Show us a photo of your Workbench. Here is the bench of the LION. Said LION actually does work on this workbench, albeit it has been cleaned up a bit recently, and is almost a joy to work on now. I’ll make more photos of it so that you can see the “after” rather than just the “before”.
Wow! Pretty sure this is where the stuff I’ve lost over the years has ended up! Can you clean that mess up BWL and return my stuff to me?
LOL
Well that didn’t take long, LION.
I gotta run down and snap a photo.
ROAR
Rich
Thank you, Lion. You’ve made me feel surgically neat.
Rick Krall
Ok, here’'s mine… 
Why?
LOL
Just because.
And, besides, do you really want to risk offending the LION?
Him easily lose him temper.
Rich
Speaks for it’s self
Bob
OK, here’s mine. Just a repurposed computer table that I got when we cleaned out my Parents house after my Dad passed. My sisters were going to throw it out, because it had a scratch on it. [:O]Big deal! [:O] I had a use for it (And it matches my own computer desk around the corner)[:D]
It usually though, is not this clean! [(-D]
More projects on the bench…now if I could just find that damned Flax-Capacitator?
Workbench? Dear Lord, in my case it would be any clear spot on the layout, the chest freezer, washer and dryer, and an old dresser on rollers that fits nicely under one part of the layout!
I made a rollaround table for working on sections of my layout, so I can turn the sections nsideways, upside down, etc. to get at places. Can’t do that while they are in place with ends of track of one section catching next section.
At the moment though, I have stopped working on a section and stack little boxes and boards with pieces of small structure project I am doing (when I should be concentrating on getting the layout as a whole running.) Of course, I can’t do fine structure work standing up at this workbench so I carry the tools and materials down the hall to the kitchen table where i can sit down at a comfortable height.
Why not a workbench UNDER my layout? Because this is what was under my layout…
but this is an old picture before I added a lot more stuff and clutter.
[:-^]
I thought Monks and Lions were “Neat Freaks”
Johnboy out…and looking for my glasses
Stupid Beast is planning to leap down and dash away somewhere. She was hand placed on the bench to jazz up this photo. This is my bench right after a shop cleanup. Model railroading tools are in the red wood toolbox to the right side of the bench. Besides model railroading, I do wood working, auto repair, electronics tinkering, and other stuff in this shop. Not in this picture are some very useful full sized power tools, drill press, band saw, and radial arm saw.
Right, we keep the heavy power tools out of the train room. Here is me working on parts for my model railroad.
This sander has two motors on it. The red on is the original DC motor, and once we stopped generating our own power and went on line with the utility company we mounted an AC motor right on top of it, and kept on working.
The carpentry shop does not count as part of the railroad operation. [swg]
Sisters, yes, monks, not so much. LIONS do not clean up after themselves, that is what we have zookeepers for. And I must tell you, the zookeeper is very punctual with the plate of meat.
ROAR
Nice topic thread, I always enjoy looking at others workbenches. Here is mine, the pic I took last year but its pretty much the same still.
Hmm, can;t say I ever saw a breaker box mounted sideways before - was it alwyas that way, or did you relocate it to provide more space?
This is one of the only shots that I have that shows my workbench area at all:
Out of sight to the right edge is my computer, and under the benchwork on the left with the drawers facing to the workbench is a plastic drawer unit that has styrene, decals, and other stuff in it. I don;t have enough tools to have a set on the bench plus a set in a portable toolbox, so I work out of the toolbox all the time. I haven’t lately, but usually if I have to travel for more than a couple of days I grab the toolbox and a couple of kits to work on.
–Randy
Here’s my workdesk. This represents its neatened state. Each time I need to kick the cat out of my chair; I then have to take a minute or two petting her or else she’ll be incessantly walking back and forth across the desk (which tends to slow my modeling productivity just a bit).
Jim
Thanks for this thread, folks! Now I don’t feel quite so bad about the state of my own work area.
It would be nice if I had the space for a real woodworking space in addition to my hobby area, but alas, it all shares the same area of the basement.
And the other problem is that projects are fun, cleanup is not. Hence cleanup only happens when it is necessary to make space for a project!