Yes lots of hours but high quality ones being I was doing what I wanted to be doing not “had”
to be doing.
I will be happy to finally put this project behind me. My next “for me” project is five interior passage doors and jambs, four shoji, a built in chest of drawers and a fair amount of base and case. Styles are all cvgdf and panels drawer fronts and shoji are cvgayc. With maybe 12-16 available to me on weekends for the project I should be a busy guy many moths to come. All the doors will be shaker style no profile but mortise and tennon together. I have yet to decide if I will peg them and do some kind of mitered double tenon type joint or just a double mortise and tenon and glue.
Anyway I need this bench done so I can get the next thing.
As for drying if you look in the background of my pictures you will see I store my limber collection in the rough stickered for just the reason you suggest. On the other hand I always just sticker my stock as I’m working it down to dimension and never stand it on edge. The stock on my bench still has a fair way to go to final dimension and much of it was only jointed on one side so far.
I keep my home shop hospital steril. I tend to vacuume after any proceadure that creates even the slightest mess. As you well know a production shop is a dust pile. I get enough of that when I’m on the clock that I when on my own time it’s well worth the effort to be as cut free as possible.
Pictures bellow are all I have of the shop I work in on this computer and a small sample of a island I built a few months ago. I guess the photos make it look fairly tidy but I promise it’s a hell hole!
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