Today I woke up late (ahh, sleeping in… is there nothing better?), and shortly thereafter I found myself once again in the garage. Today I moved even more empty tubs and boxes into the basement, which included our camping gear and some rabbit litter that had been sitting in the garage for a month. I got most of the garage perimeter cleared and swept, and then I called upon Tasha’s superior stacking abilities to help me arrange the garage in the most efficient manner.
I moved my grandfather’s old lathe table underneath the L-shaped workbench that came with the house. It now provides a handy tiered surface and drawers for storage. It’s fairly easy to move out into the main garage if I ever need an additional work surface or want to do any turning (I’ll have to get my lathe out here to Colorado first). My new table saw is now sitting in the spot vacated by the lathe stand, and this adds the fringe benefit of Tasha actually being able to get out of her car when we opt to park in the garage.
We’ve still got a pile of junk in the middle of the garage to donate to charity, once they pick that up I will snap a few pictures of my shop as it is beginning to come together.
The last step that I need to do is to set up a shelving unit or two, these will hold my bench-top tools when they are not in use and a few tool boxes. This should leave my two workbenches clear for project work.
So what projects, you ask?
I think my projects for the rest of the summer will revolve around some prop projects that I have been neglecting while I save up money to buy an acoustic guitar kit and the necessary tools to put it together. The other alternative is just filling in with small projects and saving up a giant pile of money and taking some lutherie classes in Arvada.
There is part of me that is certain there is enough materials online to learn everything there is to know about lutherie and then some, but there’s nothing that can quite beat having an expert to learn from. I haven’t really decided which way I’m going to go yet, I suspect my desire to have all of my own tools and to do it myself will win out, but I’m not closed to the idea of taking those classes should I end up with a few grand extra to spend and a ton of extra free time (ha!). From what I have read, a lot of the job is done by having the necessary jigs and forms, and some practice in sidebending. The actual assembly is pretty straightforward and the Internet is overflowing with instructional videos and books to buy to get that information.
Anyway, enough about my fledgling hobbies. More later!
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