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It's cuprinol garden shades lavender and white daisy.
Goes on very weak, needs 3 coats which have to go applied pretty close together and it forms like a plastic covering. Seems pretty good though, although I turned out to allergic to it and had to go buy a respirator!
Water control system for the annoyingly complicated spring water source at my Dad’s house, which is controlled from a pump house 20 minutes walk away down a steep grassy hill. Cost £50 all in for parts and PCB, now all driven by his phone and easy to reprogram timers etc though a touchscreen interface.
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Hubs are always the jewellery of a bike, looking good in bright shiny colours.
So I repainted a dynamo hub in chavvy flip paint. It's the equivalent of a numberplate in a funny font on an otherwise fast but constantly broken down car.
I like it.
instagram.com/colinlikesbikes/ for more photos of my tat for lols
I made a couple of marquetry panels. I often (used to) start doing these as demos for the students.
They were both done with a fine jewellery saw on a 15 degree table where you tape the veneer you're letting in behind the main body of veneer and carefully cut around the section on the 15 degree table. Through the two layers this creates a kind of mitre edge that closes as you pull the bottom layer level.
The text around the oak frame was done on the cnc router.
[url= https://farm1.staticflickr.com/857/42113096190_0c90d796eb_k.jp g" target="_blank">https://farm1.staticflickr.com/857/42113096190_0c90d796eb_k.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://flic.kr/p/27aoCim ]Ramones marquetry[/url] by [url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/79912681@N06/ ]kayak23[/url], on Flickr
Then a cheeky little Banksy.
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I have a habit of leaning towards punk album covers. They make great graphic images and I quite like the idea of the somewhat respectable craft of marquetry contrasting with the image created. This is a Clash table top I did several years ago now.
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I started making a couple of these birdtables years ago now, got sidetracked by building my shed which was inspired by the bird tables and so they sat up on a cupboard for about 3 years. Due to leaving my job I had a quick rush to finish up all these things I'd half done, and so here is one of two.
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Another fork:
Turned an old pallet into some mountain themed nursery decor.
I've bodged together a bookshelf for the otherwise wasted space at the end of the kids bed:
More planting stuff for my random eBay family.
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Kayak23 must be quaking in his boots.
A short wheelbase cargo-bike. An improvement on a Schwinn cycletruck. Fillet brazed from NOS ovalised 531 tubing with a shimano e6000 ebike motor mount. Those are anything cage mounts on the front prongs and the post is sized to take a(n unecessary dropper post). Rack still to be built, it will be rad...
Anyone any ideas for a paintjob? I'm thinking neon splatter-paint
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If anyone's interested updates to the various projects are at: www.instagram.com/colinlikesbikes/
As part of some garden restructuring and following Rich_s' shed above, I decided to nick his colour scheme to refresh my shed.
My Dad's comment after being sent a picture?...."Nice Wendy house".
He may have a point...I think maybe I should just keep the windows white?
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Finished this up the other day...
Still the best thread on here! Wish i had the space, tools and skill to make things that are useful - some great stuff folks.
Since splitting up from my partner i started painting again. Partly because i have the time but more as therapy really. These three symbolise my journey though the medium of paint - not really - i just felt like painting something (possibly the same thing). They're a bit weird but in my defence, I was going through a weird time 😀
Scruffywelder - no pic posted....what was it you made?
Euro - I don't really get 'art'. It very rarely grabs me; I'd normally prefer to look at a nice photo of a mountain landscape or something; probably a lack of imagination.
But - I really like those paintings! Particularly the first & last ones.
To me the first one is like a snapshot of the person's mind. I love the geometric shapes & the bright, angry background.
The last one is a lot calmer & more introspective. It looks to me like someone who is sitting in the background as an observer, but perhaps not happy with what he sees. The way the sharpness of the face fades towards the bottom is like he's fading into the background without being seen; kinda hiding in the shadows. It contrasts well with the almost graffiti-esque bold shapes in the foreground.
The middle one looks like someone who has either just trod on a bit of lego, or has ingested too much caffeine & is about to go all 'falling down' over some minor misdemeanour.
Well, nothing as arty or creative from me.
My daughter doesn't like sitting in her high chair anymore & wants to be a 'big girl'. We looked at getting her a 'junior chair' from somewhere like IKEA, but they were barely any higher than our dining chairs. Ones that were high enough would have meant she couldn't get her legs under the table.
So, I modelled up some raiser blocks for one of our existing chairs & 3-D printed them. They raise the chair up by 60mm, while still allowing her to get her legs under the table. The front blocks slot over the legs by 30mm to keep the whole lot in place. Dowels are still to be sanded & varnished, but the whole lot went together first time with no issues.
I was concerned they would fail under the weight of the chair & someone sitting on them, but I have stood on just one of them (~75kg) and there wasn't even a creak.
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Thank you Stumpy. I usually keep my painting to myself so glad you like them.
Your chair extension IS creative btw. Not only that, it's actually useful 😀
Still love this thread.
Euro how did you get Keith Richards to pose for the second painting 🙂
Blimey! Medieval farm based torture device. Nice.
Hopefully the picture showed up this time. Big square bale lifter for the loader. Handles 2 straw bales at a time quite nicely 😀
Made a gimbal handlebar mount for my Zhiyun Rider M using an old XT front mech, trimmed rubber strip from a p-clip, M4 lock-nuts/washers/bolts, and a 1/4" UNC bolt for attaching the gimbal (or camera). Quick test this evening on a rigid bike showed it will pretty much be limited to smooth surfaces, not sure suspension would help much, the gimbal just couldn't handle the shocks from bumps.
Is it fully tight? If it's bottoming out try adding a solid spacer, a bit of plastic PEX pipe might do it (heat it up to mould it).
Finally finished the refurb on our we rental flat. Did the bathroom last year, this year the rest of the flat ( swapped from a bedroom / sitting room with separate kitchen to kitchen / sitting room with separate bedroom)
New kitchen
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Bedroom - now a really funny wedge shaped room - only a few feet of horizontal ceiling that is over 3m high!
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Bathroom - done last year
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I paid tradesmen to do the tricky stuff but did most of it myself. Complete new bathroom, complete new kitchen, complete new central heating system and all plumbing, 75% rewire. Fully insulated to as high a standard as I could ( 4-6" of foil backed PU foam) cost £18000 in total plus a few hundred hours of my time, £250 a month more on the rent, £30 000+ on the value
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Midway through paint on my (third) DIY cycletruck. Off to the workshop tonight to give it it's clear topcoat. Make it shiny and bling.
Loud paintjobs are rad!
I've uploaded more photos here:
www.instagram.com/colinlikesbikes/
Picnic bench! Enjoyed this one.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for varnish/some way of protecting it from the weather? CBA painting it!
Now, I'm no expert, but is that Reynolds by any chance? 😛
I am fairly rubbish at making stuff, it usually ends up looking a bit shonky. However, I am quite pleased with this for an afternoon's work.
Mrs Mellie saw something similar on Pinterest. Three IKEA Billy bookcases re-purposed into storage for our third bedroom, which is now a dressing room (ooh, get us!) Batons at the top screwed into the very thin plasterboard to spread the load, then brackets screwed into bookcase and baton. Hanging rails from B&Q between each. A lot cheaper than buying wardrobes, and less 'looming' into the space. Needs a bit of finishing off.
(Love the garden projects bear).
That's very nice colp but shouldn't you have swapped the toilet and sink so you can reach for a book while sat on the bog?
I've gone done a big version of my 3D CNC machined Malvern Hills..
700 x 150 x 30mm:
That’s very nice colp but shouldn’t you have swapped the toilet and sink so you can reach for a book while sat on the bog?
Blimey! Never thought of that!
Here's another view of the sculpture. Shows the details quite nicely 🙂
Wanted a new framebag to fit the fatbike and as nothing off the shelf fit and I don't have custom money to spend I thought I'd have a crack. Also, who wants black/olive when you can have fluro orange and purple?
Material is 6oz PU coated polyester, zip is a double ended ykk plastic one, ordered the double ended version but it was the wrong way around so I swapped them round so it opens in the middle, 25mm webbing (x2 on top for the twin top tubes) and some Velcro onewrap (30mm and 50mm) to attach to the frame.
Fits a carefully packed gellert solo tent without too much bulging.
Stuff that worked well:
I massively over engineered putting the zip in, there are garages at each end and a storm flap over those, took longer than the rest of the bag!
Stuff that didn't work so well:
There was a mk1 that didn't quite work out and had a tapered top panel to fit the frame, I made this one 3" all round. It would have been better tapered as the tube splay apart to 85mm so the current taper in the webbing from 2 to 3" doest quite reach.
Onewrap gives two options, either rub the paint off the frame or the skin off your legs.
Cost £25, £15 of that was onewrap! Next time I'll just make some straps from webbing and Velcro which would be less abrasive too!
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Massive black shelving unit in black Valchromat in a black basement for a yoga studio in Birmingham.
BBC1 right now.
We won a BAFTA donchaknow!
Spent my Saturday at the local hedging and stone walling competition. That is me in the middle making love to my spade! Was a tough day as the wall had to be taken down first before it could be rebuilt! The 2nd pic is the final result. Took first prize in the novice category as well as best local so, all in all, a good days work 🙂
Drove by the sign for the competition the other day welshfarmer, was tempted to call by and have a nose.
Been busy on the latest caravan/tiny home build:
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I made a planter for my wife's friend but I'm buggered if I'm going to put a picture of it next to all this stuff^^
So much going on here I didn't think one or two photos would suffice. A friends paid me to repaint his bike, I agreed on the condition that I was able to paint it how I liked.
This is the result
Splatterpainting and fades for days.
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That's sick! 👍
Thats a great paint job, I am still wanting to do a hammerite hammered cammo on a frame frame but its a megga job.
Love the paint job.
That home made caravan is pretty amazing too!
Only just found this thread again as 'favourites' are now working!