Show us your work bench...

[yo vapo]

Mine doesn't have the pure-dee lived-in funk of Shorty's or the oh so squared away, can-find-anything-no-problem beauty of Rockproof's, but I call it home. My little escape pod.

ETA: Well, I can't seem to get the pic to be big enough see

EETA: AH, here we go:



And even more ETA: After getting fed up d**king with imageshack's weird SLOW user interface, I found postimage.org. You don't even have to register there, so no 'another damn password to remember write down & lose.'

 

[Quigsworth]

Lookin' like yo vapo is runnin' a little Texas Free Radio...with his own meteorology station, atta boy!

One of the reasons why I started this thread is because my buddies that have these little sanctuaries tucked away somewhere in their houses...seems their personalities are reflected...the Mr. Clean "all is in order" type, the don't bug me with the details "I'm a big picture idea man" type, the "I must know what's inside the black box and how does it work? type (me)

...I think what the common thread here is we all seem to call our work benches home or our "happy place", a place where we go at the end of the day to lower our blood pressure...we may not all be machinists, plumbers, carpenters or electronic techs but at our work benches we can at least pretend.

 

[GERGOZ]

sorry it took so long quigsworth

this is my little "hole in the wall", lol

it use to be the laundry room

who in their right mind devotes a whole room to a washer and dryer ?!
...when there is a perfectly good laundromat just down the road
its good for the wife to get out

JUST KIDDING !
i was given approval by "the boss"
we have another smaller room for the washer and dryer !


gervis

 

[TheTrulyInsane]

Okay, I am officially delaying my posting of my area longer, I am getting some nice ideas from these pics and my space is changing lol

Great workbenches guys, keep them coming, I'm really enjoying this!!!

sorry it took so long quigsworth

this is my little "hole in the wall", lol

it use to be the laundry room

who in their right mind devotes a whole room to a washer and dryer ?!
...when there is a perfectly good laundromat just down the road
its good for the wife to get out

JUST KIDDING !
i was given approval by "the boss"
we have another smaller room for the washer and dryer !


gervis

 

[Quigsworth]

who in their right mind devotes a whole room to a washer and dryer ?!
...when there is a perfectly good laundromat just down the road
its good for the wife to get out

LMAO!...you got a pair Gervis...at least till your wife reads this post...<<sigh>> another one of those super organized types...sicko...good lookin' set up except the 3rd screwdriver on the left is about 3 degrees out of parallel to the rest and get rid of that clock, when we're in our happy place time ceases.

 

[wfx]

Okay, I am officially delaying my posting of my area longer, I am getting some nice ideas from these pics and my space is changing lol Great workbenches guys, keep them coming, I'm really enjoying this!!!

same here. first i'm going to get the scope and mini lathe on my desk and then a proper overhead. above all, i'm a tool nut, so these ideas on what i'm missing are priceless.

 

[yo vapo]

Nice sanctum sanctorum, Gervis; lots of cool stuff too! Appears Mr. Gervis is a hunter, but with a .50 cal BMG?? Eliminates the need for a grinder, I guess. ;-)

I wish I could be (and stay) that neat and organized. Looks like you can instantly put your hand on whatever it is you're looking for. I could arrange my area that neatly, no doubt, but as soon as I touched it it'd be right back where it was.

ETA: And thanks for the reminder to look into those plastic balusters as project box material.

 

[Carless]

same here. first i'm going to get the scope and mini lathe on my desk and then a proper overhead. above all, i'm a tool nut, so these ideas on what i'm missing are priceless.

Mini lathe? I started looking into those yesterday. Me want! Be sure to get good pics of that for us, will you?
I'm loving this tool-porn.

 

[GERGOZ]

LMAO!...you got a pair Gervis...at least till your wife reads this post...<<sigh>> another one of those super organized types...sicko...good lookin' set up except the 3rd screwdriver on the left is about 3 degrees out of parallel to the rest and get rid of that clock, when we're in our happy place time ceases.

thank you quigsworth, sir

discrepancy is noted on screwdriver and corrected, lol

am i really that bad ?

well, its probably attributed to those 8yrs in the usaf
ahhhh, good times !

you got that right on "time ceases", but unfortunately, it also "flies" !

gervis

 

[GERGOZ]

thank you yo vapo

i am an expert marksman (388/400) but got the shells from my brother-in-law
he is army airborne and one of my converts,
was thinkin of tryin my hand on yet another mod, just not enough time in the day

a place for everything and everything in its place
thats a good way to be when someone is always "borrowing" something, lol
oh, i know whats missing, instantly

no problem, hope it helps in some way
lol, they did show up in one of my pics, inadvertently
hey, if you get some and find some decent caps, please give me a holler
i aint real satisfied with the ones ive found
i would be much obliged !

gervis

 

[yo vapo]

Good shooting! My granddaughter qualified as expert, but not with 388, LOL. She was well within expert range, no problem, but at (I'm old; memory is not great) 328? (305 required, I believe)

Would be nice to know where everything is, instead of having to remember what I was doing last time I used a tool.

If I come up w/ a good mod, don't worry; I'll let everyone know. Or even if it's a so-so one.

Jon

 

[Quigsworth]

I'm loving this tool-porn.

And the winner of who could give the best Sunday morning laugh is...

For weeks now I've been trying to figure out how to convince the wife to let me buy this...

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Come on honey, what's a couple grand???...maybe I'll just get my dad to buy it, then I'll borrow it and never give it back like he did with my Makita 12" push/pull compound miter saw

 

[asdaq]

Stealth Mode:

Kinda blurry, but you don't really want to see too much detail with this, trust me. Can be activated in about 15 seconds.

 

[Semiretired]

Do not mean to .... in or anything, but while I am not a regular with this forum I want to thank you for the thread - I showed my wife and she now has promised to never give me a hard time about my workshop again... lol...

 

[Quigsworth]

And that's what this thread is all about...oh ya, that and "tool porn"...gah! I still laugh when I say that

 

[TheTrulyInsane]

as long as you're not rubbing your PV when you say it, your ok

 

[Quigsworth]

You knew this thread was going to eventually wind up in the gutter, lol

 

[breaktru]

 

[breaktru]

 

[Rockproof]

That's funny breaktru...I see you cleaned up prioir to taking the pic