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

Thanks mate! It's painted black now and looks a lot better. WRrong paint though - rubs off as soon as it's touched. All a learning experience!

Wrote another book:

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[url= http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/6136513/7dfc127eac98cbad5698828a84e968dc2418d95a ]Linky[/url]

For myself, really 😉

You ever fancied getting into Hunterston A?

With writers credentials like that I'm sure you would have no bother...

Nice book though, some of the old boys here might be interested. Linked to it in the SSC [url= http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=129930423&posted=1#post129930423 ]Inverclyde thread[/url], folk on there lap up books.

I'd love to, but don't fancy getting shot 😀

Really appreciate all the things on this thread.
Thanks for sharing everyone!

Dog finished, much grief - especially when I knocked it off the windowsill and 3 legs and it's head broke off 😆 GF was happy with it as a present 🙂

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Nice one Dezb,looks good.

Bloody hell. I thought it was a lot bigger than that. 🙂

Nice work though.

Thanks 🙂

Finished the wet room last week....large format tiles (900x50) on the floor, brick bond. For the fall to the drain, I didn't want the angles to be obvious, as it makes the grout lines look too busy, so I used a dry cut and beveled the rear edge, to create the illusion that they were still complete tiles....it doesn't even look like there is a fall now :0)

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Bloody hell. I thought it was a lot bigger than that.

Yes, I thought it was life size 😉

Looks really good though.

Thanks Ben... although, not sure how it looks any bigger iin my previous pics! It was balanced on a little vid camera and there's a Singletrack mag in one shot! 😆

More Ply based weight lifting stuff...

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That tiling is impressive.

Jerk blocks? Blocks to jerk off from?? Whatever happened to a healthy clean before jerking???

Are those holes at the right height for jerking? 😯

Jerk blocks? Blocks to jerk off from?? Whatever happened to a healthy clean before jerking???

No - you don't understand - the Jerk is inside, the air holes are so he can breath, the weights are on top are to stop him escaping. The second box is there as a warning to others.

the air holes are so he can breath

They're actually so the wood can breath, the timber sub-frame is a bit damp as the builder's merchant stores it all outside.....

Back onto an Engineering theme... home made Precision Level

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Mmm. That is right on so many levels. I'd quite like a posh level like that... 🙂

We needed to do a tracking shot for a promo vid, so out came the Lego

It worked pretty good

Ooh, nice work stavromuller. Dual lines seem to do a nice job of correcting the initial acceleration wobble.

I made an RC camera dolly once, and it worked, but would need a lot of revisions and tuning to get unpleasant vibrations out of the single line design:
http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Cable-Dolly-for-Small-Format-Cameras-and-Phones/

If I ever get the time, I'll make a V2 with a rock crawler motor or a small gearbox.

https://flic.kr/p/Dn7nKG

Knocked up a log store out of some pallets, bits of fence, a large piece of wriggly tin, oh and some large boulders to hold the roof on in the high wind:

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A bit rough and ready but it cost nothing and hopefully it should do the job.

This is more in the category of making stuff to make stuff, but I made a tube notching setup that's very quick to adjust and use:

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Can handle tubes up to 50mm, angles up to 45 degrees, and can slot tubes too by just changing the arbor.

A basic bearing press, partly just because I wanted to learn how to use a Bridgeport, partly because I'd already been turning delrin bits to hold bearings on the bits of wood and threaded rod I was using before. I'd make it more neatly a second time…

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The acme threaded rod and nuts came from a 3D printer parts supplier, but have just enough play in them I'll probably buy a tap and redo it with my own parts.

Pics broken...

Weird, showing up here in browsers that haven't loaded them before. Some ISPs seem to have massive caching issues with imgur though. Links:

http://imgur.com/n2xg0De
http://imgur.com/CzycNis

Nach

Very nice.
I might make something similar,now that I am going in to a world of pressfit BB

The doggie looks really good, Dez, I'd be chuffed with that.
Just modded a very tatty little hatchet I found lurking out in the shed, rusty, very blunt, worm eaten and rotten handle, so I thought I'd have a go at cutting it into a different shape for carving;
Original with new hickory handle:

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Finished version:

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All work done with a clearance sale angle grinder from Homebase, cost £8.30, with a 3mm cutting disc and a 6mm grinding disc, and a couple of sets of cheap 2nd-cut files.
Edge re-bevelled with a file, then finished off wit coarse and extra fine diamond 'stones' and leather strops.
It's [i]very[/i] sharp now!

Concrete desk lamp

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Helped an elderly neighbour clean out his shed t'day and found an old but very sturdy 18" rake head so i took it home and cut it down so that the head would fit in the bottom of my rucksack, i ground a slight edge on the left hand tines so i can use it for bush wacking/briar removal. For a handle i rummaged about in the garage and found some very thick alloy tubing so i carefully tapered the end to a very snug/tight fit in the rake head then drilled it to accept a bolt and stuck an old mtb grip on the handle.

Quite chuffed with my wombling n' bodging, it works perfectly for raking the debris off my trails and the bush wacking ability is very decent as the angle of the tines are relatively flat when swinging it so you get a good cut close to the ground. Obviously it won't stand up to heavy abuse but for a quick groom of the trails it's seems to do the job just fine.

The top of the handle does protrude from my rucksack by 20" so i'll have to remember not to cycle under low branches otherwise i'll be on my arse.

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Cor, that lamp is marvellous.

Love the bushwacker, that's a great bit of repurposing! And the lamp is just lovely, a great piece of industrial design; it wouldn't look out of place in a high-end shop. 😀

That lamp is really, [i]really [/i]nice flanagaj!

flanagaj - Member
Concrete desk lamp

Love the lamp flanagaj. Really nice. Lush finish on the concrete.

I've just finished making some lamps this week too.
I sell some stuff now and again in a shop in Warwick which sells all manner of stuff from craftspeople.
I like to 'borrow' nice shades that I see in places like Ikea, and then basically pimp them with legs/stands, lovely flex and clear plugs etc.
They seem to sell ok but as ever, folks don't really quite appreciate the work that goes into them when they're umming and ahhhing at prices... 😐

I made six of these Sycamore smaller lamps this week(in my holiday time) and one of the bigger ones in Larch and plywood.

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Very nice and elegant but why the wonky square inlay/hole/black mark on the bottom of the legs?

Nice work Kayak!

The lamps are very nice, good work.

WorldClassAccident - Member
Very nice and elegant but why the wonky square inlay/hole/black mark on the bottom of the legs?

It's my logo, branded onto the leg with a brand I had made which I heat with a gas torch.

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Toooo Cool!

When I get off this stupid iPad I will post up mu slightly less professional efforts.

There is a gallery that has opened up locally I might try and supply some stuff for. Any hints or tips regarding payments commissions etc. Email me if you prefer.

Much as I don't like posting after Kayak's wooden wonders here's a table I made.

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Nice Hobster. What wood is it? Have you put a finish on it yet? It looks fairly pale.

Really nice lamps Kayak. I agree with your sentiment regarding people not appreciating just how much work goes into making them. Shame.

Those lamps are great (both the concrete one and the he wooden. Kayak/flanagaj do you guys sell your stuff online anywhere?

Thanks Kayak,

It's London Plane. The photo has washed it out a bit but wanted to keep it fairly pale so just using a clear polish to bring out the grain.

Ooh, London Plane is beautiful. Crazy looking grain patterns sometimes.

There is a gallery that has opened up locally I might try and supply some stuff for. Any hints or tips regarding payments commissions etc.

Most galleries will have a set percentage they add on top of your wholesale price. In my case, the shop add 35%.
She was very clear with me that I needed to work out my wholesale prices first. I couldn't sell stuff to her for the same price I might sell it for on my own website for example as it would then obviously seem very expensive in her shop.
I'm terrible at selling myself and so I'd not really considered this aspect.

You need to charge what you're worth. I find this incredibly difficult but by under valuing your craft, you also under value all craftspeople.

Thanks. No worries about undervaluing myself 🙂

I have made a few things I am proud of but not always the stuff you can stick in a gallery

Check the video out on this : http://www.bigbikebash.co.uk/

Check out this drone footage of the next thing I created :

Then I moved on from events and bike parks to design and build my first car : [img] https://goo.gl/Q46IUt [/img]

Then decided the car should have interchangeable bonnets. So the Maserati 450S influenced bonnet can be swapped with just 4 bolts for the Ferrari inspired bonnet
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I forgot to mention snapping my foot off after building the bike park and needing a hydrotherapy tub and sauna to relax in so I built this:
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Then a couple of seating options
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And most recently I 'man caved' a corner of the garage
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Now thinking of new things...

Love the paneling there.

Thanks - I was quite please with it. Just pallets and 3 different cheap B&Q varnishes

Playing with the jigsaw to add some wall art

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Pictures might actually appear when I get a reply on this thread : http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/getting-off-google-photos-what-is-free-and-better

Photos for you WCA:
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Flickr is fine.
You go to Share (little arrow thingy)>BBCode>select your size (these are large) and then copy the code that it provides and paste it in here.

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It works!

Thanks

I don't wish to alarm you but you appear to have a [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/identification-chart-for-oz-spiders ]an Albino Big Bastard spider on your wall[/url]

Made a start on a Treehouse / play house for my daughter after summer last year doing bits and bobs when I could.
It became useable just before Christmas time and still adding to it.

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Made a start on a Treehouse / play house for my daughter

What glue did you use to stick her shoes to the wood? 😆

Haha 😆

I dunno what's going on there! They're all over the shop lol

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Looks like you've built an anti-gravity shed there spectabills, there'll be a nobel prize coming your way soon

Found a tree round the corner that had been cut down and cut into loads of sections, so decided to bring one home with me.

Its been sat in the garage for a few months so decided to make a side table/foot stool/thingy.

Planed the top and bottom, took the remains of the bark of the side and sanded it all down.
Got my router out to create a faux bark effect on the sides then finished it with a couple of coats of linseed oil, then clear wax.
Put 4 rubber casters on the bottom (part recessed) and job done.
Bloody heavy still, at least 30kgs.
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Nice idea with the routed lines! Just freehand?

Nice idea with the routed lines! Just freehand?

yep just random freehand shapes works quite well IMO,
was going to make some more but my neighbour with a wood burner has been round to collect the rest for his wood store.

I've never used a router freehand - does it remain quite stable? i.e. I assumed it would be trying to wander off every-which-way.

It will wander slightly just needs a firm hand, the beauty of the above is the lines needed to be random so any 'wandering' wasn't a issue.
The rebates for the castors were kept neat but still done freehand, just marked lines out to keep inside of.

I have a new 'short nose' version of my Barchetta

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Loosely based on the Pininfarina Ferrari 250SWB but most people seem to prefer the original 'long nose' configuration designed by yours truly

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There really is some lovely stuff on this thread. I just got this back from print....

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Drawn for a local restaurant. Its all done out in a beautiful monochrome art deco style, so they wanted some artwork that reflected that. So I drew this. Its 2.5 metres wide. Got it back from the printers the other day and the print quality is fantastic. Presently its being put in a lovely, eye-waveringly expensive Italian charcoal brushed alloy custom frame. I can't wait to see it up on the wall

A vegan and raw restaurant - with your reputation!?

I know. The irony isn't lost on anyone. Least of all me 😀

We'll have to pay it a visit sometime!

Those lamps are great (both the concrete one and the he wooden. Kayak/flanagaj do you guys sell your stuff online anywhere?

Sorry. Only just seen this. All my current offerings are on my web site.

www.theconcretelab.co.uk

You could be my first sale!

Not sure if I'm the first, but you have a sale...

WCA - that new nose is gorgeous, much much better than the original nose.

This was last year, play house for the kids and some outside storage for big things to keep the shed less cluttered plus practice for building the shed this summer.

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It's slightly overbuilt - I could only find a decking website (american, side of the house stuff) and the sleepers are from a local timber place that cut their own wood (thanks for the tip timber) and are 11x7" I could barely lift them when wet.

Not sure if I'm the first, but you have a sale...

I'll get it shipped out on Monday. Thanks again.

WCA, I like the new nose a lot. Think I prefer it to the old one.

i just finished putting this back together.

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Oh my word. All that space! Just imagine the mess I could make in a workshop like that. Random tools and rags as far as the eye can see...

Oh, one more from me.

I was sanding down a piece of pallet wood and saw something in the wood grain.

Can you guys see it too?

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Is it Bishop Brennan?

A vegan and raw restaurant - with your reputation!?

binners - Member
I know. The irony isn't lost on anyone. Least of all me

Depends on how you planned to negotiate payment but I suspect you're not going to invoice for [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ge-your-crayons-out-binners ]your own height in tofu.[/url]

[i]Is it Bishop Brennan?[/i]

I was referring to the standing up plank, not the floor.

😉