Starling was born in the shed at the bottom of my garden. That’s no exaggeration, it was an actual shed. It was very nice and sunny, spacious and had power but nonetheless it was a garden shed. It even had a little pond outside with a bridge you had to cross to get into it. You can see a few photos of it here over on Dirt (opens in new tab).
With the big Murmur Factory project and the amazing response to our bikes, we’ve had to upgrade the shed.
So, I’m no longer working at the bottom of the garden and I’ve moved into a proper unit in Bristol.
The new Workshop is amazing and is exactly what I was looking for.
It isn’t massive but has plenty of space for everything we need. It’s light and sunny, has room for customers to pop in and has plenty of space for fabrication and bike building.
There’s a little office, there’s parking and there’s even a brewery next door… totally by coincidence of course.
When I first moved in the new workshop was just a big empty room. I started out getting the wiring and power sorted, then moved on to build some insulated partition walls for the office. With that done I moved on to built a long, L-shaped wooden work bench for frame-building.
It was great fun getting that just-right and having lots of space to lay everything out exactly as I want it. The final job was the fine-details and I clad some of the walls with wooden panels and go some of my original frames up on display.
There’s loads still to be done but… there’s plenty of time.
If you fancy a visit, just drop me a line and the kettle will be on!
Cheers, Joe.
