ITT Shit you built this week

[Anonymous No.674648]

I built a coffee table for my new apartment. What did you build this week? If you haven't, do you have any upcoming project plans?

[Anonymous No.674657]

>>674648
Gonna make a potter's bench out of some old pallets with some lumber I got from a neighbors renovation. I have all the pallets broken down and the nails pulled, I just need a day or so on a week end where its not 90+ degrees out during the daylight hours. The weather had been 100+ the last few days, never dropping below 70 degree even at night.

[Anonymous No.674661]

im planning on building a computer desk and a bike stand (to turn my bike into a part-time stationary bike, first step to a home gym). Both out of pallet wood. Those things are a bitch to tear apart

[Anonymous No.674670]

Have been making up some frames out of sapele for these enamel signs so that I can hang them from the picture rail

Wishing I had my compound mitre saw to work on them though as hand cutting with a tenon saw has left a couple of the mitred corners have a 0.5mm gap, thinking of rebating and letting in a strip of brass to cover this

[Anonymous No.674681]

Thinking of making a simple platform bed as my first real project. Any pitfalls of which I should be aware?

[Anonymous No.674685]

>>674661
Do not use pallet wood in doors. Pallets are often treated with some pretty nasty chemicals to kill bugs and prevent mold and mildew. On top of that they get all kinds of shit spilled on them and are recycled across industries. There is no telling where its been or what its used for.

>>674670
Miter boxes are easy enough to make and allow for perfect miter cuts if done correctly. Here are some free plans.

http://www.craftsmanspace.com/free-projects/miter-box-plan.html

[Anonymous No.674791]

A hammock

[Anonymous No.674901]

>>674685
i plan on doing enough to the wood that it shouldnt be too much of a problem, i used to have the same pallets as part of a coffee table type thing and i didnt notice any adverse affects like people usually mention.

[Anonymous No.674905]

I have 5 days off, so I'll be doing a bunch of stuff,

Finishing a wardrobe
Finishing a entertainment center
Finishing a bed
Building storage boxes
Building slot machine stand
Building bar

Starting dresser

[FatMonty No.674953]

Been stuck at work or over at my Mum's house most of the week

I was deep scrubbing/power washing and re-soldering shitty drain pipes at the restaurant I work at. Then turning around and doing rip out and replace on about half of the piping at Mum's

In the spare time, a guy from work bet me that he could make a better knife than me in 3 days.

Handle is shit but I like the blade well enough. Quick ground from a reciprocating saw blade and oil quenched

Any tips (other than fix the handle)?

[Anonymous No.675155]

>start projects
>never finish them
>house is full of junk
>have to wade through stacks of wood and parts bins to get to the toilet

[Anonymous No.675156]

>>674648
nice table, what were your methods of joinery for the top?

[Anonymous No.675176]

>>674657

[Anonymous No.675194]

This week i spent about an hour making these two monitor stands. No nails, only wood glue. Didn't see the point in using nails. Could be wrong (let me know what you think).

I might paint them black, but i really like the textured look as they are right now. I go the wood in my backyard (two seperate pieces). They were rotting on each end (two pieces, so four ends i had to cut off).

Otherwise they're in great shape. I'm a stickler for getting upset when any wood is thrown out, and this is one example why.

Building a cedar planter this weekend.

[Anonymous No.675195]

This week i spent about an hour making these two monitor stands. No nails, only wood glue. Didn't see the point in using nails. Could be wrong (let me know what you think).

I might paint them black, but i really like the textured look as they are right now. I go the wood in my backyard (two seperate pieces). They were rotting on each end (two pieces, so four ends i had to cut off).

Otherwise they're in great shape. I'm a stickler for getting upset when any wood is thrown out, and this is one example why.

Building a cedar planter this weekend.

[Anonymous No.675200]

>>675195
I think you need to make them thicker because otherwise the weight of the monitor will break it.

[Anonymous No.675218]

Worked on my bike engine todat. new clutch new piston rings. refurbished the cylinder and the piston. gonna finnish tomorrow and do a test drive.

[Anonymous No.675223]

Building a torch/beacon for a university project. First time on a lathe for me too so I'm really enjoying it. What do you think?

[Anonymous No.675224]

>>675223
Nice, fancier than the ones we made for basic shop training at my uni.

[Anonymous No.675228]

>>674953
started this kife a few months ago and never finished.

[Anonymous No.675231]

I put a new roof on my damn house

[Anonymous No.675280]

Working on it

[Anonymous No.675282]

A wooden drill press, it's not finished yet, I still have to make the supports and finish the stopper.

[Anonymous No.675284]

>>675282
Why haven't I done that yet, are you just putting something to guide/hold a drill in place?

[Anonymous No.675289]

Sprocket guard. Used a bit of a street sign, hand drew the design. It looks rushed, but it's functional. It's done enough to me.

[Anonymous No.675296]

>>674648
I'm gathering supplies and shit to build my first board bow. Also made some arrows, but the shafts are shit, so they aren't great.

[Anonymous No.675300]

>>675195
Mother fucker you better sand and stain those and then post update pics.

[Anonymous No.675307]

>>675284

Yes, it's not finished yet. I have my doubts about the drill support, because I want to use a dremel too and I don't want to change it constantly. I'll probably post an instructable about it on the next week.

[Anonymous No.675336]

>>674648
i made this mokume gane billet yesterday

it contains fine silver, sterling silver, and Shibu ichi

it weighs roughly 150grms, not sure exactly what to do with all of it, i know ill make a few rings but i was also thinking of maybe making a bracelet or a zippo case

anyone got any ideas?

[Anonymous No.675337]

>>675280
what's your setup there, and led size?

[Anonymous No.675361]

>>675337
hm?

[Anonymous No.675363]

C# and WPF are pretty nice when you don't have to rewrite the entire control item. That sucked.

[Anonymous No.675378]

I built a sheath for a camp knife my friend built.

[Anonymous No.675451]

>>675156
You can't see them but there are 2 cross pieces like the ones connected the the feet at the top and there are 3 screws through each into the table top. All screws were sunk, puttied, sanded, stained and now finished. More pictures after I steel wool the top tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.675471]

>>674648
Nicely done, OP.

[Anonymous No.675618]

I'm buidling a little kiosk to sell the farm's vegetables.

It's not finished, but it turned out better than expected seeing that I had never built anything bigger than a large compost bin before that.

[Anonymous No.675620]

>>675618
Of course, I forgot the picture.

[Anonymous No.675632]

>>675451

I'm >>675195 and i dont know much about woodworking, but that looks great, dude. I'm seen those concrete feet at Home Depot and never thought to use them like you did. I honestly had no idea what they were for, but now that i see them like that it looks like a sure-fire of way of throwing a deck up for a few months.

Pretty sure on the longer term you have to take a few more things into consideration even for a low-floating deck like that, but yeah -- bravo, man.

Hope the harvest is good.

[Anonymous No.675634]

>>675620
>>675618

I'm >>675195 and i dont know much about woodworking, but that looks great, dude. I'm seen those concrete feet at Home Depot and never thought to use them like you did. I honestly had no idea what they were for, but now that i see them like that it looks like a sure-fire of way of throwing a deck up for a few months.

Pretty sure on the longer term you have to take a few more things into consideration even for a low-floating deck like that, but yeah -- bravo, man.

Hope the harvest is good.

[Anonymous No.675637]

>>675634
Thanks man.
Yeah those concrete blocks are pretty useful for the 4$ they cost. You can put a 4x4 right in the middle too.

And the deck is less satisfying than the kiosk itself. I should have built the deck's structure as one with the kiosk's, but instead I just kind of attached them together and the deck is kind of uneven.

But that give a little rustic style I guess.

[Anonymous No.675667]

Spent a couple days building an in ground firepit. Cost was about 80 bucks and it was mainly a lot of manual labor.

[Anonymous No.675682]

>>675667
80 bucks for a hole in the ground?

[Anonymous No.675691]

>>675667
Why didn't you just dig a hole in the ground?

[Anonymous No.675692]

Giant flow through worm bin. Waste goes in the top money comes out the bottom. A couple dozen of these and all my bills will be paid. Worms castings go for twenty bucks a bag and up.

[Anonymous No.675693]

>>675692

[Anonymous No.675694]

>>675667
Is there something im not seeing here?
did you decide to light a fire with a few 20s?
This should cost nothing using old materials you can get from people on craigslist free section

[Anonymous No.675696]

>>675693

Finished castings.

[Anonymous No.675744]

On step 2 of a casheer's stand.

[Anonymous No.675745]

>>675744
forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.675852]

>>675156
Here are the cross pieces that I used to drill through into the bottom of the tabletop.

[Anonymous No.675875]

>>674648
OP here dumping a few pics of the final piece...

[Anonymous No.675877]

>>675875
well, I'm hard.
tell us about how you did the finish. epoxy?

[Andrew !LimaITO0j2 No.675878]

I built another coffee table this week. I like how this one turned out.

I think I'm gonna make a nightstand or an ottoman/chest hybrid thing.

[Anonymous No.675879]

>>674648

[Anonymous No.675884]

>>674648

[Anonymous No.675894]

>>675877
I used a dark oak Minwax stain with light pine wood and then finished it with a Minwax satin brushed on oil based epoxy. 1 coat on legs and 2 coats for the table top. It dried with a few rough impurities but after scrubbing lightly with steel wool it smoothed out nicely. Here's a pre-stain picture.

[Anonymous No.675905]

>>674657
are you a potter?

[Anonymous No.675908]

>>675195
those are looking pretty ugly, yes. if you are happy with them though, who cares? they basically have just one use, and the effort required to make them pretty doesn't really justify the time. good work on making a useful object.

[Anonymous No.675910]

>>675218
respect. the engine to my little kz250 is in a box in the garage. i had sent it off to replace the head gasket, but i haven't gotten around to putting the engine back on the bike yet.

[Anonymous No.675911]

>>675231
roofing is really tough fucking work.

[Anonymous No.675912]

>>675378
nice.

[Anonymous No.675915]

>>675852
>>675451
Thanks but I was looking for first hand knowledge on "joinery" techniques for making the table top. Like biscuit joints or T&G with a router table.

[Anonymous No.675917]

>>675620
i would buy your veggies. great work. get more of those antique wooden produce crates and put more stuff on display. on weekends use the crates to display your produce at farmer's markets.

[Anonymous No.675919]

>>675620
This looks awesome and well built. Is there insulation in this? It looks like there's siding and interior panneling, any pictures of that? I'd love to see/hear about the build process for this.

[Anonymous No.675920]

>>675667
that is a legit fire pit.

[Anonymous No.675923]

>>675692
i've heard that you have to be careful what you throw in there because certain foods might kill the worms. how did you get your 'starting batch' of worms? a bait shop? (serious inquiry)

[Anonymous No.675924]

>>675878
This looks awesome! Can we get an underside picture? I just recently built my first coffee table (or piece of furniture for that matter) and I'm interested in how you have the legs attatched to keep it sturdy.

[Anonymous No.675925]

>>675745
interesting. why not use a traditional computer based cash register/POS?
are you developing your own software? wo you want to resell it?

[Anonymous No.675926]

>>675919
I just looked closer at the picture and realized that the exterior is just the painted boards, not separate from the interior. I'm still interested in how you set up the structure and roofing though

[Anonymous No.675939]

OP, that is a good job well done!
Have you considered selling your creations, and if so, how much would you charge for that table? ( I dont want to buy that table, but could tell you if your price was realistic)

[Anonymous No.675941]

>>675894
The top to yours is a bit like mine.
Surface was regular 2x6's, stained with dark walnut, finished with poly.

pic related, as you can see, it became a catch-all.

[Anonymous No.675951]

>>675939
Thank you! It's actually the first piece of furniture that I've bought but I do like the way it turned out. I was a bit nervous with how it would turn out since this was my first time puttying, staining and finishing a wood product, but I'm happy with it. If I were to sell this table, I'd put it for sale around $80 (if haggling was possible), I'd like to get a bit of profit so without haggling, I'd set it at $70. I spend a total of $50 on this project, but total cost of used items (excluding leftovers) used is around $35. It's a very sturdy table (my girlfriend jumped and stood on it, without my permission and it held up just fine) and I expect it to last me for a few years.

[Anonymous No.675952]

>>675941
I like it, nice work! I'm thinking about building a desk and keeping it the same dark walnut and poly finish. I'll definitely keep posting my work on /diy/ though.

[Andrew !LimaITO0j2 No.675963]

Also here's a cat shelf I made for my cat since the ants were getting into her food bowls. I'm gonna make her one for her water dish too.

>>675924
I'll take an underside picture tomorrow morning if you'd like, seems like I never took any of the underside. It's really nothing special about the leg. I just attached the leg to a smaller rectangular block of wood and bolted it into the underside of the table.

[Anonymous No.675981]

Built my first coffee table. But used absolute cheapest wood I could find - whitewood spruce. It's so warped!

[Anonymous No.675996]

>>675925
Indeed, I developed my own software. VIA just released an excellent product, but it hits 2000€. I build this system for 150€.
Sadly I lack of a routeur, so I recycled some old planks offering some beveled borders, to enclose the screen. At first glance, my enclosure might look a bit weird, but I think that with help from wooden paste, sand and painting it will be ok.
I'll try to add some more pictures of next steps.

[Anonymous No.676025]

>>675912
ran up a frog for a chukuri today.

[Anonymous No.676029]

>>675667
Good effort, nice result. Are you going to surround it with some pavers or decking?

[Anonymous No.676033]

Next step, planned out unibody construction, not sure how its going to end up though, I kinda need the cardboard to hold the motherboard in place

[Anonymous No.676049]

>>675981
Looks pretty sleek to me, and it's not MDF. Are you going to paint or oil it?

Fuck I hate MDF.

[Anonymous No.676068]

>>676033
neat, how big is that screen? are you planning to put a proper OS on it, or just run Android?

[Anonymous No.676111]

>>675963
Brilliant.

[Anonymous No.676142]

>>676068
Its 7 inches, I could do that when a proper windows tablet comes out

[Anon No.676155]

Fellas, I'm new to this board. Here's a pic of the biggest project I've done so far. My sister came back to town after divorce, but had no bed for her girls 13 & 8. I did this in a summer out of 2x6's.
I hate MDF too, but am poor and can't afford to make prototypes out of anything else.
Question on coffee tables: Is there a standard height?
About building things: How can I overcome lack of confidence/anxiety about fucking up? I've abandoned entire projects after 95% done.

[Anonymous No.676160]

>>675911
It was a full tear-off job too. Lots of rot. Never buy an old house unless you're in love with it.

[Anonymous No.676162]

>>676155
Looks solid. Rabbet joints?

[Anon No.676176]

>>676160
Damn, man. Severe. What is that white section in this picture?

[Anonymous No.676182]

>>676176
White section is vinyl siding soffits. The idiots who installed said vinyl siding put the aluminum fascia on backwards, so it channeled water down and into all four corners of the roof. I had to replace the fly rafter on that side as well.

120-year-old framing mistakes also created rot zones around both chimneys. Not a fun job. Hopefully my last roofing job ever.

My next home will be a stone house with a metal roof.

[Anonymous No.676202]

>>676049
i wanted to keep it natural so thought of just using clear wood stain and nothing more.... i really don't know if i should use polyurethane or a varnish or just leave it with the stain. i'm pretty new to this

[Anonymous No.676203]

>>676182
got a pic of the fascia?

I've always bent my own and cant quite picture what you mean... unless they tucked the drip edge behind the fascia, but that would be just silly.

[Anonymous No.676205]

>>676203
I don't, but basically the fascia was in two pieces, and instead of having the top overlap the bottom piece, they did it the other way around. Water made its way down when it fell/blew against the fascia and flowed down it like a channel. There was just enough of a gap...

[Anonymous No.676276]

>>676202
I suggest to use an oil.
Context: I maintain wooden tables/etc for a couple of restaurants/bars. The focus is on longevity, environment and economy.

- Tung oil. Dilute 1:1 with mineral turps for one or two coats, the wood will soak it up so it can be quite thick. Then rub in a coat or two of plain tung oil, or tung oil lightly diluted with a dash of turps. Tung oil has good protection from UV, so if the table is outside or in direct sunlight then tung oil is good, but fairly expensive.

- Linseed oil. Same process to tung oil but has less UV protection, in direct sunlight, linseed oil will darken much more rapidly and turn almost black. This could be used as an effect if you use a rough sand (20-60 grit) on, say, the legs, and in later years marginally sand back the dark surface leaving the deeper grooves of dark linseed.

- Orange oil. No experience with it but heard that it smells particularly awesome and gives a beautiful lustre.

[Anonymous No.676279]

>>676182
Fuck, that sarking has a beautiful patina. I hope you kept the good bits.

[Anonymous No.676285]

>>674791
>674791
Dude do u live in turkey

[Anonymous No.676287]

>>675963
Yo that's a sweet idea.

Patent or sell dat shit

[Anonymous No.676294]

>>676279
The thought hadn't occurred to me. I just took off the rot and replaced. I might have enough for a small table or something...

I could have pulled off a shit ton of it and replaced with fresh, but most of it was still in good condition.

I was thinking 'roof this fucking house' not 'make a beautiful coffee table out of this really old wood'.

There's 1000 falling-down 120 year old houses in my area I could just take boards out of, though.

[Anonymous No.676388]

>>676294
Been there, "fuckthisshitisheavyIneverwanttoseeitagain", and then I've seen god in some huge piece of ancient rimu and set it aside. Then as I'm carrying it home I've thought "fuckthisshitisheavythiswasaterribleidea", then doubt again as I'm denailing it, putting it back into my wood pile because I don't have enough time to do the whole project, taking it out again, cutting out the borer, the splinters that are so much worst with old wood, etc, etc, ...

But when you oil it up or see the end grain showing well over 100 years to grow and how the summer and winter growth have aged differently over the 70 years since the tree was cut... that feeling... can't fucking beat it. I hate using stains that mimic that effect because it no longer feels real.

[Anonymous No.676390]

>>676294
We had a pretty big earthquake here a few years back and a lot of houses have been taken down. We're swamped with recycled wood and the price that scrappers pay for steel has halved.

It's a bloody good time to salvage, I just wish that I had more time, bigger tools and better transport.

Make something timeless.

[Anonymous No.676398]

>>675195
This is legit middle-school tier. You better sand it up and apply some finish.

[Anonymous No.676407]

>>676398
But Mr. Baker I've been sanding it for three weeks! Everytime you say it's not ready for finising!! I've been through all the grits! All of them, in the right order!

Fuck you mr. baker. You're drunk and just using the school's tools to make a bed frame.

[Anonymous No.676412]

>>676407
I sleep in the sawdust and look at this fancy toothbrush attachment I made for the drill press!

[Anonymous No.676416]

>>675637
would love to see more in progress pics.

[Anonymous No.676431]

>>675696
how do you stop the worms from escaping?

I build one of these but made it a garden bed instead.

[Anonymous No.676525]

>>676285
No.

[Andrew !LimaITO0j2 No.676538]

>>676111
>>676287
Thanks guys. I hadn't really thought of selling them but now I might. My cat really seems to like it. When she's not looking pissed off as all hell for interrupting her meal.

[Andrew !LimaITO0j2 No.676541]

Also, to keep with the topic of the thread.

I made another table this morning, I just need to paint it a nice color now.

1/2

[Andrew !LimaITO0j2 No.676542]

And here's the underside of the table, like that anon wanted. It's sturdy but the underside isn't as nice as the top.

[Anonymous No.676567]

>>675307
>>675282

You might be able to get some ideas from what Matthias does with some of his tools.

http://woodgears.ca/tools.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wZ1v4PIsYI&list=PL7A1D94FF4FF10854

[Anonymous No.676574]

>>675963

ants can crawl up walls you know.. so whats to stop them from coming up the wall to get to the food on the shelf?

[Anonymous No.676641]

>>676574
Laziness.

[Anonymous No.676656]

>>676567
Yes! Wandel all up in his Biz!
That man is one sexy weirdo... Wonder why he isn't more well known...

[Andrew !LimaITO0j2 No.676667]

I decided to go ahead and paint my table. It's gonna look nice in my living room. I might make a matching end table to put next to my couch.

>>676574
It's been close to a month and the ants haven't found or bothered to go for her food. I'm assuming it's this >>676641

[Anonymous No.676670]

>>676656

>watches this gif
>noticeds table is already busted in the middle before he crashes on it.
>tfw its staged and he broke it beforehand so he wouldnt break his back when he slammed onto a table top

[Anonymous No.676694]

>>676670


The gif is from the 3rd time he jumped on it. He made the cracks the 1st and 2nd jumps.

The whole thing is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Vup8iKcFM&list=UUckETVOT59aYw80B36aP9vw

[Anonymous No.676697]

>>676670

>breaks his back

[Anonymous No.676742]

>>675620
Cute as fuck, would buy vegetables from.

[Anonymous No.676763]

>>675336
Put it in a knife handle on a knife you make.

[Anonymous No.676792]

>>676155
It's a bit hard to tell from the low-res picture, but it does look like you lap joined the frame to the posts. That is unusually solid for a DIYed piece of furniture (Bolts and screws being used as structural elements - as opposed to simply keeping said structural elements in place - are a pet peeve of mine. People love to abuse them that way.). Don't worry too much about fucking up - you're doing better than most.

[Anonymous No.676793]

>>675289
This is actually a decent idea... the amount of shit that builds up in mine, just from road use....

[Anonymous No.676890]

>>676542
>legs screwed in from the inside

hanger bolts nucka

[Anonymous No.676983]

I built this ladder shelf this week. Just need to paint it and it's ready for use.

[Anonymous No.677006]

Put this together on Tuesday + Wednesday evenings.

It isn't quite finished. I'm not sure what color to paint it.

[Anonymous No.677014]

>>675282

Update: almost finished

[Anonymous No.677119]

Other thread seems dead so I'll post it here. Just finished this for gf. Apologies in advance if phone posts it sideways

[Anonymous No.677133]

>>677119

Did you stitch it? If you did what did you use? Where did u get the leather?

Always wanted to get into this sort of shit. Gotta say the dragon itself isnt to my liking but that's not a gripe that's fair (because there's more work involved than the dragon).

Very impressive, dude.

[Anonymous No.677134]

>>677133
Thanks yeah made the whole thing from scratch. If you're in the US, Tandy Leather Company and Springfield Leather Company are good places to buy online (former has irl stores and latter is cheaper). Lots of videos online, check out Ian Atkinson's channel on YouTube.

[Anonymous No.677139]

>>675620
10/10 would buy from

[Anonymous No.677145]

>>674648
How much did that run you in materials?
I want to get into wood working, and I imagine coffee tables are not the first thing I should attempt.
We bought a wood bench and I want to pretty it up, I'm thinking it might be best to buy some new wood, stain and finish them, and replace the current wood, I'll post a few pictures tomorrow.

polite sage for lack of contribution to thread

[Anonymous No.677146]

Stereolithography anon here. Turns out the "low cost" laser triangulation sensors I looked into are 1000$.
So I made pic related from a 1080p webcam and a laserpointer.
Tested it with a cnc-axis. The dot moves a tiny bit more than 100pixels per mm so I think it will work out.
Not done with programing yet and haven't tested for linearity but it's going quite well I guess.

[Brother Doge No.677507]

>>676160
don't buy one even if your in love with it. trust me.

[Anonymous No.677521]

>>677145
I thought about this the other day. I payed $25 for the wood, $9 for the screws, $5 for wood putty, and $12 for the clear satin coat. That's $51 spent because I had the stain, sandpaper and drills. Since I have $7 of screws left, $3 of putt left, and $11 of clear coat left, the table only cost me $30.

[Anonymous No.677906]

>>675637

Im looking to build a similar deck for a project like this, how would I get it level?

[Anonymous No.677979]

>>675231
I salute you sir!

[Anonymous No.677993]

>>674648
Half way through making a candelabra for gf

[Anonymous No.677999]

>>675911
It's easy on a one-story building.

[Anonymous No.678003]

doing the Cmoy amp project
trying to alter it so I can run it off USB, or DC outlet, or do other things

[Anonymous No.678030]

>>675894
Pretty neat

[Anonymous No.678384]

Ive (very) slowly been working on this since the start of summer. I got it free out of a friends barn. Thinking of making it a liquor cabinet

[Anonymous No.678386]

pre sand

[Anonymous No.678416]

Almost finished my workbench. First thing I've ever built. I had to saw the whole thing by hand since the saw I ordered on amazon was backordered....

[Anonymous No.678443]

>>678384
Gorgeous find.

[Anonymous No.678474]

>>674648
>>675282
>>675620
>>675878
>>675941
>>675981
>>676541
>>676983
>>678416
Ya'll just gave me a "make stuff out of wood" boner.

>>675667
I also need to dig a fire pit.

>>675195
This did not give me a boner.

[OP No.678484]

>>675231
holy shit, you got a grey b-52 stealth bomber as a roof?!

[Anonymous No.678486]

>>678484
He's pretty hard-core.

[Anonymous No.678499]

>>674648

Cedar Kayak Holder-4x4 and 2x4 TK with some fancy new exterior screws I've never used before. Can I just say HOT DAMN the price of materials is getting way fucking out of hand? Anybody wanna take a guess at the price of 4-4x4x8 and 11-2x4x8 TK Cedar? Did you guess $326 AFTER my volume discount? Fuck me for living on a goddamn island!

[Anonymous No.678521]

>>674648

i built an all-glass panorama tower for the fish in my pond.

[Anonymous No.678661]

Feel my arm mounted ghetto-fan! Old computer fan that I run of 18v. Feels like sitting in the middle of a hurricane. Also home made folding desk.

[Anonymous No.678664]

>>678521
how the fuck did you make that?

[Anonymous No.678693]

>>678664
I'm guessing he held the glass under water till it had filled, then raised one end up and secured the other end on the bottom of the pond, all whilst making sure the open end never breached the surface, presto-bingo fish penthouse.

PS to the guy who did it, I like it.

[Anonymous No.678723]

>>678521
those poor fish

[Anonymous No.678724]

>>678693
I assumed he had something in there to suck the air out of the top. Surely more must accumulate over time and need to be pumped out.

I also thought the question was about the details of the fabrication process, which I would also like to hear about.

>>678723
They can just swim out the bottom, you know. They're not trapped in the tube. It's just a cool place they can swim up into and look around at the world from.

[Anonymous No.678741]

I crudely mounted a half-watt LED in my truck, since Nissan didn't seem to grasp the fact that light does not travel very well through seats and heads.

It's actually driven with a switchmode driver stuck behind the dome light (that'll probably last an entire year, if I'm lucky, and then proceed to be replaced by a sizeable resistor).

[Anonymous No.678764]

>>678661

I like your OSB backsplash

[Anonymous No.678773]

Animation table, with neon attachment and everything.
Still have to find a better way to secure the brass nipples to the brass plate. I used epoxy and it's weak as fuck.

[Anonymous No.678780]

>>678773

Also wondering what to use to seal the mdf and protect it.
Someone here did that or know what to use?

[Anonymous No.678785]

>>678773

if its brass on brass why cant you solder them on?

[Anonymous No.678789]

>>678785
I don't have much tools.
Would oxygen acetylene welding do the trick?
Going to do some research on that, thanks.

[Anonymous No.678793]

>>678789

well, I would assume you can solder them on with normal solder and a cheap propane torch or if you have a decent soldering iron... seems like it wouldnt take much to bond them.

also heres an ehow article on how to do it. im sure there is more info. just search "solder brass"

[Anonymous No.678794]

>>678793

shit I forgot the damn link.

http://www.ehow.com/way_5465286_tips-soldering-brass.html

[Anonymous No.678795]

>>678794
Thanks dude.

I wanted to weld the stuff when I started, but I thought you had to use 500$ arc welding stuff to do that.
Looks quite easy actually.

[Anonymous No.678798]

>>678795

yeah for stuff that small, solderign would be better than brazing (welding) and can be done with a propane torch, some solder (make sure its suitable for brass) and some soldering flux and a few mins of time. much better than epoxy especially if you are going to be using it alot for animation

[Anonymous No.678801]

>>678798

I have almost everything, just need some flux.
Fuck yeah indestructible pegbar, that's what I wanted.

[Anonymous No.678858]

still need to finish filling, sanding, and staining but getting there.

[Anonymous No.678863]

>>676049
MDF is fine... until you realize you've built a massive set of cabinets and stuff for your mother who loves to invite you over every sunday and get you to move them around.

[Anonymous No.678964]

I turned a stainless steel shaft for a gearbox that had a bearing go out and trash the shaft that was in there.

[Anonymous No.678969]

Currently trying to true up $120 Craftsman 1/2 HP drill press with a proportionally cheapo $15 dial indicator. I got the left/right zero'ed (roughly) but I'm not looking forward to shimming the table since there's no front/back adjustment. Tried to level the table too with some 120 grit sandpaper and a piece of glass, but kinda gave up.

[Anonymous No.678979]

>>678969
In you case it would probably just be easier to make a tabletop for your press. These are nice because they give you someplace to attach a fence, allows for wider tables, give you nice places to clamp your workpiece down and, the main reason, are easier to get level.

[Anonymous No.678985]

>>678979
Makes sense, but I don't think I'll be using it enough to justify it. You know
>summer
and all that. I guess I'll just appreciate having Bridgeports and Staretts when I go back to uni.

[Anonymous No.679018]

>>674657
do you live in LA?

[Anonymous No.679030]

>>678664

holding it under water and erecting was my first idea but didn't work because of the weight. (it holds roughly 150 liters)

i put the glass onto a metal grounding and used an industrial vacuum cleaner to evacuate it.

the fishs love it, especially when the sun is heating up the tower.
even though they still leave the tower when birds get interested. they dont realise their safe.

[Anonymous No.679032]

>>678664

to my shame i must confess i found that vase on some construction site, took it home and never had an idea what to use it for.

[Anonymous No.679059]

>>676388
Seconded, I've given up on stains. Nothing looks as good as a simple oiling

[Anonymous No.679068]

>>676983
>>677014
builds latter shelf, can't flip an image

srsly though, nice work.

[Anonymous No.679074]

>>674648
Build this last week. Is meant for growing herbs

[Anonymous No.679086]

>>679074
"herbs"

[Anonymous No.679110]

A bit late, but I left the thread and did not expect much interest in the construction of the kiosk. I'm just gonna dump some pics of the process then.

>>675926
Yep, as you said, it's just 1x6 nailed to the frame.
It's a summer/fall kiosk only so I did not insulate it, didn't even try to make it fully watertight.

>>676742
>>677139
Oh you guys.

Here's a pic of the more finished thing.
It just needs some paint inside and some interior decorations, such as shelves and other things.

[Anonymous No.679112]

>>675917
Thanks, that's the look I'm trying to get, old crates and everything.
My sister has a vintage stuff shop so she furnishes me in old things.

[Anonymous No.679116]

>>677906
I was lucky and the ground was super level, I just dumped the blocks and everything was level.

But I see some people digging a bit under each concrete block and dumping gravel. You can add more or less to level things up.

[Anonymous No.679127]

Finnished this bag. Custom order. Not my design, my GF made it (what a fuzz). Got paid what I wanted.

[Anonymous No.679129]

[Anonymous No.679132]

>>675378
Nice tooling. Why did you stitch the left side of the sheath (the one at the knifes back)?

[Anonymous No.679133]

>>679132
Nevermind. Found the answer. To hold the tooled leather layer.

[Anonymous No.679145]

>>679127
noice

[Anonymous No.679149]

>>679074
looks nice. The wood is going to rot tho.

[Anonymous No.679150]

>>678858
Christ, how much do you weigh if you need legs that thick?

[Anonymous No.679151]

>>678661
Svenskbögen, jadå.

[Anonymous No.679160]

>>675894
So you used all pine and a stain for oak wood? Is it reclaimed wood?

[Anonymous No.679161]

>>679150
It's outdoor furniture. What do you think you'd be saving by not using cheap 2x4s screwed together into warp-resistant L-shapes for the legs?

Unless you've got to move it often (like kitchen chairs), it's good for furniture to be overbuilt.

[Anonymous No.679171]

>>679160
Nope, it was bought at Home Depot and the top is pine, the legs are 40"ish balusters for a railing. And the stain was given to me for the project since it was left over from my girlfriend's mom's past few projects. It's a Minwax dark walnut stain with a brushed satin finish

[Anonymous No.679183]

>>679149
Yes indeed it will. Might give it some protective layer later

[Anonymous No.679197]

>>679161
Was thinking more of the design, actually

[Anonymous No.679202]

>>678798

I'm not really good at this, but it should last a century now.
The epoxy was so easy to snap.

[Anonymous No.679205]

I have some friends getting married in Toronto later in August, but my impoverished maritime ass can't afford passage out there, so I'm sending them a carving of a heart I made. I didn't want to be too sappy, so I made it anatomically(ish) correct.

The wood is from a beech tree I felled last summer, and I coated it with Linseed and shellac. It didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but then again, I'm no professional.

[Anonymous No.679206]

>>679205

Not sure how that ended up sideways. Hmm

[Anonymous No.679226]

>>679205
>I coated it with Linseed and shellac.
pretty interesting. Where do you find Shellac ? I've some old Shellac records from the 40ies

[Anonymous No.679228]

>>679226

I've found it at Canadian Tire, Kent, and Home Hardware. You should be able to find it at most any hardware store, I would think.

[Anonymous No.679240]

>>679206
Posting from phone probably, I always have that problem on /diy/

[Anonymous No.679245]

>>679240

Ah, that'd explain it. Damnable technology.

[Anonymous No.679261]

>>679151

lol, what gave it away?

[Anonymous No.679289]

Finished Building a stand and canopy for this 35 gal aquarium. I'm no pro but I guess it turned out okay. Not happy with staining but oh well.

[Anonymous No.679290]

>>678521
Cool. Very unique. I've seen this on aquariums but first time on a pond

[Anonymous No.679371]

>>679261
The schedule, actually.

[Anonymous No.679372]

started building this for my brothers birthday, it's going to house a couple of antique whiskey glasses. I had some oak offcuts around and wanted to do some epic mitre work. it's like a hypercube. the rebate is 8.2 mm for a back to back 4mm mirror. I'm going to inlay some black gum or walnut next weekend, felt the base and give it a wax. I like it so far, something different.

[Anonymous No.679373]

>>679372
>inb4 gappy joins

that's just sitting together with dry 10mm biscuits.

[Anonymous No.679375]

>>675200
lol

[Anonymous No.679377]

Trying to rough out liner lock liners and blade, but don't have a band saw and titanium is eating abrasive wheels for breakfast. Might try using jewellers saw

[Anonymous No.679378]

>>679377
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.679380]

I made my shed in blender. It's a 4 car shed, the front half is storage/workshop and the back half I though I'd turn into a guest room/studio.

Floating floors, Two large windows on the wall where the small window is, gyprock walls, lowered flat ceiling, down lighting, power and ethernet sockets.

[Anonymous No.679381]

>>679380
Finished modeling what's already there. Time to model what I want to do to it. Not sure how to do the ceiling, a drop ceiling would be easiest (the type where you hang rails and place tiles in them)

[Anonymous No.679421]

Im working on a pen holder out of some spare aluminum i had.

>>679380
>>679381
>filenames
Stay classy anon.

[Anonymous No.679441]

i want to try a new bucket with a liner inside it to get the roots to air dry off and not just circle the bucket into a rootbound mess.

so, the project was, make a wooden template to trace my weed fabric so i could sew it up easily and it would fit perfect.

used google sketchup to make a bucket, then used a flatten tool to get the flat shape, then turned it into a dxf, used cambam to produce a little gcode, then used my homemade cnc router to cut the plywood.

drilling out the buckets is more a pain in the ass though, wish i had a machine to do that!

[Anonymous No.679484]

Spent about 20 mins making this parabolic reflector for one of the routers at the edge of my house.

If I had to make a gross estimation, I would say a performance boost of 20-30%

[Anonymous No.679486]

And here is the picture I totally forgot to include.

[Anonymous No.679583]

>>679202

well it looks like that should hold up way better than the epoxy, and as long as you got a good bond with the solder it should last forever

[Anonymous No.679711]

Built some racks for my doors. They're only on a couple months a year and took up too much space in the garage.

[Anonymous No.679720]

>>679711
i would have built a big box to put anywhere, but it looks great dude. I really, really can't stomach putting nails through concrete, especially not a brick wall (though a nice stone wall would have no nails anywhere near it either).

[Anonymous No.679725]

>>679711
What happens when it rains or you have dust?

[Anonymous No.679739]

>>679725
Such is the joys of having a jeep

[Anonymous No.679742]

>>675289
>>676793
Just a bunch of elbow grease. A jigsaw [metal-cutting blade] and a dremel got most of it cut out. A metal file and sandpaper to finish. It's very rigid, much more than you might think. I could probably take a direct impact on a rock if the bike fell over. Glad someone noticed.

[Anonymous No.679749]

>>679725
Or snow. I just kept a small broom in my [completely open] Jeep. Brush it out, and sit. It rains, you get wet. On nice warm days though, you can stick your feet into the wind.

[Anonymous No.679958]

>>679378
Try lowering the speed and add some sort of coolant, from what I hear the titanium work-hardens really bad.

[Anonymous No.679962]

>>679711
I heard cars come with door hangers built in?

[Anonymous No.679986]

Sanded, painted, and installed a new banister top for my ladyfriend.

Slowly converting everything white.

[Anonymous No.680002]

>>674648
I designed a new casing for my laser pointer and used my 3d printer to make it. Previously I was using an Altoids gum tin, but it kept shorting out.

[Anonymous No.680155]

>>679986

Good job, people underestimate how much value re-painting baseboard will add to a house.

The return from re-doing all the plugs and switches + covers comes back 10 fold.

[Anonymous No.680159]

>>675667
>not lurking hard on Craigslist for free cinder blocks and a couple of bricks

Why anon? What could possibly make a firepit worth $80?

(Nice firepit btw.)

[Anonymous No.680160]

>>679958
I just ended up using jewellers saw for precise cuts and later grinding wheel to score then snapping in a vise for the long cuts

[Anonymous No.680202]

This week I'm going to break out my book binding skills (intermediate) and my leather working skills (entirely non-existant) and make a traveller's notebook for my sister (in the style of a Midori traveller's notebook). She's off to Europe for a month and her birthday falls while she's away, AND to make it more perfect she fancies herself a journalling/diarist type person. Best bit is I already have all the shit I need to make this.

[Anonymous No.680204]

>>680202
Something like this with a trio of hand-bound notebook inserts, 2 with ruled paper and one with plain.

[Anonymous No.680226]

I bought a scroll saw from an old guy on Craigslist for 15 dollars and spent 5 hours making toy wooden trains for my nephew.
If he's as dumb as my brother I'm contemplating poisoning them.

[Anonymous No.680232]

>>680204
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDab7WBwETU
Might help you.

[Anonymous No.680235]

>>680232
>mfw I reverse-engineered (not like it's hard to do or anything) and drafted a CAD pattern of his notebook cover the day before he released that video

[Anonymous No.680251]

>>674648
doesn't look very sturdy

[Anonymous No.680280]

>>680232
That guy is a cunt.

Like, why can't he make his living off of something worthwhile instead of shilling his lol-so-patented patterns on Etsy?

Christ, he's really just shitting on DIY philosophy as a whole.

[Anonymous No.680286]

>>680280
>Shill
You know, he put up the video explaining literally everything else except exact dimensions for free. Selling plans is pretty standard fare, even outside Etsy. He also doesn't really give a shit if you copy his designs. Seriously he put up the video explaining everything, what more do you need? Especially considering it's leather where you can basically just BS dimensions since shit will stretch to fit over time.

[Anonymous No.680287]

>>680286
>ignoring the verbose spiel at the beginning about "buy my pattern if you actually want to make this (his words) but never ever ever share it, it belongs to me"

Funny how schematics and woodworking plans are almost always just given away but fancy leather-boy can't do that.

[Anonymous No.680290]

>>680287
Whatever you want to feel man. He's got literally hours and hours of videos explaining in detail how he does shit. Honestly he even explains in another video exactly how much space clearance to get (wouldn't be hard to find elsewhere anyways). You know people *sell* books and plans for woodworking too you know?

[Anonymous No.680291]

>>680290
People will sell anything, it doesn't mean they aren't asses for it.

[Anonymous No.680551]

I made my very first voice recording studio out of insulation foam panels and liquid nails.
I made the sound-absorbing surface out of soft foam noodles that I cut into slices and spray-glued to the interior.

I finished it yesterday and I'm pretty happy with it, it works really well with my microphone. It only cost me ~40$ for the panels, the foam was salvaged. I think I'm eventually going to box it in with plywood and paint it.

[GOD No.680559]

Get on my level, plebs.

I'ma gonna give them a few days to see if the new ones will be more obedient then I'm coming back to destroy this shitty one.

[Anonymous No.680561]

>>678521
Where did you get the giant cup?

[Anonymous No.680667]

>>678521
When the birds come back into your area you should leave the camera rolling and see if you catch any dumb ones dive bombing straight into the glass

[Anonymous No.680871]

>>674685
>Pallets are often treated with some pretty nasty chemicals to kill bugs and prevent mold and mildew. On top of that they get all kinds of shit spilled on them and are recycled across industries. There is no telling where its been or what its used for.

Obviously I want to avoid the ones that have been chemically treated, but after the boards are scrubbed, sanded, and finished is it still going to be a problem if they've been exposed to something bad? There's hundreds of these things free to pick up around my city and it kills me that I can't use them.

[Anonymous No.680879]

>>680871
Pallets generally aren't throwaway items: they belong to pallet companies that lease them out and put a deposit on them. Blue ones, for example, belong to a company called Chep.

They collect them up, and if one is damaged they either repair the broken bit or strip it down and use it to repair other pallets.

So pallets that are lying around are free in the same sense that all those cars lying in the street are.

[Anonymous No.680881]

Nothing new, but I am modifying some speakers.

[Anonymous No.680884]

>>680879
I'm aware of that, I used to work in a warehouse that exclusively used CHEP pallets and we had to track the number going out. I mean there are a ton of ads offering free pallets in my city.

[Anonymous No.680913]

Not this week, but this was my last finished project, folding table for the balcony.
Made from pallet wood and some threaded stock plus nuts and washers.
Nowadays working on a breakfast bar made from old loblolly rafters from a demolished house.

[Anonymous No.680940]

>>674648
"battery saver" for a truck's vhf radio.
active high input turns a mosfet "on".
if the input goes low, the mosfet shuts off after a minute.

[Anonymous No.680979]

>>679742

I like it. The oem sprocket guard on my wr250x is plastic and seems to retain tons of crap that would be thrown off if I used a design like yours.

I now know what I'm going to do this weekend.

Picture related bit not of the sprocket side.

[Anonymous No.681010]

Built a sand box for my son. The lid folds out into 2 benches.

[Anonymous No.681028]

>>679711

[Anonymous No.681030]

>>681028
stupid sexy thom

[Anonymous No.681046]

My favorite simple project/Gifyt

[Anonymous No.681048]

>>675289
looks neat

[Anonymous No.681053]

>>680913
very nice

[Anonymous No.681073]

Volume dongle on my speakers broke, so I put a potentiometer in this former parallel cable switch. Thinking about drilling slits in the top and adding in an equalizer too.

[Anonymous No.681092]

>>675951
>>675939
OP, same anon here.
That's a good price if you're competing with Ikea and Craiglist for used stuff.

However, I think you can get much more for it.
Put it up for $300 with words like
>Recycled wood
>Hand Crafted
>One of a kind
>Brand new
>Artisan

Include some decent close ups of the finish to show that it's never been used, and that the finish is fresh/quality, and you won't be sorry.

I'd buy it from you if I didn't already have a coffee table i loved (Pic related, mine from two years ago).

[Anonymous No.681104]

>>675280
why would you use such a small battery when even the shittest tablets have very compact high capacity batteries? ipad mini batteries are only 30 bux but 4400mah

[Anonymous No.681105]

>>679068

The image is straight, but my dumb phone writes on the exif data that it's rotated, if you open them they are straight, even if you open them with the computer. But 4chan reads that exif and rotates it even if you dont want to.

[Anonymous No.681106]

>>681105
Yeah, I feel your pain, I even uploaded stuff onto my computer and turned it, but 4chan still reads everything as rotated retardedly

[Anonymous No.681115]

>>681106
>>681105
just delete the exif data

[Anonymous No.681163]

>>681053
Thank you!
I'm also renovating pic related. Added legs, planed, and sanding atm. Need to decide on a finish.
Currently being used as a coffee table until I build a proper one.

[Anonymous No.681176]

>>681092
Cool idea, but thoo thick for my taste.

[Anonymous No.681212]

>>675378
That looks very well made. The design is ugly as sin though

[Anonymous No.681216]

>>681115

But I made those posts with my phone, I would have to use my computer to do that.

[anon No.681218]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaG5cWyNSY0

[Anonymous No.681277]

>>675336
not really sure if anyone is interested but I ended up making some rings out of this
ill dump the pics i have on my right now

[Anonymous No.681278]

>>681277

[Anonymous No.681281]

>>681278

[Anonymous No.681284]

>>681281
so yeah
i have made a few other things too, a pendant earrings and a couple more rings
i've got about 1/4 of the material left plus a lot of off cuts
not really sure what to do with it

[Anonymous No.681293]

>>679205
wow that really sucks, m8o

[Anonymous No.681302]

>>679205
Doing carving of this piece for 15 days now.

[Anonymous No.681315]

I "built" this stuff this week.

[Anonymous No.681319]

>>681315
I'm actually really curious as to how these are made. You have some really pretty ones there, dude.

[Anonymous No.681330]

>>681319

Thank you my friend! I make them on a torch using a fuel mix of Propane and Oxygen. I do a Mix of Performing Art(Street vending and festival vending) and Production Art(for wholesale to shops)

[Anonymous No.681333]

>>681319

The torch I use is a 2 stage, 18 port torch. This means I can use flames from Pencil point sharp and small to 3.5 feet long and 3 inches across.

The wide variety of flame size and type allows me to work on projects like Pipes, or my little creatures and pendants all on the same torch.

[Anonymous No.681337]

Collar for a friend to wear to a fetish club

[Anonymous No.681339]

This is my first project ever. For some reason I got an itch to buy a miter saw and decided this was what I was going to make. I have never done woodworking or staining before.

Does anyone have any tips for me?

My quick fix to join the tabletop was to just use filler and then sand it and stain it. It didn't turn out too bad, but it could definitely look better.

I made two of these tables and two smaller bedside tables based off the same design. My wife picked out the stain.

[Anonymous No.681345]

>>681330
>>681333

How exactly are the pipes made? And do you have any pictures of the figurine's you mentioned making? (creatures im assuming are figurines, or do you mean the mask?).

[Anonymous No.681356]

>>681345
Well, for Pipes, I start with Glass Tubing, and then put it to flame, work some magic, add some coloured glass, work some more magic, and then it's a Coloured Pipe. It's extremely difficult to explain lol.

[Anonymous No.681357]

>>681345

[Anonymous No.681378]

>>681345
Go to youtube and search for glass pipe blowing, it's oddly fascinating watching how it's done, especially if you use one of those "things" a bit before-hand.

[Anonymous No.681395]

>>681356
>>681357
>>681378
This is incredible. I kind of want to make one, or have one made for me. Back when I used to smoke, I had the most beautiful pipe ever. I gave it away to a friend when I quit though, and someone ended up breaking it on him.

To give you an idea, it was tiger striped with azure and sky blues, sea green, a little bit of white and a little bit of black. From the part you inhale, it split into two tubes that reconnected before forming the bowl. There was a little hole you could put your finger or thumb through in between the mouth tip and the bowl. I miss that thing so much.

[Anonymous No.681418]

What are the professions of people on this board? Seems like a lot of you might be carpenters. I'm curious as to the amount of different trades here.

[Anonymous No.681424]

>>681418
OP here, I'm a sophomore in college for Accounting. Small amount of wood working in the past, mostly just shop class.

[Anonymous No.681428]

Other than Pallet wood (have a question about that though) what kind of lumber should I use for a desk or gaming table?

Since I'm thinking about building a gaming table out of pallet wood, what kind of joins should I use across the top?

[Anonymous No.681441]

>>681330
Were you blowing these at Motion Notion in Golden BC? Because I'm pretty damn sure that's where your photo is from.

[Anonymous No.681442]

>>680979
Yeah, I only made this one because the stock one was shitty sheetmetal and it bent and ultimately snapped off. I ran it with no cover for a couple weeks [daily driver] and it didn't really make a difference. I was bored and thought I'd use up some of a street sign I had laying around. My other bike has the stock one on it or I'd make another one and do a more professional job at it. I have access to a vinyl cutter so I could make a template for whatever shape/size I wanted.

[Anonymous No.681443]

>>681428
Do not use pallet wood for indoor furniture. Unless you get one that was heat treated they will have used some very nasty chemicals and pesticides to treat it. Even it it was heat treated pallets are often recycled across industries, so there is no telling what has been spilled on it over the years. Even if you got it from behind a grocery store it may have had bleach, ammonia, or other cleaning products spilled on it or raw meat, dairy, or god knows what else.

[Anonymous No.681451]

>>681418
>>675289
>>679742
Mechanical engineering student. Garage tinkerer and trinket maker. I've done a lot of aluminum melting and casting, some stainless steel coloring [bluing] and rough metal shaping.
I cut out this seat pan from a street sign years ago. I've done mostly motorcycle projects in one form or another.

[Anonymous No.681677]

>>681281
really nice

[Anonymous No.681809]

>>681010

>Awesome parent detected.

[Anonymous No.681870]

>>681339
Nice work. Your next purchase should be a router.

[Anonymous No.682182]

finished the desk and the footboard two weeks ago

[Anonymous No.682215]

>>682182
Dem joints

Could you elaborate on the jig used to make them?

[Anonymous No.682263]

Well my english pretty much sucks
But I´ll give my best

I used a Spindle moulder. Actually you could use a normal japanese saw or something like that but youll go crazy making (in german: Schlitz- und -Zapfenverbindung) the 'pivotkonstruktion'. For the other 'connections' i used normaler fasteners as lammellos and pegs.
Here is some part of the whole blueprint

[Anonymous No.682265]

>>682263
forgot the pic

[Anonymous No.682329]

>>681293

Well, I acknowledged that I wasn't a pro, but I guess you're right. I kind of regret sending it now.

[Anonymous No.682343]

>>682329

I ended up putting a few more coats of shellac on, (5 coats with a 600 grit between each) and I do think it helped to mask my lack of skill; at least a little bit.

[Anonymous No.682391]

>>681418

Network engineer. All this diy stuff helps keep you from going crazy. I've also learned a fair amount in the short time I've been here.

[Anonymous No.682403]

what i build

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaG5cWyNSY0

[Anonymous No.682522]

I started a non-dead thread asking about stain sprayers for this thing. Here is how it turned out.

[Anonymous No.682526]

>>682522
And with cushions that are not DIY.

[Anonymous No.682670]

>>681278
>>681281
>>681284
>>681277
those look really nice!

[Anonymous No.682707]

>>676538
nice cat

[Anonymous No.682723]

I put the finishing touches on one of my 1-15 V, 44 A modular power supplies.

This particular variant of cheap Ebay meters are sadly horrible. Don't buy them.

[Anonymous No.682749]

>>682723

In a Dojang I own we wanted to hang some speed bags but all the walls are drywall and metal stud with nothing strong enough to mount on

So one of my handy students built a wooden plywood/2x4 wall and we sanded it, painted it, and hung the speed bag

Easier than busting out a bunch of drywall and dealing with that mess, and its strong as hell, I can kick the wall and it doesn't budge.

Its bolted into the rafters/wooden structure of the roof and the concrete floor under the matt

1/4

[Anonymous No.682750]

>>682749

sanded, painted the plywood

then used a projector to outline this lettering on the wall, my friend traced it

[Anonymous No.682751]

>>682750

then painted them in

3/4

[Anonymous No.682752]

>>682751

finished

going to add another speedbag to the other side soon I think

wood came out well, matches just fine with the wall. Soon we might put a bit of trim on it

[Anonymous No.682764]

>>681315
sell me a pendy, been looking to cop some more hand made stuff.

[Anonymous No.683087]

Wife and I moved in to take care of my grandmother due to her Alzheimers and our need to be closer to family for childcare (expecting twins).

Diagram is shitty. But the staircase goes up, comes to a landing, then goes off to the left right in front of the bathroom. There used to be this old rickety railing from the 60s there, but my dad and his four brothers all shared the room and did quite a number on it. I decided to replace the railing with 4x8 bookshelves 10in deep for the sides, with each end going all the way to the ceiling and the corner being a series of cabinets. Between the tall sections I am going to put curtain rods and curtains to sort of break up the room.

Bookshelves face toward the stairs so toddlers can't climb them from the room size and sudoku.

[Anonymous No.683088]

>>683087

I asked my wife to take a picture and this is what she took. I do not have a phone capable of taking pictures so more will come later. Right now I only have one side Sanded/Stained/Assembled and am waiting on more funds to pick up the rest of the wood.

For the back of the bookshelves I used pegboard so I could hang things if I wanted to, plus I found some for free.

[Anonymous No.683578]

>>683088
>all dat manga

[Anonymous No.683669]

>>683088
>>683578
>all dem D&D 3.5 books

[Anonymous No.683758]

>>675745
After 2 weeks more on software, and other things to do, I went back to the project and cut some woods for a new frame.

[Anonymous No.683759]

>>683758
Sadly wood is not that precise, and I had a problem, one side of the frame was pushing way to hard the touch screen. Also, I had not paint my frame.. which was a problem for each sides. So I removed the sand and unscrew it back. Painted the parts. Here's a screen with software on it, before sanding again.