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Posted by RR Redneck on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7:31 AM

Ha. I bet your mother loved hearing that as a kid. LOL

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Posted by Puckdropper on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:35 AM

and the coffee is the cup on the right ...  I think.

 

That brings to mind my only real hard and fast rule:  Only drinkable stuff goes in drink cups.  If I need a cup of rinse water, it goes in a different style cup.  (I usually use Cubs cups collected from visits to Wrigley Field for drinking out of, so anything else is probably not mine.)

 

Btw, it sounds like you guys are missing an important distinction:  Organized is being able to find what you want within the first 60 seconds of looking for it.  Messy is a lack of defined order.  I'm messy, but I'm pretty organized. 

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Posted by RR Redneck on Monday, January 15, 2007 10:15 PM
 vsmith wrote:
I've cleaned it up a bit since this pic was taken, I have, I really haveWink [;)]Laugh [(-D]

Looks like a corner out of my office.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 15, 2007 9:23 PM
 FJ and G wrote:

My workshop crowded out my weightroom, forcing me into buying membership at a gym. Most of my work is done from the beanbag. There's a drill press and bandsaw atop the chest of draws to the upper left side of the photo. The other half of the room is also filled with tools, up to the ceiling.



Here's one thing I organized. Since I am always losing pencils and drill bits, I made a holder for them.

 

curious if anyone else has as messy a work area  

 

While on an errant in town I happened to hear on CBC Radio that being disorganized forces you to think and keeping your gray matter in shape.

Of course there is also the saying that well organized people are just too lazy to look for things.

I guess the well-organized do all the thinking while they get organized. Wink [;)] Smile [:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:00 PM

Kim i have been i there personally and it looks pretty good, though a bit messier than in 2005. But the mess looks like an orderly mess.

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Posted by kimbrit on Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:55 AM

Ah, so the chicken is doing the frame up then Jack? Scenes from Wallace & Grommet's Chicken Run spring to mind!!

My shed is a little bit tidier than most it would seem.

 

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Posted by whiterab on Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:39 AM

Not me!  

I found a simple solution.  Build a new one.

Of course that was some time ago but I keep the mental picture -  Easier than cleaning the place up!

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Posted by tangerine-jack on Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:08 AM

Kim, you are closer to the truth than you think!  Yes, it's a 71 Triumph and I did paint the Union Jack on the tank because I got tired of the "nice Harley" comments.  Currently it's in the final stages of a 100% frame off restoration.  Briliantly engineered bikes, but in typical British fashion it was constructed by the villiage idiot.  Wouldn't have it any other way!Big Smile [:D]

The chicken is real.

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Posted by kimbrit on Saturday, January 13, 2007 3:14 AM
It looks like a Triumph petrol tank Ian. Jack has to paint it with the Union Jack so he doesn't get it confused with inferior models!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 12, 2007 10:58 PM

Jack i thought i was seeing things when i saw that Union Jack previously; are you secretly or have you ever been a pom. If not why the Union Jack.

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Posted by tangerine-jack on Friday, January 12, 2007 10:21 PM

 

 What kind of chicken s*#t topic is this?  Workshops are for the birds.  I don't want anybody to cry fowl, but this is eggsactly the kind of topic that could harm the hobby.  Has good sense flown the coop around here?

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 12, 2007 6:10 PM

I am ashamed, my workshop is a 2 car garage with 1 car in it as well, and it gets a bit messy from time to time but we have parties regularly and everyone wants to look at what i am doing. So most of the time it is pristine. This is not a reflection of my character, more that of my wife who gets involved in projects regualarly and she often says lets clean up th garageand we do.

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Posted by ttrigg on Friday, January 12, 2007 5:45 PM
I've got you guys beat.  I've got TWO WORKSHOPS!

One outside, I like to allow my projects to age by weather as I build them.


and one inside.


Twice the work space and twice the mess.  There is a table saw in there somewhere!

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 12, 2007 5:02 PM

Work shop! Work Shop!  No body said anyting about a work shop when I first started my inquires into garden railroading!!!!!!! Now I've got to have a work shop?????"

Heaven help me........................

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Posted by CDise on Friday, January 12, 2007 1:14 PM

and the coffee is the cup on the right ...  I think.   Approve [^]

 

 

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Posted by Mike Dorsch CJ&M r.r. on Friday, January 12, 2007 12:19 PM
Mine looks like all of the above and then add a layer of sawdust from my tablesaw .
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 12, 2007 11:35 AM
 grandpopswalt wrote:

You guys are rank amateurs. My shop is so messy I couldn't find it to take a picture!

Walt

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 12, 2007 11:19 AM

Here is mine.

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Posted by grandpopswalt on Friday, January 12, 2007 11:07 AM

You guys are rank amateurs. My shop is so messy I couldn't find it to take a picture!

Walt

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, January 12, 2007 9:10 AM
I've cleaned it up a bit since this pic was taken, I have, I really haveWink [;)]Laugh [(-D]

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trying to organize this mess
Posted by FJ and G on Friday, January 12, 2007 6:42 AM

My workshop crowded out my weightroom, forcing me into buying membership at a gym. Most of my work is done from the beanbag. There's a drill press and bandsaw atop the chest of draws to the upper left side of the photo. The other half of the room is also filled with tools, up to the ceiling.



Here's one thing I organized. Since I am always losing pencils and drill bits, I made a holder for them.

 

curious if anyone else has as messy a work area  

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