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

Not up to the amazing standards of some of the sublime woodwork in this thread.. but i finally got around to making some work benches for the workshop this weekend.. 🙂

Neat joints them 👍

Agree. Very nice jointage and perfect workshop benches 👌
But why isn’t your garage overflowing with all sorts of crap? Eerily tidy.

I am excited after the tree surgeons left a load of oak trimmings. This isn’t quite finished but…

https://i.postimg.cc/R02KggCy/Giraffe-Logs.jpg

If you squint a bit, can you see the giraffe too?

But why isn’t your garage overflowing with all sorts of crap? Eerily tidy.

this is very much the just tidied up 37 Tonnes of sawdust and moved them into place calm before the storm.. 😀

all the crap is behind me waiting to be piled on to the benches once theyve had a coat of varnish to protect the top a bit more..

Someone had a stained glass ex-window unit that their late Dad had made, and asked if I’d make it into a coffee table.
So, I did.

Nice stretcher work.
In fact the legs look really nice too, and proportions and in fact overall the design looks really good.

Are the legs screwed onto the rail, with the top section screwed to that ?

Yes that’s right. I thought they might some day need to get the glass out so the top ring is screwed from underneath and captures the glass.

The proportions of that table are spot on fantastic work:🤙

@kayak23 great work as always, that’s a fabulous looking table, some lovely detail going on there.

Elderflower cordial now ready for bottling.

I made some wood be on fire.
I then made it have lettering in it. Then I made bits of it yellow and finally I sealed it all.

For a local African chocolate emporium.

The guy who did the CNC cutting of the logo didn’t centre the text, up/down-wise on the bigger board which is so annoying and the very first thing I noticed.
I’m hoping nobody else will notice (better stop pointing it out)

If anyone lives in Solihull, it’ll be there 😊

The guy who did the CNC cutting of the logo didn’t centre the text, up/down-wise on the bigger board which is so annoying and the very first thing I noticed.

Hmmmm yeah… Bit of a tricky one because of the board shape, but the whole text would have only been shifted upwards fractionally… Looks like the smaller text was placed (small S roughly middle aligned between edge & crack), and then the larger text (referencing the C) aligned between top edge of that and top edge of board. Was going to say maybe small text placed there to avoid placement over crack… but then looked at smaller board.

Yeah, I just think he didn’t take his time, or didn’t really have enough attention to detail.

Looks like YOU cut the board wrong on that one. I know you didn’t but if I got those two, it would be the first thing I would suspect

To be honest kayak I think they look like stamps as in Hessian bag stamps and that the slightly off sensible position is kinda not a big deal.

I think they look great either way.

Looks like YOU cut the board wrong on that one. I know you didn’t but if I got those two, it would be the first thing I would suspect

Thanks Wca. I didn’t cut the boards at all, just machined and burnt them.

I can see your frustration with the placement of the writing. 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.

It doesn’t look like you’ve cut the board incorrectly 🙂

What did you charge kayak. Ie how far are you now…

Thanks Wca. I didn’t cut the boards at all, just machined and burnt them.

Yeah, frustrating when someone else’s work makes it look like you have done something wrong, even when you didn’t do anything

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.
😊👍

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.

The gig with making WCA is make to sell and if you cant, then it gets to decorate the house.

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

Concrete plinth, stone faced , slate slabs, grout TBD. Not a bad weekends work if i do say so myself

And a bit of fun with Cornish Rush-hour

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 ££££.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu_55v-IAtB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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!

This thread is fantastic. Some very talented people frequent this place. @kayak23 your work in particular is absolutely brilliant.

Lemon drizzle cake

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?