Show off your shop!

nice slab stash!

Heck! I'll join the thread! Give me an excuse to go outside and gawk at my stash...

To all who shared: I love a lot of what you've shown. What I think I've glommed onto most is toolbox specimen holder. That looks really promising for my nodule collection. Hmmmm.

So
(Sneaking photos between Christmas chores!)


Here's the one who'll inherit the whole lot one day:


My hole in the wall space.



(My goal is to get my idle tumblers moving again this holiday)

Two of the drawers are filled with pieces I need a flat lap to finish.


You'll see all my bins are labeled. I'm such a stickler for keeping things identified as I hate not knowing where things are from.





My buckets are inside the garage, not outside - for the most part:



Still more stuff behind the buckets:


My pile of mexican materials is somewhere down there:


And other stuff in my reinforced shelving:


And my outside litter of loot:





Chunk of red Kramer Junction agate:


And Mel, if you see this, I got this from you and you gave me a very specific name, but I forgot. I found it buried in my side yard under some of that Boron Purple. Psil plume from? Alas...no tags...


Thanks for looking,

Lowell

I just got done building a new workbench/cabinet. We had an old table here that was covered in some sort of old contact paper, but it was peeling off and looking bad. We had some tubs for recycling under the table that also looked sort of messy. I was also running out of room to hide the rocks that I've been accumulating. I thought I'd build a workbench and make some shelves underneath. Then I decided that I'd make doors for the shelves. Then my wife decided that a plywood top would look bad, so she thought I should cover it with Formica. Somewhere during construction, I realized that the new workbench would cover the outlets that used to be accessible under the table, so I had to wire a higher outlet. That wall had never been painted, only primed and it looked pretty grungy because that table was where my kids used to do their art projects. So I decided that while I was at it, I should probably paint the wall. Isn't it funny how these projects just sort of grow? Hilarious.

For right now, I've got enough room to hide all of my rocks with some room to grow. Judging by some our your pictures, you're probably amused that I consider this enough space to hide my rocks, but for now I'm happy with it.

I'd rather have you feel bad than my wife feel bad. When she feels bad, I feel bad.

The space is there to ventilate the floor. For some reason, the paint on the floor gets wet like it was just put down whenever something is placed on top of it. The basement isn't wet, so I don't understand why the paint does that. I'm sure I'll be chasing rocks under there though. I already dropped several screws when putting the doors on that rolled under.

Mel, do you know where exactly the medicine bow stuff comes from? The medicine bows are not far from me but it is a pretty large area. I'd like to see about picking some up this summer if I can get a bead on the source.

John, The hunk I gave Lowell came from an old rock wholesale place that used to be out by the San Diego wild animal park. The guy had no info except it was medicine Bow, WY material supposedly from talings in an old manganese mine area. Agate Lexicon states the location to be Medicine Bow Peak 41 degrees, 15' 01" N, 106 degrees, 15' 01" west on Albany County, Medicine Bow USGS 7.5' x 7.5' map. If you can get hold of a USGS map, usually old mine sites are marked clearly on the map.....Mel

Thanks Mel! What is this agate lexicon of which you speak?

I know this is an old thread but it is nice to see the spaces other people work in.