The great purge of 2012.

[Commodore 64***]

OK. I took the day off from work yesterday. I wanted to get my shop in order. I started hauling out the crap. This was going to be a bigger job than I thought. Spring cleaning time. The great purge of 2012 begins.


I removed some low hanging wood storage from the back of the garage. I'd hit my head on it more times than I could count and the lighting was terrible. I decided to open things up a bit.


I realised that I had a lot more crap than I did garbage can space. So I went inside and made the call. $250 and 2 hours later, I had a roll-off box in my driveway. Talk about great service.


Before Shot:


How about an "After" shot? You can see my router table is mounted on an old Philco Radio box. When we moved into the house, the philco cab was out on the tree lawn, so I repurposed it.

[Tig***]

Nice job! Can you come over for mine next?
Be sure to bring the band saw.

Putting the table saw on a wheeled frame is a good idea that I'll borrow.

[Commodore 64***]

All that cleaning and purging was fun. You might wonder what my ulterior motive here is...well, I'm trying to build a tele for the 2012 TDPRI Challenge.

SO I have a guitar to build, templates to make and most likely a lot of mistakes ahead of me so I need to get crackin'. I had glued up some ash boards and traced a template. The ash I had glued up wasn't very thick. It would need a cap of some sort. And I'll need another template for the cavity routes and neck pocket. So I decided I'd use the ash for Template 2. I decided to cut up an old pine board I nabbed from the rafters in my garage, it's about 1.75 inches thick so should be good, and not require a cap (e.g., opportunities for me to screw up). I jointed one side and fired up the chop saw.


This is probably too much glue.


Clamped up. Time to wait.


Figured I'd might as well see if I can remember how to use the band saw. So I grabbed the ash outline, and made some relief cuts.


Not too bad.


Finally went back into the house, and saw that my Stew mac order had arrived!


So today, I hope to get a neck blank cut out and may some other work. But I have to make hay while the dumpster is in the driveway so the basement and attic are gonna get some attention today, too.

[Commodore 64***]

Putting the table saw on a wheeled frame is a good idea that I'll borrow.

Yeah, my garage is small so I have as many things on wheels as possible. The Router, jointer, planer and table saw are all mobile...

[Katastrophe]

Dude, the garage looks great!

Now you have to make another thread for your participation in the build challenge. I love reading build threads, but am WAY to lazy to head over to TDPRI. Thanks!

[Eric***]

That's cool and pretty inspiring. I haven't had my own place in over 4 months and almost everything is in storage, so my overhead is pretty low right now, but I'd still like to thin out the stuff I have considerably. It's kind of empowering to dig out and purge all of the stuff that you don't use regularly. It's kind of crazy the emotional attachment you can quickly develop when it comes to stuff.