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Location: Racine, Wi | So I am finally getting to work on the basement, and am trying to figure out how best to design, or organize it. My old house had a perfect basement, but this one has the furnace and hot water heater in the middle, so this breaks it up a bit.
Aside from that, what would you make certain to have in a great musky workroom. I do tie bucktails, and do lots of experimenting with baits. I am thinking lots of pegboard, as I usually hang all of my baits in the winter to dream, and to modify. What else would you look for? |
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| some wall-mounted small parts organizers, can be hung on the pegboard, too.
a spinner rack, like those found in stores.
fluorescent lighting, lots of it!
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Location: north central wisconsin | I have a bunch of utensil hangers mounted to stained oak furring strips so i can hang hundreds of lures, organize, work on, and stare at all winter. Got them at Goodwill for .99 a piece and each one has 10 hooks and each hook holds about 5 lures. I then screwed a 2 X 4 into the wall and one into the floor using cement anchors. I put little cup holder hooks with the spring clip on the wall board, then drilled holes just bigger than the butt of each of 20 or so rods on the floor board, and walla, a nice cheap very useful rod rack. Keeps things organized. I bought a few bar stools, put in the foosball table, taped a couple of my favorite lake maps to a raised table, put two speakers hooked up to the home stereo upstairs in the corners, a dorm fridge full of beer, and I never have to come up stairs now!!! Aside from the foosball table, I bet I don't have 200 dollars in the whole setup. Oh yeah, my brother just gave me a nice vise to put on the workbench for bait tinkering.
Edited by Reef Hawg 12/8/2004 9:47 PM
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| like tuffy, I also have the furnace/waterheater in the middle so it takes up room, but to make up for it I have an old systern in my basement.
I would say its about 6ft wide by 10ft long and about 5ft deep! I though about painting it with pool sealer and a light blue.
After that I would fill it with water, a few fish, kinda like my personel live well when I don't feel like cleaning fish.
And oh the fun I could have testing lures.
It looks pretty sturdy, So I hope it holds water, otherwise I'm definately S.O.L.
The cool thing is that all the walls are sheetrocked and there is a drop ceiling so its pretty comfy to hang out down there. Just need to build my bar. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | When my buddy and his wife bought thier new house, he knew he'd never be able to get a cabin up north, so he did the next best thing......he built a timber frame "cabin" in his den. He even added an electric fireplace from Menards. There's a bear skin rug, maps of Vilas Co lakes framed on the walls, old St.Croix Musky sticks over the windows, a rod rack, rustic outlet and switch plate covers, old leather furnature, an antler lamp. Eddy even went the exrta yard and swiped the "Rules and Emergency Numbers" list from the resort he stays at up in Vilas and put it next to his door.....it's pretty dam cool. |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Joel: Leave enough room on a wall for a huge Replica Mount
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Location: Black Creek, WI | All the advice so far is good.
If you want to paint lures.... a place to hang baits in a "booth" type area (I made mine out of cardboard) is a good idea. What I WISH I had was an EXHAUST FAN to vent the paint fumes. Now that would be priceless.
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| I don't know about you, but I need tunes so have a big time sound system to rock out while you work!
Plasma screen running musky porn 24/7
Computer aided design software to design new lure concepts and custom colors graphically
Mini Fridge for some cold ones
Pictures of all your big fish
Maps of your favorite lakes
Let's talk about it more the next time we fish together, maybe the Fox Chain in April? Springtime Weagles, just think of it!  |
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Location: Racine, Wi | You guys must not drink as much beer as me. LOL I would need a regular fridge with a keg-o-rator. he heh heh.
Good ideas so far. Keep em coming. Lots of floro lights, great idea. |
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Location: Burnsville, MN | Jlong,
I was having a problem with the fumes from the head cement for buctails as well as the paint for baits (Nasty strong stuff, and the wife was grumbling)... Sombody on MH suggested something I should have thought of... Since we are talking about the basement there is generally venting already available with the hot water heater, I am in the process of constructing a round tube duct with a duct fan from my "Muskie Shop" to meet up with the water heater vent flu. Probably not code compliant but what the hell. When its finished I'll try to get some pics.
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| If your looking for some daily and weekly chores, put in a fresh water aquarium. I like mine just to monitor fish activity and to try out jigs(when the boss isn't around). Remember CPR. Second thought, skip the 'P'.
It may be a bit conflicting with paint overspray though.
Let us know when the grand opening is. |
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| An exhaust fan and a heat source and a magnum rotating drying rack so I could make and paint lures all year round!
You say that you tie bucktails, so do I,
Good lighting and a tying table for the vice, thread, hair...etc. I use clear or red nail polish for my wraps, so fumes really aren't a problem. When I pour jigs and paint them, I have a small box fan mounted in a window, with flexible dryer hose hooked up to it and hang the hose right above where I'm working. It still stinks up the house. For the room that I want to build in the garage for painting Castors and other lures, I have a 10" diameter exhaust fan. Good thing I'm large, or I'd get sucked out.
I don't use peg board for my tails, I have an 8' 2X4 with about 100 3" finishing nails pounded 3/4 of the way in that I hang the finished products on. Use it for my gliders too.
Storrage, storrage and storrage.
And most important, a door with a good lock!
Beav
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| Mini-Fridge
Good posters
Couches
Surround sound
Outside access (barbeque)
My 'hole in the wall' always ends up getting more use as a gathering place when the buddies come over to talk fishing/hunting and knock a few back. Kind of cuts down on traffic in the kitchen.
J.Sloan
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| A couple years back I ordered a musky hunter calender. I cut out a couple of the best prints and took them to a near by
Hobby Lobby. They professionally framed them and they look as good as a regular musky print you pay hundreds for
at a show.
Bill C. aka the greenduck |
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Location: Monee, Illinois | I bunch of hogan golf balls and a picture of Ben Hogan at the masters. Oh wait I thought I was on a different site. |
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How would you design the perfect musky room