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

I started with one of these

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Used brute force and ignorance

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After lots of precision bodging and faffing I ended up with this

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Which fits nicely on this

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Sandwich, it's all about the paperclips now! 😀

By the way, I LOVE this thread. Keep dipping in and out and some of the brilliant creativity, care and attention that's gone in to some of the stuff here is utterly brilliant. To everyone who's posted here so far, and those who have yet to post, give yourselves a round of applause!

Last year I made a [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrope ]Zoetrope[/url], a device for making still images appear to move.
I made it for a presentation assignment in a photography course I was doing and the images I used(25 in each strip) are all cyclical woodworking tasks...

I also made it a sort of lamp by incorporating a set of 4 diopter lights I got from Ikea which change colour right before your very eyes!

It spins on a 20", 3-speed shopper wheel.

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Anyways, I only just got around to making a little video of it spinning.

Interesting project but not the most useful thing I've ever made.. 😀

^^^Love that mobile above!^^^

New direct mount top guide:

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New compact wall-mounted desk for tiny office room:
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🙂

euanc - Member

New direct mount top guide:

lightened an sv650 sprag clutch
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I used a couple of scrap-ends of walnut and maple to make a couple of rings.

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Not amazing, but I was pleased with it. I have also made a coffee table out of old apple crates too.

Tubeless inflator, bottle was salvaged from a skip, works very well though needs a bit of faffing.
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The guy who gets most of our burning wood for us brought us this pile.
[url= https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8685/16706350830_a256e04611_b.jp g" target="_blank">https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8685/16706350830_a256e04611_b.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/rshq4y ]An old Gazebo our wood bloke bought me. Can't burn it so...[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/people/53067724@N00/ ]Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

It's some other chap's old gazebo which had started to collapse because the supports had rotted. Our guy bought it to me because he thought we could stick it in the wood burner but it's been treated so no chance.

So, what to do with it....? Well, £20 on some 12mm nuts and bolts, 4 hours work later.... It's an extremely solid workbench. Weighs a ton. It's not going to win any beauty contests and it still needs a plywood shelf on the bottom, the surface needs smoothing off a bit. I'm quite pleased with this. I'm looking for a vice now and will fix a fluorescent lamp to the wall right above it.

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this
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you heat it up and put it over the bearing inner race
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and it slides off nicely
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no hammering

Made a bench out of some Sycamore logs that had been lying about outside for a couple of years.
I did make it for my allotment, but I kinda like it now, probably too much to leave outside open to the [s]loveable pilfering rogues[/s] elements.

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Got a 70-year-old lathe that was covered in rust and wood shavings. Lots of cleaning up, made a couple of missing parts, faffed about facing the backplate and aligning things, and just fitted a DRO:

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Now running as good as new, with 0.01mm runout.

dro looks familiar. we got it off ebay i think. works a treat. one of the segments has gone funny, but it makes lathe work so much easier i would replace it instantly if it went wrong. where did you stick the z scale?

Yes, £300 eBay Chinese special, But very helpful people, and it seems to work well - and o be honest I don't need micron precision, it's just because it's an Imperial lathe and I can't be bothered counting turns of the handle or worrying about backlash.

The Z scale is on the back - that was relatively simple, the X scale needed some thought:

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so you can mount a red dot sight on your pistol.

I made a nanolight-second:

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Not much activity on this thread.
How about this.

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Made this out of black walnut.

Some XTR caps to tidy up a 1 x 10 set-up:

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billet inlet manifold to put jenvey throttle bodies on an m44 bmw engine. it made over 230bhp.

Pork scratchings!

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Skinned some pork shoulder for a 36hr slow cook, and thought to myself, "Hmm, now what shall I do with this?".

It's gone now. 😀

i feel hungry all of a sudden

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custom footrest plate for a sv650 to mount a different brake mc

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A scan of an aprilia frame. Pretty cool. I made some of the scanner too. (Only brackets and stuff)

Seat tube sleeve for my wife's new CX bike. Somehow this has to be a complete bike by September.....

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Just for sh*ts'n'giggles I decided to have a go at making a beeswax jar candle earlier

Got some leftover wax to have another go some time 🙂

Stevied.....those caps are brilliant...would you sell any?id love some, in sure others would!

Some banisters for some friends.
Oak with cherry 'spindles'.
Laminate Newell post with tapered laminates. A LOT of work...but looks mint.

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Top work as usual Kayak,beautiful.
Down to you ,I now have two washing machine doors waiting to go in shed two. 🙂

Nice work guys...

I'm getting a bit f*cked off with the posts in this thread.. can some completely non talented people please dilute it with some shit offerings as I'm feeling a bit inadequate here, with my complete lack of talent at making stuff!

I was hoping to show a rebuilt Honda GCV135 mower engine soon. I'd picked up a couple of skip-bound ones from a mate. It was going to be a bench project for Stoner Jr and I.

While splitting the casing, I removed the valve clips. Both unshackled valves now tinkle into the cylinder. Ah well, thought I, I will fish them out later. Turns out, I cant remove the crankshaft when the piston wont travel to the top of it's stroke cos some burk left two valves in there 🙁

Wasted half an hour trying in vain to shake the valves back into their ports like some advanced cup-and-ball game.

Ah well.....

Beautiful work as ever kayak.

I done a walnut parquet with white oak tramline in a 3 block border.
Setting out:
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First lines going in (check out the wood burner!! Photo doesn't quite do justice to how flipping huge it is.)
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Cutting out borders:
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Borders going in:
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Oh mate, meant to ask, can you just stick a removable panel of border in so we can get to the CH valves...
Half a day later:
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Sanded and oiled:
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Wow, that floor is just beautiful!

nice. that'd make a good table 😉

kayak,

Wanted to ask a bit of advice on something pretty simple - mind if I email you off forum? (Drop me an email to deadlydarcy [at] gmail [dot] com

Floor is simply lovely.

The bannister and the floor are stunning

kayak23 - Member

Some banisters for some friends.
Oak with cherry 'spindles'.
Laminate Newell post with tapered laminates. A LOT of work...but looks mint.

Never mind mint that is pure wood porn, I'd get very fit just by constantly going up & down stairs so I could run my hands over it 😀

My 15 year old has just finished this drift bike,first solo project of this caliber. BMX cut in half, turned back to front with a bit of bed frame and other bits from the scrap pile thrown in.

Completed project

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In trial stage

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Early stages

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Spray painting stage

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Top marks^^ I want one 🙂

that floor is pure pornography

kayak - that banister is lovely!

I'd ask if you could do one for me, but I think it's well out of my budget

It is a thing of beauty though

My Son (reception class) came home with a paper plate 'clock'.
Thought it looked cool, so turned it into a real clock!!
Now hanging in our kitchen 🙂
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DrP