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I dropped my socket set & shattered the plastic insert.
1 foam mat & a bit of kraftwerk & it's better than the original.
Note. I started....but discovered my crochet skills were lacking. An expert crochet'er stepped in and finished the job. Sort of a collab 🙂
and I made the eyes 🙂
@rbc87
Great job, very impressive.
But, I did like the orginal barn find look car :).. Bit Henry Cole.
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Wheel Of Fortune, for a local gaming company offices.
Kayak what are you going to tell your dad if that wheel lets you down?
Kayak what are you going to tell your dad if that wheel lets you down?
My love is my engine, and you might be fuel?....You know, off the top of my head.
27.5"? Bet it makes the games come alive.
A peaceful evening "Sunset Over the Lake"
That's lovely WCA, however the forestry manager needs to sort some of those hanging trees out...
To be honest, I think they were more concerned about Armageddon happening just behind them and the twist in reality where the water reflects the trees pretty accurately but not the sky at all 🙂
Anyone else I'd say "why?"
But not you Colin, that's exactly the kind of thing I expect.
How is it staying on with the bead sticking out like that?!
I love those tyres! My partner used to do something similar, but the other way round - knobbly to slick, for riding Slickrock.
For the ‘there’s a website?’ camp, Back From The Dead is largely about making stuff from bits of stuff: https://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/back-from-the-dead-the-toolbox-of-tricks/
@Retrodirect Please note the post of World Class Accident is now taken, thank you for your interest at this time! 😉
Got a 10 flour sampler box from Matthews Mill this week. First out of the box is a dark Rye Bread. Coloured with blackstrap molasses and has a faint treacly aftertaste. Mrs S and I used it for a cheese bake dip tea last night and gave it a good hammering. Very, very crusty from being cooked in a cast iron pot. Used the 2 minutes mix, 5 minutes rest technique from the hand made loaf book which gives a very moist and light crumb.
@Retrodirect & @Sandwich It wasn;t a sales pitch but...
...if you are interested PM me and I will send size and possible options
So, I put up a big shed, but it doesn't have anything at the top of the barge boards, I was going to just cut a standard wooden diamond but then I spotted the little tiki ornament that my brother brought back for me from his travels, and thought that'd be nice. Except I didn't want to put that one outside, so I made one
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3d printed the basic model, sprayed it with a few coats of filler- decided just to leave it with some print marks since it looks almost like grain on most of it (except the nose!) Grabbed some modelling paints, brown then a quick wash to give it shadows and a drybrush to weather it. Turned out not bad! Just got to clearcoat it now and then it can be nailed to the shed to protect it or bless it or whatever tikis do
Pallet wall in my office. Sourcing the pallets was surprisingly hard. It's backlit by some LEDs which are multicolour and can be sound activated.
https://imgur.com/a/hFdcIQB
Nice *
I also spent last weekend doing the same to my study. Pallets on the wall, desktop and shelves from scaffold boards.
I was hungover when I started again on Sunday morning. Grabbed the Tim of varnish to do the desk top, got 2 thirds of the way through before realising I was using the black radiator paint I'd bought at the same time 🙄.
Finished painting it, sanded it down and put the varnish on...luckily it turned out ok.
Like that finish on the scaffold boards. Is that the varnish or the radiator paint causing an effect?
Love that finish! Happy little accidents.
Loving the Tiki Northwind. That'll look grand on a gable end. 😊👍
Nice finish on the desk but my god the cutting in around the door frame and skirting board, that was clearly while you were shit faced rather than just hung over! 😊
I've just passed your feedback onto my wife who did the painting. She confirms that she was indeed shitfaced after several proseccos...
Following McMoonter on instagram means there are frequent pics of his wood sheds and holzhausen, so I got inspired to have a go...
It's a very satisfying thing to build.
😊👌
I need to try one of those. My current woodpile is on a 4x3 pallet base under a tarp and about 2m tall, but will need moving in spring so that i can split and stack the rounds I moved before winter.
The shed is basically full, so it will have to be _not_ in the shed.
I need a new wood shed.
Not super pretty but 100% curious cat proof removable boxing to cover the flexi waste from our new loo. Adopted two rescue cats just after and they get absolutely everywhere! 😭
My small collection of chisels has been rattling around in the bottom of the toolbox for too long.
My No.4 Plane leaves stripes, cause the blade is so mangled from misuse
Made a honing sled from some offcut of aluminium, and a set of shower door roller wheels. Drilled and tapped holes for the wheel bearings and the clamp. Pop rivets on the "square" edge.
Chisels are now fantastically sharp, and far too dangerous to have loose in the toolbox
So i made a box
To go on the tool wall/rack
Okay Olly - I am off to the garage to do some R&D* on that idea as I have a load of chisels which everyone else seems to think are screwdrivers or for scraping the pointing out of paving slabs. It would be good to have them properly sharp again.
*Rip-off & Duplicate
Ive subsequently seen a few people make similar on youtube, and it turns out you can buy them for not a lot of money too, but i first saw it here:
↑ same. I'm on the verge of just buying a new set of chisels, but making something like that looks like a challenge. Might see if I can 3D print one...
Looks great that Olly 👍
Did you figure out a specific angle?
I assume it's a fixed angle because of the four wheels.
Neato
on the second image you can see a plywood version, i rough cut the correct angle from a 36mm chunk of ply off cut, and that was ok.
i was looking around for something to improve it and found that the aluminium stock i had was already the correct dimensions to give a 25 degree angle, so just went with that. saves me from having to work out an angle each time, if i can just drop it in and barely lift the front wheels to set the angle.
Why not do away with the front wheels altogether, and just attach a little spirit level bubble at the correct angle? Clamp the chisel so the bubble is centred and hone away.
The angle changes with different types/thicknesses of blades is all.
My plane blade is very different in section to my Japanese chisel for example, and would result in a slightly different angle.
Cool idea though and nice build.
Usually, chisels and planes are ground at 25 degrees and honed at 30.
Means if you get a little chip you're not there for a day trying to get rid of it.
Also is a pretty good compromise in terms of being a fine enough edge, and being strong enough to last an acceptable time.
Generally when honing on abrasive paper, you want to just hone on the pull stroke so the paper is in tension.
Interesting. A nice little project that I might have a dabble at. There are versions online and they are hinged and tensioned with a bolt and wingnut so you can change the angle easily.
... which you can measure using an iphone in Measure, I've just discovered..
I used to have a honing guide like this one. The single wheel started to wear a groove in my stone
I now have some big triangular lumps of wood cut to different angles that I sight to while holding the chisel/plane iron by hand
Be careful cutting triangular wedges on a table saw. They wedge if you do it the wrong way around. I cannot think how I know this 🙂
This is a good question. I need to make something. Got out of the habit of hands on stuff since the pandemic and a busy life. Intend to get out and "make" some photographs now the weather is better.
last thing from me was an oak side table to be used as a plant stand.
Top made from a slice of oak, legs from oak which was burnt (Japanese Shou Sugi ban method).
Wife has recently made a couple oak and epoxy kids tables/floor tables as a project to sell. Ideal for playing/drawing or even family games night.
This is really just a test piece made from a very dished slice of oak (I think) that has been kicking around the garage since I decided it was too dished to use.
I wanted to test my new planer / thicknesser so took the bottom off the dish and the top off the lips until I got a level piece of wood. I ran a router around the cut edges and left the live edge (and wood worm tracks), oiled it and it is now a cheese / fruit board going frr to the first taker on Facebook (or here if you are quick).
Been re-arranging the garage recently (a years-long ongoing project TBH) and, after much indecision, decided the best solution for the 5 bikes currently in there was a partition at the front facing the shutter door - previously they were on one of the side walls, but that wasn't ideal for a number of reasons.
I built a 4' partition from 15mm OSB, hinged at the sides and in the middle so it can be moved (sans bikes, obviously) if I need to get something big into the garage. My garage is conveniently almost exactly 8' wide and 8' high, which makes for optimal sheet material usage. Less conveniently, both the floor and ceiling slope slightly away from the house.
I've had this idea for a bike racking system for a while... the hooks are on boards mitred at the top and bottom, and slide along, but are captive in, rails mitred at the same angle, kind of like a double French cleat.
This means the hooks can be moved to squeeze the bikes into a smaller space. With the weight of a bike on them, they're pretty secure, but can just about be shuffled across. This does make the ones in the corner tricky to get to, but I just don't have any more space and it beats having one leant against a workbench. Five bikes on a 4' board, with bars sticking out on one side. The hooks can also slide out completely if I need to fold the partition flat against the wall for some reason.
