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Love the sliding hook plates, great idea
The cleats are genius. Nice one 👍
Made a corner desk for a home office in Birch Plywood.
Probably the last birch plywood I'll buy for a bit with the current sitch... 😕
Was just under £100 a sheet when I started this. Probably can't even get it now...
Kayak
That is a large unsupported span. Is it also fixed to the wall along the back edge?
Also, can't quite see the join between the ply and the circle, it is just a butt join and if so, is it dowelled, biscuited etc?
Kayak
That is a large unsupported span
Nah, it's got two heavy duty steel shelf-type brackets underneath supporting it plus struts along the back edge.
You can just see the bottom of one of them in the bottom pic.
It's in a tiny room so had to be take apart-able. The two outer leg sections are rebated, the central section sits into this rebate, is jointed by several Dominos, and then multiple allen bolts into threaded inserts lock it in place.
It's solid, but I hope he doesn't start tap dancing on it all the same. 😉
Wanged together a set of shelves for my office/shed. C24 timber in 195x45. Double width. "Rustic" looking.
Started off by pegging the shelves together, quickly gave up and used 100mm screws.
Made one version on the floor, and then another one on top to line it all up. Then realised I had 200cm width of room to lift up 180cm of shelving. Had about 5cm spare in the end.
Also, varnishing is a pain.
Love that desk Kayak. Must have taken some cutting!
Am due to move jobs soon, will be the first time since I was 18 that I've not been close to any machine tools.
So had a last play last week and finally finished a small case had draw up last year.
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Nothing in the context of this thread, but effective and saved a LOT of sweariness.
Finally getting round to 'raw'ing and rebuilding my new-ish to me Spesh Epic. Bought a bearing extraction kit (the type with the expanding wedges that you then drift out) but it was useless - guessing the bearings haven't been changed since the bike was built in 2012 and were a little stubborn... A trip to B&Q for some m6 bolts and a few washers and a rummage in my socket sets created a frankentool that had all the single bearings out in under 15 minutes (having previously failed to dislodge the first one after nearly an hour of trying).
At least the simple bearing press that I also bought from the same supplier worked fine...
@colournoise that looks like what I was fitting hub bearings with the other night, used my bearing/seal driver threaded bars and some appropriately sized sockets. Can't think of a reason to buy a "proper" driver kit unless I hit a weird size.
@olly your cleated wall is exactly what I have planned for my shed. How did you make your chisel holster?
finally finished this backgammon board
That's really nice Hobster. What are the white dots? Something inlaid? And have you made some equally impressive counters?
I've just bought a new leaf blower, and since the end of the tube on the old one was starting to wear away from contact with the ground (I tend to use the tube to scrape up stubborn bits), like this...
...I thought I'd have a crack at making a sacrificial strip to mount at the end of the new one.
Knocked together in Tinkercad and then 3D printed. Sank a couple of M3 threaded inserts into the lugs, and a couple of wee bolts to tighten it up on the end of the blower tube.
That's lovely Hobster 👏
Made a corner desk for a home office in Birch Plywood.
Probably the last birch plywood I’ll buy for a bit with the current sitch… 😕
Was just under £100 a sheet when I started this. Probably can’t even get it now
That desk is a fantastic piece of work, lot of detail going on there in a corner desk, great design too. Without giving away trade secrets, how do you get the curved sides that taper to the legs?
finally finished this backgammon board
That’s lovely work hobster.
There really are some very talented people on STW.
@willH the dots are mother of pearl.
I haven't made any counters as think it may be more hassle than its worth but if I don't see any that I like it may have to be done
Without giving away trade secrets, how do you get the curved sides that taper to the legs?
Thank you 🙏
Each 'wing' is based on one template, which is a very simple 90 degree L-shape, 30mm width. The legs are x3 layers of 18mm ply, and then the inner portion is the same shape but with only a slight L-length.
All stacked and bonded together.
If making images are of any interest, they're on a Flickr album Here
Basically a lot of repetitive template routing.
@hobstar
Lovely that is. it inlay over ply(board) or solid
10/10 just lovely
My latest masterpiece with something of interest for:
car lovers - Is it s DB5 or DB6 or...
cyclists - there is a team interloper and the last guy being left on the corner
cartoons - Meep Meep!
Cleated bike hooks is brilliant. I'll be cloning that on my bike wall.
@pk13 its solid wood with the points routed out and then filled with resin.
Veneer over ply or MDF may have been a better approach due to wood movement.
Knocked up a table for the Pizza oven to sit on, as it currently sits on the picnic bench, elminating the option for sitting at the picnic bench.
Cheapy B&Q pressure treated timber frame, but decided to use composite (plastic) fence panels for the top to make a clean ish surface to lay out food for pizza assembly
Time will tell whether the plastic sags in the sun, but i figure its designed to be outside so should be ok.
Nothing as neat as on here, I'm more 1st fix than 2nd fix or joiner 🙂
Have been collecting large items in the van to make into things. Mainly pallets but also picked up a washing machine
Washing machine has become a firepit. Have made a top for it so it's got a waterproof lid but also a wooden lid to make it into a drinks table. Largely bodged from other bits
Made a potting table for the wife, and a wood store for off cuts of pallet that are either for burning on the firepit or making into other things. I actually had quite a bit of wood and it was taking up space in the garage, wanted to get it outside but didn't want it sitting in the rain
Have also been making bits for an RC scale crawler course in the back garden. Nothing fancy at all, just a few bits to have some fun on
My 2 favourite tools at the moment are my impact driver and air nailer. Think I need to get a pallet breaker bar to make getting them apart easier. Sometimes I just chop them up into smaller bits with the circular saw but having the longer bits in one piece is handy
@benp1 they all sound interesting, definitely need some pics for inspiration/plagiarism purposes...
Finally got round to building a temporary fence after Storm Arwen blew a tree over and knocked over the garden wall. Was going to get the wall rebuilt but trying to get a quote under 5 figures is proving difficult at the moment, probably due to everyone bring in demand for last-minute works for the Open.
Hmm I recognise that house I reckon but not sure where?
Don't live in a strath do you?
Was going to get the wall rebuilt but trying to get a quote under 5 figures is proving difficult at the moment,
Why not rebuild the wall yourself? Looks like you’ve done a good job with the fence.
Buy a second hand bell mixer and crack on!
Hmm I recognise that house I reckon but not sure where? Don’t live in a strath do you?
Shit! My cover's blown!
Yeah, I thought about rebuilding the wall but it needs a lot of work to be fair to the expensive builders. Lots of tree roots so it needs a full garden clearance and then probably a thin strip foundation and double skin, the garden's about 3ft higher than the pavement. We're doing work to the house starting next month so once that's all finished I'll probably have a crack at sorting it properly.
A mixture of old playhouse rafters and left over plywood from a desk I made for the sister in law.
It's a bit wonky (looks worse in the photo) but took 30 mins and I discovered my workbench was banjaxed so was built on the floor.
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Very utilitarian @<span class="bbp-author-name">Saccades.</span>
But might i suggest you use angle brackets inside the top corners. Screws into end grain have a habit of loosening off, end grain fixings are not as strong as through face fixings.
Cheers, no idea what I'm doing (as I'm sure you can tell), but need a place to park my bum at times.
I'll go hunt out those brackets and fit.
👍
Posting from my phone so no chance of a picture but here is a link of someone can make the photo appear.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yyKnwLRRP6b3vJ5E9
I am making the base of the coffee table and needed to clamp some wood but my clamp could not reach. Rather than buy a deep throat clamp I put holes in a couple of bits of wood, threaded the small clamps through and suddenly had deep throat clamps. The two bits of wood above the clamp is to keep the long wood parallel.
Hope that makes some sense but either way, it works.
Interesting er...mitres 🙂
Is that for ventilation ?.
Oh, what he posted while I was faffing around with labelling it
You can hook 2 clamps together for longer clamps.
pk13 - that gives greater length rather than deeper throat doesn't it?
that gives greater length rather than deeper throat doesn’t it?
Sorry - I was tractor browsing earlier
If you're going to make a Telecaster from scratch:
You really need to make a Fender-inspired stand to rest it on
I heard that Fender is going to start a line of wind instruments.
Theres bound to be a Saxofender in there.
All I can think of is pam and archer now #outlaw country.
Cheap ratchet straps are good clamp replacements.
The end result, and with good help and advice from the team on here, I am pleased with. I will let the last rub of Osmo oil soak in overnight and the smell disperse tomorrow and bring it into the house.
If you look carefully you can see I have reduced the levitation down to a more reasonable 1.4cm
Today I have mostly been making..... Handlebars! What can possibly go wrong 🙂
Wanted some 650mm flat bars for my homemade cx / gravel bike but with 16deg backsweep, and with the bend as far out as possible to reduce the loss of reach. Will probably get some sqlab ones long term but these are just to try out. Columbus cromo steel so not too heavy and took plenty of force to get the bend in, so pretty sure they won't be snapping anytime soon. Aluminium shim 22mm to 38mm.
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