Today has been the most practical sort of day, spent sorting and organizing gut. The bane of the workshop is the clean-up. I realize that no one likes to clean, but cleaning is especially problematic in a production workshop where the emphasis is on, well, production. This is a particular problem around the polishing machines. Numerous issues can arise when polishing a string. It is not uncommon for the stones to hit a rough spot and cut the string, or, which is very common, the string does not polish completely smooth, and needs to be set aside in favor of another, more promising-looking rough string. The result is that strings of odd gauges and lengths pile up on the bench and need to be dealt with occasionally, and today was one of those days. We have a new worker starting on Monday, and I want him to begin with a clean bench. So, as Boss of Gamut Music, it is my task to clean up after the last worker to create an unspoiled environment for the new one. Every new worker deserves a clean slate.