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.
[video]http://vimeo.com/119864591[/video]
Interesting project but not the most useful thing I’ve ever made.. 😀
Tubeless inflator, bottle was salvaged from a skip, works very well though needs a bit of faffing. [url=https://flic.kr/p/roWh2M]DSC_0097[/url] by Bigbroondug, on Flickr
The guy who gets most of our burning wood for us brought us this pile. [url=https://flic.kr/p/rshq4y]An old Gazebo our wood bloke bought me. Can't burn it so…[/url] by Jon Wyatt, 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.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/rsgfVd]Gazebo wood into a workbench[/url] by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/rsgg1J]Workbench[/url] by Jon Wyatt, on Flickr
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:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/smyvYv]Denham lathe DRO[/url] by Ben Cooper, on Flickr
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:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/smp61j]Denham lathe DRO[/url] by Ben Cooper, on Flickr