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Painting bike-parts in temperature changing paint!
I can't seem to add the video on stw so click here:
Nice idea Retrodirect. I bet you'll see it in direct summer sunlight. Does your hand gripping it do it?
Thats a really nice way of representing propellors Arbathx
@retrodirect, how Dow describe that to the police if it gets pinched? Looks ace.
Hand gripping it doesn't do it, it's also not been fitted to a bike yet so not had a chance to check outside. Seller of the paint thinks it will change on a warm day. 🙂
Blimey - that's an interesting paint job on that frame. I've not seen a split frame like that before!
My daughter kept whacking her fingers on door frames while riding her balance bike in the house. She also had a couple of close calls outside with lamp posts etc.
She can ride OK but tends to get distracted, look around & then veer off course.
So - I designed & 3-D printed her some moto-x style hand guards. Probably gone overboard with piccies. The first iteration was just to check for fit & see how best to lay the print out for support removal etc. I only did one of these.
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Then she wanted purple, so I got her some translucent purple & made the guards slightly bigger as she was having trouble getting her gloves into the gap. They are now fitted & she's well pleased - although after buying the purple, her favourite colour changed from purple to orange....I ignored this....
I've got some nice domed nuts that I need to swap the standard nuts for, but I need to dremel the screws to size before I can fit them...
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The handguards are cool!
I made a shoe rack. I should probably take a photo of it at some point, but it's not even close to comparing to some of the amazingness on here!
Finally started to do some basic wood construction...
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Limited by a hand mitre saw (in a frame), hand drill and basic electric sander (couldn't get in the corners). However well received. Really simple to make utilising LED lights from ebay, printed words, laid out holes and then drilled through (making sure I got the right diameter bits). Poor mitre work meant nothing lined up perfectly but will get myself better (electric) mitre saw for the future.
Cool handguards. Looks like Sam Hill's bike. 🙂
Liking the LED signs too. I bet they love them.
The only thing I’ve made recently is a little hedgehog sleeping ‘box’, or rather more like dome. It’s an old plastic planter which the base had broken off, so I cut a door in one side, put some rabbit hay inside and sat it on a piece of shed roofing felt.
Then waited to see if the hedgehog would take advantage of it; they apparently move around sleeping places, so no guarantee. Anyway, it seems to have rather taken to it, and uses it every day, which is nice. I can tell, because it drags dry leaves back into the entrance every time it goes in.
Cheap, cheerful and effective. I’ve just thought, while writing this, I ought to put a little ‘Home Sweet Home’ sign on the front...
^^^ that hedgehog house is really cool and great that you have a resident hedgehog!
We had one that i got given as a present, which never attracted any hedgehogs & after not very long my clumsy father in law managed to stand on it while doing some gardening & broke it. I keep meaning to replace it.
Knocked up a bar for the summer house. Sum total of 0 quid as all stuff was liberated from work. Old pallets and galv angle just knocking about and a couple of cheeky scaff boards.
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Really simple to make utilising LED lights from ebay,
Disben, do you have a link to the eBay lights, my girls would love something like that so might give it a go
Behold - the must have accessory for the modern man. I made this for my brother as I don't qualify for modern man status!
The Inkwell Razor Stand
Hope this works, little diy project to keep downstairs warm.
Well that didnt work, try again!
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Yay!
the other side.
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knocked an old fireplace through then rebuilt, reusing bricks that were taken out.
i'll try this one as well while i'm here.
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Little project from the summer. Stables were already there but Mrs F wanted a turnout yard. foundations dug, 20t of concrete and a new fence later and bobs your mothers!
Some 800mm wide jones bars with a silly paintjob. Not made for me and mainly because I could. 🙂
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Bedside lamp made from a Jack stand found whilst clearing out my great uncles garage. First time doing anything like that, pretty pleased with the outcome!
Love that lamp ^
Well done sir!
As ever awesome skills shown on here. All I've done is finished my portfolio for this year. I bet most of the projects above were done in less time than my procrastinations...
@eddiebaby How on earth do you land that glider again ?
I’m stunned at how fast that thing is :o)
That is slow compared with Dynamic Soaring gliders. They are pushing continuous laps at just under 500mph.
Landing isn't too bad. Flaps to slow it down to a reasonable speed and then you are landing into a strong wind that knocks more off the ground speed. It is a bit fraught though.
Made a house number for my mum who's just moved. I thought about buying her one of those classic art deco white-on-blue enamel signs you see all over France, but thought it might look a bit out of place in Halifax! So I went for the same typeface, but cut out of 4mm steel plate and stuck to a bit of old roofing slate. It looks a bit too modern at the moment but the hope is it'll rust evenly and contrast a bit better with the slate.
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Crappy image link - will try again
Just finished whittling these built in cupboards.
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Wow! Those cupboards look amazing!
Cheers dude 👊
Yep. Those are fantastic kayak.
Very nice work.
Cheers all. Annoyingly though, the people I made them for are putting things into them and making them look messy... 😄
You know the solution to that is to make them with outwards sloping shelves?
@kayak23 where do you work? Looking for some cupboards in London. Alternatively is there anyone you can recommend in London?
Hi edd. I'm in Warwickshire so it's probably a bit far out to be worth it.
Try Peter Millard. He's in London. He's got a really good Youtube channel too.
I don't know him personally but his videos are good.
http://peter-millard-x0he.squarespace.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_FksrzP3q-IuoWTiG501LQ
Thanks kayak23, appreciated.
Keys & (lightweight) coats hanger. Another small basic project for me. I do sometimes wonder why I don't go out and buy something ready made but I just keep buying pieces of wood for project ideas that may or may not get made instead. Liking those cupboards Kayak23, very nice.
nice work kayak23
eddiebaby those F3Fs are on another level. Did you do all the layup and moulding for the glider or was some of it kit supplied?
Made a bike-bench, although b&q cutting service did most of the hardwork.
Those built in cupboards are beautiful