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

Nothing particularly flash, but a very satisfying project over summer with my eldest son.
My shed’s been missing a workbench since it was completed.

£30 worth of timber, a freecycled ikea worktop and a freecycled old Woden vice.
Used it to teach my son (and me) to do mortice and tenon joints with hand tools. Perhaps 10 of them was a bit much though!

Vise was a mess, so needed stripping, degreasing, filing, wirewooling and painting.

Decided at the last minute to put a dog on the outer cheek, so now need to drill some holes in the worktop and make some more dogs!

You can also see in the background, the beginnings of my pegboard tool wall. I’ll probably post that later, once I’ve created some more fittings for it.

BTW – for making the M&T joints, I followed advise from this guy https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulSellersWoodwork – really good stuff – especially the ‘poor man’s router’ for honing the tenon sides.

drilled many many many holes in some plastic

7200 of them. you will be glad to learn i didnt use the battery drill. and i didnt break the drill bit either so i think i got my moneys worth out of it.

A massive bowl of Angel Delight.Chocolate flavour. Demolished before my wife gets home. That’s why I’m the kid’s favourite!

Needed a nut for a shifter, Not sure I have cut an internal thread this small before.

Siwhite- that’s fantastic. I don’t know where you people learn these skills, but I’m impressed and envious. I’d love to learn things like that

Ajantom – I want to make something similar. How did you join the legs and top?

Nice bench Alex Simon. Joints look great.
🙂

A CNC’d sculpture of the Malvern Hills.

Thanks kayak!
Working with wood is time well spent.

Quite a few things recently but here’s a selection:

A great big pork pie for a friends wedding (he’s a big Batman fan)

Finished this frame

Including some brazing I’m quite proud of (this is straight off the torch)

And after a lick of paint and some decals

And finally a gravity bike (been working on this for quite a while and it’s still not fully finished, only done a few test runs so far)

and again, it’s got some brazing I’m quite pleased with (6mm plate to 4mm wall tube)

Whilst we’re having brazing night…..

Home made CX bike for my wife – dirty (dusty!) from it’s first race today. Still in one piece so that must be a good sign.

Matt – are you using gasflux or just paste (or both)?

I use cycle design lfb paste, but very diluted, looks like milk when I put it on. Both of the shots are with the flux still on, should give you an idea how little I use. No gasfluxer

I use the same stuff – I thought the residue looked familiar. I already add water but might try it runnier – thank for the tip.

Gravity bike envy.

LFB is great – I use it watered down too, it gets into all the nooks and crannies that way (though probably would anyway).

Speaking of framebuilding, I just made this:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Go on then, I’ll bite…

^^What is it?

I’m gonna guess that Ben’s widgit is for holding cable bosses and or brake hose mounts to allow them to be brazed on.

Matt is that one of the bicycle manufacturing frame jigs in the back of your first pic?

It’s a dummy tyre, for checking clearance between the chainstays – the base is magnetic, and it’s adjustable for 1″-5″ tyres. In situ:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

My home made cross frame – lugged & brass brazed (using Sif 101 and LFB flux). Frame number 3 and its amazing what a good paint job can do to hide the messy brazing!!

[/url]DSC_3527_edited-1 by Mark Yandle[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Mayan; that’s superb! You must be really chuffed! Would you care to share more thoughts and experiences on my thread here?

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/frame-building-anyone-learnt-done-a-course-taught-yourself

This pales into insignificance compared to pretty much everything else on this thread, but I knocked up a house number sign using the ceramic numbers we picked up on holiday and an off cut of Oak

24th October 2015 by -Cheesyfeet-[/url], on Flickr

Rusty Mac – no, ours is an Anvil Journeyman, although it’s quite old now so doesn’t look like the current version

If we’re talking jigs, this isn’t really a build, but I put mine on a heavy duty TV mount, so it can move about a lot:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Mine is an Ellis Rudd jig, which I’ve made various tweaks and modifications to.

Well if we’re getting into ‘jig support structures’, I just finished a new stand for the Anvil. Here it is with the old one in front. The old one was too short, not wide enough, bent, wobbly and got in the way when I was wheeling about on my office chair. The new one is based on the Anvil design (although I made it taller and a bigger footprint) and sits on double locking castors, is high enough off the floor that the wheely chair goes under the legs. It’s much more stable, easier to move, is much more out of the way, it’s even got somewhere for my allen keys and a pen pot! Brazing the 0.250″ wall box section was interesting, had to step up to a number 18 tip on the oxy torch, I normally use a number 3 for fillet brazing bike tubing and a number 1 for silvering braze-ons

I’m not sure whether this counts as something I made but I also did a repair on a Transition TR250 swingarm. The main pivot bearing bore had ovalised/worn to the point that a fresh bearing pushed in and out like a seatpost. I centred everything up on the mill and opened the 44mm bore out to 46mm so I could fit a bigger bearing

Testing the new bearing fit

The new bearing also had a larger ID so I made a new spacer that pressed into the new bearing to reduce the ID and maintain the spacing. I replicated the slots on the other side to make bearing removal easier in the future. Here’s the old bearing and spacer with the new versions

Once it’s all in place, you’d never know

Where is the like button – Matt that is some nice work with the rear triangle.

Rusty Mac – Thanks, it was a lot of set up time followed by a few minutes of very tense cutting. Very pleased with the result, actually turned out better than I expected. The bike is all back together now and about to be collected, certainly a better situation than a few weeks ago where it looked like it was headed for the bin

Recently bought myself a little mig welder so had a practise with it by chopping up an old wash station support and making a bench out of the angle iron and all sorts of ropey old offcuts. The wood is thicker than it looks, it’s grooved to slide over the metalwork.
It’s my tea break bench 🙂

Ok give up, was a home made carbon swing arm but cant access flikr account and cant link from one drive.

Try again

Oh and since we’re doing jigs…

OK whilst the framebuilders / metalists are (briefly) outposting the woodworkers (and I personally think the woodies are winning this thread…..)

More jigs!

My frame jig – CAD & reality.

And then the improvised chainstay machining fixture in lieu of a milling machine……

Not quite as much precision as many of the offering here recently, but built in a few hours under competitive conditions. Was enough to earn best local and best novice prizes in the competition 🙂 Had an ache afterwards mind

some steel things

good stuff welsh, is that the skyrrid I see behind your erection?

Far too many clever buggers here to count! My meagre skilz don’t extend much beyond mucking about with odd bits of wood, and here’s one I prepared earlier, an axe head from Bulgaria, via eBay, with a haft I made from a branch cut from a dogwood tree in a mate’s hedge. Shaped with axe and knife, scraped then sanded, the wood is rather fibrous, and tends to throw up little splintery bits if left too rough. Been given several coats of boiled linseed oil, the wedge is a bit of oak, left standing a few millimetres proud to allow for any shrinkage that migh take place over time, I can just belt it in a wee bit further in need be.
Not a work of art, but I’ve no real facilities, so it was worked on out on the patio using the chopping block it’s resting on in one Sunday afternoon three weeks ago.

Couple of little ammo boxes off eBay, cut a hole in the top of one and it now catches the off-cuts from the spoke machine.

(The other one has new spokes ready to cut)

What tyres for the Wheel of Misfortune?
Oh, I don’t know why I can’t embed from Facebook any more, I’ll try again after Homeland has finished.

*tries again*
What tyres for the Wheel of Misfortune?

Made a cupboard.

New Sporran anyone?

I made this a few years ago for my son……but gutted now it’s on eBay …..as he is into minecraft

Had some 6×2 lying about after replacing a small bit of rotten joist. Made a shelf. Going to get some Danish Oil to rub into it I think. Might make a couple more for below it but shallower for herb/spice jars. Got the brackets off amazon but they are a bit crap, going to make the next ones up myself out of M10 rod and backplates.

@bencooper, where do you get all the ammo boxes from?