I used vinyl flooring rather than the usual cheap laminate in the hope that the casters on the chair wouldn't sound downstairs, like a roller skating baby elephant, and it's worked.
To reduce noxious odours (from the paint not from me) I installed ducting (Kair System 100) which goes into an airbrick with a vent that can be closed.
To reduce noise and vibration from the compressor I fitted the brackets onto some rubber pads. The compressor now sits on a rubber pad which also helps.
The oak for the paint rack started it's death as a floorboard off-cut. As part of my new 'every tool needs a home' policy, I'm using the underside of the lower shelf with the aid of a steel strip and some ridiculously strong magnets.
The bog standard brushes sit in a pot, but the ones with a specific use, cling limped like to the side of the paint rack. I was going to put a label on the block of wood to show which is which, but the grain was soooooo nice.
Been busy at the other workbench again.
I saw a nice little tool tidy thingy advertised. It looked useful….if only I had the tools which were displayed in it, so I decided to make one suited to my tools – the ones which normally get scattered around the build area, those which go missing just as you need them. Plus also the advertised one was £16 – do you think I’m made of money! 😮
Took about four hours. The cut-out at the bottom is so I can see the blade so I can select the correct handle – probably a tiny bit safer than storing them blade up. The one I saw online only had narrow slots like the ones at the front – useless for my needs.
Incidentally the front part with the slots isn’t lots of uprights and a panel at the front, it’s one part which I’ve routed. The whole lot is made from off-cuts of oak so it didn’t really cost me anything other than a tiny bit of varnish, glue and electricity, maybe 50p at the most*.
* Obviously assuming my time is worthless. 🙂
Been busy again at my other workbench* and this is also to help with my modelling. I wanted to replace my sprue rack. It turned out to be a lot more labour intensive than I expected and as usual it was made from scrap ply I already had. The big shocker is that this build actually cost me MONEY!!! 😮
£6.99 for a cheap 5mm router cutter bit to cut the grooves for the uprights.
* I’ve also been slogging away at the modelling bench as well but I’m not ready to let you know about that yet.
This is the old one which was repurposed from the plate bit of a washing-up rack and as I more often than not use it for plastic sheets, it wasn’t supporting them very well.
Much more suitable and I can now label the thicknesses. 🙂
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5 June 2026, 00:40 -
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Mrs Gorby's been on at me for years about sorting out what she calls 'That doss-hole', and I've finally given in – the carpet monster was nearly thirty years old after all and getting to the end of its natural life span, so I painlessly put it out of its misery (by slashing it into small pieces with a Stanley knife). During the autopsy of the carpet beast, the contents of its gut included several parts that I didn't know that I'd lost. The room ended up being a bigger job than I first thought, but I've finally got to the end – well …… sort of……… nearly….. almost. It's the sort of project that gets added to or altered as you use the space.
It was a lot of work, but it's a much nicer place to be in.
