There hasn't been a post on this blog for something like 4 months. Perhaps there's someone out there wondering why. The answer is that we've been moving. Between fixing up the old house to sell, and fixing up the new house to move into, there just hasn't been much time for anything else.
As anyone who has moved a shop before will tell you, it is just an absolute disaster. It's just like moving a house, except if you are moving houses at the same time then everything to do with the shop ends up taking a back seat to getting the house set up. So the shop just turns into a dumping ground, boxes seem to never get unpacked, you can't start anything because you can't find your hammer or the right box of screws, the whole thing just destroys any initiative to get anything done. Add to this the heat of an Arkansas summer, and you may never get your shop back going!
But, today I would like to report a success. I got to the bottom of the pile of stuff on top of and around my workbench! I am happy to say that tiny slice of the shop, at least, is ready for duty.
And now, here are some shots of the rest of the mess:
We have already spent a fair amount of time putting up shelving to help get stuff off the floor.
Believe it or not I moved this sheet of plywood with all the toolhangers and tools intact.
You may recognize this set of under shelf drawers from a LONG time ago.
The tablesaw top is relatively clear, but lots of the other machines are too bunched up to even use.
You can see there are lots of yard tools in here as well. We don't have any kind of outbuilding to store that sort of stuff in yet, and boy do we need one!
I will continue to work through setting up the shop. Look for a real woodworking article in the next month or so.
