dave yoder says oh i believe you mentioned a desire to have a painting area in your shop in
the future how would you configure it this is a question i am still answering in my brain um yeah
i think it would involve a platform with some holes in it so i could put in some upright sticks
that have clamps on them for holding pieces that i'm painting it also needs a little um exhaust
fan so i can airbrush and it can be drawn right into the exhaust fan right there but that exhaust
vent needs to be movable i want to maybe put it on the platform but i also want to be able to put it
like right here on the workbench so i could airbrush and it could
draw through a filter up into the ceiling this means that i'd have to put a fairly powerful
like four or six inch fan up by the ceiling and again i have a couple of these i have bought
them i have the tubing that goes to it i've just never gotten around to to doing this let's see
what else i need an excellent airbrush hanger and airbrush cleaning station to be part of this so
that i can really quickly and dirt like one of the things i love about the new iota brush that
i bought and i bought it because my friends at wet workshop used this brand in their painting
department and if a working shop like weta is using an airbrush in their painting department it
means that it's fairly bulletproof it means that it's easy to clean easy to maintain hard to break
because those that's the tool you are going to pay for you know in a working shop like
where they're painting different stuff with different kinds of paints every single day
sorry no one asked me about this but this is one of my favorite ways to research tools is to go to
a place like what a workshop or the conservation department at the smithsonian or frankie bolito
or or ryan nagato's shop i look at what they're using and ask questions about it and sometimes
i have a different opinion on the tool they're using and sometimes they've got a better one and i
immediately add that one to my collection but wait what were you asking about a painting area yeah
i'm i really am still uh collating what a painting area could be i think it may need to be a rolling
cart that sits over there right now the cart that rolls that does sit over there where i paint um is
a i built it for pulling out my sword emo boxes and utilizing them but i've never really needed
to do that so it's become a painting platform and again like that's a shop infrastructure
problem i have not solved um but we're in this i won't say postcovid but in this in this era
where i haven't done a lot of shop infrastructure in the last three months
because of all the big projects i've had going on uh i am definitely delving more deeply and i just
i like i said at the beginning of this broadcast i just completed a one-day build of a new cabinet
for some machine tools that i've been thinking about for years i spend so much time thinking
about something before i build it and add it to the shop just percolating just sort of pondering
no what what would that what should that go in where could that go what could that live
on what could it live in what what would be a good way for how do i want to reach for that um
how do i want to yeah what this is a really really great question what do
i want the experience to feel like it's a really
great question to ask yourself what do i want the experience to feel like
because i like uh i want the experience to be easy i want the experience of using something to be
easy and simple and i want to pull it out and use it and then i want to put it back and i don't want
to have to do a lot of wrapping up and taping up and de-installing and taking apart i want it to be
efficient and quick and if it takes too long i feel like it kills my momentum and i don't i don't
like that it was a constant source of friction between heinemann and i because there's a whole
bunch of the farm boy in jaime heinemann that does not mind um a logistical difficulty in finding or
retrieving a tool uh it doesn't throw him off and for me i like first order retrievability man i
want everything at my disposal i like i want that so much i have three different sets of allen of
the same set of allen wrenches and they're all 12 feet from each other because of the way in which
i like to work efficiently so i am hoping that in the next few months or even a few weeks that
i do tackle a painting area because it is sorely needed i've been doing much more painting here in
the shop uh the airbrush has been getting a ton of use and uh dave i you're right it is time that i
tackle that i know you weren't um lecturing me but i i'm kind of lecturing myself about it so thanks
for the impetus um we're doing okay a couple more yeah we've been going for about an hour now uh
vickie bly hi vicky hello again um when she wants to know when you are getting a new piece of shop
equipment and there's no more room what are the criteria you use to remove an item in your shop
or do you play tile puzzle move this piece here that piece there so you can get the desired item
where you want to be working um usually it is the second one
you this i joke about the tile puzzle of my life but it truly is an an intense and deep tile puzzle
but you have a an interesting sub question um in here what are the criteria you use to remove
an item in your shop it is very much the marie condo criteria um which is to say i look at a
piece of equipment you know let's say it's a glue gun which i use so much it lives right here
i asked myself do i really use this or do i like the idea of using this the answer is i really
use this it goes right back but there are other tools there are other tools where let's see i
mean i'm not sure i can see many from where i'm standing because i do a lot of culling of this
but like i had a vacuum former a big vacuum former sitting in the corner of this shop for
years that i used once in the entire time it lived here um so
the criteria for removing an item in my shop is simply a set of like two or three questions
how often do i use this how often do i think i'm going to use it does it really belong here and
that's that that's the criteria that's the only criteria it's not like tools are fighting for each
other to get used um everything in here either gets used on the regular or incredibly rarely
look i've got a bunch of small tools back here i've got a a tapping stand for tapping i bought
it because i keep seeing youtube videos and this old tony and other folks using tapping stands and
i want to use them um but i still haven't gotten around to utilizing i bought it last year i set
it up i did some customization of it it's great but i still haven't utilized it and to be fair
i may end up pulling it from the t it sits right behind the camera that i'm talking at i may end
up removing it from that table and putting it into deeper storage simply because my plan for it when
i got it which was oh this is going to be great i'm going to do more tapping and more precise
tapping of the stuff that i need the answer is no you're not i didn't know that at the time
by the same token my my die filer my little uh cast iron machine kit that i built that just makes
a file go up and down so you can carefully file stuff i use that stuff almost weekly um so yeah
i do the marie condo i i look at the tool instead of saying does this tool spark joy i ask myself
how often how often have i used it how often do i think i'm going to use it and does it really
need a central uh out space in the shop or can it go into deeper storage and i use it occasionally
um a great example of that is my hot knife cutter i have a beautiful hot knife cutter
that i've covered on one day builds uh i've covered on sorry tool tips here in the cave
and it does not get enough use for me to have it in regular rotation so it sits on a high shelf i
have to go get a stool and put it in place and get on that stool to go get that tool down in
order to use it but that is a fine amount of friction for a tool that i use so infrequently