Freukin' schwizzle...finally, a workbench!
 

My Dad had an old cabinet and counter top in his basement that he was using for eBay shipping. He's done with all that crap, so he gave it to me. I had to cut some decent 2x4' supports across the top of the cabinets to screw the top down to. The plywood "tool board" on the back was an afterthought...dadgum glad I did it though!
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Now I need to get a vise and bench grinder.:love:

Nice.

in the words of C. Montgomery Burns, "Excellent"

sweet i'm jealous, one thing i'd add: a magnetic bar attached to the plywood to hold sockets and bb tools and hex bits ect,

Yeah man...I've been looking for a good one. I can't seem to find any except online, so I think I'm gonna order one. I've got a small socket set & Gear Ratchet set in drawers and another toolbox with my "automotive tools". 'Don't have much for hex bits, though I need to get some b/c I asked for a torque wrench for my birthday.

Goood gooood!
I've been wanting to do something like that, but we move every 2-4 years...... not practical =(

Looks sweet. The trick is keeping it that neat, something I ain't good at!

I use two that I got from a kitchen gadget store made for hanging knifes in the kitchen. Works great, and strong enough to hold anything you'd want it too. Like 6 bucks each or so. They have them at Ikea also if you have one around you. Maybe at target or wal-mart too.

Excellent! I never thought about that...thx Joe.

^^ never say i didn't do anything for ya...;)

I take back everything I've ever said behind your back.:D

I don't:p you need to do something for me know:innocent:

I swear, that wasn't supposed to come off subjective....

Nice.

Is that a lamp at the top right corner of the board?

Ed-

That's very cute and the tools are all so neatly arranged. All ya gotta do now is take a black sharpie and draw an outline around each one.

LOL...
if you outline them..

we will never let you live it down,
haha

Wow, very nice. And a bit cleaner than mine at the moment

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Holy crap man...look at all that space!! Kooooooooooooool!

I see 3 things I want
1. Work stand (I hang mine from a hook
2. truing stand
3. headset bearing press

Damn Ed, That's a nice space! I think we should put my new build together there!

Feel free, man. U got a headset press? I've been using a ho'made one that is a bit scary, but does the jobbyjob.

Na, Home made was my approach too! Po boys have po boy ways, know?

Yah...I used a piece of AllThread with some big fender washers and a couple of nutz and prayed to the GoodLord that I got it all in straight, hehe.

I'm inherently anal when it comes to stuff like that. As soon as I got married and had kids, I was dealt the harsh reality that the house was no longer going to be anal...but my dadgum shop area can be how I want it.:thumb:

Oh shucks, I'm embarrassed; you all got me beat for neat, you tidy city boys.

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Nice use of reclaimed lumber in your shop (shed? barn?)

As long as you know where everything is, nobody else needs to. My dad keeps things in buckets, but I swear he knows where everything is when you ask him.

Thanks. Posts and two massive 6x12 clear-span beams were bridge timbers; sheathing from a farm house I tore down. Studs were no. 3s from a local mill. Oh, and '60s-vintage Pella windows from a house in town that was being remodeled.

Man, I feel ashamed lol.

I don't have any space to do any work..
I want a shop to do bike/car work... but gov't housing...
=(
some day..
sigh...

I know the feeling.

My dad had a nice workshop in the home I grew up in. While kids my age were getting hurt from sports, I was getting injuries from tools I've been told to stay away from. But I just loved it in there and grew up mucking around with tools far too big for a little kid. Most of the hand tools were USA Stanley items... high end stuff back in the day. By my teens, I was overhauling and hotrodding VW engines in my dad's workshop.

When I immigrated and got married, all the tools I had was a pair of pliers I found in a glove box and a cheap set of screw drivers I bought from the supermarket. Then some cheesy spanners. Man, that was hard... like I was walking around missing one leg. Most of the work I did was on the drive way - or on newspaper over carpet in a small spare bedroom when it was raining.

I've got a little workshop now, but never enough space. :)

Hang in there... your workshop will come in time.

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My porch was attached long after my house was built. They built "around" the existing guttering on the house, so the porch roof and house roof had guttering between them. :mad: It started leaking a couple years ago, so it was just basically storage for crap that could get wet.

I ripped the guttering out this yr. and patched the gap. Now it's dry and I can finally put stuff out there that I previously wouldn't. Gives me plenty of space to work (for now) and still some dry storage.