{"id":2119,"date":"2012-03-17T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T20:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T19:04:58","slug":"look-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"Look Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wrkbnch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2118\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px;\" title=\"THMS Workbench\" src=\"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/03\/wrkbnch-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Not always this clean.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wrkbnch-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wrkbnch.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here is a picture seldom seen in a workshop. A totally empty workbench!<\/p>\n<p>After expending too many hours revising the THMS website, I got into the mood to get out in the shop and really start detailing the place. Several hours earlier before this picture was taken, this bench looked nothing like this. I am in a &#8220;put away&#8221; &#8220;tidy up&#8221; mood.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I just put a new coat of polyurethane&nbsp; on the top since I had it so cleared off. I do that occasionally. The surface gets rubbed and scrapped off when I am working on things on the bench. You can see some old stain marks and where the X3 took a chunk out of the leading edge in &#8220;The Great Wreck&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The red vice has swapped ends (some time ago). the original location was on the right side but then I built the Taig CNC mill bench. Both benches are extremely stable. The dark main bench is free standing and the CNC bench (light grey) is built in.<\/p>\n<p>When I get a work in progress back on this bench, it will seem more like a workshop. Empty benches (like beaches) attract all sorts of <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">non project<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flotsam_and_jetsam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flotsam and jetsam*<\/a> if left in this present barren state too long. (*Yeah, I am a US Navy vet. I love nautical terms.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a picture seldom seen in a workshop. A totally empty workbench! After expending too many hours revising the THMS website, I got into the mood to get out in the shop and really start detailing the place. Several hours earlier before this picture was taken, this bench looked nothing like this. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128,141,130,129],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-bench","tag-shop","tag-workbench","tag-workshop-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3847,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/3847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}