Forum topic by GaryK | posted 12-14-2009 03:28 AM | 6057 views | 0 times favorited | 87 replies | ![]() |
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12-14-2009 03:28 AM |
Do you ever find yourself in the middle of working on a project and realize that you end up stuck working in a little tiny area of your workbench? Well, I got up from my workbench tonight and looked that the damage I just wrought in just a few days of part time work. Then I wondered if others were afflicted with the same thing. It seems that I do it all the time. The good thing about it is that everything I need is within an arms reach but the bad part you always need more room! Kinda of like this. Then I start it all over again. -- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX |
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#1 posted 12-14-2009 03:31 AM |
um…does a dirty cluttered workshop count? I usually have to spend the first 20 minutes of project clearing out space to make a project. -- "Democracy is by far the worst system of government. Except all the others that have been tried." ~ Winston Churchill |
#2 posted 12-14-2009 03:34 AM |
It’s a never ending battle. -- Robert Brou, Atlanta, GA, www.naturalismfurniture.com |
#3 posted 12-14-2009 03:34 AM |
All the great masters work from a clutter. Take a look at Harry Pope the barrel maker in his shop or Einstien in his office:-)) I quit worrying about it when I realized whose company I was in:-)) -- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence |
#4 posted 12-14-2009 03:37 AM |
Were’s the clutter Gary ? :-)) I’ve been there a lot and had it get pretty deep too. |
#5 posted 12-14-2009 03:40 AM |
I definately fall into this trap as well. Everytime I get a different tool, I use it and then set it down where I’m working. I’m like you I clean up after every job and even sometimes in the middle of the job just to get organized again. -- Wood Chuck (Bruce) http://3dwoodworkingplans.com |
#6 posted 12-14-2009 03:42 AM |
That looks just like mind every time do any kind of project. As hard as I try to put things back as I work it always ends up like that. Sometimes I straighten out some up in the middle of a project when I start getting aggravated looking for something, but most of the time I do the same thing and clean up at the end. |
#7 posted 12-14-2009 03:42 AM |
they posted a note above my desk once that said, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind then what is an empty desk a sign of?” |
#8 posted 12-14-2009 03:42 AM |
The more time I spend in the shop, the cleaner it is. It’s when I’m only popping in quick and back out quickly and do that for a week or two that it gets really cluttered. I take time to mess it up but not to clean it. When I’m in there a lot working on a big project, I clean it every day, well almost. I notice you have some of the carbide sanding blocks too Gary. Mine have already paid for themselves. -- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY |
#9 posted 12-14-2009 03:42 AM |
Yep. Pretty much exactly like you said. As I’m working on something it gets to look like your pictures. Then when I want to start a new project I put everything away so I have room to work, in no time flat it’s lookin’ like that again. -- -Curt, Milwaukee, WI |
#10 posted 12-14-2009 03:44 AM |
i’m always neat, it’s just a matter of degree of neat, including negative degree. russv -- yknotwood.com: where to go because you don't want no stinking plastic! |
#11 posted 12-14-2009 03:44 AM |
The way I see it, As long as you keep all the stuff out in plain sight you will be able to find it. -- St. Louis - just a cut away from finishing! |
#12 posted 12-14-2009 03:47 AM |
That looks pretty clean to me ! :) -- John in Belgrave (Website) http://www.extremebirdhouse.com , https://www.facebook.com/groups/extremebirdhouses/ |
#13 posted 12-14-2009 03:56 AM |
I have the same problem. And all my pencils and tape measure don camouflage suits at that point, and I can’t find one no matter how many I have. -- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood" |
#14 posted 12-14-2009 03:56 AM |
Yeah, the work table and sometimes the workbench in my shop get like that. Its often that way when I finish a project then I clean up the tools, put them all away and then clean the shop. Then I start a new project and do it all over again. Sometimes though I can’t stand it anymore and clean everything up in the middle of a project and start pulling tools off of shelves and racks a second time. Now and then my wife comes out and throws a complete clean up on my shop and makes it shiny! -- Ohh mann...pancakes and boobies...I'll bet that's what Heaven is like! ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣ |
#15 posted 12-14-2009 03:57 AM |
I agree with John. No clutter there. In my book, clutter has to be at least 6” deep. Anything less is just a little messy -- Gary, DeKalb Texas only 4 miles from the mill |
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