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

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Finished – holes and chips filled, sanded, edges rounded, feet and grill cloth fitted……

image by tom harrison[/url], on Flickr

image by tom harrison[/url], on Flickr

Sycamore bowl, turned on a pole lathe.
Chunkier than I generally like, as it was a demonstration piece for students.

Got the front triangle back from the powdercoater and managed to build the bike for a ride on Friday morning. This is in ‘steep’ mode and it felt amazingly normal. Fit is pretty much spot on, just needs a few little changes and some more ride time but initial impressions are good!

The saddle is about 5-10mm too high for me in this shot

That shot makes it look a lot longer than the previous photos! Looks amazingly stretched out.

Girlfriend found an old(French possibly) weather vane compass points thingy at the dump, missing it’s spinny top thingy.

Made a Narwhal to sit atop it, mounted on a bearing from an old machine.

Now living on top of the river shed.

Love the Narwahl weather vane ….

As requested here is the bike now it’s been powdercoated (clear) and assembled properly and had a maiden voyage.

(this is in ‘steep’ mode)

If you haven’t seen it there are more pictures on the news story on the front page[/url]

I’ll be riding it over the summer to get it dialed in and then deciding whether I’ll carry on riding it or make some alterations/build a replacement. The bike will be available for demo at the shop if anyone is interested and I’ll be doing a news story on our site once I’ve had a few more rides

I do like the look of that.

I didn’t make this sculpture, but I did put the bearings on it and bolt it to a gatepost in the park:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

It spins around:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Just recently finished painting this to exhibit in the town’s music and arts festival

and also knocked up this Jamie Hewlett tribute to give away to a member of the public as a piece of free street art to help promote the event

Hydraulic cable crimper bodged to crimp chainstays, fork blades etc.

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

HI, me again. Sorry 😳

Just finished making myself a firewood storage bench (Ottoman) for my shed. I thought I’d have a go at casting concrete as I hadn’t tried it before. Was pretty fun to do, but the wooden blocks took ‘kin ages…

concrete and wood blocks combo is a lovely thing.
Can’t work it out from the video, but how is the concrete part attached to the rest, is the concrete poured on/around the main wooden frame?

Yes exactly. It’s essentially a wooden box with a third cut off it and then the mould made to contain it and the concrete together.

The edges of the wood have long screws into them but not driven home so that the concrete forms and bonds around the screw heads and has something to cling on to.

This is done in the vertical edges of the side and also the edges of the base which runs the whole length of the box.

Took down an old fence during the week and thought I could put the old timber to some use. So voilà – a couple of painted planters – total cost about £6 (primer & fixings, paints both left over from doors). I’d imagine this kind of thing would have kayak23 quaking in his fancy furniture making boots. 😆

Very nice them DD. Are you growing a dogwood tree? 😀

Cheers kayak. You’re too kind. We’re thinking some compost, a bit of miracle-gro and she might grow to the size of a normal BT. 😀

For not being a plumber I was pretty proud of this, its a low loss header to allow me to combine an oil burner and a boiler stove with my DHW & CH system, a pump on each circuit so they don’t interfere with each other, ie water doesn’t get pumped through the boiler when the stove is on and vise versa.

Oh come on now docstar,none of that nonsense ,give us a tune. 🙂

Trying to solve the problem of bar clutter, came up with this:

I made this-

It’s an adapter to fit on a Sunn Charger frame to take an ISCG-05 chain doofer. The frames came with a direct mount adapter fitted but no way (other than a BB mount) to fit a chain device. Sunn called it the ‘Plaque’ system and it’d have been a good idea if they hadn’t gone bust (again!) and you could still buy different types.

There are countersunk bolts holding the adapter onto the frame at the (68mm wide) BB shell and the adapter is 5mm thick. A chain device just bolts onto the threaded ISCG-05 tabs on the adapter.

Next up are some dropouts with holes to take a rack for when we do a bit of distance on the bikes.

Ooooooooo…..,I’d love one of those dropper post levers – don’t suppose you made a spare:0)

its a low loss header to allow me to combine an oil burner and a boiler stove with my DHW & CH system, a pump on each circuit

How does it work for the boiler stove when you get a power fail and the stove is cranked up full blast?

Physio wanted a 25 degree incline board for tendonitis rehab work.

Calf raise rehab ramp by Ben Freeman[/url], on Flickr

I made this for use as a physics demonstration. It’s mesmerising trying to find the best music for it.

That’s brilliant!

don’t suppose you made a spare:0)

Only made the one, which is being tested by a mate who rides much more than I do. Should have some feedback soon..

Piece of steel bar and some fence posts for a pull up bar up the orchard, posts have been stained green since putting it up. Absolutely love it!

The desk is made from solid Cherry (and White Beech drawer rails) with steel legs.

@craggyjim. Try ingenue by atoms for peace. works well for me.

Quick bit of bodgineering after work today – a DIY under saddle lever for my X-Fusion HiLo.
Seems to work on the stand, but we’ll have to see how it stands up to proper abuse out and about.

Made this a few months ago for a company to store the clip on writing tablets for their conference chairs.

Home made routing jig

and work in progress.

And a swing for my niece

Love that desk Three Fish. Swing is great too! 🙂

Some archery targets for the club to use at the Three Counties show this weekend. Vinyl roundels for the sucker-arrows to stick to.

I’ve also made a target for the foam-headed arrows. With sized holes.

Extensive Nerf testing underway

Turned a bit of waste ground in the local park into a community garden with a water collection system, and a bunch of raised beds.

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

And mounted a rotating sculpture on an old gatepost:

Untitled by Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

Nice work Ben,good to see spaces like that being brought back from the dead.

nearly done…

End of year again for our City & Guilds level 1, 2 & 3 students.

I made a video of the exhibition I made of their work. As ever, some really nice work from them all.

The sounds on the video are courtesy of a level 3 student who made a children’s musical chair he calls the Mini-Maestro, which has strings, a Cajon and Xylophone as part of its construction.
Mini-Maestro[/url]

If you hear what sounds like a helicopter flying over and feet being ground into gravel, it was… 😉

Now a holiday 🙂