Ben, do you have any local recommendations for getting a frame stripped and/or painted or coated? ESP used to have a good name but I’ve been out the loop a while.
Made some wall units to (kind of) match the sink pedestal.
Just a large mirror to spec and a toilet roll holder now to finish the room.
(only a year after we started lol)
Local sweet shop sells bags of (frankly humongous) walnut-less whips, broken biscuit-style.
Happened to have a bag of those bad-boys in the fridge. Happened to have a bag of nuts and jet lighter.
When we moved into our house nearly 5 years ago there was a lovely flowering cherry in the front garden. However we wanted a drive due to the arrival of our daughter and the loss of several (heated) wing mirrors from cars on our road. We opted not to have a full width drive but still couldn’t save the tree as it was right in the middle. In the end we planted a replacement off centre and I vowed to do something useful with the old tree.
Its taken a while and I’m still very much learning but I’ve made this lamp as a birthday present for my wife, personalised with our initials on one of the power facets. Hopefully she likes it…
Cheers choppersquad, it was her birthday on Tuesday and she was really pleased with it. I now need to see if there is any useful wood left to make anything else
[url=https://flic.kr/p/RrDxuw]That’s no moon…[/url] by tom howard, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Ru98tK]That’s no moon…[/url] by tom howard, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Ru98pg]That’s no moon…[/url] by tom howard, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/RrDxjS]That’s no moon…[/url] by tom howard, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Ru98oK]That’s no moon…[/url] by tom howard, on Flickr
A joint effort from mstomhoward (Xwing was all her but she’s a forum member, so it counts…) and me. It’s very excellent, and has tee’d me up nicely to start the 911 GT3 RS 8)
A while ago I made a foot controller for looping guitar (and other instruments) in Ableton Live.
It involved ‘hacking’ a circuit board from a USB keyboard. I used a multimeter to work out which contacts did which letter, and then soldered on the necessary wires. I ended up making 4 rows of 3 switches, and using the Caps Lock connection to make another bank available, so 24 switches in total.
In Ableton you can assign any key on a keyboard to a function, such as start/stop, record, etc. So the pedal works turning on assign mode, selecting the function you want, and tapping the switch with your foot. So all switches are reassignable too.
V1 of the controller worked well, but looked pretty shonky, being made out of plywood. It also wasn’t very ergonomic in it’s layout.
So today I made V2 – 6mm acrylic shell (line bent at work), holes drilled for switches. and then all of the wiring swopped over and resoldered.
All works as it did, smaller footprint, better/easier to use, and looks a lot nicer too 😀
Very cool ajantom, i expect if you made these there’d be a ready market for them aka midifighter style, Ableton is great fun once you get the hang of the basics.
Following my recent engine exploits, I now have a (broken) 4 cylinder TDi block, a crankshaft and three pistons and conrods which look like they could be used for something. I’m selling the cylinder head as it’s worth a bit, but the rest is junk. I’ve seen some fancy coffee tables made out of big old V8 blocks, but this is a fairly nasty 4 cyl diesel and I can’t be bothered with shot-blasting or polishing it. The pistons are no good for pencil pots either unfortunately. Any suggestions for repurposing?!
I was asked to make something as a retirement gift for a colleague who’s fond of whisky and leaving his job teaching at the School of Arts in the college where I work.
They bought him this (allegedly) lovely 17 year old single malt, and taking my cue from the boat on the packaging, I made a presentation box, using the glass as the wheelhouse, corrugated staples for the engine house roof and complete with a seagull*.
Turned out nice and I’m loathe to give it away now! .
Mind you, whisky is proper minging!… 😕
Used the glass as the wheelhouse, corrugated timber staples for the engine house roof, the ends of some old handlebars for the portholes and decided to add the seagull afterwards.
The seagull is optional though, as all seagulls should be…
*Not to scale
Posted 7 years ago
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