What does your Workshop/Workspace look like?
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BlackKnight247
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All of your workspaces are sooo different to mine lol its Just a bedroom with a set of draws full of tools and stuff with a scratched up table with a lamp and a TV, oh and a PlayStation of course with all the old retro games 
Wow, all that in only a week or two! lol I am just finishing up a half renovation on my shop and it has taken me almost a month. :facepalm
I will be showing off some pictures soon.
Very nice work bench!
SkunkonToast
New Member
This is an awesome thread, really good seeing all the different set ups. Lots of ideas to take away from this on how I can achieve some sense of order to the chaos that is my workshop.
I'll take the camera into work tomorrow and grab a couple of shots to post. But I warn you that I may well be in the running for the messiest, dirtiest workshop of the lot.
Edit :- here are the pics. My workshop is mainly used for my day job of smithing but its also my workspace for modeling. Anyone think they can beat me on untidyness? Strange thing is I kind of know where everything is even though it looks like chaos.
I'll take the camera into work tomorrow and grab a couple of shots to post. But I warn you that I may well be in the running for the messiest, dirtiest workshop of the lot.
Edit :- here are the pics. My workshop is mainly used for my day job of smithing but its also my workspace for modeling. Anyone think they can beat me on untidyness? Strange thing is I kind of know where everything is even though it looks like chaos.
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Robert McLain
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My Little garage work area
Robert
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franz bolo
Sr Member
I'm low tech. I just grab what I need from my garage and build outside.
Robert McLain
Sr Member
A little untidy? Yes. I still get goosebumps looking at it, though. I would LOVE to have access to those kinds of tools. Awesome shop!
Robert
SkunkonToast
New Member
Thanks Robert,
I've built quite a collection of tools throughout the years. Most of my machines could probably be classed as antiques but I still swear that they don't make them as good as they used to. My lathe was built in 1961 and still runs very true and with very little play in it.
I've built quite a collection of tools throughout the years. Most of my machines could probably be classed as antiques but I still swear that they don't make them as good as they used to. My lathe was built in 1961 and still runs very true and with very little play in it.
WINGNIT
Active Member
Hello All,
Here is the one I completed a few months ago in our new house. I used mostly old furniture and leftover scraps and hardware from my Home Theatre / Display Room build for the workbench. It is faced in self-healing matt and is about 13' long. The cabinets are RTA's that were painted to match. Now I need to add A/C to the garage so I can actually work out there in the Houston summers!
Here is the one I completed a few months ago in our new house. I used mostly old furniture and leftover scraps and hardware from my Home Theatre / Display Room build for the workbench. It is faced in self-healing matt and is about 13' long. The cabinets are RTA's that were painted to match. Now I need to add A/C to the garage so I can actually work out there in the Houston summers!
Agreed! My 6" x 48" belt sander and my 6' tall drill press are both from my wife's grandfather's machine shop, so we're going back 40 - 50 years. Still running great!
I've got 3 separate work areas:
The vac forming / general purpose area:
The painting/bondo/fiberglass area (1500CFM exhaust fan venting outside)
And the garage, which I don't have any good pics of, just individual tools. That's where the lathe, drill press, welding gear, etc... lives
My small Shed is dated before 1800, It is only 10x7 plus the bit where the dryer is(and deep freeze) All the work area and wood shelving is from skips and ex building site waste.
one day will have enough space to put all the bench tools out permanently and not have to store them in shelving. Since these photos were taken the drawers are on the wall there is small unit shelf at the back of my work area oh and its tidier.
Had a real tidy ready for my next biggie
Made some paint shelves from some old bed slats
Put everything that was on the bench into my unused tool box from the garage
the full effect
Take care
Gag
Made some paint shelves from some old bed slats
Put everything that was on the bench into my unused tool box from the garage
the full effect
Take care
Gag
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Robert McLain
Sr Member
Awesome space.....and I love the bed slat idea!
Robert
Robert
Jim13csulb
New Member
Mines split, We have the "Man Space" which is in the back yard
And then we have the garage
We have just about anything we could need.
And then we have the garage
We have just about anything we could need.
this is what i plan to do when i move house, separate everything up.
at the moment everything is just covered in resin and fiberglass dust, no good when you want to paint something or even pack something.
Smiling Demon
Sr Member
Here is my new setup!
