Being unable to do much else, I looked today at doing some organizational work in the small basement shop. I had started in on it a couple weeks ago before my injury, and had moved stuff out of the back area that is unfinished with the intention of sheetrocking it and finishing it. So, at the moment the entire space is a mess, more than usual.
The space is an l shape roughly 15 x 15 feet. It has a long hallway outside it, that has floor to ceiling shelf area for storage.
The space has 3 areas or workbenches to it:
On one wall is a finished workbench that I use for gunsmithing and stock work. That L's with another wall and has a shorter bench, not quite finished with a vise on it. An extension of the gunsmithing bench. Across from the long bench is the second work area which consists of a short bench with reloading press and cabinet with dies above it. Below all the benches are drawer units, mostly storing reloading bullets and brass.
The third area is unfinished. It needs sheetrock on the ceiling and final wiring, and will be used as a jewelers workbench area. Which also overlaps with some gunsmithing soldering and polishing, of course.
The objective here is to get to a fully functional workspace, that isn't all horizontal storage, like it is now. A lot of the stuff that is piled on the workbenches needs to go into cabinets after the sheetrock is finished, or onto the storage shelves in the access hallway.
Here's some pictures of what I'm starting with in all its ugly disorder. I'm going to try to clean it up, organize and document it over the next few days. A lot depends on whether I'm going to be able to do the sheetrock, or will have to wait a couple of months for my injury recovery sentence to be over.
Here's the unfinished space that will become jewelry shop:
(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) One weird nuance is the space contains a well. The groundwater table is shallow, and the old house originally had a well under it. I opened it up, deepened it, cased and screened it, and have free irrigation water. But, it takes up about 3' x 5' of my shop space.
(You need to Login or Register to view media files and links) Looking over into the main shop. Another oddity of the space is that it's only 6 foot ceiling. I'm short, it doesn't bother me.
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