<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #eeeeee;">i have decided to make one out of a pair of old skis</span>

Make sure the edges are blunt and smooth. But I'd also question how useful the two rails the skis provide will actually be. Traditional pulley maids have at least 4 rails

The edges of the skis will rust too, you don't want rust stains on your smalls!

I have a friend who runs a community centre and she asked me if I could make her a catapult for the youth club to play life-sized angry birds.

It works well. 🙂

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Been learning some painting. First attempt not perfect.

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They are amazing bygone - you make to order? I'd love a pair of those? 😃

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Titanium charging handle for a benelli m2

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I fillet brazed this frame together about 10 years ago and decided it was time for a repaint. I think I mis-chose the colour though. I'm going to get the kit back out and do it in something I'm happy to be seen in public on. It's much more salmon in real life. Yuk!

Starts tonight (I built a lot of the camera rig and did some DIT)

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/programme-information/the-job-interview-series-2

ebygomm - I love those knitted dinosaurs.

I love those knitted dinosaurs

Crochet, but thanks. They're breeding 🙂

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Just looking at the certification process so I can sell them, although not sure it's going to be worthwhile

I'd been hoping at some point to contribute to this thread at some point. So many amazing bits of work & inspiring efforts by people.

I had been wanting to get into woodworking & start making my own stuff. But, it's just not happened due to time constraints.

Instead, I bought myself a 3D printer & while I haven't had a great deal of time with it, I have been making some useful stuff - some downloaded designs & some of my own:

Shim for stopping rotary washing drier from wobbling about in the ground pole. I modelled this myself using Pro/E.

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Soap dish/tray downloaded from Thingiverse. I'm currently designing my own one that fits better into the space I want to use it in

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Paint Pyramids (really tetrahedrons) to lift boards of a work bench when painting. Again, I designed these myself in Pro/E.

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Nice work - I keep meaning to print some paint pyramids, but at the moment I just have screws poking out of some scrap boards - works well, but they are a bit lethal to have kicking about the shed!

I'm making something right now, a crazy carrot and chilli chutney, it smells delish and has the right amount of heat for someone who likes to take it up a notch.  It will have been in a dark cupboard for 3 months by late May, so it will have matured nicely.

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Spot the deliberate error on the click wheel for a carriage clock that I've just made...

Spot the deliberate error on the click wheel for a carriage clock that I’ve just made…

I'm guessing the square hole is supposed to be in the centre?

I’m guessing the square hole is supposed to be in the centre?

That and the teeth are the wrong way round...

Bit of a joint effort this one.  I wanted to turn a pocket-sized mints tin into a pocket-sized watercolour sketchbox.  So I found a 3D file for the paint pans insert

Mr stevied of this Parish did an amazingly awesome thing and cnc'd me the part out of a solid block of dense black plastic.  Turned out a treat.

1.  Here it is affixed inside the tin with some blue tack (need to remove and clean/dry periodically so needn't be perma-fixed)

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2. Decided to make a mixing surface/palette for the lid.  Found an old broken tupperware thing that was non-recyclable.  The white lid was perfect, so drew around the lid and cut to size.

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3. Sanded surface to limit pooling of paint when mixing

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4.  Removed moulding bibble from rear so could Copydex flat inside of tin lid
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6.  Now lives in pocket (or Camelbak Lobo) for sketching/studies when oot and aboot!
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Thanks again Stevied/STW.  Job jobbed 👍🏼

Looks great mate, glad it worked well 🙂

Push up bars to relieve pressure on wrists from doing push ups palms down flat on floor. Will also use for to start l-sit progressions. The bar I needed to buy but the end pieces were offcuts. Not got a workshop or garage so this was done in the home. Tenon saw, electric drill, hobby vice, drill stand (after advice on STW).

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Planning on making another pair a bit longer and higher. Will go out and by a larger lump of wood rather than gluing and screwing two bits together.

Thanks again Stevied/STW. Job jobbed 👍🏼

Looks great mate, glad it worked well 🙂

I loves this place I does ❤️

Solid oak cabinet for glassware. Inlay brass details/handles, cherry plinth.

Nice cabinet. Liking the handle/pull detail.

Imperial Leather soap is designed to be kept label-side down.

Here's a simple cassette tape storage rack I made yesterday...

made a little knife with a piece of leftover steel.

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Blimey - that inlaid metal is pretty swish Three_Fish!
Very nice work

Imperial Leather soap is designed to be kept label-side down.

It used to sit on a little bump (the sticker label) so when you put it label-side down the bump lifted the soap off the surface, which stopped it going slimy & made it easier to pick back up again.

But, now the sticker is sub-flush with the rest of the soap so I don't think it performs this function anymore.

Does this count as "making"

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Thanks Alex. The cabinet is a commission, and my interpretation of the client’s ideas rather than something I’d design from scratch. My minimalism meets somebody else’s, well, not-so-minimalism 🙂 They were thrilled, so I’m happy too.

I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment

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I have always loved 90s splatters. I'm getting better with a spraygun. It's very satisfying.

There's also a repair to the bottombracket threads and full loop hoseguides changed for ziptie guides done.

He's too modest to post it on here and possibly a bit embarrassed because it is rather ostentatious but bearnecessities has fitted a living flame gas fire in his front garden.

I welded up another cargo carrying bike. It's a real pain having to carry heavy tooling around a city without a car. I also enjoyed giving it a mad looking paintjob.

I'm too impatient before calling it done. It's got clearcoat drying at the minute and needs another coat, but here is what it looks like.

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Nice splat work Retro .

bearnecessities has fitted a living flame gas fire in his front garden.

very tastefully done!

He’s too modest to post it on here and possibly a bit embarrassed because it is rather ostentatious but bearnecessities has fitted a living flame gas fire in his front garden.

It doesn't seem to be doing a very good snow-clearing job. #thumbsdown

I am still not entirely sure this is something 'I have made'....buy anyhoo.

I wanted a headphone stand for my desk at work and had fully intended to design one & print it. But, I never find the time to get round to actually designing one, so thought I'd just download one from Thingiverse & print it.

Printed on its back with no supports necessary, 0.12mm layer height using Hobbyking blue PLA filament. It was a bit of a monster print & ended up taking 14.5hrs or so - easily my longest & largest print. Came out well though.

I can't decide whether to just give it a light sand to remove the odd sharp edge & jaggedy bit of filament, or give it a full going over with progressively finer grades of wet & dry to give it a really smooth finish.

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@stumpy01

www.matterhackers.com/articles/how-to-vapor-polishing

Cheers cyclesouthwest, but it was printed with PLA which you can't vapour polish. Well, you can but the chemicals are not very pleasant!

Another planter, this one on legs and above a patio so it needed a bottom as well. Kind of annoying as this one is for the mother in law so say thanks for all she does when helping us with the little ones. Anyway, measured up about a year ago after the neighbours finished the extension as that resulted in a fence and clementis being removed. Finally go round to make it this weekend due to aforementioned small children.

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Only one problem, she's had the sliding patio doors replaced since the measure up and the new ones open outwards, the planter no longer fits in the centre of the wall! Still, she's still really please with it and that's what matters.

Haven’t been on this thread for a while, I love the hacked Altoids tin, they’re a common base for all sorts of EDC, I’ve got several small first aid kits using those tins, but that’s extra special, really nicely done.

The Cotic spatter paint is superb, I like the colour mix.

The only thing I’ve done lately is make a besom for leaf-sweeping duties later in the year. I found a dead but nicely seasoned hazel stick about nine feet long, almost perfectly straight which I cut into two and trimmed to useful length, one to re-handle an old rake I found, the other for a besom, and I cut a whole load of thin saplings of various sorts, ash, hazel, some other shrub, blackthorn and a couple of thin yew, bundled them together with galvanised wire and pushed the sharpened hazel down the middle and trimmed the free ends.

Worked quite nicely, just big enough to do the lawn, and the patio.

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House warming present - map papercut

Made an exhibit for local Library and schools.
It's a 3D Relief map of the local area.

1) Got UK LIDAR data from http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey/#/survey
You can get it with or without buildings. This is with.

2) Converted data into .stl using AccuTrans 3D - http://www.micromouse.ca/
(instructions here: 4.2 : https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/…/3D_printing_of_digital_eleva… )

3) Print each 1km square VERTICALLY (I did 6 at a time) So that you keep a clean lithophane-type surface.

4) Used Bing maps to screenshot the OS map and got it laminated.

5) Made frame from plywood + some 3D printed bits. Used this technique for doing the printing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq2O66QGCwg&t=16s
Then OSMO oiled over the top.

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AlexSimon, I like that!

Agreed, that is awesome AlexSimon.

Love that paper cut, ebygomm. What a totally lovely gift.

Thanks boh

ebygomm - as you can tell above, I'm a fan of maps - that looks fantastic!

Another fan of that map but you need to print me a little bicycle I can play with on there 🙂

ebygomm – as you can tell above, I’m a fan of maps – that looks fantastic!

It's cheating really, when you have a papercutter 🙂 Takes about 10 minutes to produce a dxf file for it from openstreetmap data

Are those paper cutters good ebygomm?
What model do you have?

I have a silhouette portrait. It's a few years old now so there may be better stuff about now, but no complaints about mine. It's limited to A4 sizes, couldn't justify the cost bump to get the larger sized cameo - at the time it was about twice the price.

Well, the grass frame is finally done...

Or so I thought...

I want the frame to look 'raw' (truth to materials and all that) so happy with the way it looks and feels. Started to fit components...

Cranks don't clear chainstays and inner ring fouls BB/chainstay junction. Some sanding and further filling/wrapping required there (although going 1 x 10  - see below - will solve one of those issues).

Rear wheel still not quite straight, so more dropout filing to do.

Due to the HUGE seat tube it's awkward/impossible to mount the clamp front derailleur supplied (anyone know where I can get 'braze on' mounts that I can bond on?) so probably going roadie 1 x 10 with a 44t.

Build pack supplied by the bamboo company included totally the wrong forks (it's taken me so long to build the thing it's probably not worth raising this now so some usable forks ordered).

Having said all that, I quite like the thing. Just hope it rides OK.

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I like this thread. Would like to post better stuff... I'm not even going to photograph the latest thing I made. - a wrist roller for wrist/forearm strengthening exercises (google it). A 60cm length of 38mm PVC pipe with two holes drilled in with a loop of inner gear cable coming out of the holes (one end secure with wrapped round a bolt and held with a nut). Then loop the cable around the handle of a 4 litre milk bottom filled to desired weight. Hold pipe in both hands shoulder width apart. Rotate pipe to lift milk. At top reverse rotation to lower milk. At bottom don't stop, continue so milk raises again. At top lower milk. You might want to stop here.

Are works in progress allowed here? I started making a new sea kayak over Easter. This one is from 3mm plywood and following the plans from CNC Kayaks.

Joining 8ft ply into 18ft panels

Mostly, at this stage I'm just making A Mess. Original sea kayak seen lurking in the top left.

ooh - that's a big man cave! - Jealous.
Look forward to seeing progress.

It's finally finished.

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Been for a ride in the sun colournoise?
What's it like?

Bit crude, but very useful when you need it.

For scale, it's about the thickness of a spoke.

Bike geek points for anyone who can guess what it's for. 🙂

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Chainlifteronerer 😉

Been for a ride in the sun colournoise?
What’s it like?

I have today (although TBH I missed the sun by about an hour). First proper shakedown ride. Not had a road bike since I was about 14 so not much to compare it to. It hasn't fallen apart and goes in a straight line (more than the bike that inspired me to build one did - if you saw Sean Conway's TV show you'll know what I mean) so I can't complain. Some slight flex at the BB under heavy load but I can live with that as it's only going to be a pootler / training bike / commuter. Need to tweak the chainline with some BB spacers and at some point soon I think the rear brake will need to be switched to a cable disk due to the way I built the seat stay brake mount. Also need to sort some bottle / pump / tool mounts out - got them in the kit but haven't done them yet.

Only thing I'm not sure on is the length - it's a 'small' kit but feels REALLY long - riding on the hoods feels VERY stretched out - not sure whether this is me not being used to a road riding position or whether I need to get an inline seatpost / shorter stem?

Has brought home to me the idea of right tool for the right job - it's so much faster than even my slick-shod singlespeed MTB on the roads.

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Not its actual purpose, but it will also be used for that,

Another guess? 🙂

Nice build colournoise.

Another guess?

is it for blowing bubbles?

maccruiskeen

is it for blowing bubbles?

Didn't think of that. I'll now start carrying a wee bottle of soapy water. 🙂

It's for an Alfine hub. A great help for slacking the gear cable mechanism when you want to remove/replace the rear wheel. I have made quite a few before but they often get lost.

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So this one has a loop, and goes here where it mystifies bike enthusiasts and can't get lost. (Hopefully)

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Sea kayak progress - looks slightly more boat shaped now.

Oh, I thought it was a podger. For packing the end of a doob. Did wonder why you never just stole a fire extinguisher pin like anyone else.

Oh update: still making an inordinate amount of mess, carry on.

Getting ready for Pedal On Parliament in Edinburgh at the weekend with my BMX sidecar.

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Haven't done much woodturning over the last several months thanks to tennis elbow, haven't even ridden a bike this year... but spent a few hours at the lathe this morning - a small winged bowl from yew:

Love the bmx sidecar.  Heavy to pedal I guess

That would make an excellent baby robin holder.

^^^lollercopters.

Sea kayak looks great Mowgli. Be interested to see how that progresses.

Simple 'rig' for when I'm playing racing games on the PC,

The seat was from a Volvo S40

@bearnecessities  🙂

Fabric grocery bag with some of my bike fabric

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I didn't make this, but my brother and another designed the bodyshell:

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/brabham-bt62-ps12m-700bhp-track-only-supercar

Just completed my first project with new mid-life crisis toy - a MIG welder:

A baby robin could burn its bum on that perch !

A baby robin could burn its bum on that perch !

I know!  Not much mean on a baby robin, unfortunately...

When out riding with my 3 1/2 year old daughter she sometimes gets tired and wants to go in the trailer.  This means jamming her bike in the back like this:

I decides to make a bike rack for the back of the Burley Cub trailer to hole her bike

Started welding up some brackets

Then made a detachable frame from 20mm tube

It worked well today and made carrying her and her bike much easier on the trip to the park today and now I can keep my backpack full of kids stuff in the trailer boot rather than on my back. 🙂

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Pallet bike rack for the work van, fits my fat tyred-wide barred mtb, and my roadie 🙂

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jonm81 - have you not read about safe weight distribution? 😉