{"id":273,"date":"2011-11-04T22:35:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2014-05-23T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T05:14:49","slug":"look-upon-my-workbench-ye-mighty-and-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Look upon my workbench, ye mighty, and despair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<style> img { padding: 2px 8px 8px 4px; border: 2px solid black; } <\/style>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27076997@N00\/7375136084\/\" title=\"My built-in workbench by LogicalZero, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7220\/7375136084_4f8c3ea2c2_q.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"My built-in workbench\"><\/a>With the wrap-up of the big <a href=\"https:\/\/artisansasylum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artisan&#8217;s Asylum<\/a> buildout, I was finally able to outfit my own 100 square foot workspace and unpack the 64 cubic feet of stuff in my assigned gaylord*, everything shipped over from the old Willoughby &#038; Baltic space on <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=13+Joy+Street,+Somerville,+MA&#038;hl=en&#038;sll=42.036922,-71.683501&#038;sspn=2.733443,5.817261&#038;oq=13+joy+stree&#038;hnear=13+Joy+St,+Somerville,+Middlesex,+Massachusetts+02143&#038;t=m&#038;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">Joy Street<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The huge new Artisan&#8217;s Asylum space is part of the former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/somerville\/news\/x979442274\/Ames-Envelope-sold-to-Wisconsin-company-Somerville-plant-to-close\" target=\"_blank\">Ames Safety Envelope<\/a> factory on <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=10+Tyler+Street,+Somerville,+MA&#038;hl=en&#038;sll=42.380652,-71.088586&#038;sspn=0.01062,0.022724&#038;oq=10+tyler&#038;hq=10+Tyler+Street,+Somerville,+MA&#038;radius=15000&#038;t=m&#038;z=13\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Street<\/a>. The slim majority of the place has been divided into 50 and 100 square foot rental plots, separated by chest-high partitions. Even with wood, welding, machining, and electronics shops &#8212; each nearly as large as the entire space on Joy Street &#8212; there are more than 100 of these private spaces. My space is #7, directly behind the front desk. It&#8217;s also next to the electronics shop (<em>E+R<\/em>, for <em>electronics and robotics<\/em>) where I do most of my work.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\"><!--more-->I installed a built-in workbench, spanning the short end of the space and wrapping onto half of the longer wall to the left. It&#8217;s built from 2x4s with heavy, salvaged modular desk tops forming a smooth, durable work surface. Since I intend to do various types of work in the space, I built the workbench to be multi-purpose, with both a low area for seated work (e.g. computer stuff) and a larger, higher area for standing work (everything else). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27076997@N00\/8599644416\/\" title=\"IMG_20110816_204732 by LogicalZero, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8234\/8599644416_6322e95279_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" alt=\"IMG_20110816_204732\"><\/a> * Yes, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulk_box\" target=\"_blank\">gaylord<\/a>&#8216; is the proper term; stop snickering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the wrap-up of the big Artisan&#8217;s Asylum buildout, I was finally able to outfit my own 100 square foot workspace and unpack the 64 cubic feet of stuff in my assigned gaylord*, everything shipped over from the old Willoughby &#038; Baltic space on Joy Street. The huge new Artisan&#8217;s Asylum space is part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[53,38,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalzero.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}