Mikevango Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Nice spaces guys! I am building at the kitchen table. I have to clear it off so we can eat dinner. It's getting old. I am now on the lookout for a cool looking vintage desk so I can build in the bedroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbigpaw Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I've had a number of desks over the years. Everything from a big metal office desk to a drafting table. My most recent was a custom built unit in a spare bedroom (now the grand kids room which leaves me with nothing at the moment) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbigpaw Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm thinking I need to go portable now. Hmmmmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Mike Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I like how you have your dremel setup Custom Mike. What about air compressors/and air brushes Kristopher, my airbrush and compressor are out in the shed...Wife's orders! I wanna eat and/or not be killed in my sleep, I paint in the shed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabrux Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I am building at the kitchen table. I have to clear it off so we can eat dinner. It's getting old. I, too, build at the kitchen table presently. Mostly due to my permanent work space being in my unheated basement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Kucaba Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I do all my wet sanding in the shower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southpier Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 "... this salad is delicious ..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I, too, build at the kitchen table presently. Mostly due to my permanent work space being in my unheated basement. I built one of my best models at the kitchen table. We were renovating our house and I lost my model building space. I had a board that I placed on the table to protect it, and the board became a portable work bench. I'd work evenings, so at the end of every work session, I'd put everything on the board, then put it on top of the refrigerator to keep it out of the kids reach. It worked pretty well. The last 10 minutes of every session became clean up and organization, so I never got down to that last square foot of bench space I now work in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Some of you fellas are WAY to organized. If i dont spend at least 15 munites looking for ' something . . It doesnt feel right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I built one of my best models at the kitchen table. We were renovating our house and I lost my model building space. I had a board that I placed on the table to protect it, and the board became a portable work bench. I'd work evenings, so at the end of every work session, I'd put everything on the board, then put it on top of the refrigerator to keep it out of the kids reach. It worked pretty well. The last 10 minutes of every session became clean up and organization, so I never got down to that last square foot of bench space I now work in! Very soon I'll be grabbing a 4x8 sheet of plywood and some 2x4's to build myself a small bench here in the basement where I currently live. Working on the dining room table completely blows, though it's better than nothing I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubbs Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Some of you fellas are WAY to organized.If i dont spend at least 15 munites looking for ' something . . It doesnt feel righti fell out of my chair on that one. i understand completely. but see Bill, if you organize, you can spend much more time trying to find things. just last night i found a large scale old drag bike i was going to trade but couldn't find it. good thing i put it in that special organized place!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'm with you, Al. Sometimes my stuff is put up so well, it's safe, even from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackandwhite Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Im in the military and live in on-base housing. Our last house was just a 2 bedroom so I had the table on a wall.I had the bottom 3 drawer on my desk, and the larger 5 drawer was under the table. Ive since fastened the two white units together to make the single, taller one Our house now has 3 bedrooms and I was able to claim one for the computer/hobby room. This is my wall of hobby stuff. I have another larger 3 drawer plastic unit in the closet with my 1/25 stuff and on the top shelf in the closet are my 1/24 kits and spray paints. Im deploying soon so it will all have to get packed up. When I get back, I will have a new addition to the family in the form of a little girl, so my 'office' goes bye-bye and I will be relinquished back to another small area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olskoolrodder Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) Right now I use an old computer desk (especially messy during this shot at the end of a project). Used ones are dirt cheap and sometimes free. They're fairly compact and the sliding shelf can keep your project out of the way when you're not working. Wow,I saw this and had to do a double take--thought that it wasn't one of my old pics,LOL! I used to have a pc desk EXACTLY like that (that I bought at Goodwill),used for exactly the same purpose! Edited March 11, 2015 by Olskoolrodder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTRACING Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 My work area is a storage closet, everything made from scrap wood from a new house construction site on my street, just asked the guy if I could take any scrap wood they had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southpier Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 looks like a good place to be sequestered on a rainy afternoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topher5150 Posted November 30, 2015 Author Share Posted November 30, 2015 Wow,I saw this and had to do a double take--thought that it wasn't one of my old pics,LOL! I used to have a pc desk EXACTLY like that (that I bought at Goodwill),used for exactly the same purpose! Do another double take. I just picked this up at Salvation Army for $10, and just realized it's the same desk. Must have been a pretty popular model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olskoolrodder Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Do another double take. I just picked this up at Salvation Army for $10, and just realized it's the same desk. Must have been a pretty popular model. LOL,cool! It must have been at that (popular model). I'd like to find another or similar one myself...since we were forced to downsize square-footage (the lease-purchase house we'd bought into when I had mine,turned out to be a scam,the peeps what sold it didn't own it,we had to move asap into a smaller place,sigh--but hey,that was 3 years ago,so old news now ),I'm stuck having to use the kitchen table (which is an IKEA fold-down table,but while nice,it's still the kitchen table,LOL). We still need to go through and get rid of junk piled up (still have 1800sq ft of stuff crammed into 1200 sq ft of space),but one of those/similar would be great motivation to clean and setup a spot in the master bedroom to build Nice score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petetrucker07 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Here's my "bench". My time here is very limited. I just can't understand why I can't have styrene flying while she makes dinner, LOL. If you look close under the counter, behind the far chair, you'll see some of my stuff there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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