So close, there is light, literally and figuratively. I am almost FUNCTIONAL! Ten endless weeks behind me with the help of Max and my gorgeous one. Then the days and days alone, sorting through tools and material. Currently I have few words, just wanted it recorded that I am almost touching heaven. To my brother and those I do not yet know.....let us take hands in spirit and go forward.
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Fri, 01/29/2010 - 20:57 | by Chips and curls
Close the chapel
Soon the first sermon or will it be a baptizing? 10 weeks? More like 10 years! Persistence and hard work will soon bring sweet reward. It will be well deserved my friend.
As always, your words ease the soul. For me a hard tiring day on an emotional level. Hard tiring days on a physical level is much preferred. The third musketeer went mad today and it seems your predictions will come true: this union no more. If we can all learn from our experiences they serve their purpose.
And so, as you say, holding hands in spirit, we go forward.
Sanity
I think my friend, that you and I are part of each others' sanity so yes, we live, move and learn.
On a different note, right now I am chuckling from my belly! Any suggestions how to store a myriad of clamps in a limited area and don't say "Skyhook". A blessing is to wish a woodworker more clamps than he can use. Remember that curse "May your balls itch and your fingers turn to fish-hooks."?? Mine is "May you have more clamps than you can find place for." So near...so so near...he he
Be well brother...........
The clamp curse
He, he, he! That is one curse I can gladly live with. You forget I was boat builder. Too many clamps? Not on yer life! On that staircase I built, I needed 48 6” G-clamps to do one lamination! I ended up using screws.
I store about 40 G-clamps on a one metre length of pipe underneath my assembly bench. They range in size from 3” to 12”. I have 6 pipe clamps hanging on the wall. I prefer them over sash clamps and wish I can find more. There are also 8 sliding F clamps on the wall and a string of baby G-clamps 1” to 3”. Next to this 15 spring clamps clipped onto a vertical plank. At a guess this all takes up about a metre of wall space, maybe a little more.
An idea I want to implement in my next shop is to fasten 2 battens to the wall all the way around. The upper one has a 45 degree bevel to form a hook. Distance between battens a little less than the length of you tool cabinets. Lengths of the 45 degree batten are screwed to the back of tool cabinets. Now tool cabinets can be hooked onto the upper batten, positioned anywhere, taken off easily and rearranged easily. This could work really well in your shop in the long term. If you make cabinets a standard size, some can stay in storage in the loft and if you want one on the wall they are easily exchanged.
As for your clamps, there is always my trusty back-up solution. If you really have too many, you can always store some in my shop!
May you find a space for all your clamps! (Why don’t you do like Freehand and build a boat. That will keep your clamps busy.)