What does your desk look like when stamping?

Wow! She's a keeper! For me, soaking has to take place far away from her sight and never use any of "her" kitchenware. But I do get the kids to help me in removing the stamps from the paper (although not on valuable stamps, let's be realistic!) and putting them out to dry.

The Signascopes are worth their weight in gold to me. As you can see, I own both of them. I originally bought the larger one about 8 years ago on Ebay for cheap. less than $100. Just recently, while working on the d&@n German stamps, It got to be tedious using the larger one on almost every stamp I was looking at, so I bought the smaller one on Ebay for $100. The smaller one is faster to use, but on a really faint watermark, it doesn't always show it. So when in doubt, I get the larger one out and really tighten it down to see the watermark. The larger one is better at seeing the watermarks, but the smaller one is faster for most stamps. If you do a lot of stamps with watermarks, they are worth buying. Just look on Ebay every week until you find one cheap. You will see them with European power supplies or US power supplies. Don't worry about the power supplies though, I use batteries all the time. In fact, I have no idea where either power supply is. LOL. Have a great day, Mike.

I bought a universal power supply for mine.  That thing looks like an octopus - all these bits hanging off it with different adapter fittings, plus switches for voltage and polarity and I forget what else.  I thought I might be able to use it for a number of different devices, but I would need to keep good notes to make sure I can figure out how to set it up for each time I use it.  As it is, it's exclusively used for my Signoscope and I've never dared to move any of the switches again .... ha ha

Ryan

Thus the reason for me using them exclusively, I sit on my couch and do stamps, I don't want any fluid anywhere near me. (Unless it is a beer). LOL. Mike.

Wow, very neat & tidy, philatelia! I wish mine could be as tidy!

This is how it normaly looks like!


But today, before starting a new project, I decided to clean my desktop. Now Bayern/Bavaria can enter my desk



But I guess it won't take long before everything is back to normal ....

10 years after the last photo was taken (page 1).....not much has changed except a zillion more stamps, books, journals and papers. I won't show the spare bedroom, too ashamed !! 







The cupboard/Cabinet stands next to the desk.......very handy !!

Londonbus1........not very handy ! 

Peter (brightonpete), You mean you actually have time to do the crossword with so much stamping to do?  

This is my desk at the moment; the most stampy-ness it's seen in a while!

That plastic container for hinges looks like a waste collector. I use my Empress Tea tin for waste mount cuttings & hinges. Looks much nicer than the similar plastic container I had been using.

"The Empress" is a grand hotel on the waterfront in downtown Victoria, British Columbia. The have a right-fancy tea service in the afternoon.

My tiny little desk in my cabin on my offshore rig



Quite a struggle even to find space for two albums and a laptop. I am presently transferring Hungary from stockbooks to Vario Grande pages. The desk is so small the albums are protruding out into free air. It is a challenge - but doable!

I know, annoying set-up, not exactly like the cabin in a cruise-ship 
 I only need a cord for the PC and my own light (special daylight-bulb off course!) - that spagetti of cords is part of the standard outfit in each cabin.