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

They’re brilliant!

I would like a couple of Lang’s on quick points though as the gerardi is a bit limited for the longer wider stuff.

I think my boss will have other ideas though 😉

Made myself a little chest of drawers for my shed using OSB sheets and a nice old metal filing drawer that I ground the paint off.
Shapely Iroko legs…

Those are quite crisp edges for OSB
Nice work!

The YMT 5th axis vices are pretty good, for the price.

Kayak,

I think those drawers are blimmin gorgeous. Makes we wanna try some OSB furniture…

YMT stuff does indeed look good, had never heard of them before. Cheers stevied

A base for a studio.

Made myself a synthetic camping quilt. Its a bit less power tool action than a lot of stuff on this thread but quite happy with the way its turning out.

I am using pertex quantum outer with a cimashield inner, should get me near 4 degrees. I have put d rings up the side so i can, with cord, cinch up, create a foot box or tie to a mat.

Need to add a drawstring to the foot end yet.

Any further info ajf?

What does it do? How do you use it? How small does it pack and why bother with this over a sleeping bag?

YMT stuff does indeed look good, had never heard of them before

I’m using a couple of the 5th axis vices and the normal vices. Best I could find for the price. Easy to make soft jaws for too which is a limiting factor with most of the other options

@BlobOnAStick not weighing until all finished properly but the materials were meant to weight about 550grams, reckon may weigh in end about 700grams. Packs pretty small.

Got a rab top bag sleeping bag already which has top down only nothing on bottom. Buy into idea of not needing much from the bottom of your sleeping bag so quilt nice and adaptable. Also going to use it in a layering system with sleeping bag for winter if I dare brave a winter bikepacking ride.

Cool! Thanks for that – I’m very interested in how it turns out. Never heard of one of these before and it sounds really versatile!

Finished my little stove. Added a vent to the bottom using scaffold tube and a vegetable steamer to the top of the flue for a bit of pzazz! 😀
Welding work is…..not the prettiest but it’s my first try so not so bad.

It works really well. The vent is effective. Not made a cuppa on it yet mind but I think it’ll be good.

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its the worlds first one man pirate ship

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and went back to messing about with carbon fibre for a bit again

Woah!,you have an optical table,like a proper optical table,and,and it’s even tidy. 🙂

Another useful little tool to add to the collection:

Been somewhat busy lately in the evenings knocking up all sorts of stuff. I think because we have construction going on at work I’ve been inspired to use all the cool stuff they chuck out! 🙂

An old extraction fan unit was taken off the roof next to our workshop to make way for a new system.
I salvaged the big cylinder that had a motor driving a big fan on it and decided to use it for a table base.

For the top I decided to try a sort of eccentric starburst thing using pallets and scrappy wood, all coming out from a central point which I used a wire brush for a drill for.
The sections all sit on a framework made from an old cable reel and some chunky 2×4. I fitted an old peephole from a front door so that you can look through the top into the cylinder and watch the fan turn should you so desire.

To make the fan inside the cylinder still turn, I took off the ‘kin heavy motor that drove the twin drive belts and did some Heath Robinson shit with an old hand drill.
Works well.

🙂

Nice work again Kayak – as I’ve said before, it takes a special eye to make random reclaimed stuff work visually.
Very jealous that you have all the tools to hand.

My next projects are:
Bathroom vanity/sink unit
Built-in bed with storage
Bathroom cabinet

I think I’ve already decided that 2 new tools are required to even start 🙂

More shonky skillz, I liberated these from a demolition site:

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bosh

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Leftovers going to school bonfire.

now i just need a wood burner!

A little brown fish. You really want pics?

I made a rubbish tip into a garden!

The old wooden gate in the first few photos became the raised bed.

Woah! How did you make your images slideshow!? 🙂

http://gifmaker.me/

After two and a half years of planning I finally got time in the workshop to build myself a new front triangle for my Saracen Kili Flyer. I’ve ridden long, low and slack frames before but this takes it to new level, critical dimensions:

All based on my XFusion Sweep set at 140mm, rear travel unchanged at 120mm
62 degree head angle (+/- 1 degree with angleset which can be rotated with allen keys)
75 degree seat angle
690mm top tube
525mm reach
615mm stack
25mm BB drop
431mm chainstays
400mm seat tube (I will only be able to get full ride height with a 170mm Reverb, once it arrives)
853 downtube and externally butted 4130 top and seat tube. The top tube has 6 different diameters on it, the seat tube is simpler with 3. All fillet brazed
No option for a front mech, stealth dropper only
Sandblasted graphics which will get covered with clear powder once I’ve done a test build

That looks incredible! Photos when it’s built up please.

cool.

some brackets to hold oak posts

My prototype wood-burning camp shower. Works fine but can definitely be improved. The upper “heat exchange” unit can be removed to leave a simple word-burner should the mood take one.

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My prototype wood-burning camp shower. Works fine but can definitely be improved. The upper “heat exchange” unit can be removed to leave a simple word-burner should the mood take one.

Books not popular round your way 😆

Funnily enough, but you can buy bundles of old paperbacks from Hay-on-Wye, just over the hill, specifically sold for burning.

😀

This garden trug (the green one) with my dad today, base is all left over shiplap from a shed he built for a customer a few weeks back. Handle I bent up from a knackered old iron hurdle.

He makes and sells all sorts of timber products, mostly re/upcycled stuff, had to pack in building due to collapsed discs, so now workshop based. I had a day off work and not much to do so cycled the 5 miles there and back and helped make and photograph some stuff for his website.

18BikesMatt – looks superb – reminds me of the Swarf.
I take it you’re normally an XL?
Have you left everything about the shock pivots/curves exactly as per the original?

I got tired of lugging my 2×12 guitar cab around, so decided to make a smaller (and nicer looking) 1×12.

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Mix of reclaimed/recycled woods – Oak, Sapele, Birch, & Plywood offcuts.
Finger joints cut on band-saw and fret saw, they need a bit of filing/sanding to get them straight.
A little logo milled out on the front panel.
Storage in the bottom for amp head and cables.
12″ Celestion 70/80 speaker – though I’ve also got a Vintage 30 I’m going to try in it.

To finish it needs fabric over the speaker, sanding all over, edges rounding off, and finish applying. Might try Danish Oil, and then a n oil based varnish over that.

Plugged and played this morning, sounds lovely, nice tight sound. No boominess or rattles. The built in layback angle projects the sound nicely, as does the semi-open back.

Ace

nice

Did a painting for someone’s birthday. Not having any framing tools or moulding I used a knackered saw, some old roofing wood and my SAK and some pins and staples to bang a frame together. After sanding it was quite a nice rustic (read imperfect!) match.

Extended the seating area in the garden. Lots of earth moved!

@AlexSimon – Thanks, I just wanted clean lines and simple(ish) construction. I have been riding the original front triangle which is a large with a 50mm stem. I would be able to ride a lot XLs though, depending on brand and stem choice. I’m just shy of 6’1″ but have a large ape index (6’5.5″ span)

The pivots are all in the original location relative to the rear axle and bottom bracket and each other, except they were rotated about the rear axle to increase the bottom bracket drop from 9mm to 25mm

Cheese Noodles !!

knocked up a small bench for the kids to sit on from some scaffold boards;

The pivots are all in the original location relative to the rear axle and bottom bracket and each other, except they were rotated about the rear axle to increase the bottom bracket drop from 9mm to 25mm

Ah interesting. Thanks for the explanation!