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Rant: The lighting in my home workshop was totally wrong for years
I was at a friend's house last month helping him with a bookshelf, and he had those cheap LED shop lights angled at 45 degrees against the wall. After 20 years of fighting shadows on my joinery, I realized I had been flooding my workbench with overhead light instead of raking it from the side. Anyone else wish they had figured out task lighting placement earlier in their career?
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elizabetht562d ago
You said "fighting shadows on my joinery" and I have to say, I think you might be overthinking this. I have had the same cheap overhead fluorescent fixture in my garage for 30 years and it works fine for everything from picture frames to cabinet doors. If you really need side lighting to see your cuts, maybe the problem is your eyesight and not the lights. All that fussing with special placement just makes the setup more complicated than it needs to be. And quite frankly, if you cannot cut a straight line or see a gap under a basic shop light, angled lights are not going to fix that for you.
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henry1012d ago
Push a single desk lamp around your next project at night and tell me overheads are all you need.
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