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

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.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256151141101?hash=item3ba3cc3aed:g:AOoAAOSwEatksn-W

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 💪

I made an Axe

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! 👏

I made a small hole bigger.

I **** hate old plaster.

Cheeky young Giraffe

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.

I made somebody smile when I showed them around some local trails. It’s nice to be nice 🙂

Shelves for the weights in the gym

Converted our spare room with a foldy desk bed thing.

It was a double bed that just about fitted in the room and was only really useful to pile junk in, an occasional guest required a big tidy up.

It’s now a home office with built in shelving unit and desk, which folds down for guests.

It was meant to be a cantilevered desk but it doesn’t get folded down often enough to be worth it so we just clear the desk each time, however the bed is frikken heavy which is the only downside.

The only silly thing is we rarely work from home now so it just gets used for the odd stint of route planning and one day a week for work!

It started as a length of old climbing rope, it ended up as a ball for the dog to play with.

Turk’s head knot ?

Converted our spare room with a foldy desk bed thing

That’s rad 😊👏

Four months after falling through our old decking I finally finished building the replacement yesterday. It has several flaws but I’m really chuffed with the result.

Turk’s head tightened around a thumb knot hidden inside. The tail was then pushed through and trimmed off.

A very simple plywood box for car camping stuff. Been trying to find a box the right shape and size to replace the plastic box we keep them camping stuff it that fits more stuff in and makes better use of the space in the car. Another thread on here a few weeks ago reminded me that I was never going to find the right box so I needed to make one.

I added since handles, which I’d left room for in the dimensions so it would still fit in the car, but then it was annoyingly slightly too big to fit in there cupboard we store it in. I didn’t want to do cut out handles for fear of losing stuff out of them, but having been forced to, I added some scraps of plastic sheet that prevent that without stopping you putting your hands in.

I can’t find the ‘Last thing you fixed’ thread so posting here because I need group validation rather than a sad look of Why did you buy another broken car.

I fixed (replaced) the water pump and thermostat on my car. No big deal until I realised that for this car you need the whole car on ramps to raise the back end high enough to work under it and also separately have a jack supporting the engine as you are loosening the engine support bolts. Awkward in a garage with a 4 post lift. Terrifying on a sloping drive with whatever I can cobble together.

This brings me to ‘What I made’. My car ramps lift the car from under the floor pan. Under the floor plan on this car are a load of pipes running the length of the car. I made a pair of support planks with special cut outs for the pipes, different each side, so I could still lift the car without crushing anything.

Couple of dining benches in Oak and Walnut.
Made to echo the joinery details of the table they’ll sit with.

Very nice as usual Kayak23

WCA please be very careful.

A teacher at the school my partner used to work at was killed when the Porsche he was working on fell of the jacks.

I used to have a TR6 that was also a pain to work under

Very nice Kayak, lovely. But whats to stop the ends parallelograming ?

Very nice Kayak, lovely. But whats to stop the ends parallelograming ?

I was going to ask that! I might be making a display cabinet in the coming months which is basically a long rectangular box with a glass door. I just know that it will get lots of heavy stuff put at the top of it so will be using the back panel to try and stabilised it but if there is some secret way to make it even better then I am keen to know about it.

WCA please be very careful. A teacher at the school my partner used to work at was killed when the Porsche he was working on fell of the jacks

Thanks and I agree. I am looking at getting some steel rectangular tubes with jack pucks on each end that will secure it to the car. These will then sit on my jack ramps. This should be almost as secure as a 4 post lift with arms under the jacking points, or at least not quite as scary as what I just used.

I think it will be worth doing as every maintenance task starts with “Raise the car on all four jacking points…” normally followed by “… and drop the engine and transmission for ease of access” and that is just to empty the ashtray 🙂

Shelves for the home gym made from left over flooring

I’ve got a garden office incoming, but wasn’t happy with the base from the plans, so whilst I waited I built my own and overengineered it. Higher grade timber, treated and more supports. Top is theirs, bottom is mine. It’s 3.4×2.2m.
Need to tidy up the edges and treat the fence now.