I keep seeing wonderful workshops - some seem to lack a vital element - where are the sawdust and woodshavings, they look like hospital surgeries.
Some will have noticed I am hard up, I am an old codger, my days of having space in a workshop went once I returned to the UK so my single garage is my workshop, storage room, place to keep my fantastic classic bike and whatever else I have to try to squash in it. I am currently focussing on working in wood but I have quite a range of interests and have equal skills in many fields.
I do not have a proper bench, I shift stuff about on a daily basis to make enough space for the job/s in hand. I have drop on formica topped covers for my table saw and the silly workbench (It's a collapsible Wolfcraft work and machine table - one of my routers is usually fitted under it).
If it's a quiet job I might open the garage door, if it's noisy I try to think a little of the neighbours, fortunately they are all out working most of the time.
Add a bench drill (birthday present from wife) that sits next to the bench grinder - the grinder is bolted down with wing nuts so I can easily take it off for larger pieces to be drilled. I use a couple of clamps to hold my metalworking vice down so that can be out of the way.
Of course it gets a bit crazy when I need my planer, bench saw and router table, it gets like musical chairs.
You will see lots of toolboxes under the benches, I keep hand power tools in them, plus the rarely used woodworking tools, another with metalworking tools, a case with electrical tools, one toolbox with car repairing tools and a crate with the oils / greases/ paints etc used on mechanical servicing or repairing (car, lawnmower, washing machine ...). One has building type tools (trowels, cold chisels, bolster and larger ball pein hammers etc.), another small one has upholstery tools, there is one for tools likely to be used for small items, watches, phones and the like, a small one for sewing (recently renovated wife's old teddy bears and put a new jip in my favourite work fleece)- my sewing machine is indoors, and yet another with tools etc for electronic use.
The photo is a few months old as I've recently used the drawers from an old dressing table and now there is a row of drawers along the left hand side under the shelf, they seem to be quickly filling! I noticed a small space on the cupboard to the left of the window - now my best set of chisels in on there.
Thought you might like to see a contrast to those roomy things on here.
Some will have noticed I am hard up, I am an old codger, my days of having space in a workshop went once I returned to the UK so my single garage is my workshop, storage room, place to keep my fantastic classic bike and whatever else I have to try to squash in it. I am currently focussing on working in wood but I have quite a range of interests and have equal skills in many fields.
I do not have a proper bench, I shift stuff about on a daily basis to make enough space for the job/s in hand. I have drop on formica topped covers for my table saw and the silly workbench (It's a collapsible Wolfcraft work and machine table - one of my routers is usually fitted under it).
If it's a quiet job I might open the garage door, if it's noisy I try to think a little of the neighbours, fortunately they are all out working most of the time.
Add a bench drill (birthday present from wife) that sits next to the bench grinder - the grinder is bolted down with wing nuts so I can easily take it off for larger pieces to be drilled. I use a couple of clamps to hold my metalworking vice down so that can be out of the way.
Of course it gets a bit crazy when I need my planer, bench saw and router table, it gets like musical chairs.
You will see lots of toolboxes under the benches, I keep hand power tools in them, plus the rarely used woodworking tools, another with metalworking tools, a case with electrical tools, one toolbox with car repairing tools and a crate with the oils / greases/ paints etc used on mechanical servicing or repairing (car, lawnmower, washing machine ...). One has building type tools (trowels, cold chisels, bolster and larger ball pein hammers etc.), another small one has upholstery tools, there is one for tools likely to be used for small items, watches, phones and the like, a small one for sewing (recently renovated wife's old teddy bears and put a new jip in my favourite work fleece)- my sewing machine is indoors, and yet another with tools etc for electronic use.
The photo is a few months old as I've recently used the drawers from an old dressing table and now there is a row of drawers along the left hand side under the shelf, they seem to be quickly filling! I noticed a small space on the cupboard to the left of the window - now my best set of chisels in on there.
Thought you might like to see a contrast to those roomy things on here.
