In the flurry of activity preceding dress rehearsal week, it was impossible to keep things neat and tidy because there was no time to put things away.
During the final two or three days preceding (and including) Opening Night, things got really crazy. Saws spinning, sawdust flying, fasteners tightened/un-tightened/discarded, paint fumes filling the air.
It was chaos.
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| Shop - Before | Bench - Before |
But now that it is all over (whew!) it's time to clean up the shop.
First up, the floor has got to be cleared off. There's all this 'extra' lumber from the prototypes that were built (and subsequently un-built). There is no place to stack the lumber down here on the main floor, so it has to go up in the loft. That's my main lumber storage area.
Any of the pieces that are useful in their new form - the box frames, for example - will be left as they are. The others are just lumber (even though they have screw holes and pencil marks and paint on them) that can be stacked for the next project.
Next comes the bench, where most of the work was done. Lots of scrap pieces on there, along with a lot of sawdust. And tools. I can't really do much with the tools, yet, since there isn't a place to put them. Too many tools, not enough tool cabinets. So they can just sit there for awhile.
After the tools are moved out of the way, the little brush is used to sweep the sawdust into the bin where it will be stored for later use. (It works great as extra traction on snow.)
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| Shop - After | Bench - After |
After it's all done, it's time to relax for all of five minutes -- because now we're off on our Texas Adventure!
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