> It was fun and all, but it's
>really something that should only be undertaken in one's garage, and,
>well, I haven't got a garage any more.

Is this actually safe? My great-grandfather was deeply adamant that if someone were going to get into handloading and at-home gunsmithing (which he was, but not as a hobby; the man was born in rural upstate in 1904, where that sort of thing was less a fun hobby and more an actual necessary skill) it should be in a dedicated space and especially shouldn't be anywhere that could potentially fill with volatile fumes and other curious kinds of moisture and gases, as many garages are wont to do.

In fact, he was pretty firmly against mixed-use spaces as a whole, always for nebulously-defined safety reasons. His carpentry space was rigorously segregated from his metalworking space which was segregated from his extremely well-ventilated painting space (he was a carpenter by trade, had a big converted barn) and his gun shack was a different building entirely.

In fairness, the man may have simply been an excessively cautious type. I didn't know him as well as I wish I had, especially since my grandmother waited until he was dead to drop such interesting chestnuts as "Oh, yes, daddy ran booze across from Canada through all of prohibition. That's where the money for the house he bought me when I got married came from, you know" and "He tried indoor work for awhile, but quit the hotel job after that young man was shot in the lobby" on us. It would have been nice to know he was that awesome when we could still properly appreciate him.

... I may have digressed.

-Merc
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