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Tools in multiple workspaces
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Tools in multiple workspaces
I’m wondering if people have advise on ways to be productive when having to work in multiple locations. Particularly curious about tool organization and portability strategies. I share one shop about 45 minutes from home, but also do some work from home. Mostly repair and setup stuff at home and building/more involved repairs at the shop.
Some tools and supplies are simple enough to have multiples of, but for others it gets really expensive really quickly. And easily disorganized. Way too often the “one thing I need” is 45 minutes away.
So, I’ve been playing around with trying to collect tools and supplies for different operations/jobs into specific cases and tool bags/boxes (stuff for setups, touchup work, soldering, etc). Wondering if you all have any advise on trying to make some organized system for moving things between workspaces?
Or is it just a fools errand? Things to not bother trying to include?
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I guess the best way to describe my arrangement is that I have a clean shop and a dirty shop. The dirty shop (still at home) has a spray area, the table saw, the big bandsaw, most of the sanders. I only have a spray area at my house, but I’ve moved most of the hand tools at the shop. I thought I would carry more things back and forth, but it’s just too difficult. Too expensive to duplicate EVERY tool, so I was finding things migrating back and forth between shops.
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Hey Bryan,
Thanks for your thoughts. Your setup sounds similar to something I was doing a hand full of years ago with my woodworking business – finishing in one shop along with some other, more specific work (in that case it was spindle and bowl turning, pretty dusty/dirty work) in the other.
I guess, my point is that I’ve tried this sort of thing in the past in a different context – always with mixed results. My current circumstances have me trying it again with instrument work. It’s never ideal to split the work up into different locations, but I’m hoping to make the best of it. We’ll see.
Thanks again for sharing a little about your setup. Much appreciated.
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