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

Good signpost work there Ambrose 👍
You could have added a vertical one to the post (just for today 😉 )with PRICK Branson Space 🚀

Aaarh- a missed opportunity!

I made a clock  It is for my brother, currently in Adelaide. Friends and family contributed pebbles that I set into resin filled recesses in the clock face that was made from an old garden table from his house in Cornwall. It is set to Australian time so that I know when I phone I can wake him up at an ungodly hour.

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Tried my hand at making some picture frames.

A floating frame made from some reclaimed pine boards and a gallery frame (needs glass) from some reclaimed oak.

Have enjoyed this thread immensely over the years, there are some amazingly talented people on STW. Thank you all.

A lightweight, 10″ guitar cab, to go with my tiny Vox MV50 amp.

This thread has always made me feel thoroughly ashamed of my lack of practical ability.

Yesterday I did make a dinky pair of powerlink pliers from a cheap big pair using only a hacksaw, file and insulation tape.

I also made a weatherproof rear light out of a non-weatherproof rear light, an o ring, a trimmed down rubber plumbing seal and superglue.

I also made three birdboxes earlier in the year out of some old planks.

This is the height of my DIY achievements.

I needed a headset tool, none were coming up on ebay, and I refuse on principle to buy cheap Chinese rubbish. What’s the only rational thing to do – make your own! It took me about a month, as I have two small kids. Most of that time was spent working out how to draw straight lines on a cylinder.

I used a steerer, cut from an old fork in my junk pile.

After all that, took about 2 minutes to get the old headset cups out. Result

This is the height of my DIY achievements.

So get the pics up then.

So get the pics up then.

my lack of practical ability

Think that’s a no then to posting pics on STW!

@twrch – nice tool and nice vintage hacksaw

@Murray – thanks. I got the saw from a rusty old box of tools that had been left out on the curb. It looked terrible when I got it, but I tried an electrolysis rust removal process, and it worked out great (although it doesn’t fix the surface pitting). It’s an Eclipse, stamped sometime in the 40’s.

Begone bins!

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Nice one retrodirect, I’ve seen videos of greenhouses made like that with plastic tubes, the wood strips look cooler.

Finaly finished this, started it last year but not touched it for ages.

A pair of rough n ready storage boxes for under the workbench. One to hold clamps, one for… was going to be old screws/nails/brackets/hings/odds-n-sods collection but too much effort into them (although it may not look like much effort went into them). Also the blue is a much brighter blue than it appears here.

A base for the Raspberry Pi and Lepy amp just to keep them together and stop them getting jostled around so much.

In the background is a pair of parts for another ongoing project – the Roger Musson Wheel Truing stand.

I made these old, hardboard nailed onto softwood frames yellowing painted 70s wardrobe doors…

…into these sleek, push to open, birch plywood doors with ply-edge vertical trim.
4m x 3m

If I’d have done that job, (TBF, I wouldn’t have done THAT job, far from it) my missis would have come back with,

‘Nah, I preferred it the way it was. Can you put it back?’

Every time. It’s become a standard joke. They look really smart now.

🤣^^^

they look nice.
are they push to unlock or do you need a screwdriver to open them 😉

oh, nope push to open, saw that now.

New hoops. Along with the PSA Pikes, it feels like a new bike.

Made for a mates 40th.

That’s a great present, well done

Most of that time was spent working out how to draw straight lines on a cylinder.

On a flat surface. Get a straight edge. Tilt it on an angle. Roll the tube up to the straight edge. So they are both parallel and touching. Then mark your line.

You then have a straight line along the edge of the tube. Any further straight lines are marked from that data line. For example you have a tube with a circumference of 360mm. Mark 180mm around the tube at both ends. Draw a line down the tube where you have marked. You now have 2 lines directly down the middle of the tube.

Modified my Pedals cart for more display area. Need to beef op the verticals to avoid wind flex.

My chilli plants were getting cold so I built them a new home from a pallet and some plastic sheet

Finally finished something. Box made from London Plane and ebonized Walnut.

Using old breed wheat flour (Emmer, Einkorn and Spelt). To try and find a form of gluten Sandwich jr can eat without upsetting his stomach.

Crumb shot to follow later as it uses a poolish method for the dough.

I like both of those last 2.

Very well executed Hobster. How did you cut in the stringing ?

Beautiful box Hobster.
Love that inlay 👌

Thanks all,

The pattern on the lid was done with a Veritas inlay tool and chisel then filled with resin.

Took ages as the grain is a bit crazy

The tray, although I have fully soundproofed, insulated and carpet lined the bugger too.
Next build job is the storage units.

#forthekids

Crumb shot as promised. (I’m failing to stop the rest of the family eating it all in one go).

Love this thread!

@relapsed_mandalorian

Love the T-Allen holder for the axles!

Half way through re-building our patio and garden path.
Had to dig out around 5 tonnes of earth, so built some planter boxes out of sleepers to save on skips, then cast some new steps between those.
5 tonnes of type 1 in and whacked down, then 2×2 20mm porcelain tiles down on a bed of 4:1 sharp sand / cement.
I’m about half way done on the tiling, 80% done on the job, lots of cutting to do now so the neighbours will be hating me.

@colp thanks bud! Just some screw in magnets from Amazon. Bloody strong too!

That patio looks like a top spot.

I did this to replace the painting (top right on peddlers cart photo) I sold.

I was given the slab of oak (750 x 200 x 60mm) as a ‘thank you’ for making a small wooden handle for an old family heirloom, an old silverware cheese slice – a more than generous return! I cleaned it up on thicknesser planer at work, sanded and applied several coats of Danish oil, then TIG welded the steel legs from 50 x 25mm box section. I could have done a better job preparing the steelwork before painting, a lesson learned for next time!