Question About Work Bench

No TV, but do have a Bose SoundLink wireless speaker for streaming from iPhone. 

I have a TV available close by.  Sometimes I put it on and listen to shows as I am building. Now and then I take a peak. Good company if the families upstairs in my case. 

Don,

I don't have a work bench, but if and when I do I will indeed have a small TV on a swivel bracket.  I think having a TV with a small DVD player....playing DVDs, especially those that detail building layouts would be a great thing to have as you work on projects for the layout.  I think it is a great idea.

Got a TV on a shelf just above my workbench plus my old school boombox. Use the radio more but like to have a ballgame (or NASCAR) on occasionally.

Yes, I have a small TV.  Sometimes I watch it, many times not, but its nice to have it. 

I have remote stereo speakers with a volume control in my shop. Normally my IPOD is the music source. No TV, but if there was more room, I might have one.

Alex, when I first looked at the top picture I thought your phone was in a can of blue paint. Don  

Don you're right it does look like it's in the paint. LOL 

it rings so much that I have to keep it very close to me .

Thanks, Alex

No TV.

Only Sirius radio...6 presets...Classical Symphony/Pops to Classical Jazz...mood & project/task dependent. 

KD

I have a news channel preset, too.  But, lately, I typically listen to that only when I'm forging cold steel!!  ()

Just a radio, on a shelf next to the bench. I'm planning to add a stereo CD player one of these days, but there's no hurry. I can't imagine why I would want a TV in the shop, except maybe to watch instructional videos teaching me how to do something new, like maybe the video that came with my resin casting kit. So maybe a little one with a built-in DVD slot - but not this week. 

Matt:  That workbench of yours is disgustingly neat and organized!

I'll second the Disgusting neat on the workbench.

A proper workbench needs something moved to gain the needed space to work.

But everything I need is within reach and I usually know where it is, unless someone (grumble snarl) tries to clean up or digs for something.

I had a TV across the room, but it was a distraction, and I didn't want to gawk at the boob tube while I should have been working on a project, so I put it in my office to replace an aging nondigital one.  Wow...the first of those workbenches is embarrassing (it would slow me down to have to put everything in its place) , and the second is so much neater than mine, with projects spread across several old and folding tables (my real "workbench", with a vise and drillstand,  is out in the, unheated and uncooled garage.

I do have a small swivel TV.  I only use it when the Red Sox are playing.  If I am running trains you can't really pay attention to it and if I am working on a project I need all the feeble attention I can muster.   Actually, I like the quite and solitude of my train room.  My work bench is built to my stand-up heights.  For me it is the most comfortable position to focus on small parts.  Here is my organized junk yard.....

Small TV, mostly for keeping up with a few shows without really watching them in their entirety. Either that or the radio. Terry

Wood, looks great. Nice quiet place. Don

I listen to the radio at my workbench. I can work better listening to the radio.  

Gosh, Don;  I have enuff trouble just concentrating on what I'm doing on the workbench, without getting hurt on something dumb.  I hate to think of what the distraction of a TV would cause.  i do have a radio down in the work/utility room but I can't even remember when I played it while I was working on a project.

Incidentally, looking at some of those photos of workbenches, I remember the comment that a messy workbench (or desk) is a sign of a messy mind.  But considering the piles of stuff that top my work area, I reply:  "then what is an empty workbench a sign of?"

Paul Fischer

I wouldn't put a TV on your workbench, it may be in the way.  I have a TV on a shelf about seven feet up to my left and my radio is on a shelf to my left, both out of the way.  TV is handy if you want to keep track of a ball game or golf while you are at your bench. I also have a TV and a radio in my train room.  They are good company while you are "at work" in either room.

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Dennis

Paul, the reason I asked is we are redoing our kitchen. There's a small TV that my wife Vicky likes to watch when she's cooking. With the new kitchen we are putting in a flat screen built in to the wall. So the little TV is extra. I think your right. I'll give it to someone. Don 

For those who have a "messy" workbench like me, I would bet most, if not all, know exactly where everything is.

 No good place for a TV.  When I am concentrating on a project I don't like the distraction of a TV.  My new workbench before I used it and started to clutter it up.  These are the industrial 8' modular shelving units from Menards.  Wraps around to another unit on the right. Four sidings which will be extended to a total of 12' long go right out to the layout in the next room.  Too many trains.

Can't hear a thing when working back here.  

Dan

It would be too distracting for yours truly if there was anything worthwhile to watch on it, which is probably too much to ask. I am pondering putting my sound system into the spare bedroom where the workshop is, which , from reading the other comments. seems like the way to go.