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Make something everyday!

What did you make today?

5th wheel release hook out of 3/8" steel bar cold bends

>> No.2037562

>>2037546
how you bend handle

>> No.2037564
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>>2037562
All bends were made with this.

>> No.2037570

>>2037562
90° bend
Rotate work 90° to vertical
Measure off 3" do 180° bend
Measure off 6" do 170° bend
Cut off excess
Finish 180° bend

>> No.2037581
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Two wall mount planters for some unknown orchids I got on the cheap

>> No.2037856
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new tote for my new Stanley Bailey to replace that ugly shit plastic crapperino
Ash, sealed, stained with walnut stain and Marinelak varnished.

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also a bookend (kinda needed it desperately

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A crappy gappy box. First dovetail box I've made. Each corner had noticible improvement. But the first two kind of suck.

>> No.2037899

>>2037895
everything in time, right?

>> No.2037944

>>2037581
How the fuck does this apply? Buying cheap shit is diy?

>> No.2037949

>>2037895
Looks nice anon thanks for sharing even if the corners need a little tlc

>> No.2037960

>>2037944

Looks 3d printed to me...

>> No.2038046

worked my wood twice

>> No.2038092
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Made a simple triangle for my welding table out of some 1/4“ scraps.

>> No.2038238

Not much, but I took apart a shit load of bar stools and saved all the support dowels to be used for handles for future hand tools. Dunno what to do with the leftover seats.

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i swept up all the sheetrock dust in my closet then looked at the walls and told myself i did something and i'll sand more tomorrow

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Finished a towel rack today. Replaces the cheap one that I had. Has a little wonkiness to it but I'm happy with it

>> No.2038607

>>2038092
>>2038443
since I'm 0 with metals, I must say I'm jelly.

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>>2038607
Just give it a try.
We started with metal mid 2019 as a hobby and evolved from simple shelf-steel-frames to more sophisticated things, like seen on the picture.
And we learn allot by mistakes. Like ‚maybe build a sheet metal bender first‘ or ‚at least more triangles‘.
The triangles are the cut offs of the firebox plate btw.

>> No.2038625

>>2038624
Next thing on my list is to figure out how to prevent image rotating.
And for the record and the ‚no women in the shop threads‘, most of the grinding and plasma cutting was done by my wife.

>> No.2038630

>>2038624
noice!
and yeah, I intend to. but it's yet in the future for me. homesteading and woodworking takes up most of the time. thanks for encouragement, anyway!

>> No.2038653

>>2037895
looking good, anon; how many times have you attempted dovetails before this?

>> No.2038678

>>2037895
I would pay for that.

>> No.2039160

>>2037899
That's the hope lol.

>>2037949
I definitely should have been more patient with it.

>>2038653
This is the first real dovetail box though the legs of a low saw bench I made were dovetailed through the top.

>>2038678
Thanks but you should wait to see the massacre that I did on the other side, lol.

>> No.2039174

>>2038443
Looks really good. What finish did you use?

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>>2039160
>massacre
can't beat this!

>> No.2039976

>>2037944
The flowers were cheap, einstein, not the planters

>> No.2040011

>>2039913
At first I was just stunned, but then I noticed the tails were backwards and just loled.

>> No.2040197

>>2039174
polymerized vegetable oil and then I wiped it down with beeswax, made it turn really black

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A pheasant head in brass

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Built a 7/8 and 1" Allen wrenches out of some bar stock... Had a drain plug on a dozer that I crawled under and measured with a tape measure. It ended up being 24mm so I had to grind the end of the 1" hex key down a bit to get it to fit right. Got the plug out and drained the system and then cut the end of the hex key back off again to make it 1" again. Then built a proper 24mm hex to fit into a 24mm socket so I have a good tool to use for it now.

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Also cut this stencil on my wife's Cricut and have been making/painting up these No Trespassing signs.

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Quick storage for my cordless tools