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

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Shelves for the home gym made from left over flooring

Look good, but are they the same ones you posted two weeks ago? Have I missed a detail?

Not really up there with most of the stuff on this thread but I’m well pleased with it. Not the actual thing, that was a doddle but what it does and pretty much all of it was stuff I had laying around.

Fork mount rack for the back of the van: Some bits of left over fencing, the plastic bits off some roof box U fixings, a couple of m8 bolts, some penny washers and the fork mounts £9 each off amazon.

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

The joint itself using mitres with several deep dominoes perpendicular to the joint, and also a rail underneath, tenoned into each leg front and back that you can’t really see in the angle of any of the photos.
They are VERY strong.
It was of course a factor that I….factored into the construction.

Edit. You can just see the rail underneath in this pic.

It was of course a factor that I….factored into the construction. Okay then, but if my display cabinet collapses I will tell her it is all your fault. 🙂

Look good, but are they the same ones you posted two weeks ago? Have I missed a detail?

@stumpy01 – You are correct and I’m clearly losing it.

I sometimes like to take a drink with me on a dog walk, but get fed up of being lumbered with the empty cup afterwards, so I cobbled together a simple mug holder out of some old inner tube and a spare carabiner. It does the job well 👍

^^Genius bit of recycling.

I just finished making this 

out of this.

(But in between I had made it into this!)

Puts my cup holder to shame 🤣

A while ago I made the snappily named “DPCFS” Dog-Proof-Cat-Feeding-Station.

We wanted to leave food out for the cat without the dog getting it, and this was the solution.  When we first got the dog she was a bit too keen on the cat, so it also doubled as a bit of a sanctuary for him when he wanted a few minutes without his arse being licked/sniffed/nuzzled…

The dog can get most of the way through the tunnel at the front but isn’t flexible enough to bend up through the hole at the far end onto the suspended floor.

It works well 👍😁

Made a little A5 ‘tortilla press’ as a present for my sis who does Linocut print making evening classes.

You put your lino and paper in along with felt and hardboard packers to get the right thickness, press, then maybe turn it and press again for equal pressure.

Works pretty well 😊

Birch ply and Oak

I made an Axe

@Mikkel – that’s lovely, the head is the perfect bearded axe! Very nice work indeed! 🫶🏻👌🏻🎩

@Kayak23, I might steal that idea if you don’t mind. My wife is an occasional lino printer.

@Kayak23, I might steal that idea if you don’t mind

It’s far from my idea. I came across it on YouTube when looking for something simple as a birthday present.
Quite a nice little thing to have though.

A shelf for our landing, primarily made to obscure the thermostat! Made of oak with a lap joint in the middle and mitred corners reinforced with walnut dowels. Pretty pleased with it, though the angles hurt my head for a time!

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Wow I’ve finally got to post a photo, but I don’t know how to get room for the text.

Anyway new curtains and cushions in our living room.

A couple of signs to replace the one that disappeared from Moel Prysgau bothy.

@Bunnyhop – just tap in your text in the text box as usual, then hit return a couple of times then past in your photo.

You can post in the photo first, then scroll down, the cursor should be flashing at the bottom corner of the photo, then you can hit return a couple of times, giving space to type in your text. Occasionally tapping return at the bottom of the photo has deleted the photo on my iPad, but either should work ok for you.

Here’s something I literally made earlier today, although making the card template took me around nine or ten hours, spread across three days, because it was so tricky trying to get the design to fit and work properly, when it’s something that fits around an arm and there’s nobody around to help hold it in place to sort out details.

It’s a bracer for archery, it’s what you wear around your lower arm to protect against string strike, which stings a fair bit! Of course, I could buy one, and I did when I bought my bow and other kit, but I liked the idea of making something myself.
In particular I wanted to make it in one piece, instead of having separate straps stitched in place, which might have been a bit easier, but my wrists and thumb joints are getting quite painful and I’m finding it harder to handle smaller items and manipulate smaller items.

Basically it just wraps around my arm, the straps slide through the slots and the end holes fit over the brass Sam Browne studs.

It’s a wee bit of a fiddle to fit one-handed, but it fits better than I expected, and it’s nice and comfortable because the leather is very soft.
It’s Connolly leather as used in the likes of Aston Martin, Rolls Royce and Bentley, which I got from a local saddler who does leathercraft classes, and gets bags of offcuts for his classes.
I picked it up from his house, which smells of leather as soon as you walk in the door.

Rather unsurprisingly, he know Suzie on The Repair Shop…

As a break from painting the cricketers I finally finished and framed my latest commission. A birthday present for a guy with a beautiful red DS.

Kayak and other wood workers – please don’t look too closely at the frame corners 😉

I like the DS wca.

But I caved and looked at the corners 😔

But I caved and looked at the corners 😔 and saw right through the gaps? 🙁

Can someone help a numpty?

I finally got round to uploading a few images of things that I have made over the past year or so to Flickr with the intention of showing a few on here. However as you might have noticed above  I have had a couple of goes copying a link on Flickr and then pasting into the box that pops down when you click on the image insert icon. Nothing happens. Is it likely to be because the images are too large? Or have I missed something. I tried searching the forum for a guide but failed that as well.
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@worldclassaccident – the folders to the top right of the painting seem to like it too 🙂

CountZero – thanks for the tips.

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Thanks. I think I may have worked it out- Flickr doesn’t make hotlinking straightforward, I didn’t realise that before I signed up. I will look at alternatives

@Bunnyhop – you’re very welcome, hope it helps. 😁

In Mallorca, so very little in the way of tools and raw materials. No beer mats to fold up, and TBH, the table is too wobbly for that to be effective so what better to make a wedge from than…

I rescued this cupboard from a skip years ago (it didn’t have drawers or a door then either, and it already had the bad paint job). It was the perfect size for the dvd player, freesat etc but now that’s all gone it’s moved to the hall to be a shoe cupboard. So the bit I made is the extra shelf at the bottom for more shoes. And I found baskets the right size to fit in the top. I know this is extreme levels of bodgeness and low skill by comparison to most in this thread. But I did use a drill, and some solid wood laminate flooring I rescued from another skip and have been storing in my shed until i found a use for it 🙂

Meh, definitely needs half a clothes peg for levelling. 😉

Found one then t’other at the same beach on different trips. A thin line of epoxy and now to work out what it’s for. 

…and now to work out what it’s for

Wobbly table?

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Nice curling stone gecko.

Or the world’s worst ice skate. 

So I bought a car.
It was an old car so it needed repairing but unlike most cars, the only way to get at anything was from underneath so I needed some ramps.
So I bought some ramps.
The ramps were great for all cars except the one I had because it only had 4 factory jacking points and ran coolant pipes under the floor where the ramp normally fitted
So I build the adaptor kit.

Are you bored enough to watch a car go up in the air?

Nice. I’ve made similar wooden ramps for my van. Always scared working under it though.

Could you not have just dug a big inspection pit in your drive?

🙂

The ramps are a lot easier/better. I can tilt the car so it is nose up or tail up. When I replaced the water pump last week I had the tail in the air which made access a lot easier. That was on the wooden prototypes which worked but I was a little nervous about using them on a regular basis, hence the steel replacements.

Loads of space underneath, that ramp is towards the back, out the way and the car is rock solid when pinned there. Plus these ramps were less than £700 when the nearest alternatives were all £2,000+

Duplicates fromt he thread where I asked hwo to fit the glass but here is a medal box I created on request.