Kayak – Are all the individual pieces for those stars the same?
Do you just set up a jig to cut our a large batch and then pin them together as required?
Yes, all exactly the same. The sizes I used give you a star of around 250mm diameter.
I copied the star from a picture someone sent me, working out the sizes in sketchup.
Not my design at all.
Not sure if you've got a table saw, but the way I did it was to clamp a false table to the Crosscut carriage(just a rectangular piece of 18mm mdf)
Then slide forwards and cut the false table so you know where the blade is.
Set up a bevel and pin an offcut to the false table to give you a cut angle of 36 degrees.
Cut a gazillion pieces.
Then pin another false fence down at 72 degrees, slide your piece in to cut the other end at the correct length and set up a stop so you can repeat it.
Cut a gazillion pieces.
I then cut a tiny chamfer all round both sides on a palm router table.
I then pinned two strips to a board at 36 degrees for my assembly jig.
Take one piece and lay it in, take the next piece, glue it and pin it to the first at the angle.
Repeat 5 times.
Using the jig again, glue and pin all 5 pairs.
I used nice fine 23 gauge pins so fairly discrete and on the back only.
if you don’t mind me pinching your design.
SOP.
Had a chap in looking at a new dust extractor Im selling(large 1.5kw type with fine filter drum if anyone's interested)
He was a turner and was showing me some pics of his work. In there was a fantastic design for bird houses, all done on the lathe.
And im going to plagiarize the **** out of them 😆 Not for sale, but a few for family. Great idea and design, and I've some logs off a fir tree we had to cut down in Mumsies garden I'll use to make them with.
Perfect instructions. I assume the size of wood is less important - within reason. I would chamfer the edges of the lengths of wood before cutting them into little bits and then just buzz the ends on a belt to match the chamfer - but that is because I am me and not you and I can live with near enough 🙂
Dyna-ti - PM me with details of the dust extractor. Mine broke when the angle grinder jumped and bounced off it. Are you anywhere near Southampton?
Are you anywhere near Southampton?
Just up the road a bit. Glasgow.
I'd pop it on the back of the bike and ride it down to you, but at 50kg im pushing the limits of the ebike.
I need to get it sold and get one not as big. TBH it's just sat there gathering dust.
I assume the size of wood is less important
Mine is 26mm wide and 15mm thick.
Fairly nice proportions I thought.
I need to get it sold and get one not as big. TBH it’s just sat there gathering dust.
I'm failing to see the problem here 🤔
@kayak23 - you make it all look so easy… 🤣
My next project, once Christmas is out of the way is a pentatonic wind chime using 1” diameter copper tube, and after that I’m going to try a range of different craft projects at different places, like silver work, stone carving, flint knapping - a mate does them all over the place, some are quite local, so now I’ve got time to spare and enough money to pay for the classes, it’s something fun to do, and have something nice to have at the end.
He’s having a go at making a longbow, which I might do during the year; at least I’ll have the opportunity to use afterwards!
He’s having a go at making a longbow, which I might do during the year; at least I’ll have the opportunity to use afterwards!
That would be interesting to make, though I reckon if you are new at it theres going to be a lot of trial and error, and then theres the skill and experience needed to choose the piece of timber you're going to use.
Of the little I've researched into this, it has to be long enough, plus be riven from a single piece, probably a long log split into long wedge shapes, then worked down with a spokeshave. Grain orientation going to critical, very clean with not even a pin knot.
Something like this, and while not that cheap, split is maybe going to give you 8 sections to work with.
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I turned this from a scrappy MOT failure, with a roof that didn’t work and locks that didn’t work and moss and mold all over…into the shiny working thing you see before you!
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Yeah, but the drive needs cleaning
it's my parent's drive!! hiding the car there until Xmas
DrP
(My drive is worse...!)
DrP do you have a before picture? Someone is going to have a nice surprise on Christmas Day as I assume it’s a present
This one tested my patience, my hands are to big for small things.
Seemed like a good idea at the time, making a jumper for a friend's sausage, it won't be happening again!
She does look very pleased though.
DrP do you have a before picture? Someone is going to have a nice surprise on Christmas Day as I assume it’s a present
Before
😉
Now that would be impressive…
making a jumper for a friend’s sausage
Fnaar fnaar.
Shameless post. I was encouraged to put as it is still something I (collectively) made and as chief cat herder am very proud of...
Get your tab 'oles round this 😁
https://thesoulconnectionuk.com/audio
This needs squeezing in to that playlist
Another bit of garden wall art from my haul of rescued 5mm galvanised fencing wire. This one's for my grandson.
Sorry about the clutter in the bacground 😃
Nah- it’s one of those litter pickers, as his short arms mean he can’t get things that are on the ground
^^😁 guilty as charged - absolutely no thought given to photographic composition. I'll resubmit when I install it 😊
I'll join in (and see if my Flickr skills are any good either):
Starting to sort things out in new shed. Nice simple shoe and helmet racks. Did the shoes first, should've done other way round as now helmets are a bit too high.
I have been off work with a bad back, so that's meant no riding too. But I have been baking, and have been enjoying baking Scottish Morning Rolls.
These are fresh out the oven for lunch time.
I also recently made a spring loaded bolt for the old gates I got off my sister. They will need painted, but that's a job for the spring.
I was lucky enough to get a pair of Park Tool beam torque wrenches for a recent birthday (thanks whoever pointed out the great deal on one of them on another thread, which also informed me of their existence).
For easy access (so I actually use them) but to keep them safe, I thought a wall mount would be good, and since I have access to 3D printing now, I quickly drew up a wall-mounted (i.e. its got a couple of screw holes in it) 3/8" square drive receiver. Then thought I'd better do some clips for the bars too.
Hardest part was finding a free bit of garage wall to put them on!
They will need painted, but that’s a job for the spring.
Looks like a great job, but I think expecting it paint the gate for you is ambitious.
Sorry, IGMC
Thought a wreath would add a bit of class to my front door
Didn't want to spend £0 on one so instead I spent £12 on filament
Didn’t want to spend £0 on one so instead I spent £12 on filament
Good investment, you'd probably have paid about the same for the real thing!
Thought a wreath would add a bit of class to my front door
It's times like these I wish I had a 3d printer.
Having smacked the useless motor guard on my Rise on a rock the other night and then losing it on the next one i thought it was prudent to make a more robust model. I found a bit of 40 yeay old aluminium from my old land rover and using a CAD model (cardboard aided design) i cut out and bent up a guard that did the job. I welded together 2 angle brackets and riveted them on tomount to the rear motor bolts. For tje front i drilled and tapped 2 small M4 bolts into the thick ally that the motor also bolts to. Then tigged up the slots and job jobbed. Quite pleased with the result. Could use a little fettling but will do for now.
Hopefully worked!
A bullfinch in a variety of timbers
Wow. That's a beautiful bird 😍👏
Love the Anchor too 👏
Set of warmup rollers from four skateboard wheels, a piece of oak, some threaded rod, nuts and washers. Fits in my rucksack for travel to the velodrome.
A ringed plover in a variety of timbers with bronze legs and feet.
@jimw incredible again. Would love to see some pics of the process. I can't even work out how you'd start. Presumably the different woods are glued together before carving? But knowing how to do it so, e.g. the plover's ring is in the right place must take some doing?
I've had the sewing machine out. Made a frame bag for my Occam:
Also made a bodge-tastic base for a footstool (there'll be a cushion on top) out of some scraps of chipboard (which were a quid a piece in IKEA's bargain corner circa 2009 that served as shelves in several of my student houses, two of my own houses and later the garage) and ply, pocket hole screwed, with some chip foam underlay that our kitchen floor came packed in glued and staples on, and some cheap fabric stapled over that.
Thanks @thenorthwind
Yes the blocks are made up from individual pieces. The one for the plover has 14 individual components and took me six hours or so to make before I started shaping. The legs are fabricated from bronze wire and again there are four parts to each side
the beak is laminated from maple veneer and added later
The one for the bullfinch
The bike bag looks great- presumably fairly water-resistant?
Jimw - love the build method and the bronze legs remind me of my (brass jointed) frame building. Would you consider commissions / making one to sell? We have a Nuthatch that visits the garden which needs replicating.....
Mick_r
I have made a couple pieces on commission, but so far only to people whom I know locally. The trouble is that each piece takes me between 30 and 40 hours, so they are not inexpensive if you consider that at the minimum wage plus materials….. Many people consider that too much for something that is quite small.
I fully understand - I could never make frames as a viable venture and I'd have the added worry of liability. The only one exception was the one I made for a friend's daughter where he did all the cleanup filing etc. Very proud of that one as she went on to race the CX worlds last weekend 🙂
Thanks @jimw, really interesting to see the process. I'm not surprised to hear how long it takes (if anything, I'd have guessed more) but the results are... just incredible.
I never treat my frame bags as fully waterproof, but both the face fabric and lining are PU coated and the zip is waterproof, so it should be reasonably water resistant. I haven't sealed the seams though.
Curved bench for a boot room (I'm working for the man now 😐)
Lovely stuff again @kayak23. Even continued the grain around the seat curve!
Yes, they're very open to you doing your own thing after hours so I could possibly be very selective with commissions.
Whether I'll have the energy is another thing! 😬
Hmmm, came on to add a picture but the edit icons have all gone. Worked yesterday?
@welshfarmer, I found if you click the "text" tab then click back on the "visual" tab they appear
I am not seeing any tabs any longer. Nothing. But apparently if you go back and Edit a post they miraculously reappear. I shall try that now.
Yep, there they are. If I come back in and edit my post the format mcontrol panel reappears. Most wierd. So anyway, back to the thread. When I bought a pair of leather seats from a Merc to fit in the front of my T5 from Ebay about 5 years ago, the seller insisted I also took the rear seats too. I have had in mind to knock up a "sofa" to go int he man cave since then. However, I have only just finished building my new man cave so I have no knocked up a frame and the resulting sofa is now ready. It needs to be taken apart for paint and finishing but it is extremely comfy and I am quite happy how it came out. The legs used to be part of the roll cage on my old land Rover, so bonus points for recyling 😉 I will post another pic when it is painted and up on the mezzanine.
I made this possible.
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A friend asked me last October if I could get the Council to allow us to create a 4X track, so I did.
Not as well crafted as lots of the things on this thread but if it turns out even half as good as Southampton Bike Park, I will be proud of it.
We are starting with a disused BMX track that has been left untended for the last 5-10 years. It will have the track surface cleared to rideable dirt, the jumps and rollers rebuilt to be properly rideable and I am applying for funding to get a fleet of loan bikes for intro and training programmes.
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Puffin in Walnut, maple and sapele, the base is cherry
I am happy with the form but the surface finish not quite as hoped
The puffin looks amazing!
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You make some fantastic shelves and then don't use the Dewey Decimal system to arrange the books...............
I made a kiridashi style knife, using bits of my sensei's old worn out shinai as handle
I finally had a crack at converting my old steel frame 1993 26" MTB to disc brakes. Just a bit of CAD (cardboard aided design), some 4mm bar and a bit of mig welding. I have now tidied it up a lot and linished all the welds amd painted. Looks a bit rough on pics but is better in real life and more than happy with final result. Back also done.
Top bodge but I’d bet a strawberry and cream chuppa chup that you’ll begin to see stress marks on the fork leg before too long, at least I hope you see them with running quick releases.
Made a bike rack, well bought some bits and 3D printed some others.
Made a wee adapter to attach Blackburn plugger to frame (has now been revised and uses cable ties now) 
A quick link holder
A wedge for top tube mounted garmin so i can see it a bit easier and a spatula for removing sealant out of a tyre (no pictures though)
I finally got round to using a turning blank of Indian Rosewood someone gave me as a secret santa c.8 years ago?
I made a couple of traditional sail making tools - a stitch heaver (had a short length of bronze rod in my toolbox) and an 8" fid. 
Mick_r got me thinking about Nuthatches. I have not used wood stain much in my work but thought it might make a useful subject for an experiment. It has mostly come out as I wanted but I realised after the event with a bit of research maple isn’t necessarily the best timber to take up the dye evenly especially if there is a joint in the block.
other timbers used are Cherry for the body, Walnut for the eye band and beak and Yew for the base
I've stopped paying my subs (boo! hiss!) so I don't get a like button any more, but you can be sure I would be hammering on it for the Puffin and the Nuthatch.
I like the rosewood bits, too, but will be having nightmares about @Welshfarmer's welded forks. High carbon steel bike frames don't usually take well to welding. If they don't crack straight away, I'm worried that the welds will be as brittle as glass. Hope I'm wrong... :-/
That's sick (nuthatch) 👏
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Finally got the workbench together in my new workshop.
Could have been a bit tidier and hidden the screws and still have a couple of bits to finish.
But it's good to finally have some space to do stuff.
It's still very much a work in progress, but I'm pleased with how this retaining wall is going so far. All work done by hand, single-handedly (the dog likes to think she's helping).
Once the remainder of the wall is complete (this weekend hopefully) I'll be lifting the old patio and leveling it all out ready for new slabs over a much larger area. Then the undulating lawn will be dug over, leveled and re-turfed - if I survive that long!!! 😀
A "before" picture from another angle, showing the area being worked.
