Workshops

[Supercracker]

Ok. getting ready to start setting up shop and making the various benches and such I'll need to start building. I need some inspiration here. Maybe I can save some work.

Who has pics of their shops? Particularly the benches and tables they use to work on their guns?

 

[Bill Hall]

If I took a picture of my shop right now, you would scream. As soon as I'm done reading everything on this forum, I'm going down there with a broom and try to bring it back to tornado status, instead of Hiroshima status. Bill

P.S. I may need to re-read the entire forum again, just to make sure I didn't miss anything important. :surrender:

 

[Capt. Fred]

Here is one thing I did in mine that has been a big help. I extended my small vice out on this 6X6 so it sticks out away from the bench. I have a stand that adjusts up to this height so I can rest the forend on it and I can rotate the vice and stand so the gun is in any orientation I need. I don't have a pic of the stand but it is a regular table saw roller stand with the roller just wrapped in padding and good old duct tape.

 

[Vaino]

This bench is bolted to the floor and wall and has a 4" Starrett vise w/ copper and padded jaws. On the left and right are outboard supports that accept the pivoted rifle. Have 2 gunracks...one vertical for CFs and one horizontal for MLers, blanks and bbls. Overhead florescent lighting w/ 2 bench lights...Fred

 

[ohio ramrod]

I cann't get into my shop to get good pictures (too many half completed projects.) But just think about a two story. Furniture building shop upstairs, machine shop down stairs. Playing with "gun stuff" as "she who sleeps at home " calls it, is just one of my hobbies/businesses :hmm: :hmm: Many of the old time smiths had a simple forge, anvil,hammers and wooden work bench , with varius hand tools.Reading some of the early estate records, even pieces of broken glass (used to scrape the wood ) were considered tools worth mentioning.

 

[Zonie]

A nice gunbuilding room is good but it really isn't necessary.

I spent many hours sitting in the "back room" on a 6 foot couch with a folding Black & Decker workbench sitting next to it building Pecatonica River "kits". I also had a radio so I could listen to some talk shows to keep me company.

I had mounted a 4 inch Pony vise on the workbench and that, along with a electric drill, chisels, screw drivers and a small belt sander was about it.
For major things like drilling holes in the stock I sit on the floor using a combination square to help me guide the drill.

Now, I have a lot more equipment and more benches but sometimes I miss sitting there on that couch slowly sanding, shaping and fitting parts.
It was downright comfortable.

 

[4570tc]

As posted before I am building a new work shop. boy it's slow going! my Dad is my help, and he has been at Boy Scout camp the last 2 weeks and this one, Oh well It's too Hot to shingle the roof!! but I am working on the inside, got the storage room walled off. now I start wiring the electricty.
Should be in the shop by winter? (I Hope?)