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Location: Warren,Pa. | I got the inspiration for this question after seeing Mike's ironing board (Pacemaker on the Bench).
Personally, I put a clean towel on our ceramic stove top. It's built into a 5x7 island with a Maple countertop. Plenty of workspace. Lighting is provided by low-voltage halogen tracklights overhead. It's the next best thing to having a dedicated guitar repair room...which I'll never have.
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Location: South of most, North of few | The floor in my home office. That way it can't fall far. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I use a workbench.
(After I've moved all the sh*t off of it!) :rolleyes: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | A dedicated work bench for guitars |
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| I put a rubberized pad on top of my woodworking bench (After I've moved all the sh*t off of it!) :rolleyes: |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | A large pine desk/table (Assuming I ever move all the sh*t off of it!) |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I built a guitar holder with a neck height securing adjustment that holds everything from solid electrics to the deep bowls, cover it with a towel, then work on a well-lighted table hidden in the corner of the basement. |
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Location: GA USA | I use the sofa. |
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Location: Kansas | That would be my workbench. Assuming I can find it under all the sh*t that's on it. :rolleyes:
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Funny, I was just thinking about that and reckoned the guitar's own case on a suitable flat surface would be a good way to keep an Ovation steady for working on it.
A local repair guy here just uses a specially carved block which just supports the neck below the headstock while the guitar lies flat on the counter (good for flat-backed guitars) |
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Location: Vernon CT | My kitchen table most of the time. I put an old blanket down then a old "pillow" under the neck to support the guitar. Actually is pretty steady and secure. The floor the other times. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | The ping-pong table, the bar, the kitchen table, the couch... |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | Kitchen table, couple of towels, whatever I can find to support the neck. Nothing fancy. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Whichever workbench has the least sh*t on it. I have a little neck holder, but I usually put a piece of carpet or pile of rags under it. For simple things like restringing, I just sit in the lazy boy and pick up all the pieces of string off the floor when I'm done. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Currently I'm using our chest freezer top covered with a thick beach towel (too much sh*t on my 96" x 28" x 2" hardwood USAF surplus work bench!  ). |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Blanket and a pillow on the dining table.
(only because I can't find my workbench under all that sh*t!)
...and after....... |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
(too much sh*t on my 96" x 28" x 2" hardwood USAF surplus work bench! ).  |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I have a little neck holder, but I usually put a piece of carpet or pile of rags under it. For simple things like restringing, I just sit in the lazy boy and pick up all the pieces of string off the floor when I'm done. We're way too much alike.
I used to have a neck holder (daughter), but she moved out last summer... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Re Beal's - "A dedicated work bench for guitars"
Might I remind you that most of us did not have the benefit of your upbringing! :rolleyes:
In my next home I have been directed to have a detached Shop. I'm just concerned how detached she wants me... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I got a couple of those heavy duty storage units with four drawers each. They are about two and a half feet wide. I set them about two feet apart and the bolted a big sheet of plywood on top. Then I got a two inch thick piece of foam to lay over that. I have a nifty neck holder.
The theory is that the drawers hold all the tools and the top holds the guitars. In actuality, like many of you, I have to clean all the crap off the top before I work on a guitar! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | The workBENCH is in the unheated garage. The workPLACE is in the bathroom/darkroom, just off the garage, which IS heated. Guess where most of the recent activity has been? Not terribly popular with SWMBO, either. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I have a shop in the basement just off the rec room. When we turned the rec room into my music room, one of the considerations was that the shop was close. My wife took her stuff up to a spare room next to her "craft" room.
I've been thinking about trading rooms with her, but this thread just reminded me that I might like to stay close to the shop. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I use the bed in our bedroom and one of those crappy foldout neck stands. I am going to make a wood neck holder and pad it with carpet.
It will have a base that won't tip over like the stand I'm using now. |
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Location: Tennessee | I have a little spot in my guitar room that is part of a built in unit. It's a good place to lay down a guitar and work on it, with a dedicated halongen light, drawers underneath for storing tools, supplies and assorted crap, and shelves above for storing supplies and assorted crap. I used to have a 36" x 60" dedicated work table, but it got moved out to free up floor space. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | My workbench came from Lowes, just a regular screw together one, four drawers. Got a towel over the top and one of those leather shot filled hoders for the necks. Lots of extra light, one on the bench and a flexable desk lamp attached to the side of the bench. We took the downstairs laundry room and got rid of the washer and dryer and that's where the bench is, it's right off the downstairs room which is the music room. There is a closet inside past the "work" room and that holds cases. I got a shelf built, chest high so I get two full rows of cases. Still not enough but better than just one row |
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What do you use for a workbench?
