I’m jealous of the expansive spaces some of you guys have to work with. I’ve included some photos of what my space looked like 7 years ago and how it’s changed as I have been slowly progressing through the restoration with my space constraints…. Used to be clean and neat, and now stuff is dirty, piled everywhere, and I have to play ,musical chairs with every new phase. Half my time is wasted just moving stuff around and re-cleaning and dusting, etc. We’ll be going back in a couple weeks and I’m anxious to begin the cut and buff stage and hopefully my first experience with this will go smoothly and this project can come to a close this year.
My shop is the 26x40 basement of the cabin I built about 15 years ago in the N Ga mountains. If the back half wasn’t occupied by my woodworking shop then it wouldn’t be near as tight…. We moved to FL a little over 6 years ago right after I had just begun the restoration of my grandfather’s old F100. That’s made it drag out so many years longer than I had expected, especially since we don’t make it up every other month the way we used to. My main problem had been limited months that were warm enough to do the painting… and after my wife got heavily involved in the church and some other volunteer work, I can’t just run up for a month at a time like I used to. I don’t have a nice clean and proper spray booth like many of you. I’m currently stuck with a big portable tent style garage that I assemble for the occasion. I’m currently trying to decide what and where I want to build in the next year or two before I dig in on the old Cougar. Easiest would be to add on to the front of the current building since it’s already flat and won’t take major grading of the hillside and tree removal if I go anywhere else…. A separate giant metal building would be nice but I’m not sure how many more projects I realistically have in my future…
Anyway, work with what you have and you can still figure out a way to get it done.
