Let's see your workbench

USAFVet_Matt · Jan 22, 2016

I am proud to say I've only purchased 3 pieces of furniture, while the rest I've made with a little help from my wife. We have realized that my MD and related gear is taking up a lot of space, so building some sort of compact workbench is in the works for the near future. Show me what you guys & gals use (homemade or not)!

Mud-puppy · Jan 22, 2016

What a great topic! Now you got me dreaming here a little...My stuff is scattered all over the place! Lets think about the PERFECT detectorists bench!

OK....surely it has to have a dedicated drawer for paperwork like warrantee cards, and a super secure drawer for coins...it should also be amply wired for a battery recharge station, and a tumbler...good lighting, various magnifying gear handy, separate bins for copper, brass, lead, aluminum in an easy to sort 'tub' format,...a good scale and acid test gear for gold...soldering iron, propane torch, hot plate or George Foreman Grill, electrolysis tank, a nice backshelf or off to the side gunrack for the rigs, plumbed with a sink or something for finds wash off...a beer cooler, ashtray, coffee maker, built in Coinstar, wader drying feature...

..Monitor and keyboard, photo booth, WiFi, comfortable chair.. Flashlights, knives and lighters aplenty..Couple thousand Cash on hand...3 big screen TV's on the wall, (Fox, Discovery, Weather Channel)...Kleenex dispenser...Generac, Paper towel roll...under the desk urinal snorkle tube, mosquito net...Capable of being quickly and securely locked up via voice command, or on a separate 'garage door' opener type of thingy....Floatable live aboard, with a 15hp Evinrude 4 stroke off the back, 6 gal gas, spare prop, fishing gear and push pole, machete, 12ga, half dozen 110 Conibears, ...a trailer hitch in case of an immediate bugout situation, self contained and self sufficient.....By gosh..!

Who woulda thought this Sport could be so complicated!! Even so, I'm on it! :laughing:

..Oh...Snickers bar dispenser too!...
Mud

USAFVet_Matt · Jan 22, 2016

Mud-puppy, I like where your head is at! Fork over some cash and I'll make...that! :laughing:

My thoughts were more confined the following constraints. Room for hanging MD, belt, bag. Cubbies or drawers for small tools, papers, and misc. A dedicated benchtop spot for a tumbler and cleaning station. The only things that come to mind so far are a small open woodworking style bench, or an enclosed armoire style cabinet. I know the wife would appreciate the latter, but I'm not sure it'll have enough benchtop space without being 300lbs and too large for the apartment. :?:

EDIT: I am thinking of using something like this to store finds and tools.
http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/2000x2000/277/27759_2000x2000.jpg

Mud-puppy · Jan 22, 2016

Dude...no matter what you do the Wife aint gonna appreciate this Sport...you can give her all the gold and valuables you find, try to keep things neat and tidy, keep up with the the yardwork and Honeydos, go to Church, volunteer at the Dog pound, and it wont make a Tinkers cuss worth of diff in her mind...to Her, you are wasting time and money! You may as well be a drunkard and a gambler!...

I dont know what it is...Me and the Missus have been together for nigh on 35yrs, and I've had a lot of worthless hobbies she's tolerated thus far...None of them have had the payback this one has, but still she considers it a problem...Maybe because I enjoy it so much? :laughing:

Anyway, all my important detecting gear resides out in my crappy little car, ...The Real World is entirely different!...You got me dreaming the 'Perfect World Scenario' in reply to your post...and I even left Kate Upton dressed in a French Maid outfit cooking me a bacon cheeseburger on the George Foreman grill out of the equation!..Let alone having her shaking a coffee can full of clad!

Mud

Ps..heres photo of my 'workbench' as it looks today..see that GoJo?...Whenever I'm feeling down, I go out there and take a huff...makes a guy think He's in Florida or something, running down the beach hand in hand with beautiful Kate!...huffing the CRC brings me back to reality...
Full Disclosure: Be careful with that Orange Gojo! I think this may be what killed Elvis! Although, I bet a spoonful of this orange GoJo would make a guy drop a massive deuce!..Its a hell of a cleaner! Maybe gobble some of it up as if its yogurt? Or mix it in with a bowl of blueberries even? Lord, what a mess! :laughing:

Ice Scratcher · Jan 22, 2016

Mine is on wheels, featuring a top made of bowling alley lane... Here are some pictures of it while I was working on my bar tops, also maple bowling alley lane...

The drawers on the front are not all drawers.. Two of them open down to reveal 6x9 Kenwood speakers, and the middle drawer is the receiver unit with CD...

I like to make my stuff a lil on the heavy side...

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Briman05 · Jan 22, 2016

Ice Scratcher said:
Mine is on wheels, featuring a top made of bowling alley lane... Here are some pictures of it while I was working on my bar tops, also maple bowling alley lane...

The drawers on the front are not all drawers.. Two of them open down to reveal 6x9 Kenwood speakers, and the middle drawer is the receiver unit with CD...

I like to make my stuff a lil on the heavy side...

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That looks like a real man cave those bowl ally tops look awesome

Ice Scratcher · Jan 22, 2016

Briman05 said:
That looks like a real man cave those bowl ally tops look awesome

Thanks man!!!

This is the Man Cave thread here...

http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=167983

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USAFVet_Matt · Jan 22, 2016

Briman05, that's a pretty sweet bench! You don't store your MD & gear on there though, do you?

Silversmith45 · Jan 22, 2016

For years I used the top of my buffer for a work bench when I was doing silversmithing at a local flea market. I had a heavy desk with a toolbox and a piece of a railroad rail as an anvil. I also had a roll away tool box full of tools. With my Presto-lite torch, my Dremel and my small belt sander I could do about anything that I needed to do. I live in an apartment and now can't do much of anything. I think the last few years at the flea market were more for having a work area than selling anything.

laradactyl · Feb 10, 2016

Here are pictures of three of mine. There is another simple one in the "tractor shed" and one outside the shed for the really dirty work. They are usually buried under "left overs" from the last project but I cleaned off the three in the shop just for this picture. Thanks for starting this thread, I needed a clear bench or two.

mpgandfun · Feb 16, 2016

I need to relocate the bass speaker. Not enough cord to put it under the bench and still reach the main part of the stereo.

joee5 · Feb 16, 2016

Very nice work

Ice Scratcher said:
Mine is on wheels, featuring a top made of bowling alley lane... Here are some pictures of it while I was working on my bar tops, also maple bowling alley lane...

The drawers on the front are not all drawers.. Two of them open down to reveal 6x9 Kenwood speakers, and the middle drawer is the receiver unit with CD...

I like to make my stuff a lil on the heavy side...

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choppadude · Feb 16, 2016

I would take a picture of mine if I could find it under all them tools!

tnsharpshooter · Feb 16, 2016

Is that one a shuffle board table??

JNimons · Feb 16, 2016

I have a small 8x12 room in my basement. It's my "cave". It has always been my hunting/guns/archery workshop. Recently metal detecting has been added to its use.

USAFVet_Matt · Feb 19, 2016

JNimons, I like the cave. Every man must have a cave of some sort!

Does most everyone hang their detector up or just lean it on something? I've been debating hanging it somewhere so the wife's cat doesn't F with it. :no:

Ice Scratcher · Feb 19, 2016

tnsharpshooter said:
Is that one a shuffle board table??

Made from bowling alley lane, 2" hard maple...

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tnsharpshooter · Feb 21, 2016

Ice Scratcher said:
Made from bowling alley lane, 2" hard maple...

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Looks good.

I knew it looked higher grade. Now I know why.

Reef Runner · Feb 21, 2016

USAFVet_Matt said:
Does most everyone hang their detector up or just lean it on something? I've been debating hanging it somewhere so the wife's cat doesn't F with it.

I got no cats, but I do hang my MD in my shop ceiling. I've got those big, plastic-covered, screw-in hooks, like used for hanging bicycles. The ceiling in my shop is 11 1/2' high, so it gives me just enough room to walk under without bumping........

Also got a dedicated shelf for the Lortone 33-B Tumbler !

Ice Scratcher · Feb 21, 2016

tnsharpshooter said:
Looks good.

I knew it looked higher grade. Now I know why.

Thanks!!

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