Poll- What shop task do you dread the most?

[Cliff Newton]

The one thing I dread the most is resawing on my bandsaw. I must have no idea what I'm doing because the results are always unpredictable.

[Byron Trantham]

I hate cleaning up shellac in my spray gun! No matter how well I do, it seems it's still there.

[Tyler Howell]

Emptying the DC and changing Air filters

[Mike Evertsen]

I don't like dealing with clients. I'm not a salesman type person, which I'm sure is part of why I don't have a back log of work.

[Frank Pellow]

Looking for a missing tool.

[David Wilson]

Havn't done it in several years but I would have to say (going to the emergency room)

[Mac McAtee]

Cleaning off my workbench. Stuff just seems to collect there over time and I end up working on a space about 10" wide and 18" long.

[Jim Becker]

Hmm...leaving it?? Chosing which project to work on at the moment?

Seriously, there are not many things that I don't enjoy doing in the shop, even the tedious ones like machinery maintenance. I have no fear of my tools nor of using them to their fullest capacity. So, I'll have to agree with David...dealing with the boo-boos!

[Ted Shrader]

Sanding

Ted

[Brian Buckley]

Cleaning brushes. I never seem to get it right.

[Carl Eyman]

Byron: I mix shellac in a Waring Blender. When I get through it is a mess. I rinse it with alki and it's still a mess. I bring it home, my wife puts it in diswasher, and it comes out pristine (almost). There are a few spots where some solid granules (size of a grain of sugar) remain, but they wipe off easily. She uses Cascade in the dishwasher and I think that is tri-sodium phosphate based. I think you may be pleased if you try it.

[Marvin Ewing]

Cleaning up the shop .I do find tools i've forgot about.

[Lou Morrissette]

DC maintenance, for sure.

[Jason Tuinstra]

Cliff, that's a funny question. In point of fact, there are many things that become tedious and even boring in woodworking. I've often thought, "If I don't enjoy sanding, planing, changing bags, fixing tools, mortising 150 times for one project, why do I woodwork?" I've come to the conclusion that my chief joy in woodworking is getting to behold something that is finished. In my labors as a pastor I am always dealing with works in progress, including myself of course. In woodworking, you have obstacles and hurdles that are not always fun, often tedious, and many times frustrating, but you inevitably reach a point where you say, "Finished!" That's what drives me and that's the joy that I find even in the journey. When the sum of all the pieces work together to make a beautiful piece of usable furniture that radiates with natural beauty, that's what it's all about for me. And for me, often times the more unpleasant things you have to do, i.e. things that add to the overall workload like mortised joints, dovetails, pinned joints, etc., the more beauty and satisfaction there is when you're all done. Woodworking is real life in so many ways, isn't it?

[Bob Fuller]

Cleaning off my workbench. Stuff just seems to collect there over time and I end up working on a space about 10" wide and 18" long.

How do you keep so large a space? I end up having to push things into a pile just to get any space on the bench.