Is there a right and a wrong way to store planes? In high school if our woods teacher saw one on its blade he would have a heart attack. I always thought they were to lay on their sides from him.
I know this crops up from time to time in Neader forums all over the fruited plain, so here goes.......
The blade on your plane is mean to cut wood, right? So, if the aim of keeping the plane on it's side is to protect the sharp blade, then if the bench top is wood.......
If the bench top, or surface that you are laying the plane on is steel, yeah sure, on the side, or if you are afraid of scratching your bench top, on the side, I guess, but come on, it IS a "work"-bench, isn't it?
Mine just go on a shelf beside all the paint cans etc, as I'm getting more and more, I'm going to have to fix that and make a better space to keep them, but finding that space will be my problem, wall space in the Dungeon is just about as dear as floor space....
Sorry, no pic, maybe tomorrow!