Can I see your work benches?

[cmj8591]

LOL,

Just completed my 8 3/8" to 5 3/8" S&W 500 chop job, then made a aluminum trough funnel deal to fill small bags for Masonic lodge brother who chops up beef livers, freeze drys them for dog treats.

Dog treats!? I fry mine with onions and bacon and a nice side of mashed potatoes and brown gravy. The dog eats kibble.

 

[Targets Guy]

Some of mine


Charging station
frost bank atm near me


Workbench



Workbench

 

[Targets Guy]

and a table I made for the wife's antique booth

 

[fishwishin]

I like this thread! Here is my garage where basic gunsmithing, fishing rod/reel maintenance, gun cleaning, reloading, lure making, small appliance tear downs/rebuilds, horse tack repair, knife/axe sharpening and reprieves from whatever may be going on in the house takes place.

 

[Kinman]

K-Kid
You forgot to insulate the walls first!

Biggest mistake I made when moving into the new house with 30 x 40 Pole Barn/Shop was not insulating the walls before throwing up shelves and work benches. I was so eager to get to work I missed the chance to insulate...my wife says its never too late...right.

 

[BAM-BAM]

Biggest mistake I made when moving into the new house with 30 x 40 Pole Barn/Shop was not insulating the walls before throwing up shelves and work benches. I was so eager to get to work I missed the chance to insulate...my wife says its never too late...right.

spray foamed mine... the interior is poled barn sided;. exterior is board and batten siding with another inch of foam backing on the siding

 

[PeterJ]

I know where everything is.

 

[KalamazooKid]

I know where everything is.

I like it! Had to blow it up and study it for a bit. [emoji41]

 

[martyd]

SteelSlaver
You have too many toys for one kid.
Can I come and play?

On a side note.
I love Montana, Dad had a small ranch in Hamilton: "Lazy Snowshoe".

It was bordered on 3 sides by the Bitterroot Wilderness and was on a gentle hill overlooking Hamilton and across the valley to a mountain range with Blue Spruce trees, sorry I can't remember the name of that range.

He sold it without telling me he was going to. I Had the money at the time. I didn't speak to him for about a year. And he didn't keep any of the branding irons, they went to the dump.

My Dad was a man who knew the Price of everything but had no idea of the Value of anything.

We never got along until he was in his later years.

I later was passing through the Hamilton area a couple of years later; it is now a trailer park.

********
I would move to Western Montana in a heartbeat.
I have been looking but cannot find any reasonably priced property, just like everywhere else in the US.

 

[chief38]

Hmm most of you guys either don't use your shops a lot, only take pictures when they are spiffed up or have serious OCD issues. My shop seldom gets all that neat. I will start cleaning up get about 75% done and then run across something for more interesting that I just have to do. Problem #1 is way to many extra tool, pits and pieces, and neat stuff.

Where do you keep your smelting furnace, you extra milling machine, the 2 extra electric winches, your rolling pipe fitters box, thousands of bolts, nuts hinges clamps, pipe fittings, and screws, 12 4 1/2" grinders, welding rod oven, plasma cutter, cutting torch cart and extra bottles, etc etc etc etc. Then there is the bend rocking chair I rebuilt that has been waiting 4 months for the wife to reupholster the cushions for. I obviously got way to much "good stuff".

There is hardly a day that goes by that I don’t use my workshop, bench and tools, but I will admit to being on the ocd side. There are times when I have no time to clean up but the next day my shop is cleaned. I can’t work on a messy workbench.

 

[KalamazooKid]

At the lake every garage has a frig and a spot for the guys to hang out!



Have a bar like that on my covered patio off the back of the garage!

I had to wait till Christmas to get the frig part (it was on my list), so that's complete now!

 

[Kinman]

I know where everything is.

Great minds think alike.

 

[Snapping Twig]

Bench got cleaned off at the start of the pandemic, so it's ready for projects, unlike in this pic.

 

[LVSteve]

If I had a workbench right now, you wouldn't be able to see it.

 

[Targets Guy]

The workshop evolution.......


In the beginning



Fill it up please



something has to go......well, we have been here before



Wife says that is it for workshops.

 

[Tom S.]

Probably not much interest on a gun forum, but here's my electronics bench:

 

[CH4]

This is my setup at my Condo in Nevada, I don’t have a picture of my larger bench in Washington.

 

[Golddollar]

I don't have any pictures, but this brings up memories of the reloading set up I had in my first apartment, which was outside of Reading, PA. I had a scale, Belding & Mull powder dispenser and a single stage press all set up on a Black & Decker Workmate. I had to open up the Workmate so that I could mount the press using a couple big C-clamps. Hey, whatever works!

 

[DADS44]

Here's mine

 

[chief38]

My wife and I just cleaned up the shop.

In the one corner are 4 workbenches 60”x30”. Carefully installed so the tops are level. The one is dedicated to sorting projects. The three form a long bench that is woodworking on one end and gunwork on the other. Across the shop are my tool shelves. LED lighting, natural light and white walls make it bright. The wood stove keeps it warmish. I also have a sharpening bench and an area to store the sleeves we sell to other sharpeners.

The one bench came with a machinist’s vice. I need to pick up a couple of wood working vices.

We are still running a couple of businesses, and a couple of “charities” so my time on projects is limited.

Kevin

Beautiful shop Kevin - it looks like it's just BEGGIN' for more tools! I WISH I had that much room. The last shop I had when I lived up North was much bigger than my current shop but I make due.