Finished a road frame on friday
[/url]Finished Road Frame by 18bikes, on Flickr[/img]

and I had to make this in order to finish it
[/url]Cable adjuster jig by 18bikes, on Flickr[/img]

Here it is in action:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/qua4fz]Cable adjuster jig in action[/url] by 18bikes, on Flickr

Another painting. Happy Solstice all 🙂

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 😯 )

Those trucks look brilliant Mick

Work in progress…a wardrobe

Work in progress…a wardrobe

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.

image by Parkesiemtb, on Flickr

image by Parkesiemtb, on Flickr

Fiinally got my headbadge-making process sorted out:

Percussion Press Headbadges by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

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

fOOD

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.

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!

[video]http://youtu.be/dJ2R80Oycgc[/video]

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

Pacenti CL25’s on the hubs from my DayOne. Done today, with a 1/2kg saving over the old rim/tyre combo.

That zombie hacking tool looks handy come the apocalypse.

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

Poo with a view…

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.

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!
😀

@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.

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.

Homemade pizza with salami, caper, mozzarella and pecorino by will jenkins, on Flickr

bit of progress

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

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

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 2×7 and 2×4.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/qZb5rc]DIY Jerk Blocks[/url] by brf, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/qGLzEW]DIY Jerk Blocks[/url] by brf, on Flickr

Love this thread…