Wow just wow, glanced at this thread when it started and haven't been back till now, brilliant effort all round, everyone.
Porter_jamie, you stuff is excellent, but you need to give us ignoramuses more of a clue as to WTF you've made 😀
porter_jamie - nice, you're using pretty big pitch holesaws, what RPM do you run? I do something similar - though with a tube notcher and DeWalt not a lathe:
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I had been using some 10tpi holesaws, but tried a cheap Bosch one with big teeth and it was just as happy as 1200rpm.
29erKeith - like the kid's play park.
I prefer my Mini's a little more 'original', but that does look like fantastic work!
it is an electric motorbike frame for the tt.
yes, i would like to try a finer pitch holesaw. run that at about 300 rpm. we got some carbide holesaws to see if they cut any nicer - not sure really. this is only 1" cds 16swg though not fancy columbus or anything
Love that mini.
Play house is awesome too...
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Top thread this.
I made a few bits of jewellery on the laser cutter. Turns out elm is a total swine to laser cut...
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3rd cabinet for the bathroom..
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dovetails... some tearout but it doesnt matter.. i'll maybe sand it down more..
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finished and in situ.. happy enough with it..
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It was my first time doing dovetails.. i have a jig so it wasnt too tricky, but putting them together, wow... glad i have clamp-heads that i can bung onto any length of wood to use as my clamp.. i needed much longer fixed clamps than i have (i forget the word for this in english)..
Love this thread ,good work folks .
porter-jamie ...Can't wait to see the finished bike 🙂
Nice Maico badge fortunateson 😉
Nice Maico badge fortunateson
Not quite.
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I'd never heard of Maico actually...
Do like this thread.
Mini looks a handfull! Also loving the cnc'd elm.
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They may have nicked the design from matchless 🙂
Made these, they aren't finished. Just bare MDF at the minute. They'll be joined by shelving across the middle of the chimney breast and we are going to get sliding door to go across the lot of it. The reason for the half rail in the nearest one is so the OH can hang long dresses without them getting crumpled at the bottom.
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Apologies for the fisheye effect, could only get it all to fit in panoramic mode on my phone.
Summer-house project finshed all apart from a decorative ridge.. I wanted to get the cushions in before taking pics.
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Tandem trike frame:
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24 tubes, 35 braze-ons, 35 fillet joints.
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Magnificent tadpole, must of taking some time - I'm imagining an imposing head badge. 🙂
Spent all of Saturday just filing the head tube fillets and adding cable guides - it has been quite a job, but off to paint next week at last 😉
Fantastic! Is your shop the kind where I could pop in and say hello? Love unusual bike bits and bobs.
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Extra headtubes for Somafunk's bike? When one snaps off just move down to the next, like an exacto knife.
Ben, where do you get your frames painted?.
I made a thing....
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...for my favourite records.
Fantastic! Is your shop the kind where I could pop in and say hello? Love unusual bike bits and bobs.
Definitely 😉
Ben, where do you get your frames painted?.
I use ESP Powdercoating in Ruchill.
Great Tandem Trike there Ben. Did you know that nobody has yet set a record time for Lands End To John O Groats on a Tandem Trike (Women, or mixed)?? http://www.rra.org.uk/
Ben. I don't get it. How does it steer? (not for a second suggesting this is an oversight on your part, I am just being ignorant!)
My guess is the bars will go in the centre pillar and then have linkages to the two wheels in the outer pillars.
Yup, three headsets in a line. Two outer ones take normal forks (he wants to try suspension forks), centre one has the bars. Then tie rods with rose joints connect the centre stem to little stubs on the side forks. Angles will be tweaked to tune the Ackerman effect (wheels need to all turn around a common centre).
It's very similar to how recumbent trike steering works.
The cool bit is it's going to have a big rack across the front of the frame, to carry tent, sleeping bags etc.
Can't wait to see the monster trikedem finished.
Just made a low loader wheelbarrow for the Singletraction trail builders
for moving heavy boulders
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Pic taken from afar so as to hide the welding 😳
The cool bit is it's going to have a big rack across the front of the frame, to carry tent, sleeping bags etc.
Is that the rationale for it being a trike? - for load carrying capacity? or is it for a rider with balance problems?
That is a brilliant wheelbarrow!
Is that the rationale for it being a trike? - for load carrying capacity? or is it for a rider with balance problems?
It's for (in)famous Glasgow cyclist Dr Guthrie - he likes tricycles, but he breaks the back axles regularly on his Longstaff trikes. Plus, this way he can have a Rohloff without any complicated gearing setup.
Anyhow, in a break between building bikes, I made a book:
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Taken as I was bottling the latest batch. Turned in to a really nice, hoppy and clean session beer. Reckon it's around 3.5% or so, but lots of flavour.
Crushed crystal malt and Goldings hops, by the way. .
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Ben, just had a look at the preview of your book. Good stuff!
I used to work in paper mills before the industry died on its arse. 🙁
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Made this for a mate for his birthday.
Porter_jamie .....
Tell me thats not going to be an electric tt bike
The last thing I made was a very simple jig to make different sized circle templates with for use in our furniture classes. I also made a little video while doing it... 🙂
inspired by bencooper and porter-jamie: me and a friend did a spot of frame-modification.
Shortened and lowered the bike I use for polo - welded on some home-made dropouts and fitted some new seatstays.
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Oh, and some details:
It now has 40mm bb drop and a 360mm(14.2") rear end. That's 2mm clearance from tyre to the seat-tube with 26 x 1.5" slick tyres when the wheel's slammed. Handcut track-ends with a 50mm slot and seatstays scavenged from an old trek. Still needs tidied up (top tangs need filed up to the weld) then it's going to paint.
Super whippy to ride: 74 degree hta, 10mm rake fork, low BB and that tiny rear-end. loving it.
excuse the rust, first ride was in the rain and not had a chance to repaint it yet.
winner! tig, or gas?
Tig.
cripes! I bet that turns fast.
Those wardrobes from a page or so back. Finished now bar a lick of paint. Sliding doors to follow when her ladyship decides what finish she wants. Quite chuffed with it, never really made anything like this before.
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A f****** mess.
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I know that feeling bn. We went through the mess phase a couple of months back, took us a while to get sorted as I couldn't get much time off work but we start moving in on Monday. Definitely all worth it in the end.
Cheers Matt, I need to be living in here by the end of the month!
Do i get a prize for campest post to this thread?
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That's ace! If you made the flowers, you definitely win this thread 8)
My off road / road commuter frame,
Columbus steel, cast lugs, brass brazed, in the garage with an oxy/propane setup.
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After a disaster with the down tube, I had to chop off half the head tube / down tube lug and fillet braze it on. It looks like the downtube is held on with chewing gum!!
Painted with rattle cans, it looks OK, but I dont expect it too last...
(I also made the jig!)
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I made a steak and ale pie.
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And yes, that is ? on the top. I am that bad.
ooh - missed a few of these - love this thread!
Oh, and I also recorded, produced, mixed and mastered this London Grammar cover with my friend singing:
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Made a funny face
Is that steak and ale pie real....
Is thegiantbiker still alive....
Wonders when porter jamie releises his talents are wasted,,,,,,
Carbonfibers the future yip son cloth n glue tis the future
Prepares the gumtree advert
For sale one bikeshaped anchor
Sorry lost all respect when the kawasaki wheel went in....lol
re carbon, i disagree actually. show me a carbon framed mc that has won a championship. as it happens we just made what the chap wanted - the running gear is gsxr afaik.
Not really up to the standard of some of the woodworking on this thread, but clad this staircase (open with returns on one side, scribed (no shadow gap allowed 🙂 ) to existing string.
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A headset cap I made.
A headset cap I made http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/10634726
(New to singletrack so I don't know why it posted twice)
I don't know if it counts as I can't claim to have 'made it' but I did design it (before swiftly handing it over to others to detail and build).
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What was it like before you moved in?
Oh how I've moved on since then! I now know that really wasn't a mess in the scheme of things. Thankfully, I'm not moving in at the end of the month now.
I made a hydraulic to road shifter adapter thingymybob.
Works too! now removed for a neater hope v twin.
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i like the diy hyd road mc's. brilliant. i was thinking about doing something similar for my DD, i have a spare set of mtb brakes hanging about.
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the next project
@stuarty Still alive. The pie was actually delicious, it's just the photo that was dodgy.
A leather case for my camera:
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And, rather boringly given the standards of this thread, a wheel. Quite pleased with it as the truing stand was the back end of my bike, a pencil, and two elastic bands:
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more random bits and bobs
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camera case is rather tasty!
They let me play in the workshop today,so I made a base for my new compact camera.I hope that this will help keep my sausage fingers away from the on off button 🙄
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Made this at the weekend. Hand-forged Damascus steel blade with Deer antler, buffalo horn and bog oak handle. Veg tan leather sheath...
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I bought a little MP3 speaker kit from Kitronik as a little test project.
Really cool little kit with a pcb which you just solder everything to following the instructions, and it cost under £6!
I had this old Ammunition box and so decided to mount it in there. Little Birch-Ply speaker surrounds and a bullet for the external volume knob.
It runs off a 9v batter, or can be plugged into a DC adaptor.
Pretty sweet.
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cool!
More shonky wood stuff:
I had a load of wood off cuts building up which needed somewhere to live, some pallets, some crappy timber =
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It's only temporary until we can have a (few) decent bonfires, but i've been waiting all winter for the rain to stop 😉
It's my Managers 50th and we were all asked to buy/make him some random presents.
I made him a Chip in a Bottle...
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....and no, I do not have too much time on my hands... 😀
A Clancy LadyBug RC plane. It has a 22 inch wingspan and was built from plans and covered in the traditional tissue and dope.
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More adapted than made, but modified my Lezyne Femto to work as a bar end light
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Had a slight shock after lifting our carpet - discovered the stairs were riddled with woodworm on top of being completely rotten near the base. Mostly they were being held together with plasterboard.
The stairs were probably the 1812 originals. The base of the old strings was simply resting on a brick tile laid on an open area of dirt. The dirt had been busy letting in moisture to the underside of the stairs (which had been sealed quite recently with some plasterboard).
An emergency carpentry session was called for, along with having to fill in the dirt patch with cement to match the rest of the ground floor (which is about as flat as the austrian alps).
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A sound damping pad for my bedroom studio:
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I made a gate for the gap down the side of the workshop:
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