SHOW ME YOUR WORKSPACE / SHOP

[Ulu]

“Industry is inherently messy.”
I don’t know who first said that but it’s always been true for me.

I had to clean up a lot of stuff in the boat yard, so I would have room to do stuff like this.

 

[Oldskool66]

I have a couple of work areas depending on the task. I'm still getting organized as I'm just getting back into bikes and currently only have a handful of them.

 

[kchurch86]

Here's a look into the abyss. Obviously a multi-use facility here...storage space, workshop, gym, art gallery, therapist's office...

Most of the magic happens right here. That little bench top lathe has pulled me out of a bind more times than I can remember. It's also where I machined the front derailleur for my old Raleigh.

 

[Ulu]

This is my computer desk, but today I am using it to salvage components from some used electronics.

 

[rxinhed]

Bikes, bikes everywhere and a storage that needs to be emptied and rearranged.

 

[Kevin B]

Added the cabinet on the left to consolidate several specialty boxes. Added wheels and a polyurethane top to a file cabinet to make a machine stand.

 

[Ulu]

The OT bench clogged with electric gear.

I paused my car building to do a couple little projects that grew longer and longer.

There I am building a battery charger.

Here is a tiny welder, in process…

 

[Ulu]

Progress in the laboratory!

First test was A-OK!

 

[musclebikemadman]

I have been wanting to make up this set of lights and I finally did. Now they hang in my shop and I'm really happy with them kinda like bike christmas lights all year round

 

[Brian macumber]

Some pics of my little hole in the wall.

 

[Kevin B]

I have been wanting to make up this set of lights and I finally did. Now they hang in my shop and I'm really happy with them kinda like bike christmas lights all year roundView attachment 263530View attachment 263531

Really like the grip lights.

 

[Kevin B]

I made a vise station. Got the steel stool on Market Place. Used a 2x12x12 with counter sunk holes for the top. Already had the three vises. The smallest vise is for luthier work that I do. Out under some trees I have a large vise from a decommissioned Navy ship mounted on a piece of telephone pole.

 

[Wildcat]

Looks great! I may do something like that.

Got a pic of the Navy vise?

 

[Kevin B]

Looks great! I may do something like that.

Got a pic of the Navy vise?

Here is the vise my late uncle retrieved from the ship.

 

[Kevin B]

Looks great! I may do something like that.

Got a pic of the Navy vise?

I read up on it Powr Kraft was made by Milwaukee for Montgomery Wards. This one is huge. That it probably a 12" diameter pole.

 

[Wildcat]

I read up on it Powr Kraft was made by Milwaukee for Montgomery Wards. This one is huge. That it probably a 12" diameter pole.

I'd reburbish it, paint it haze gray and mount it to it's own table. I would also add the name of the ship it came from, if known. Otherwise just a famous ship name.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

From the opposite end of the spectrum from to that navy vice...
I've been helping my mother in law clean out the old place so she can sell it. I was so excited to find this little guy in my father in law's old shop

Cute little aluminum vice, made in japan, love the patina on the anodization. It'll allow me to set up a workshop anywhere, and it'll feel like Papa D is there working with me

 

[Brian macumber]

From the opposite end of the spectrum from to that navy vice...
I've been helping my mother in law clean out the old place so she can sell it. I was so excited to find this little guy in my father in law's old shopView attachment 265281
Cute little aluminum vice, made in japan, love the patina on the anodization. It'll allow me to set up a workshop anywhere, and it'll feel like Papa D is there working with me

Looks almost like the one I have that's better than nothing but not big enough for anything

 

[Ulu]

I have a 1/2” Powr-Kraft drill motor my dad bought about 1963. That thing has enough torque to rip your arm off.

He also bought this reciprocating saw about 1964. You see it has the Montgomery Wards logo on it, which the drill actually does not.

 

[Ulu]

…..I was so excited to find this little guy in my father in law's old shop…..

This will never happen to me. I have been married to two women, both coincidently are orphans.