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 / [...]
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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 »
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, steampunk, st albans, signal box 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 [...]
Shed Night makes it to ReadersShed!
Posted in Stuff, tagged shed, shedblog on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Uncle Wilko of ReadersSheds was kind enough to add a little bit about my Shed Night post on his excellent blog about sheds – read it here. . .
Inaugural ‘Shed Night’ !
Posted in Stuff, tagged beer, DIY, shed, shed night, sheds, welding on September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My old mate GG announced the other day he needed some welding doing on one of his bike parts. Rather than simply spending a wasted evening in the pub therefore (drinking too much Timothy Taylor Landlord and eating junk food, as we tend to do once in a while) we decided to combine the two [...]
Old drawers made into new furniture…
Posted in Stuff, tagged drawers, furniture, laminate, schubladen on August 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I was kicking back this Sunday and reading one of the Sunday supplements – in it was an article concerning people who had been made redundant in the recent recession and used the opportunity to set up their own craft businesses.
One that really caught my eye was the following website (it’s in German unfortunately so [...]
