I opened a can of worms, I may regret it soon.
with the cold weather and infusion this week, I was only in the shop a bit and started respinning a walnut bowl.
I looked around at my garage shop, and said, wow, what a freakin mess, perfect disorder.
I decided to start ripping down old cabinets and put up some shelves, get all my hand held tools together in one place, sort through all the hardware drawers, start really getting serious and making some order.
And it proved it might be a mistake.
Look at this mess.
I have dozens upon dozens of parts from tools I have no clue what tool they are from.
I have so many edge guides to routers, and I only have 4 routers(maybe 8 or 9 edge guides)
dust bags and plastic attachments, and I have no clue what tools they each go too, not to mention massive piles of hardware because I once decided never to throw anything out.
I have 4 face plates for lathes. I only own one lathe, and gave another face plate with the 1220 vs I sold. I only remember one I might have misplaced from a small lathe purchased from HF which I returned, I never realized it wasn't in the box.
What I did find, is my spare key to the shed, which I thought I lost, and extra screws for my router plates. And I found piles of router plates, probably some of the older routers I purchased used and sold used. I just don't know which plate is to which router.
look at this mess I have to sort through, and none of this is from the drawers in my cabinets, that's an entire different story, and I just put things in drawers and never see them for years when Im looking for something else.
what a task. I did get some new shelves up finally this afternoon.IM putting all my routers on one shelf, and so on and so on.
I have a lot of peghooks, problem is I just keep hanging things on top of other things until I cant find them anymore, and all the junk stuff I purchased before I realized that junk is junk, regardless of what people think they purchase in stores like HF and the like.
you can see, I have pen blanks next to a router, with windshield fluid on the shelf, pen supplies are scatterer all over, in drawers on shelves, some in my house, its crazy unorganized, Im amazed I get so many projects completed as its getting harder to locate things.
all the shelving standards and brackets were laying in my sons attic, so they didn't cost me anything.
glenn would get sick if he walked into my shop.