farmersracer
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Finally the workshop is up and running. The Swedish gravel season is just a few weeks ahead, and the sewing machines are now sharing space with wrenches and oil cans in a small countryside barn outside Kalmar.
farmer's racer garage
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Thanks LXCam
Sun is down in Sweden now. More pics tomorrow. While waiting you can check in on the farmersracer.com sight
Sun is down in Sweden now. More pics tomorrow. While waiting you can check in on the farmersracer.com sight
sean Buick 76
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WOW, I love the way you capture your photographs!
Jyzze
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Nice start, we want (need) more!
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On demand - more pics from the garage. As you can see, a farmer's garage is mixing wrenches with wood working tools - and in my case even leather and textile machinery. The old Swedish barn-workshops were meant to take a holistic view of fixing things. One day fixing furniture, the next day the tractor. The garage was built in 1992 by master window carpenter Mats Brate. I bought the workshop, and a small house, just 10 feet from the workshop, last year. The goal is to make a multipurpose farmer's workshop for bag making and motorcycle wrench turning. I will continue to post a few more pics on materials and idéas around making a wooden garage.
It is a very small workshop, with two rooms. Parden my lack of panorama views of the rooms - I will give it a try in photoshop...
It is a very small workshop, with two rooms. Parden my lack of panorama views of the rooms - I will give it a try in photoshop...
TRS63
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Wow, love the atmosphere in your workshop, excellent pictures, and the motorbike is also really interesting.. I suscribe to avoid missing any updates!!
Antoine
Antoine
dubber
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Excellent look. And the photography is top notch!
APEowner
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Beautiful photographs and the workshop looks like a very pleasant place to spend one's time fixing and building almost anything. Thank you for sharing.
356vintage
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Cool factor!
Jyzze
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I realy like that scandinavia touch.. and bike? Project?
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Thanks all for the compliments. The bike is, as all old bikes, a never ending project. A Yamaha sr400 with over 30 years on the road. When I bought it it looked new. I have spent 5 years in many workshops to make it look as old as possible. The modifications made will make a to long list to post on a garage forum. It is simply made to promote the bags, and for making me laugh.
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Time for some details, materials and thoughts around the style. First - this garage is not a welders dream. The wood construction is not originally made as a garage, so I need to make my heavy metal work in another workshop. Making a farmer's workshop is not so much about metal work. Most problems are solved with a wrench or some wire. In Sweden we actually have a name for this - farmer's welding.
The spruce floor has been treated with linseed oil, tinted with a brown pigment. The hole garage was boult in 1992, and my main concern has been to bring all surfaces a bit further into history. News paper has been a poor mans wallpaper since the start of 1800th century. It is a perfect backdrop for photoshoots - makes a great blur in the background.
With no asphalt or concrete for miles and miles I needed to bring in some urban details into the workshop.The lampposts have been following farmer's racer from workshop to fairs and exhibitions - always bringing a smile to the audience. It is a good thing to bring some of the characteristics of the outside into the garage. Light bulbs are also important. The highlights will spark more from a bulb than from a fluorescent tube. When I do a photoshoot I often use both light sources. The bulbs make it possible to show in the pic where the light is coming from. But the most light will of course be delivered from the tubes, outside the picture. As you can read, the workshop is a lot about taking photos, but I can guarantee there is an equal amount of wrench turning as well. The bike is teared down at least once every winter - service during the summer.
Fancy furniture is often cheaper than garage benches. Second hand furniture from 1900 is in many ways sturdier than most tables and benches made for the private garage. Vintage doors is more fun to walk threw than folding aluminum gates. Again, not a welders dream to arrange the garage with wooden cabinets and newspaper walls...
I fix things with wire instead.
The spruce floor has been treated with linseed oil, tinted with a brown pigment. The hole garage was boult in 1992, and my main concern has been to bring all surfaces a bit further into history. News paper has been a poor mans wallpaper since the start of 1800th century. It is a perfect backdrop for photoshoots - makes a great blur in the background.
With no asphalt or concrete for miles and miles I needed to bring in some urban details into the workshop.The lampposts have been following farmer's racer from workshop to fairs and exhibitions - always bringing a smile to the audience. It is a good thing to bring some of the characteristics of the outside into the garage. Light bulbs are also important. The highlights will spark more from a bulb than from a fluorescent tube. When I do a photoshoot I often use both light sources. The bulbs make it possible to show in the pic where the light is coming from. But the most light will of course be delivered from the tubes, outside the picture. As you can read, the workshop is a lot about taking photos, but I can guarantee there is an equal amount of wrench turning as well. The bike is teared down at least once every winter - service during the summer.
Fancy furniture is often cheaper than garage benches. Second hand furniture from 1900 is in many ways sturdier than most tables and benches made for the private garage. Vintage doors is more fun to walk threw than folding aluminum gates. Again, not a welders dream to arrange the garage with wooden cabinets and newspaper walls...
I fix things with wire instead.
Revere Cycles
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Awesome space!
kjdhawkhill
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the whole thing looks like it belongs in some "man's" catalog. Looks great.
86turbodsl
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Nice! More pics of the XS please...
2fat2fly
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Very cool garage. Welcome to Garage Journal. I love your eye for photography too.
NTCRS
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Cool shop!
I live in Emmaboda, just 60 km from you
I live in Emmaboda, just 60 km from you
Lyndon
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Farmersracer.
What great photos. What are you taking those with.....?
Lyndon
Slightly staggered by the photos....
(And that's the first time I've used that emoticon. 
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What great photos. What are you taking those with.....?
Lyndon
Slightly staggered by the photos....
(And that's the first time I've used that emoticon. ).
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NTCRS: Great workshop in Lindås. Really like the sheet metal walls.
Lyndon: I use a Pentax k3 with limited lenses. This is the mac of the camera world. User friendly and deliver great quality pics. It is by many regarded to be the best dslr camera - no canon or nikon user would admit it though.
Low iso, a tripod and good prime lenses are the way to go in the garage.
Lyndon: I use a Pentax k3 with limited lenses. This is the mac of the camera world. User friendly and deliver great quality pics. It is by many regarded to be the best dslr camera - no canon or nikon user would admit it though.
Low iso, a tripod and good prime lenses are the way to go in the garage.