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Offline Elnathan

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #25 on: April 21, 2010, 09:21:37 AM »
Mine is a Black and Decker Workmate with a machinist's vise bolted to a board and clamped in the workbench, with the whole thing parked in a corner of my kitchen. My tools are mostly in boxes. It is cluttered, but nearly as much as the rest of my apartment. :P

I don't own a camera, so no pictures.
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #26 on: April 21, 2010, 02:32:56 PM »
Here is what I HOPE will be my new shop. ;D
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« Reply #27 on: April 21, 2010, 06:03:15 PM »
Impressive, Mike.
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« Reply #28 on: April 22, 2010, 12:11:39 AM »
Keb, For a guy who lives alone that work area is very nicely vacuumed..................come clean now.... ;D ;D :o
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Offline Keb

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #29 on: April 22, 2010, 12:24:46 AM »
My grandkids visit me a lot. I live on a lake & have a boat. They like to boat, fish & swim. I have 1 grandchild that is just toddling so I have to keep it safe for him, too. I also like it clean. I can't help it. I sweep the floor after every little bit of woodwork. I have to admit, it's pretty dusty though.
Here's my view:
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« Reply #30 on: April 22, 2010, 03:24:13 AM »
Lovely for permanent living quarters.
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Offline James Rogers

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #31 on: April 22, 2010, 02:04:29 PM »
Quote from: Mike Brooks on April 21, 2010, 02:32:56 PM
Here is what I HOPE will be my new shop. ;D


How many are you going to employ in that fortitude?  :D
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Offline Roger Fisher

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« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2010, 04:01:14 PM »




Well here she is my workshop/bench showing most of her faults and debris. I spend a lot of time looking for 'stuff' buried on/in and around that bench... ::)

This ended up as a new post and should have been under 'workshops'  maybe the mods will put it where it belongs.
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Offline Cody Tetachuk

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #33 on: April 23, 2010, 05:24:48 PM »
Daryl, I'll keep an eye out for you on a future episode of "hoarders" ;D
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Offline Pete G.

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #34 on: April 23, 2010, 11:47:22 PM »
Thanks for the posts, guys. I showed my wife and she hasn't said anyting about my workbench since.

This is a very valuable forum, indeed.
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« Reply #35 on: April 24, 2010, 04:01:26 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #36 on: April 25, 2010, 10:24:38 PM »
: ...looking for stuff..."?  don't see how ... heck, i can still se some surface of the tabletop, so your bench isn't nearly as messy as mine.

a clean desk in the sign of a sick mind
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« Reply #37 on: April 26, 2010, 12:39:35 AM »
Roger , you would be right at hope in my shop ! ;D ;D
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Offline yip

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« Reply #38 on: April 26, 2010, 02:57:22 AM »
  sometimes it hard to keep everything in place when your putting things together. if i was to keep my shop neat and clean, i wouldn't be able to find anything. it seems i know where to look, when things are a scattered around, i think i know where i but it, right cheer it is!
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Offline Curtis

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #39 on: May 03, 2010, 03:37:25 PM »
Here is my mess of a workshop, itself still a work in progress....







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« Reply #40 on: May 03, 2010, 09:03:21 PM »
Curtis, I see those shoes sitting there. Do you work barefoot in your shop????   I would be afraid to ask Ken Guy!!  :o ;D ;D ;D
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Offline Jim Kibler

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Re: Workshops
« Reply #41 on: May 03, 2010, 09:38:05 PM »
I sure see a lot of chairs and stools in these shop pictures. ;D  I refuse to bring one into the shop, otherwise I'll be tempted to use it.  I understand that age and health issues sometimes makes it necessary though.
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Offline Roger Fisher

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« Reply #42 on: May 03, 2010, 10:23:56 PM »
Curt: I finally figured out what is missing in your shop photos--- Woodchips and dust!!  How you keep it so darn neat  ???
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Offline Curtis

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« Reply #43 on: May 03, 2010, 11:39:41 PM »
Tim - that square thingy in front of the shoes is a radiant heater, in the winter time I set them there to dry up a bit.... on the other hand, workin' barefoot is good for the soul - if you don't drop a chisel!

Roger- once and a while I get possessed and turn the shop vac loose to find the floor.

Jim- a stool give a person one more spot to set stuff when the bench is full.  Just don't forget it's there if ya gotta sit down yourself and ponder a bit!
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« Reply #44 on: May 05, 2010, 12:39:22 PM »
I see these shops and think, "Well, mine are both about average on the chaos-scale."  Then I remember I'll be moving in a year or so, and the sorting/packing/etc is barely started. 

And I cry. . . .
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