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<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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5. Filled with paint
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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).
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.
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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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.