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Today, the Men of Manversation, Nate’s wife Erica, and our good buddy Ruben are coming by the house to help with with a litte garage project. Over the last couple years, I’ve been in the process of building a woodworking shop in my garage. I spent a couple semesters at school building a heavy duty Scandanavian-style workbench, I’ve acquired a few machines, and last year about this time, my Dad and I wired the garage for the 220v electricity some of the bigger machines require.

Along the way, my placement of new machinery has not been optimal and my organizational skills in general have been lacking. I really reached a tipping point when I ordered a new lathe (I’m taking a woodturning class this semester) and found I really didn’t have anywhere to put it that made sense. You can see a picture of the overall mess above, and a picture of the lathe’s current home is below:

In addition, there are several random piles of lumber strewn about. So today, I hope to build a lumber rack to organize all of that and move a few of the bigger pieces of machinery and my two workbenches around to a more optimal layout so I can actually start getting some work done.

With any luck I’ll have an update for you next week and some pictures of a much improved workspace!