Show off your shop!

[beefjello]

Did a little cleaning up over the weekend and feel somewhat comfortable showing my little corner of the garage where I 'work'.





To let you know how bad it got, right after I wiped down my cabbing unit, Christa came out and said "wow I didn't know that thing was blue"





trim saw and lap for intarsia projects





a glimpse in my ubber dusty slab shed








and some overgrown rough crates and buckets out back

[herchenx]

nice slab stash!

[Bluesky78987]

Yeah, I could have some fun in there!

[elementary]

Heck! I'll join the thread! Give me an excuse to go outside and gawk at my stash...

To all who shared: I love a lot of what you've shown. What I think I've glommed onto most is toolbox specimen holder. That looks really promising for my nodule collection. Hmmmm.

So
(Sneaking photos between Christmas chores!)


Here's the one who'll inherit the whole lot one day:


My hole in the wall space.



(My goal is to get my idle tumblers moving again this holiday)

Two of the drawers are filled with pieces I need a flat lap to finish.


You'll see all my bins are labeled. I'm such a stickler for keeping things identified as I hate not knowing where things are from.





My buckets are inside the garage, not outside - for the most part:



Still more stuff behind the buckets:


My pile of mexican materials is somewhere down there:


And other stuff in my reinforced shelving:


And my outside litter of loot:





Chunk of red Kramer Junction agate:


And Mel, if you see this, I got this from you and you gave me a very specific name, but I forgot. I found it buried in my side yard under some of that Boron Purple. Psil plume from? Alas...no tags...


Thanks for looking,

Lowell

[snuffy]

Thanks for showing your shop Lowell. Love to see how others do it.A couple observations.You will probably have some strong young men begging to help you haul rocks later! Also how many cats you got? Dang! ;D

snuffy

[Jugglerguy]

I just got done building a new workbench/cabinet. We had an old table here that was covered in some sort of old contact paper, but it was peeling off and looking bad. We had some tubs for recycling under the table that also looked sort of messy. I was also running out of room to hide the rocks that I've been accumulating. I thought I'd build a workbench and make some shelves underneath. Then I decided that I'd make doors for the shelves. Then my wife decided that a plywood top would look bad, so she thought I should cover it with Formica. Somewhere during construction, I realized that the new workbench would cover the outlets that used to be accessible under the table, so I had to wire a higher outlet. That wall had never been painted, only primed and it looked pretty grungy because that table was where my kids used to do their art projects. So I decided that while I was at it, I should probably paint the wall. Isn't it funny how these projects just sort of grow? Hilarious.

For right now, I've got enough room to hide all of my rocks with some room to grow. Judging by some our your pictures, you're probably amused that I consider this enough space to hide my rocks, but for now I'm happy with it.

[gr]

Jugglerguy, I'm worried about you. Your work space is way to clean and orginized!, lol
Throw some dirt and rock chips on the bench so I don't feel so bad

[Jugglerguy]

I'd rather have you feel bad than my wife feel bad. When she feels bad, I feel bad.

[Drummond Island Rocks]

Very nice work rob, Those doors came out great. My only advice would be to put a board in at the bottom to avoid losing precious ROCKS. It seems like every time we drop a rock at our tumbler station they always go under the cabinet.

Chuck

[Jugglerguy]

The space is there to ventilate the floor. For some reason, the paint on the floor gets wet like it was just put down whenever something is placed on top of it. The basement isn't wet, so I don't understand why the paint does that. I'm sure I'll be chasing rocks under there though. I already dropped several screws when putting the doors on that rolled under.

[Sabre52]

Lowell, That big hunk of plume is Medicine Bow, Wyoming material. Unfortunately, the psilomelane really stops a saw blade and often undercuts unless you use a very soft touch on the sanding wheels....Mel

[herchenx]

Mel, do you know where exactly the medicine bow stuff comes from? The medicine bows are not far from me but it is a pretty large area. I'd like to see about picking some up this summer if I can get a bead on the source.

[cherok]

Oh my goodness, I thought we were crazy and my sister even crazier. But Boys and Girls, this new baby wants to know if she can come play with the big kids stuff? Wow I am impressed with all of the settups. Rockhounds Unite!
Snuffy, you can never have too many rocks and its cheaper than drinking.

[Sabre52]

John, The hunk I gave Lowell came from an old rock wholesale place that used to be out by the San Diego wild animal park. The guy had no info except it was medicine Bow, WY material supposedly from talings in an old manganese mine area. Agate Lexicon states the location to be Medicine Bow Peak 41 degrees, 15' 01" N, 106 degrees, 15' 01" west on Albany County, Medicine Bow USGS 7.5' x 7.5' map. If you can get hold of a USGS map, usually old mine sites are marked clearly on the map.....Mel

[rockingthenorth]

cool set ups. I wished I had all the equiptment you guys have and the rocks wow and labeled too. I haven't gotton that far as to label so far I have a pretty good memory (some days anyways). and 95 prcent of my rocks are from ND here and I don't know half their names.

[herchenx]

Thanks Mel! What is this agate lexicon of which you speak?

[deb193redux]

then there is the winter tile saw station ...

Where there is will ....









I recommended a less-messy saw with a better table, but even my tile saw is in use in winter

bucket acts as sediment trap

[Deleted]

I know this is an old thread but it is nice to see the spaces other people work in.

[Mark K]

I agree. Maybe I will get something together.

[liveoak]

Jun 14, 2023 8:17:48 GMT -5 @currentlyrockhoundin said:

I know this is an old thread but it is nice to see the spaces other people work in.

Clean & Organized !

Nice space

Patty