I finally found a couple of hours this weekend to cleanup my garage/workshop. It had been slowly becoming a disorganized mess over the last few months. I haven’t had enough time to start a real project, so most of the work done in the shop had been quick little fix-it or modify-it type of work.
Generally when I am working on things like this I am trying to work quickly because I just want to be done with it. It is not the kind of work I really enjoy. Because of this, I rarely clean up after myself and I eventually end up with a very cluttered workshop that is impossible to work in because I can’t find anything. It almost begins to feel claustrophobic.
After putting everything back in place, I began trying to reorganize a few things. When doing so, I came across several unfinished projects. They are all personal projects that I was working on at one time or another, when something more important would come along that I needed to make. My project would get set aside in a corner or on a shelf, while I finished the “important” project. Then… it was forgotten.
I found two partially made mission style lamps that were to be for our living room. They were about half completed.
I found three marquetry mirrors that are about 80% complete. At one time I had made several of these mirrors, either for clients or friends, but apparently I had started a few more and did not complete them.
I found a business card holder that was only about 25% complete. There were some small intricate parts that, at the time, I did not have the proper tools to make safely.
I found the parts of a chisel mallet that is about 75% complete. I just need to finish gluing the handle to the head and then sand it and it will be completed.
Actually, come to think of it, my router table has never really been completed. When I first started woodworking, I had ordered the plans for Norm Abram’s router table. It is about 95% complete, but I never finished the large bottom drawer. All of the wood is cut, and the drawer slides are sitting where the drawer would be.
Maybe my new years resolution this year should be to finish up the unfinished projects. The next time I am bored, (which rarely happens these days), I can’t blame it on not having anything to do. 
