Show us your shed, workshop, office, dungeon.....

[Sonic Mountain]

I'd be keen to show the workshop but it's such a pigsty, maybe this weekend the big clean before I start the MM-1Q. It could happen

Do it!. There's nothing better than a tidy space to help you think clearly.

I remember back when I was reading street machine there was a builder (I've forgotten what his name was - heavily customised 57 chef - started black then went orange) who's words of advice have always stuck with me. You need to spend half an hour in the shed everyday minimum, even if its not on the project. Tidy up, organise your work space. Then when the motivation for the build comes you are already to go.

Harder in practice, but its not a terrible ethos.

[JohnH]

Do it!. There's nothing better than a tidy space to help you think clearly.

I remember back when I was reading street machine there was a builder (I've forgotten what his name was - heavily customised 57 chef - started black then went orange) who's words of advice have always stuck with me. You need to spend half an hour in the shed everyday minimum, even if its not on the project. Tidy up, organise your work space. Then when the motivation for the build comes you are already to go.

Harder in practice, but its not a terrible ethos.

I often think of something along similar lines that Salvador Dali suggested in his 50 secrets of magic craftmanship, which is basically that you should spend the last part of each day in the studio preparing for tomorrow - washing brushes, preparing canvas, cleaning up, whatever it happens to be. Then the next day when you're fresh, everything is ready and you can just work. Clearly he was talking about painting, but the same is true of anything. I find it especially helpful to think about now I have kids - I can't count the times that that extra bit of effort getting prepped while I was tired and cranky has later paid off when I actually had some few spare hours, and managed to get a whole hell of a lot done!

[corsair]

I often think of something along similar lines that Salvador Dali suggested in his 50 secrets of magic craftmanship, which is basically that you should spend the last part of each day in the studio preparing for tomorrow - washing brushes, preparing canvas, cleaning up, whatever it happens to be. Then the next day when you're fresh, everything is ready and you can just work. Clearly he was talking about painting, but the same is true of anything. I find it especially helpful to think about now I have kids - I can't count the times that that extra bit of effort getting prepped while I was tired and cranky has later paid off when I actually had some few spare hours, and managed to get a whole hell of a lot done!

This. My father taught me long, long ago that until you've tidied your gear away and sorted out your workspace, the days work is most definately not done! The fact that my family often rummage for a tool or some other "thing" in the workshop is neither here nor there; they know these days to leave it as they find it, else much yelling and foot stomping will occur....