Workshop ideas/layout

[TnAeroNut]

Looks great! I might never leave the basement.

 

[Steef66]

Looks great! I might never leave the basement.

I now this feeling, I'm to live in my workshop.

 

[BradNSW]

First Project in the new workshop.

Jean Boudriots' "Bonhomme Richard 1779 came in yesterday!!

Fooled you!

I just ordered the ZHL Bonhomme Richard Pear Cross Section, Top Level. Should start a build log sometime in February.

Phot is actually a shop break in project. I'm building custom louvers for four windows in the basement. The wood is awesome. It is alder planks 1/4"x1.5"x24", from Swaner Hardwoods in Los Angeles (ordered though Home Depot). Milling is excellent and the grain, color and uniformity is good enough for a quality scratch build!

Here is the first window louver completed.

 

[Roger Pellett]

You can’t do quality work if you have to keep chasing the part that you are working on around the bench. There are also tools like a hot soldering iron that you don’t want to show up in unexpected places. Don’t ask me how I know this!

So! When I remodeled my shop several years ago, I installed a number of the brass inserts posted in the first photo in a grid pattern into the top of my workbench. These thread into a drilled hole. The inside is tapped for a common 1/4” NC machine, screw. I would assume that are, also available for metric sizes too. They are not expensive.

The second photo shows a brass part captured under a strip of modeling plywood and fastened to a scrap of MDF. Fastened to the bench top it is waiting to be soldered.

The third photo shows a cheap soldering iron holder fastened to a plywood base which in turn is screwed down to the bench top.

Roger

 

[Donnie]

Nice. I have yet to figure out the best work station layout for ship modelling.

 

[Namabiiru]

You can’t do quality work if you have to keep chasing the part that you are working on around the bench. There are also tools like a hot soldering iron that you don’t want to show up in unexpected places. Don’t ask me how I know this!

So! When I remodeled my shop several years ago, I installed a number of the brass inserts posted in the first photo in a grid pattern into the top of my workbench. These thread into a drilled hole. The inside is tapped for a common 1/4” NC machine, screw. I would assume that are, also available for metric sizes too. They are not expensive.

The second photo shows a brass part captured under a strip of modeling plywood and fastened to a scrap of MDF. Fastened to the bench top it is waiting to be soldered.

The third photo shows a cheap soldering iron holder fastened to a plywood base which in turn is screwed down to the bench top.

Roger

Brilliant! Not sure if this would be practical for my tiny bench, but I may try it anyway.