I took a couple of days and went after cleaning and organizing my workshop with a vengeance. I like to have at hand the tools and material I need for a project. If I don’t take the time and effort to clean up and put things back in their normal storage, I soon can find nothing. I felt I was almost into one of those “everything is lost and nothing can be found” stages.
So the workbench was totally cleared. It was the perfect opportunity to put another coat of polyurethane on the surface. The top is nowhere near furniture grade, but a surface coating keeps water and some of the nasty fluids I sometimes work with like Dykem fluid from soaking in.
A clean and neat shop also changes the appearance that ten projects are in various stages of progress. There may still be about ten projects in various stages of progress; it just doesn’t LOOK that way!
Actually I have only two major projects underway. One is the Pennsy A3 locomotive project and the other is the Robo Boat project. Interesting is they are both scale model projects and both are of a scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot. I have no idea what that may imply except the models are rather large.
Any other projects I have are not ongoing and just spring up when they are reactivated by some immediate request or need.
For now I am trying to stay on track with the two main scale model projects. We’ll see how that holds up under (water & steam) pressure.