Hi, as per the title, what material do you generally use to cover and protect your work area, be it a desk, bench or a worktop or even the kitchen table?
Just asking as I stupidly knocked my bottle of micro sol over this morning and half the bottle flooded out onto my work area!
Luckily I have my desk quite well covered, so did not cause too much mess.
My model making work area is in our small spare bedroom, my old working from home "study". Which basically has my desk, a small sofa bed, a small wardrobe, a bookcase and a small filing cabinet with a printer on it.
I have an old white canvas sheet that is my initial covering on my desk.
NB: The desk is just a cheap Ikea type bog standard Formica type material.
I use the white canvas sheet so that if I drop any small parts they are (hopefully) easier to see.
But then on top of the canvas sheet I also tend to have a large cardboard sheet. So any glue, paint, thinners etc is soaked up by the cardboard, plus I find I can mix little pools of paint on the carboard too, and/or place little nobs of super glue to then use with a cocktail stick etc.
I also have a large self healing cutting matt, but I keep this to one side just for cutting, my main work area is on the large cardboard sheet.
One of my other hobbies is airgun target shooting, and I stick/staple targets to card, (so they don't flap about in the wind) so I tend to keep any spare card that I come across, eg: cereal packets, Amazon packaging, old cardboard boxes, etc, so I always have a pretty good "stock" of carboard to use.
When I spilt the micro sol, most of it soaked into the cardboard, and the excess I just wiped up with paper towel, which I always have handy anyway, so very little went on the canvas sheet, and none went on the desk, so lucky escape!
In my garage, which is also my workshop, and where I keep most of my main tools (not model making tools, they are in the study!), I have a long bench, about 2m in length and topped with 18mm MDF. I have a variety of coverings on that bench, eg: couple of self healing cutting matts, some more canvas sheet, some rubbery type non slip sheets, so screws, etc don't roll off the worktop/bench.
Anyway, interested to hear what coverings are on your benches?
Cheers
Just asking as I stupidly knocked my bottle of micro sol over this morning and half the bottle flooded out onto my work area!
Luckily I have my desk quite well covered, so did not cause too much mess.
My model making work area is in our small spare bedroom, my old working from home "study". Which basically has my desk, a small sofa bed, a small wardrobe, a bookcase and a small filing cabinet with a printer on it.
I have an old white canvas sheet that is my initial covering on my desk.
NB: The desk is just a cheap Ikea type bog standard Formica type material.
I use the white canvas sheet so that if I drop any small parts they are (hopefully) easier to see.
But then on top of the canvas sheet I also tend to have a large cardboard sheet. So any glue, paint, thinners etc is soaked up by the cardboard, plus I find I can mix little pools of paint on the carboard too, and/or place little nobs of super glue to then use with a cocktail stick etc.
I also have a large self healing cutting matt, but I keep this to one side just for cutting, my main work area is on the large cardboard sheet.
One of my other hobbies is airgun target shooting, and I stick/staple targets to card, (so they don't flap about in the wind) so I tend to keep any spare card that I come across, eg: cereal packets, Amazon packaging, old cardboard boxes, etc, so I always have a pretty good "stock" of carboard to use.
When I spilt the micro sol, most of it soaked into the cardboard, and the excess I just wiped up with paper towel, which I always have handy anyway, so very little went on the canvas sheet, and none went on the desk, so lucky escape!
In my garage, which is also my workshop, and where I keep most of my main tools (not model making tools, they are in the study!), I have a long bench, about 2m in length and topped with 18mm MDF. I have a variety of coverings on that bench, eg: couple of self healing cutting matts, some more canvas sheet, some rubbery type non slip sheets, so screws, etc don't roll off the worktop/bench.
Anyway, interested to hear what coverings are on your benches?
Cheers
