Between 265 & 485 SQ/FT The Mary Kay Garage

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Another project. Years ago I made my own countertops for my garage workbench. I used hard maple as I had some of it left over from when I built the Roubo workbench in my basement. Wood isn’t going to stand up to hard use but I really like it. It just feels warmer to me. After Few years of use the countertops were pretty dirty. Some patina is good, but this was too much. I decided that since I needed to disassemble my workbench anyway I was going to sand and refinish each of the two sides of my workbench. Ir still has some patina, but the look is better now.
And the other side

 

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In addition to cleaning the floor and refinishing my worktop I need to do some spring cleaning to my workbench drawers. A couple of years ago I purchase a nearly complete set of Sonic mechanics tools in Sonic foam inlays. I have a number of drawer from them that look like this.
And this.

I think I have ten drawers like this. The organization is excellent. Really really nice, not that I had anything to do with it other than charging my credit card. Doing this was a big expense but I could justify it as any mechanics tools I owned previously was all cheap stuff, sets with missing pieces, and stuff I didn’t mind giving away.

That said there was some stuff that I kept or stuff that it would not make to buy from Sonic. All that was also in my workbench too. But this stuff was completely unorganized. I want to clean up these drawers.

I’m using ToolGrid to do that. I’ve got three drawers done. See below. And my junk drawer Too.