Ron Walker experiencing a virtual tour of the Hume Recycling Centre. The rest of us had to make do with a reality based visit.
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Quite the transformation!
The workshop team recently completed a wonderful project for friend of the Shed, Martin Lambert. As Martin puts it:
“My grandfather’s 110+ year-old sea trunk had some major structural and timber integrity issues (as you would expect).
After much soul-searching and overcoming some initial reluctance, I thought what better way to preserve his legacy than incorporating the timber in a version of Leo Fender’s rare prototype “snakehead” telecaster (1949).
Used a solid pine body (as per ’49) with the sea trunk’s sandalwood for a thick veneer top, shaped, using Fender’s blueprints, by the wonderful woodworkers at ‘The Men’s Shed’ Tuggeranong. Even kept the nautical theme with some brass hardware. A decent heirloom for the grandkids methinks”
Great work, team.
Grandfather Lou’s Sea chest
The reborn Fender!
End of Year Function
Members and their guests attended the TMS End of Year Function held at the Star Bistro in the Burns Club today. Much fun and good food was had and Keith Gilby, Shed President, presented the inaugural Shedder of the Year award to Geoff Nicholas for his invaluable contribution to Shed and community projects.
Keith Gilby addressing the crowd
Geoff receiving the Shedder of the Year Award
New BBQ Trailer
Last Tuesday the TMS took delivery of our new BBQ trailer recently purchased from the Tuggeranong Hawks Football Club.
The workshop team will now set about cleaning, repainting and updating the fitout on the unit over the next month or so. Once it’s finished we’ll have the capability to more easily deploy our sausage and potato teams to local schools and other community events that need catering
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A Horse Float of Ideas
Some of our in-house artisans contributed their work to last weekend’s Horse Float of Ideas, a community arts and crafts project run by the Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
The display was part of an energetic day’s event that also included music, dance and other activities.
Pallet trees
The talented woodworkers at the Shed have made a batch of colourful Christmas trees for one of our major sponsors. Two more to create and the forest will be handed over to our local Bunnings store.
Boxes for Senior Doll Making Group
The TMS workshop supplied a dozen plain boxes for a community doll-making group this week. Here Gayle is accepting the unadorned units which will be painted and converted into music boxes by older women in the Canberra community.
November’s Guest Speaker
Joining us this month is Aoife Berenger from Care Financial Services. CareFS is a community organisation which aims to help lower income consumers manage their finances and overcome debt. Aoife spoke to an attentive audience of over 50 Shedders and left us with some very good advice for managing our money and lowering those skyrocketing utility bills.
If anyone needs assistance paying bills, managing their budget or dealing with problem gambling, Care can probably help.
You can call them on 1800 007 007 or visit http://www.carefcs.org/
Visit to Mugga Lane Solar Park
Today we had an electrifying (sorry) tour of the Mugga Way Solar park hosted by the friendly and professional Yas Karunatilake of Maoneng Australia. The Park has nearly 50,000 panels and generates enough clean, renewable energy to power 2500 homes.
It was a great morning and the 20 members who attended learned a lot about the ACT’s solar power initiatives.
Charlie “retires” from TMS
We celebrated the end of an era this week with the last visit to the Shed by one of our stalwarts, Charlie Crossley. Charlie has been attending TMS for many years and was a leadering Cribbage player, always happy to teach and tutor newcomers to the game.
Charlie sharing his farewell cakes with the crowd
One of many delicious treats!