What's your workbench look like?

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Now that the truck is up and running it's time to clean up some of the damage to my workbench. The engine stand worked great but needed to have ballast to keep from tipping over. Who knew? Sometimes you just have to go with what you have to get the project done.

 

[Fatbrosracing]

Been away from this site for a bit, lots of work not much time. Any way, I have 3 work benches in my shed, main one is steel frame with 1/4 steel top, I have a wooden one that was my grandfathers and before that it was a kitchen cupboard, and the most useful one is the little mobile one. I highly recommend one of these. once you have one you won't live without it.

 

[dittle fart around]

Been away from this site for a bit, lots of work not much time. Any way, I have 3 work benches in my shed, main one is steel frame with 1/4 steel top, I have a wooden one that was my grandfathers and before that it was a kitchen cupboard, and the most useful one is the little mobile one. I highly recommend one of these. once you have one you won't live without it.

The little metal roll around would be my choice.

 

[romeo]

Here's mine, an ol'skool, greasy, oily, wood bench, but i like it!

 

[ariscus]

Here's mine, I've been in my house about year, and have a 2.5 car garage, just finished the epoxy floors today's. Basically houses my bike and my meager work bench, I have a portable table saw tucked in the corner, a compound miter saw under the bench with a quick set up table. I want to add another cabinet to put some of my smaller goodies there above my levels, and more lights. And much more eventually I'm sure after looking threw here.

 

[thundermug]

Sometimes it looks like this:

http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/66228_604267576592_2044967770_n.jpg

 

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http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/66228_604267576592_2044967770_n.jpg

What a cutie. My three sons were all toe heads but they grew into brunettes. If I had let them play with screws they would have tried to eat them.

 

[newhollandpuller]

Not as nice as alot of the others out there. Sears Outlet EMP GLobal cabinets and Bowling Alley top(heavy maple). BTW thanks for the great Idea SteveO

 

[Journaler]

Not as nice as alot of the others out there. Sears Outlet EMP GLobal cabinets and Bowling Alley top(heavy maple). BTW thanks for the great Idea SteveO

Where did you get the top?

 

[Teal Jay]

Not as nice as alot of the others out there. Sears Outlet EMP GLobal cabinets and Bowling Alley top(heavy maple). BTW thanks for the great Idea SteveO

Could you tell us more about what you did to the floor?

 

[gregsolds442]

A Damn Disaster most of the time!

 

[Scottishross]

theres my workbench

 

[newhollandpuller]

The top is a CL find it was taken from a local bowling alley that was torn down and they sold the lanes to a recycler who sold them on CL. The floor was just sealed with Diamond Super Clear ( that stuff stinks) it says medium odor I would hate to smell high odor!

 

[dittle fart around]

Not as nice as alot of the others out there. Sears Outlet EMP GLobal cabinets and Bowling Alley top(heavy maple). BTW thanks for the great Idea SteveO

Where did you get the top?

From a bowling alley

 

[M K]

I guess don't have any recent pictures of my workbench but I found these from a few years ago. Was pretty messy as I wasn't quite yet settled in here at the time. This would have been a little over a year after we moved into this house and probably 6-8 months after I built the bench. A lot has changed since then. Nothing fancy - 2x4 framing and 3/4 ply top with 1/4 masonite over that.

I'd take some new pictures but i'm in the middle of rehabbing my shop.

 

[dandan111]

Snowmobile carcus looks like its cleaned up pretty good. Is it a old one? I would like to rebuild my enticer someday..

 

[albaran]

My workbenches are old craftsman units. Don't bother asking me what the machine between them is for. It's top secret. But if you guess it, I'll explain how it works.
The other is a $40 item from Ikea that is a shelf but then swings up to become a work table.

 

[mslisaj]

This was a custom made bench that was finished many hears ago. It has a metal top and lots of use.

But this is what my bench looks like.

Lisa

 

[Kevin54]

My workbenches are old craftsman units. Don't bother asking me what the machine between them is for. It's top secret. But if you guess it, I'll explain how it works.
The other is a $40 item from Ikea that is a shelf but then swings up to become a work table.

Some sort of injection mold? I had to wager a guess

 

[M K]

Snowmobile carcus looks like its cleaned up pretty good. Is it a old one? I would like to rebuild my enticer someday..

The snowmobile was a 90 indy 500. Older but not vintage. Bulkhead had way too many cracks for me to bother fixing it. I love the vintage sleds but just don't have the time, money or room for more toys right now. Enticers are cool looking sleds.

 

[Lotek]

Some sort of injection mold? I had to wager a guess

It's for reinjecting the smoke back into Jaguar wiring...

 

[Mickey O]

Yes But.... Its always the same pic's in just about every other thread.

Sorry, Pharmtek -- and thanks fhsfiremanco1. I do post a lot of pictures of the garage. It's hard to balance things for both the guys who have been on the forum for awhile and also the guys who have only recently signed up. It's safe to say I end up posting too many.

Take new pictures with a variety of bikini models and then we'll remember which pictures we've seen before and nobody will complain about them being the same pictures even if they are.

 

[bullnerd]

Some sort of injection mold? I had to wager a guess

I recognize the safety switches....but thats about it.

Based on the drag racing swag...I'm guessing.....****,I got nothin!

I was going to say some type of automated flow bench but now that I look again that doesnt make sense.

 

[trbomax]

I am in the process of building this one now.The build thread is in the "project" section. Tomorrow I'm cutting out for the sink and starting to epoxy the top.

 

[DanMasshardt]

Just bought this at an auction. 2 1/2" thick butcher block with 4 Wilton wood vices.

 

[bullnerd]

Beauty Dan!

Looks like the ones we had in middle school wood shop.

I'm going to build my next woodworking bench just like that.The full base makes sweeping around it much easier.

 

[RVDan]

My workbenches are old craftsman units. Don't bother asking me what the machine between them is for. It's top secret. But if you guess it, I'll explain how it works.
The other is a $40 item from Ikea that is a shelf but then swings up to become a work table.

It's really hard to make out details on my phone but I'm gonna suggest its a flowbench

The hydraulic cylinders were throwing me for a while. Sure beats trying to use c-clamps

 

[DanMasshardt]

It is from a local high school I believe. It was a school district auction. I was hoping to steal it dirt cheap but everyone seemed to want it. Still paid $140. Those 4 vices have to be worth most of that, no? The drawers and cabinets are nice to have underneath. There are also 4 tap outlets on two sides.

 

[Tuffy22]

I went with a wall-mounted, folding workbench with slatwall. Saves a ton of space.

 

[DanMasshardt]

Tuffy - that's a great idea. Especially if you have cars to park close to it normally. Plus it gives you a good reason to keep it clean.

 

[Brad54]

This one's mine:

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/tech/1211sr_tips_for_building_a_welding_table/

I LOVE a solid table in the shop! We picked up a 9-inch Ford rear end and threw it up on the table... actually, I picked up my end, Boy Wonder kinda picked his end up mostly and grunted/slid/shoved it up over the table's edge... Table never moved. It was great because I had to hammer the drums off, and the table never moved, vibrated or wobbled.

We did the same thing with a 300-pound metal brake... table never knew it was on it.

There's nothing like mass in a work table.

-Brad

 

[Journaler]

This one's mine:

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/tech/1211sr_tips_for_building_a_welding_table/

I LOVE a solid table in the shop! We picked up a 9-inch Ford rear end and threw it up on the table... actually, I picked up my end, Boy Wonder kinda picked his end up mostly and grunted/slid/shoved it up over the table's edge... Table never moved. It was great because I had to hammer the drums off, and the table never moved, vibrated or wobbled.

We did the same thing with a 300-pound metal brake... table never knew it was on it.

There's nothing like mass in a work table.

-Brad

That's a nice looking welding table. Did you weld the legs directly to the top, or the top+channel?

 

[larry_g]

I'm still working on mine,some before and up gradeing a little at a time


Rob

What brand are the two blue boxes in the above picture. I've been looking for something like that?

lg
no neat sig line

 

[fredtech]

I went with a wall-mounted, folding workbench with slatwall. Saves a ton of space.

Wow! I like it
Could you please tell us more?
Where did you get it? How much?

Thanks
Fred

 

[DanMasshardt]

I should have cleaned up my bench before posting it. What a difference.

 

[bullnerd]

Damn thats nice Dan.

Theres a similar top for sale here on CL,150$ just for the top.

 

[Rust]

lol I gotta laugh.
one post has a picture of a high powered sniper rifle and the next has birdhouses.
this board is phucked.

 

[Mickey O]

Wow! I like it
Could you please tell us more?
Where did you get it? How much?

Thanks
Fred

If you click the picture ( http://www.benchsolution.com/ ) it takes you to their website, nice bench but a bit pricey.

 

[atch]

Just bought this at an auction. 2 1/2" thick butcher block with 4 Wilton wood vices.

I should have cleaned up my bench before posting it. What a difference.

It is from a local high school I believe. It was a school district auction. I was hoping to steal it dirt cheap but everyone seemed to want it. Still paid $140. Those 4 vices have to be worth most of that, no? The drawers and cabinets are nice to have underneath. There are also 4 tap outlets on two sides.

Damn thats nice Dan.

Theres a similar top for sale here on CL,150$ just for the top.

there's a wilton woodworking vise just like those here on CL for $60; just for one vise.

edit: i don't know why the pix didn't come forward with this reply, but, oh well...

 

[KCarGuy]

M_K...I love those old Retro Light Fixtures...