Welcome to Men’s Sheds on ChangeX! Shed by Shed, we're building a global movement of spaces where men can come together to find meaning, purpose, friendship and belonging. Here you can learn more about Men's Sheds and learn how to start or join a Shed in your local community. I'm looking forward to helping you get started.
Phil Johnson, US Men's Sheds Association
Welcome to Men’s Sheds on ChangeX! Shed by Shed, we're building a global movement of spaces where men can come together to find meaning, purpose, friendship and belonging. Here you can learn more about Men's Sheds and learn how to start or join a Shed in your local community. I'm looking forward to helping you get started.
Phil Johnson, US Men's Sheds Association
Project Completed: We had five guys help Makerspace with their theatrical Stage.
At their request to help students MSOB built a structure to support the small raised platform for their theater productions. Thanks to Dave, Time, Jack, Marshall, and Ben.
Aloha guys~
I’m 71 years young, and moved here a bit over a year ago after retiring from project management of a high-end pool/spa/water feature company on the Big Island, Kai Pono Builders.
I have basic wood and metal-working skills, good small engine and vehicle mechanics for many years, moderate computer skills, good writing and word-crafting skills.
I like “playing” with stone, wood, metal and repurposing things/tinkering. Recycling and minimizing my negative impact on the Earth is important to me. Being of service to my community ( large and small) is important to my well-being.
I’d like to share workshop space with someone else as I’m currently limited to 1/2-ish of a 2 car garage…
Anyway, hope to meet some of you guys one of these days.
Hi Jamil, it's nice to meet you. I agree with you that it is hard to adjust when we lose our workshop or garage space! Good luck to you. Phil
Jamil Thanks for letting us know of your interest. I sent you a Private message.
Marshall is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Men's Shed Meeting to relieve ISOLATION !
Time: Jun 11, 2020 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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We held our first COVID meeting outdoors in Elizabeth Park. 11 guys attended, we had a great time. Will notify everyone for the next round of meetings
OUR Club got into the Christmas spirit this month. Led by Dave Lers we got to build wooden toys via a digital router for carving and lots of handwork to finish. We produced 50 which we then presented to Toys-For-Tots, a U.S. Marine sponsored charity for donations to needy children,
We had an excellent visit with Gary Graham, owner of Shuttle Systems. We learn how he was hired as part of a Boeing group by the US Air Force for a classified space program. They began developing a method for maintaining a well-functioning cardiovascular system in a zero-gravity environment. When the project was unexpectedly scrapped Graham continued his work on what would eventually become the first Shuttle platform: the Shuttle CMC2000.
The Growth Sphere is leaving downtown Bellingham until next summer. The Growth Sphere was a wonderful example of urban agriculture serving to shine the light on our abilities to grow our food inside cities. We will be removing the Sphere and all its plants on Saturday Oct 12.
It will be stored for the winter and put up again next Spring.
Bob Dyer owner of Pacific Injection Molding hosted the Men's Shed for a tour and demonstration of modern automation and 3D printing. We were amazed at how even a small shop is being run completely by automation.
We delivered the Benches to the Bellingham Farmers Market and took our publicity Photo on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019
From left to right; (seated) George, Richard, Dave, (standing) Tom. Marshall, Bob, & Bob, (Seated) John, Tim & Jack.
We then set up a table to recruit new members. In a few hours, we had 11 new interested men young and old to sign-up. Coupled with a Craig's List marketing effort by Ron, we now have 13 new prospective members.
A Place to Sit and Relax
Fantastic Project completed August 15. At the request of the Bellingham Farmers' Market (a nonprofit), we built 11 benches that they can use outdoors on their market days. The old ones were stolen! They paid for materials and we supplied the brains and brawn.
Growth Sphere - MSOB partnered with the MakerSpace to produce an outdoor living exhibit of sustainable foods grown in an urban environment. The spherical structure was cut via CNC Laser and assembled on-site in downtown Bellingham. Approximately 11 feet in Diameter, It will stay active with growing plants until the end of September.
A great Outcome to our Blue Mason Bee Project!
This morning we delivered over 220 Bee Houses to Whatcom Middle School. Doug Banner, Gary Lazarus, and I, presented the finished Bee Houses to the students in the “Common Threads” program. The program is about encouraging students to learn about where and how their food is produced and what constitutes proper and healthy eating.
Thanks to our Men’s Shed team: led by Doug Banner, Rick Terny supplied all the wood needed and sawed it into blocks. Then, Jack Herring, Tim Buckley, George Bertschler, and Jerry Bedlington volunteered to drill holes and shape the wood into Bee Houses.
This is a great community project with large environmental impact for our youth who are saving the Bees and pollinating our local fruit trees, flowers, vegetables and other plants.