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Do you have a dirty cluttered workbench like mine?

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
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.

Then I start it all over again.
 
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#36 ·
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. =)
 
#40 ·
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?
 
#43 ·
Gary, you sure are messy!

I'm sure happy that I'm not THAT messy…

My work area is cleaned up after every session NO MATTER how tired I feel or how soon the dinner bell is about to ring… I ALWAYS clean it up!

I NEVER let it go like YOU do!

I'm sure glad you are learning how to keep your work area CLEAN…
It's about time! :) :)

Thank you for the update… and

Merry Christmas!!
 
#44 ·
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.
 
#50 ·
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.
 
#51 ·
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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