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

This whole thread is inspiring.

Northwind - Member
@GeForce Junky, that's a marketable item right there, lots of people would like a little help getting long Reverbs into their frames, or have bought one that won't fit.

I agree, small wife and small kids would all like this.

66deg - Member
Table and speakers all my own work but I take no credit for the horse and wraith.

SEAS cast magnesium cone drivers? Did you design the x-over and bass loading too?

One of the charming locals broke into my garage by splitting the rubbish old door in half. So, with the compensation that he had to pay when he was convicted (thank you Netgear Arlo!) I bought some wood and Screwfix's [s]finest[/s] cheapest router and got to work.
Old door:
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I forgot to get photos of the mortices and tenons before I started putting it together, but they looked like a rougher version of this:
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There are wedges in the ends of the tenons (that's what the slots in the tenons are for). The wedges open out the tenons once they're in place and mean the door can never be pulled apart.

I routed a groove for the front planks to sit in, so they would be flush with the frame:
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Fitted the diagonal braces:
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Treated the frame with preservative and a coat of varnish:
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Fitted the planks to the front. I'd already measured them for length and varnished them. I had to cut two long, thin strips to go down each side to get the planks central in the door:
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Back of the door (with an annoying bow in the middle rail):
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I put a few more coats of varnish on the finished thing, epoxied any external screw heads, fitted the hinges and locks, and voila:
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It's a little rough in places from silly slips with the router or sloppy morticing, but not bad for my first bit of joinery.

The instructions I followed are here: http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php?title=Making_a_framed_ledge_and_brace_door

Nice work! Hopefully sturdy enough now!

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Still needs a bit more clay and some trimming but pretty much finished

SEAS cast magnesium cone drivers? Did you design the x-over and bass loading too?

Well spotted on the seas drivers, to build they took about 130 hrs work but I was being a bit fancy here and there with the cabinets .
They are called Thor evo 4 and came in kit form from Intertechnick who also offer a Xover build option which I took full advantage of, they are mass loaded transmission line which seas commissioned Joe D'Apolito to design to show off their drivers .
I didn't add up all the cost to accurately but they are close to 1k each but have proved to worth every penny sound wise 😀
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Thanks for all the kind words about the bike.
@ squirrel, you had me worried for a minute but then I went and sat on the bike (all 14 stone of me) and it is rock solid, not a jot of movement, so it will be fine for my daughter who is considerably lighter than me.

The quality of the other stuff on here is amazing, some really skilled folk out there 😀

Bails.

Get some of hinge bolts so the exposed pins aren't an issue.

Stevied - glad to hear, that's an absolutely gorgeous bike!

Some recent 3D prints. Been calibrating my new machine.
A little robot, couple of pyramids with captive balls, a skull (detail wasn't so good on this) and an iPhone case.
Quite pleased 🙂

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Get some of hinge bolts so the exposed pins aren't an issue

I made another exhibition of the student work on the furniture making course what I done teach on, as I do every year at Warwickshire College.

This year a student got a commission to rebuild a bench for Kenilworth mayors that had rotted, so I made a tree to show it off as it'll be in its final home. It's made from mdf, and cut on our cnc router.

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Packable PVC Pipe Bunny Hop Bar, minimally modified version of

by Ali Clarkson
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I left the extensions at home, Danny Macaskill need not feel threatened just yet.

No pics but I seem to have inadvertently converted my daughters coaster hub to a freecoaster when I pulled the brake shoes out. I expect I'll be fitting a gyro and showing off ramps before long...

Couple of brackets to hang a bike from the wall:

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There's foam/padding on those, right?

Little bit of felt glued into the notch 🙂

Got our local agricultural show on the weekend so thought I would throw something together for the "article made of metal" class. Have always wanted to do something with the ever growing pile of scrap and useless offcuts I seem not able to throw away so ..... a pair of old land rover brake disks, a few old mower blades, some useless short bits of box and some past-their-best bike bits got stuck together over the course of a couple of hours in the workshop on a rainy day in Wales. And I know the patio is a mess 🙂

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^^^ neads a chain device. ^^^

Yep, slack chain and no foot retention!

Papercut maps from open street map data

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Quick project with my five-year-old at the weekend...

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He did most of the work himself - used his pruning saw to cut a branch (from a prunus/flowering cherry), then used the mitre saw to tidy the ends and chop into 150mm lengths. We measured the diameter of the crayons we were using and picked the right size drill bit, which was 8mm. He drilled the holes in each end (shallow hole in the flat end, and about a 60mm hole in what was going to be the pointy end - note to anyone making these, at this point you will want to mark which hole is which, as they look the same once filled with wax...).

Tried two methods for filling. First was a bit of glue in the hole then sliding the crayons in. This was a bit hit and miss, as the crayons were about 8.1mm so were very tight in some holes. Other holes were a bit larger due the variability in the boy's drilling skills 🙂 and the crayons were a bit loose as the glue wasn't keen on sticking to green wood.

The next method we tried was using a small stainless saucepan with a pouring lip, pop the crayons in and apply a heat gun. Then pour the molten wax into the holes. This is by far the easiest method, and results in the 'lead' being totally secure and well-fixed into the hole. You don't have to worry about matching the hole diameter to the crayons, or glue not setting against green wood etc.

After that I used a knife to sharpen them (this is where you need to know in advance which end has the deep hole).

He took them to 'show and tell' at school, and said he'd chopped them from the pencil tree we have in our garden 😀

ebygomm - Member

Papercut maps from open street map data

WillH - Member

Quick project with my five-year-old at the weekend...

Really nice! Laser-cut or hand cut?

Neither, cut with a silhouette portrait, sort of like a printer with a knife/blade

Testing imgur for the first time!

Made a storytelling chair for my wife's pre-school......not finished yet.

https://imgur.com/gallery/21gge

A router plane.

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WillH - excellent idea!

this weighed 88kg when i put it on
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and 1.88kg when i took it off!!

I finished the main structure of our oak framed garden room yesterday. It's really just a posh conservatory, about 3.5m x 7m. We will have a little snug reading corner with a woodburner and a large dining room type area.

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This has been a really fun project, but really hard and heavy work in places - the purlins alone are about 140kgs each, and each rafter (50kgs) had to be lifted into place and lowered (by hand) three times for cuts and holes to be marked. There is about 3000kgs of oak in total, and it has taken about four months of evenings and weekends. I designed it using Sketchup and everything was manufactured at home, including all the oak pegs and curved braces. Going full chat, I was generating a wheelbarrow-full of sawdust and shavings a day.

The frame will be shot blasted next week to remove all the water staining, and then the roof and glazing will make it watertight. Lots still to do, but I'm getting there!

this weighed 88kg when i put it on

and 1.88kg when i took it off!!

Pictures of the finished job please.

I finished the main structure of our oak framed garden room yesterday.

This has been a really fun project, but really hard and heavy work in places - the purlins alone are about 140kgs each, and each rafter (50kgs) had to be lifted into place and lowered (by hand) three times for cuts and holes to be marked. There is about 3000kgs of oak in total, and it has taken about four months of evenings and weekends. I designed it using Sketchup and everything was manufactured at home, including all the oak pegs and curved braces. Going full chat, I was generating a wheelbarrow-full of sawdust and shavings a day.

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thats not the same bit but part of the final thing

Jamie, That's never going to fit, the top right hole is the wrong size! 🙄
Mesmerizing watching that take shape, to someone who doesn't do it all day.

Siwhite that is beautiful! Pics as it progresses please.

Having been involved in some green oak whittling lately I have a lot of respect for anyone lifting them buggers!

I haven't the faintest idea how anyone manages to do something like that. I was pleased when I built a shed door.

I have no idea how you did that. I put a wanted ad on freecycle when I needed a new a shed door.

Part of remodelling the garden involved making a climbing frame/swing/wendy house thing for our daughter.

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Just to note, the swing cross bar is level; it's the garden and fence that are not level.

Made some roof bar thingies to help my Dad get his canoe onto the car roof singlehandedly. Couple of inserts into the end of the roofbars which have bearings as rollers, and the blue bars have bearings at the other end to roll along the bars. Bits of cord hold it in position for loading. Not used in anger yet. Think his door mirror might be at risk...
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Bloody hell siwhite! What a thing of beauty, I'm gobsmacked that someone can do this during their down time.

Chapeau indeed!

The wife and child are away for a couple of days so I finally got a chance try painting again after a few years break.

Calvin and Hobbes using watercolour and indian ink. It's not as good as most of the painters on here but I like it.

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CAD'ed and 3D printed a mount for my Magicshine-818, it now points backwards (on a 74deg seatpost) rather than at the ground. Printed in Ninjaflex so it simply grips the seatpost

Still isn't quite right, mk3* will hopefully have a smoother finish if I tweek the E-axis on the printer slightly.

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*mk1 didn't fit the light properly.

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i turned 350kg of billet into 12kg of billet...

i turned 350kg of billet into 12kg of billet...

Is there a point at which you say "You'd be better off with something other than a CNC mill?"