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

Such a variety of fine things. Great stuff.

I'm still making the last thing i made, but this is a part of it.

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and this is for scale (i helped make the little guy about 6 years ago 😀 )
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/mycams/9139117038/ ]Wedding Cake[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/mycams/ ]Hamster[/url], on Flickr[/img]

I made the cake underneath too from Delia's Christmas cake recipe. Marzipan also home made from the Christmas book by the N*****h chairman (well I am from Suffolk). Icing next which has to be set by 13 July which is the date my daughter gets married.

This little trailer for my recent skydive, ably assisted by iMovie

EDIT I've given in trying to get the YouTube clip to embed on my iPhone

Try again. This is what I made recently

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A fixture to hold cranks for shortening.

Not just the cake, but also the hole in the cake...

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Cheers Footflaps. Looks like a plan.

Just catching up with this thread, as I had nothing but intent to show. 😳
I [i]love[/i] ebygomm's colour chart tablet cover, very nifty!
Anyway, I've had this rather nice little bushcraft forged knife blade for ages, along with a block of yew, intending to put the two together in someway, a knife-like object being the intention. After visiting a knife show last Sunday, I picked up a brass bolster, and a block of stabilised spalted Beech, and thought I really ought to do something with them. A couple of fine evenings sat out on the patio, with a No.4 Record vice, a mini Surform, some coarse files, sandpaper and a cork block, I finished up with this:

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A sheath is not going to be made by me, I'm getting a handmade generic sheath that I can water-form to fit, from Lois Orford. I don't have the leatherworking skills to make a sheath robust enough to take a razor-sharp blade.
Rather pleased with the result, first time I've attempted something like this.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/53067724@N00/9215918515/ ]Wiggins et Cuddles[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/53067724@N00/ ]Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

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It's a thing for, you know, doing stuff.

Sharki wins- beautiful.

Work in progress

BEFORE

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ATM

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Waterfall paddling pool thing for the offspring to [s]drown[/s] play in.

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sat on my bench since Feb. I never seem to have the time to start it.

Maginot line

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Noooooooooo!

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Northwind..where have all your mate's gone? 😀

Mates? I'm a 30-something year old making a sandcastle, what makes you think I have any mates? 😆

It's self explanatory.

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Lol's at Northwind!
JJ, nice blade, that. I was exactly the same, I really wasn't quite sure how to get started, having just the blade, a lump of yew, and a disk of white plastic/bone. It wasn't until I got the bolster and paper spacer, along with the spalted beech, that I felt the impetus to get going with it.
It doesn't help that I don't really have a workshop space, so I epoxied the bolster, spacer and bone disk together, then drilled them through in the kitchen using a cheap suction vice, and filed the slot to fit the tang sitting watching the telly...
I marked out the wood block and drilled a slot to fit using a series of spiked wood drills in the kitchen, then because of the fine weather, I could sit outside on the patio with my No.4 Record vice, and a Surform, files and sandpaper, and finished it off after letting the epoxy set overnight. Took, in total, about four or five hours, at a rough guess.
I bought my bits from these people: http://www.english-handmade-knives.co.uk/
I'd certainly recommend you get a block of stabilised wood, it's pressure impregnated with resin, so it's a doddle to shape with a mini Surform, and some cheap files from Wilco's, and then sand smooth. It's not going to wear, and it's pretty much waterproof as well.
It's a shame to let a good blade like that languish, but it does take a catalyst to get started, and finally getting those bits together helped me.

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Here it is ready for dismemberment by the staff at the wedding venue. It looked like a chainsaw had been used not a knife.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/9308347492/ ]Titanium Rohloff Brompton[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

£? Ben

This one, he ordered the bike from Evans and I did the Rohloff conversion - but it'd be £2585 if you got it all from me (or ordered a M1L-X and sent it for conversion).

http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/folding-bikes/brompton/brompton-rohloff-kit/rohloff-brompton-order-form/ 😉

£2585

!??!?!OMG!!!111

You could buy a....bike.... for that!

Is that a modified Ti rear triangle or your standard steel one?

Modified titanium - no half measures here 😀

I can bend the titanium frame to take the Rohloff, just can't weld on the disc or v-brake fittings.

so are you cold setting the ti to increase the OLN then? Does it shorten the chainstay length much?

Yup, I have special jigs and formers to reset the rear triangle. The old way used to shorten it by about 5mm, so I had to make the chainstay bridge ding deeper.

But this was the first one I've made using a new former, and it produces a much smoother curve, and only seems to shorten the chainstay by 1mm at most - Marathon Plus tyres fitted without doing anything to the chainstay bridge.

I made this adaptor for bruneep 🙂

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/swavis/9308448204/ ]Adaptor[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/swavis/ ]GavinBelton[/url], on Flickr

I made this adaptor for bruneep

And what does it make bruneep compatible with?

And what does it make bruneep compatible with?

Windows vista 🙂

And what does it make bruneep compatible with?

Hell of a Speedplay pedal setup there!

Custom offroad recumbent 😀

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/cycleologist/9314237548/ ]Copper Metaphysic[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/cycleologist/ ]Ben Cooper[/url], on Flickr

That looks more dangerous than asking Bruce Willis if you can marry his daughter.

It's important to be comfy off-road 😉

Following on from my previous post here is a ' finished for now ' pic. I have a summer-house to build on the left ( lower deckl ) and a new patio to lay in a few months..

BEFORE

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from this...

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to this...

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more big lump

Nice work Tymbian - looks properly under control that!

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A custom fatbike - Columbus Zona tubing to keep it light (ish) and 2Souls sliding dropouts for the Rohloff.

Thanks to a suggestion on Facebook, it's now called the Wideo 😉

Ah well, if we're allowed to post pics of bushies and sharp stuff 😉

old kent pattern axe head that I refurbed and a small knife that I fitted scales to (gransfors helve for lazyness)

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/6861029712/ ]finished axe1[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/6915897154/ ]sharpened 4[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

both of these I bought a blade and handled myself

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/5091305064/ ]in progress 3[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/5090706805/ ]in progress 8[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/10417878@N08/6855122820/ ]pair of bushies[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/10417878@N08/ ]subZero rider[/url], on Flickr

Custom offroad recumbent

That looks more dangerous than asking Bruce Willis if you can marry his daughter.

+1

Also, how many chains did you have to put together for it?

Same as with most recumbents - about 2.5.

Recumbents are generally safer - you hit stuff feet-first not head-first. Mark and Sanny have been talking for at least a deade about doing a feature on offroad recumbents - I must pester them about it again.

I made new legs for my Argos bargain barby, which came with awful baby giraffe legs.
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Made entirely from reclaimed wood. I'm just missing something waterproof for the top but I'm buggered if I'm paying B&Q 20 quid for 8m of felt when I only need two.

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/53067724@N00/9359031649/ ]Wood Store[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/53067724@N00/ ]Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

Just finished my sons cot bed

Was a challenge to build but he and the wife like it!

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That's amazing!

Love the Fatbike, Ben, that's really tasty, and Andy, the axe restoration, and the knife are excellent, I love those scales, what's the wood?

Not a great photo, or quite finished yet, but this bike pole has just gone up in my living room.

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Stolman pole from ikea, some box section pipe from B&Q, couple of hooks and some nuts and bolts. Sorted. Just needs a bit of cleaning and a coat of paint on the bare metal I think.

And if you can take the bikes off you can dance around it.

@wotnobeer- that's fabulous! What a great idea for the home!

@ oxforddan - that is absolutely beautiful! Very clever

Got fed up with this:
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So I made this:
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LOOK AT THE TECH!

It's a sod to fit in your pocket though

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Gluten free Blueberry crumble cake! With a subtle drizzle of double cream 😛

That cot looks beautifully made oxforddan - a good advert for your skills (If I'm reading the photo right and you're a cabinetmaker by trade).

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Phone case

Wendy house looks great OrmanCheep!

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😯

Come on bedmaker you'll have to give us more info than that - looks amazing!

It's an installation for the Belladrum festival last weekend. Kind of a steampunk theme to it.
It's a chunk of an old wooden trawler, it's 6M across the beam to give an idea of scale.

I built the steel roof to give the whole thing a heart shape
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Then popped it on top of the boat and built a stove/steam boiler to go inside
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Then it was filled with old stuff, brass instruments to vent steam out of and most importantly - three flamethrowers. I must get pics of them in action. One of them blasts out of the old toilet.
It all went down pretty well 🙂

Fantastic!

Just finished my sons cot bed

Was a challenge to build but he and the wife like it!

Wow. Sounds a wee bit cheesy but it looks like you made that with just love, no sawing etc. 🙂

Ormancheep- I'd love to make that as we have a space soon where the greenhouse currently is on a concrete base. Where did you get the door and did you simply measure up yourself/designed on the hoof by you or to a internet plan?

Hora, door if just a bit of loglap nailed to a z-shaped brace on the back.

Front skin is thin (I think 6mm) outdoor grade ply, just bent around the frame and screwed. Sides, floor and roof are 12mm outdoor ply.
Roof was then felted, battened out and 'shingles' nailed on, made from bit of treated feather board, with pilot holes pre-drilled.
Window frames were scored half way through at 1" centres on one side, so they would curve around the front skin.
There is a simple mezz floor inside too, with ladder.

All thrown together without any real measurements really, for that rustic look 🙂 You live local I think. You welcome to have a look, when you get round to doing yours.

I didn't price it up, just kept buying what I needed. Was scary how much it cost in the end (about £500), but I suppose it could have been much cheaper if I hadn't just kept going to B and Q.

Its to go here

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BTW I couldn't interest you in a free greenhouse? I'd love to have a look, your in Stockport and I'm in Stretford.

No room for the greenhouse I'm afraid. I'll put email in profile.

Bedmaker

Good work .
I like the steam punk look and the homemade stove 🙂

[i]In the process of cutting up an old LPG Cylinder to make in to a burner,re-cycling stuff is great fun[/i]

Awesome stuff Bedmaker

Another pimped Brompton 😉

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I made a fantastic memory with my 16 year old daughter cycling 111 miles from home to Barmouth in a day, that will stay with me forever, and she made some money for a very worthy cause.

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[url= http://www.justgiving.com/EllieNadin ]linky here to her JG page[/url]

and her [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/one-day-110-miles-and-a-lot-of-flapjack ]STW Thread[/url] with post ride report, worth a read I think, but then I'm biased.

A bunny hop height gauge for a local club competition!

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Garden update:

Foolishly dug by hand with a couple of £10 spades, a pickaxe and a pointy iron bar. Took four months and just finished this week...

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next cabin work in progress

Nice steps (and the rest) Spooky.

dti - tell us more? Have I missed a thread with some backstory?

Top work Bedmaker. Anything with half a trawler in it good by me.

Nice work with the sleepers above too.

That's quite an impressive bunnyhop