Progress!

The design for the website is done with the overall look completed! The only things to do is to fill in some details and adding worthwhile content. The plan will be that this blog will be integrated into the website, and also be a portfolio for my designing endeavours. This will be up and running in the near future.

Also, this week the delivery of material to start making the second half of the workshop has arrived. With the help of dad and my older brother, we have now complete the majority of studwork. There had been problems with space as we had to move all the bits and bobs from one end of the garage to the other. We just had little space since we had the new material coming in, the area we were working on, and also the mysterious things that end up in garages.  With spaces in mind, I have also included a set-up on where major machinery and work areas could be.  This is still in the planning stage and so would love to hear feedback on some do's and don't.  At the moment, there will be worktop on the far end with sink.  Then also a Pillar drill, Table saw, Thickness plan/jointer, assembly table and maybe a lathe in the spaces behind it.  Leave comments below. :)

On a side note, I did end up knocking together a trolley to hold the small pieces of wood so we didn't have to waste time shifting it all. I bought four castors and attached them to a box I nailed together. Really not the prettiest thing to look at, but it did the job and also reduced some of the scrap wood we had lying around.  

assembly of garage and flooring

Length of garage (front to back = 11m)

Planning work area

Trolley

Pang Designs HQ

Beginning of new term and new design studio! It's been the first couple of weeks now into my MA Product Design and already it's looking to be great. Having settled somewhat into the new MA design studio, there is quite a lot going on already with our brief for our first project. Also, on the side of this, I am constructing my own studio/workshop for myself. Extremely exciting! This will be HQ for most of my personal work to be invested into starting up my own business.

Having the ability to freely experiment and prototype designs is essential and which I feel is extremely limited in the last few years. Joinery skills and processes seemed like it was common knowledge and no access to a thickness planer, table saw and router seemed extremely counter productive. I only very recently discovered these three 'essential' machinery. Having been inspired greatly by Matthias Wandel's youtube channel and learning the uses of these machines, it's a wonder how I managed any type of woodworking in my final year. Sadly, I admit resorted to doing everything on the band saw and CNC router, as that is all I really had at my disposal.

So up and coming into the near coming future, there will be a new website and new blog! Here I will be sharing with everyone Pang Designs. Also, here are some photos to show the progress made. It's still a long ways to go yet.

After a couple days of tidying of clutter, sorting wood worth keeping and shooing the spiders alway!

garage has power outlets and also an outdoor tap.

Studwork and insulation

Front of garage holds the piles of stuff. lol

Dad helping out with flooring.