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

Maginot line

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Noooooooooo!

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Northwind..where have all your mate's gone? 😀

Mates? I'm a 30-something year old making a sandcastle, what makes you think I have any mates? 😆

It's self explanatory.

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Lol's at Northwind!
JJ, nice blade, that. I was exactly the same, I really wasn't quite sure how to get started, having just the blade, a lump of yew, and a disk of white plastic/bone. It wasn't until I got the bolster and paper spacer, along with the spalted beech, that I felt the impetus to get going with it.
It doesn't help that I don't really have a workshop space, so I epoxied the bolster, spacer and bone disk together, then drilled them through in the kitchen using a cheap suction vice, and filed the slot to fit the tang sitting watching the telly...
I marked out the wood block and drilled a slot to fit using a series of spiked wood drills in the kitchen, then because of the fine weather, I could sit outside on the patio with my No.4 Record vice, and a Surform, files and sandpaper, and finished it off after letting the epoxy set overnight. Took, in total, about four or five hours, at a rough guess.
I bought my bits from these people: http://www.english-handmade-knives.co.uk/
I'd certainly recommend you get a block of stabilised wood, it's pressure impregnated with resin, so it's a doddle to shape with a mini Surform, and some cheap files from Wilco's, and then sand smooth. It's not going to wear, and it's pretty much waterproof as well.
It's a shame to let a good blade like that languish, but it does take a catalyst to get started, and finally getting those bits together helped me.

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Here it is ready for dismemberment by the staff at the wedding venue. It looked like a chainsaw had been used not a knife.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/9308347492/ ]Titanium Rohloff Brompton[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

£? Ben

This one, he ordered the bike from Evans and I did the Rohloff conversion - but it'd be £2585 if you got it all from me (or ordered a M1L-X and sent it for conversion).

http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/folding-bikes/brompton/brompton-rohloff-kit/rohloff-brompton-order-form/ 😉

£2585

!??!?!OMG!!!111

You could buy a....bike.... for that!

Is that a modified Ti rear triangle or your standard steel one?

Modified titanium - no half measures here 😀

I can bend the titanium frame to take the Rohloff, just can't weld on the disc or v-brake fittings.

so are you cold setting the ti to increase the OLN then? Does it shorten the chainstay length much?

Yup, I have special jigs and formers to reset the rear triangle. The old way used to shorten it by about 5mm, so I had to make the chainstay bridge ding deeper.

But this was the first one I've made using a new former, and it produces a much smoother curve, and only seems to shorten the chainstay by 1mm at most - Marathon Plus tyres fitted without doing anything to the chainstay bridge.

I made this adaptor for bruneep 🙂

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/swavis/9308448204/ ]Adaptor[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/swavis/ ]GavinBelton[/url], on Flickr

I made this adaptor for bruneep

And what does it make bruneep compatible with?

And what does it make bruneep compatible with?

Windows vista 🙂

And what does it make bruneep compatible with?

Hell of a Speedplay pedal setup there!

Custom offroad recumbent 😀

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/9314237548/ ]Copper Metaphysic[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

That looks more dangerous than asking Bruce Willis if you can marry his daughter.

It's important to be comfy off-road 😉

Following on from my previous post here is a ' finished for now ' pic. I have a summer-house to build on the left ( lower deckl ) and a new patio to lay in a few months..

BEFORE

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AFTER

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from this...

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to this...

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more big lump

Nice work Tymbian - looks properly under control that!

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A custom fatbike - Columbus Zona tubing to keep it light (ish) and 2Souls sliding dropouts for the Rohloff.

Thanks to a suggestion on Facebook, it's now called the Wideo 😉

Ah well, if we're allowed to post pics of bushies and sharp stuff 😉

old kent pattern axe head that I refurbed and a small knife that I fitted scales to (gransfors helve for lazyness)

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/6861029712/ ]finished axe1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/6915897154/ ]sharpened 4[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

both of these I bought a blade and handled myself

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/5091305064/ ]in progress 3[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/5090706805/ ]in progress 8[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/6855122820/ ]pair of bushies[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

Custom offroad recumbent

That looks more dangerous than asking Bruce Willis if you can marry his daughter.

+1

Also, how many chains did you have to put together for it?

Same as with most recumbents - about 2.5.

Recumbents are generally safer - you hit stuff feet-first not head-first. Mark and Sanny have been talking for at least a deade about doing a feature on offroad recumbents - I must pester them about it again.

I made new legs for my Argos bargain barby, which came with awful baby giraffe legs.
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Made entirely from reclaimed wood. I'm just missing something waterproof for the top but I'm buggered if I'm paying B&Q 20 quid for 8m of felt when I only need two.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/53067724@N00/9359031649/ ]Wood Store[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/53067724@N00/ ]Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

Just finished my sons cot bed

Was a challenge to build but he and the wife like it!

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That's amazing!

Love the Fatbike, Ben, that's really tasty, and Andy, the axe restoration, and the knife are excellent, I love those scales, what's the wood?

Not a great photo, or quite finished yet, but this bike pole has just gone up in my living room.

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Stolman pole from ikea, some box section pipe from B&Q, couple of hooks and some nuts and bolts. Sorted. Just needs a bit of cleaning and a coat of paint on the bare metal I think.

And if you can take the bikes off you can dance around it.

@wotnobeer- that's fabulous! What a great idea for the home!

@ oxforddan - that is absolutely beautiful! Very clever

Got fed up with this:
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So I made this:
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LOOK AT THE TECH!

It's a sod to fit in your pocket though

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Gluten free Blueberry crumble cake! With a subtle drizzle of double cream 😛

That cot looks beautifully made oxforddan - a good advert for your skills (If I'm reading the photo right and you're a cabinetmaker by trade).

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Phone case

Wendy house looks great OrmanCheep!