Sven
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My workshop cluttered up. Yeah I know, doesn't sound too bad does it. But it was a mess. The mess to end all other messes. All surfaces were covered in tools. The tools were covered in shavings and sawdust. I had literally no space to put a tool down without hitting three other tools.
How do you solve a predicament like that? By... buying more stuff obviously. Well I thought long and hard and the thing for me was to start more or less from scratch. I blamed my bench, an old model of the classical European workbench. I had modified it, fitted a new vice, installed a sound system, raised it - the list goes on and inevitably led to the term "beating a dead horse".
So I designed a new bench. And five more. I thought long and hard about when I was going to build it but hadn't the time or the space to do a good enough job, so a while back I sent the drawings to my favourite carpenter. He built it for me, and yes it was expensive. But I am whole now. And the workshop is ace.
First pic shows what it looked like Friday morning at eight o'clock. The new bench was to be delivered at ten so I really had some clearing out to do.
Then I spent most of my weekend inside, not seeing daylight. Though it's fairly easy to miss the few hours of daylight we get in Sweden at this time of the year. I think I spent 30 hours reorganising the shop, and the result is great.
Some more pics can be seen if you can be arsed to follow this link:
http://argapa.blogspot.se/2017/11/rebirth-of-workshop.html
The linked pics don't seem to be full width, I don't know why that happens. But as a before and after document they'll do.
Now I feel as if I'm working in a laboratory! I give it four months, that's about the usual span I have before tools end up on tools. But at least I know it's possible to have it this way.
I am super happy.
Sven
How do you solve a predicament like that? By... buying more stuff obviously. Well I thought long and hard and the thing for me was to start more or less from scratch. I blamed my bench, an old model of the classical European workbench. I had modified it, fitted a new vice, installed a sound system, raised it - the list goes on and inevitably led to the term "beating a dead horse".
So I designed a new bench. And five more. I thought long and hard about when I was going to build it but hadn't the time or the space to do a good enough job, so a while back I sent the drawings to my favourite carpenter. He built it for me, and yes it was expensive. But I am whole now. And the workshop is ace.
First pic shows what it looked like Friday morning at eight o'clock. The new bench was to be delivered at ten so I really had some clearing out to do.
Then I spent most of my weekend inside, not seeing daylight. Though it's fairly easy to miss the few hours of daylight we get in Sweden at this time of the year. I think I spent 30 hours reorganising the shop, and the result is great.
Some more pics can be seen if you can be arsed to follow this link:
http://argapa.blogspot.se/2017/11/rebirth-of-workshop.html
The linked pics don't seem to be full width, I don't know why that happens. But as a before and after document they'll do.
Now I feel as if I'm working in a laboratory! I give it four months, that's about the usual span I have before tools end up on tools. But at least I know it's possible to have it this way.
I am super happy.
Sven