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

Just bought a second hand wood turning lathe, so far, self taught, if anyone here is into it and can spare some tips drop me an email, thanks 😉

This was a seasoned log I pulled from my log store (found out latter green wood is easier to work with! Its my first try anyway.

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I have a new stash of green Oak and Hawthorn to play with this week 😉

getting a wood lathe in a few weeks, well, technically I already have it.. My grandpa was a great wood turner and general fettler of things (he tried to invent the automatic razor, but used a petrol engine and it blew up leaving him scarred for life.) but anyway, when he died all his woodworking tools went into my mums garage. She promptly moved to france and all the stuff is still in a locked garage waiting for me to collect it and transfer it to my garage!

I'm actually really excited!

my wife's birthday cake

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Are the barcodes for scanning through a weigh bridge or such like?

Garage contains a highly sophisticated picking system.

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billet balance bike wheels. 12" niche action

Cool wheels!

I made a chicken/cider/mushroom thing, from my River Cottage cookbook. While tasty, those wheels are a lot more impressive!

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balance bike, nearly finished. got to choose an anodising colour. probably black frame, red wheels and bits?

Any chance you could knock up one of those with 26" wheels?? That is brilliant!

sadly my machine isnt big enough to make 26" billet wheels, but defo could make one with standard mtb wheels.

That is fantastic Porter_Jamie any chance of a pic of your machine too

I am in the process of making my bar light for the bike not done yet but have got the beamshot it will produce over 200 metres to the van
and only 3 leds

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What a fantastic thread. I feel utterly inspired.

My fingers are twitching.

I made half a picture of Marylin. I know it's not the same as actually making something but I was feeling left out.

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thats amazing. i tried really hard to draw when i was a kid, just couldn't seem to do it

Thanks. like all these things it just takes lots of practise. If Redthunder pops along with some of his work it'll make this look like the incoherent scribblings of a three year old.

A giant robot
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And before that was a frame bag.
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Just made a mess of posting on the wifes i thingy. Wretched thing.

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Robot for offspring. Not in the same league as some of you but he doth love it. Made me very happy!

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finished! wrap it and shove it under the tree.

on trend wide bars? might need trimming a bit perhaps.

Ah Porter_Jamie, that is just absolutely brilliant, love it.

Spent some of this evening doing rough shaping for a chaindevice cage... Once again wishing for a proper lathe and mill rather than my crappy unimat, so much flex... But it'll do the job and what's more it'll have millions of machining marks on it so dobbers'll go "Oh it's all machined, like Hope"

That bike looks ace, though the blue dust caps have to go.

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Did the drawings, fabricated and erected. There's a mirror image the other end of the building too.

Loving the bike Porter_Jamie

Good job maycontainnuts, I've designed many of them, never made one though! Just an observation; you may need sway bracing perpendicular to the face of the building (unless it's not free standing and is tied to the building?)

porter-jamie, is that frame rated for a triple clamp fork? You need to be careful, it could be a child's face... 8)

Porter_Jamie - that bike is the nuts. Hat dothed'.

I think the last thing I made that wasn't work was this wood-burning stove out of tin cans.

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But before that, I built bunk beds for my boys

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porter-jamie, is that frame rated for a triple clamp fork? You need to be careful, it could be a child's face...

the headset is an FSA aheadset, but there are two threaded collars either side of the top 'yoke' (or crown in mtb speak i suppose) and then the quill/stem/bars go inside the steerer because we wanted to allow for him getting bigger. if he needs lots more reach its going to have to be a new bar/stem/quill! the seattube has lots of angle so the reach gets more as the post comes up.

those bunkbeds - cnc router? pretty cool.

This weeks handy work

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those bunkbeds - cnc router? pretty cool.

Some ambient electronic music. It has a mandolin and everything! It's here on [url= https://soundcloud.com/the1fletch/all-i-know ]soundcloud[/url].

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An nice little carbon bash guard for my c456:

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Stove top fan for a mate for Christmas.

nice one dai. Do you fashion the impeller your self?

Last thing I made....was a bogey for moving my logs around
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No Stoner, it's from the Ecofan 810, bought separately.

A Narwhal

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3 hour drawing

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This:

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It's a GPS logger built out of an old bluetooth GPS dongle and an At328-based serial logger.

It works, but I do need to find a way of parsing the output with the correct datum to get accurate positional data. Currently it's a bit off.

That Bunkbed is awesome! 🙂
Loving the Narwhal too.

I built these over the last few weekends, about 18 steps so probably another 80 or so to do before spring. These were the tricky ones though - a very steep slope so a lot of digging and back-filling, plus flexi-coil/pea-gravel drains and each tread on a bed of pea-gravel to help drain water away.
Back filled with brick-bat/broken concrete, then crush-and-run and I'll top them off with a decorative self-binding grit in spring.

Hard graft but very satisfying... 😀

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A Christmas beer. I called it Reindeer Wee.

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I love this thread.

I designed this.
It weighs half a tonne, generates about 30 tonnes of force from 60psi & lives a nuclear power plant.

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blimey! 😯

Theoretically, you could work it with a bike pump. Would take a while though.

i love the indiana jones style wooden box too!

custom adjustable offset footrest hanger plates for an sv650
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A pair of floor lights. Oak and aluminum, made to accommodate an Ikea cheap lamp fitting.

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I handmade and fitted this kitchen just before christmas in the Cotswolds. They should have their granite work surfaces fitted now.

Man there are some clever people on here, all I can do with any degree of skill is fire a gun and a hose 🙁 must learn to do something constructive. I need a new kitchen, electrics doing in house and the windows too

Porter Jamie some great stuff there I'd love a machine like that I could have alsorts of bits for my motorbike 😉

Kitchen looks brill and I like the 'chimney', we're looking at doing something similar over our AGA (when I've moved it...). Is it just a false 'breast'?

the kitchen is amazing!

Yea a false breast. It does house an extractor and down lights. I do a lot of variations of these.email me and I will send some pics over for inspiration.

New balcony rail.
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Not the most impressive on here, but pretty good for a complete amateur.
Just have to paint it now.

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That is very impressive mowgli

That is a thing of infinite beauty mowgli

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Finished this a week ago, got a couple of minor things I want to add but nothing structural. The arch is totally free standing and the other section is mounted to the external piers for the old lintel. Bit difficult to describe the shape of it as I haven't got any pics that help

For those who are into their airguns on here. I have been making a few Theoben Rapid Ti bolt handles. This one is my 1st attempt at heat colouring.

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I seem to have stopped this thread in its tracks 😳

That looks like an incredible piece of work Mowgli! Must be very very satisfying to paddle.

Fivespot, you could home ano them?

One of these
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To go in one of these
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Not wanting to detract form fivespot's bolt handle anodising or Daniel's Landy, but Mowgli, that really is a thing of beauty. I'm pretty much speechless.

How long did it take?

Very nice, [b]mowgli[/b].

[b]porter_jamie[/b] What machine tools / money / skill and experience is necessary to make thinks like the wheels? I would like to be able to do that!

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For an idea of scale the posts are 9" x 9" ( 225 x 225 ) at 18' ( 5.48m ) centers.

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I made a bread holder for making my toast..

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😀

Okay not made by me but truly awesome and worth a watch - enjoy 🙂

Mowgli that looks great, lovely work and finish.
What did you use for the design / templates?
Impressive.

Cheers guys 🙂

It took about 6 months worth of evenings and weekends, whilst I was only working part time and living with my parents. Luckily my Dad has a garage full of carpentry stuff and helped out quite a bit.

Sadly I think it will be a long time before I've spent more time paddling it than I did making it. Need to move to the sea! It was a nice project to have and kept me busy.

PS I got the plans off [url= http://www.redfishkayak.com/spring_run.htm ]Redfish Kayaks[/url] for the general shape, but the patterning was mad eup as I went along.

A little game terrine for boxing day starters... Sadly let down by the awful weather stopping my game dealer getting in what I needed, but the butcher sorted me out with rabbit, partridge, venison and pheasant... Shame really as I was looking forward to a bit more practice at butchery...

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Yep, that bit of Mowgli woodwork would'nt look out of place in an art gallery. I'm sure if you put a few strings across it, it would sound great too 😀

While I was helping Murr move his garden debris to the recycling centre in Lochgelly, someone was about to toss a load of shiplap into a skip.

Ever the opportunist, I asked if I could have it. He was delighted to see the load recycled. They had been stripped of their nails and painted a fetching blue grey. I had enough to make a couple of Versailles planters for the garden. They perhaps don't have the Louis XIV provenance but they are fine for Fife.

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I've just finished a bookcase
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Edit~: Apart from the skirting boards

A skellington called Bill.
Actually made it about 10 years ago but just gave him spruce up this week in time for the puffer.
He was looking a bit sad with weather and vandalism.

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scones

Turned this -

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Into this -

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Quite daunting at first but it was very enjoyable.