Some great stuff up there. Like the arcade cab. – there’s nothing like having proper arcade sticks and microswitches

It looks like my obsession with plywood edges isn’t going anywhere soon.

Made a ridiculously labour-intensive Spice Rack.

First project with my home-made CNC router.
Designed around the Sainsbury’s spice jars.
Far too much manual work after the CNCing for it to be repeatable. Deviated from the original plan to leave the layers stepped and got a bit ambitious making it all smooth.

Made out of 8 alternating grain direction layers of 6mm Baltic Birch Ply.

1. Design in Fusion 360 and split up the design so that it doesn’t waste wood.
This is for 4 of the layers, there was an opposite design for the other layers so that the splits weren’t in the same place in all of the layers.

2. Cut all 8 on the CNC – each layer took 1h20, although over time I managed to get this down to about 50mins by improving speeds and feeds.

3. Cut out all the tabs

4. Begin the tedious task of glueing them all together slightly stepped. Originally, I was going to clean them up and then step them and leave it. But I got ambitions and decided to try and sand it smooth.
Even though I have 20 clamps – I ran out every layer.

5. After 8 half-hour sessions of gluing it was time to sand. Oh. My. God. Various hacked together sanding rigs and 12 hours later it was done. Best method (not pictured) was wrapping a 12mm drill bit in sand paper roll until it was thick enough to be useful – at least that was full height. I gave up before it was perfect as the whole structure was getting too thin.

6. Osmo and done. Now I need to find some way to attach it to the wall lol – probably fancy PU glue.

That’s really nicely done, especially the subtle angle that it holds the jars at

Spice rack is amazing – could you make me one?

Mods! Please delete this thread, my wife has just found this thread and this lot are getting me soooo much earache! 😀

@AlexSimon – Possibly a bit late for this suggestion, but would canting your router over by 5 degrees in your CNC have negated the need for your sand-a-thon?

Does this count

Love that spice rack! That’s well good.

Workbench is great too. Very handy 👍

Kayak23, what timber did you build those cabinets from?

Main carcasses are mdf, light wood internals are birch ply, door frames are tulipwood with 6mm mdf panels routed to make them look like tongue and groove.

Finished this big bench today for a friend who’s taking over a restaurant. Reclaimed oak flooring for the slats.

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Bench all done, graphic panel finished, ready for some sitting action! @scapagirl #scapa #warwick #warwickrocks #warwickshire #leamingtonlife #leamington #leamingtonspa #basement #restaurant #reclaimedwood #woodworking #woodworkers #wood #smallbusiness #oak #oakfurniture #bespoke

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Thanks for the kind words!

@AlexSimon – Possibly a bit late for this suggestion, but would canting your router over by 5 degrees in your CNC have negated the need for your sand-a-thon?

It would work, but I couldn’t find a way to do it without re-cutting some side plates (as the whole z-axis would need to be tilted) and rebuilding a fair bit of the machine. At the time it seemed too much, especially as this was the very first cuts with the machine!
I haven’t totally ruled out the idea now that I know how much work was involved though.

@alex Simon ….you can buy tapered cutters..

Pretty nifty work

Hi mickmcd – I’ve got dovetail bits, but I couldn’t see how to achieve the same effect – it would undercut all the way around, instead of undercut on one side, vertical on the ends and then taper on the other side. I think having a tilted z-axis is the only way, but it’s a fair amount of work (but not impossible 😉 )

@Kayak23 – Where did you get the mechanisms for the slide out part of the wardrobe? Google foo is lacking today. Would be ideal for our eldest’s bedroom.
Lovely work as always. In fact the majority of the stuff on here is excellent. There are some real talents about.

@alex Simon ah another idea sort of sine table for your router so a bit of wood / wedge that’s tilted /angled over to your spindle ..

Brazed a disc brake mount into my friend’s early 90’s dawes tandem so he can upgrade from his current coaster brake:

Testing:

After:

Will take a 203mm disc on a coaster-disc brake converter, should reduce faff when he removes the wheel, plus, actually do some slowing down.
(Frame is off for strip and re-spray, hence not worried about the terrible toxic paint)

Edit: Give up. No idea why they’re not showing. Maybe it’s just me.

@Kayak23 – Where did you get the mechanisms for the slide out part of the wardrobe? Google foo is lacking today. Would be ideal for our eldest’s bedroom.

Do you mean the tall pull-out section? Locks online. They were actually a real pain to do. They’re basically larder runners but built as replacement runners for metal, cage-style larder units.

I got 3 sets and kind of spliced them together, 2 bottom, 1 top. The unit still droops slightly as it’s very heavy, though well within the specified limits.

They’re also not full-extension so the unit doesn’t quite come completely out.

Still, the Hafele versions for bespoke larder units are something like £350. These were about £30 each.

https://www.locksonline.com/Ball-bearing-runner-6580.html?prodvar=78083&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIweydu-rI4AIVaTPTCh1d6AJqEAQYASABEgKUCPD_BwE

If what you’re trying to do gives access to the sides (my cupboard was tight to a wall) then look for extra heavy duty runners. The type they use on slide out platforms such as on fire engines etc. They extend far but you can’t separate the halves like you can with lighter duty runners.

Edit: Give up. No idea why they’re not showing. Maybe it’s just me.

I think you linked the imgbb pages with the image on not the actual .jpg images. See if this works:

@Greybeard – Thank You!

I needed a quick ground quiver for garden archery practice…

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I needed a quick ground quiver for practising in the garden. Ikea desk leg, and pine offcut. Concrete Donkey approves 🙂 #archery #arrows #concretedonkey #concrete #garden #fieldarchery #quiver

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^^ that disc brake mount looks nice!

Paintjob needs some work though….

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@Kayak23 – Where did you get the mechanisms for the slide out part of the wardrobe?

I got 3 sets and kind of spliced them together, 2 bottom, 1 top. The unit still droops slightly as it’s very heavy, though well within the specified limits.

They are probably very similar, but have you looked at Accuride drawer slides? Possibly a bit more expensive, but they have a large range. We used to use them at the last place I worked for installing ink systems into large custom inkjet print solutions.

https://www.accuride-europe.com/

I look at that donkey and I think someone had to design that, someone had to make it, someone had to sell it to the buyers at the garden centre and then a customers had to come in and buy them. And I ask myself how did all those things happen without one person standing up and saying no no no not in my name! `:-)

That was my Nans Concrete Donkey….it weighs a ton.

It must be at least 50 years old. I do look after it with a coat of paint from time to time in the Worms style.

Nod to Andy Davidson.

@tracey

Nice looking pie. We need more foody creations on this thread. 🙂

That was my Nans Concrete Donkey….it weighs a ton.

I’d actually assumed you lived with your nan redthunder. `:-)

@Kayak23 and stumpy01 – Thanks guys. I’ll have a look at those suggestions. Cupboard will be in a similar position to Kayaks, and will be used for storing toys, so may need to hold a fair bit of weight. I could split that cupboard into several pull out sections.
I’ll see what the director of house alterations thinks.

I have been using a Monster Bike bag for years. The bag has been modified over the years, but the bikes have got bigger, handlebars wider and the old bike bag was pretty much at the limit for my bike. I’ve been meaning to make a new one for ages and got around to it this week.

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I do look after it with a coat of paint from time to time in the Worms style.

That was the first thing I thought of! Best garden ornament ever.

Incoming!

titanium 🙂

Looks great unsponsored, where did you get the daisy chain tape from?

Fancied a small frame bag for my Solaris to save using a Camelbak on shorter rides (pump/tube/tool/snacks etc.). A few hours and I’ve made this:

I made the daisy chain. Lots of sewing. The seat belt tape runs the whole length of the bag on both sides. I then stitched 25mm on to it for around 2/3rds of the bags length on both sides.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2dMxB2L]DSC_0949[/url] by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Made a railway carriage styled hut

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2dMxBAw]DSC_0993[/url] by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Inside

Also took my last build up the mountain for some photos on a nice day… Still need to find a buyer for it.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2eTu78T]DSC_1003 2[/url] by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Thanks unsponsored, looks great! I’m too lazy to make the daisy chain, I’ll stick to a fixed position when I make my Duffbag Monster replacement.

Made a longboard.
Next up, trying not to break my legs.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/R7JfpX]IMAG0719~2[/url] by msh_sco, on Flickr

Started doing a bit of digging at my local woods (with permission) and have a load of brambles to clear. Didn’t fancy spending £40 on a brush cutter so whipped this up from a hawthorn branch and an old saw blade. Giving it a first test tomorrow so hopefully it does a good job.
Left some of the serration on when sharpening, but may grind it down to a straight blade in the future if I find it snagging.

Neilc1881, those huts are bloody awesome!

Thanks kayak, loving your work too 😉 If only one of the ~40 ebay watchers bought the thing! Need to clear some room for the next project – hopefully got a 7.5t horse lorry to convert in the near future.

As our 4 year old daughter can now ride she needs a bit of help on the hills. I looked as a Tow Whee but nearly £50 for a bit of springy rope was taking the piss. So, for £6 of bits (some tubular webbing and some shock cord) from Go Outdoors and a bit of sewing I made one.

It worked great and the wee one loved getting a tow up the hills.

*smashes the “like” button*. Nice one jonm

Yep – good work jonm

That shiny hut is awesome too – good that you got some good photos before it’s inevitable sale