This may be a weird idea, but I wanted to throw it out there and see if there was any interest...
If you guys live in the city proper, chances are you are in a building where workspace is limited and any kind of restore/crafty work has to be done by hand or in makeshift workshops that you have to tear down before SWMBO kills you.

What if a group of us all went in on a cheap workshop space and made kind of a "SRP Chicago razor co-op" kind of thing? Blade restorations take me forever hand sanding...forget about scale making...i'm interested in trying my hand at strop making...but for just me, renting the space and getting all of the equipment (even if i get deals on CL) is a little out of my range right now...but if there are 3-4-5 of us...it would probably be pretty darn reasonable. Plus we get the benefit of learning from each others successes and failures.

TwistedOak? BenjaminBarker? other folks? any interest?