This is my visual workbench confession. This image captures the reality of my workbench for about the last year or so. This is one of the reasons why I haven't been building anything. If you are in the same situation, take a pic and post it. It's your "before" pic. Be brave. Let's get these work stations clean and build something dang it!
(https://i.imgur.com/Tr1Yv66.jpg)
You still have a square foot of usable space there. That's a square foot more than I have in my workspace. I've been borrowing other surfaces to build stuff. Not brave enough for a pic yet.
For some inexplicable reason I seem to have gone the opposite direction since lockdown (had more time on my hands back then I guess). Previously yours and mine would have looked about the same.
Now:
(https://gordomusic.com/Madbean/Bench01.jpg)
(https://gordomusic.com/Madbean/Bench02.jpg)
(https://gordomusic.com/Madbean/Bench03.jpg)
While I have a shed, the sad fact is that right now it's mostly a warehouse full of crap.
My workbench has been covered in cobwebs for the past year and a half. I'd take a picture, but I'm too damn tired to go out there! 😂
My looks like yours by the end of the week. I clean it off every couple of weeks because I keep losing things among the clutter, infuriating, but it keeps happening.
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I had a big pile of resistor leg off cuts on my desk, until I knocked my extractor fan over onto them. I now have a clean desk (and occasionally still finding resistor legs in the strangest places around the room - amazing how far they flew).
This is a motivating page. I will partake as soon as I can. My workspace is dismal, but it can get better. I do have projects I need to accomplish!
Jacob
Quote from: alanp on January 23, 2022, 01:53:46 AM
While I have a shed, the sad fact is that right now it's mostly a warehouse full of crap.
I helped a friend move and her shed was literally that. Like you opened the door and instant wall of crap. And in a perverse way incredibly efficiently stacked.
This morning:
(https://i.imgur.com/oWJevtTl.jpeg)
This evening:
(https://i.imgur.com/8OqBCKul.jpeg)
Progress. I still have tons of misplaced junk of many categories in places not shown in these pics.
Daaaamn, there was a guitar under all that!
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I was in the same spot this weekend. My bench has gotten away from me the last couple of months, so I did a little cleaning as well. Its amazing how a clean bench gives a new outlook on things.
Before:
(https://schutone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20220123_103712.jpg)
After
(https://schutone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20220123_145821.jpg)
(but don't ask about my shop outside, that is a total disaster area ::) ::))
Quote from: Leevibe on January 23, 2022, 12:06:53 AM
This is my visual workbench confession. This image captures the reality of my workbench for about the last year or so. This is one of the reasons why I haven't been building anything. If you are in the same situation, take a pic and post it. It's your "before" pic. Be brave. Let's get these work stations clean and build something dang it!
(https://i.imgur.com/Tr1Yv66.jpg)
With the way the interiors of your pedals look, are put together, this is allowed.
Thanks guys. This is therapeutic. I did make some progress on my setup. I should have it all cleaned up this weekend. I'll post a pic.
Quote from: jimilee on January 24, 2022, 01:13:01 AM
Daaaamn, there was a guitar under all that!
Hahahaha!!!!
Quote from: EBK on January 23, 2022, 11:13:33 PM
This evening:
(https://i.imgur.com/8OqBCKul.jpeg)
That tele looks sweet. I have an LPB strat with maple fretboard. Fraternal twins.
Quote from: dan.schumaker on January 24, 2022, 01:14:24 AM
I was in the same spot this weekend. My bench has gotten away from me the last couple of months, so I did a little cleaning as well. Its amazing how a clean bench gives a new outlook on things.
This is what I'm after
Quote from: gordo on January 23, 2022, 12:26:17 AM
For some inexplicable reason I seem to have gone the opposite direction since lockdown (had more time on my hands back then I guess). Previously yours and mine would have looked about the same.
Bravo!
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With the way the interiors of your pedals look, are put together, this is allowed.
My secret is to clean interiors is to rip all the junk out of the pedal guts and scatter it all over my bench. :o
Ugh, I'm super guilty of this. Super easy to just push it farther towards the edge when I stream, so the mess is just off camera.
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/363019765901557771/935774451998527498/20220126_0051232.JPG)
Not only that, but i share tripods/cameras for other setups so they always get pulled off the table, so its usually 4x the wires/clutter.
I promise to clean it eventually
Not pictured is the pile of mouser/SB/Taydel bags overflowing from my garbage.... or the tools on my other desk.... or my camera gear..........
I'm definitely guilty... piles to the left, and piles to the right
I just cleaned mine recently and put up the shelf to make more work space
Quote from: Aentons on January 26, 2022, 02:52:07 PM
I'm definitely guilty... piles to the left, and piles to the right
Some heavyweight headstocks in that pic! I also notice the can of deoxit. Magic elixir. I have those same calipers and I still use them even though I have a proper digital set now. And that's too many capos.
Quote from: Leevibe on January 26, 2022, 04:49:16 PM
deoxit. Magic elixir.
Yes, it sure is.
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And that's too many capos.
;D
One is for mandolin
One is for 12 string
Two for guitar, one points up, one points down
OK, here's my AFTER pic. I hereby give myself permission to start a new mess.
(https://i.imgur.com/WZT6WUa.jpg)
... how long will it last, nature abhors a vacuum...
I'll see your minor messes and raise you a red-hot dumpster fire:
(https://i.imgur.com/TxXgDxt.jpg)
Quote from: culturejam on January 29, 2022, 10:10:19 PM
I'll see your minor messes and raise you a red-hot dumpster fire:
(https://i.imgur.com/TxXgDxt.jpg)
You have a Princeton reverb for your bench amp? That's all I see. That's upscale
Quote from: Leevibe on January 29, 2022, 10:33:39 PM
You have a Princeton reverb for your bench amp? That's all I see. That's upscale
I got it because it's pretty popular, so I wanted something like that to test Function f(x) projects. It's also a pretty nice in its own right. :)
They're all great....and being used! :)
I'm doing okay as far as clutter. Cleaned up a bit today and rescued three FV-1 from old builds. One freshly installed on the (just so happens) three new FV-1 projects I'm working on.
Also got a new storage bin since I was completely out of space for project PCBs. mbp now has more projects that at any time, even considering all the ones that have been discontinued.
I see a FR-301 tucked away in the corner...it's nice to have when you need it.
Quote from: madbean on January 30, 2022, 01:44:47 AM
mbp now has more projects that at any time, even considering all the ones that have been discontinued.
That's a maddening thought! ;D
I don't know why, but I expected Brian's workbench to be a pair of trestles, and a wide, old plank sagging deeply under the weight of toan piled high on it.
Quote from: alanp on January 31, 2022, 06:03:57 AM
I don't know why, but I expected Brian's workbench to be a pair of trestles, and a wide, old plank sagging deeply under the weight of toan piled high on it.
Brian used a Cardtable for a very long time. It had all the toans we dreamed of. I'm not sure why he switched.
Jacob
Quote from: jkokura on January 31, 2022, 07:55:50 PM
Quote from: alanp on January 31, 2022, 06:03:57 AM
I don't know why, but I expected Brian's workbench to be a pair of trestles, and a wide, old plank sagging deeply under the weight of toan piled high on it.
Brian used a Cardtable for a very long time. It had all the toans we dreamed of. I'm not sure why he switched.
Jacob
That explains so much! Thanks Brian.
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It's pretty tidy at the moment but has been known to get pretty messy....
Quote from: Drew Hallenbeck on February 01, 2022, 01:03:01 AM
It's pretty tidy at the moment but has been known to get pretty messy....
Holy shit, that is awesome! I love it.
Quote from: jkokura on January 31, 2022, 07:55:50 PM
Brian used a Cardtable for a very long time. It had all the toans we dreamed of. I'm not sure why he switched.
Jacob
Oh, I have the same card table. But, I resurfaced it with stick on tiles. You might say I put a blanket over mah toanz.
Quote from: madbean on January 30, 2022, 01:44:47 AM
I'm doing okay as far as clutter. Cleaned up a bit today and rescued three FV-1 from old builds. One freshly installed on the (just so happens) three new FV-1 projects I'm working on.
Also got a new storage bin since I was completely out of space for project PCBs. mbp now has more projects that at any time, even considering all the ones that have been discontinued.
You FFX guys with your silver face bench amps. I think pedal peddling is just a cover you use with your wives to buy sweet amps. "Honey, don't think of it as a test amp. Think of it as our little silver goose that lays golden eggs." "By the way, sweetie, no one will take us seriously if we're not checking our circuits through an old plexi."
Quote from: Leevibe on February 01, 2022, 02:06:54 AM
You FFX guys with your silver face bench amps. I think pedal peddling is just a cover you use with your wives to buy sweet amps. "Honey, don't think of it as a test amp. Think of it as our little silver goose that lays golden eggs." "By the way, sweetie, no one will take us seriously if we're not checking our circuits through an old plexi."
Haha. The $300 I spent on the 70's Silverface Champ was easily my best investment ever. I did put another $200 or so into over the years but well worth it. It's the
perfect test platform for pedals. I'm expecting my first amp build will be a clone of it.
Quote from: Leevibe on February 01, 2022, 02:06:54 AM
Quote from: madbean on January 30, 2022, 01:44:47 AM
I'm doing okay as far as clutter. Cleaned up a bit today and rescued three FV-1 from old builds. One freshly installed on the (just so happens) three new FV-1 projects I'm working on.
Also got a new storage bin since I was completely out of space for project PCBs. mbp now has more projects that at any time, even considering all the ones that have been discontinued.
You FFX guys with your silver face bench amps. I think pedal peddling is just a cover you use with your wives to buy sweet amps. "Honey, don't think of it as a test amp. Think of it as our little silver goose that lays golden eggs." "By the way, sweetie, no one will take us seriously if we're not checking our circuits through an old plexi."
Lol, I use a silverface Vibro Champ as a bench amp too!
I think it's because that era put out great amps, but they aren't worth as much as the blackface types.
Jacob
My garage is a mess but my work station is super neat at the moment ;D I made a lot of key updates at the start of the pandemic because this doubled as my home office when the whole family was here online. The most important improvement was a nice chair. That's a solid state Princeton, so, I guess I need to step up my game.
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/9687/K6oJkm.jpg)
(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/2894/tmYiiq.jpg)
Quote from: Bio77 on February 02, 2022, 07:22:19 PM
...That's a solid state Princeton, so, I guess I need to step up my game.
Silverface man, it's the thing all the cool kids do.
Jacob
I'm still working on other projects right now but I'm thinking this could well be my method for signal generator and bench amp moving forward. They won't live at the bench but pretty dang portable and lots of tonal options.
Bio77, you homebrew? :)
I have a Muntons Yorkshire Bitter bubbling away, probably due for bottling right now.
Quote from: alanp on February 03, 2022, 06:14:37 AM
Bio77, you homebrew? :)
I have a Muntons Yorkshire Bitter bubbling away, probably due for bottling right now.
Yeah, I brewed pretty regularly several years ago, not so much anymore (I have a new hobby ;D). However, it was a super handy skill early in the pandemic. I made 3 batches right after the first lock down. Kept me from having to do any beer runs for quite a few months. If you are into it, get a keg system, bottling sucks!
Quote from: Bio77 on February 03, 2022, 03:57:25 PM
If you are into it, get a keg system, bottling sucks!
So much easier. But also, so much easier to drink it faster. If the glass never gets less than halfway empty, you're always still on "my first one". ;D
Fun side note: For about 5 years, I wrote a regular column in Brew Your Own magazine (the Projects column).
Quote from: culturejam on February 04, 2022, 07:09:44 PM
Quote from: Bio77 on February 03, 2022, 03:57:25 PM
If you are into it, get a keg system, bottling sucks!
So much easier. But also, so much easier to drink it faster. If the glass never gets less than halfway empty, you're always still on "my first one". ;D
Fun side note: For about 5 years, I wrote a regular column in Brew Your Own magazine (the Projects column).
This was an ongoing joke at my house, when I had regular kegs. My wife would ask, "how many beers have you had?" and I would reply, "I make beer, I don't count beer" ;D
That's cool, about the magazine. I never made the plunge to whole grain.
My sister has a bad Coca Cola habit, so all my beer goes into her cleaned and recycled empty coke bottles.