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The end result, and with good help and advice from the team on here, I am pleased
Looks great WCA. Nice one. 😊👍
I got a bit of HiFi kit which had a slightly too high output voltage for my amplifier so made up some cables with resistors in the amp end to attenuate the signal (about -3.5db) and really happy with how they came out. Probably about £18 to make but that's mostly down to having to use connectors with enough room inside for the resistor network.
This was meant to be a book case but because the shelves don't have backs to them, it is now a display unit apparently. Anyway, it is now displaying stuff.
Bookcase MK2 to follow
which everyone else seems to think are screwdrivers or for scraping the pointing out of paving
You've met Mrs Sandwich then?
I made this pile of bricks and glass into a panelled pile of bricks and glass.
Plus also some custom trim/architrave around the room division.
That's very well done fella that Victorian townhouse or late 20s looking at the ceiling hight?
I have finally finished the book case. It is the one on the right without any books on it as opposed to the one on the left without any books on it which is a set of display shelves.
This, hopefully, concludes the latest spurt of carpentry as we are fully wooded up with this little set of three different but complementary items. Thanks to all who have helped and advised.
Very nice Nick.
They look rad WCA. They go so nicely all together. Well done 👏
You should be proud of them.
Chapeau WCA.
Looks good WCA, I am always impressed with how quickly you get stuff done.
Looking good
Kayak, I love how out of sync your ukworkshop and singletrack "made recently" posts are.
I get proper dejavu feels
I get proper dejavu feels
Ah! So did I! But I looked back in the thread and couldn't see a post about it, so I presumed I was simply going mad.
Thank you!
It might be the other one I did on the other side of the house a year ago.
I can't remember. 😂
It seems like every forum has this thread! 😊
It's a lovely Saturdays afternoon so lets discuss drinks coasters. I have recently made a wooden coffee table and so have become paranoid about ring marks from wine glasses etc.
The obvious answer is to use drinks coasters and I have made some pretty ones in the past such as the blue one in the photo but these have some fundamental problems I wanted to resolve.
The standard coaster is only a little larger than the base of a mug or glass which means you have to focus when resting your drink on them. The consequence of missing the perfect placement is that your drink gets poured across the table as the glass topples. This is not a good thing.
My new wooden design overcomes these issues. It is a little larger to make glass placement easier and accuracy less of an issue but more important is the thickness and profile of the base. The already thin coaster is gently chamfered towards the edges so, should you place your glass only half on it, the glass will still balance with its edge on the table.
Hopefully this will prevent ring marks and spillages in the future.
The already thin coaster is gently chamfered towards the edges so, should you place your glass only half on it, the glass will still balance with its edge on the table
That's the best excuse for over-sanding I've ever heard.
Only kidding 😉
And I'll just go back to feeling inadequate.
WCA you have applied perfect design engineering there. Well done good sir!
Kayak, I love how out of sync your ukworkshop and singletrack “made recently” posts are.
I get proper dejavu feels
Oh tell me about it, I feel like some sort of Patreon being on Insta!
Slightly less 'craftsmanship' but I re-used the chipboard from the old bookcase to finally hang the bunch of random, mis-fit spanners that have been sat in a couple of biscuit tins for about 3 years since a neighbour gave them to me to stop her husband tinkering with the car. Some metric, most not but I am sure I will buy another old wreck of a car that I can use them on, I nearly bought a MKX Jag last week until I remembered I was sober and it was a really bad idea 🙂
Less made, more unmade. 8yrs after buying the van, finally stripped it back to start a minor conversion.
Warning, not up to the impressive standards displayed on this thread.
Made a mobile raised bed / planter out of leftover bits of 6x2 and 4x2. Lined with dpm, made a loads of holes in the bottom and then lined the bottom with weed barrier to stop the dirt and compost mix falling out.
It’s only for herbs that I use a lot in cooking and a lettuce in the centre. I need to hide the uneven boards used for the bottom, as it is playing havoc with my ocd. Really handy it being moveable.
It’s phase #1 in getting my bbq area a bit nicer.
Also following on from my utility room worktop repair thread, this was a test to see how yacht varnish came out. Have to say very impressed, will be using it to refurb the oak worktop.
Now I just have to figure out how to stop the 11 month puppy from digging up and eating the herbs.
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Spot of dry stone walling practice before I have to face up a retaining wall. Not bad considering it's the scraps from another wall that's been demoilseed and rebuilt with the good bits
(Not finished BTW! )
Strawberry jam
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Emptying the freezer before this year's crop starts yields tasty results.
Like the planter. Only suggestion for puppy prevention is a chicken wire fence. Works to keep pidgeons and cats off my peas.
Those shelves and table are bloody lovely WCA!
After our success in first lockdown we put up a new fence between us and the neighbours. It was scheduled to be complete the week of May Day Bank Holiday but Wickes fouled up the post order and we had to get more from the local supplier on the Thursday.
As it was with rusty chainlink and concrete posts that were badly spalled in places.
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We removed the chainlink and skip full of garden waste then employed a local chap to lift out the old fenceposts (my back at 59 will not tolerate 100kg post lifts anymore)
Posts in and first run of fencing 2/3 complete. A delay due to a design change Saturday afternoon after all the local Durapost suppliers were shut.
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Almost complete, sliding dog gate (!) so the pooches can socialise (the design change) not installed and section of angled fence not cut alongside it.
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Final pic once the last cut is completed and the sliding panel is firmly in place. Herself got some arty resin tree thing to fill the gap filled with short lengths of featheredge.
The coffee table I made is fine but quite large and difficult to reach from the armchair. The trouble is that there is not really space for a table next to the main armchair used because of a second 'occasional chair'. No idea why we can't just move that but there must be reasons.
Anyway, this morning I decided to make a narrow table for the gap between the chairs that can hold a glass and bowl of nuts while still fitting. Also added a wine bottle steady storage to balance out the design.
Not finished as it only has the first coat of varnish but pleased how far I got in a day. I have some video of me making it so might make a new "Are you bored enough" video if anyone is bored enough to want one.
Neither the time nor available space to work on anything much, and not much inclination, tbh, but we were given Friday off, those whose shift patterns covered the weekend, and after prevaricating over whether to go out somewhere because the weather looked really iffy, I went over to Lacock and had a walk out of the village then followed the river back. Partway round there’s a convenient fallen tree trunk that’s just right to sit on for a drink and a snack, but there’s nowhere to put an insulated drink bottle without it falling over. So I made a drink holder.
The wood is very soft, five minutes with my Opinel pocket knife, and a convenient place to put my bottle was had. 😎
I took down my son’s treehouse after 10 years of it being disused.
Knocked up a BBQ shelter with the reclaimed timber.
Mrs ColP then decided that she wanted an Ooni so I knocked together a little house for that out of some spare ply I had, and attached it to the side of the BBQ shelter.
Wish I’d known about the Ooni before doing the BBQ shelter as I’d have done it all together.
nice
Good impro and kudos for the recycling bit won't rain runoff the BBQ house roof on to the ooni roof and then back onto BBQ?
A little project on the go to make an adapter to use an Ortlieb 7l bar bag on my Brompton. Annoyingly the Ortlieb Mini O bags were discontinued last year and are now going for over £300 on eBay! 🙈
So I bought an alloy adapter plate off Amazon and a spare Rixen Kaul bracket I could adapt. A piece of 5mm thick aluminium off cut drilled out and fixed the plate onto.
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@kimura54321 very nice work on that. I’ve used the Brompton ortlieb bag on my Brompton for years, brilliant bits of kit for commuting in all weathers. Mine isn’t the mini bag (annoyingly now they are worth so much !)
@walowiz - Thanks!
The regular sized ones go for a fair whack as well to be fair just not over four times the price second hand…
Agreed on Ortlieb being great, they are just bomb proof and kind of set the standard for me. I have a smart looking black Caradice Stockport bag to use in the office, but wanted a smaller one when not commuting which I though would be simpler than it was 😂
The Ortlieb adapter is simnilar to something I made recently for an Alpkit Gravel bag. A bit of plywood to carry the Klickfix back plate means the bag can be clicked on and off easily for popping into shops etc, and avoids having to use the annoying velcro straps which inevitably cause cable rub and wear patches.
A friend of mine very sadly lost her dad fairly recently and asked if I'd make a box for his ashes for home.
The mountain scene on top was a favourite place of his and the text holds special meaning.
Tiger (Brown) Oak, European Oak and resin.
The engraving was hand cut, as in, I handed it to someone with a cnc router, and there is an end-grain border inlay to the top.
7 points are available if you can identify the mountain scene.
Buttermere?
Nope.
(It's very simplified obviously. More of a nod to it... 😉)
Glencoe?
Buichaille etive mor?
I just saw Forever Autumn and thought War Of The Worlds.
Glencoe 👍
That’s lovely Kayak.
nice box Kayak,
Was it a twister or a feast you sourced the label from?
Go on Kayak - you know you want to...
