EvilDeadChainsaws.com - Pt7 Second Closing 2015-2020
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:40 pm
Here is part 7 of my EvilDeadChainsaws photo retrospective, the final part to date, ranging roughly from April 2015 to today. It covers the downsizing then dismantling of my workshop in the Portakabin at work, then setting up a new workshop in a shed at the home I bought in 2020.
In August 2015 EDC was put on hiatus, at the time only temporarily, but I've not properly come back to it since. The reason behind this was that I'd been getting orders in quick succession up to that August (eleven chainsaws made that year alone, not including individual parts orders, compared to six in the whole of the previous year). By that point I was starting at 6am, doing chainsaws until 8am, then finishing at 4pm and doing more chainsaw work in the evening. As before, I wasn't overly unhappy to leave it behind, once again all the artistic & design element had drained away and it had become another slog to get each order turned out one after another, regardless of how much money I was making. As of the end of 2015, I'd sold 25 replicas, sent all over the world. The EvilDeadChainsaws.com site is still up and it's something I may come back to at some point, but I've no interest in that at the moment. Once EDC closed, I downsized the workshop to just the top 1/3 of the portakabin, and that's the way it remained until I finally bought a house with a garden and a shed, having been renting since I moved to London in 2001.
The photos below show the workshop at its most expansive in 2015, then downsized, all the EDC items which were put in storage, then fully clearing the workshop in March 2020, and retrofitting the existing shed with loft insulation and 3/4" plywood walls, then setting up the workshop again.
In August 2015 EDC was put on hiatus, at the time only temporarily, but I've not properly come back to it since. The reason behind this was that I'd been getting orders in quick succession up to that August (eleven chainsaws made that year alone, not including individual parts orders, compared to six in the whole of the previous year). By that point I was starting at 6am, doing chainsaws until 8am, then finishing at 4pm and doing more chainsaw work in the evening. As before, I wasn't overly unhappy to leave it behind, once again all the artistic & design element had drained away and it had become another slog to get each order turned out one after another, regardless of how much money I was making. As of the end of 2015, I'd sold 25 replicas, sent all over the world. The EvilDeadChainsaws.com site is still up and it's something I may come back to at some point, but I've no interest in that at the moment. Once EDC closed, I downsized the workshop to just the top 1/3 of the portakabin, and that's the way it remained until I finally bought a house with a garden and a shed, having been renting since I moved to London in 2001.
The photos below show the workshop at its most expansive in 2015, then downsized, all the EDC items which were put in storage, then fully clearing the workshop in March 2020, and retrofitting the existing shed with loft insulation and 3/4" plywood walls, then setting up the workshop again.
