Sopm years ago, my wife and I went on an extended vacation for 6 weeks. During that time, I hired a fellow to remove the cottage cheese from the ceilings. As a result, before leaving we removed every single item from all of the walls in the entire house except the one room where we stashed everything. When we came home, we did significant redecorating and repainting of every wall in the house.

My wife liked the look so much that we currently (some years later) only have a very few items displayed anywhere on any of the walls on the house.

She has found that she much prefers the very clean, and uncluttered look that essentially bare walls give her.

If she is happy, so am I.

@bob Foster,

how high from the floor is the top of the bench?

steve hall Wrote:
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> @bob Foster,
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> how high from the floor is the top of the bench?

Right around 40 inches

Note:
If you have the space, that is longest length or width in the work shop can be of great help.

For example, over the years I dug into the idea of staying in one location and then have the rod move back and forth in front of me. This means that I do not need to be walking or rolling a chair up and down the rod as it is being worked on. That also means that lighting and tools and foot pedals need to be moved up and down the rod.

But, if one can stay in one location and move the rod back and forth, then only one set of tools, one light etc. need to be used.

A couple of pictures:

[www.rodbuilding.org]

Then, I went to a longer one pice work bench made of a long preformed kitchen counter top with an integrated back splash.

After that I was at a steel yard and found a 10 foot length of 1x4 aluminum channel. I purchased it and on the way home stopped at a friend's machine shop to have him mill a separated slot down the length of the channel to allow placement of rod rests on the channel - that make up the power wrapper bed.

[www.rodbuilding.org]

My bench is 7 foot wide 26 inches deep, 39 inches high with a 2 X 6 skirt supported by six 2 X 4 legs. There is a shelf 14 inches from the floor that runs the length of the bench. The bench is held together with 1/4 and 5/16 bolts and lag bolts.

The bench top came from a bank teller station 52 years ago. It has a 1/16 black Formica top bonded to a 6 ply plywood sheet for a total thickness of 1-5/16 inches.

The bench and I have grown old together and we have many scars and we are still going strong.

Have fun

It's really cool to see my old post pop back up!

Anyone that contributed to my original, ask you are all awesome.

My bench based on the feedback in this post, and my original post on building a "rod room" can be found in the December Issue of RodMaker Magazine.

THANK YOU ALL!