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Remembering back to my CNC days, it’s an awkward shape and a bit too low, but limited due to the taper of the board. I’d have emailed you two screen shots to choose from; one with the text parallel to the bottom and the first letter centred, and the other angled radially to roughly be centred across the entire board.
I marked it all out for him with a centre line running the length and the width extents too.
I used to run a CNC myself at a college and so I know the process for setting up and testing a cut.
On a one-off like this I would always run a test cut, perhaps even on a piece of material placed on top to check the path.
You can even zero the machine above the work and run the program with the cutter out of the work, to see where it goes.
Not sure he went through anything like that, so there you go.
Not heard anything back yet so fingers crossed they're happy anyway.
It looks well placed in this photo but it's mainly shadow.
I think the CNC guy got it just right - the logo/wording fits the wood where it should. Central would have looked odd due to the wood itself, and symmetry isn't always the best option.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, agree with above logos look fine where they are.
I think the CNC guy got it just right – the logo/wording fits the wood where it should. Central would have looked odd due to the wood itself, and symmetry isn’t always the best option.
It's not the centrality in the length. I wanted it to the left, to be before the big split.
It's the position top to bottom.
It's very low on the bottom edge with a gap at the top.
Anyway, by the by.
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Today I'm in charge of dinner. Swedish meatball sauce was acquired from the self-assembly, Swedish fascist furniture emporium. I have made the meatballs to go with it and a cold rice pudding and caramelised apple sauce dessert.
Made or painted? Anyway, just hung this on the wall while I decide if I like it or want to sell it.
The gig with making WCA is make to sell and if you cant, then it gets to decorate the house.
[i]The gig with making WCA is make to sell and if you cant, then it gets to decorate the house.[/i]
The gig with MrsWCA is that paintings get hung around the house for a week and then I suggest I will sell them and I have to guess from her reaction if it is a yes or no. I got told off recently for trying to sell one that she said was fine to sell. The logic was that she was happy for me to sell that one but I hadn't done a replacement the right size, colour and style that she liked enough to put in its place so she wanted it back on the wall.
normally, anything is for sale except my wife and my soul. I did this painting asa quick bit of fun to put up in my garage and it sold within an hour the first time I took it to market which was a nice surprise but means I need another car themed picture for the garage now.
A step for the porch of the annexe
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Concrete plinth, stone faced , slate slabs, grout TBD. Not a bad weekends work if i do say so myself
Only a little thing but made this insert for my double square nipple wrench. After using a similar DT swiss part on squorx nipples I want one non DT nipples. There is a till absolve but it's £50. This fits in the nice £15 DT tool.
Hmm the last bit of that post went missing. Used the above to make these. Straight Pull 240 EXP, DT comp spokes, XM481 and Sapim orange nipples 🤪. Could have got under 1800g with comp race spokes but they are hard to get in the UK in SP form without spending ££££.
It's been so long since I've posted here that I've hilariously forgotten how to do pictures. 🙂
Nice frame. 👍
It’s been so long since I’ve posted here that I’ve hilariously forgotten how to do pictures. 🙂
Instagram used to just work (embed), but it doesn't anymore. Your work is well worth clicking through for though, welcome back!
Ohh yum, lemon drizzle cake, my favorite 😀 It looks coked evenly to perfection 😀
Here we go! I remembered how to do it.
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Got excited to see a post from retrodirect! Not disappointed 🙂
Were / are you still involved with Brompton?
Hi Mick,
was/still am involved with Brompton. Sadly I'm not allowed to share all the interesting projects i get to do there.
I wondered why Brompton was suddenly doing new and interesting stuff 🙂
I am prepping my Gallery* for the Hampshire Open Studios week. As I started to hang the paintings I realised they didn't look great with all of the different frame designs.
I have started making new frames** to a consistent design, there are differences and there will be more for the different shaped canvas but the style should be consistent going forward.
*Yes, the gallery is the garden cabin with the hot tub in but hopefully, with a tablecloth over the top, no-one will notice
** The first 4 out of 16. 16 frasmes is why I didn't go to a professional frame builder who wanted £40+ per frame
Few more frames completed. Just another 9 or so to make.
The lowest quote for something similar was £40 a frame if I ordered 10 exactly the same size so I figure £100 on wood and a few hours in the garage was worth it, especially as the paintings are not all the same size.
How are you making the frames ?. Got a mitre trimmer, framing kit ,V nailer(underpinner) ??
I know mitre trimmers are usually expensive bits of kit(Bloody invaluable imo) but Trend do a hand one thats about 6o quid. Although there are other makes at a lot less than that.
https://www.dm-tools.co.uk/Trend-HM-SHEAR-Hand-Mitre-Shear/P13363 - this one is overpriced, it was the pic I was looking for)
This thing is normally 200 notes. Could be a bargain if youre lucky.
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But joint some 20mm x 34mm wood with glue and paint it white. Make an inside rectangle tight to the picture and an outside what ever size you want the overall frame to be. I leav approximately an 8cm gap between the 'frames'. Cut some 6mm MDF to fit the larger frame and paint that the background colour. Fix the wooden frames to the MDF, trying to keep them square and equal on all sides,
3D printed stand for my very cheap safety razor (King Gillette, £10). It's got hexagonal holes in the base with M12 nuts superglued in so is very stable. There's also a small drain hole beneath the main hole.
I was going to make one from steel originally but I stripped the nylon gears on my mini lathe so printed this instead whilst I rebuild the lathe.
I stripped the nylon gears on my mini lathe so printed this instead whilst I rebuild the lathe.
Print a new gear?
Print a new gear?
I doubt PLA would be strong enough, in any case I splashed out on steel gears. That means that if anything strips it'll be the change gears which are easy to get to.
Very nice as always WCA
Drain hole beneath the main hole 💪
It looks a lot like the sort of thing a viking might have carried. Looks great.
Being Scandinavian that was the idea 🙂 took inspiration from some viking axe finds.
Nice axe! 👏
Cheeky young Giraffe
It is. Needs to wind his neck in.
:-0 Sticking its tongue out while squatting for a shit on the roses
Has it got blood stains? 🙂
Nice giraffe.
It started as a length of old climbing rope, it ended up as a ball for the dog to play with.
Shelves for the weights in the gym
