Right now, the shop is a complete and utter wreck. I have boxes stacked everywhere, parts and material heaped wherever it was last thrown, and tools piled like snowdrifts in the lee of the workbenches.
The main workbench is surprisingly organized.
Part of it has been all the different projects I've been trying to work on, and part of it was having to take out a whole section of workbench- that I actually rarely used- in order to make room for the new machines (and a couple of the old ones.)
The bench had basically devolved into a wide shelf, and that whole quarter of the room has been heaped almost literally to the ceiling with stuff for most of a year now.
The whole place was already cramped thanks to the machines I'd picked up last year, then got moreso when I brought home the new lathe and all it's stuff (I had junk piled around and in front of the rarely-used lathe the new one replaced) and exploded in the last two months when I brought homw three new large machines (the big shaper, the horizontal and now the bandsaw) and promptly proceeded to blow two of them apart and scatter their pieces to the four winds while I rebuild 'em.
Bringing seventeen big motors and two crates of cables and junk back from the dump hasn't helped, nor the parts washer I got last Christmas...
Anyway, I'm rambling. Long story short, both sides of the shop are a wreck. They're usually cluttered, but it's pretty bad now. But once I have the Nichols, the Stockbridge, and at least one or two of the other machines moved into their respective places, and some of the debris on the machine shop moved or stored, I plan on killing a few days to get things pretty well cleaned up (plus some small projects like a storage rack for the Sheldon's 5C closer, and more drawers) and then I'll shoot some "walkaround" photos.
I don't have much most of you haven't seen already, though. The machine room portion of my shop is about the size of Coolhand's side storage room.
