That bow is very nice

I had a rickety old picnic table that was on its last legs, so I cut up some usable bits and made a herb garden for the patio. Its a bit rough and ready but I’m quite pleased how it turned out considering it was effectively scrap wood and I had to work with what I had rather than buying the wood I needed.

Edit, image not showing – Here’s a link https://ibb.co/M7gYhFX

Made a pair of desks for a Christian Science Reading Room.

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A pair of Ash and Oak reading desks for the soon to be opening Christian Science Reading Room on Regent Street, Leamington. They had quite a specific brief for me and wanted a quiet, austere sort of look, and with removable side privacy screens and a drop down flap at the front to house a reading slope(that I'm also making) and a few books. The Ash top and front is a 'waterfall' style, or at least I think that's what the kids are calling it these days. The grain runs seamlessly vertically through to the horizontal work surface.

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Dead chuffed with this sourdough.

I made a kitchen knife on a course with the amazingly patient Joel Black. 121 folds of steel with an integral bolster. Hard work and it was much harder than the last knife I made which didn’t have a bolster. I’m really happy with it though!

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@lankystreakofpee it’s not rough, it’s rustic. Jeez.

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Thanks @squirrelking, I like the term rustic it doesn’t sound quite so bodgetastic! I also made a trough planter for some bigger herbs/small veg. Should keep my daughter busy for the summer holidays 🙂

Made a couple of simple reading slopes to go with some desks I made.

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A pair of simple reading slopes in Oak veneered Birch Plywood for the Christian Science Reading Room, Leamington Spa. Designed to lie flat when not in use, they slide neatly away into storage in their desk mothership. Angle is adjustable in four positions.

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@kayak23 I do love a nice bit of decent plywood.

We just finished the decking underneath the hammock pergola.

Get on with your work, Kayak23, don’t waste time texting Keavney!

Just finished the fork mounted bags and taken them out to test them. Made the rest of the bags over the past 10 days.

Looking forward to some proper bag testing next week.

Get on with your work, Kayak23, don’t waste time texting Keavney!

Ha ha ha!!! 🤣👍

Hopster, these look great!

Side note: Which tyres are these?

Side note: Which tyres are these?

Panaracer Gravelkings in 700x38c. Very much for dry weather and smooth trails.

Can I have a last thing I HAD made?…

We lost our beautiful labradoodle Barney and I commissioned a glass artist whose work I’d appreciated to do a piece for us. Turned out amazing! 😍

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDGdnbrDFJA/?igshid=1d9v09thd1abj

Kayak, that’s lovely!

Being a full time desk jockey, I don’t have the manly skills of a lot of you guys so I very rarely have a go at making stuff, but following the relative success of my vertical planter above, I thought I’d have a crack at making a new back gate.

The old one was falling apart and the bastard cat had used the top as a scratching pad. It was also really narrow due to the small opening and a drainpipe in the way which made getting bikes in and out a pain and any standard gate in the shops was too big.

I decided to make the gate posts smaller and make it open out the other way. I also found a pretty cool magnetic latch which is easier than the old latch which used to jam against the wall intermittently.

Anyhoo, this is the result of quite a few hours of effort:

This is what it replaced:

Very nice. You should be properly proud of that 👍

Cheers Timidwheeler, it is quite satisfying knowing I made it myself. My brother is a carpenter and normally ‘helps’ me do stuff (I mainly watch him!), so the acid test will be when he passes comment, but its straight and it opens and closes so I’m happy 😊.

I tried to do a proper job with what I think are called lap joints so hopefully it won’t fall apart after winter…

@lankystreakofpee I see you’ve yet to reinstate the peep holes though?

The genuine Cusco adjuster dial for these shocks is expensive…

…but I like this alternative I made

I finally got round to finishing this off. I needed to make a disc-mount tab welding jig to position a disc brake. It took me an entire month to get around to it.

It’s nice to finally have two brakes.

I’m really happy with this one. It’s taken a bunch of iterations of cargo-frames but I have the handling absolutely dialled.

as always, more here if interested:
https://www.instagram.com/colin_woof/

@northwind that is brilliant!

Colin, was wondering what you were up to with the machining, good work!

As it’s hot this idea may be of use to some of you. An external cover to cut down solar gain from your windows. I used an old sheet.

Getting very close to having some functional additive manufactured (3D printed) titanium cranks. 🙂

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Nearly there with the first functional prototype cranks…

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I made a frame bag, and was pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CD6Zdjtlg33/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Nice bag! 😃👌

I didn’t really make this, just changed it a bit. I was bored so I messed about with some paint.

so with some bits of worktop left & some tiles leftover from a failed kitchen project……..

I decided to make some bedside tables as my wife could never find any she liked

I had to by a plunge router from ebay, which is possible the best powertool I own, even if I was terrible with it, especially on the 1st one

Rustins plastic wood filler saved the day & squared off all the gaps Id left

the islamic arches were cut out badly with a jigsaw

6 years from moving, from tonight I no longer have to charge my phone & put my glass of water on the floor!!

Nice Kimbers! 😊👌

I’m liking the freeform organic texturing you did with the router on the glue surface too 😉 it’s so difficult not to dig in.

I’m doing a similar thing at the moment. I find working from the centre in spirals outwards works well, making sure you’re cutting against the direction of cutter rotation (machine travelling clockwise), taking small skims at full depth (you can’t go back), and being mindful to keep all the pressure on the side of the router that’s on the ‘shelf’ of the work.

Still work to do but last couple of days building and fitting this

Very tidy surfer, looks mint. What board are you using? Melamine ply?

@kayak23 its a kit from Evo. Its very slim because I an having a 1300 wide bed.

Evo 1300 LWB

Cheers @kayak23 , I’ve no idea what I want to do next with the router, I just want to use it !

@kayak23 what will that be in the end? Looks fun. I went to your web page and saw your amazing gallery. Do you have an Instagram that I can follow?

During lockdown I started doing the odd bit of woodwork, then built a deck then got hooked on Leo Sampson’s Tally Ho YouTube project. I’m just finishing oiling the deck today, so can post on here even it’s done! 👍

@kayak23 what will that be in the end? Looks fun. I went to your web page and saw your amazing gallery. Do you have an Instagram that I can follow?

During lockdown I started doing the odd bit of woodwork, then built a deck then got hooked on Leo Sampson’s Tally Ho YouTube project. I’m just finishing oiling the deck today, so can post on here even it’s done!

Thanks Adam T. It’s for a marketing/exhibition company who are marketing an electric car.

They wanted a tree trunk hollowed out and some electronic bits put in so that on the stand it can look like the car is being charged from a tree.

It’s so …Eco…apart from the tree is dead and all… 😂

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With so many more people working from home now, workspace ergonomics are important to get right. My client bought a @fully_us Jarvis desk base to me, wanting a bespoke top made to his exact size requirements. I made him a beautiful top in Baltic Birch Plywood, all finished with lashings of Danish oil and the base and electronics unboxed, assembled, installed with threaded inserts for easy disassembly and given a full tea drinking height test before delivery. What a great desk!

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Yeah I love Tally Ho. Unreal the work that goes into it. Properly hard work too. Must be eye wateringly expensive too! 😳

Lockdown capers:

I butchered some tree trunks and fitted them with electronics for electric vehicle charging demo thing…

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I got asked by @bytesnap_design if I could source and hollow out a couple of tree trunks and fit them with an LCD screen and electric car charging port. Not something I get asked to do every day but I relish the random and embrace the eccentric! They've developed some electronics based around EV charging and this is to help them show that off. It was actually a bugger of a task and I had to attack them in various ways with an array of weaponry, but the quickest way was with the help of Jonny Walker who with some deft plunge cuts, chainsawed a lot of the waste out from the middle for me. They're still heavy, but they've gone from needing two people to lift them to, just me. Result.

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Plans Vs reality #nailedit #builderisTHATgood #6weeks #newkitchen #skint #inspireddesignanddevelopment develoment

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The last 6 weeks….. Labouring , learning and sometimes ignoring …… Oh and handing over the bank card every other day.

But we got there.

Dining room is an extra 16sqm and the utility is 7sqm. Fitted a new kitchen at the same time.

Cake.