The Official Man Cave Thread

And we're done. Happy with it!

 

Top job @Vulpes that is really nice, "PARTY"

 

Cheers @Don the Don , it'll be a good room for watching sports with the mates!

 

Tnx Jez. The workshop is behind the red wall...

 

Somehow I expected this post mate...

 

Tnx mate. A lot of work, but well worth it!

 

When he said that the workshop is behind the red wall i did wonder about the whips on the wall.

 

You're all perverts!

 

I was given this for the "cave" today - a Welsh miners lamp. I like it!

 

I attacked the workshop behind the red wall today - I finally have my little workbench now, and some more storage space.

 

The kid brought home a new project, his first, so it's a little chaotic and a bit of a mess at the moment.

 

Good for him a nice Norton, it will look good when he's done keep the pic's coming

It would be nice with some proper bars on it though

 

You found a 10mm spanner... I always wondered where they went...

 

Man, I came around a fast dipping corner one night on an R6 and hit an old oil filter sitting right on my lline with the front wheel.
5p-50p for a while there I tell ya.

 

While hollowbody instuments and semi-hollows certainly are more effected by woods , they do make a difference in any instrument. Something I've experimented with for the past 2 decades ( as an engineer I'm always curious and looking for real proof) As far as "jazz guitars" well.. any guitar can be used for jazz , albiet the norm is hollowbodies...it's the player , not the axe. Oddly when the Strat was young traditionalist thought it wasn't suitable for blues.... imagine that.... Almost all of the semi-hollows are laminate, i.e Gretsch , Gibson because the solid tops are notorious for cracking

 

A Strat can do it all, from jazz to metal. .. well, a Les Paul too...
and ... ok they can all do it all

 

Man Cave / Garage Stuff:

A 1977 T140V engine being finished off and going back in - hooray. I thought I'd show you some of the stuff on the walls.





This is a World War One Sniper Plate. A steel plate built into the trench sides that allowed snipers to take pot shots through a small hatch in the centre. It measures roughly 2 feet by 1 foot high and is about half an inch thick. This is a British sniper plate that has had the small centre hatch smashed away. The plate is actually bent from a few rifle hits.
I've painted the front to commemorate the Great War. If you look closely you can see where the bullets hit. British sniper plates are quite rare, German ones are more common for some reason.

 

Great artwork.

Do your skills include being a concert pianist and Astro-physicist?

Other hobbies include rescuing, healing and fostering injured cute animals and being a volunteer firefighter.

 

Yes, I am very old....oh my name, oh yes, of course, it's J.R.Hartley



A coloured pencil drawing of some of the relative's medals - Peninsular War, Boer War, First World War and Second World War (these were for just turning up and making sure you were seen by the RSM). The drawing is titled Anytime, Anywhere - stand by your beds Chaps, what what.