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

Top work as usual Kayak,beautiful.
Down to you ,I now have two washing machine doors waiting to go in shed two. 🙂

Nice work guys…

I’m getting a bit f*cked off with the posts in this thread.. can some completely non talented people please dilute it with some shit offerings as I’m feeling a bit inadequate here, with my complete lack of talent at making stuff!

I was hoping to show a rebuilt Honda GCV135 mower engine soon. I’d picked up a couple of skip-bound ones from a mate. It was going to be a bench project for Stoner Jr and I.

While splitting the casing, I removed the valve clips. Both unshackled valves now tinkle into the cylinder. Ah well, thought I, I will fish them out later. Turns out, I cant remove the crankshaft when the piston wont travel to the top of it’s stroke cos some burk left two valves in there 🙁

Wasted half an hour trying in vain to shake the valves back into their ports like some advanced cup-and-ball game.

Ah well…..

Beautiful work as ever kayak.

I done a walnut parquet with white oak tramline in a 3 block border.
Setting out:

First lines going in (check out the wood burner!! Photo doesn’t quite do justice to how flipping huge it is.)

Cutting out borders:

Borders going in:

Oh mate, meant to ask, can you just stick a removable panel of border in so we can get to the CH valves…
Half a day later:

Sanded and oiled:

Wow, that floor is just beautiful!

nice. that’d make a good table 😉

kayak,

Wanted to ask a bit of advice on something pretty simple – mind if I email you off forum? (Drop me an email to deadlydarcy [at] gmail [dot] com

Floor is simply lovely.

The bannister and the floor are stunning

kayak23 – Member

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

Never mind mint that is pure wood porn, I’d get very fit just by constantly going up & down stairs so I could run my hands over it 😀

My 15 year old has just finished this drift bike,first solo project of this caliber. BMX cut in half, turned back to front with a bit of bed frame and other bits from the scrap pile thrown in.

Completed project

In trial stage

Early stages

Spray painting stage

Top marks^^ I want one 🙂

that floor is pure pornography

kayak – that banister is lovely!

I’d ask if you could do one for me, but I think it’s well out of my budget

It is a thing of beauty though

My Son (reception class) came home with a paper plate ‘clock’.
Thought it looked cool, so turned it into a real clock!!
Now hanging in our kitchen 🙂

DrP

That floor is very nice, must have cost ££££

sorry no pics. audio only 😉

we made a record
Chasing Glass – Take Me Under EP preview

I made this:

Which is an adaptor plate to join a FWD Ford / Yamaha engine to a RWD 6 speed gearbox from a Mazda RX8, to go in my Opel Kadett 😆

Re-built this old Fergie with recycled materials, stainless steel sinks etc. Full story here Link[/url]

Bedside table made from recycled beech school table legs and planed down manky oak planks.
The wife likes mid-century wood furniture – Ercol, etc. and was looking for a bedside table in that style. Nothing second hand, and new you’re talking £300+ !!!
So, a rummage in the wood store and 3 lunchtimes later….

Bedside Table 1 by tom harrison[/url]

Bedside Table 2 by tom harrison[/url]

Bedside Table 3 by tom harrison[/url]

Great work as always in this thread!

Griffiths1000, I now have serious Tractor envy! I’d really like a Fergie, despite….

A: Not needing one in any way shape or form
B: Not having the means to buy one
C: Not having anywhere to keep one
D: Not having anywhere to use one apart from to annoy other road users

But apart from that, i do “need” to get one someday… Yours is a beauty! nice work fella!

Bought this chest of drawers cheaply from a local charity…

Stripped veneer from the top, raped it with a sander, painted and re-polished…..

Just a few little repairs left to do..

Highly jealous of the floor and the bannister.

Thought I’d post a few pics of something I’ve been working on for the last few months.

Two years ago, we bought a new house, and knocked this horror down.

DSC_7284 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

I spent a few hours with Sketchup and designed this…

Screen Shot 2015-06-13 at 23.33.23 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

We employed a Groundworker to pour a slab and build some walls…

DSCF4507 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

I bought some oak. Lots of oak. About 4.5 tonnes of oak.

DSCF4661 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

Chopped it about a bit…

IMG_0383 (1) by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

Knocked some pegs into it…

IMG_0462 (1) by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

Hired a forklift to put the heavy bits on (the beam above my head weighs about 350kgs)

IMG_0508 – Version 2 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

Stuck 5,500 cedar shingles on it;

DSCF4765 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

And last weekend, we held our wedding reception in it…

Screen Shot 2015-07-07 at 20.54.35 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

Screen Shot 2015-07-07 at 20.55.22 by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

I’ll convert it into a garden office / workshop / double garage as soon as my finger recovers from being dragged through my table saw. Total cost (excluding my time, which was about 5 months of evenings and weekends) was about £20k, of which over half was the groundworks.

I’m desperate to jack in my day job and build stuff like this full time – I just need the right nudge!

That’s bloody fantastic!

That’s bloody fantastic!

+1 to that. That is awesome.

Si, that is brilliant, and congrats on the wedding 🙂

A spacer for a gearbox.

Beautiful oak work siwhite.
20k is a lot, but it’s massive!

If you’ve got the money to start a business – do it!
Seeing some of my friends build houses and values rocketing, that would be my approach – i.e. speculative property development rather than commissions.

porter_jamie – Member

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

Do you know why, out of curiosity? Lovely job but it’s an unusual mod.

Beautiful oak work siwhite.
20k is a lot, but it’s massive!

If you’ve got the money to start a business – do it!
Seeing some of my friends build houses and values rocketing, that would be my approach – i.e. speculative property development rather than commissions.

It is a fair whack, but we effectively gain an extra bedroom, workshop and garage, so fairly inexpensive in the bigger scheme of things.

I’m very fortunate to have the money (and a few friends interested in backing the business financially) but it is a leap into the unknown. I’d be giving up a very secure public sector job that pays pretty well for a relatively untaxing role, and launching into a fairly competitive market. Startup costs would be fairly low, but I’m a bit wary of giving up my comfy safety net!

Made a Racerunner:

It has axle inserts so can take different types of wheels, and with or without camber, and weighs under 10kg complete.

Been making lots of things but not got pictures of all of them online, I’ll try to sort as soon as I can. Here are the things I have got pics of:

CNC cut plywood wine rack for Ikea expedit units. I designed it and got it cut locally

CNC cut plywood filing box for hanging files for Ikea expedit units. As above, my design cut by someone else.

Frame alignment checking ‘system’. Designed from scratch to cater for all bb widths up to 100mm on a common centreline and 120/130/135 and 142 axle spacing. Quick release knob allows the frame to be removed quickly despite the long threaded bar for wider bb shells. All referenced from the bore of Park bb taps. Big stainless tower was the largest thing I’ve had in the lathe and I’m pretty pleased with how it came out. The plate with the v and steps for axle spacing was waterjet cut.

Also finished a frame, no full pic but here is a bit of dropout detail; silver straight off the torch (after soaking the flux off)

Also made a new mudguard hinge for my motorbike

Matt

(Just realised I have loads of pics on instagram[/url] including more bike stuff, motorbike, food and woodwork but can’t work out how to post them here)

Had a problem with tubes rotating in the tube roller, so made a thing to stop them doing that:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Click to see movie…

Worked out how to post pics from instagram so here’s a few more:

Bike tube storage box. This is the first prototype, hope to make a big stack of them to store tubes and upcoming builds in. Ply with brass screws

The frame I finished recently, 29er clearances with a road chainset, it’s all a bit tight

The starting point for the frame alignment post

and the subsequent pile of swarf

The filing box and wine rack in situ

and finally a pizza from a while ago

Like the tube storage box idea – much neater than my random pile of cardboard boxes.

Ben – that’s what I’ve been doing and a slightly damp workshop doesn’t help matters. The base sticks out by 4mm so they will interlock (once I’ve made some more). Luckily a customer can provide us with the off cuts of ply to make them so I’ll be aiming to build quite a few

18BM has a perfect one for the Argh my eye thread…

A stainless B adjustment plate for an M952 mech, I split 2 original aluminium ones before I made it.

As usual some truly inspiring stuff being posted here!

FWD Ford / Yamaha engine to a RWD 6 speed gearbox from a Mazda RX8, to go in my Opel Kadett

From a Puma/Fiesta Zetec S?