The recycled workbench in use

 

Back at the start of winter, I put together a recycled workbench in the outside studio.

It's been incredibly valuable, allowing me a place to set up light boxes, photograph artefacts and do a bit of documentation - the only real problem is the transparent tempered glass top - its transparency makes it a bit difficult to photograph items on the bench top - not a problem when I'm using a light box, but a bit of a problem when dealing with larger items, not to mention that mice don't work that well on it and you need to use mousepads.

I actually had to buy a couple of mousepads, I'd finally come to the end of the little stockpile I'd acquired as freebies from various vendors over the years.

However, there's a solution.

I've discovered you can buy what some vendors call 'deskpads', basically  a giant (800x400mm), mousepad, to provide a work area on glass desks.

They are only around twenty bucks, so I've ordered one, which should solve both the problem of photographing larger items and the inevitable proliferation of mice and mousepads...