[Jewelry making - Article 00286] - Re: [Orchid] Tidy bench

[LEESSILVER]

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    Hi All; I do not have a digital camera yet so will describe my
    benches. I live in a town home that does not have a garage and where
    we are limited in what we can do to the outside of the property. My
    work bench consists of four separate areas. 

    1.  I turn and shape wax at one desk in my workshop inside my house.
    I have two desks in there. 

    2.  Wax work and carving take place inside my home as I sit in my
    chair in the living room with a tray in my lap to catch the scrap
    wax. 

    3.  I do my spruing and wax injecting at the other desk in my inside
    workshop. 

    4.  Casting takes place on the West side (the afternoon sun side) of
    my home in a very small fenced off area on my patio.  I am not
    allowed to build a cover over the area so I am limited to casting in
    sunny weather.  It very rarely rains in Phoenix but I swear planning
    to cast is another form of a rain dance.  I fooled the weather once
    and  cast one afternoon when the temperature was 122 degrees. 

    5. Grinding and cutting of metal take place at my first desk inside
    my home. This desk was home built when I lived in an apartment.  It
    is a large high walled box on which there is a bench on one side. 
    It has a floor built into it to catch shavings, etc. while I am
    working at it. 

    6.  Soldering and polishing take place in my casting area on the
    patio. The area is so small I can cast and turn around and polish
    without moving my feet. 

    7.  Stone cutting is accomplished in my storage room on the opposite
    end of our three home building. This area has my stone grind
    equipment on one bench and at my back three feet away is my saw. 
    This area is very confined.  No matter what I am doing I need
    something that is in one of the other work areas.  Needless to say I
    get lots of walking exercise when I am working. 

    My wife has always been worried that my inside workshop will expand
    into the rest of the house.  Once I was carving wax in my living
    room chair, when she was in our bedroom recovering after an
    operation.  She was taking pain medicine.  She woke up and started
    down the hallway yelling, "Get your stuff our of the guest room." 
    In order to quiet her down I had to take her into the guest room and
    show her that none of my workshop had exploded into there. Thanks to
    all who have shown their workshop on the net. Your orchid friend, 

Lee Epperson

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