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Unpopular opinion: a clean bench is a slower bench, and my 6 month experiment backs it up
I run a small repair setup out of my garage in Dayton and back in January I decided to test something. I cleared my bench completely after every job, put every tool back on the pegboard, wiped down the mat, the whole deal. Took me about 2 months to notice my turnaround on a basic tune-up had crept up from 40 minutes to almost an hour. Not because I got worse, but because I kept stopping to walk back to the pegboard for stuff I would have just had within arm's reach. In March I gave up and went back to my usual mess, a coffee can of loose 5mm hex keys, cable ends and ferrules in a pile, three chain tools all sitting out. My times dropped back down almost the second I quit tidying. So now I'm torn, because half the old guys I know swear a cluttered bench is a sign you don't care about the trade, and the other half will tell you a clean bench means nobody's busy. What's the honest take from people who do this for real, does the mess slow you down or is hunting for a tool that's always in the same pile faster than a system?
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