Cleaning up the shop I found my clay and wax working tools hadn’t been used in years! Not that long ago – just 8-10 years ago – before cheap access to 3D printers – and I used to have to make my initial physical prototype concept mockups by sculpting them from clay or wax.
Looking in the boxes is a weird dichotomy. On the one hand it seems like such a long time ago in the building of my skillsets, but against the backdrop of my life it seems like I was just carving up models.
The icing on the cake was I then uncovered a wall of boxes of parts scavenged form old electronics from the days before you could easily order parts. While I do feel old now – my shop is much cleaner.