Using a hand loom I’ve just woven some woollen thread into a weave that I’ve turned into a cushion. It’s yellow, orange, brown & grey. Very 70’s. I have pictures but no idea how to post then here these days. It looks great on our sofa.
Some parallettes for extended range of shoulder motion at the bottom of push ups (apparently good for bike riders) and various other bodyweight exercises.
When it came to fitting the bars – 35mm dowel – it was a snug fit into the 35mm holes, I took the rasp to the leading edge lightly. The first end went in smoothly with some persuasion from the wooden mallet, but the other end I was too heavy handed with and split the wood. Doesn’t impact their function though. Theres a couple more pictures over on instagram.
Not sure about the edge pulls, might try and find some nicer ones
Neat piece of work. Bit of a pain for the bottom drawer, but would the pulls look better on the bottom edge of each drawer, including the triangular ones?
Nice @jam-bo. Have you got any photos to show how you did the inside please? I’m planning to do something very similar with ours, but bigger drawers for things like the Hoover. Sick of the unstable pile of crap under there at the moment.
Nice one thanks. Really neat. Yeah, I was wondering if this and another similar project I have in mind would justify the purchase of a pocket hole jig (and/or a biscuit jointer).
Pull handles are fairly cheap and nasty from ikea. I just needed something to mean I actually put the fronts on and finished. It’s only taken me 18 months from start to finish…
I was astonished at the price of some handle router bits. I bought a cheapie and have been really pleased with the results. Yes, it needed a bit of trial and error to set it up just right but once done it was faultless. And made several uniform handles for 6 drawers and doors.
I do have a table router though, I’m not sure I’d be so keen with a hand-held.
I was sick of lugging my table saw around, so whipped up a mobile stand.
First time making drawers as well. Not perfect, but good enough for this.
Clad in french oak staves used to flavour tank made wine. They’ll usually get thrown out afterwards. Need a bit of clean up with the plane to get them smooth.
Bigger ones are less prone to warping & are good for gift boxes like the one I made a few pages back.
If it was me I’d remove all the finger pulls and drill some strategically placed biggish holes in the fronts so you can simply pull the flaps open. These don’t all have to go dead centre, you could have some fun with placement/ alignment.
Alternatively you could drill some holes and buy some recessed plastic discs with lips in dark grey (blue?) to match the stair stringer.
Because you have made everything so ‘flush’ on the vertical plane I don’t think this arrangement suits any type of sticky out handles/ knobs.
Makes me feel dead lazy going through threads like this…
OK it’s not something I’ve just made. Taken me a year to get to this stage. But as there’s some photography geeks on here I thought you might be interested.
I’ve just built a MiniMe shed in the garden – home for a static bike, plus will be my bike workshop. Is a Tuin 3m x 2m log cabin but had to build the concrete plinth and then a day of attaching big steel brackets to attach it firmly to the concrete as we’re quite exposed, regularly see 50mph+ winds. Fitted a corrugated steel roof to match the house. Still have the electricals, workbench, cupboards and shelving to install.
Earlier this summer, built this 4m diameter geodesic dome greenhouse. The hub kit came from buildwithhubs.co.uk – online calculator tells you the sizes you need for the struts based on exterior dimensions. Struts are tree-stakes and the cover is polytunnel sheeting. Hardest part was making 10-sided shuttering for the concrete base. Total cost £600 – a third was the concrete base.
Jam-Bo – if you want some magnetic push latches I can send you some for the price of postage – I bought a job lot to do all the cupboards upstairs in my house – turned out I only needed half the quantity. You push the door in and it springs out
Here’s some midway-through photos, but my lad has outgrown his current bike (27.5 wheels) so I got a new frame for him (99 quid CRC jobbie, that got pretty good reviews.. Brand-x frame)..
I tried stripping with synstrip, but was too faffy so paid a sand blaster!
Colours, the boy’s own!
Stripped
Primed
Painting
Colour No.2!
Frame gloss
One more coat of gloss to do tonight, then we can buld it up!
Got him a new oval (legend!) chainring too…
2 lots of this excavated and collected by a grab lorry. Over 40 tons
Because of the massive slope in the garden I had to build up some retaining walls using wooden sleepers and build a slightly elevated “terrace”
Fake (dog proof) grass down!
Slabs and chips down in the other areas
Nearly finished
Borders are now full of plants, flowers and trees with more to come in spring
Barring a mate helping me by driving a power barrow for a few days while we dug the garden out, every single thing was done by me alone. 6 weeks of slog at weekends and after work.