Hey Ya'll, I'm trying to get some ideas of how to do storage or possibly re-arrange my man cave. If you have them and you don't mind, can you post photos of your Man Cave?

My shop is 50% gunsmithing, and 50% motorcycle maintenance.

Not mine, but check out this reloading room:



And here's a nice clean home machine shop:


I'll see if I can post photos of what I have thus far later tonight.

Steelhead can help with this one.

I don't have a "man cave." But this is the where I do my gunsmithing.

There is a place for everything, and everything is in its place:




Travis

ah, the old yard stick duct tape soldering iron trick....

did you have to drink all 6 bottles of thinking juice to come up with that rig?

You're so predictable...the beer six pack is empty

finished the exterior just before winter, finished the first floor this spring

I'm intrigued - is the other end mounted in the vise?

I didn't realize you were so compulsively neat...

I don't recall.



Travis

This looks like the place Darth Vader would reload.



Travis

certainly looks that way.

My guess is that mr flave was applying pin point heat to an action screw.

A lesser man would have settled for simply holding the soldering iron to the fastener with his hand....

But, the lesser man would then not be free to drink bottles of "faceplant" with one hand and GFY himself with the other hand while the action screw heats up.

My work in progress.

black hides bad carpentry

I hope to have something similar on the hideaway spot one day soon

Nice.




Travis

Correct.

I am not the most patient man.

Another tip is to use your Thermopen to monitor the heat levels of the screw.



Travis

Here's a shot of one of my reloading areas if anybody was looking for some other ideas.





Travis

Bone stock rifles and factory ammo for me......I ordered this for my mancave.

Wow, VERY classy!!! Hell, my bedroom doesn't look that nice.

Ace's Mancave in K-Town.

Awful lot of glass.

Gonna be tough to beat off without upsetting the neighbors.

To each his own.



Travis

Yikes...that would drive me to drink all that beer you drank.

Wow.
You've really cleaned it up in there since I left.

WTF?



Travis

Everything seems to be in order here.

Looks like a lady cave... Too neat for a real man.

SWEET!

Gibson,

Another nice touch is get a handpainted portrait of your mother (mine also happens to be a saint) to watch over the garage and keep you safe.




Travis

Almost finished!

Man cave shman cave....

Lemme see your war face!


Ahhhhrrrrr!!

Back at ya, Fritz!

Raaawwwrrrr!



lol!

I lost my man-cave this Spring when we cleared out the shop and rolled out a set of mats to give the boys a wrestling room to practice in.

Hopefully later this Summer, or early Fall, I will get it back and be able to set up some reloading gear, finally.

I always put my kids before everybody else too.

Except me. If comes down to me or the kids they can GFT.



Travis

I don't know what this is supposed to be but I would have a difficult time relaxing in it.



Travis

Yep, everything seems just fine to me.

That's how we doos it.




Travis

Holy chit!! I just found my knife sharpening kit. I've been wondering where that was and I just spotted it on the top shelf in my picture.

Spyderco?



Travis

I read about zero alcohol in the man/reloading room.
I now shoot factory.

I can't remember what brand it is. I remember that they're diamond impregnated stones and that the case is blue. That's it on the top shelf, just left of center.

This day just got a bit better after a week full of chitty ones. I think I'll celebrate and bring home some more beer.

Work in progress



Ran by at lunch today and they're putting the forms in for the footings.

Between the 3 car garage and 1200 sq ft basement, should have some room for my hobby stuff.

There's no alcohol in mine, I can guarantee that. Just lots of empties.

Word, Bro.

TFF!

Too much girley booze. Beer and Tequila is all I need. Chicks are not allowed in my Man Cave unless they're bringing me more beer or tequila.

My 30' x 40' Barn before the paint went on and the animals went in...



And after...















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Listen people. I'm not one to interfere with a man's thread, but I have been invited to these self-proclaimed "man caves." And I'm here to tell you, they're gayer than AIDS.

I was in Poland once and a neighbor of the home I was visiting invited us all over to see his "man cave." I leaped at the opportunity because I misinterpreted what a "man cave" was. I was relatively certain he was going to show us a vagina, but he didn't.

He showed us the remnants of the Artist Formerly Known as His Garage. Holy fuggin'-fugg! He put in a bar, and a couch, and stools, and chairs, and all kinds of ornaments and stupid schit. It appeared as though Oprah had morphed with Jean Claude Van Damme and menstruated all over the floor. It was awful. Just fuggin' awful. Holy fugg. It was bad.

If you are going to have a place that you would like to deem "your own" (which I would persuade you not to do because in my house it is ALL mine, and if I choose to schit in the middle of the living room floor I goddamm will because I make the payments) please make it a normal dwelling. A place where one can change oil, gunsmith, reload, skin a coyote, urinate, butcher a deer, etc. without having to change buildings.

These should be your goals.

And there is no need to exclude women. My wife knows if she wants to find me I'm either in the schitter, or in my garage. And while she isn't welcome in the schitter, she is welcome in the garage. Unless I'm thinking. But I have never met anybody that enjoys my company when I'm thinking so that would never happen.

Best of luck.



Travis

Some might think this is a bad scene, but the trapping in the man cave makes it more fun...

We have a place where we keep the hunting gear on metal shelves, hers and mine, and a walk in gun vault and some loading stuff, but its not nearly a cave.

I enjoy our house the most. Just go in the other room to load ammo, get a gun, or pack for another hunt etc...

Probalby doesn't hurt that its somewhat hidden entrances to it, and would take a bit of thinking to figure out the small place is there at all for a lot of folks... the thieving kinds....

I hope it can't make it to the GTO with one of those attached...



Travis

Dude, you ran out of diapers again, didn't you?

I cringe at the words 'man cave'. Sweet Jesus, no wonder it's so easy for the government.

No problem.
I like the taint....
the more wimmins' the better.
They can stay as long as they like.

3 traps is the theory behind pieces/parts of the intended victim from whipping chain around and hitting the GTO...

Ah yes. The ol' paw grab followed by the spine and tail grab trick.

That'll teach that fugger.



Travis

I'm changing oil on my Suzuki in my shop right now, and yes I have a computer in mine but that is strictly for looking up schematics of motors and such and Christy Canyon booby pics.

oh and posting horseshit on here.

my wife is welcome in my shop too, especially after I've been looking at internet boobies for awhile

Holy crap - I'm dying here......

Never needed a so called man cave,



I have an excavation business, spent over 30 years in this cave keeping stuff running.

What year is your Samurai?



Travis

Damn purist.

heh..I wish - its my daughters ATV

Yeah, I refer to my place as the cabin or my "lodge". A place where I can go set by the potbelly stove in Cold weather.

When I hear man cave, I think of those hippies in one of those bizarre drum circles!

At this point I may as well tell this story.
Forty years ago, we went to see my brother-in-law's brother about a painting job.
He was about twenty years old, and lived in an upstairs apartment.
The kind with rickety wood stairs in the alley.

He had a worn out stuffed chair, with a brick under a broke leg, an old black, and white TV, a path from the chair, to the TV through the girlie magazines strewed about the floor.

An old fridge held a stick of butter, and a couple cans of cheap beer.

A real boars nest.

Drum circle? I thought I saw you there last week!

My whole damn house is my cave.

I do what I want where I want.

My 'dining room table' has drill marks and scorches from rebuilding tube amps, guitars and guns (and assorted other bric-a-brac).

I dig it...

Richard, that is classic.



Flave's man cave version 2.0 tutorial was also great.



As far as actual cave-like buildings go..

A local machinist/welder has a long steel building(maybe 50x150'). No window other than a big sliding door at one end and a man door that goes into a small office(which has door to the outside).

Basically no outside light if the big shop door isn't open.


Building is full of big(old lathes), racks of pipe and flat iron, projects, an old snow mobile(Artic Cat Cheetah?), a little forklift, welders, cuttin' torches and a fire proof area, big ass vice, long work counter with everything, more smaller vices, wrenches hanging on the wall.

Giant wood/coal 'heater'(custom of course), in the rear center.

Dark green insulation sprayed on the wall. Pretty much everything in the building is a dark color, very cave-like during winter.

I can't even walk in my garage. motorcycles, outboards, drums and fishing gear out the arse. Big metal table and old computer table for molding jig heads and sinkers and tying bluegill and crappie jigs. I don't need a fancy bunch of $hit I want a place I can work. It seems to be unorganized but I know where everything is. I don't work on the bikes much,,, they're made in Japan. grin

A big table a place to sit and make lures/reload and a BIG tool box is all you need. My area is not a mancave but you can tell a man dwells there. I do have a bathroom down there, I don't think the seat has been down in the last 10 years or so.

I can't be the only guy who enjoys having a house that's not a cave.... The best part of my day is walking in the door and smelling "my house". And thanks to my wife that smell is pleasant. Usually a candle or fresh cookies, fresh laundry, my wife's perfume or supper.

If I lived alone my house would smell like gasoline and Kroil. It'd be cool for about a week and I'd have to hire a housekeeper.

Yeah? Well my garage has an oil change pit.

Pulls double duty on insubordinate hookers.

BOOM!



Travis

Back when, it was a den. The man's room.
My grandfathers both had theirs.
My father's father had a fireplace with moose antlers over it.

The holding cell is pretty [bleep] cool.

You bastid! What happens at the drum circle, STAYS at the drum circle!!!

Who ate the cracker?

Yeah. I had an uncle. Fours years older than me. He lived in a similar arrangement. It was an old Quonset but behind grandmas house. When oldest son was prolly in jr. High he was out there with him watching TV and looking at the latest copy of "Monster Boobs" magazine and noticed an abundance of brightly colored cockroaches. My old uncle tells him. "Hey you see any yellow ones, hit em with this blue spray paint! I think there building a resistance to yellow!"

You win!

I like to hang out here.

If I were to photograph myself fugging a dog, I would leave the city limits as well.



Travis

Nah, you get comfortable with the smell of gasoline, Kroil, etc. My ex moved out 18 months ago and I haven't hired a housekeeper yet, and don't feel I need to.

Now, when my daughters came to visit for my birthday, they cleaned up the place like a white tornado, but that's their lookout, not mine. I like the smell of Kroil.

Here's one part of my well-organized pole barn...



... and here's another...



... and yet another...



... yet another...




BrotherBart says I have too much stuff.

I disagree. I have almost enough stuff. But I seriously lack a curator to keep it all organized for me.

Here's mine. I have owned it for 5 years and have lived in it a grand total of 5 months. Come retirement next year it will be dressed as needed.

Yep, just another metrosexual term...

I LOVE the Dr seuss shelves, very swoopy.

Not a man cave per se but a damn fine place up the holler from the house to relax, watch nature or enjoy a book.

It was built by an elderly attorney from Germany who would fly over here just to relax in that shack and drink wine. You can see the wine bottles built into the wall if you look closely.

Even made a little 'shine in there a time or two.

Doc;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope the week has been treating you well.

I'd say that based upon a couple decades of being a semiprofessional "organizer" in production shops that you need more shelving, pegboard and hooks and then a wee bit of an inventory control system is all. Nothing that couldn't be done in a weekend or so....

In the spirit of the thread, there are some wonderful trophy rooms and garages shown here so far and thanks to the members who have shared.

I'm with Bluedreaux actually in that I don't mind having the reloading stuff contained into one place, the garage stuff in the garage and then the rest of the house being plain old living space. That said Doc as you know I've been married for more of my life than single and having kids in the house too changes the dynamic for me.

Our garage looks like this quite often when it's fall and we kick out my wife's Forester so we can process some game. This is a grand friend who's been part of our cutting crew since it began in the late '80's.


Large and ancient upright freezer converted to a fridge which keeps the meat cool in our very hot Okanagan early fall weather.


One of two bench mounted vices - just haven't gotten around to mounting the third one yet. This one is made in what was then West Germany and has an honest 6" opening.


Different wall in background.


Anyway Doc, as you can see - shelves are the answer to your organizational dilemma.

Have a good day Doc and all the best to you and yours this upcoming weekend as well.

Dwayne

Yeah, in hindsight I probably shouldn't have put all my bulk packaged cast bullets on the same shelf. Been that way for 2-3 years and she's still holding, though.

doghouse by Sharps45 2 7/8, on Flickr

It puts the lotion on its skin.



Travis

This. I've got a room full of weights, guns, and reloading equipment. I've got a shop for tools, truck, tractor, atv, etc. I don't go there to hang out, I go there to get stuff done. I want to hang out with my family.

This aint no man cave, but it is where I will be located full time during weekday business hours.



and there will be manly things inside.

this is for anyone that calls his sanctum sanctorum a 'man cave'

I built this addition in 2008.

Agreed.


"Man cave" is what women call a room that they have decorated with "manly d�cor".

It's fun for them so I give them a pass on the use of the term.

Nahhh,my wife calls my area a "[bleep]' disaster area",and she's absorutrey right!!

Your wife is obviously a realist and a highly intelligent woman.

Dwayne... yes, I have about come to that same conclusion! I have been in the process of moving most of my reloading equipment & components into a 12'x12' room in the house, and the existing shelving is clearly TOTALLY inadequate. I'm gonna have to rip it all down and start fresh. Building new shelves ain't the big problem... planning the shelving scheme and getting it right the first time is gonna be the hard part!