Shed Week
It’s Shed Week this week! As previously mentioned the workshopshed made it into the finals of shed of the year, and I’m anxiously waiting the results of the judging on Wednesday. I’ve not got much planned for shed week, hopefully
Posted in: Shed
Tags: In me shed, Punks Not Dad, Shed Week
Workshop at the Eli Whitney Museum
The Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, Connecticut, USA like many museums has a great workshop. It also has a Leonardo-Challenge aimed to get young people interested in design and is home to the The Wilbur and Orville Society. Photographer Tom
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Tags: Eli Whitney Museum, Workshop
The Small Workshop
The first book in a series called “Workshop Solutions” edited by woodworker and author Ralph Laughton is “The Small Workshop”. It looks at creating a workshop out of a small space such as a shed or garage and deals with
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews, Storage
Tags: Build, Workshop
Workshopshed Panorama
An experiment into making stitched photos using Gimp and Pandora, they work quite well with the exception of the extreme ends which need a bit of scaling and rotation as well as overlap and blending. It would have worked better
Metal experts
Arthur Ganson Machines Arthur Ganson has been creating wonderful machines since the 1970s. The video below shows a technique for making wire gears which I think is quite ingeneous. Arthur Ganson’s Sculptures Eugene Sargent Whilst looking for some topics on
Posted in: Casting, Mechanical Gadgets
Tags: Kinetic Sculpture
Thanks for the Votes
The voting for shed of the year is now complete and the votes are being counted. The results will be announced for shed week next month. The winners from each category will now be put before the judging panel DJ
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Tags: Shed of the Year
Tap Terminology
There are many different types of taps, Steven Grantham comments on his blog that there are 38 pages of them in his catalogue. Here’s a few reasons why. Threads There are many different types of thread, metric fine, metric coarse,
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Tags: Taps, Terminology, threads
New Shelf
So that that my furnace bits and pieces did not have to sit on the floor I decided to build a simple metal shelf. I bought some angle iron (15x20x1mm) to form two of the sides. I also used an
Posted in: Workshop Furniture
Tags: Brazing, Steel, Storage
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
