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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: malc on February 11, 2011, 07:36:37 am
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Its cold, windy and raining, dog doesn't want to go out , neither do I. So its workshop cleaning day, having started I think it may take a week! If only I was disciplined enough to put things away after they are used and be a bit more brutal when it comes to throwing out old bits of kit well past their sell by date. When my workshop is tidy I work so much better so on with the cleaning. By the by my Tertius clock is coming on quite nicely, will post pictures soon.
Malc
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args - need that too...
This is always happening when I have to much projects in the shop:
Tools everywhere but not where expected.
The project parts somewhere, where you can't get past them.
Moving things left to right, right to left.
and where is that damn .... ?!
Might clean a bit too tomorrow. First I need a bigger sanding job done...
regards
Torsten
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A messy shop show work is being done a clean shop shows Idol hands "You see a mess I see a clean shop" lol All you need to do is break down where you do things and leave it that way such as sanding is done in this area so all the sanding things go over here so next time you can find it all so on and so fourth. I call it clean Chaos the wife however calls it a mess and is not allowed in my shop....lol
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I live in a very small place and have learned to put everything away as I use it. I love working in a clean environment and knowing where everything is. It is safer too because there are fewer distractions. I get so much done and am so much more productive that way. But everyone has a different view on this, I guess.
Have a great day getting cleaned up and organized. I am sure you will be happy when it is all nice and neat and make more of your wonderful projects!
Sheila :)
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I clean my shop as well just not everytime I use it about once or twice a Month I sweep it up and put things away clean the sawdust off things as I go I just don't put things away like I should and I know this is very wrong of me to do but it is only my shop so If I leave the drill and sander sitting in the work area no harm done besides it is such a small shop I kno where everything is lol I still working on the plans for my shop that I will be building but you know how it goes you see something that you think would go great in your shop and you have to change the plans all up again (I'm starting to think those Prefab ones may be the way to go for me)
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I share my "shop" with 2 big chest freezers and they make great areas to spread out on....until I need something out of the freezer...always seems to be the freezer I have the most stuff on !!! It makes you feel so much better when you have a clean place to work. Usually tell myself I can't use the saw until the mess is cleaned up. After I finish I'm right back in the same situation !!
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Cleaning Shop?
Have to do that every time we want to put the car away and the 'shop' folds back up into its little corner.
Weather is breaking and Sunday will be the big day to re-open the work area. Highs all week in the 50's and NO Precipitation!!!
sawdust gonna fly this week!!!!
~~~GB~~~
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Well I need to clean mine as well. I spend a couple of hours every week cleaning. The wifes car gets one half of the garage and my tools get the other half.
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Sometimes I use a shopvac, but usually I just open the doors to the alley and fire up the leaf blower. Makes dusting a "breeze"!
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Not going to happen today. Replaced brakes on three family cars. No wood only metal on my list of things to be done.. 8)
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I've been in the process of totally re-arranging my shop. Just when I think I've got everything where I want it to be, I come up with a "better" plan. I have my scroll saw and work benchs where I want them I think. Hopefully soon I'll find a permanent place for everything else. Until I see another shop setup I like better lol
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I try to clean my shop everytime I work there. I clean it almost everyday. I have to have everything in the right place or I am not happy. I guess I am sick? But I enjoy my clean shop. A mess stops me from woodworking.
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I try to clean up after each project. Since many of my projects are multi-piece projects or large, I just can't get going on the next thing until I have things put back where they belong. I am a creature of habit and I wan't to be able to just reach for what I need and it be there.
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Ok Ok I give I lost my jigsaw and I need it for anohter project I was doing So I had to clean my shop to find it so I cleaned MY SHOP UP today, Happy now?
LOL :D ;D
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Hey Chachi, A place for everything and everything in it's place.
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Hanging head down....Yeah yeah I know I know Julie Thanksssss.
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Chachi.... I'm not the smartest cookie in the batch but aren't you sending mixed signals ??
Break down where you do things and leave it that way.......no harm done as it's such a small shop, I know where everything is......
OH NO I lost my jigsaw !!!!! Had to clean up to find it !!!
Yes I'm happy now :o :o :o :o
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Anybody notice I haven't made a reply to this post yet? My motto is a clean shop is a boring shop or happiness is a messy shop! Nuff said ::)
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meet you all in the middle.
I like a clean shop but when working sawdust must fly.
sometimes l leave my work on the table (or saw) to work with it the next day.
I don't clean up every time then. but then after two weeks I have to dust a little.
otherwise I walk the dust into the house and I ( and my wive) don't like that.
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Me too. I don't do a thorough cleaning often. I leave things the way they are at the end of cutting for that day, because I usually come back the next day or two to pick up where I left off. Since I don't work on more than 2 projects at the same time, it's not hard to misplace pieces of them. I always like to put the power and hand tools away so I know where they are.
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Don't get me wrong, I am not a neat freak by any stretch of the imagination, but I usually clean at the conclusion of a project and start with a clean shop for the next. I just finished a cedar chest and had to clean before the finish process because the shop was covered with sawdust. Makes for a speckled finish. Everything got cleaned and put away so I could spray. I'll do several little jobs without cleaning, but tools are always put away at the end of the day. I want to be able to just reach for what I need, I get frustrated when I have to look around for them.
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Allow me to explain.....I just bought a Cabinet from a friend for the shop well I moved alot of the wifes cra......ummmm stuff around to have the room to put it in there well in that coffusion I lost my Jigsaw..Then the weather got bad here and so I didn't get anything done so I had to clean up the shop and put things away so I could find my jigsaw.
And now I do have areas that are for specfic things (The reason for the cabinet)
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My shop is like many others in that it is a 'living' thing and keeps growing, changing and evolving!
The next few weeks are going to be a serious time for change and re-doing of the whole area so I am sure I will lose a few items but they will eventually float back into view as the shop evolves.
I work, make a mess, and then have to clean and straighten again and every time I find something that I thought I had misplaced. NO I just 'stored' it in a different location so I wouldn't lose it!
~~~GB~~~
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I try to clean up every day, but don't always make it. I get caught by thinking that I'll be right back to work and not picking up. Like last weekend I thought I was just going to go make lunch and be back to work in half-an-hour, but one thing led to another and I didn't get back to the shop until the next afternoon.
MrsN
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:D Clean Shop, Messy shop,,, As the old man said "say what ever turns your crank" ;D Many great artists are inspired by Chaos. Anyhow that is what I tell my wife.
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Sometimes I use a shopvac, but usually I just open the doors to the alley and fire up the leaf blower. Makes dusting a "breeze"!
You're my kind of guy! Anything else that blows away you didn't need anyway right? Oh darn where did that 400 grit sandpaper go? LOL
Gabby
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After seeing the write up today for our very own "Scrollgirl" Sheila,
I hand over my crown for ahaving a small shop I had know Idea Sheila.
Wow My hats off to you and I can see why you like to have such a clean shop lol and congrats on the write up.
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Thanks so much Chachi! I didn't know the article was coming out today. I am really proud of what I get done in my little space and I like to show people that they don't need a big and fancy shop to have a hobby like scroll sawing. It is really a small investment compared to other woodworking hobbies and as seen here, you can really create beautiful artwork of many different varieties. Scrollsawing rocks! :)
Sheila
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OK, Fill us in, Where is the article?