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I made a little bungee cord cargo net that clips onto the back of an Evoc 3l hip pack, so I can additionally stow my jacket.
Oh, and it's the E-bike pack; I don't have an e-bike, but chose it because it has two bottle holders - the newer regular models only come with one.
We have had my daughters kids staying and Tommy, 4 years old, love 'helping' me in the garage. A lot of his helps involves taking things out of my bin and making stuff from it.
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The ramps he made totally by himself.
The horse he asked me to glue the legs on because he didn't want the screws to show.
The boat I glued the cabin and rear spoiler/car deck on, but he did all the shaping with my sanding block that I was trying to use for the car.
@chives I like that. The Evoc bag has a much more comfortable strap than my old bag, but it's lacking in a lot of ways, somewhere to stash a bulky jacket being one of them, and there's not really anywhere easy to attach your own straps. It can't sit on top because the main zip is there (stupid place for it IMO). Guess you can't get in the front (back?) pocket with your setup, but I don't really need that anyway.
Not sure if I posted it at the time, but I made a rain cover for mine:
@thenorthwind, the net just clips on. The main compartment is pretty easy to get to, (just one clip to undo, though that particular one hooks around the carrying handle - not sure it's necessary). But it would mean unclipped a few more to get to the rear pouch. The net stores easily in one of the small dividers in the rear pouch when not required.
Ibhad an old scots dresser way beyond restoration. I broke it down years ago and now have a section of quite nice pine, mahoganny and ash.
So a made this pile of smaller bits that will become a cigar box. Which will then become a cigar box guitar.
All hand planed and sawed.
So ibguess technically the last thing i made was "a start"
A Hoiho ( Yellow eyed penguin) in walnut maple and sapele on an oak base.
In homage to Feathers McGraw I added his disguise in photoshop
Do you want a lump of paduakfor red accents jimw?
Joshvegas, that’s very kind for you to offer but I don’t want to put you to any trouble .. I have been using wood dyes for more vivid accents recently and I have some red dye.
Honestly its no trouble i have kilos of the stuff and i think the birds are amazing.
Would be delighted to send you some!
Smells* better than dye aswell.
*Probably poisonous mind.
That would be great then joshvegas How do I send you dm on this forum?!
Oh bloody hell when did messages fully stop working?
@jimw i have set up a classified.
Hopefully messaging through that works. If not i think the description will help you find another way to contact me.
Lawn could do with a bit of a trim.
Now starting to get very jealous of jimw's creatures 🙂
Looking back the other night I stumbled on the nuthatch - top notch as always.
What are you shaping them with - just by hand? Chisels? Rasp? Power tools? All of the above?......
And how on earth are you doing the bronze(?) bird feet?
All great work.
Finished last night. Open Pro's on Surly Ultra New single speed hubs.
Thanks for your comments mickr
What are you shaping them with – just by hand? Chisels? Rasp? Power tools?
The basic shaping of the blocks before gluing together is done on a bandsaw and bench sander. After that I do as much as possible by hand with gouges- I have been collecting them over the past 45 years so have a reasonable selection. They are then finished by hand. Very occasionally I will use a dremel type tool where the grain is particularly awkward in tight spaces but it’s so noisy and a bit unwieldy I keep that to a minimum.
The bronze work is done entirely by hand- fabricated from small pieces of different sized wire and sheet silver soldered together. I have been silversmithing for almost as long as I’ve been carving.
Thanks jimw. I was particularly wondering how you managed where the grain was awkward so that answers the question (the stoat in particular looked to have some fiddly bits). I wondered if the feet started out as brazing rod.
Made a stringing / tracking rig for my cars. I never take my cars anywhere - not even for getting tyres changed (as the absolutely mullered jacking point on my Cayenne will attest to).
I'd previously string aligned my cars using the same technique but with axle stands. It gives good results but it was a bit clunky. I designed these stands and string holders in Solidworks and chucked them in with another big 10mm mild steel job.
New tyres on the Volvo yesterday, double checked the tracking today, Bob on.
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For any 40k fans out there, printed on saturn 3 ultra, 50mu apologies for rubbish phone pic!
Nice terminator DT78, I love these new sculpts GW has put out.
I need to finish my Astreaus and I might post some pics of that.
ha fellow hammer fan, yep new sculpts are great, thats not an 'offical' model though. ive a couple of land raiders and dreads to paint up too
ive literaly got thousands £££s of offical stuff - wanting to kitbash and use the spare bits up on kits led me to resin printing.
honestly on the table you cant tell.the difference from official models
This was a random YouTube video which popped into my feed which may be relevant to some. Near the end, he mentions that some of Garmin's cheaper subscriptions options are not published so require some clicking around to get the lower rates (though he is, I assume, US-based...)
Wrong thread - oops
Vlad made a **** up?
My 4 year old grandson was asking some very pertinent questions about Father Christmas, his Elves, access to houses and time and motion studies. More accurately he couldn't understand how Father Christmas got into the houses without chimneys and how he did the whole world in one night when it takes ages to walk to Arty's house and he only live just down the road.
I explained a bit about particle physics and the speed of light but this seems to sail over his 4 year old head so I built him a magic Elf Portal to show him.
Look in the mirror and you can see, not only the normal reflection but, miles into the distance, even though the mirror is only an inch thick. He loved the photo with his head actually appearing inside the portal itself. Suddenly the magic of Christmas was back on and everything was good again. I felt like a good granddad for saving the magic of Christmas.
"Dear Santa, please can I have an Elf Portal for Christmas to fit my catflap"
I have a good friend who is into woodwork so I made him a marking guage out of brass and stainless steel for christmas.
My wife wanted a screen to put in front of our patio doors so that when we have to sleep in the conservatory when the Xmas family Invasion happens, we aren't woken up by the faces of nieces & nephews staring at us at 7am ....
found this on fb marketplace for a tenner
some plywood from the skip at work got repurposed
and its now 'upcycled' , got to think of something to do with the iron inserts that i removed
Nice work on that marking gauge^^^^
last work job of the year - swivel bridge bearings/wheels, one of the originals had collapsed, quick measure and new complete more substantial units knocked up Solidworks.
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