Thread: Scribbly notes from the shed

tap, tap, tap, ,,,waiting,,,,

nice shed Spring
now you just need to get over the "post shed build procrastinations"..
That's when you finish the build, but everytime you go in to do some work you find you need another shelf, or need to shuffle those tools around..or.....
Hmmm........that's what you're doing now....isn't it?

... and you don't want to do anything in there just yet that will 'dirty' it, you know, like, sawdust!!

Originally Posted by underfoot

nice shed Spring
now you just need to get over the "post shed build procrastinations"..
That's when you finish the build, but everytime you go in to do some work you find you need another shelf, or need to shuffle those tools around..or.....
Hmmm........that's what you're doing now....isn't it?

Sometimes I find myself just looking at it...in a warm and fuzzy sort of way

Originally Posted by RufflyRustic

... and you don't want to do anything in there just yet that will 'dirty' it, you know, like, sawdust!!

Wouldn't it be good to have a shed where all the walls could be opened up and the dust just blew away

Originally Posted by springwater

Sometimes I find myself just looking at it...in a warm and fuzzy sort of way

I've had my shed for a few years now and I still look at it ...in a warm and fuzzy sort of way

Originally Posted by springwater

Wouldn't it be good to have a shed where all the walls could be opened up and the dust just blew away

and nothing else did Yep

Here's the first product out of the new shed, actually started in the old shed but the new shed's claiming it. Our camera was lent and then left behind touring a foreign city in a taxi can't say I blame it though, so there's been a bit happening without being recorded pictorially. It's nearly finished, just a few touches to go, a few repairs and some hanging points to secure on the back. Its working name is Neva, number two of a gang of four, number three is well in progress but without a camera of our own showing you progress will be intermittent at best. A friend came around and took these shots:

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Materials list:

Most of a eucalyptus Australian standard pallet, Huon Pine (small hearts), 100 odd metres of 200 lb. fishing line, salt, bleach, fabric dye, oil paint, tea, coffee, brown vinegar, bitumen paint/linseed oil/turps, cotton thread, leather belt, brass wire, rusty nails, nail polish and dark rum.

Looking good Springwater. Hmmm, the rum, was that to help with the artists inspiration

Originally Posted by Claw Hama

Looking good Springwater. Hmmm, the rum, was that to help with the artists inspiration

I was wondering that. But I'm sure it was just to spread a stain.

It looks great Springwater. Would love to see it in the flesh.

Originally Posted by springwater

leather, nail polish and dark rum.

yeah, sometimes I need to cut loose in the shed as well

it's looking great Spring, how are you going to present it?

Looking really good SW.

What sort of weight is it?

Yeah...rum...if you search for Neva - King Island and read the story you'll find out why I was inclined to splash a bit on. After a night on it watching Split Enz in full flight somewhere on the Sunshine Coast...1978...I saw red...in a green sort of way...and haven't drunk it since, Tequila, um, no that's definitely not a story for here.

Undy, you are a bad man, you know it I think they'll just hang on a wall, sedate I know I'm not convinced I like a front that you see and a back you don't.

Artme, I reckon it weighs about 25kg maybe.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

What is the blue colour Springy? looks very medieval.

Wish I could give you a simple answer Craw, sorry, the blue is made up of both dye and oil paint, light blue dye went down first then dark. I didn't think I'd get the depth of blue right using dye so I nerviously went for the oil in four blues...you asked

Some little progress to show, if I can call it that I've been so long working at what I'm working on everything seems out of context now but I've got to finish them and gather up all I've learned and start some other things.

Gave "Neva" some reinforcing to the back in the form of fencing wire and stitched back the central hanging point. Gave the front a scouring with a nylon brush and a slurry of salt in warm water, used cooking salt but should have used finer table salt. The idea was to knock back the colour a bit, fray the cotton stitching and take the sheen off things, hard to find baking sun in Melbourne at the moment so the final salty onslaught's guuna have to wait.

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You may remember this one, maybe not. I made some stencils out of .7mm Aluminium plate cut on a jigsaw and sprayed some despatch/freight jargon on with pavement paint...then scoured most of it off with a wire brush and steel wool with turps....makes sense All the holes and gaps had filled with gunk comprising a lovely mix of saw dust, liquid nightmare, lineseed oil and turps. Piece by piece was unscrewed or levered off hot melt glue fixed to the backing board, cleaned, oiled and waxed and re-placed on a bit of ply ready to stitch onto canvas Might brand parts of the "Pallet Code of Practice" in before hand though.

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Feel like putting some fun back into it, been soaking up some stuff like this:
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