Coverings for workbench

Gray Guest · 2011-11-06T18:33:57+00:00

Was Wondering what all you fellas use to cover your workbenchs with (or not)?I'm working up my new modeling room and have my old wooden workbench that I made years ago. I just repainted it last night a nice semi gloss white. I have 2 other counters on top of cabinets, a colored laminate, feels like plastic and so far paint resistant though not scratch resistant.Years ago I bought two largish, thin, white rectangular sheets at a train show for putting on the workbench. They felt like some sort of plastic. Paint stained them but you could cut on them without to much damage and they at least protected whatever you were using to model on from chemical/physical damage. I could even drop CA on it and if it fried before i saw it I could get it off but bending the sheet or gentle scraping. They survived over 10 years and except for the staining were in excellent condition, still.Somehow during the move, they disappeared. I am most distressed. So I need to do something. These are not the cutting mats, I have one of those and they weren't the same thing.So if someone knows what I'm talking about or of you want to offer suggestions as to what you use, let's hear it.

Nov 06, 2011 22 Replies

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someone 14 years ago

margarine is one molecule away from plastic. never use it. pan liners, cool.

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Alan Dicey 14 years ago

and water is one atom away from peroxide! never touch it!!! :)

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someone 14 years ago

mine was real, ya maroon.

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