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IBYS Membership
For an annual fee of $20 the benefits of belonging include the following:
A dandy, important-looking (and highly framable) Certificate of Associate Membership from the Institute.
The choice of a ‘Good Shed’, ’Shed Science’ or ’I tinker, therefore I am’ sticker for your shed or car.
A space on the Institute of Backyard Studies website to display your own shed stories and up to [...]
Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided
Henry Hoke’s Guide to the Misguided is the story of an unsung inventive genius whose work could have revolutionised the modern world. From an isolated workshop in a distant windswept town came a constant stream of dazzling leaps of mechanical imagination, culminating in the extraordinary Random Excuse Generator.
Makers, Breakers & Fixers
Meet the blokes who know how engines work, what to do with discarded bicycle parts, how to fix everything from bulldozers to sewing machines to prize–winning hotrods.
Makers, Breakers & Fixers explores the link between creativity and resourcefulness, a powerful Australian tradition forged out of isolation, drought, fire, war and the Depression.
More info...Rare Trades
Mark Thomson delves into the history of rare trades – and the lives of the tradesmen who preserve them – to uncover a wealth of special tools, unique traditions and secrets.The nature of work is changing. We no longer use our hands to make things. Human hands, capable of making objects of great utility and beauty, are now used to dial phones or press computer keys. We feel that loss keenly. On weekends, hardware stores fill with people satisfying a deep urge to do something practical and useful.
The Complete Blokes and Sheds
A collection of stories and anecdotes about Australian men and their sheds in this new, combined edition of the bestselling books Blokes & Sheds and Stories from the Shed.
An Aussie man’s pride can be measured by his shed – its size, what he stores in it, and what he can fix in it. Now, two bestselling books come together in one edition to explore and explain the male obsession with structures of corrugated iron, beer fridges, dartboards and piles of timber offcuts.
More info...Institute T-Shirt – now also in a sensible khaki that doesn’t show the dirt
Now that the Institute has gone international, this is the one (and only) run of shirts with the “Australasian” logo. On the front is the Institute’s logo, while on the back are the five principles of shed science.
