My first workshop!

Hello!
After several months of unsuccessful job hunting I've decided to start renting a super cheap, moldy little artists space that will hopefully turn into MY prolific workshop/studio/dreamatorium! It has no ventilation, low ceilings, no heating... but it came with a free vice! Ive lived on a tiny canal boat for the last two years, so I cant describe how satisfying it is to finally have a workbench and some room to make a mess.

Ive got a few project ideas to start with, including engineering/design work, sculpture, and filmmaking, but so far all I've done is put time into the space itself; gathering tools, tables, shelves... Ah and I'm finally building up a fun bike for everything that isnt canal chores. I will update this thread as projects progress. For those interested, my old work is here: zewski.net

Im new to Bath, where the workshop is, so if anyone nearby is looking for a riding buddy or freelance designer, please let me know.

sidenote(and probably extreme priority) :
Does anyone know if this is asbestos board? I will contact a specialist as well.

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Congrats!
I’ll be following with interest as I’m just up the canal /river from you in Bradford on Avon. I have a few bike bits if you’re looking for some spares and would be up for a ride /coffee at some point. 😎
In the meantime good luck 👍
Not sure if it’s AIB but worth getting it tested (or just board over it ) Our garage ceiling was covered in it and it cost £££ to get rid of…

The dream!

nice one where is that in bath ? i looked at the arches that are along the lower bristol Rd but they were a bit exspensive what you have there is great. good luck with it

Nice thread, nice website, we should be friends

That giant pepper grinder is brilliant.

Thank you! I am in boa often. When my bike is done I will let you know (and this thread).
Luckily I'm renting so I shouldn't have to pay for any of the removal, if it is asbestos.

It's up at the top of Walcott street, apart of an office building. Swing by if you need a place to make something!

Alright, how do we proceed?

Thanks, I need to hunt that down. I left it with a friend somewhere at some point when I didn't have the space.

Walcott street

Awesome. Haven't lived there in a long time but i grew up on the London road and still visit fairly regularly. It's changed a lot but Walcott street has a rich history of workshops so it's lovely to see that still going. Shame John's bikes died a while back. It's proper Dulwich wanker but Landrace coffee and cinnamon buns are banging.

Nice work getting some space in central Bath, I might be up for a ride when you are equipped with a bike

Perhaps a LFGSS collective Bath ride…?

Oh yeah I would love a bath group ride. I just got back from Berlin where I joined a weekly 'Pizza Gravel' ride. Each week a new person leads an evening ride through some urban gravel that ends up at a different pizza place. It was a great social event that I'd love to replicate somehow.

Perhaps a LFGSS collective Bath

Nightmare fuel

Circle the Drain: rubadubdub, come cycle with us to the pub!

Perhaps a LFGSS collective Bath ride…?

Why not? I renounced my VC Walcot membership

Popped into Landrace last weekend, definitely Dulwich wanker. Maybe I'm a wanker too though.

Nice space, I'm renting a lock up garage which doesn't have the same appeal! I'm just up the canal in Devizes if you ever cycle that far out.

How about a canal towpath ride on April 7th then stop somewhere to watch a bit of Paris Roubaix… (as Rapha used to do so well) ??

Im up for that, the bike should definitely be done by then.

Update: The landlords "landlord," some bigshot bath developer came in and gave his professional opinion that it is definitely not asbestos, but in fact plasterboard from 1982.

brilliant location. alas im back in london now, keep the thread posted on how your getting on:)

Hello! first real week in the shop over and here’s what I’m working on going into week 2.

1. An old Santa Cruz stigmata cx bike. I bought this lovely NOS frame off of @D_Mars and it’s so light! I can’t get over how light it is. I brought a slightly scrappy Stigmata(seen in original post) back with me from California and am swapping the parts over. Just a coincidence that they are both stigmatas, it was a good deal and had nice parts(but too big). I lived in Santa Cruz for a while so I’ve got a soft spot for bikes made there. I think this might have been one of the last models welded in their hq? More to come…

2. I’ve been carrying around a little point n’shoot camera with me for the last few years with the idea of making films out of ‘street cinematography.’ I’ve captured a shit load of videos with it, but only a few ‘films’ have emerged (which is fine by me, I might just be into the act of recording rather than sorting through footage). But lately I’ve been lazy with it/I’m too shy to be a street photographer and the hip bag+camera combo have become somewhat of a dead weight. Not any more!

I am making a gadget to help my filmmaking practice in order to introduce some ‘random’ into the hunt. The device will give me a buzz/beep at a random time every day, at which time I will capture something interesting in my surroundings. Maybe this will cut down on the guilt inducing fatigue of always looking for the perfect shot and never getting it. Easy right…

It’s actually fairly hard to learn how to design a circuit and a pcb in just a couple of days. So I had a couple of hotshot silicon valley friends guide me on the circuit and I made a mess out of the pcb. Everyone’s using 90° and 45°s on their boards, but nobody is laying down their traces free form. Expect the messy pcb to be the next hottest trend in the consumer electronics market. It will run off of a raspberry pi pico.

This isn’t done yet. I intend on adding a method of collecting “true random
” and redesigning the object into a more usable form factor.

I am interested to hear your thoughts.
-Jake

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Bike looks ideal for shitlaning*

Gadget looks like a good discipline generator

*what they called gravel in Somerset before gravel

I like that, Im excited to go shitlaning