re: How I Get The Most Out Of My Small Shop

Thanks fellas. Extraordinary organization skills doesn’t really fit my MO, but I have the machines placed pretty well.

Paul The title accidentally got changed to my shed blog series. I have corrected it now.

Now the confession
After completing the shed the shop was it’s usual mess with cut-offs laying everywhere, with a thick coat of dust on everything. Sound familiar?

Compounding the mess were some bags of older cut-offs from the recent giga bookshelf project I did for my son, plus a years long accumulation of different platters and boards stored on my platter cart. So many that the passage from the door into the shop was becoming severely restricted.

Like most of you, I find it hard to throw anything away that is wood, but I figured that the time had come to sacrifice some of that useless material so I could breathe again. I filled up a whole trailer load of stuff and took it to the recycling center. I couldn’t believe the transformation. I haven’t been so happy since my son’s wedding!

And then later when I cleaned up after the shed project and mounted my new air filter it seemed like a whole new world. So it occurred to me that I could take photos of it and fool everyone into thinking that I could actually organize something.