Let’s see them work benches
- Thread starter Hobbyman2007
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My half of the basement. I clean off space as needed for a project. Lots of powder burner and airgun activity here.
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I have not set my benches up here as yet. They're buried under stuff at the moment.
I have been throwing a drop cloth over the kitchen table to get by.
Bench pics from seven or eight years ago.
I have been throwing a drop cloth over the kitchen table to get by.
Bench pics from seven or eight years ago.
When I was in trade school if the instructor caught you with the chuck wrench in the chuck and it wasn't being used you had to wear one around your neck the rest of the week. It definitely made you remember to take it out.Must be nice to have a lathe but take that key out of the chuck, Mister
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We had nothing at trade school for this, but at my apprenticeship if you started a lathe with the wrench in the chuck, you had to buy a round of beer for the entire shop.
And the apprentice lathe shop was like 25 lathes.
Yes this was a public "job " at the Danish national railways, you see many drunk or sleeping people there in a work day, and there was plenty of little shops around the place where you could buy beer / soda / ciggies and whatever.
I will admit that one Friday i had to take the bus home, CUZ i was too drunk to drive.
But that was also a X-mas lunch with 2 older guys mainly doing brake work on trains, we had all the traditional good X-mas food, and they only did the strong beers + then Snaps and so on.
6 hours of that and the world was spinning for this little guy ( i must have been around 20 then )
PS. a few did that wrench in chuck thing,,,,, not me of course i am just crazy but not insane.
PPS: coming out of that education after + 1/2 year which was customary to give the good apprentices, i stopped outside gate and swore a oath to myself that i would never again work for anything public / government, and i have of course kept that promise too.
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Almost forgot….. I have a small work bench at my cabin too, and some plinkers at the opposite wall just for inspiration. 
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That is an impressive collection of “plinkers”. Who’s making your stocks ?Almost forgot….. I have a small work bench at my cabin too, and some plinkers at the opposite wall just for inspiration.
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This is hardly a scratch of my collection Im afraid. I restore old classic airguns, or make the stocks myself when I get inspired, and need some rest from knife making.
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Beautiful work. The older I get the more I appreciate the wood and steel work. I was into the whole tacticool thing for a while and they do have their place but they no longer appeal to me.
I’m currently in the no more airguns phase. Too many to shoot on a regular basis.
Oh ya , nice work bench set up.
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@jps2486 Shhh, this isn’t the “Omerta” message boards.” Don’t mess around and catch a RICO case fooling with us simple on AGN. For some reason I’m imagining some poor juror with his head in the vise of your workbench similar to how Nicki (Joe Pesci) put Tony Doggs’ head in a vise in “Casino” for trying to protect Charlie M.
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This was taken when this bench was clean and the press was new. But this workbench bench is used for making slugs.
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Now that’s just plain showin’ off. Wow. Very nice.Several workbenches/workshops here.
The garage workbench is buried under several projects, cold out there and I'm not showing that mess.
Basement workbench is ready for use, the pile of miscellaneous materials at the right is a slug swaging press in disguise, it's still in the design stage.
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In spite of the snow and freezing rain, the fly tying bench is in use today, just taking a break for lunch. I'm hoping that tying a bunch of flies will help getting the ice off the lakes sooner.
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Cheers!
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