A bar goes in under DJ’s steel
The roof went on in the early summer. Over the last ten days the inside of the workshop has started to look like a room.
The steel is still the first thing you see
When I wrote about restoring the workshop in June, the story stopped at the roof. His steel was kept, painted black, and a new insulated roof went on over it.
It is a different room now. Look up and the trusses are exactly where he put them. Look down and there is a bar.
A frame in plywood, and a top with the bark left on
It started as a plain plywood carcass, the shape of the bar with nothing on it yet. The top is pine, in planks with the live edge left as it came: the front of the bar is the bark side, wavy and rough.
Scorched timber, on the L
The next evening the plywood was gone behind boards of scorched timber. The bar turns a corner in an L, so there is a short side and a long side. It looks best at night, with the wall lights on and the black trusses just catching the glow.
Where two planks meet
The corner is my favourite part. Two lengths of the pine meet on a mitre, each with its own wandering bark edge, and the join is clean. Past it, through the window, is a green field and a fence post.
Windows to the hills
Stand at the short end and look along it: the long front of the bar, the trusses over it, and two windows that look across the fields to the hills. That is the picture at the top of this page. There is still a lot to do here, and we will add to this as it goes.
The steel over this bar is Davey John’s own welding. Read how it was kept, or see what else is changing around the yard.
