[FrankHudson]

Originally Posted by j. Kinnaird

I cant explain the phenomenon of disappearing stuff in my workshop. Yesterday a bridge pin popped out of a bridge I was working on and literally vanished. I tracked it for a while and had a general idea of its trajectory and where it should land. Of course it wasn't there but it also wasn't any where else. Gone. I really looked.
Same day, I layed a bolt on my work bench, then got involved with an ancillary project. And upon returning to the bench to retrieve the bolt it's gone and no amount of searching finds it.
These are two examples of a general trend in my shop. i Now buy three bolts when I need two counting on one disappearing and so on. Time is money. If I can cut down on fruitless searches for stuff that has escaped to another dimension I'll be ahead.

Anybody else have similar problems? Are there physical laws at work that need formulating and codifying similar to Murphy's laws. Shop laws like when an object falls to the floor it always bounces under an immovable structure and runs to the farthest most inaccessible corner.

Rather than mammoth ivory or LiquidMetal, I think we need a Bluetooth enabled bridge pin set, with a "find my phone"-like feature. Also, these "SmartPins" tm could send out real-time readings of how they are modifying the timbre of the guitar while we are playing. An optional setting would even allow those data plots to be shared as new threads on that topic here.