Good Morning Forum From Mobile

[cv3]

Good morning from Mobile
I have just poured my first cup of coffee and thought I would send my best wish for a great day to all in the forum. I had gotten side tract on my early spring cleaning of the shop, so today I start once again. It is my goal to create more usable space. We will see. What usually happens is I make space at one end and lose it at the other. It would help if I would get rid of the multitude of pieces of scrap wood that I just know I will find a use for some day.
Have a great day!
CV

[robinson46176]

[quote="cv3"]Good morning from Mobile
I have just poured my first cup of coffee and thought I would send my best wish for a great day to all in the forum. I had gotten side tract on my early spring cleaning of the shop, so today I start once again. It is my goal to create more usable space. We will see. What usually happens is I make space at one end and lose it at the other. It would help if I would get rid of the multitude of pieces of scrap wood that I just know I will find a use for some day.
Have a great day!
CV[/QUOTE



I like to refer to the results of such cleaning as "tidy clutter".
For the problem of saved scraps I recommend a small wood stove. Oops, maybe in your area you need a wood burning air conditioner.
We have an inch of new snow on the ground (still falling) this morning with a current temperature of 21° and a predicted high of 26°. I think I will go build up a good fire this morning and see if I can find a little more room in the wood shop too.

[dusty]

Good morning from Mobile
I have just poured my first cup of coffee and thought I would send my best wish for a great day to all in the forum. I had gotten side tract on my early spring cleaning of the shop, so today I start once again. It is my goal to create more usable space. We will see. What usually happens is I make space at one end and lose it at the other. It would help if I would get rid of the multitude of pieces of scrap wood that I just know I will find a use for some day.
Have a great day!
CV

The best way to deal with those "cut offs" (I prefer not to think of them as scrap wood) is to dump them out on the floor, pick out a few pieces and go make something. Sometimes this means glue a few pieces together.

Here is one way to use those cut offs. In this particular thread, the OPR is being used but this could also be a band saw and hand tool job.

[cv3]

Here is one way to use those cut offs. In this particular thread, the OPR is being used but this could also be a band saw and hand tool job.

My problem is I have these carvings I have started and then got side tract or it was not going the way I wanted it to or some thing happen to part of it and I put it up to think about it. I probably have 10 to 15 of those at any given time. I had carved a walnut walking stick a year ago and my new puppy ( who almost did not get t any older) did some teething on the center of the stick. I had completed the top and did not want to though it away but was not sure what to do with it. It took about 6 months. But I found a way to use the head of the walking stick.
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Owning a home repair business, I come across a large quantity of stuff that could be something new and useful. Those items, along with with all the job left-overs would soon over-run my shop if I kept everything. The way I try to addresss this is this: If I am not going to use it in the next 6 months, it doesn't get a home in the shop and if I run across something in the garage that I haven't used in a year, it goes. About once a month I put a large pile of stuff with a free sign on the curb and it disappears with-in an hour. A shop is only a shop if you can manuever, otherwise it is a storage unit!
Mark

[cv3]

A shop is only a shop if you can manuever, otherwise it is a storage unit!
Mark

THAT IS SO TURE!

[rkh2]

I sure can agree on a shop becoming a storage unit and I am guilty. My goal for this year is to get my shop organized and remove much of what is in the back half of it to either to a yard sale or the curb or both. Being only a 12 x 28 building, half is stuff which has been in it for years and just collects dust. I only have room to do turnings for now. I need to build a portable cart for my planer as right now it takes up space on my workbench, but first I need to make room for a place to put it. Really looking forward for spring to get here so I can really get going.

[shipwright]

I sure can agree on a shop becoming a storage unit and I am guilty. My goal for this year is to get my shop organized and remove much of what is in the back half of it to either to a yard sale or the curb or both. Being only a 12 x 28 building, half is stuff which has been in it for years and just collects dust. I only have room to do turnings for now. I need to build a portable cart for my planer as right now it takes up space on my workbench, but first I need to make room for a place to put it. Really looking forward for spring to get here so I can really get going.

Space issues in my garage shop in AZ spawned this mobile storage cart. Maybe something like this would be a help.

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Paul M

[fjimp]

Paul,

Wow what a great storage idea. That clearly illustrates you have a talent for creating usable solutions. Thanks for sharing it.

I tried very hard to come up with an idea like that. Then realized my body wouldn't allow me to lift the tools. Still I enjoyed viewing your terrific solution. Jim

[shipwright]

Thanks Jim. Boatbuilding is all about making things fit into places that they shouldn't fit. Actually this cart is built so the planer is at way tube height and the jointer is not much lower. The band saw is the only real lift.

Paul M