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

That mobile is absolutely fantastic, my boy would go nuts for that.

Thanks. He doesn’t know what a tractor is yet but seems to like the bright colours anyway 😀

P.S. It was all hand cut on scroll saw from 6 mm and 3 mm baltic birch ply and painted using acrylics.

Food porn

Made a couple of months ago, and conditioning nicely. Dreadful photo, though! Glass is scratched, beer is crystal clear and tasty as hell!

(Oh, and before you say anything, I’m getting the Aga cleaned tomorrow, so leave it!)

Loving the mobile 😀

That mobile is fantastic!

My old Ikea desk was too big, so built a new desk:

New desk by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

It’s the only desk in the world with built-in storage for anti-tank rockets. Though I’m going to use it for bike tubing 😉

Love the fact that it has a warning that’s it’s heavy but conveniently fails to mention it may be full of anti tank missiles.

Health and safety gets everywhere – I found this sign in an old TA building:

You wouldn’t want to catch anything off the nasty gun 😀

Can only presume it’s more to do with it being oiled? But then why would it be so oily that you need barrier cream just to use it?

I fear these questions will only be answered by more questions so will stop here.

Getting the Aga cleaned. Post-it sales must be booming. 8)

I started with one of these

Used brute force and ignorance

After lots of precision bodging and faffing I ended up with this

Which fits nicely on this

Sandwich, it’s all about the paperclips now! 😀

By the way, I LOVE this thread. Keep dipping in and out and some of the brilliant creativity, care and attention that’s gone in to some of the stuff here is utterly brilliant. To everyone who’s posted here so far, and those who have yet to post, give yourselves a round of applause!

Last year I made a Zoetrope, a device for making still images appear to move.
I made it for a presentation assignment in a photography course I was doing and the images I used(25 in each strip) are all cyclical woodworking tasks…

I also made it a sort of lamp by incorporating a set of 4 diopter lights I got from Ikea which change colour right before your very eyes!

It spins on a 20″, 3-speed shopper wheel.

Anyways, I only just got around to making a little video of it spinning.

Interesting project but not the most useful thing I’ve ever made.. 😀

^^^Love that mobile above!^^^

New direct mount top guide:

New compact wall-mounted desk for tiny office room:
Wall mounted desk by theflatboy[/url], on Flickr

🙂

euanc – Member

New direct mount top guide:
Looks great – I’m amazed there aren’t more super-minimal versions of these about.

lightened an sv650 sprag clutch

I used a couple of scrap-ends of walnut and maple to make a couple of rings.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/346636502544438272/

Not amazing, but I was pleased with it. I have also made a coffee table out of old apple crates too.

Tubeless inflator, bottle was salvaged from a skip, works very well though needs a bit of faffing.
DSC_0097 by Bigbroondug[/url], on Flickr

The guy who gets most of our burning wood for us brought us this pile.
An old Gazebo our wood bloke bought me. Can't burn it so… by Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

It’s some other chap’s old gazebo which had started to collapse because the supports had rotted. Our guy bought it to me because he thought we could stick it in the wood burner but it’s been treated so no chance.

So, what to do with it….? Well, £20 on some 12mm nuts and bolts, 4 hours work later…. It’s an extremely solid workbench. Weighs a ton. It’s not going to win any beauty contests and it still needs a plywood shelf on the bottom, the surface needs smoothing off a bit. I’m quite pleased with this. I’m looking for a vice now and will fix a fluorescent lamp to the wall right above it.

Gazebo wood into a workbench by Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

Workbench by Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

this

you heat it up and put it over the bearing inner race

and it slides off nicely

no hammering

Made a bench out of some Sycamore logs that had been lying about outside for a couple of years.
I did make it for my allotment, but I kinda like it now, probably too much to leave outside open to the loveable pilfering rogues elements.

Got a 70-year-old lathe that was covered in rust and wood shavings. Lots of cleaning up, made a couple of missing parts, faffed about facing the backplate and aligning things, and just fitted a DRO:

Denham lathe DRO by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Now running as good as new, with 0.01mm runout.

dro looks familiar. we got it off ebay i think. works a treat. one of the segments has gone funny, but it makes lathe work so much easier i would replace it instantly if it went wrong. where did you stick the z scale?

Yes, £300 eBay Chinese special, But very helpful people, and it seems to work well – and o be honest I don’t need micron precision, it’s just because it’s an Imperial lathe and I can’t be bothered counting turns of the handle or worrying about backlash.

The Z scale is on the back – that was relatively simple, the X scale needed some thought:

Denham lathe DRO by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

so you can mount a red dot sight on your pistol.

I made a nanolight-second:

Not much activity on this thread.
How about this.

Ralph Fiennes by Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

[/url]IMG_0910 by R Hob[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Made this out of black walnut.

Some XTR caps to tidy up a 1 x 10 set-up:

billet inlet manifold to put jenvey throttle bodies on an m44 bmw engine. it made over 230bhp.

Pork scratchings!

Skinned some pork shoulder for a 36hr slow cook, and thought to myself, “Hmm, now what shall I do with this?”.

It’s gone now. 😀

i feel hungry all of a sudden

custom footrest plate for a sv650 to mount a different brake mc

A scan of an aprilia frame. Pretty cool. I made some of the scanner too. (Only brackets and stuff)

Seat tube sleeve for my wife’s new CX bike. Somehow this has to be a complete bike by September…..

Just for sh*ts’n’giggles I decided to have a go at making a beeswax jar candle earlier

Got some leftover wax to have another go some time 🙂

Stevied…..those caps are brilliant…would you sell any?id love some, in sure others would!

Some banisters for some friends.
Oak with cherry ‘spindles’.
Laminate Newell post with tapered laminates. A LOT of work…but looks mint.