If I ever make a real work bench

Cool idea

Ellis Walentine

I'd like to hear more details as they dawn on you as to how the open framework can be an advantage. Maybe there's a call for a prototype of some sort.

Ellis

Now that's my kind of shop

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

Or at least that is what mine looks like most of the time. We get many pictures taken "in the shop". I like to study what is in the background for shop ideas. Most pictures look as though the cleaning lady(or guy) had just left-counters dusted, carpet vacuumed, windows cleaned, tools and accessories all in their place. Alan's shop looks like the shops of the customers we used to deliver to. Is that a table saw back there? Usually it is easier to spot a table saw in a shop.

Re: Now that's my kind of shop

William Duffield

From here, it looks like a Rockwell Unisaw on a mobile base.

Re: Now that's my kind of shop

John K Jordan

Go ahead and send the cleaning person. I'll go down and wait by the door.

There's a cabinet saw there somewhere.

I carved this for visitors:

JKJ

Re: Now that's my kind of shop

roger lance

Just think of the numbers of people you've inspired to buy (and use) a shop vac.

Re: Now that's my kind of shop

Kevin French

I resemble that remark.

I have an open work space of 11' x 11' in my shop. I have to a. put things away when done and b. keep it clean or I can't move.

Re: Now that's my kind of shop

Bruce, a MN Galoot

I have one stall of a three stall garage, and right now that space has to be shared with a Honda goldwing and a snowblower.all my stuff is stacked next to each other and I have a walking space of about two feet by eight feet, between benches. If I want do something, something else has to move.

Re: Now that's my kind of shop

David Yoho

I've poked fun at Alan privately about his work space before. However, I think it's a testament to his love of working wood given the space he has and probably most would agree the finished work he produces is top notch.

I'll go a step farther and say if you put him in a large open space with a 10-foot ceiling, all the best lighting, mobile clamp racks, central dust collection, and assembly benches all around the poor boy wouldn't get anything done. No sir, he would be lost.

Re: Now that's my kind of shop

TomD

That is something we have in common!

Re: Cool idea

TomD

One of the more popular articles, from what I could gather, that appeared in FWW some time ago was for a New Fangled Workbench sorta built along those lines.

http://www.finewoodworking.com/2009/10/02/new-fangled-workbench-revisited-plans-now-available

And to an extent most benches are no more than a set of saw horses with a beam on them. How closed or open varies with the design. Of my two fancy benches, the one had a tool tray I didn't put a bottom in for years, and the other has a two piece top with a 1" slot running between them.

A Page From The Metal Fabrocators' Manual

Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

Open lattice "benches" are an integral part of their shops as they give maximum flexibility for clamping and other fixation tools.