October 11, 2005

Space... The Constant Quest...

I was over reading Outfoxed today... He has something of a space issue currently... Boy can I sympathize much of the time... Imagine if you will building a ballroom that is 120' x 60' x 15' tall... Now imagine figuring out how to make that happen in a space that is 30 x 60... Now imagine that all the gear is in the shop, so you're actually down to 15 x 20, of which some is work tables... Been there... Done that... How about building a touring set of a diner in that same space that took up so much room we had to send lumber through the table saw and it passed through a door on the set... Yep, done that too...

There is no shop in the world that has enough space... (well except the metal fabricator I sometimes use who bought an entire steel mill to set up shop in) No matter how much space you have, something will always be in the way, or too close to something that makes dust, or the glue spray area... Its just the way of the world...

Of course your projects expand to fill the space you have too, which doesn't help... For example, we just took on a second warehouse... We moved our old work tables over there so we can build new ones for the shop space... Between the pallet racks, tables, forklift and such, that space is full right now... In the shop space, I've got a couple walls I have to build for a TV studio, and a 70's vintage truck I'm building a flatbed for... Realistically, apart from the two walls, there is no paying work going on right now, and I'm still confined to working on one 5 x 8 table to build them...

And somehow, if I had to I could start building that ballroom in that space again tomorrow if I really had to...

Posted by Backstage at October 11, 2005 10:40 PM | TrackBack
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