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

Finally got round to building a temporary fence after Storm Arwen blew a tree over and knocked over the garden wall. Was going to get the wall rebuilt but trying to get a quote under 5 figures is proving difficult at the moment, probably due to everyone bring in demand for last-minute works for the Open.

Hmm I recognise that house I reckon but not sure where?

Don’t live in a strath do you?

Was going to get the wall rebuilt but trying to get a quote under 5 figures is proving difficult at the moment,

Why not rebuild the wall yourself? Looks like you’ve done a good job with the fence.
Buy a second hand bell mixer and crack on!

Hmm I recognise that house I reckon but not sure where?  Don’t live in a strath do you?

Shit! My cover’s blown!

Yeah, I thought about rebuilding the wall but it needs a lot of work to be fair to the expensive builders. Lots of tree roots so it needs a full garden clearance and then probably a thin strip foundation and double skin, the garden’s about 3ft higher than the pavement. We’re doing work to the house starting next month so once that’s all finished I’ll probably have a crack at sorting it properly.

A mixture of old playhouse rafters and left over plywood from a desk I made for the sister in law.

It’s a bit wonky (looks worse in the photo) but took 30 mins and I discovered my workbench was banjaxed so was built on the floor.

Very utilitarian @<span class=”bbp-author-name”>Saccades.</span>

But might i suggest you use angle brackets inside the top corners. Screws into end grain have a habit of loosening off, end grain fixings are not as strong as through face fixings.

Cheers, no idea what I’m doing (as I’m sure you can tell), but need a place to park my bum at times.

I’ll go hunt out those brackets and fit.

👍

Posting from my phone so no chance of a picture but here is a link of someone can make the photo appear.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yyKnwLRRP6b3vJ5E9

I am making the base of the coffee table and needed to clamp some wood but my clamp could not reach. Rather than buy a deep throat clamp I put holes in a couple of bits of wood, threaded the small clamps through and suddenly had deep throat clamps. The two bits of wood above the clamp is to keep the long wood parallel.

Hope that makes some sense but either way, it works.

Interesting er…mitres 🙂

Is that for ventilation ?.

Oh, what he posted while I was faffing around with labelling it

You can hook 2 clamps together for longer clamps.

pk13 – that gives greater length rather than deeper throat doesn’t it?

that gives greater length rather than deeper throat doesn’t it?

Sorry – I was tractor browsing earlier

If you’re going to make a Telecaster from scratch:

You really need to make a Fender-inspired stand to rest it on

I heard that Fender is going to start a line of wind instruments.

Theres bound to be a Saxofender in there.

All I can think of is pam and archer now #outlaw country.

Cheap ratchet straps are good clamp replacements.

The end result, and with good help and advice from the team on here, I am pleased with. I will let the last rub of Osmo oil soak in overnight and the smell disperse tomorrow and bring it into the house.

If you look carefully you can see I have reduced the levitation down to a more reasonable 1.4cm

Today I have mostly been making….. Handlebars! What can possibly go wrong 🙂

Wanted some 650mm flat bars for my homemade cx / gravel bike but with 16deg backsweep, and with the bend as far out as possible to reduce the loss of reach. Will probably get some sqlab ones long term but these are just to try out. Columbus cromo steel so not too heavy and took plenty of force to get the bend in, so pretty sure they won’t be snapping anytime soon. Aluminium shim 22mm to 38mm.

The end result, and with good help and advice from the team on here, I am pleased

Looks great WCA. Nice one. 😊👍

I got a bit of HiFi kit which had a slightly too high output voltage for my amplifier so made up some cables with resistors in the amp end to attenuate the signal (about -3.5db) and really happy with how they came out. Probably about £18 to make but that’s mostly down to having to use connectors with enough room inside for the resistor network.

I’ve added another board to the garden sign.

https://flic.kr/p/2nkBFJd

This was meant to be a book case but because the shelves don’t have backs to them, it is now a display unit apparently. Anyway, it is now displaying stuff.

Bookcase MK2 to follow

which everyone else seems to think are screwdrivers or for scraping the pointing out of paving

You’ve met Mrs Sandwich then?

I made this pile of bricks and glass into a panelled pile of bricks and glass.
Plus also some custom trim/architrave around the room division.

That’s very well done fella that Victorian townhouse or late 20s looking at the ceiling hight?

I have finally finished the book case. It is the one on the right without any books on it as opposed to the one on the left without any books on it which is a set of display shelves.

This, hopefully, concludes the latest spurt of carpentry as we are fully wooded up with this little set of three different but complementary items. Thanks to all who have helped and advised.

Very nice Nick.

They look rad WCA. They go so nicely all together. Well done 👏
You should be proud of them.

Chapeau WCA.

Looks good WCA, I am always impressed with how quickly you get stuff done.

Looking good

Kayak, I love how out of sync your ukworkshop and singletrack “made recently” posts are.

I get proper dejavu feels

I get proper dejavu feels

Ah! So did I! But I looked back in the thread and couldn’t see a post about it, so I presumed I was simply going mad.

Thank you!

It might be the other one I did on the other side of the house a year ago.
I can’t remember. 😂

It seems like every forum has this thread! 😊

It’s a lovely Saturdays afternoon so lets discuss drinks coasters. I have recently made a wooden coffee table and so have become paranoid about ring marks from wine glasses etc.

The obvious answer is to use drinks coasters and I have made some pretty ones in the past such as the blue one in the photo but these have some fundamental problems I wanted to resolve.

The standard coaster is only a little larger than the base of a mug or glass which means you have to focus when resting your drink on them. The consequence of missing the perfect placement is that your drink gets poured across the table as the glass topples. This is not a good thing.

My new wooden design overcomes these issues. It is a little larger to make glass placement easier and accuracy less of an issue but more important is the thickness and profile of the base. The already thin coaster is gently chamfered towards the edges so, should you place your glass only half on it, the glass will still balance with its edge on the table.

Hopefully this will prevent ring marks and spillages in the future.

The already thin coaster is gently chamfered towards the edges so, should you place your glass only half on it, the glass will still balance with its edge on the table

That’s the best excuse for over-sanding I’ve ever heard.
Only kidding 😉
And I’ll just go back to feeling inadequate.

WCA you have applied perfect design engineering there. Well done good sir!

Kayak, I love how out of sync your ukworkshop and singletrack “made recently” posts are.

I get proper dejavu feels

Oh tell me about it, I feel like some sort of Patreon being on Insta!

Slightly less ‘craftsmanship’ but I re-used the chipboard from the old bookcase to finally hang the bunch of random, mis-fit spanners that have been sat in a couple of biscuit tins for about 3 years since a neighbour gave them to me to stop her husband tinkering with the car. Some metric, most not but I am sure I will buy another old wreck of a car that I can use them on, I nearly bought a MKX Jag last week until I remembered I was sober and it was a really bad idea 🙂