Show us your workshop
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Show us your workshop
Major achievement - I can now see my workbench again so guitar building can start once more.
Some of you have seen the mess that it was and probably quietly thought it was impossible to clean this up.
It is not super tidy yet, but at least I can now also see the floor and know where my tools are...
The templates will ultimately be hanging on the wall next to the drawings.
So if you have a workshop, do you keep it clean and tidy?
Here a 360 of where it all happens.
Some of you have seen the mess that it was and probably quietly thought it was impossible to clean this up.
It is not super tidy yet, but at least I can now also see the floor and know where my tools are...
The templates will ultimately be hanging on the wall next to the drawings.
So if you have a workshop, do you keep it clean and tidy?
Here a 360 of where it all happens.
When faced with quality, I recognise it every time.
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Re: Show us your workshop
Nice work!!
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Re: Show us your workshop
Why, yes; yes I do keep it tidy....ish! I confess that most of my heavy gear got left behind in NZ when we moved - table saws and routers, thicknessers and lathes but I have a small but perfectly formed corner of the shed here to tinker. And that's pretty much all I do these days; I tinker. I've got any builds I wanted to do done years ago and even now don't follow the online auctions looking for munted guitars to rebuild - I'm done, in that respect.
...looking into the shed at my corner from the roller door.
... the desk and worktop
... behind the workbench. Light engineering tools in the toolboxes, 30W valve amp for testing and all kinds of other bits and bobs!
All of the desk drawers are set up with the immediate use stuff; multimeter, Xacto knives, digital calipers, tweezers, small sidecutters, stringwinders etc.
and on the far opposite wall, in the coolest part of the shed - important here in the summer!! - are about 20 guitars in cases. *sigh*
... against the wall beside the left hand roller door, looking out are the PAs, synth, lap steel and road cases full of gear. Once again ...*sigh*
Workbench is an old set of kitchen cupboards with a 3 inch slab of ply atop; the old cupboards are great for storing stuff so that it doesn't get all dusty and shitty. The open one beside the desk has my guitar fettling toolbox on the top shelf and the electronics soldering gear in a similar box on the bottom shelf.
Over the years I've found this this works for me, and am more than happy with the layout. That bench has seen guitars, amps, lawnmowers, rifles, and chainsaws in bits on it's surface - it's nice being able to work on both sides of the thing, I have to say!
...looking into the shed at my corner from the roller door.
... the desk and worktop
... behind the workbench. Light engineering tools in the toolboxes, 30W valve amp for testing and all kinds of other bits and bobs!
All of the desk drawers are set up with the immediate use stuff; multimeter, Xacto knives, digital calipers, tweezers, small sidecutters, stringwinders etc.
and on the far opposite wall, in the coolest part of the shed - important here in the summer!! - are about 20 guitars in cases. *sigh*
... against the wall beside the left hand roller door, looking out are the PAs, synth, lap steel and road cases full of gear. Once again ...*sigh*
Workbench is an old set of kitchen cupboards with a 3 inch slab of ply atop; the old cupboards are great for storing stuff so that it doesn't get all dusty and shitty. The open one beside the desk has my guitar fettling toolbox on the top shelf and the electronics soldering gear in a similar box on the bottom shelf.
Over the years I've found this this works for me, and am more than happy with the layout. That bench has seen guitars, amps, lawnmowers, rifles, and chainsaws in bits on it's surface - it's nice being able to work on both sides of the thing, I have to say!
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corsair wrote:Why, yes; yes I do keep it tidy....ish! I confess that most of my heavy gear got left behind in NZ when we moved - table saws and routers, thicknessers and lathes but I have a small but perfectly formed corner of the shed here to tinker. And that's pretty much all I do these days; I tinker. I've got any builds I wanted to do done years ago and even now don't follow the online auctions looking for munted guitars to rebuild - I'm done, in that respect.
Workbench is an old set of kitchen cupboards with a 3 inch slab of ply atop; the old cupboards are great for storing stuff so that it doesn't get all dusty and shitty. The open one beside the desk has my guitar fettling toolbox on the top shelf and the electronics soldering gear in a similar box on the bottom shelf.
Over the years I've found this this works for me, and am more than happy with the layout. That bench has seen guitars, amps, lawnmowers, rifles, and chainsaws in bits on it's surface - it's nice being able to work on both sides of the thing, I have to say!
Holy crap, that is a lot of gear there. So you never open any guitar case at all?
I like the way you put some tools on the cabinet doors.
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Successfully exploited the '15% cheaper than Bunnings' thing at Mitre 10 and scored these for the workshop.
Got a cab project in mind and an internal door to move. A bloke can never have enough tools!
Got a cab project in mind and an internal door to move. A bloke can never have enough tools!
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Yeah got one of those bosch routers a year or so back, bloody good value A bit hefty for a 1/4" but plenty of grunt.
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I have the same one too, works great!
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Definitely heftier than I was expecting. Putting that middle pickup in the Tele so that's its first job.
Next I'm planning a routing table so I can look at adding binding.
Next I'm planning a routing table so I can look at adding binding.
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Re: Show us your workshop
those multi tools are fucking great..probably the best tool I own
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Re: Show us your workshop
This is my second one. The first one lasted about nine years through several reno projects and all sorts of abuse. In the end it was so noisy I had to get shut. Suspect I just wore the feckin' thing out.willow13 wrote:
those multi tools are fucking great..probably the best tool I own
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But they're as bad as buying a printer; you sure get reamed on replacement blades.willow13 wrote:
those multi tools are fucking great..probably the best tool I own
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I've made my router tables in the past. But I have to say https://www.bunnings.co.nz/ozito-router ... _p00246394 I got one of these a few weeks ago, and its surprisingly good. for a couple of hand shandy, its excellent.Molly wrote:Definitely heftier than I was expecting. Putting that middle pickup in the Tele so that's its first job.
Next I'm planning a routing table so I can look at adding binding.
My half inch router lives there, thats another bargain - the ryobi half inch router - keep your receipt, 24 months guarantee, invariably craps out within a year or so, its a perpetual new router.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.