In what's getting to be a tiresomely long history. But at last I can actually talk a little bit about how I've set up my current space.
Like a great many artists, I've been on the lookout for suitable storage for my supplies. One item on the long-term wish list, from before I even became a lampworker, was a mechanics’ tool chest, which has lots of shallow but very wide, deep and strongly mounted drawers. They're very expensive, but wonderful. Time and luck presented me with something else just as good: map cases.
view of the studio from the door, showing map cases, steel table, torch, arm rests, and kiln. Almost cropped out is the ventilation shaft; behind the flameworking table is the stringing desk.
Three of these things were up for grabs, and the wizard's name got pulled for one, a ‘top’. Someone else, who got only a bottom, decided s/he didn't want it, and put a note ‘take me too’. Drawers large and heavy-duty enough to support maps support glass rods very nicely. One of our neighbors in Detroit threw out the old steel table, which we salvaged, stripped, and waxed using a propane torch and a chunk of beeswax (I wanted a nontoxic coating. Bonus is that it smells good.)
As it happens, the map cases are exactly the height of the steel table legs, so we removed one set and slid the map case under one end of the table, leaving just enough room for me to sit comfortable thereby making the most of limited space.
- main studio file
- starting on new studio
- wallpaper removal
- painting tips
- ventilation
- not as tidy 2005 studio, showing hood
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