After the success of Inaugural Shed Night, GG and I decided it was about time for Shed Night II. . . (Return of the Shed?)
We changed venue this time as GG had just spent several weekends installing a fantastic new bench in his, rearranging the layout and generally making his shed ‘the place to be [...]
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Shed Night II
Posted in Stuff, tagged beer, mig welding, shed, shed night, welding on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bonfire Night antics!
Posted in Stuff, tagged steampunk, bonfire, burner, lamp, bonfire night, lead, melting, November 5th, saucepan on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November 5th in the UK always gives me a legitimate excuse to have a stinky bonfire and burn things!!
If anyone recalls an earlier post about me re-vamping my trusty copper half-cistern and dustbin lid garden bonfire, here it is in action on this year’s Bonfire Night. The improvements I made back then have been really [...]
Finally, some goggles!
Posted in Steampunk, Stuff, tagged gas welding, goggles, steampunk, welding on November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Look what my friend CCBB has just given me !!! (no steampunk aficionado should be without some, apparently!)
Rather than a niche fashion accessory however, these are Gas Welding Goggles, of a Shade 5 strength. As such they may not offer enough protection for my general arc welding (I think around Shade 8 or so are recommended [...]
Shed Night logo
Posted in Steampunk, Stuff, tagged bat symbol, brand, Clivey's Shed, logo, shed, steampunk, welding on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After the success of Inaugural Shed night, some friends and I are working on booking some more dates into the diary (particularly now GG has bought a shiny new MIG welder we all want to have a go on!). . .
We decided we ought to ‘brand’ the event in some way, so that emails / [...]
Any ideas!?
Posted in Stuff, tagged lamp, lantern, oil lamp, porthole, wick on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So I’ve just found this in my local charity shop. . .
I know it’s some sort of lamp, but exactly what kind and how it works is stumping me. It is missing any inner ‘gubbins’ (for example the reservoir, wick etc) so I really can’t figure out how it is meant to be lit, regulated [...]
Steampunky front door
Posted in Steampunk, Stuff, tagged brass, copper, door, front door, lantern, Lille, steampunk on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For what seems like months now, I’ve been repairing/restoring my front door!
As well as being pretty old and tired, it’s also faces directly on to a busy main street so gets lots of wear and tear, traffic soot, general grime etc so tends to get pretty shabby, pretty quickly.
I’m not totally convinced by the colour (to [...]
I got me a shed badge!
Posted in Stuff, tagged readers sheds, shed, Shed Blog, shedblog, sheds on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Uncle Wilko from the excellent Readers Sheds site kindly said he’d send me a couple of his Shed Badges for submitting an article to him about my Shed Night.
Lo and behold they arrived today, and most excellent they are too – collectors items for sure!
Many thanks – I will wear them with pride!
Shopping guilt!!
Posted in Stuff, tagged Dremel, steampunk, tool, Tool Station on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have just treated myself to one of these:
I’ve wanted one for a long time, mainly for use on my Steampunk projects, which always seem to involve lots of fiddly sanding / grinding / polishing of old bits of tat! I was going for one of the more fancy makes (eg a Dremel) when good [...]
Scarface!!
Posted in Stuff, tagged craft knife, DIY, scarface on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Note to self…
In future, do not try doing DIY in a hurry, balancing on a chair, with a roll of masking tape in one hand and a newly-bladed craft knife in the other! It can only end badly…
Steampunk-style dials, gauges and doodads!
Posted in Stuff, tagged brass, signal box, st albans, steampunk on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As part of a city-wide day of activities that happened this Sunday in St Albans, certain buildings and attractions not normally open to the public opened their doors to visitors.
One of these was the old St Albans South Signal Box, situated alongside Platform 4 of the existing station and now fabulously restored by a dedicated [...]
