that's great :) as a personal note, i signed up to a lapidary club which was a similar sort of thing to a mens shed. Also retirees, ex-engineers teaching lapping, stone setting, jewellry design and so on. It was a great experience.
I have the form for our mens shed down the road, they have heavy duty large work area benches, CNC cutters, table saws, hand tools and so on.
The guy i met was super into building guitars - showed off his work - and was really cool when i went down. Made it a good point to tell me there was some sort of training/compliance where the people who run the joint needed to ensure your competance before letting you loose on the tools :)
EDIT: two other things....considered buying them a broken down car, bike or lawn mower and tell them to get it running? :) Or - buying them Ben Eater's "Build an 8 bit pc" and get them to build that?
I have the form for our mens shed down the road, they have heavy duty large work area benches, CNC cutters, table saws, hand tools and so on.
The guy i met was super into building guitars - showed off his work - and was really cool when i went down. Made it a good point to tell me there was some sort of training/compliance where the people who run the joint needed to ensure your competance before letting you loose on the tools :)
EDIT: two other things....considered buying them a broken down car, bike or lawn mower and tell them to get it running? :) Or - buying them Ben Eater's "Build an 8 bit pc" and get them to build that?