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

Good work. Dont get put off by the pro stuff, it’s something to aspire to, sure, but sometimes substance trumps style.

More crochet

Not so much made, but been rebuilding this wee open crank engine, ran away from me a bit here, should be a bit less erratic when it’s bolted down with a demand valve rather than having gas blown in it’s face.
My Homemade trembler coil (read taser) gives a hell of a kick….

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Note to self… Bolt it down! Tom Senior Simplex. ….#vintageengine #engineaddict #engineering #engine #gasengine #sleevevalve #4stroke #opencrank #tomsenior #fractionalhp #modelengine #internalcombustion #isolation #isolationcrankup #stationaryengine

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Yet again bringing things back down to earth…

Born of necessity rather than a desire to make something beautiful: a new disc to hold the blades on my robot mower. My lovely kids left a shovel on the lawn and the mower went over it, smashing one of the mount points on the original disc. Cobbled this together out of some 90mm PVC pipe, sawn lengthways and heated with a heat gun then flattened against the garage floor. Cut to shape and drilled, then had to reheat to add about 1cm of dish so that the bolts that hold the blades on don’t foul the mower body. Bodge-tastic.

IMG_20200331_161705 by W Hyde[/url], on Flickr

I made a device for hanging coats, dog leads and other things in a hallway.
Elm, Birch Plywood and Oak.

I kind of made this up as I went along, just wanting to try some steam-bending techniques. I’ve used a split-bend on the uprights from one solid piece, and a bend for the other bits using a male/female former.

Have to see how it looks in the hallway.

Paid work is pretty much gone for the moment in Coronaworld but it’s nice to be able to experiment and do things for myself, poor though I am!

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A device for hanging coats, dog leads and other things in a hallway. Elm, Birch Plywood and Oak. I kind of made this up as I went along, just wanting to try some steam-bending techniques. I've used a split-bend on the uprights from one solid piece, and a bend for the other bits using a male/female former. Have to see how it looks in the hallway. Paid work is pretty much gone for the moment in Coronaworld but it's nice to be able to experiment and do things for myself, poor though I am!

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Dreamy steamy

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That looks ace- wish I had a hallway big enough for that. Dog lead and walking boots just get slung in the porch!

Could you do online sales?

The treehouse is getting there

That looks ace- wish I had a hallway big enough for that

Thanks. It’s a narrow hallway but should be fine to squeeze by. 😊

Treehouses must be such a fun project. Shame I don’t have any trees 🙁

Pretty rubbish compared to other bits on here, reused some old bars to bling my track pump

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A bit of lock down boredom, pimp my track pump

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@wishiwascalledsteve Cool – how did you attach?

@kayak23 classy bit of work as ever

@wishiwascalledsteve very much lol

@AlexSimon thanks.

Cut off the old handle and luckily the pump shaft had a thread on the end with a small threaded plate screwed on.

Cut a hole in the base of the bars and used epoxy to glue it to the shaft and plate. Once dried used a couple of cable ties for a bit of extra security.
Then covered with self amalgamating tape to hide the mess.

I’ve got no paid work I can do in lockdown, so naturally I find myself doing random stuff.

Made myself a woodworking clamp carousel out of a knackered old fatbike wheel and filmed it. 😄

Eight years after moving here, I finally got round to building a MTB track in the garden.

Enlisted some burly helpers:

Started with the fun-to-build bit – a bridge traversing a steeper bit of slope. Got the eldest to help, he learned the very important lesson of how black thumbnails are acquired! 😬

Ta-daaa! 5m long with a small step down at the end.

(extra karma for upcycling an old fence and pergola 😇 – not that I had a choice, can’t go out to buy timber under the lockdown…)

Quick test ride:

After that it was just lots of digging. The whole track traverses a steep slope, so there was a lot of cutting in/benching, with some mini-retaining by way of planks and logs laid on the down-slope side.

The trailhead – a quick blast up from the main garden path:

Some off-camber twistiness:

Over the bridge:

Looking back up the trail, after the bridge is a tight downhill S-bend.

The there’s a crappy lumpy straight bit, might put some rocks down here to make a rock garden.

A tight 90-degree bend leads into this:

Which progresses into a tight-ish uphill curve.

Watch the bars on those trees, then a bit of a chute down the hill…

Lokking back up that hill:

Might try to make a sort of mini-halfpipe thing with some berms down this bit.

Then a final curve into the exit, with a very small jump over a fallen log.

I’m pretty chuffed with it. It doesn’t really flow, it’s more series of sligtly technical challenges, but that’s good enough to stave off the boredom of the lockdown. I think once it beds in a bit the flow will improve.

I’d describe that less as a garden and more like a rain forest.

How big is your f-ing garden??!!

😀 yeah it’s a good size garden. About 2.5 acres but most of it is steep hillside. North Island of NZ, hence the tropical appearance.

I thought I recognised it.
Didn’t they film Lord Of The Rings in your garden?😀

Wild garlic pesto. Can’t compete in woodworking but I can in greenness.

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Garlic pesto from the one a day.

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Breadboard prototype with CCC (Crumb Collection Channels ™)

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Playing around with some ideas for a 'simple' breadboard. The bits are caught in the CCC's (Crumb Collection Channels ™) and then tipped onto your bird table. Needs extensive testing with bagels and sourdough and then some refinement of shape and making complexity but the basic idea is there.

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Sorry, me again. *yawns.

Doing a lot of messing about at the moment seeing as I don’t have any paid work.

Made some Kumiko (traditional Japanese latticework) panels. Quite fiddly and time consuming but I guess things would speed up a bit with practise. This took me the day pretty much.

Iroko, Ash and Oak.

Christ that looks tedious to do.

I like it.

I like the little mitrey channelly jig set up too.

I’ve been focussing on doors.

Making them and making others not look shit.

This stuff keeps getting better & better.

I love the woodworking stuff (although to call it ‘stuff’ does it a dis-service), I love the culinary stuff, the bodge-tastic fixes (that robot lawnmower repair is ingenious & a great use of available materials).

Love it!

Awesome stuff on this page! Well done to all.

This was intended as a wee stepping stool for the workshop but my wifedecided it would be perfect as a coffee table at her end of the sofa, besides the floor in the workshop is so far from flat that anything with four legs always wobbles… Recycled 60yo iroko science bench top (made a dowel jig for glueing the boards) and TIG welded 40 X 5 angle iron; metalwork sanded and then waxed using the same Osmo hardwax oil as the iroko – not something I’ve done before but looks and feels lovely and should provide it with a degree of rust protection.

Next project will be a three-legged version for the workshop, perhaps slightly higher and with a step on one leg…

Nowhere near up to kayak’s standard but the treehouse is nearly there

One problem is the step down on to the slide, will have to move it out so it’s a proper step as it’s not safe as it is.

That’s a lovely combo of steel and timber Househusband 👌

thestabiliser that treehouse is well cool. I’d love to build one.

ugh…. just gonna find img host…

Building a pylon out of cardboard for my 3 yr old son. Seemed like a good idea and simple enough at the time…

Making cardboard ‘girders’:

After 3/4 of the girders from the pile were done I started construction of the base stage and very quickly discovered those girders wouldn’t go very far at all.

More girders were built to complete the first stage, and the goal of 4 stages (~6ft+) was brought down to 3 stages (~4ft+).

There are loads of offcuts which should be ok for the arms and smaller triangulation support pieces, but still must make many many more girders!

takes a brave man to make something complex from cardboard for a three year old!

that said, looks good!

Local skip wood for bench. (This is not my dayjob and I made it up as I went along)


Really cheap, until Mrs Wally found the cushion she liked.
Love a skip and a loft conversion.

Nice.

Why did you make it brown though?

I am going for a chameleon/predator look after this lockdown on this bench/sunbed.
Reality was my shed had a wide selection of pine (brown) or ebony woodstain/preserver.

Not as creative as some of the posts, but built this at the weekend

Rich:A smile says 1000 words of “This is brilliant!”

Made with my 14 year old (his project really and he did all the planning, shaping and finishing).
Made with Rowan… he did all the planning, shaping and finishing. by 99percentchimp[/url], on Flickr