Do you ever find yourself in the middle of working on a project and realize that you end up stuck working in a little tiny area of your workbench?
Well, I got up from my workbench tonight and looked that the damage I just wrought in just a few days of part time work. Then I wondered if others were afflicted with the same thing.
It seems that I do it all the time. The good thing about it is that everything I need is within an arms reach but the bad part you always need more room!
Kinda of like this.
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Leaving just enough room to work?
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After every project I make myself clean up everything and put it all away. I learned a long time ago that if you don't all your crap just keeps getting deeper and deeper.
Gary, you are OCD too! I am OCD, but not too OCD, so during a project…...YUP…....it looks just like that. But I put away the tools at the end also. That proves I am OCD….....I will not relinquish the title…....(-:
john
If you can't find your beer, then that is the end of the mess! That is over the top, not tolerable…....
Check out my blog, the first picture….....Workshop Pictures
My RAS is permanently a table these days, I have to unearth my tablesaw whenever I want to use it, my workbench is full of stuff, and my lathe is buried in shavings.
None of these is a bad thing! Sign of a used shop. =)
I'm a bit confused here. Are all of you saying that I'm suppose to clean up my work bench everyday? I lose my work benches and when I can't find it anymore I build another one I have three and ran out of space in the basement so now I'm using the dinning room table. I NEVER LOSE MY BEER,, tools yea. material yea, benches of course, my wife well I didn't lose her I know where she is at she just don't live with me any more, I swear I can't understand why she left. You can still find the front and back doors the toilet tub, sink stove fridge freezer T.V. and bed, what more do you need?
I really breathed a sigh of relief when I read all these posts. Seems I am in good company. I have been avoiding posting pictures of my shop. Now I can post them in good consciience.
A sigh I had on my shop door: "GENIUS IS SELDOM TIDY"
I think ( don't tell my wife) I have too many power tools for my space. My bench is against a wall in the garage, built in when I bought the house.I use it for storage of bench tools, is very cluttered. I have a table that I use for sanding and for assembly, but it gets cluttered with project specific stuff ( squares, pencils, sandpaper. As far as dirty goes, I love turning so there is no getting neat with chips being broadcast to the far corners of the earth. I dream of a day when I have a real workshop not in my garage, I will have 2 sides separated by a garage door, oneside for power tools, and oneside for handtools, and a bench, there should also be a finishing room on this side. When I get it, sometime in the next 20 years, I will do a video tour, keep an eye out.
Rick said the other day, "Our shop space was huge until we put stuff in it"
We fit in the "non-organized chaos" category. Some days I walk in, look around, and walk back out again.
You, sir, are not alone. When my first work table got full I built another one. Then another. A few of them are now on wheels so I can get them out of my way when I want to do something. My shop is a puzzle to find the work space. Move a table, do some work, move some wood, do some work, put the table back, do some work … you get the idea. Not to worry, you're among friends.
My shop is almost as bad as John's. But what is a woodworker to do when the woodworking shop is also a garden shop, recycling shop, and similar shops. I hate it when I have to spend 2 hours getting to my wood supply. By then I've usually forgotten what I was looking for or was distracted by something else. Oh well I suppose it is better than not being able to get a vehicle into or out of a garage. We can only blame ourselves.
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