I got the boro shelved and started working on the Satake. I'm not exactly sure how to get that organized. I have to think about that for a while. So many colors...so little space! I'll have to get some more vinyl fence things and will have them cut to 8" to handle the shorter Satake rods and then get them put in the kiln shelf unit I have set up.
Most of the rest of the studio is getting cleaned up. I put the ceramic molds on the shelving to the back of the studio by the garage door. Cleaned the toolbox today. That was a greasy mess. Let me tell you the story of the toolbox...it starts with an uncle who passed away in 1980.
Uncle Ray decided he was going to remove some external fuel tanks from a pickup because he decided they wouldn't be safe to have on the vehicle in the winter months. Now...in his wisdom, he decides to use an oxy/acetylene cutting torch to cut the chains holding the tank in. Well, you guessed it. He nicked the tank. And yep, it was full of fumes. And *poof*. He lit the tank on fire, the truck on fire, the torch was still running.... It was a disaster. The toolbox was an innocent bystander in the fire and was quite charred and warped. Uncle Ray also torched the truck and seriously warped the ceiling of the shed it was in.
My brothers repainted it years ago, and then decided since only some of the drawers worked, they'd give it to me! (Gee, wasn't that nice of them...??) Turns out, the drawers can be fixed by beating them back into shape, and then we'll put some liquid graphite on the drawer slides and I should be good to go! My little brother tells me that he has some old toolbox locks that we can switch out the existing locks for. Not that I anticipate the need to lock the toolbox, but it's nice to have the option to if I wanted to.
Really, all that's left is cleaning off the benchtop, cutting some ceramic tiles in half to line the very back of the bench, and getting tools put in the toolbox. We have fire. And it's about time!
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