Hello, hello,
I’m in the process of revamping my shop and ran across this site while looking for ideas on building a new workbench or reworking my existing one. This place is great! I’ve found more info then I know what to do with and not only on the workbench but a bunch of other subjects I didn’t realize I need to know about. I figure since I’m already halfway though I might as well “publically” document my progress as a way to keep me motivated and gain some insight from those wiser then I. A little history about me is I’m fifty with a wife and three kids two of which are boys with endless projects that keep drawing me in and away from my own. In our younger years my wife and I have built, raced, restored and screwed up more cars, trucks and bikes then I can remember. As I’ve gotten older shop time has dwindled, seems like this last year’s shop time has been nothing but a revolving door of getting what needs done done and then moving on to the next with little clean up or even putting things away. This revamp started with adding another door to get cars in out of the weather when it’s bad. We cut out the wall and then build the door opening and put up the door from the inside as I knew we couldn’t devote enough time to get it done all at once. In fact we still need to cut the outer skin of the building to access the door. Below are some pics of where we started.
This is about where we are now. The old pool table has been nothing but a catch-all and will be discarded as soon as we’re done.
I’m in the process of revamping my shop and ran across this site while looking for ideas on building a new workbench or reworking my existing one. This place is great! I’ve found more info then I know what to do with and not only on the workbench but a bunch of other subjects I didn’t realize I need to know about. I figure since I’m already halfway though I might as well “publically” document my progress as a way to keep me motivated and gain some insight from those wiser then I. A little history about me is I’m fifty with a wife and three kids two of which are boys with endless projects that keep drawing me in and away from my own. In our younger years my wife and I have built, raced, restored and screwed up more cars, trucks and bikes then I can remember. As I’ve gotten older shop time has dwindled, seems like this last year’s shop time has been nothing but a revolving door of getting what needs done done and then moving on to the next with little clean up or even putting things away. This revamp started with adding another door to get cars in out of the weather when it’s bad. We cut out the wall and then build the door opening and put up the door from the inside as I knew we couldn’t devote enough time to get it done all at once. In fact we still need to cut the outer skin of the building to access the door. Below are some pics of where we started.
This is about where we are now. The old pool table has been nothing but a catch-all and will be discarded as soon as we’re done.
