Show us your WELL ORGANIZED Workbench!

This WAS my hobby space.  I worked for years getting everything ready for action.

Just as it was completed, life interrupted me AGAIN, and we downsized from 2210 sq ft to 806.  Everything went away and I started again with a $10 table from craigslist.  

Of course I couldn't leave it alone, so I knocked the bark off with the sander, and went from 3'x2' to 4'x2'.  It is much better now.

So here is is in situ.  Ironically I feel that I have more focus now.  Perhaps less really is more.  For 2018 I will do my best to make the most of this space.  At least it is organized.  

Well, if anything you'll always know what time it is!

You wouldn't by chance play the drums as that stool looks like a drum throne.

HaHa.  Yes that things in monstrous isn't it?  In the old house it was much higher on the wall.  Yes I used to play rock and metal drums, hence the "thrax" in my handle. 

Really funny. Everytime I go by this post I ask myself "what organized workbench?" LOL! Ok, sometimes but not today. I've got this bad habit when building even in 1/1 in the garage, of leaving everything out until I'm done or bogged down. It's frightning as we speak. Maybe later when it cycles through the organized stage.

Maxie

Organized, schmorganized. Three work areas that are organized at different times but never together. Too many hobbies and interests. My office desk is where most small models and sub-assemblies are built. A comfy office chair and lots of light for old eyes. Airbrushing and messy stuff goes to the garage 1/1 area which is usually involved in a motorcycle project in this case a small speed record attempt machine or at least that's the theme. I don't know if it will ever reach completion but it does keep me entertained as does modeling. There's also an old photographic darkroom that has been converted into a model assembly area with a large table and good lighting and even a large wet sink. You can leave large B-52s and such laying around as long term projects, unlike my multi purpose office desk which is in constant change. Sorry about the mess!

Max

Looks like a neat work area.  What is in the "medicine chest" in the last pic?

Ok, as the old saying goes "A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind".  But I'm starting to think that a messy desk with 6-8 models all in various stages of completion piles all over the desk is the same thing!!!  To ashamed to post my work area at the moment.  Looks more like a hobby shop and a Coke-a-cola truck blew up.   Lol

John

mmthrax

Looks like a neat work area.  What is in the "medicine chest" in the last pic?

 

 

Well, it's a recycled medicine chest alright and it's still full of obsolete photography stuff that I have no idea why I'm keeping. Thanks for reminding me in that this would be great paint bottle storage area. I've got bottles everywhere and this could be the place!---brilliant!  

Since I'm between builds right now (starting an FW190 A-9 tomorrow), i cleaned up my work area and took this pic.  Next week it will be back to it's usual state of disarray. 

Cheers, Mark

Been picking away at things for 2018, but I got a bit distracted when I ran across this desk on craigslist.  It was $50 INCLUDING the glass.  I couldn't pass it up.  I don't really have room for the desks I used to have.  They were 60x34, or bigger.  I knew this one was different as soon as I saw it.  The leg tunnel looked more narrow.  Sure enough it measures 54x32.  Those dimensions may not seem like much, but it makes all the difference.  I guess this was a "Jr" executive desk.  After some adjustment to the locking mechanism, some glue on two of the drawers, and reinstalling my lamp, I can now get back to work.  Yea!!

The small shelf unit was found by my wife on a neighborhood email list.  $15.  It literally squeezed into the space it is in with maybe an eyelash to spare. 

I think the whole area has been transformed and for sure better utilizes the cubic feet of floor space, as well as air space.  I am super stoked.  Back to work.  No excuses.  

Thanks for looking.

My little corner

Hello Murphy's Law,

I love it.  Nice and tidy.  Really dig the puzzle.  Did you make the frame yourself?  If so, nice job.  Love the machinist boxes too.

my little corner of paradise

mmthrax

Hello Murphy's Law,

I love it.  Nice and tidy.  Really dig the puzzle.  Did you make the frame yourself?  If so, nice job.  Love the machinist boxes too.

 

I dig it steve5.  I like how it wraps around.  Has a "command center" vibe. 

Murphy's Law

 

Thanks, my dad made the frame and the shelf on the wall. I wish I had half the skill he did in woodworking.  

I was eyeing those shelves too.  Nice work. 

mmthrax

Been picking away at things for 2018, but I got a bit distracted when I ran across this desk on craigslist.  It was $50 INCLUDING the glass.  I couldn't pass it up.  I don't really have room for the desks I used to have.  They were 60x34, or bigger.  I knew this one was different as soon as I saw it.  The leg tunnel looked more narrow.  Sure enough it measures 54x32.  Those dimensions may not seem like much, but it makes all the difference.  I guess this was a "Jr" executive desk.  After some adjustment to the locking mechanism, some glue on two of the drawers, and reinstalling my lamp, I can now get back to work.  Yea!!

The small shelf unit was found by my wife on a neighborhood email list.  $15.  It literally squeezed into the space it is in with maybe an eyelash to spare. 

I think the whole area has been transformed and for sure better utilizes the cubic feet of floor space, as well as air space.  I am super stoked.  Back to work.  No excuses.  

Thanks for looking.

 

I love that desk, Mark!  They don't make office furniture like that anymore!  People working in Cubetowns all around the world have no idea what they're missing. 

I like the two pull-out shelves, too.  Kids, those things sometimes held a device called a "typewriter."  Those shelves will be really handy, in any case.

the Baron

 

I love that desk, Mark!  They don't make office furniture like that anymore!  People working in Cubetowns all around the world have no idea what they're missing. 

I like the two pull-out shelves, too.  Kids, those things sometimes held a device called a "typewriter."  Those shelves will be really handy, in any case. 

I totally agree with you.  Something about the wood I guess...

Speaking of typewriters, I work with some twenty somethings and I was trying to describe the old IBM Selectric with the spinning ball.  They were baffled.  Their eyes glazed over when I mentioned the letter arms, ribbons, and the swing arm with the bell.  It was amusing.

Kids....I got through college with a typewriter.  In grad school, I had a "state of the art" Commodore 128 with a 9 pin dot matrix printer and fan paper.  Took a half hour to print a 10 page paper, and I had to leave my apartment because the printer was so loud. 

Love the desk!  Not sure how you all stay organized.  Even if I added space, I would just clutter it up with even more stuff.

mmthrax

I dig it steve5.  I like how it wraps around.  Has a "command center" vibe. 

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

A well organized work bench? No such thing... LOL! 

I'm actually surprised that there are any photos in this thread!  

I know I posted my new workbench elswhere on this forum, but since "Installing " it , I had to make a few adjustment's.

My previous workbench  " The Trunk Of Death", has now become the spray booth.

I had to re-arange everything..... just so I could have some shelf space.

( I'm about to fill this space ..... with a 1/72 scale sub. )

   Awesome space good sir, looking forward to seeing what ya make on it.      P. S. I did post a few new pix of the Hummel the other day no comment from LittleTimmy. I hope I have not inadvertantly made you mad.. If so I apologize.

armornut

P. S. I did post a few new pix of the Hummel the other day no comment from LittleTimmy. I hope I have not inadvertantly made you mad.. If so I apologize.

NOPE ! Your "Golden", ... it's my computer that need's to apologize !

Teky knowlegee ..... GGGRRRRRRR !!!!

My space is currently evolving still.Took up the hobby last year and DIY'ED myself a small workspace with drywal in the garage.

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Well, I'm in the middle of building a Tamiya 1/32nd A6M5c for the Japanese Group Build, and my workbench just got way too cluttered for me to work. Som I had to "declutter" it, and get some space back. Here is where I work on my models. The paint rack I built myself a few months ago, as I couldn't find anything prebuilt or in kit form anywhere.

Gary Mason

Here is the future location of my workbench

Wolfman_63

 

 

Wolfman_63

Here is my hobby room.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Christmas my Wife got me a new workstation and a new chair. Lots more surface area and very stable.

 

And now here is version # 3. I added a side bench. This allows more room for building and keeps to work area a lot less cluttered during a build.

Devil Dawg

Well, I'm in the middle of building a Tamiya 1/32nd A6M5c for the Japanese Group Build, and my workbench just got way too cluttered for me to work. Som I had to "declutter" it, and get some space back. Here is where I work on my models. The paint rack I built myself a few months ago, as I couldn't find anything prebuilt or in kit form anywhere.

Gary Mason

 

 

Oh wow!  Send me the plans for your paint rack.