The workshop is in one of the side aisles of the middle floor of the 300 yo barn; under will be the microbrewery. Workbenches I made for peanuts from 200 x 40 Spruce (ripped as required) which costs £2/m here. Two English FAQs: (1) No, the rain or snow never comes though the gaps / holes / owl openings because the roof overhangs by at least four feet and (2) no, nothing rusts because the air is so much drier here than In England.
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Jealous doesn't even begin to describe it. I have a 6'x6' man cave, my wife uses it as a dump for her unwanteds but keepers.
Ahem, Flyinthesky, I believe you mean envious.
Anon, put me down as covetous ;-)
As shed porn goes - that's utter filth. Keep it up.
I'm just off to my mancave with this image - and my mancave locks from the inside......
It looks like you're going to set up some woodworking enterprise and... have you thought about a small forge? Hmm, or have you not asked her indoors...........yet er maybe?
;-)
Spent the best part of my adult life in a workshop - precision engineering for the military mostly. Would you believe my first piece for what would become the Eurofighter Typhoon was back in '89. We did emergency work during Gulf War I - helicopters take such a beating in desert environments. Needless to say I don't have a 'mancave' and any spare time is spent walk/running the sercet paths* between the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire.
*The paths used by King Alfred when he gathered his men to take on Guthrum's Great Army in AD 878.
Steve
I'm not jelly.. noooo not at all :-)
My shed is full of pushbikes plus a motorbike so I have to get everything out to get to anything :-(
Radders - very nice. As we would expect solidly constructed. What do you make in there?
Norwegian buoys?
a lake too?
And er oh btw Radders, I see you haven't crafted yerself a broom yet?
;^)))))))))))))))))))))))0i!
haha! Thanks all
- Long time hobby making picture frames and restoring furniture. But first I also need to make new windows for the house and build a kitchen (long story but local joiners won't reproduce thin framed historic windows ..)
- Yep they got lakes here but not for old diesel fishing boats ;( so buoys, lifejackets, mooring lines and a few boxes of marine spares are just here because I didn't want to leave them or throw them out and there was room in the truck
- Ah yes, this was the point of the clean-up. Pics taken when wood waste / empty boxes had been swept off the workbenches but not yet from the floor
There is nothing so English as a shed: we do not live in a democracy but a Shedocracy.
England, is missing one of her sons lad. But have to say, I am chuffed for you, and the move seems to suit you, even that you're, I deem, actually loving it and that's all there is to say, when alus said and done.
I have never understood the almost primeval affair that men have with wood - the connection is almost genetic. It is almost impossible for me to pass a piece of useable wood and not wish to make it into something.
Envious, jealous, whatever - happy musing; you've cheered me up just looking and dreaming.
Yeah, I do so love wood and working with it, surrounded by it and as my old school teach used to put it - "endlessly smoothing".
!"feel the grain".
Blimey! Just imagine the migrants you could snaffle away in there! Just kiddin'!!
I have two man caves (not as large as yours) and one is a garden tool store + wood store (I have enough for winter) and the other houses my workshop plus other bits & bobs like a genset for example!
You seem to have got a pretty good life there, Radders
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