My first workshop!

long pepper grinder update:
Thanks to @Thrasher's compliment, Ive gone and collected it from a friends where I dumped it a couple of years ago. It broke shortly after its inaugural cacio e pepe party and has since sat unnused. It was pretty poorly engineered from the beginning so now I'll give it some love.
It was lathed out of 9 individual pieces of jelutong, and it has come unglued between two of them, revealing its internal pipe. This pipe, at 1.5cm internal diameter is way too small to hold both the pepper and 'driveshaft.' The bottom 6in is bored out to hold the CrushGrind unit, which is fed from the top. I will take it apart to give a better idea of whats going on inside... Maybe someone here has a good idea on how to make this thing work better. Standby

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Basic internals and the grinder unit. I cut the stock shaft in half and mated it to a threaded rod at the top and bottom using glue and a collar(that takes up the hole interior space of the column). These collars seem to be stuck now as well... Ridiculous object.

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Amazing design. Looks like something that saltbae would use although he probably wouldn’t as it’s pepper not salt…

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Another update: couch, marble tabletop….and work bench!
The workbench room has a dust sheet now so it’s ready for some woodworking, now I just need to find materials. Does anyone local know of a good place to find affordable hardwood? Bristol has the wood recycling coop, which would be perfect, but I don’t have a car.

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There are always skips with roof joists from loft conversions around Bath

What a great huge space.

I may have missed this already but what is the space going to be used for?

Envious of the division between dusty woodwork area and greasy bike fettling area - nice. And the sofa for recuperative beers!

Ah yes good idea

Mainly woodworking, but also everything else that takes my interest/jobs that come.

Exactly!

I went to Bristol yesterday in search of materials and tools. In my heavily laden backpack of wood planes and hardwood, I bring back this great find! Eucalyptus deck planking from the SS Great Britain, the whopping steamship in Bristol. They are selling several pallets of it at the Wood Recycling Coop. I am looking forward to making something with it.

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Crushgrind have a shaftless grinder mechanism.

For a grinder that long, this might make more sense, as even a good quality shaft is going twist.

Ah great idea! Thanks I will get one

Bike finished! Would anyone like to ride soon?

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Looks great!

One of these could be fun

Great resource, thank you!

Let’s plan a short ish Bath ish forum ride!

I’m up for that 👍

This weekend?

My daughters 14th so can’t do this weekend.. bike looks great btw👌

Alll good, the following weekend?

The following weekend might work for me, this weekend would not have. Who else is local-ish - @Browndonneur has a new gravelly bike to admire. And from the thread - @Haggis @Alf0nse

Next weekend (Sunday) could be a go-er , gravelly or bike path? Trying to get the woodrup built up so could be a good test ride potentially .

Can’t do this Sunday…Mother’s day, gotta pay homage to the matriarchy and the card companies

So Sunday 17th, AKA St Patrick’s day