What's on your work bench now!

Mine's not as bad as Wes's bench but its just covered in a tools, scrap wood, sawdust and just general crap. Hopefully in 2 weeks or so it will be better and my kitchen will be done. im in the home stretch finally!!

Another Covid project. The scope is only on there for a joke to mess with my serious gunsmith neighbor, who'd probably have a migraine if he saw this before noon.

5.56mm pistol build:

11.5" White Oak barrel w/Witt Machine SME (missing blast shield in photo)
Larue 11" LAT rail
Some local gunshop's custom lower receiver
JME Saber box trigger
SBA4 brace
SWFA SS 10x scope

Scope is going an an AR10 build, and this pistol normally has a Swampfox Kingslayer green dot mounted on an ADM RMR QD riser mount.

There's also a retro M16A4 (with period correct Trijicon amber dot, and! actual Sabre Defense contract M16 upper... cage code and all) Ghost Recon build,... and a Ninja Turtle Dissapator build all being juggled concurrently. More stuff than that, but those are the money hogs on the healing bench currently .

I figure once all these are mostly finished I'll have a small, but steady, stream of discretionary funds for the Yukon.

Doubeleive said:

incredibly enough I know where 95% of the crap in that pile is and if it's good or not

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You have the same organizational skills as i do.


if i actually put stuff away in bins and try to make it pretty.
I have to label it or it's lost forever.
(like my copper pipe fittings... grr!)

If it's a pile.
I always remember where everything is.

Charlie207 said:

Another Covid project. The scope is only on there for a joke to mess with my serious gunsmith neighbor, who'd probably have a migraine if he saw this before noon.

5.56mm pistol build:

11.5" White Oak barrel w/Witt Machine SME (missing blast shield in photo)
Larue 11" LAT rail
Some local gunshop's custom lower receiver
JME Saber box trigger
SBA4 brace
SWFA SS 10x scope

Scope is going an an AR10 build, and this pistol normally has a Swampfox Kingslayer green dot mounted on an ADM RMR QD riser mount.

There's also a retro M16A4 (with period correct Trijicon amber dot, and! actual Sabre Defense contract M16 upper... cage code and all) Ghost Recon build,... and a Ninja Turtle Dissapator build all being juggled concurrently. More stuff than that, but those are the money hogs on the healing bench currently .

I figure once all these are mostly finished I'll have a small, but steady, stream of discretionary funds for the Yukon.

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I have spent so much money there.
A few years back i got the AR build bug.
Created a few different configs for different uses, I spared no expense.

Last one i did, i decided to see how cheap i could build one for.
Used mostly second hand parts, one of those was a colt barrel that someone had turned down into a light weight.
scored an A1 upper, turned it into a retro carbine build.
Totally historically inaccurate, but it's super light and shoots very well.
it's still one of my favorite beaters.

Also I love the bench.

Ok fine, here is my mess.
RC car is getting a new chassis...

Doubeleive said:

incredibly enough I know where 95% of the crap in that pile is and if it's good or not

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Had a boss like that not long ago. He had many stacks of paper on his desk and floor (think of about 20 stacks of 4 reams of paper each) and you could ask him for whatever and he'd go to to the right stack and have it within about 15 seconds.

Just Fishing said:

Ok fine, here is my mess.
RC car is getting a new chassis...

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Dude my Axial Yeti Score trophy Truck needs a rear axle assembly and I'm running again

Just Fishing said:

I have spent so much money there.
A few years back i got the AR build bug.
Created a few different configs for different uses, I spared no expense.

Last one i did, i decided to see how cheap i could build one for.
Used mostly second hand parts, one of those was a colt barrel that someone had turned down into a light weight.
scored an A1 upper, turned it into a retro carbine build.
Totally historically inaccurate, but it's super light and shoots very well.
it's still one of my favorite beaters.

Also I love the bench.

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Thanks, the bench was here when we moved in. It was originally a bar top, but very badly done by the original owner's ex-husband. Since she doesn't really care about him any more, we have the green-light to do anything we want (within reason) to anything he had a hand in. I've been to really nice home bars, and would never think of mounting a vise through the top, or hammering dents into it, but this bar is not one of them.

Anyways... All of my ARs are Frankenbuilds, but pretty fun and functional. The most "correct" rifle I have is the M16A4 upper build, based on a Sabre Defense contract that had been de-milled and sold as parts kits a couple years ago. By the time I got it, only the upper receiver remained. You can read about them here:

http://www.sturmgewehr.com/forums/index.php?/topic/15173-sabre-defence-sdm-m16a4-rifle-upper/

Aero Precision and PSA sell rollmarked "M16A4" lowers, but I might take a blank 80% I have laying around and have the correct Sabre Defense logo & text added to it.

Charlie207 said:

Thanks, the bench was here when we moved in. It was originally a bar top, but very badly done by the original owner's ex-husband. Since she doesn't really care about him any more, we have the green-light to do anything we want (within reason) to anything he had a hand in. I've been to really nice home bars, and would never think of mounting a vise through the top, or hammering dents into it, but this bar is not one of them.

Anyways... All of my ARs are Frankenbuilds, but pretty fun and functional. The most "correct" rifle I have is the M16A4 upper build, based on a Sabre Defense contract that had been de-milled and sold as parts kits a couple years ago. By the time I got it, only the upper receiver remained. You can read about them here:

http://www.sturmgewehr.com/forums/index.php?/topic/15173-sabre-defence-sdm-m16a4-rifle-upper/

Aero Precision and PSA sell rollmarked "M16A4" lowers, but I might take a blank 80% I have laying around and have the correct Sabre Defense logo & text added to it.

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I have never done much with the 80% stuff, it did look interesting though.
For the most part, lowers are dirt cheap (or were).
Back when i was doing it, a basic lower was about $40 - $60 all day long.

If i were to do it again, i would try one of those areo precision billet receiver sets, and really go crazy with it $$

I learned to love RRA two stage triggers, with a little work i can make them really nice.

then i picked up a Geissele trigger.
got the rapid fire, and stuck it in the beater/blaster.
OMG, I can't believe how amazing those are with no polishing or stoning.

Now i want to rip out all of my RRA triggers and go to town.


My 308 might get one of their two stages later down the road...

and all of mine are franken builds, except the AR10.
The AR10 is 100% armalite, except for the gas block (has an adjustable fancy brand name thing), fde PRS stock, and matching hogue grip.
Back then, armalite would do the 13 days of Christmas sale, and Easter sale every year.
so over two years i bought up parts for the build.
the second year was the obama years.
things got real hard.

Original plan was to use a noveske barrel, but i decided against the heavy weight.
And i think they became real hard to come by during that time...

I finally paid some finders fees so i could finish the build.
The barrel i used was still silly heavy, i can't imaging how heavy it would have been if i went full heavy profile. lol

With franken builds, the hard part is getting the upper and lowers to match up color wise.

With the beater, it got a surplus police A1 upper.
Had some honest wear on it.
Totally mismatched the lower i used.

So a little sandpaper and a polishing bit on my die grinder, it now matches perfectly!

The 300’ of cedar fence I just built and stained doesn’t fit on my workbench but the quad retrofits do. And yes, I built the bench and cabinets. And the Harley, built that too.