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i thought i was the only one?? man, i'm glad there's more like me. i function just fine with clutter and chaos and dust!!!

thanks for the support!! bill

Really glad you folks have shops. I use the garage apron to do all my work. No room to put a car in the garage with all the trees and furniture inside. But, I suppose that I'm annal. I use a tool for a specific procedure or procedures. When completed with the tool(s), I clean it up for next use and return it to its place. I always know where those tools are. Not yet organized, but maybe in the next year when I get some of this cedar out of the garage, I can actually arrange things for a shop. Hoping!

swampgator wrote:Really glad you folks have shops. I use the garage apron to do all my work. No room to put a car in the garage with all the trees and furniture inside. But, I suppose that I'm annal. I use a tool for a specific procedure or procedures. When completed with the tool(s), I clean it up for next use and return it to its place. I always know where those tools are. Not yet organized, but maybe in the next year when I get some of this cedar out of the garage, I can actually arrange things for a shop. Hoping!

Sounds like you need a lean-to on the side of the garage for lumber storage. That is what I did in my last garage shop. Ventilated properly, lumber does better there than in the shop. At that time in my life I didn't think much about cars. They never saw the inside of the garage.

This is what my shop looks like after a project, in this case the curio cabinet.


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And this is how it cleans up

North east corner

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To be continued, next post

Paul M

Northwest corner, Southeast corner

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Southwest corner (that's the finishing room), South Wall

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West side

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Not in Mark's league but clean enough for me. It gets this clean about once a year and at each of these occasions I try to make an improvement or two.

Paul M

I assume the folding chair is for those rare occurrences when 'inspiration' is needed!:D

JPG40504 wrote:I assume the folding chair is for those rare occurrences when 'inspiration' is needed!:D

Just need to take the load off and think occasionally.

Paul M

Inspiration is all I have to say.

Generally, before I leave the shop for the day, I vacuum the floor - so I'm not tracking dust into the house. In the morning, like Pat, I organize putting stuff away from the previous days journey so I can find it and to keep dust from accumulating on it. For me this mindless task is a good time to set goals for what I want to accomplish in the shop today.

The smaller the shop the less that can be left out - you simply run out of bench space.

I looked at all your shops that would be the envy of almost everyone and decided I would not post what my shop looks like at the end of the project. Not because I didn't want to but because requirements from the CIA, FBI, NSA, ATF, DEA and OBAMA (that's one you never heard of but it is an acronym for Obnoxious Bad Ass Major Assho - well, I cannot reveal that.) My wife told me that I could tell you what it looked like but couldn't post pictures because I would be prosecuted by any/all of the above.

It looks like hell, as almost anything touched by the CIA, FBI, NSA, DEA, ATF and OBAMA. Did you expect something different? You know what hell looks like don't you? Well, wait a few years. You may see it in your lifetime (better than after your lifetime).

Apologies to the FBI, ATF and DEA who probably shouldn't have been included but it made for a better rant.