Sunday, June 07, 2009

Great Workbenches of the World: New York

Tonight we wander north of the equator and east of Manhatten to Long Island, NY to the domain of that expatriate wanderer Kiwibonds for our feature workbench:

Kiwibonds notes:

-That bench was donated to me by my first Wellington flatmate and has moved house about a dozen times (and country three times).

-Black swivel thing on the right is a light - really important.

-Heavy tools in the yellow box below the bench, small tools (files, screwdrivers, wee drills, knife blades, frequently used dremel bits) in the yellow box at the back of the table

-Carefully filed plans by knee sit on top of plastic drawers of bits and paints (the latter of which clearly rarely return to their home state)

-Carpet (out of frame) covered in plastic and resin shavings due to vacuum cleaner being unable to physically enter room at present.

-Working area is that little piece of customwood which gets replaced when it gets too cut up... as does the page from the MR. makes cleaning up really easy - well of that few square inches

-Spot the DG paint chip in the middle of the pic!

-Most important tools: knife with fresh blade, metal ruler, tweezers (oh those annoying nose hairs)

I think its interesting to see both Head Druff and Kiwibonds performing such wondrous feats of construction from such modest spaces. And I think there is a message in there for all of us "watchers"....

Any other entries for the series?

2 comments:

lalover said...

It would appear that working in a smaller scale (as opposed to a larger scale), you need less space to create as much sprawl!

Kiwibonds said...

Wasn't that Sir Isaac Newton's sixteenth law - "workbench sprawl expands to fit the available space regardless of scale"?