Let's see your Man Castle

Bought the book and love it! Great work!

The work bench is homemade from steel. Got it from a friend that closed his fabrication shop. The powder coat blue is really nice. I added a neoprene mat for a work surface.
The peg board is made of white plastic. I think I got it a Lows Hardware store. I made an aluminum frame for it that has a little tilt to it. It is attached to the bench.

You are right... I stand corrected.

I was gonna ask you what you had on the top of your bench. It kind of looks like black diamond plate in some pics. But I guess thats the pegboard reflection. I made steel benches also. and put down an 1/8" nitril rubber top. Got a roll from a place called "rubbercal". They said the nitril was more chemical/ petroleum resistant than neoprene. I always thought neoprene was the way to go for petroleum. How is yours holding up? Have you ever done a test with a piece in a can of gas or anyhting? I di with the nitril. I left a piece in laquer thinner overnight and it swelled up and got soft. I guess thats pretty severe though. What did you attatch the neoprene with? I used polyurethane construction adhesive. So far so good. but i tried lifting it a little after a day or so of drying and it came up pretty easy. Not a good shot, but its the only one in the "files". Did the same type bench for the bike area. <a href="http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e94/313731/?action=view&current=053.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.advrider.com/advrider-photobucket-images/images/3/313731_053.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Not as nice as many, but it keeps the rain and snow off me.

Sure, here it is before the rear main seal went kablooie.

Shweeet!

The neoprene (I'm pretty shure that is what it is) does have a diamond plate pattern. It was kinda expensive. I purchased a 4' X 8' piece and cut it down the middle (2' X 8'). The other half I am going to put on the bike lift.

It has been holding up very well. No chemicals have attacked it yet.

It is not attached and lays flat with no problems of slipping or moving around.

I really like your work area. Outstanding!

Congratulations. Hope it sellls well.

Cool! Do you have some more pic's? Looks great! :)

I took this pic of my humble cave at 7.40pm on a Friday night, in the dog house but how can you not be having fun?

That tool below the drill press is most important

Looks like you take you are using your space very well. Cool to see!

everything else is a shambles, the fridge stays there doing its job

Thanks for the comments guys... I don't get out there as much as I'd like but when I do it makes a great escape pod. The BMW stuff is my brandy new project... looking forward to it.

Cheers,
Claude

That's beyond cool! I'd love to have something like it.

Hello! There's been a lot of progress on the shed since the last post. Also, lost some progress pics since they accidentally got deleted. No biggie. This week Eric has been a HUGE help in getting a large quantity of the work completed. We got the roof sheathed. Tar paper was put up. we closed in the gable ends. I got some of the fascia board up, and we got the doors and windows in. The windows were cake to get in. The single door was super easy and took about 10 minutes to get leveled and screwed in. The double door was a serious PITA. Spent probably 30 minutes to an hour trying to get it all right and mounted. After about 3 tries, we finally got it to cooperate. Here's some pictures.



The shingling is pretty fun once you get it going. You have to off set the starting edge to make sure you get proper overlap to avoid leaks. Also, had to cut about 8 shingles in half to use as a starting edge. Things are going well though. I ran out of nails so I'm taking a break. Then heading over to Mom's house for brothers birthday, then back to work.
In hindsight....
There are a couple things I regret not doing. One is building a more robust floor. I will be going back underneath the shed to add more supports for the floor. I can feel a little bit of flex in parts of the floor. Not much, but I know 1/8 in flex now will turn into 1/2 inch flex later. I should really have gone w/ 2x6 or 8 sub floor. It would have made enough of a difference. Oh well, time to go back and fix up some things already. I will know and trust for future endevours. I appreciate all the input I've been getting and look forward to more. Hopefully once this is finished, I can start on some other cool projects. :)