What is the last thing you made? (pics pls)

Finished a road frame on friday
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and I had to make this in order to finish it
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Here it is in action:
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Another painting. Happy Solstice all 🙂

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longboard trucks

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Malvern Rider, that's ace. Very 'Fighting Temeraire' (without so much sea and boat)

This:

Oh Ye Whale!

Skittering about above the surface
Of the turmoiled ocean,
The screeching gulls and clawed crabs and the daily fight for food
Make use and company of the whale that
Is resting on the surface, allowing pickage. Friendly and amused, perhaps,
At the ructions and hurly-burly; adding it’s low, long
And sonorous voice (partly heard and soon forgotten)
To the underpinning of the hubbub.

Beginning the long plan, the bulky presence dives,
A black hole appears in the water as the fleshy island sinks,
The maelstrom whirls where had been, a knotty bulk afloat.

The chattering gulls cry out, startled and puzzled
That the reliable, monstrous anchor is disappeared.
Surprise turns to anxiety, the cloud of suspicion rains it’s poisoned seepage and the rootless
Find themselves adrift as the watery typhoon
Of the sudden absence resolves, and the assembly is left to the whims of wind and tide.

Down below the fussing day, the whale
Is journeying a long path, self-charted,
Towards an end of it’s own devising.

Steadily steadily steadily, the leviathan moves with deliberate
Strokes that disturb only the waters of the depths alone,
It’s passage disguised by the careful turn of it’s muscling,
In the immensity of the abyss.

Far above the tectonic plated underworld, the daily game of survival is played out
In all it’s raucous, bloody, reaction to the moment...
Day after exhausting day. Month after month. Year after year.

Then once again, appear! O Ye Whale!
Suddenly, inexorably, breaking the surface
Into the roiling confusion, bringing calm to the waters
Now sliding off it’s colossal presence.

The circle is complete, the detective of the deep has returned, with news
Mined by dint of deep dredge, from the seabed of being.

All is well.

If we're doing paintings too, here's one I finished recently. 1st ever watercolour (as an adult) and think I got the colours about right (for someone who's colourblind 😯 )

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Those trucks look brilliant Mick

Work in progress...a wardrobe

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Work in progress...a wardrobe

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A new bathroom from a blue sweet with blue and white tiles floor to ceiling to a empty room full of rubble.
Take a collection of things from ebay and a scaffold plank create a pleasnt place to take a dump.

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Fiinally got my headbadge-making process sorted out:

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Now doing them with a percussion press I got for $15. The press in action:

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Not me but my BIL made a TU95 😯

Not me but my wife - making helmet bags

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Not me but my BIL made a TU95

Good grief, you could carry a small child in that! Very impressive.

Needed a decent hoe/grubber so made this up from a land rover spring and a reaper tooth yesterday. No fancy forging just a welder and angle grinder.

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That TU95 is seriously impressive.

griffiths1000 - Member

Needed a decent hoe/grubber so made this up from a land rover spring and a reaper tooth yesterday. No fancy forging just a welder and angle grinder.

That's a very nice zombie hacking tool you got there. 😀

Malvern Rider - Do you sell any of your paintings?

Needed a decent hoe/grubber so made this up from a land rover spring and a reaper tooth yesterday. No fancy forging just a welder and angle grinder.

Love this - if I'd not bought one last month I'd have requested a comission for a second one!

I got this kit for one of my birthday pressies. So younger Seadog and I sat down on a cold afternoon, set up the camera and gotto work.

Not as impressive as the other efforts here, but we had fun. Took us much longer than anticipated, that's why the light changes!

Carbon top cap made using a 3D printed mould, it is just a proof of the theory really.

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Pacenti CL25's on the hubs from my DayOne. Done today, with a 1/2kg saving over the old rim/tyre combo. [img] ?oh=04b6a1206eda7ae50705a8ccfdbbd545&oe=55630A51&__gda__=1432512516_bc0b14354825eee297597ab2abf492cd[/img]

That zombie hacking tool looks handy come the apocalypse.

A stable door for an upstairs mini terrace/flat roof.

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Poo with a view...

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The strap hinges on the shutters are normal hinges with the shapes cut in aluminium and painted. Looks quite convincing... 🙂

A pair of monitor stands for the attic studio.
Had a couple of spare hours at work.....the whole of a 6th form class off sick at once? Hmmm, suspicious!
Knocked up out of whatever I had lying around, seem pretty sturdy, but might fill them with sand to dampen any vibrations. There's a 10mm threaded steel rod running through them, so the tops can rotate. Gives them a bit more stability too.

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Floor lamps.

Ones on left made with Ikea table lamps and Iroko and Holly legs/bases. Ones on right are glass bowls filled with fairy lights and mounted on Iroko tripods held with old lamp holders cut down.
Pre Christmas was busy!
😀

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@tymbian is that wardrobe MDF? If so what did you paint it with? Got something similar that needs finishing.

@kayak i like the glass bowls filled with fairy lights, good idea that.

Was given this pair of antlers by a friend for handles. Hung around for a while as i thought they were too nice to cut up. Eventually knocked together this sculpture and hung them on my shed wall.

Wood is just cuttings of pine that were lying around, nailed together & burned with the blow torch, brushed and waxed.

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ebygomm - Member
OS contour data (Terrain 50) taken into QGIS, contour lines coloured according to height using a calculated expression, exported as a pdf, tidied up in illustrator, printed onto fabric by Spoonflower and then sewn into a cushion.

Really like your cushions, I would love something similar. Is this really as easy as you made it sound? and is the software free or expensive?

Not just me, but we were putting the sides on this new section of climbing wall last night.

It is significantly steeper than it looks in the photo.

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bit of progress

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its for a folding bike

Really like your cushions, I would love something similar. Is this really as easy as you made it sound? and is the software free or expensive?

QGIS is opensource. It's something I use in my working life, but it's fairly easy to use. Although if you haven't ever used GIS software it might not be quite as straightforward as I made out 🙂

Today I have been playing with my new toy

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I can't claim the credit for this epic build but I thought the singletrack massive might appreciate the skill and effort going into this project. The builder has two sons in the JLT Condor team and his youngest son is the UK Youth Cyclocross champ . [url=

Mobile I made recently for my son

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I've just made some Jerk / Snatch Blocks for weight training. This pair go to my gym as my Coach wants a set (these cost £50 to make, pro ones cost £800). I'm curious to see how long they survive having weights dropped on them. All made form Structural timber 2x7 and 2x4.

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Love this thread...

That mobile is absolutely fantastic, my boy would go nuts for that.

Thanks. He doesn't know what a tractor is yet but seems to like the bright colours anyway 😀

P.S. It was all hand cut on scroll saw from 6 mm and 3 mm baltic birch ply and painted using acrylics.

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Made a couple of months ago, and conditioning nicely. Dreadful photo, though! Glass is scratched, beer is crystal clear and tasty as hell!
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(Oh, and before you say anything, I'm getting the Aga cleaned tomorrow, so leave it!)

Loving the mobile 😀

That mobile is fantastic!

My old Ikea desk was too big, so built a new desk:

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It's the only desk in the world with built-in storage for anti-tank rockets. Though I'm going to use it for bike tubing 😉

Love the fact that it has a warning that's it's heavy but conveniently fails to mention it may be full of anti tank missiles.

Health and safety gets everywhere - I found this sign in an old TA building:

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You wouldn't want to catch anything off the nasty gun 😀

Can only presume it's more to do with it being oiled? But then why would it be so oily that you need barrier cream just to use it?

I fear these questions will only be answered by more questions so will stop here.

Getting the Aga cleaned. Post-it sales must be booming. 8)

I started with one of these

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Used brute force and ignorance

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After lots of precision bodging and faffing I ended up with this

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Which fits nicely on this

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Sandwich, it's all about the paperclips now! 😀

By the way, I LOVE this thread. Keep dipping in and out and some of the brilliant creativity, care and attention that's gone in to some of the stuff here is utterly brilliant. To everyone who's posted here so far, and those who have yet to post, give yourselves a round of applause!

Last year I made a [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope ]Zoetrope[/url], a device for making still images appear to move.
I made it for a presentation assignment in a photography course I was doing and the images I used(25 in each strip) are all cyclical woodworking tasks...

I also made it a sort of lamp by incorporating a set of 4 diopter lights I got from Ikea which change colour right before your very eyes!

It spins on a 20", 3-speed shopper wheel.

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Anyways, I only just got around to making a little video of it spinning.

Interesting project but not the most useful thing I've ever made.. 😀

^^^Love that mobile above!^^^

New direct mount top guide:

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New compact wall-mounted desk for tiny office room:
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🙂

euanc - Member

New direct mount top guide:

lightened an sv650 sprag clutch
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I used a couple of scrap-ends of walnut and maple to make a couple of rings.

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https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346636502544438272/

Not amazing, but I was pleased with it. I have also made a coffee table out of old apple crates too.

Tubeless inflator, bottle was salvaged from a skip, works very well though needs a bit of faffing.
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The guy who gets most of our burning wood for us brought us this pile.
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It's some other chap's old gazebo which had started to collapse because the supports had rotted. Our guy bought it to me because he thought we could stick it in the wood burner but it's been treated so no chance.

So, what to do with it....? Well, £20 on some 12mm nuts and bolts, 4 hours work later.... It's an extremely solid workbench. Weighs a ton. It's not going to win any beauty contests and it still needs a plywood shelf on the bottom, the surface needs smoothing off a bit. I'm quite pleased with this. I'm looking for a vice now and will fix a fluorescent lamp to the wall right above it.

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this
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you heat it up and put it over the bearing inner race
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and it slides off nicely
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no hammering

Made a bench out of some Sycamore logs that had been lying about outside for a couple of years.
I did make it for my allotment, but I kinda like it now, probably too much to leave outside open to the [s]loveable pilfering rogues[/s] elements.

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Got a 70-year-old lathe that was covered in rust and wood shavings. Lots of cleaning up, made a couple of missing parts, faffed about facing the backplate and aligning things, and just fitted a DRO:

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Now running as good as new, with 0.01mm runout.

dro looks familiar. we got it off ebay i think. works a treat. one of the segments has gone funny, but it makes lathe work so much easier i would replace it instantly if it went wrong. where did you stick the z scale?

Yes, £300 eBay Chinese special, But very helpful people, and it seems to work well - and o be honest I don't need micron precision, it's just because it's an Imperial lathe and I can't be bothered counting turns of the handle or worrying about backlash.

The Z scale is on the back - that was relatively simple, the X scale needed some thought:

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so you can mount a red dot sight on your pistol.

I made a nanolight-second:

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Not much activity on this thread.
How about this.

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Made this out of black walnut.

Some XTR caps to tidy up a 1 x 10 set-up:

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billet inlet manifold to put jenvey throttle bodies on an m44 bmw engine. it made over 230bhp.

Pork scratchings!

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Skinned some pork shoulder for a 36hr slow cook, and thought to myself, "Hmm, now what shall I do with this?".

It's gone now. 😀

i feel hungry all of a sudden

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custom footrest plate for a sv650 to mount a different brake mc

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A scan of an aprilia frame. Pretty cool. I made some of the scanner too. (Only brackets and stuff)

Seat tube sleeve for my wife's new CX bike. Somehow this has to be a complete bike by September.....

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Just for sh*ts'n'giggles I decided to have a go at making a beeswax jar candle earlier

Got some leftover wax to have another go some time 🙂

Stevied.....those caps are brilliant...would you sell any?id love some, in sure others would!

Some banisters for some friends.
Oak with cherry 'spindles'.
Laminate Newell post with tapered laminates. A LOT of work...but looks mint.

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