Show Your Workbench

[G. Hoffman]

love the wooden cabs...very nice.

Yeah, though it turns out that even if you can get the production time for the drawers down to 5 minutes or so, it still takes a freaking long time to make 53 of 'em!

[deadastronaut]

Yeah i bet, but well worth the time and effort, i,d love to build a nice set of component drawers rather than these plastic ones...

[G. Hoffman]

Yeah i bet, but well worth the time and effort, i,d love to build a nice set of component drawers rather than these plastic ones...

Most of my components are still in plastic drawers, though it is nice to have a big wood drawer for transformers and chokes.  The rest of those drawers are other necessaries.  Shrink tube, IEC power connectors, a couple of drawers for tools I don't use quite as much, power strips, etc. 


Gabriel

[Mustachio]

Thats some beautiful work Gabriel ! Sorry to hear about the flooding, I went through something similar a few years back. You really did a knock out job building all of that, beautiful work space.

Did you use your cnc machine for a lot of the work ?

[tubegeek]

You give me hope, Gabriel.

I have a similar mix of bigger wooden drawers and the usual plastic ones.

I'm still in the moving-in phase - we bought our house in 1997.

[G. Hoffman]

Thats some beautiful work Gabriel ! Sorry to hear about the flooding, I went through something similar a few years back. You really did a knock out job building all of that, beautiful work space.

Did you use your cnc machine for a lot of the work ?

The CNC is out of commission as I rebuild it to be more reliable.  THAT project has been on hold since the basement flooded.  These were 99+% table saw work.  All the joints are dados, rabbets, and slots (with a healthy dose of glue and pneumatic finish nails).  


Gabriel

[apollomusicservice]

Repairing Marshall 6101LM Anniversary Series.

[gtudoran]

And a small video from the shop:

[Saint Louis Toneworks]

Coolest thing about my space is the Betta fish ! he helps keep me mellow and calm, Wu Wei; and my vintage radios which all function. The 1963 Silvertone  is a guitar amp (danelectro honeytone circuit inside ), the 1984 Sony is my computer monitors two 4 ohm MIJ speakers pushed by a lepia amp and is bluetooth enabled and the other 1973 Realtone is my radio I listen to my Am programs like sprots open line on

[Perrow]

The proximity of the hammer and the aquarium kinda gets me nervous 

[Saint Louis Toneworks]

its acrylic , no worries

[Brisance]

halfway into setting up my new shop:

initial layout:

Instrument shelf:

Moved the component drawers to the main table:

[duck_arse]

you probably realised your placement mistake when you had to move the beer, brisance?

is that a cold backlight thing doing the hole lighting? how's the glare from that?

[deadastronaut]

Ahhhhhhh....heaps of space..........to be filled

[Brisance]

you probably realised your placement mistake when you had to move the beer, brisance?

Hehe

is that a cold backlight thing doing the hole lighting? how's the glare from that?

there's a plexiglass with a bunch of LED strips attatched as the desk light, which I need to mount somewhere better and build a PWM dimmer for it (improvised light fixtures for the win right?) but there's a large fluorescent tube on the ceiling as well.

Ahhhhhhh....heaps of space..........to be filled

Already in progress ;P

[Brisance]

Aaaand the mess is there.

[deadastronaut]

that's better...

[duck_arse]

are they matchbox parts drawers? old school!

[Brisance]

why, yes they are, perfect for storing caps, until you have too much to fit in them

[Brisance]

... Had to move my workshop, luckily to a better location once again. Here is a post circuit design&testing shot(almost a perfect mess):