Thread: What do you call what you do in the shed?

Originally Posted by RayG

Depends who's asking..

If it's someone who i think might be interested, I'll talk about whatever project I'm working on, just now it's repairing robotic flowers.. and helping Josh with the shaper rebuild ..
If it's just a general enquiry, then I generally say, "mucking about, making stuff" or something along those lines.
If it's an annoying relative wanting a job done, I'll say "doing a couple of urgent repair jobs, sorry, can't talk now... gotta go"... If it's the same rellie carrying a 6 pack, then it's "what's up, got something needs doing? Pass the beer.."

Regards
Ray

nothing like ''fridge currency'' to motivate. czech rebublican currency here small job ''sixpac of vic'' bigger job ''slab o vic''

Man cave time!

Originally Posted by j.ashburn

. . . here small job ''sixpac of vic'' bigger job ''slab o vic''

It depends on your taste in beer.
These days I'd be more impressed by a bottle with a bit of taste, as apposed to a carton of the usual ho-hum, blonde, bland and watery.

Making Sawdust

Chief Mess Maker.......
Matt

I'm s'posed to be "working" but all I've done lately is "fiddles 'n twiddles."

Mind you, since moving house it's the "fiddles 'n twiddles" that are contributing to the treasury while "work..." well...

In my own head I call it whatever I'm working on at the time, but 'tinkering' is a general term I have used and like.
'Fooling about with machines' also describes it pretty well to the uninitiated, since I rarely actually make anything.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

I'm s'posed to be "working" but all I've done lately is "fiddles 'n twiddles." . . . .

This sounds very familiar especially recently. I've been trying to get back to my projects for a couple of days but have been doing mind numbing stuff like fixing a toilet and a couple of fly wire doors, trying to clean up the dogs mess and a few other things around the place, and just for fun solving the tricky puzzle of taking apart (and putting it back together) a Nilfisk vacuum cleaner to fix the on-off switch. There are no screws on this thing. The whole thing is held together by a plastic belt that is cleverly hidden under a hard plastic band that runs all the way around. Of course when I finally got it apart the cord rewind mechanism when SPROING and do you think I could work out how to get it back together. I finally managed to fix it but I should really toss that VC out. It's supposed to be a high quality HEPA filter cleaner and while it does pick up dog hair, leaves and chunky bits, my particle detector says using it makes the house dirtier.

I don' have a good answer to this one.....

Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame would calls himself a Maker see Wikipedia article on Maker Culture, although I identify with some of the activities I don't think I like the term much it somehow feels inadequate.

-Josh

When I get asked I am simply "jobbing another job that needs jobbing".

I enter the rip in time/space continuum or friggin in the riggin or playing in the shed. Depends on who's asking and what they want.

I call it P&Q (Piece and Quiet) or staying out of trouble.
Kryn

If it's in reference to the mill or lathe, I usually tend to go with "Making large useful bits of metal into small useless bits." Seems pretty accurate most of the time...

Otherwise it's 'Faffing about', or as others have said 'making a mess'. Or occasionally something more left field, maybe along the lines of 'Building a flux capacitor.' or 'Working out the question to go with the answer 42.'

I just call it 'shedtime' which covers anything from sitting on the couch in the shed to building a new shed. If you are speaking to anyone who is vagely interested they always ask questions.