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

Auricula theatre

Absolutely stunning! Love it.

And love the 2 bike storage set ups aswell.

Following on from my thread I gave up on the indoor pull up bar. We had a couple of lengths of 2×4 (or thereabouts) spare and I decided to go with an idea that had been in my mind for a long time – a pull up bar inside my shed. It’s not ideal – there’s not enough height for a ~170cm person to passively hang without feet touching floor and it’s not especially wide – due to a) Apex roof, b) being situated between two bikes and workbench, but it’s better than what I was using.

The T shape at the top of the uprights offers support to prevent movement but isn’t weight bearing to pull on the roof, all the weight goes down to the floor. One upright is supported by the workbench to prevent lower movement, the other side sits within a cut out of ply. It takes the undoing of 3 M12 coachbolts for the uprights to be removed if required.

I’ve used the original ‘wall mounts’ I fashioned glued, bolted, and screwed to the uprights, and made two more lower down for a bar that can be used for bodyweight rows, or in combination with other equipment I’ve built for dips.

Picture also shows gymnastic rings. Previous setup was too precarious and low to use these. I’ve had them a few years but rarely used them so please to be able to easily now. I can only do the basic holds and inversions on them, and hope to progress with them, but no plans to do anything remotely acrobatic in my shed (or elsewhere)!

Unfortunately might have done too much on them Monday evening. Woke up this morning with neck pain and struggled to get a t-shirt on and spent day off at home.

Yes it is scary hanging upside down on the rings supported by a construction of my own handiwork knowing that if it gives way I’m going to land on my head with my full bodyweight. But seems strong enough so far 😂

Made these alcove cabinets.
First time using my new hvlp paint sprayer so was pretty happy with the results.
Definitely not perfect, but black takes no prisoners.

Very nice!

Did you make the diamond shelves first and build around them or the cabinet first?

Very nice Kayak.  Fills those spaces beautifully.

Whats the sprayer. Im in the market myself and thinking about a Fuji. Not a high end one, probably something like the semi pro 2. Maybe even the Apollo 1500-3s

Did you make the diamond shelves first and build around them or the cabinet first?

I made the cabinet, as that had to be a given size. Using sketchup I could work all of the geometry and angles out of the triangles before cutting.
It’s two diagonal bits corner to corner, halved through each other, then four more sections halved through everything they pass.
The shallow angles are tricky as most saws only go to 45 degrees. Had to make a special sled for the table saw.
Had to paint it in bits so I could get into the crannies which made final assembly a bit of a bugger.

Whats the sprayer. Im in the market myself and thinking about a Fuji. Not a high end one, probably something like the semi pro 2. Maybe even the Apollo 1500-3s

I nearly bought a Fuji but I needed a 5-stage hvlp really in order to spray water based well and at the cost of the 5 stage Fuji, the local Dulux centre gave me a good price on the Graco 9.5 I ended up with.
It’s an amazing setup but a hell of a learning curve and painting in what is effectively an unheated lean-to is far from ideal 🙂

@sirromj Looks great and plenty strong enough 👌

sirromj – I have that feeling with any DIY I do! I still expect my daughters bunk bed to collapse in a heap eveytime I lug my 100kg self up on to it to fit a sheet and all I did was replace the slats and supporting bars on it.

Steady hand game for the kids school Christmas fair. Some decidedly dodgy soldering underneath – I haven’t done that in 30 years and I wasn’t very good back then!

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Not totally finished and not actually my work doing the upgrade but this is what they are doing to Southampton Bike Park which started as my idea for somewhere where I could learn to do drops and jumps better about a decade ago. They are only surfacing some of the tracks and parts of others so we can continue to build and evolve the other trails. They are also leaving a big pile of surface material for patching – the wash away you see will be fixed when they put the top side drainage in.

As I say, not really my work but I am still very prod of having had the idea and originally creating the bike park so happy to take some credit.

Love the steady hand game.

Really love the bike park. There’s a council golf course closing down near me that would really benefit from something like that.

There’s a council golf course closing down near me that would really benefit from something like that.

Just ask to do it. When they say no, ask why.
Remove that objection or prove it is wrong and ask again.
Repeat for a year and they will run out of reasons for saying no and then you can just build it.

When you run out of time, or snap your foot off and spend 6 months in bed and another 6 in a wheelchair or crutches as I did, find an enthusiastic young guy to take it on under your guidance. Once he gets it good enough the council may find some grant money and suddenly shower you with money to make it all weather and show how much they care about cycling and the youth.

Simple re

I used to run a bike club on FC land. I reckon a council will be a doddle compared to dealing with them 😃

There’s a council golf course closing down near me that would really benefit from something like that.

Do you know what Col, you’ve got a great point there. Hoylake has already closed and I wonder whether it’s time to speak to the councillors. Which course is near you?

Do you know what Col, you’ve got a great point there. Hoylake has already closed and I wonder whether it’s time to speak to the councillors.

Is there two Hoylake courses? I was literally there yesterday at a family funeral at the very posh club. My dad lives overlooking Royal Liverpool course at Hoylake and lives for golf. He’d go full nuclear if the likes of me started doing stunts across the 17th 😂

Yes! 😁
The council one is/was over the other side of the railway. It was used as a car park when the Royal hosted the open. I ride across it on the footpath over to Newton; never thought of plundering its vast expanse of nothingness.
It’s earmarked for housing, and wirral council being wirral council, there’ll be precious little community facilities actually provided as a result.

Christmas tree! Three of them 🤪

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I do like the Christmas tree

I quite like the painting (below)

I don’t like the frame (of the painting)

What type of frame does STW reckon I should use instead of the only spare one I had lying around?

The whit works but it needs slimming right down

As you can see, the frame was partially slimmed already before I decided I didn’t like it. The top and bottom were as wide as the sides. I guess I could trim them a little more and make the four sides equal thickness, then see what it looks like. Thanks

Building a hen house from scrap for my neighbours, one of those “of course I can, dont worry about it, it’ll only take an hour or two” type errors of judgement!

Still got to finish the roof and fit out with avian acoutriments but nearly there

The white works but it needs slimming right down.

Slimming down yeah, under an inch. But black or even red, i think would better suit.

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I need to come up with a design for a tv unit. Something between 320-350mm deep.

@worldclassaccident White but with team stripes somewhere.

I like the Christmas tree(s). I assume it’s one, but you can rotate the “branches” to make different patterns?

I like the Christmas tree(s). I assume it’s one, but you can rotate the “branches” to make different patterns?

I wondered the same but from what I can see, it is the individual slats glued together rather than fixed to a central spindle. I have already checked my wood stack and I don’t have enough to make one 🙁

Nice hen house. Presumably next is the church house, gin house, school house, outhouse, On Highway Number Nineteen?

He will need to mow the grass though, because people keep the city clean

The antler of the round table float fell off and was run over…

I’ve tried to salvage it. Not finished yet. Was working on the shape not the finish. Will need smoothing out and then painting.

The antler of the round table float fell off and was run over…

Wouldn’t it be easier just running another one over? And tastier.

it been a long time coming but i made this….

not by myself though! with lots of clever people i just do the animation and cinematics but quite proud of this one

That’s rad @doris. 👏

I like the Christmas tree(s). I assume it’s one, but you can rotate the “branches” to make different patterns?

Yes you can. If you click the little arrow in the imgur box, there are two more pictures of it spun around.

Was about £40 of C16 3×2 easy edge from wickes, and an old bit of 20mm dowel (which is waaaay too thin – should have used a broom handle). Plus a tree ring liberated from *somewhere*

Yes you can. If you click the little arrow in the imgur box, there are two more pictures of it spun around

Even better than I first thought. Now I wonder if I could used splined dowel and some kind of cog teeth in the wooden bars to make the branches rotate at different rates by connecting a small electric motor to the base.

@doris raising the bar there!

Yes you can. If you click the little arrow in the imgur box, there are two more pictures of it spun around.

Yeah, I saw them. Great idea, very clever. Might make something similar to replace my old snooker cue/pallet wood Christmas tree since we’ve decided not to get a real tree this year.

Even better than I first thought. Now I wonder if I could used splined dowel and some kind of cog teeth in the wooden bars to make the branches rotate at different rates by connecting a small electric motor to the base.

You could put a key in a round dowel easily enough by routing a slot along the length of it and then using some small square section timber as a key. Different speeds would be very tricky though. Would guess you’d need to gear your motor down otherwise you’d need quite a big one, which is fine because you’re not going to want it going very fast… though it would be fun! I’ve already put too much thought into this.

I wonder if I could used splined dowel and some kind of cog teeth in the wooden bars to make the branches rotate at different rates by connecting a small electric motor to the base

That’s been done before in Russia. But the Ukrainians keep shooting it down.

@doris do you do requests? A new Burnout please. A good one. Paradise was shite.

@doris do you do requests? A new Burnout please. A good one. Paradise was shite.

alas no i cant do requests 🙂 burnout was before my time i think i was making harry potter games when burnout was being made so would be no use anyway that and code baffles my tiny brain!

All made from bits of old decking and a summerhouse we pulled apart.

@WCA cool painting but imo would look better without a frame asthe frame seems to be cropping part of the bumper.

Cheers stk

The frame it is in is just the only spare I had. I made a new one during my lunch break and it is drying after the first two coats of paint. I will be adding a red and a black stripe to it, I think, tomorrow as mocked up below.

The new frame shouldn’t cut the front bumper quite as much but the guy driving did cut the corner more than I expected while I was painting so the nose is quite close to the edge.