What is the last thing you made? (pics pls)

Sick of tripping over skateboards in the garage I knocked up a rack today out of some old chipboard

It’s not pretty but It does the job!

To show that I don’t just do birds, a stoat in Walnut, black walnut and maple.

the previous project was a 1/24 scale half model of a Contessa 26

Now starting to get very jealous of jimw’s creatures 🙂

Looking back the other night I stumbled on the nuthatch – top notch as always.

What are you shaping them with – just by hand? Chisels? Rasp? Power tools? All of the above?……

And how on earth are you doing the bronze(?) bird feet?

All great work.

Finished last night. Open Pro’s on Surly Ultra New single speed hubs.

Thanks for your comments mickr

What are you shaping them with – just by hand? Chisels? Rasp? Power tools?

The basic shaping of the blocks before gluing together is done on a bandsaw and bench sander. After that I do as much as possible by hand with gouges- I have been collecting them over the past 45 years so have a reasonable selection. They are then finished by hand. Very occasionally I will use a dremel type tool where the grain is particularly awkward in tight spaces but it’s so noisy and a bit unwieldy I keep that to a minimum.

The bronze work is done entirely by hand- fabricated from small pieces of different sized wire and sheet silver soldered together. I have been silversmithing for almost as long as I’ve been carving.

Thanks jimw. I was particularly wondering how you managed where the grain was awkward so that answers the question (the stoat in particular looked to have some fiddly bits). I wondered if the feet started out as brazing rod.

That stoat looks fiddly, you could have weasley made a mistake…

Made a stringing / tracking rig for my cars. I never take my cars anywhere – not even for getting tyres changed (as the absolutely mullered jacking point on my Cayenne will attest to).

I’d previously string aligned my cars using the same technique but with axle stands. It gives good results but it was a bit clunky. I designed these stands and string holders in Solidworks and chucked them in with another big 10mm mild steel job.

New tyres on the Volvo yesterday, double checked the tracking today, Bob on.

A wonky coffee scoop as a birthday present for Mrs Reeksy from an offcut that’s been in the shed for 10 years.

Bokken set for Kendo practise

Next op filling the holes in the wall

For any 40k fans out there, printed on saturn 3 ultra, 50mu apologies for rubbish phone pic!

2 cushions for a neighbour, I made out of some old curtain fabric. Lots of people recycling, reusing and repurposing. Trump you can get lost .

Nice terminator DT78, I love these new sculpts GW has put out.

I need to finish my Astreaus and I might post some pics of that.

ha fellow hammer fan, yep new sculpts are great, thats not an ‘offical’ model though. ive a couple of land raiders and dreads to paint up too

ive literaly got thousands £££s of offical stuff – wanting to kitbash and use the spare bits up on kits led me to resin printing.

honestly on the table you cant tell.the difference from official models

This was a random YouTube video which popped into my feed which may be relevant to some. Near the end, he mentions that some of Garmin’s cheaper subscriptions options are not published so require some clicking around to get the lower rates (though he is, I assume, US-based…)

Wrong thread – oops

Vlad made a **** up?

My 4 year old grandson was asking some very pertinent questions about Father Christmas, his Elves, access to houses and time and motion studies. More accurately he couldn’t understand how Father Christmas got into the houses without chimneys and how he did the whole world in one night when it takes ages to walk to Arty’s house and he only live just down the road.

I explained a bit about particle physics and the speed of light but this seems to sail over his 4 year old head so I built him a magic Elf Portal to show him.

Look in the mirror and you can see, not only the normal reflection but, miles into the distance, even though the mirror is only an inch thick. He loved the photo with his head actually appearing inside the portal itself. Suddenly the magic of Christmas was back on and everything was good again. I felt like a good granddad for saving the magic of Christmas.

Long tailed tit in, as usual, walnut, maple on a cherry base. The eyes and beak are sabah ebony

Love the elf portal!

“Dear Santa, please can I have an Elf Portal for Christmas to fit my catflap”

Does this count? Forgive me if not

Something, that considering it’s a bit rough and ready, done in rehearsal after playing it just once before, we – I am proud of (proud of all of us!)

It’s not a dodgy link, honest!!

I have a good friend who is into woodwork so I made him a marking guage out of brass and stainless steel for christmas.

My wife wanted a screen to put in front of our patio doors so that when we have to sleep in the conservatory when the Xmas family Invasion happens, we aren’t woken up by the faces of nieces & nephews staring at us at 7am ….

found this on fb marketplace for a tenner

some plywood from the skip at work got repurposed

and its now ‘upcycled’ , got to think of something to do with the iron inserts that i removed

Me and 11 year old made an origami Christmas tree.

Nice work on that marking gauge^^^^

last work job of the year – swivel bridge bearings/wheels, one of the originals had collapsed, quick measure and new complete more substantial units knocked up Solidworks.

Nice bearings. Got any pictures of the bridge?

Nice bearings. Got any pictures of the bridge?

Its this rusty POS, it transfer big blocks of PU foam to various locations – not my department or remit but I’m the only person on site with Solidworks. The original collapsed wheel/roller is adjacent to the new bearing, the problem is the bolts are threaded into a blind section and were rusted and snapping in removal. Rather than spending hours drilling them out I made a pair of complete new assemblies and mounted them inboard of the originals.

Sandwich plates go on top of the existing 100mm RHS and clamp everything in place. Just tested it – working fine.

@jimw

I have tripped over that bloody pile of wood so much in the last few weeks i promise i will send it!

Not as exciting as the stuff above but first cake this year

Pecan, prune and chocolate with lots of brandy. A little dusting of icing sugar and the festive gluttony can begin….

Three little rockers hopefully.

Hand tools but fully playable and intonated (yes, one is left handed, i mucked up the sound holes) etc. they ain’t no toys and every time they leave adults descend on them.

Excellent!

Thanks. I should point out they were under strict instructions to customise them.

So they went nuts with a sharpie. ?

@joshvegas love this!

Did you make the boxes yourself? If so, what thickness wood did you use? I fancy having a go at making my kids something similar.

Did you make the boxes yourself? If so, what thickness wood did you use? I fancy having a go at making my kids something similar

Every thing was made from recycled wood i had lying around.

Boxes were recycled ash and meranti cored plywood, about 4mm thick. They were a real pain to be honest. I hate gluing up boxes:-D

I thought i had added more detail in an edit.

Inspiration was mainly from Del Pucket on youtube for “just do it ethos”. But i put a bit more effort in refining.

The neck is through the end of the box and sits in a notch at the back, i did that rather than go all the way through so they sit flat on the floor.

Hopefully you can see how i constructed the boxes thick oak ends rebated all round for the ply mean the box os pretty robust. Of it was for me i would have used a nice cigar box or possibly made a more refined box, but wanted kid proof.

Scaled length of the bigger one was 560mm and i just marked the other two fretboards starting at the first fret position. So about 530mm ish?

Frets were from chickenbone John, he seemed to have the best price for them. Tuners were amazon specials.

Boxes were 200mm by 250mm ish. In retrospect i would probably drop two or three frets off the high end and moved the bridge back a bit so they were a little shorter overall. But keeping the biggish fret spacing (lots of scope for **** fingers when barring the chorsd)

They are DAD tuned.

Needed a new bedside lamp – could’ve bought one but decided to build this:

That’s ace Daffy!

Love the lamp.

Great lamp 🙂

Very clever. Nice work.