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

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This! Took it for its maiden flight last night - and crashed it!

Just need to make stronger motor mounts and it'll be ready for testing again

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The last thing I made from scratch is a bike stand, just got the design registered and about to go into production (comments welcome, pos or neg)

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Lots of custom Brompton tensioners:

Bored with them now 🙂

Interesting Ben...you running bigger gaps in the cogs?

Nope, this is for my 8-speed kit - the Sturmey 8-speed uses a 20t sprocket...

Haven't worked on a brompton for over ten years, what's differnt from the factory model.

Standard tensioner is designed for a 16t sprocket, and the chainline is different too.

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First crop of apples from the tree, there are about half as many now.. Yum.

Im just about finished rebuilding this in the seychelles since january.

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It looked like this when i got here in jan

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Last thing I made was a bottle of sloe vodka with the left over sloes out of the freezer. Last years sloe gin wonder a prize at village show! 😀 Looks like its gonna be another good year for picking, almost time to get my bucket out so to speak

Made this tune 🙂

Log store.

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Question: what if the answer to the orignal question happened to be 'love' ? , and if so, would pics still be required?

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A water bottle rocket launcher for our Scout meeting next week.

This thread.

And, like all parents, I'm so proud of the way it's growing up.

😀

(Actually, a load of kindling and a big pile of firewood, but no pics...)

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balance bike

Made this a year or so back.

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It was supposed to be a speed board for windsurfing based on the logic of floating water skis powered by a rig - it didn't work.

Then I tried all over again (what was that about the definition of insanity) this time larger scale as a sailing dinghy only I got someone else to build it for me so technically it was a design concept.

Which also didn't work, well it worked, but not like it was supposed to and it damn near gave me a hernia every time I tried to lift it.

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[url= http://www.theclimbingstation.com/ ]A climbing wall ?[/url]
Well there were a few of us .... But I did loads

Beats an office job any day

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more balance bike

First go, and they shoot straight 🙂

They work out £3.60 each.

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nice! how did you turn the (big rad. on the) point?

Finished this earlier this summer, wood fired pizza oven, makes fantastic pizzas and kicks out some amount of heat once it's up to speed. [url= http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8023/7463129984_c70cc31e47_z.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8023/7463129984_c70cc31e47_z.jp g"/> [/img][/url]

A hostess trolley for wood.

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Are the barcodes for scanning through a weigh bridge or such like? 😉

Just bought a second hand wood turning lathe, so far, self taught, if anyone here is into it and can spare some tips drop me an email, thanks 😉

This was a seasoned log I pulled from my log store (found out latter green wood is easier to work with! Its my first try anyway.

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I have a new stash of green Oak and Hawthorn to play with this week 😉

getting a wood lathe in a few weeks, well, technically I already have it.. My grandpa was a great wood turner and general fettler of things (he tried to invent the automatic razor, but used a petrol engine and it blew up leaving him scarred for life.) but anyway, when he died all his woodworking tools went into my mums garage. She promptly moved to france and all the stuff is still in a locked garage waiting for me to collect it and transfer it to my garage!

I'm actually really excited!

my wife's birthday cake

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Are the barcodes for scanning through a weigh bridge or such like?

Garage contains a highly sophisticated picking system.

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billet balance bike wheels. 12" niche action

Cool wheels!

I made a chicken/cider/mushroom thing, from my River Cottage cookbook. While tasty, those wheels are a lot more impressive!

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balance bike, nearly finished. got to choose an anodising colour. probably black frame, red wheels and bits?

Any chance you could knock up one of those with 26" wheels?? That is brilliant!

sadly my machine isnt big enough to make 26" billet wheels, but defo could make one with standard mtb wheels.

That is fantastic Porter_Jamie any chance of a pic of your machine too

I am in the process of making my bar light for the bike not done yet but have got the beamshot it will produce over 200 metres to the van
and only 3 leds

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What a fantastic thread. I feel utterly inspired.

My fingers are twitching.

I made half a picture of Marylin. I know it's not the same as actually making something but I was feeling left out.

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thats amazing. i tried really hard to draw when i was a kid, just couldn't seem to do it

Thanks. like all these things it just takes lots of practise. If Redthunder pops along with some of his work it'll make this look like the incoherent scribblings of a three year old.

A giant robot
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And before that was a frame bag.
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Just made a mess of posting on the wifes i thingy. Wretched thing.

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Robot for offspring. Not in the same league as some of you but he doth love it. Made me very happy!

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finished! wrap it and shove it under the tree.

on trend wide bars? might need trimming a bit perhaps.

Ah Porter_Jamie, that is just absolutely brilliant, love it.

Spent some of this evening doing rough shaping for a chaindevice cage... Once again wishing for a proper lathe and mill rather than my crappy unimat, so much flex... But it'll do the job and what's more it'll have millions of machining marks on it so dobbers'll go "Oh it's all machined, like Hope"

That bike looks ace, though the blue dust caps have to go.