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

I prefer the matt finish

only coz you’ve run out of elbow grease.

only coz you’ve run out of elbow grease.

😀

Three sodding days that frame took, carefully taking the paint off, polishing the bare steel, then more polishing after it was plated.

V8_shin_print – Member
Kayak, that really should have been a marble run!

Why didn’t I think of that! 😀

Ben, do you have any local recommendations for getting a frame stripped and/or painted or coated? ESP used to have a good name but I’ve been out the loop a while.

Ben got ESP to powder coat my soulcraft frame after he welded in a new downtube/headtube – very good finish on it.

Aye, ESP are still very good, I use them for all my powder.

Made some wall units to (kind of) match the sink pedestal.
Just a large mirror to spec and a toilet roll holder now to finish the room.
(only a year after we started lol)

Love ‘ebygomm’s at-at 😆

Little wall bookcase for (some of) the kids books:

Local sweet shop sells bags of (frankly humongous) walnut-less whips, broken biscuit-style.
Happened to have a bag of those bad-boys in the fridge. Happened to have a bag of nuts and jet lighter.

When we moved into our house nearly 5 years ago there was a lovely flowering cherry in the front garden. However we wanted a drive due to the arrival of our daughter and the loss of several (heated) wing mirrors from cars on our road. We opted not to have a full width drive but still couldn’t save the tree as it was right in the middle. In the end we planted a replacement off centre and I vowed to do something useful with the old tree.

Its taken a while and I’m still very much learning but I’ve made this lamp as a birthday present for my wife, personalised with our initials on one of the power facets. Hopefully she likes it…

Just knocked up an Altoids tin watercolour palette for one of the members on here:

Swdan, it’s lovely that, and a really nice gift for your wife.

Cheers choppersquad, it was her birthday on Tuesday and she was really pleased with it. I now need to see if there is any useful wood left to make anything else

Small table made from “Pittosporum” off cut. Just perfect for my morning coffee 🙂

P1400703 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

P1400705 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

P1400706 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Bird table from a beach combing find.

P1400710 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

P1400711 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Also, the bird table as such is made from an old sky dish. Drains well and easy to key clean 🙂

Haha, brilliant!

Side table. Solid walnut, brushed steel legs.

Lovely Three_Fish
Does the steel continue behind to make a full frame?

Debark the Pittosporum, sand it and was it. Pittosporum polishes up really well. Lovely wood.

Thanks Alex. No, the legs are independent. Not the best pic, but you get the point:

Nice!

@thbrick.

Thanks, i must just debark it as you say. Good suggestion.

Not a moon…

That’s no moon… by tom howard[/url], on Flickr

That’s no moon… by tom howard[/url], on Flickr

That’s no moon… by tom howard[/url], on Flickr

That’s no moon… by tom howard[/url], on Flickr

That’s no moon… by tom howard[/url], on Flickr

A joint effort from mstomhoward (Xwing was all her but she’s a forum member, so it counts…) and me. It’s very excellent, and has tee’d me up nicely to start the 911 GT3 RS 8)

please tell me that Lego death star has a kitchen.. 😉

There’s a sort of workshop/kitchen with tools/utensils on the top floor?

tomhoward – Member

There’s a sort of workshop/kitchen with tools/utensils on the top floor?

Tiny bit sweary.

A while ago I made a foot controller for looping guitar (and other instruments) in Ableton Live.

It involved ‘hacking’ a circuit board from a USB keyboard. I used a multimeter to work out which contacts did which letter, and then soldered on the necessary wires. I ended up making 4 rows of 3 switches, and using the Caps Lock connection to make another bank available, so 24 switches in total.

In Ableton you can assign any key on a keyboard to a function, such as start/stop, record, etc. So the pedal works turning on assign mode, selecting the function you want, and tapping the switch with your foot. So all switches are reassignable too.

V1 of the controller worked well, but looked pretty shonky, being made out of plywood. It also wasn’t very ergonomic in it’s layout.

So today I made V2 – 6mm acrylic shell (line bent at work), holes drilled for switches. and then all of the wiring swopped over and resoldered.

All works as it did, smaller footprint, better/easier to use, and looks a lot nicer too 😀

Very cool ajantom, i expect if you made these there’d be a ready market for them aka midifighter style, Ableton is great fun once you get the hang of the basics.

Assembled rather than made

First thing this morning

End of day 1

Following my recent engine exploits, I now have a (broken) 4 cylinder TDi block, a crankshaft and three pistons and conrods which look like they could be used for something. I’m selling the cylinder head as it’s worth a bit, but the rest is junk. I’ve seen some fancy coffee tables made out of big old V8 blocks, but this is a fairly nasty 4 cyl diesel and I can’t be bothered with shot-blasting or polishing it. The pistons are no good for pencil pots either unfortunately. Any suggestions for repurposing?!

Dog bed.

Craftmanship.

Thanks.

It took 3 days.

Jamie – Member

Thanks.

It took 3 days. That’s what happens when you go in Ikea.

Started in 1982 at school, woodwork 101.

It’s supposed to be a penguin.

Finished 30 March 2017…the base. 35 years later :-)…. who said I never finish anything.

P1410795 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Archery targets pins made from dumped stainless steel wall ties.

P1410737 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

P1410724 by SGMTB[/url], on Flickr

Good idea with the wall ties.
And well done for finishing a long-term project 🙂
I still haven’t put kick plates on the kitchen we did 5 years ago!

Dumped wall ties? Might be more to that than you think

Any new public buildings near by?

I was asked to make something as a retirement gift for a colleague who’s fond of whisky and leaving his job teaching at the School of Arts in the college where I work.

They bought him this (allegedly) lovely 17 year old single malt, and taking my cue from the boat on the packaging, I made a presentation box, using the glass as the wheelhouse, corrugated staples for the engine house roof and complete with a seagull*.

Turned out nice and I’m loathe to give it away now! .

Mind you, whisky is proper minging!… 😕

Used the glass as the wheelhouse, corrugated timber staples for the engine house roof, the ends of some old handlebars for the portholes and decided to add the seagull afterwards.
The seagull is optional though, as all seagulls should be…

*Not to scale