considered.

Other prime requisites of working space are plenty of light and comfortable working temperature in all seasons. The space needed will be governed to some extent to the kind of work to be done and the size of the pieces to be handled.

If the purpose is to confine attention to small gadgets such as wall boxes and hanging bookshelves, very little elbow room beyond the bench surface will be needed - provided there are no power tools to take up floor space.

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By: Henry Lionel Williams

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