Evan Beaver

Everyone who contributes will have their name added to the Thank You shed board. I will make a smart, framed board to hang in the shed as a permanent reminder of how nice people are.

A nice email thanking you for contributing to the project, plus your name on the Thank You board.

A nice email of thanks, with a couple of email updates during the build, with exclusive photos

Receive the Shed Build newsletter. I'll put something out fortnightly with updates on progress, photos and links to other energy things that interest me and may have a tangential relationship to this project

Shed Build newsletter as above, plus a couple of videos shot at exciting points during construction.

A signed photo of me standing in front of the finished shed. I will post this out and you can be reminded of how you made me happy.

I will bake a delicious sponge cake, using eggs from our chooks and some homemade jam.

Chopping board. These are from another slab, still Mackay Cedar, but 40mm thick. These will be much thicker and sturdier, and about 300mm x 200mm, slightly larger than the others. One will be joined from offcuts, with a natural edge down the long sides and joined in the middle. Let me know if that particular one interests you. Shipping will be tough for these, but let me know and we can sort something out.

Invitation to the Topping Out Ceremony, the official finish and launch. This will be in Canberra and around the beginning of winter.

We will have a morning birdwatching around Canberra. I'll take you to one of my favourite places, weather pending, and teach you as many IDs and calls as I can.

Backyard engineering advice. We will spend an hour or so talking about a backyard problem you want to solve and explore some ways to solve it. Chickens, watering systems, a greenhouse, compost system, that sort of thing.

Sharpening skills - I will teach you how to sharpen things properly. Never take your good kitchen knives to a shop again. Sharpen a chisel until you can shave with it. We'll probably have a beer and spend an hour playing with blades. This will be hard if you're not in Canberra but we can figure something out.

Home energy audit - I will give you advice on how to reduce your energy use and emissions. If you're in Canberra I'll come visit and do a walkthrough, then give you a simple list of what to do next. If you're interstate we can do the same thing using Google Earth, or you can wait patiently until I visit at some stage.

A lesson on how to cut dovetail joints. I will teach you how to cut dovetails, including making a guide take with you. From this you will know what to look for when practicing, areas to be careful and how to fix mistakes.

I will make you a beaut dovetailed box from FSC Tasmanian Oak, like the one in the blog post. http://evcricket.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/learning-to-cut-dovetail-joints/

This would suit a consortium; I will go to a venue in Canberra and do a presentation on residential energy efficiency. We can talk about the topic but I recommend a session on how to make energy efficiency decisions to make the biggest impact. Here is a TEDx talk I did on the subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mA9TfmIcqI&list=PL1iwr5GZcrgbJ0Pmuuit1m9rf5F-fb9R2&index=7

I will make a coffee table from this slab of sustainably harvested redgum. I will use recycled timber for the joinery and hand cut timber joins throughout. That's a metre ruler in the photo

A full design and build project. We will work together to design a solution to a problem, then I will help you make it, spending up to 8 hours in total. Ideas include a nice chook house, outdoor furniture, a CD cabinet maybe a tree house? We can figure something out that will be good value and fun. Materials will be at your cost unless I have something lying around you can use. Link below is the post on the old chook run http://evcricket.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/the-chicken-compound/