Author Archives: The Entrance Men's Shed

The Entrance Men’s Shed recently held its Annual General Meeting and elected Committee Members for the 2021-2022 year. The Committee undertakes the often thankless tasks around running Shed operations and ensuring we meet all relevant Government, OH&S and financial obligations. Thanks guys!

The Entrance Men’s Shed has been a hive of activity recently, as these photos from the viewpoint of the storage area show. Thanks to the ongoing supervision by the members of The Shed Committee, the shed is clean, well-organized and well run.

Members at The Entrance Men’s Shed have been busy recently constructing a bench for an outdoor spa and a coffee table (top supplied) for a community member. Both projects are nearing completion–well done guys!

Shed members have been busy recently constructing an outdoor display box. The box was constructed for a local home-owner who will use it to display artworks in her front yard. The box will include lighting to highlight the artworks at night.

Central Coast Council recently held the Toukley town-centre celebration “A Taste of Toukley”. The event was described by Shari from the Council: “Taste of Toukley is an activation designed to celebrate the best of Toukley by showcasing the diversity of cuisine and business offerings available in Toukley. Five local restaurants will be providing a limitedContinue reading “A Taste of Toukley”

Shed members have been busy all year, planning, designing, constructing and installing new gates for The Shed. The old metal gates had served us well but were showing their age, with rust becoming an issue. The new gates (single and double) are Shed-built merbau timber frames with locally fabricated metal insets. The new gates lookContinue reading “New gates for The Shed”

Shed member Bruce has recently completed this model of The Titanic. Great attention to detail Bruce, well done.

In 2020 The Entrance Men’s Shed built a collection of “big” chairs for Central Coast Council: https://theentrancemensshed.com.au/2020/12/15/large-chairs-for-central-coast-council/. These chairs were painted by local artists and installed at local beaches and foreshores. The Woy Woy chair has recently been in for repairs and shed member Bob took the opportunity to visit the other chair sites toContinue reading “Repairs to big chairs”

On the 20th of December members of The Entrance Men’s Shed enjoyed a buffet lunch to round out the 2021 calendar year. Shed members enjoyed food and drinks from The Kettle Black Cafe, located in the grounds of The Entrance Community Centre. The recent prolonged wet weather cleared up on cue letting everyone enjoy theContinue reading “2021 Christmas Lunch”

Members of The Entrance Men’s Shed have been busy over the last few weeks , building portable outdoor dining tables (12) and seating benches (26) for Central Coast Council. Council is planning to use the tables and benches in outdoor community dining settings around the Central Coast. For this use it was important that bothContinue reading “Outdoor tables and benches for Council”

Shed member Keith has been busy working on a timber and brass-inlay jewellery box. He’s recently finished the project and the end result is a very stylish storage space for jewellery.

The Entrance Men’s Shed held its 2021 Annual General Meeting on the 29th of October 2021. All financial members were invited to attend, and a sausage sizzle was held afterwards to celebrate the new committee members. The new shed Committee officeholders are: President – Bob Ihlein, Vice President – Ken Yeatman, Secretary – Richard Threlfo,Continue reading “2021 Annual General Meeting”

During the recent COVID lockdown shed member Ken constructed this beautiful and intricate wooden and brass kaleidoscope. Ken created the whole thing in his garage workshop and reports it took a steady hand to cut the matching wooden detail work.

Following the lifting of COVID restrictions by the NSW Government, The Entrance Men’s Shed will re-open on the 11th of October 2021. For the first few weeks after re-opening the shed will need to manage numbers through an attendance roster. Please contact the shed committee to add your name to the roster.

Shed member Geoff has been busy constructing a beautiful wooden urn. It contains almost 600 (!) pieces of timber. Great work Geoff!

Shed member Rem has been busy during lockdown stripping back to the original finish on a timber dining table on his deck and re-coating it with a more durable marine grade satin varnish. Rem reports success using an Aldi spray gun which works surprisingly well. As with any painting project the longest part was the preparation!Continue reading “Shed lockdown projects (2)”

During what feels like a very long COVID lockdown, shed members have been busy working on projects around their homes. Here’s the first of these: a bench restoration project from shed member Bob. Bob notes that he has had the bench for 20 years, but this is its best restoration. Before lockdown shed member RobContinue reading “Shed lockdown projects (1)”

The NSW Government has directed that non-essential organisations must observe a COVID-19 shutdown. The affected area includes the Central Coast and as a result the shed will close until further notice. The shed committee will issue further updates closer to any planned reopening date.