The Shop Notebook
Another one bites the dust. Finished off a shop notebook yesterday and found myself staring at the corpse like some kind of deranged archaeologist—seven dead volumes since 2015. A hell of a paper trail. But the real question is: Do you keep one? You should. A proper shop book is the nerve center, the battle plan, the sacred text that keeps the gears from flying off. Mine is a chaotic mess of to-do lists, scribbled cut diagrams, half-baked blueprints, and scattered inventories of missing consumables I should’ve restocked months ago. It takes discipline—just a little, nothing life-altering—but it pays off when …
