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  • What is the last thing you made? (pics pls)
  • Stoner
    Free Member

    I prefer the matt finish

    only coz you’ve run out of elbow grease.

    bencooper
    Free Member

    only coz you’ve run out of elbow grease.

    😀

    Three sodding days that frame took, carefully taking the paint off, polishing the bare steel, then more polishing after it was plated.

    kayak23
    Full Member

    V8_shin_print – Member
    Kayak, that really should have been a marble run!

    Why didn’t I think of that! 😀

    squirrelking
    Free Member

    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.

    somafunk
    Full Member

    Ben got ESP to powder coat my soulcraft frame after he welded in a new downtube/headtube – very good finish on it.

    bencooper
    Free Member

    Aye, ESP are still very good, I use them for all my powder.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    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)

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Love ‘ebygomm’s at-at 😆

    simon_g
    Full Member

    Little wall bookcase for (some of) the kids books:

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    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.


    swdan
    Free Member

    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…

    stevied
    Free Member

    Just knocked up an Altoids tin watercolour palette for one of the members on here:

    choppersquad
    Free Member

    Swdan, it’s lovely that, and a really nice gift for your wife.

    swdan
    Free Member

    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

    redthunder
    Free Member

    Small table made from “Pittosporum” off cut. Just perfect for my morning coffee 🙂

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/SFu6jn]P1400703[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/SFu6sP]P1400705[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/SFu6vV]P1400706[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    redthunder
    Free Member

    Bird table from a beach combing find.

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/SFu6Ae]P1400710[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/SFu6ET]P1400711[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    Also, the bird table as such is made from an old sky dish. Drains well and easy to key clean 🙂

    swdan
    Free Member

    Haha, brilliant!

    Three_Fish
    Free Member

    Side table. Solid walnut, brushed steel legs.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Lovely Three_Fish
    Does the steel continue behind to make a full frame?

    TheBrick
    Free Member

    Debark the Pittosporum, sand it and was it. Pittosporum polishes up really well. Lovely wood.

    Three_Fish
    Free Member

    Thanks Alex. No, the legs are independent. Not the best pic, but you get the point:

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Nice!

    redthunder
    Free Member

    @thbrick.

    Thanks, i must just debark it as you say. Good suggestion.

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    Not a moon…

    [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)

    spacehopper
    Full Member

    please tell me that Lego death star has a kitchen.. 😉

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    There’s a sort of workshop/kitchen with tools/utensils on the top floor?

    sbob
    Free Member

    tomhoward – Member

    There’s a sort of workshop/kitchen with tools/utensils on the top floor?

    Tiny bit sweary.

    ajantom
    Full Member

    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 😀

    somafunk
    Full Member

    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.

    ebygomm
    Free Member

    Assembled rather than made

    First thing this morning

    End of day 1

    Mowgli
    Free Member

    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?!

    Jamie
    Free Member

    Dog bed.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Craftmanship.

    Jamie
    Free Member

    Thanks.

    It took 3 days.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Jamie – Member

    Thanks.

    It took 3 days. That’s what happens when you go in Ikea.

    redthunder
    Free Member

    Started in 1982 at school, woodwork 101.

    It’s supposed to be a penguin.

    Finished 30 March 2017…the base. 35 years later :-)…. who said I never finish anything.

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/S89r6N]P1410795[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    redthunder
    Free Member

    Archery targets pins made from dumped stainless steel wall ties.

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/S89pNh]P1410737[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/TbAtMZ]P1410724[/url] by SGMTB, on Flickr

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Good idea with the wall ties.
    And well done for finishing a long-term project 🙂
    I still haven’t put kick plates on the kitchen we did 5 years ago!

    dmorts
    Full Member

    Dumped wall ties? Might be more to that than you think

    Any new public buildings near by?

    kayak23
    Full Member

    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

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