Heres a small photographic insight in to the work that went in to creating our shop…
We’ve been hard at work for the past 6 weeks making lots of noise and mess with power tools, in the process annoying some of the neighbours with working late trying to get ready for the launch (Apologies)…
Going from a barren empty space with a water damamged laminate floors, boarded up doors and holes in the walls, to the finished shop you’ll see below… Its been a super fun journey and I look forward to what the future holds…
It was pretty daunting getting the keys on the first day… Not really having planned much past the actual ‘getting of the keys’ part.
But we just got in there and slogged though it, planning as we went…
Lots of marking things, then moving things then doing it all over again…
We made a mess but we also made a lot of pretty sweet fixtures and furniture… We also cut some holes in the walls
There was lots and lots and lots of black paint…
“The universe provides”… Most of the shop came from found or recycled materials… Every time we needed a wood for a stud wall, some shelving or cladding, it appeared as rubbish on building sites in our surrounding area.
We moved 95% of the materials by bike… However we could…
Below you’ll see a few snaps of the (almost) finished shop… Hopefully you’ll dig it enough to drop by and see for yourself…
We hung pretty much everything in the shop from key split rings and spare links of 1/8″ chain we’d scavenged… The people living upstairs put up with days of drilling well over 100 holes with an SDS in the ceiling… Fot that we salute you (and also apologise…)
The Raleigh Team Banana got torn to shreds and put to good use…
The tool board sits proud at the centre of the workshop… It took a while to nail all the positioning…
For the opening we booked 3 noisy bands… and gave everyone free beer and wine… Loads of good friends and locals from the surrounding estate joined us for the fun.
Sly we’re without doubt the loudest and most involved. They set up in the street under the gazebo with everyone crowding round. When the set was underway they gave the audience drums and a secret brass orchestra whipped out their horns and started some free jazz improv craziness. Absolutely amazing!
Thanks to everyone that came along and those who sent us their best wishes for opening…
I’m sure there will be many stories to tell from here on in!
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