Luthier Tips du Jour Mailbag 174 - Broom and dustpan storage solution

Luthier and Instructor, Robert O'Brien, offers a solution for storing your broom and dustpan.
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[@roughcutguitars]

Dear Robert, Thanks for this tip, but... I didn't have a metal pole in my shop so I went and got one of those 10' ones (since I wouldn't touch anything else with it). Problem is I'm always too busy/tired to put it up, so I keep leaving it on the floor. Now I'm tripping over my broom, pan, AND metal pole. Any advice???
Signed "Chagrined in Chicago"
;-)

[@SevanGuitars]

Maybe a bigger magnet. Just put it in the room, and it will lift the pole for you.

[@roughcutguitars]

@@SevanGuitars hehehe

[@dantheman348]

You need a giant broom to stick the pole to. Then stick the regular sized broom to the pole held up by the giant broom and voila problem solved

[@Bigvs.Dickvs]

...and like the many of us solving this even before the US was a country, we hammer a nail or put a screw on a wall, and if the broom and dustpan have a little hole for *that* specific purpose, we fit it there, and if not, just grab a piece of string and make a loop for it. Solved multiple centuries ago when guitars weren't even called like that and instead called citars.

[@132colinnorth]

I just vacuum my floor using a flexible hose from my dust collector. no pan. no broom.........😎