Setting up 'shop!
Following a long period of inactivity, I'm making a return to the scene! I've relocated and have finally begun getting together a proper workshop! After months of sitting on a waiting list for an ex-council garage, I've managed to secure what we Brits refer to as a "lock-up"! It has no electricity, no water, and no windows save for the tiny bit of algae covered clear roofing in the middle. Its basically four walls and a door - but that hasn't curbed my enthusiasm! I grabbed the keys as soon as it was available and once I figured where it was based on an ancient ordinance survey map threw open the doors of my new maker paradise!
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| This... this is going to need some work... |
So, I don't want to write a whole blog post on a broom - but needless to say, I wanted a good broom and I didn't want to pay too much for one. Checked out the usual suspects in the big-box hardware stores, but all the reviews were mediocre and brooms tended to be £10-15. I actually came upon my broom by some sort of divine provenance. The missus dragged me out high-street shopping, so when we inevitably made it to certain "off-price retail store" (the one that is essentially a jumble sale - you know...) where I busied myself in homewares like a real man. On my way I found a big sturdy broom for a fiver. A quick test brush, I thought to myself "well - this feels fine and even if it just gets me going, I don't mind a fiver.".
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| *Phew!* That'll do! Already I can get my workmate out of the house! |
Over the coming few posts, I intend to write build logs to the best details I can of my journey to setting up my (work)shop, building the furniture and anything else I happen to build along the way!
This is the first step of my journey.
Written in retrospect,
