Auricula theatre
Absolutely stunning! Love it.
And love the 2 bike storage set ups aswell.
Following on from my thread I gave up on the indoor pull up bar. We had a couple of lengths of 2x4 (or thereabouts) spare and I decided to go with an idea that had been in my mind for a long time - a pull up bar inside my shed. It's not ideal - there's not enough height for a ~170cm person to passively hang without feet touching floor and it's not especially wide - due to a) Apex roof, b) being situated between two bikes and workbench, but it's better than what I was using.
The T shape at the top of the uprights offers support to prevent movement but isn't weight bearing to pull on the roof, all the weight goes down to the floor. One upright is supported by the workbench to prevent lower movement, the other side sits within a cut out of ply. It takes the undoing of 3 M12 coachbolts for the uprights to be removed if required.
I've used the original 'wall mounts' I fashioned glued, bolted, and screwed to the uprights, and made two more lower down for a bar that can be used for bodyweight rows, or in combination with other equipment I've built for dips.
Picture also shows gymnastic rings. Previous setup was too precarious and low to use these. I've had them a few years but rarely used them so please to be able to easily now. I can only do the basic holds and inversions on them, and hope to progress with them, but no plans to do anything remotely acrobatic in my shed (or elsewhere)!
Unfortunately might have done too much on them Monday evening. Woke up this morning with neck pain and struggled to get a t-shirt on and spent day off at home.
Yes it is scary hanging upside down on the rings supported by a construction of my own handiwork knowing that if it gives way I'm going to land on my head with my full bodyweight. But seems strong enough so far 😂
Made these alcove cabinets.
First time using my new hvlp paint sprayer so was pretty happy with the results.
Definitely not perfect, but black takes no prisoners.
Very nice!
Did you make the diamond shelves first and build around them or the cabinet first?
Very nice Kayak. Fills those spaces beautifully.
Whats the sprayer. Im in the market myself and thinking about a Fuji. Not a high end one, probably something like the semi pro 2. Maybe even the Apollo 1500-3s
Did you make the diamond shelves first and build around them or the cabinet first?
I made the cabinet, as that had to be a given size. Using sketchup I could work all of the geometry and angles out of the triangles before cutting.
It's two diagonal bits corner to corner, halved through each other, then four more sections halved through everything they pass.
The shallow angles are tricky as most saws only go to 45 degrees. Had to make a special sled for the table saw.
Had to paint it in bits so I could get into the crannies which made final assembly a bit of a bugger.
Whats the sprayer. Im in the market myself and thinking about a Fuji. Not a high end one, probably something like the semi pro 2. Maybe even the Apollo 1500-3s
I nearly bought a Fuji but I needed a 5-stage hvlp really in order to spray water based well and at the cost of the 5 stage Fuji, the local Dulux centre gave me a good price on the Graco 9.5 I ended up with.
It's an amazing setup but a hell of a learning curve and painting in what is effectively an unheated lean-to is far from ideal 🙂
@sirromj Looks great and plenty strong enough 👌
sirromj - I have that feeling with any DIY I do! I still expect my daughters bunk bed to collapse in a heap eveytime I lug my 100kg self up on to it to fit a sheet and all I did was replace the slats and supporting bars on it.
Steady hand game for the kids school Christmas fair. Some decidedly dodgy soldering underneath - I haven't done that in 30 years and I wasn't very good back then!
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Not totally finished and not actually my work doing the upgrade but this is what they are doing to Southampton Bike Park which started as my idea for somewhere where I could learn to do drops and jumps better about a decade ago. They are only surfacing some of the tracks and parts of others so we can continue to build and evolve the other trails. They are also leaving a big pile of surface material for patching - the wash away you see will be fixed when they put the top side drainage in.
As I say, not really my work but I am still very prod of having had the idea and originally creating the bike park so happy to take some credit.
Love the steady hand game.
Really love the bike park. There’s a council golf course closing down near me that would really benefit from something like that.
There’s a council golf course closing down near me that would really benefit from something like that.
Just ask to do it. When they say no, ask why.
Remove that objection or prove it is wrong and ask again.
Repeat for a year and they will run out of reasons for saying no and then you can just build it.
When you run out of time, or snap your foot off and spend 6 months in bed and another 6 in a wheelchair or crutches as I did, find an enthusiastic young guy to take it on under your guidance. Once he gets it good enough the council may find some grant money and suddenly shower you with money to make it all weather and show how much they care about cycling and the youth.
Simple re
I used to run a bike club on FC land. I reckon a council will be a doddle compared to dealing with them 😃
There’s a council golf course closing down near me that would really benefit from something like that.
Do you know what Col, you've got a great point there. Hoylake has already closed and I wonder whether it's time to speak to the councillors. Which course is near you?
Do you know what Col, you’ve got a great point there. Hoylake has already closed and I wonder whether it’s time to speak to the councillors.
Is there two Hoylake courses? I was literally there yesterday at a family funeral at the very posh club. My dad lives overlooking Royal Liverpool course at Hoylake and lives for golf. He'd go full nuclear if the likes of me started doing stunts across the 17th 😂
Yes! 😁
The council one is/was over the other side of the railway. It was used as a car park when the Royal hosted the open. I ride across it on the footpath over to Newton; never thought of plundering its vast expanse of nothingness.
It's earmarked for housing, and wirral council being wirral council, there'll be precious little community facilities actually provided as a result.
I do like the Christmas tree
I quite like the painting (below)
I don't like the frame (of the painting)
What type of frame does STW reckon I should use instead of the only spare one I had lying around?
The whit works but it needs slimming right down
As you can see, the frame was partially slimmed already before I decided I didn't like it. The top and bottom were as wide as the sides. I guess I could trim them a little more and make the four sides equal thickness, then see what it looks like. Thanks
Building a hen house from scrap for my neighbours, one of those "of course I can, dont worry about it, it'll only take an hour or two" type errors of judgement!
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Still got to finish the roof and fit out with avian acoutriments but nearly there
The white works but it needs slimming right down.
Slimming down yeah, under an inch. But black or even red, i think would better suit.
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I need to come up with a design for a tv unit. Something between 320-350mm deep.
I like the Christmas tree(s). I assume it's one, but you can rotate the "branches" to make different patterns?
[i]I like the Christmas tree(s). I assume it’s one, but you can rotate the “branches” to make different patterns?[/i]
I wondered the same but from what I can see, it is the individual slats glued together rather than fixed to a central spindle. I have already checked my wood stack and I don't have enough to make one 🙁
Nice hen house. Presumably next is the church house, gin house, school house, outhouse, On Highway Number Nineteen?
He will need to mow the grass though, because people keep the city clean
The antler of the round table float fell off and was run over...
I've tried to salvage it. Not finished yet. Was working on the shape not the finish. Will need smoothing out and then painting.
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The antler of the round table float fell off and was run over…
Wouldn't it be easier just running another one over? And tastier.
it been a long time coming but i made this....
not by myself though! with lots of clever people i just do the animation and cinematics but quite proud of this one
I like the Christmas tree(s). I assume it’s one, but you can rotate the “branches” to make different patterns?
Yes you can. If you click the little arrow in the imgur box, there are two more pictures of it spun around.
Was about £40 of C16 3x2 easy edge from wickes, and an old bit of 20mm dowel (which is waaaay too thin - should have used a broom handle). Plus a tree ring liberated from *somewhere*
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Even better than I first thought. Now I wonder if I could used splined dowel and some kind of cog teeth in the wooden bars to make the branches rotate at different rates by connecting a small electric motor to the base.
Yes you can. If you click the little arrow in the imgur box, there are two more pictures of it spun around.
Yeah, I saw them. Great idea, very clever. Might make something similar to replace my old snooker cue/pallet wood Christmas tree since we've decided not to get a real tree this year.
Even better than I first thought. Now I wonder if I could used splined dowel and some kind of cog teeth in the wooden bars to make the branches rotate at different rates by connecting a small electric motor to the base.
You could put a key in a round dowel easily enough by routing a slot along the length of it and then using some small square section timber as a key. Different speeds would be very tricky though. Would guess you'd need to gear your motor down otherwise you'd need quite a big one, which is fine because you're not going to want it going very fast... though it would be fun! I've already put too much thought into this.
I wonder if I could used splined dowel and some kind of cog teeth in the wooden bars to make the branches rotate at different rates by connecting a small electric motor to the base
That's been done before in Russia. But the Ukrainians keep shooting it down.
@doris do you do requests? A new Burnout please. A good one. Paradise was shite.
@doris do you do requests? A new Burnout please. A good one. Paradise was shite.
alas no i cant do requests 🙂 burnout was before my time i think i was making harry potter games when burnout was being made so would be no use anyway that and code baffles my tiny brain!
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All made from bits of old decking and a summerhouse we pulled apart.
@WCA cool painting but imo would look better without a frame asthe frame seems to be cropping part of the bumper.
Cheers stk
The frame it is in is just the only spare I had. I made a new one during my lunch break and it is drying after the first two coats of paint. I will be adding a red and a black stripe to it, I think, tomorrow as mocked up below.
The new frame shouldn't cut the front bumper quite as much but the guy driving did cut the corner more than I expected while I was painting so the nose is quite close to the edge.
Can't edit the last post to change the photo so here it is after painting it last night
Sorry to be critical WCA 😆 but the grained wooden frame looks out of place.
Great picture otherwise.
Don't want to be picky but it slightly bothers me that the front corner of the Audi is a bit behind the frame.
Bruce
The front corner of the car is out of place because I cocked up the proportions so it goes almost to the edge of the actual canvas. I started with a car which was a much more accurate shape and proportion but it looked wrong so I had to extend and enlarge the bonnet. I agree with your comment but it was a case of 'saving' a painting that wasn't working. I think some clever framing might solve the problem though so - see below.
If you look at the windscreen and windows you get an idea of the original proportions and the front of the car ended about where the black line across the front of the car currently is. That positioned the car better on the canvas but somehow looked wrong, even though it more accurately reflected the 6 - 7 reference photos I used. I could only get it to balance properly by pulling the left (as you look at it) headlight towards the viewer and enlarging it. This meant the lines down the length of the car got a bit skewed and I was only just able to keep the whole cat front ont he canvas.
Dyna-ti
I tried plain white and it looked worse. Please remember that I am making these frames in my garage with what I can get and am not a professional framer. My stock answer to buyers is "You are buying the art, the display frame is justy there to carry it". This kind of excuses some of the weaknesses but I agree that there are probably better frames possible.
The trouble is that I sell paintings like this for between £150 - £250 so there is not enough margin to get a professional frame made when they cost upwards of £80.
EDIT
I just spotted this picture mount and frame surround leaning against the wall in the corner of the office. It is not an actual frame, just a foam insert, but gives an impression of what it might look like with a narrow, perhaps metal, surround.
That mount looks good and save the front of the car from being covered by the frame.
The foot pedal on our ancient pedal-bin finally have up the ghost. It's died a couple of times before but I've always been able to revive it, Igor-style.
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So I grabbed some offcuts of 25mm ply; some glueing and clamping, table-sawing, band-sawing, sanding and a quick coat of polyurethane later...
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I'm pretty confident it's going to outlive the rest of the bin 😆
I’m pretty confident it’s going to outlive the rest of the bin 😆
Next step will be a replacement wooden lid + hinge. Eventually it will be your very own Trigger's bin.
Finished teh hen house, neighbour decided to cut down the legs as the chucks going in it down't like to climb, apparently. Who knew.
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Tom, the neighbours handyman, making a few last minute adjustments
PS recieved payment in booze form. Win!
Birdbath feeding station for my wee pal the friendly Robin, sparrows,starlings,some tits then the aggressive magpies and finally two fat pigeons I need to make it harder for them
The two blackbirds just eat the sultanas off the grass
Must get the last brick in place this weekend
A couple of things:
a. it fits!
b. it doesn't leak and neither do the other 30 joints I made
c. its a million times better in the basement than it was left by the cack handed moron who fitted the first iteration.
I'm basically a plumber now
@redmex Nice work. That bowl on top looks pretty substantial, did you make it?
@joshvegas also nice work...
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Thanks WillH the stone on top is a piece of whinstone washed up on the beach , smoothed off the top and cut a wee bath to fill up with rainwater, fairly impervious so at this time of year should keep filled
Bookcase for books and that.
That looks ace kayak, if I ever win the lottery and build a house you’ll get the keys in the post and free reign to fit it out to your imagination.
It's a date! 😂
Kid-scale Landrover...
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Built is maybe overstating it; we bought a (very) rotten toylander tub off eBay in late 2018, my dad bequeathed his mobility scooter, and made the rest from scratch. Chain-drive to rear axle, live axle at the front, paint is proper marine blue on the body. First outing was on Saturday, and it's now awaiting a few improvements following some adventurous driving. But its 'finished' before the kids are too big for it!
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Even geared down its a little too fast for learner drivers, so the high-range switch is disabled for the time-being.
The Landy is awesome! 😀👏
This thread never fails to amaze…
That Landy has made my day!
I would have loved that land Rover as a kid
Kid-scale Landrover…
I did see the thread in the 'other place', but that's fantastic!
That landy is bloody awesome.
Thats excellent. A trailer in the same design would be a nice edition.
That Landy is fab, excellent work there spandex_bob.
I do fear though, that you may have set them up for a lifetime of disappointment,that may well be the most reliable one they will ever drive 😉🤣🤣🙃
Thats excellent. A trailer in the same design would be a nice edition.
My Kids pseudo cousins live on a small holding, andused to rag around on little pedal tractors.
they could back a loaded trailer up perfectly by maybe 3 or 4. quite funny to watch.
They could also get the defender moving too, so they had to keep the battery disconnected. Less amusing.
Agreed, amazing. What lucky kids. Can't imagine how happy I'd have been having that as a kid.
That's brilliant! May I be the first to suggest that the trailer would be useful as a wheelie bar. Surely there's no need to change the gearing or power output.
the landrover is ace, i'd rather have that than the real deal, horrible things.
Kayak, whats the colour you used on the bookcase please?
Kayak, whats the colour you used on the bookcase please?
Blue.
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* 😉Sorry, I don't know. It was painted by a person other than me.
After moving into my new place with my new OH, I proceeded to smash it to bits and opted to kill babies and robins at the same time (actually, it had an open fire in there, which is probably worse for all than the log burner I replaced it with...)
Aaaand.... ta da...
Had a great time up on the cherry picker this morning - once the flu liner was dropped down, I went straight UP and had great views over Hove..
DrP
What make and model of stove DrP?
The carpet looks good just now but I'd maybe place a rug at the front of the hearth
What make and model of stove DrP?
I's a Saltfire peanut 5...
Though I made it taller, our opening width isn't the widest, so this was recommended as it's a narrower design.
Looks lovely..
Gonna have the first few gentle burns tonight!
DrP
Nice fireplace. I just did one too!
Updated the bedroom and put back in a cast iron insert into the blocked up fireplace. I did not do the plastering but we bodged everything else together.
Need to get some pictures up on the walls properly now.
nice... i guess that's a casette style stove (i.e no air gap etc)?
DrP
Purely ornamental for the bedroom. Chimney has one of those sheep up it and is capped at the top.
I like the oak mantlepiece above yours.
We ripped out a load of horrible fitted furniture and spent ages making the poorly floor better before sanding.
It had been butchered over the years with crowbars, circular saws and probably medieval seige weapons.....
The room is less dark than the badly taken photo makes it look, painted white picture rail and above.
Spanakopita me Kolokythi or spinach and feta pie with butternut squash if you prefer.
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