Ah, well, there is... that.

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While I am not getting to much, thinking okay just not doing, I am moving ahead with some plans.  One thing that bugs me is having tools but no real place to work, when I can work.  To that ends, it has long been a goal to create a workspace.  Now, that requires a bench, to my mind pegboard, and some basic tools such as a vice or two, perhaps a minor anvil, and a bench grinder.  Call me old school.  Which I am, if more in intent than practice if that lack has more to do with incapacity than lack of interest.  So... I ordered a bench kit and pegboard.  It is relatively inexpensive but will require tools and stock (which I might actually have), plus the energy.  Still... it might help me get to little, and bigger, projects a bit more easily, surely.

Oh, it will be far from a dream shop.  It is a basic system.  I will be reviewing bench grinders and vices, figuring out what will go where in the shop area, looking for a seat of some sort.  Really, there is no end to what to consider with a shop.  Desert Cat built his own cabinets.  And, really, they did look good.  He proffered a bit of advice, and second thoughts about diy on those.  But they do look good.  As an example of where, and how involved, one could get with a shop.  And you can do it on a slimmer nickel, and well, if you know what you are looking for used, and where to look.  A project within a project for projects, that helps, is complicated, is never quite there, but which serves and can be employed up to one's own potential.  While dauntingly deep it is enticingly alluring.  So a shop is a woman?  Well...  maybe.  :p

Ah, but... plumbing first.  Hmm, then again, the problems I am having with plumbing, to a degree, come about from not having a good place upon which to set the cement panel so as to braze the whole of the connections at once.  Perhaps putting the bench together would give me the place to sit and work on the whole line so as to not be doing each elbow, straight, union, at a time.  Hmm, there is that.

I have put one of these benches together before.  It can be difficult, if the main complication was that the bench was too big to be completed outside of where it was to be located, as it didn't fit through the opening, barely made it as was.  The area in which I finished it was quite small, too small for a complete build.  So it had to be partially built in my kitchen, then that part and the remainder taken into an that tiny area and finished.  I had hoped to do some cuts on the lower platforms to allow for closer sitting, but that was just too complicated to mix in with what else I was doing, considering that I had to adjust sizes, on the fly, to even get that to fit with room for me to sit near, in that first project.  I won't make it the full four foot width, probably, but I might well make it the full eight feet of length if I have the space as I see things.  In any case, I will have the room to tinker on the fly and improvise with this project.  Yeah, eight feet, if I can do it, would give me a ton of room, and be endcapped with a double bench grinder on one side and a metal, and possibly wood eventually, vice on the other side.  Hmm, yeah,  I can see that.

Isn't a home shop the other other reason to... even have a home?  Yep, more and more correlation with women.  *cough*  Gah!  It is indeed good to be the king, even with a queen.  Then again, how to be a king without a queen?  It's the old... if a bear sh... and woods... knows?  *grins*  By the way, I did buy some Poo- Pourri.  Uhrm, no, not for me.  Quit looking at me like that!  My sh must stink, and others must abide that.  It's a king thing.  No, for a young woman who got married while I was off tracking down my life.  I figure, now that she is queen... well...  

Later.