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Gosh BillMC, the face at 22 seconds is weirdly frightening...........
N. American pancakes and vanilla ice cream all homemade, raspberries nature's own.
Hathaway in the Park - Not a great painting I admit but I was feeling bard this afternoon.
Damn, those pancakes look good.
Knocked up a quick 2nd desk for my home office from so left over OSB from the garage fit out. My primary desk was getting overrun with hobby projects and never got tidied again before work.
Made a breakfast bar in birch ply and Formica.
@kayak23, did you laminate that yourself or find someone to buy pre-laminated sheets from?
very nice kayak, I looked at getting a few sheets of laminated ply for building a desk last year but it worked out more expensive than buying a walnut worktop.
Yeah I bought the birch and the Formica separately and laminated it myself.
Worked out ok but always a bit of a pita working with Formica.
Very brittle with razor edges when it snaps!
My latest. Rattan fronted kitchen dresser.
Looks great @kayak23. What's the trick to getting such a humbug look on the edges of the birch ply? Particular finish I guess as my choice of clear matt varnish didn't make mine look like that!
Sanded to 180g, Osmo oil, rubbed off hard with paper towel, 240g denib, then second coat, again rubbed off well to dry.
I made a jig for making bike frames. The ones you can buy are mad expensive, even the ones labelled as lowcost. This one's way cheaper and better than most.
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That looks really good, please post some pics if you build a frame using it.
I made a jig for making bike frames.
Thank goodness for that, as I was thinking thats one fk'd up double glazed window 😯
What kind of bike is it for ?.
Retrodirect - that is awesome. As Leegee said, do a thread of frame build. I would for one read it.
@kayak23 that's lovely, I've got a ply fascination at the moment, we've just had some furniture made for our lounge in Birch ply with some melamine bits. I wish I'd spent more on the kitchen and had that made in it too, maybe next time if I'm not fed up of it by then.
We have just finished making this, mostly from phenolic coated birch ply. Started last July and it's as good as finished now, just waiting to be allowed to use it.
Furniture and kitchen were in our T5 (made by Amdro) and we've adapted, resized and added to it for the bigger van.
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Oh and probably should have included this one seeing as I'm on a MTB forum 🙂
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Wow, nice van bits 👌
Really nice van there!
Where would a diy’er get some nice faced ply to build a desk top?
That is a nice van. I love the birch ply look but unfortunately my cutting / router skills could never produce those glorious sharp stripy edges.
For melamine faced ply the lightweight 15 mm stuff can usually be got from campervan convertors. I bought some from a local guy to make a worktop in my van. It does need edging though. The tougher stuff that can produce the sharp stripy edges like birch ply is more expensive and expect needs a specialist timber merchant.
I love that little cut out for the bars 😀
Really nice van there!
Where would a diy’er get some nice faced ply to build a desk top?
Cheers 🙂
Wrote a reply to this last bought but didn’t post. James Latham is where the ply came from, they have loads of options, especially if you go to their Leeds branch.
My local one and the Leeds depot were very helpful too.
love that little cut out for the bars 😀
It’s amazing how everything fits on paper, until you come to build it and have to cut holes in your bathroom walls.
@phil5556 good work there, only suggestion would be some sort of partition at the end of the bed, it's going to get real old real fast if you get a wet bed or let the midges in (presuming you venture north of the border) every time you get the bikes out or empty the khazi in the pissing rain.
The earlier picture of She Tree has been joined by Head Space who faces the other direction
And just finished a Piet Mondrian inspired plant support
Outdoor furniture. Couldn't find anything for sale we liked the look of, in stock and at a reasonable price. Going to make a 2nd bench, came up a bit short on wood though.
Please excuse the weeds and the gate, they are on the list.
Pointing on the stonework could do with some attention too
That ones already in progress!
@squirrelking We’re making one of these for the back 🙂
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I did think about a solid partition but when it’s not raining and there are no midges it’ll be nice to stock your head out the back.
I live north of the border so midges and shit weather do feature quite a lot.
I think those bikes should have a romantic picture of themselves on the wall of their bedroom.
I expect to see you chatting to George Dawes on telly sometime soon Phil.
Jealous or all the plywood cutting and routing skills though feeling good about the fact that someone is manufacturing some plywood shelves for me at the moment. At £150 for the wood and the same for a days Labour it works out cheaper than anything of similar quality straight off the ahem, shelf. Plus it's bespoke, better looking and employs the skills of a craftsman. Money in your mates pocket not the man's.
Geuben I like the idea of the bench and table but too many sharp edges for the back of the knees/thighs especially wearing shorts and lack of 45° struts underneath to stabilise sideways movement. Just my opinion I just burn wood
Step back talented people - I present to you: the frogspawn conservatory!
With temp's of -3 and 'feels like' of -8 tonight which would spell almost-certain death for the limited frogspawn in the pond (and mostly on the surface), this particularly well-meaning, but probably doomed, entry to thread brings you the holy trinity of failure: shonky construction, bubble wrap and a staple gun. Interfering with natural selection is thrown into boot.
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Yes the garden's a mess, pond unfinished, lawn mossy etc. I'll probably have a frozen blob of frogspawn to contend with too but, when you see scenes like this of an evening, I felt compelled to do something and this is the best I could come up with.
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I also made a butt feeler.
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Here Colin your workshop has imroved somewhat since our "poshest addressed lockup in town" days.
@redmex No issues sitting on it at the weekend, we broke the edges slightly so nothing too sharp.
As for the lateral movement, so far so good, some play might develop over time we shall see. It's not like my design is a novel one though.
While being blown away by the skill of some people on here, I do have a particular fondness for the likes of the frogspawn conservatory and other slightly less 'skill based' ideas. This is probably due to the way I 'wing' it with most things I make.
did they survive BEar?
I had a couple of old shelves in the workshop and cut them up to make a step/stool for our grandson so he can drag it round the kitchen and get up to make cakes and do the washing up.
did they survive BEar?
let’s hope he’s not busy working on his tadpole mausoleum
I expect to see you chatting to George Dawes on telly sometime soon Phil.
He's a baby? Do you mean George Clark?
did they survive BEar?
It did prevent freezing, mostly, but one tadpole baby was irreversibly stuck to the bubble-wrap and it felt like
an unnecessarily complicated solution, so last night I went with my original thought of just "stick a B&Q bucket over it and place a brick on top" and I have to say that was much better idea.
Made a rough and ready manual machine with my daughter today.
I was going to buy the timber I needed but decided to make it out of offcuts I had in the garage including some skirting board, a bit of MDF and some rough sawn 4x2.
Is it perfect? No. Is it twice as good because my daughter made most of the cuts with a handsaw drilled most of the pilot holes, countersunk the screws and screwed the screws in. YES!
It will give me that warm fuzzy feeling each time I use it. I'm sure I still won't be able to manual but it was a fun afternoon 🙂
Tempted to have a go making one of those @lankystreakofpee
Any tips or particular measurements that are important or critical?
Nerf gun rack in slatwall under #1 son's bed.
@Rich_s to be honest the measurements are a result of what I had lying around 'just in case' in the garage. I probably would have gone wider on the wings and used a bit of 6x2 for the base and the upright but we made it up as we went along.
I did watch some videos on YouTube for inspiration and a lot of them have a long base. The one that caught my eye was this one from Kyle Warner as his was more compact and still seemed to work OK.
I did watch some videos on YouTube for inspiration and a lot of them have a long base. The one that caught my eye was this one from Kyle Warner as his was more compact and still seemed to work OK
You know that link goes to Baby Monkey (Going Backwards on a Pig) right?
You know that link goes to Baby Monkey (Going Backwards on a Pig) right?
🤣🤣
This ramp/hump thing for me on my trials bike and my 4yo on his balance bike. Made from old some pallets that roofing tiles came on I was offered. Fun taking the nails out. Wasn't as simple a project as I first thought, took longer than I hoped. Stable for regular rolling over but not so much when load comes from other directions.
@Lanky
What exactly is a 'manual machine' Im a bit lost as to it's function. I must have missed the 'manual' thread.
I was told that my riding kit lying about didn't really compliment the decor and that I should make a drawer for the corner of the lav for it.
Reclaimed gnarly wood, brown Oak and inlaid 'keys'
Birthday present for a friend showing live distance and elevation gain from Strava. Photo shows a prototype printed at high speed but final version won't be much different. Also, my lack of talent in CAD led to accidentally mirror the front wheel at some point hence the cut-out for the rider's hands in the wrong place. Easily fixed though 🙂
ESP8266 tucked away inside the base and a 1.4 inch round LCD from AliExpress in the wheel. Connects over WiFi using Strava's API to pull the data in. Ignore the debugging stuff (green cross / stats etc on the display).
Very nice. What wood and tools did you use?
Pizza cooked in the barbecue.
Ready to go in
Sliced and ready to eat
Some rye flour in the dough, prosciutto, roasted asparagus and vine tomatoes between piazzaoli and mozzarella. Some red wine to accompany it. Yum.
@Flaperon - that's very cool. Definitely a marketable product in the making.
I was riding this around with only one brake for aaaages. I've finaly got round to making the adapter to run a brake (on the sliding dropouts) on the front.
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Made a new frame bag for my Kona Sutra Ltd. 1000D Cordura with 3mm closed cell foam and bright yellow ripstop lining so it keeps its shape. Definitely not worth the effort compared to bought version.
^^^Neato 👍
I made a little sick in my mouth when kayak typed "neato"
Date & Black Pepper Brownies a recipe from the Guardian last weekend. Second recipe on the linked page.
Loving rewelding bikes still. Here's a bike that was shortened and steepened. I'm looking for something cool to do this to. I really want to find an old super bling frame to weld a 44mm headtube to the front of. I want to commit total sacrilege. Anyone on here got something?
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I made a Character Oak Wardrobe with a decorative nail design to the doors.
You could hide inside it well easy!
Also did a time lapse movie of the nail technique.
The actual last thing I made was a very quickly whittled handle for the brush from the garage since it snapped:
But some more significant recent projects I've finished (I find finishing stuff way harder than starting stuff - sure I'm not the only one)...
Made a toybox for my niece out of oak flooring (it was the only sensible way I could find of buying the right thickness oak, but worked out pretty well in the end):
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Also made her a spoon from a dead branch I cut off the apple tree in the garden:
Made some shelves
phase 1 of project understairs complete. When you live in a house like this you have to make your own square edges…
im not giving up the day job…
Due to scope creep on the house size it's a bit Hugh Jackman in the leg department, so will replace them, but otherwise I'm quite pleased with this!
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To sell stuff at a market without paying £40 a day for a market stand you simply need a £12.25 per year pedlars certificate and a Pedlars Cart. Here is my Pedlars Cart with Superstar Components wheel and carbon forks which I am sure led to a sale on my very first trip out with it.
Not so much made, but scrubbed all the rust and grime off and made a filthy mess on the polishing wheel:
It's a BHI Lo-vo Lite machinists lamp. Apparently quite rare and sought-after by lamp enthusiasts, it turns out.
Have not made anything yet but i wanted some advice from you experts if thats ok...
kids really want a rope swing in the garden, trouble is we have no trees with suitable branches.
as such we have selected one that goes up in a Y shape like a catapult... im thinking i will fix a horizontal bar to each trunk with a cantilever poking out where i can hang the swing... fag packet sketch below.
my question is; what would you use as the horizontal bar and how would you fix it to the tree?
was hoping to use existing materials, we have plenty of timber knocking about but also a couple of old scaffold poles, was thinking if i could fix two brackets to the tree, then use the pole coupled at each bracket...? any advice welcome..
...mmmm. I think that is unlikely to work without breaking/damaging the tree.
The only way I can think that might perhaps works would be to have two horizontal bars e.g. 4"x4" clamped either side of the boughs. These could be cut-in to match the profile of the bough and then maybe lined with a bit of neoprene to protect the tree. Not quite sure what will happen as the tree grows.
yeah not really given any consideration to the tree. wonder if i could rope lash it to the boughs?
my question is; what would you use as the horizontal bar and how would you fix it to the tree?
wonder if i could rope lash it to the boughs?
I'd be looking at how GoApe protect trees (struggled to find anything decent with a quick Google though)
I wouldn't want to cantilever that, I'd add an upside down V at the free end. Or buy or build a swing.
how about just building a swing through the gap?
pole either side horizontal bar throught he V. you could even make wee platform etc while remaining detached from the tree.