What are your jeans doing today?

[pomata]

@MJF9 I loved Brick Lane when I visited London with the family. I shopped at vintage football shirts as well! Didn’t know about the battle of cable street and the mural, very interesting. 

[Maynard Friedman]

Buying this statement piece

[julian-wolf]

Today: conditioning, reading in sun

…feat. swag tee, Warehouse jeans, Russell mocs + Frank's boots

 

Last week: getting up before dawn to visit the hot springs by the sea

…feat. Union Special cap, Tender Co. roll neck, Vanishing West jeans

[rbeck]

Sweated my ass off in my Left Field Smokestacks this weekend playing a couple gigs

[Double 0 Soul]

I hope y'all sitting comfortably.. here comes my entire summer in one post

Last we saw, i was still digging our swamp of a back garden out.. i dug 16 tonnes of wet clay out of here by hand.. you can see the previous (wet) ground levels on the walls.. no foundations.. everything is just built directly onto wet clay in 1880

..i bought some green oak railway sleepers and spent many 'an hour sanding the damn things up..

..laid 8" of sub base with geotextile membrane

..this is my theory, it sould be free-draining

there is also a surface drain under the limestone going to the drains so the oak never stands in water.. coated with Osmo oil

..trad pegged joints?

..or so one would think

.. i've hidden A4 marine grade stainless bolts here and there.. £204 quids worth of stainless landscaping screws!!

..hired a compaction plate to get the sub base perfectly flat and bought some insanely expensive/heavy/beautiful yorkstone from Birchover Reclamation at Wirksworth.. i had to strap each piece to the sack barrow with ratchet straps and wheel them up the lane to the house..

..the old Victorian ledged and braced door i removed from the outside loo when that lead pipe burst (remember that?)

..ended up becoming part of the Apothecary Terrace Garden at the 2023 RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, it won silver gilt

https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-flower-show-tatton-park/gardens/2023/apothecary

.. what was left of the stone, i used to make a pad for the wheelie bin storage.. made some more paper templates

Cut a few of the edges folks wont see, the safest way of doing this is to make sure you're on a flat, level and stable surface, secure the stone to the pallet with a couple of g-clamps or you can do what i did and cut them on a wet slippy slope, stood on polythene, holding the stone in place with your foot..

..cleaned and laid some reclaimed granite cobble stones and 3x granite staddle stones for mounting the pergola i was making.. you want to raise it up away from the ground so the oak doesn't rot..

..bought some structural grade green oak beams

It's a combo of joints.. half lap, mortise and tenon then pegged

..once i'd got it constructed, the neighbours and i had a good 'ole roof raising when we lugged it onto the granite staddle stones.. it dropped on the pins perfectly

..it's taken me 5 months (with July off for terrible weather) to get from this

..to this.. not bad to say i've never done this before??

..behind the granite staddle stones i've hidded a stainless bracket (the tannings in green oak eats through everything which isn't stainless) with an alu spacer i turned on the lathe.. and an A4 stainless bolt holding the whole thing down.. almost every element is bespoke

..i probably need'nt have bothered but if it sways in the crazy ass wind.. it would have a long way to fall

..under the pergola, i'm planting wildflower seeds and a honeysuckle to cover the back wall.. then i'll just give it back to nature

I've only got the new door i've made to fit in the outside toilet and some seating to sort out...and it's done, then i can get involved in forum land again and maybe even wear some jeans

..tbc

Edited September 8, 2023 by Double 0 Soul

[Duke Mantee]

Good job fella - especially as you’re getting on a bit. But it looks great!

[smoothsailor]

You didn’t wear jeans doing all this^ ?

amazing job

[Double 0 Soul]

I started off wearing the McCoy’s .. I posted them a few pages back, they were that filthy after a couple of days digging even a 40 wash left them streaked with mud.. I switched to my old decorating shorts soon after, they’re beat/torn  t’fk now but they’ve served me well..

With all the bending over lifting stone slabs.. the button detached numerous times

I’ve also gone through numerous old Warp tee’s

..and my old sombrero was as essential part of the combo.. keeping the sun off

 

Edited September 9, 2023 by Double 0 Soul

[Double 0 Soul]

 

[Double 0 Soul]

Nearly there..

The clover is sprouting

..i used slate to cover up the peagravel/drainage behind the oak

Like a lot of houses in Sheffield they're built on a hill so the weight of the land above is pushing my outside wonky toilet away from the wall

...the floor stays where it is but the further up you go.. the more lean you have, i wanted to keep the door square and parallel so it opened/closed properly so i tapered the frame from this

..to this

.. i'm keeping my bike in there now i've put a new ceiling up and got rid of the toilet, i've kept some airflow top and bottom so it doesn't get damp and got creative with the tapered lintel

reclaimed brass fittings

Beehive escutcheon

..this was falling down in April

..boxed in the new tap (pipe from the cistern feed) and stuffed if full of sheeps wool so hopefully it doesn't freeze/burst pipe again..

.. finally got those flip down seats fitted after a 22yr hiatus

..used some poppy green oak

.. brass cabin hooks to hold the bin storage lids open

..and some old carabinars which i've attached to a lifting eye with cord.. so when you open the lid and attach to the cabin hook.. your bin lid opens too

..JMC

and we all lived happily ever after...

[Broark]

Nice work 00, cozy looking backyard!

[Double 0 Soul]

Thanks B..

[chicote]

Beautiful work 00! Really inspiring.

[MJF9]

Cracking job OO... brick and stone delights and hours of gazing pleasure

Edited September 18, 2023 by MJF9

[Duke Mantee]

Amazing detail you’ve crammed into that little 6x4” diorama

[MJF9]

Short trip to Warsaw recently

The building formerly known as the Joseph Stalin's Palace of Culture and Science, which was a ‘gift’ from the Russians in the 50s

A few buildings around Warsaw Old Town Square which was flattened in WW2 and rebuilt after the war to resemble pre-war Warsaw (what a tongue twister you say!)

In Big Yank Anatomica / Denime Lot 220A (are they even wide tho') / Duke Mantee belt / Buckweat

Edited September 23, 2023 by MJF9

[JDelage]

Went to Seattle's University District farmer's market today, as I do most Saturday, and bumped into a fellow denim fan, wearing a Tender denim jacket, I believe a 902, and some denim pants I didn't recognize. First time I see a Tender item in the wild I believe. Maybe this person is here, if so, hi again. 

[Toegun]

@MJF9 there was a ‘myth’ that the Russians planted a nuke under the palace  to keep the Poles in line. 

[Double 0 Soul]

Ive just stuck a new roof on the wood shed before i fill it with logs for the winter..

..old roof

..peeled the felt off

..new ply roof

..i can't wrap xmas prezzies.. apparently? but i seem to be incredibly good at neatly wrapping a pitched roof with lots of angles?

..maybe it's one of those wanker things that men do.. convincing women that only they can multitask whereas we can't because we're just useless men.. therefore it makes more sense that you do the bulk of the household chores because you can do them all at once in a tenth of the time.. if i was to do them all singularly it would take me all weekend!?

..men eh?, i've got our number

I had enough felt to do the shed too

..the facias were rotten but it was the Sheffield half marathon today so our road was closed to cars..

.. zip-tied one of the facias to the bike

..and rode to work.. past this sweet van

..made 4 new'uns and rode back home

[MJF9]

Not today but recently

Short trip to Athens... lovely place and worthy of a longer stay... I'll be back (as Arne once said)

The Acropolis lit up at night

Dinner at the swanky Hotel Grande Bretagne

View of the Greek parliament from the hotel... notice the Olympic rings on the right side, marking the site of the very first Olympic games

Another view of the Acropolis

Denime and Aldens in need of a clean

Edited October 7, 2023 by MJF9

[Double 0 Soul]

I went for a little spin around the hood last weekend.. it was 24°C in October.. it was 4 (f'kin) °C yesterday morning

..through the trail

..up the hill

..past the farm shop

..Mayfield valley

..and home for a beer with Len

.. less civilised, my kid and his friends.. having woken up at our house in the morning afternoon joined Dom Whiting's D&B bike ride which finished up in the park nr our house..

 

Edited October 13, 2023 by Double 0 Soul

[Thanks_M8]

Tried my hand(s) at perfecting baguette recently.

Not 100% original since I use oatmeal in the sourdough starter, should use only wheat flour, but the yeast activity is way better with oatmeal mixed in.

First picture from today (higher heat, steeper angle when scoring => better ear, more oven spring) 

Second picture shows the difference good, was a few weeks earlier. Dough about the same, fermentation about the same. Next time maybe even a bit hotter to get more contrast. Lets see how they taste.

[smoothsailor]

Beautiful m8, I try and bake twice a week. I wonder how it will go now the temp dropped quite a bit. More starter I guess.

 

didn’t bake this weekend cause me and my jeans wet to Dresden Germany for the bespoked bicycle show. It’s show/convention for handmade bicycle from builders around Europe . I maneges to get a spot. Well managed, I just signed up and paid for it. But I guess they had a look at who I was. It was pretty cool to bike nerd all weekend, talk about little details etc. Learned a bunch by just listening to builders talk to eachother.

saw some beautiful bikes

[Double 0 Soul]

The bike on the right.. judging by the klampers.. it that the frame you fillet brazed?

The last time i saw it.. it was in the raw and you was trying to decide on a frame colour

Can we see it?

Edited October 15, 2023 by Double 0 Soul

[LazyS]

i'd like to see a better picture of the flash pages in the background too!

[smoothsailor]

Yes, that’s the one@Double O Soul.

the decision of the color dependent on the guy I made frame for. I would take the secondary he chose for his frame, hoping the paint job would be a bit cheaper. So he chose a yellow frame(same yellow as my other bike) with purple lettering. So my bike came out purple with yellow lettering. Still an expensive paint job, next time powder coat

 

[smoothsailor]

The flash I painted @LazySwas sort of a banner for my spot. I thought was cool to put Dresden on there in old English lettering . Now a lot of people thought was from Dresden. The cycle crowd don’t think like the tattoo crowd.

the designs are mostly recycled design that I made for another cycling event where I tattooed at

 

[LazyS]

Thanks! Awesome! The frog and bull dog are my favorite!

[Thanks_M8]

@smoothsailor really cool stuff! How did you get into making your own bike frames?

Re baking: do you make a preferment? Since I started with using it, I never had problems with bread not rising cause auf outside temps.

 

[smoothsailor]

@Thanks_M8 I did a frame building course in beautiful Frome Summerset in 2019. Middle aged man type thing I guess. Had so much fun doing it i sourced all kinds of tools and a workshop spot. I like the part to make something for someone withkut that person being there. Opposite of tattooing.

 

bread, no I make enough starter the night before, in the morning I mix the the dough and bake that night.

maybe 10/15 min hands on.

last winter I killed a starter, but I have a little bit more understanding about it now.

I get my starter out tonight and see how it goes.

I never get the big ears, but the flavor is always good