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Good work. Dont get put off by the pro stuff, it's something to aspire to, sure, but sometimes substance trumps style.
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More crochet
Not so much made, but been rebuilding this wee open crank engine, ran away from me a bit here, should be a bit less erratic when it's bolted down with a demand valve rather than having gas blown in it's face.
My Homemade trembler coil (read taser) gives a hell of a kick....
Yet again bringing things back down to earth...
Born of necessity rather than a desire to make something beautiful: a new disc to hold the blades on my robot mower. My lovely kids left a shovel on the lawn and the mower went over it, smashing one of the mount points on the original disc. Cobbled this together out of some 90mm PVC pipe, sawn lengthways and heated with a heat gun then flattened against the garage floor. Cut to shape and drilled, then had to reheat to add about 1cm of dish so that the bolts that hold the blades on don't foul the mower body. Bodge-tastic.
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I made a device for hanging coats, dog leads and other things in a hallway.
Elm, Birch Plywood and Oak.
I kind of made this up as I went along, just wanting to try some steam-bending techniques. I've used a split-bend on the uprights from one solid piece, and a bend for the other bits using a male/female former.
Have to see how it looks in the hallway.
Paid work is pretty much gone for the moment in Coronaworld but it's nice to be able to experiment and do things for myself, poor though I am!
That looks ace- wish I had a hallway big enough for that. Dog lead and walking boots just get slung in the porch!
Could you do online sales?
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The treehouse is getting there
That looks ace- wish I had a hallway big enough for that
Thanks. It's a narrow hallway but should be fine to squeeze by. 😊
Treehouses must be such a fun project. Shame I don't have any trees 🙁
Pretty rubbish compared to other bits on here, reused some old bars to bling my track pump
@AlexSimon thanks.
Cut off the old handle and luckily the pump shaft had a thread on the end with a small threaded plate screwed on.
Cut a hole in the base of the bars and used epoxy to glue it to the shaft and plate. Once dried used a couple of cable ties for a bit of extra security.
Then covered with self amalgamating tape to hide the mess.
I've got no paid work I can do in lockdown, so naturally I find myself doing random stuff.
Made myself a woodworking clamp carousel out of a knackered old fatbike wheel and filmed it. 😄
Eight years after moving here, I finally got round to building a MTB track in the garden.
Enlisted some burly helpers:
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Started with the fun-to-build bit - a bridge traversing a steeper bit of slope. Got the eldest to help, he learned the very important lesson of how black thumbnails are acquired! 😬
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Ta-daaa! 5m long with a small step down at the end.
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(extra karma for upcycling an old fence and pergola 😇 - not that I had a choice, can't go out to buy timber under the lockdown...)
Quick test ride:
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After that it was just lots of digging. The whole track traverses a steep slope, so there was a lot of cutting in/benching, with some mini-retaining by way of planks and logs laid on the down-slope side.
The trailhead - a quick blast up from the main garden path:
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Some off-camber twistiness:
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Over the bridge:
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Looking back up the trail, after the bridge is a tight downhill S-bend.
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The there's a crappy lumpy straight bit, might put some rocks down here to make a rock garden.
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A tight 90-degree bend leads into this:
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Which progresses into a tight-ish uphill curve.
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Watch the bars on those trees, then a bit of a chute down the hill...
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Lokking back up that hill:
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Might try to make a sort of mini-halfpipe thing with some berms down this bit.
Then a final curve into the exit, with a very small jump over a fallen log.
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I'm pretty chuffed with it. It doesn't really flow, it's more series of sligtly technical challenges, but that's good enough to stave off the boredom of the lockdown. I think once it beds in a bit the flow will improve.
I'd describe that less as a garden and more like a rain forest.
How big is your f-ing garden??!!
😀 yeah it's a good size garden. About 2.5 acres but most of it is steep hillside. North Island of NZ, hence the tropical appearance.
I thought I recognised it.
Didn’t they film Lord Of The Rings in your garden?😀
Sorry, me again. *yawns.
Doing a lot of messing about at the moment seeing as I don't have any paid work.
Made some Kumiko (traditional Japanese latticework) panels. Quite fiddly and time consuming but I guess things would speed up a bit with practise. This took me the day pretty much.
Iroko, Ash and Oak.
Christ that looks tedious to do.
I like it.
I like the little mitrey channelly jig set up too.
I've been focussing on doors.
Making them and making others not look shit.
This stuff keeps getting better & better.
I love the woodworking stuff (although to call it 'stuff' does it a dis-service), I love the culinary stuff, the bodge-tastic fixes (that robot lawnmower repair is ingenious & a great use of available materials).
Love it!
Awesome stuff on this page! Well done to all.
This was intended as a wee stepping stool for the workshop but my wifedecided it would be perfect as a coffee table at her end of the sofa, besides the floor in the workshop is so far from flat that anything with four legs always wobbles... Recycled 60yo iroko science bench top (made a dowel jig for glueing the boards) and TIG welded 40 X 5 angle iron; metalwork sanded and then waxed using the same Osmo hardwax oil as the iroko - not something I've done before but looks and feels lovely and should provide it with a degree of rust protection.
Next project will be a three-legged version for the workshop, perhaps slightly higher and with a step on one leg...
Nowhere near up to kayak's standard but the treehouse is nearly there
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One problem is the step down on to the slide, will have to move it out so it's a proper step as it's not safe as it is.
That's a lovely combo of steel and timber Househusband 👌
thestabiliser that treehouse is well cool. I'd love to build one.
ugh.... just gonna find img host...
Building a pylon out of cardboard for my 3 yr old son. Seemed like a good idea and simple enough at the time...
Making cardboard 'girders':
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After 3/4 of the girders from the pile were done I started construction of the base stage and very quickly discovered those girders wouldn't go very far at all.
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More girders were built to complete the first stage, and the goal of 4 stages (~6ft+) was brought down to 3 stages (~4ft+).
There are loads of offcuts which should be ok for the arms and smaller triangulation support pieces, but still must make many many more girders!
takes a brave man to make something complex from cardboard for a three year old!
that said, looks good!
Local skip wood for bench. (This is not my dayjob and I made it up as I went along)
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Really cheap, until Mrs Wally found the cushion she liked.
Love a skip and a loft conversion.
Nice.
Why did you make it brown though?
I am going for a chameleon/predator look after this lockdown on this bench/sunbed.
Reality was my shed had a wide selection of pine (brown) or ebony woodstain/preserver.
Not as creative as some of the posts, but built this at the weekend
Rich:A smile says 1000 words of "This is brilliant!"
Made with my 14 year old (his project really and he did all the planning, shaping and finishing).
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The bench ends had been lying around in the garden as 'ornaments'. I got some treated timber, cut to length and width, routed to shape nicely and now we have a bench
BTW It is not undercoat grey, it is Slate - a subtle contemporary tone that adds a classy elegance to your garden furniture
sorry Wally, I feel my comments was maybe overly harsh.
I love the big chunky tennons and especially the fact you cut them with nothing but a stanley knife.
Could do with a skip find like that myself for a work bench top.
Some lovely stuff getting posted, this thread is a keeper.
I knocked together a folding bike rack for my new van to protect the floor & rear seat backs.
Had a nice piece of WPB 18mm but the rest is scrap from the garden
Nice! Two rows of seats and full bikes is always a winner!
What sort of van is that, Colp?
Made a little play house shepherd's hut for my kids. Will probably add more to it over the coming couple of weeks once I've finished building a studio for a customer.
Made a new handle for my wife's favourite spatula after I snapped the old one
Its only taken 6 years to get from this (posted on p.13)
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to this
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I had a lot of oak veneer and black Valchromat left over from making my dining table last year so I set myself a Lockdown Offcut Challenge. Make a TV cabinet from just what's in the workshop.
No credit cards were harmed in the making.
99%chimp - that knife is stunning. Was all by hand or did you start with a blade blank? Either way, very nicely finished!
I made a guitar stand and a fingerboard this week.
It's very similar to MDF. And yes it's coloured and uniform density throughout. It's still harder to get a smooth finish on the cut edges and I've had a bit of trouble with Osmo PolyX. The oak veneer needs 2 coats but if you put a 2nd on the Valchromat it spoils it. I'm having to do some experimentation to try and get the finish I want.
My daughter's partner is an architect for some fancy interiors and kitchens. They often bond a thin sheet of one colour onto a contrast colour and router through to show the base colour through. I achieved a similar if unintended effect when I routered the finger-pulls and exposed the top of a couple of dominos!
Super shonky raided bed. Self isolating and needed the get the green beans in the ground so limited to what was laying around the garden. Wood work not my strong point but the soil stays where it should
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Decided to respray the back of the car.
I built the spray booth and sanded the old paint smooth before discovering Halfords were out of Jet Black paint - the order emailed listed everything I needed as available and for collection yesterday except the paint where they showed it as available next week. Didn't spot the one date changed item 🙁
I built a wall....
Busy making knives to match my bows.
Rosewood handle to match my rosewood riser bow.
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Had previously made this
A social distandem.
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a few more photos incoming here: https://www.instagram.com/colin_woof/
That's ace. 😁 Want to see it built with riders.
Made a bench from some waney edge oak. Just waiting on an Amazon delivery of osmo clear.
Edit. Need to workout this picture thing out.
Have just converted a swing and slide set into a new run for the chickens. A load of left over roofing batten and some green wire mesh.
Only got the chickens a couple of months back.They are ace!
Absolutely beautiful @noshki
Great idea to re-use the swing set. Looks like a proper piece of architecture!
Sorry, folks - another of my stool samples... 😉
The last wee stool/table I made was reassigned to living room duties so this new one for workshop is a combined step and stool; three legged so it doesn't wobble on the undulating concrete and a wide stance for stability - smaller step as either a footrest when sitting wrong way round or step to get up. TIG welded 25mm box section 25mm wire brushed and finished with Owatrol (new and me likey) and recycled iroko finished with Osmo hardwax oil for the step and top. Didn't want to make the step too big so I could minimise overall footprint yet retain stability.
Just a tip 🙂 take it as you will, but flat surfaces for stools and chairs tend to be a bit uncomfy. A simple thin upholstered pad tacked on does wonders for that. Or use a thicker top and hollow it out a bit.
Theres a good vid on making a scorp from a big ring spanner. Something I'm intending to make at some point.
Also making a stool. Though a bit off being finished. Damned lockdown for getting supplies easier. I've a pic of it in its making state on retrobike, not sure how to post pics here, I always screw it up completely.
@dyna-ti Yup, they are. This is the third (fourth..?) stool I've made and the others have round tops made from laminated iroko (from old school science worktops, have a bit of it...) that I've turned on the lathe to do exactly that using woodturning tools; they've been strips 40mm wide glued up - this was butted together as planks using dowels and a dowel jig I'd made for the job. This ones also predominantly for standing on as there's another two (with the scallop tops) in the workshop for sitting on - one with three legs and the other on wheels for when I'm welding and want to move about.
I made my tailgate that had a hole in it, not have a hole in it.
I was never going for showroom condition but I'm less than impressed about how the lacquer went on. It seemed to go on in a thin stripe so that the end result is quite stripey. Maybe I'll have to flat it back and lacquer it again. 😐
Stair (stool/chair) model's own.
What lacquer are you using. Some times with crap nozzles you need to go quite close as they dont fan properly
Stand it in hot water before using as it helps.
Top tip ref runs have a clean touch up brush handy n if it runs smooth n spread the run out. Wont get rid but makes it less obvious.
I'd also either back the speed off or wind the power up slightly on the mig
Stair (stool/chair) model’s own.
@kayak23 What's the stool for; whittling - carving? You'll be wanting a cushion for it, obvs... 😉
What lacquer are you using. Some times with crap nozzles you need to go quite close as they dont fan properly
Yes I think that's the problem. Some WLW Auto Paints stuff off Amazon. Should I flat it back and try again with a pricier lacquer?
What’s the stool for;
It was a little project I designed as an introduction to wood machining with my City& Guilds furniture students. I use it all the time in the workshop 😊👍
I’d also either back the speed off or wind the power up slightly on the mig
Cheers, I'll try that. Very difficult not to blow through!
Not quite the last thing, but I wrote a poem, and stuck it in an imagey thing. You might have seen STW share it in their Instagram story last week:
An actual link that works... My poem:
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A trial animated gif on the 70 yr evolution of the mountain bike to date
(Part 1) 1950s to 1980s
Need to get some better resolution pics and better skillz to make a longer one stretching the full 70 years. I have nearly years ahead to complete it so best get cracking 🧐
Kayak
Best rattle stuff off the shelf I found was hycote.
Try n flat it with 1200 n polish it back.
Does it have a dry dusty line in it
Made a frame bag for my cotic tonight. Quite pleased with how it came out.
Girlfriend's birthday so I made her an arch for climbers on her allotment plot.
Made it out of a couple of fallen tree branches then steam bent a load of wangly bits all over it.
Probably grow a clematis or some sweet peas up it.
Jow about a passion flower kayak? Look amazing and make tea
Look amazing and make tea
I drink Yorkshire tea now....😁
Lots of garden projects going on..great stuff!
I made a raised bed with oak sleepers. God, they're heavy!!!
Sioersessions your bag popped up on my instagram the ither day. Looks good hiw much of the frame does it fill
"Made" is a bit of an over statement but potentially useful during lockdown.