[mikeg]

Nancy,

It's safe to say that if I had a workshop like that, I still couldn't carve anywhere near as well as you do! Nice looking place!

mikeg

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

I got it just fine and blew it up full size! Nancy!! Oh...and nice shop! ha ha...I am easily sidetracked these days lol

[Dull Knife]

Originally Posted by slivers&dust

Hmm…

I always keep a clean shop. I like to keep things in their place so I can keep track of them. I spent seventeen of the last twenty years in a one-man shop working as a stonecutter (granite not diamonds) and always kept the shop picked up and tools in their place. That’s just me; I’m kind of anal that way (can I say that?)

If you could see the floor on the other side of my bench it has the makings of a woodchip carpet.

If your shop is a mess, show it off anyway. It doesn’t bother me unless your using my tools then you better clean up (grin)

Come on, there has to be someone else willing to post pics of their “work area” I’ve seen pages of woodworkers shops. I wana see your carving shop/studio

I grew up in a small town print shop, my Dad was the editor of the local newspaper.
He was also the main printer, but he never, ever, would put his tools back where they belonged.
SO....I made racks out of old leather belts and had them tacked to some of the walls and that's where I put all the tools on Saturday mornings, when I was in charge of cleaning up the mess and getting ready for the next week's edition.
I still do the same thing in my work shop.....I know where everything is, and if it isn't there, my wife had better have a good explanation as to why she hasn't put it back.

[AlArchie]

OK, ya cajoled me into it Slivers and Dust! I told ya all before that my shop is ALWAYS a mess, I don't let anybody down there, and it's not really a shop. It's a basement/ junkroom/shop/workout room/etc. place where I carve, paint, do mechanical repairs, electrical puttering and just about anything else I can do by rearranging the clutter to accomodate my current project. The big green frog is a much earlier carving that was ruined in a gallery and is in a sort-of-state of repair. The bass is on my "painting desk", which also serves as a photo shop, electrical tinkering desk, and the floor is now covered with parts of my weed eater which needs a lot of repairs and parts.

Now, aintcha glad ya asked?

Al

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

ok you asked for it! I figured mine couldn't be worse than Al's ha ha

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

try again, says I have 8 images?

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

geez what a pain in the neck to get 3 pictures up?

[Bob_in_TN]

Al, I happen to like shops that look "used". Now the question is, do I like Al's or Hi HO's the most!!!!!!!!

[AlArchie]

Hehehehe! Dave, I think you have more light! One good thing going on here, with this new room we made out of the garage, we'll be moving the laundry upstairs, and have a lot of pantry room and that should open things up a bit for me to move the lathe, drill press and compressor away from the cramped area I'm working in now. But looking at things objectively, I really don't think I'll ever really "neaten up".

Al

[Kenny_S]

That is ok Al and Dave,, Ithink my place was cleaned up 10 years ago.

BTW, Neat shops.