Chip Sutherland
02-23-2013, 12:09 PM
Sadly, I can see that I need to focus on cleaning the shop this weekend. The mess and disarray have over-taken my ability to turn anything. The final straw was the cabinets that got stacked up by the lathe. These cabinets are the ones from the kitchen rehab after my 16 yr old daughter and friend decided to make fried pickles...resulting in a grease fire. The cabinets are fine structurally but the melamine facing is toasted. These cabinets will be re-purposed on a garage wall. Except the garage wall is blocked (pic 1) and needs to be dug out starting with a Jet 1442 that needs to be cleaned and put up for sale. A radial arm saw & cabinet I need to sell. A mesquite log that needs to be cut down to size but my chain saw needs a bit of cleanup/maint but those supplies are in the storage cabinet blocked by the kitchen cabinets. (pic 2) And where do those logs go anyway? My bench is piled up with things I cannot put away in cabinets. (pic 3) Two blocks of wood are gifts that need to be turned and delivered. A fiddleback maple bowl sits on my carving chuck waiting for dying...but the dyes and finish are in the blocked cabinet. My 3520 needs cleaning from the last 2 projects: collection plates and gavel but it's blocked. The bed needs cleaning as it is hard to move the banjo and tailstock. The tablesaw has become unusable because of pending projects (pic4) including an antique table in need of repair, a vacuum chuck project is stalled until I can turn the vacuum adapter for the headstock or buy one.
I could blame my predicament on fried pickles...but I must confess it might be a case of Adult ADD....complicated by working full-time, going to graduate school, being the executor of my mom's estate and the family tax guy...although I finally farmed out taxes to a CPA this year but I'm still scanning documents to turn it over to him 100%.
I guess I will start with the cleaning the lathe and cutting the log up the tackle the projects on the table saw....I don't see any turning in my weekend future.
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I could blame my predicament on fried pickles...but I must confess it might be a case of Adult ADD....complicated by working full-time, going to graduate school, being the executor of my mom's estate and the family tax guy...although I finally farmed out taxes to a CPA this year but I'm still scanning documents to turn it over to him 100%.
I guess I will start with the cleaning the lathe and cutting the log up the tackle the projects on the table saw....I don't see any turning in my weekend future.
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