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Recently bought myself a little mig welder so had a practise with it by chopping up an old wash station support and making a bench out of the angle iron and all sorts of ropey old offcuts. The wood is thicker than it looks, it's grooved to slide over the metalwork.
It's my tea break bench 🙂
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Ok give up, was a home made carbon swing arm but cant access flikr account and cant link from one drive.
Try again
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Oh and since we're doing jigs...
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OK whilst the framebuilders / metalists are (briefly) outposting the woodworkers (and I personally think the woodies are winning this thread.....)
More jigs!
My frame jig - CAD & reality.
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And then the improvised chainstay machining fixture in lieu of a milling machine......
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Not quite as much precision as many of the offering here recently, but built in a few hours under competitive conditions. Was enough to earn best local and best novice prizes in the competition 🙂 Had an ache afterwards mind
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some steel things
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good stuff welsh, is that the skyrrid I see behind your erection?
Far too many clever buggers here to count! My meagre skilz don't extend much beyond mucking about with odd bits of wood, and here's one I prepared earlier, an axe head from Bulgaria, via eBay, with a haft I made from a branch cut from a dogwood tree in a mate's hedge. Shaped with axe and knife, scraped then sanded, the wood is rather fibrous, and tends to throw up little splintery bits if left too rough. Been given several coats of boiled linseed oil, the wedge is a bit of oak, left standing a few millimetres proud to allow for any shrinkage that migh take place over time, I can just belt it in a wee bit further in need be.
Not a work of art, but I've no real facilities, so it was worked on out on the patio using the chopping block it's resting on in one Sunday afternoon three weeks ago.
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Couple of little ammo boxes off eBay, cut a hole in the top of one and it now catches the off-cuts from the spoke machine.
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(The other one has new spokes ready to cut)
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Oh, I don't know why I can't embed from Facebook any more, I'll try again after Homeland has finished.
*tries again*
What tyres for the Wheel of Misfortune?
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Made a cupboard.
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New Sporran anyone?
I made this a few years ago for my son......but gutted now it's on eBay .....as he is into minecraft
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Had some 6x2 lying about after replacing a small bit of rotten joist. Made a shelf. Going to get some Danish Oil to rub into it I think. Might make a couple more for below it but shallower for herb/spice jars. Got the brackets off amazon but they are a bit crap, going to make the next ones up myself out of M10 rod and backplates.
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@bencooper, where do you get all the ammo boxes from?
Loads of them on eBay...
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It's one half of a balance bike work in progress
Nice work P-J 🙂
A housing
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and the impeller that runs inside it,
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That's some big old 5 axis, nice
I'm suprised by this thread, theres another thread going where the op is saying non of these skills exist anymore!. I'm guessing all of you guys live in China!!!??. Keep up the good work.. 8)
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CNC machined balance bike frame?! Outstanding 😉
Serious question: Do you do stuff like this for money? I sometimes need things machining.
I'm suprised by this thread, theres another thread going where the op is saying non of these skills exist anymore!.
Yes but that person is an idiot.
Sometimes, yes
It's getting colder so it's the traditional soup making time for me. Pea and Ham.
Yeah I don't have the skills of many of you.
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I pretty much taught myself woodturning when I was younger. I recently did a days tuition with a top turner, who was quick to point out all my bad habits... 😳
Turned a carvers mallet out of Lignum Vitae, with an Elm handle.
The lignum is a bugger to work with. Very, very oily and so the slightest bit of sanding renders your abrasive a clogged mess. Turned out nice mind...
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Who was the 'top turner', kayak23..?
A mallet is on my things-to-turn list and have some incredibly dense black oak (so I'm told, from France) to use.
Cheers! I did a three-day course with [url= http://www.angusclyne.co.uk/ ]this turner[/url] earlier in the year.
I just don't know how they manage to turn those virtually crumbling to bits vessels...
Nice work porter_jamie!! Do do all the CAD yourself?
Made a flaming "10" for my nephew's B'day party on Nov 5th...
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@swavis, yes my brother designed it, it's for kid #2 xmas pressie. kid #1 already has a balance bike with billet split rims, and a welded up tubular frame.
Loving the 10
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"Making" might be stretching the definition a bit, but I have just rebuilt this for a friend. 5 new doors, a bit of welding, recovered the seats, new bushes & springs, full service and a complete respray in "Fendt" green. Passed MOT with no advisories and mate reckons it has never driven so well. His 4 young lads are over the moon with their [b]new [/b]landie 🙂
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Nice Landie 8) Some 'Fendt' red on the wheels would be nice to see 😉
Liking your mallet too kayak.
My mate drew the line at red wheels. I did suggest it 🙂
You'll never believe what I went and made... 🙂
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Tramlines...
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A toilet roll holder - a present for someone:
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Eh! You made a massive wooden d**do and hung a toilet roll on it!!!!!!!
😯 😯 😯
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That is a bit cock'n'balls - intentional I presume?
Intentional..? Of course. 8)
Most of it made on my wood lathe; the, erm, 'long' bit unscrews so you can replace the roll... for a colleague that's moving to another school.
Excellent stuff! 😆