Ducati Monster Forum

Do you like to work in metal, wood, ceramics, paint or some medium that would blow my little mind? If you've made something that makes you smile, I'd really like to see it! This is a place to put pictures & descriptions of your handiwork that doesn't necessarily ride on two wheels.

I don't have digital versions of a lot of my old blacksmithing or knifemaking work, but here's my offering to kick this off. A heron feather in steel:

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4284787291_c6f912ba56.jpg)

and the thing i nearly finished yesterday that got me thinking about starting this thread; a 2' x 4' welding table with steel plate on one side & slate on the other.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4285556494_3a8ce417d2.jpg)

(http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss201/Johngalt_2009_photos/DSC_3622.jpg)

Forged from 1080 and differentially heat treated.  I get them to this point and then loose interest in finishing out handles. 

I made functional rockets out of old beer cans once.  [thumbsup]

Beer Can Rockets - more fun, less frustrating than pounding steel into shapes it doesn't want to be in - plus the beer and the green recycling angle - COOL!

DISCRIMINATION!!!  >:(




(  [cheeky] )

Here is a little something from awhile back.

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/billybongthorten/19ctwTrill3.jpg)

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/billybongthorten/19ctwTrill2.jpg)

I'm not allowed to photograph or discuss the things I make

I tried setting an emerald into a stock setting once - what a mess.  Anyone that can work with that kind of precision and scale has my respect.

How many pieces did you end up with? [laugh]

I said not necessarily -- and the stuff you make usually deserves a thread all to itself!   [thumbsup]

I'm just funnin' around.  Besides, there's enough of my handiwork here already.   [thumbsup]

Send them to me I'll finish them.


Luvs me some micarta. [thumbsup]

I made this:

(http://www.1800589rice.com/Portals/17/stack%20of%20papers.jpg)

Wood

This is one of the last projects I built before going back to school (it was for a DMF member)  

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3549/3835302451_6a3b19e097_b.jpg)


This was a proto-type I built in school for a computer desk

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2349/2416069881_a4a2ff9e4f_o.jpg)

Concrete

A concrete sculpture

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2415226433_22f9cb462d_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2415245565_24649216ee_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3009/2415245557_3d56360445_b.jpg)

concrete countertops

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3105/2371756481_f22a43f954_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2001/2371758141_e0bc6fc005_b.jpg)

I've always wanted to redo my kitchen with that concrete/stainless look.  Looks great!

Awesome stuff! I love looking at cool stuff folks think of and then make it happen with their hands. I can't do shit and have no talent so I really appreciate folks that have all that. Heck, I don't think I could even make a stack of paperwork like ducatiz! Well, maybe... but it would be old motorcycle magazines! [laugh]

This could be my new favorite thread! Keep it coming!! [clap] [popcorn] [bow_down]

I built this from a very run down old property, unfortunately had to sell due to a break up. Sold it about 3 years ago.
It does have wood steel and ceramic, maybe just on a bigger scale.....

http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=106001935&f=0&p=10&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&c=81725942&s=qld&snf=rbs&tm=1263887424 (http://www.realestate.com.au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=106001935&f=0&p=10&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&c=81725942&s=qld&snf=rbs&tm=1263887424)

Always wanted to learn blacksmithing and welding. Nice feather triangleforge. And the concrete sculpture and counters are great vindingo. I've been doing woodworking almost forever . Here's some stuff I've done a number of years ago for the same client.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4287895654_efe7e3576f.jpg)

A wall unit/desk that I moved into a new addition
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4287896338_64dfec11e2.jpg)

New bookcases, mantel and coffered ceiling in same addition. Sorry about the paint color. Designer was off her rocker.
That's enough.

Tod

A little crude considering the company....freezer converted kegerator:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h286/CPrezioso/Kegerator/IMG_0220.jpg)

(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/normal_paula_us_2010-01-13.JPG)

 ;D

I was waiting for that.  [clap]

Very nice!


Now you just need to carve yourself a new canoe...



 :P

Awesome stuff.  I am shopless at the moment. I've thought about building a shop since I moved here, however I always thought I would be in the DC area for a couple of years at most.  10 years later, I am still here without a shop.  I have most of the tools, but my carpentry is oriented towards my house lately.  Want to get back into blacksmithing (took a few classes) and welding (took a bunch of classes and worked in muffler and 4x4 fab shop).  No place to work though.....

Soon I will be building some built in shelving in my new living room/dining room (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=32276.0 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=32276.0)) with a TV cabinet complete with TV lift.  I have a half completed coffee table I am making out of a cherry tree I had cut down a year ago.  It was huge and had a double trunk.  Maybe I'll get around to finishing that.......wish I had access to a blacksmith shop to make some legs....

Angler --

Virtually all of my blacksmithing in the DC area was out at Colvin Run Mill in Fairfax County, VA; they've got a turn of the century (the previous one) era blacksmith shop on site and in exchange for volunteering behind the anvil & answering (several times a day) "Well, actually farriers make horseshoes...", I got all the mild steel & coal I could burn. I brought my own hammers, tongs & other hand tools (because the ones there in the shop are community property and look like it) and any specialty/tool steels I wanted, but it's a great deal, a lot of fun, and some great camaraderie with the other volunteer smiths. Check it out, and if you'd like to volunteer there, tell Mike Henry (the site director) Brad DeVries sent you.

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/crm/ (http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/crm/)

I went to a couple of demonstrations as well at the Blacksmiths Guild of Potomac shop in Arlington, VA -- it's a beautiful, well-equipped shop and a great deal at just $35 a year for membership. I don't know how they schedule time at the anvil, but some of the pieces that members make are stunning!!!

http://www.bgop.org/ (http://www.bgop.org/)

Cool - good tips.  I'll definitely look into this.

You guys are some crafty people! Awesome!  [thumbsup]

Does this count?  ( I had help  ;D  )

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4288549893_27e80aa41f_b.jpg)

You old...

snowmaker.

Done that, too    [thumbsup]

does work count? 

im an engineer at a large foundry.  we specialize in centrifugal castings, so we make mostly round things with holes in them, natch.   today actually i engineered my smallest part ever, 3" OD x 5/8" thick cobalt (stellite) ring.  the largest jobs to go across my desk are seal rings for a hydro-electric dams.  last month i did a 180" set (+/- 0.005" on the ID too). 

yes! [thumbsup]

NICE!

I have an old wood stove in the basement.  I added a copper coil that feeds a hot water storage tank which feeds my domestic hot water.  Obviously there's more to it, expansion tank, pressure relief, etc.  make the beast with two backs you OPEC!

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4289578580_8f8853ff6d.jpg)


And there's always bread

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4288835823_c3350347b0.jpg)

Boo Yankees! Yay beer!

you made jelly beans?

Pretty pictures at work:

(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/normal_IXU-Neuronsample-5-40x.jpg)

(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/60x_3color_Overlay.jpg)

(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/normal_fish1.jpg)


For fun (it's typically a group effort):

Symphony Parnassus 2nd half part 1 (http://www.vimeo.com/8832256)

Symphony Parnassus 2nd half of part 2 (http://www.vimeo.com/8845987)


and MrI took credit for my other one. [laugh]

current project is 3/4" pine planking for the second floor.  random widths and quartersawn mixed in with various graining.  coming up beautiful. 

(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo271/laura_tracy/Floor2010001.jpg)

will post pics after stained & polyeurothaned. 

(http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo271/laura_tracy/Floor2010012.jpg)

That's purty flooring.  I'll be interested to know how you like it from a durability standpoint.  I have been wanting to replace my downstairs flooring with something light.

It makes me happy that people are interpreting "Made This" broadly -- music, bread, well-farmed freshies, engineering, work, home improvements. Babies.

And the level that you're all working at is really inspiring; I tend to give away a lot of my work, because when I look at it I see the mistakes or the things I would/should have done a bit differently. Seeing real craftsmen & craftswomen at work here & elsewhere gives me motivation to get back to it. Well, except for the babies part. We've got our hands full with one teen as it is.

Thanks!!

Beautiful work!  What is that stone, and what do you call a cut like that, with the little "wings" on each side?

It's a cubic zirconium, but if your woman asks, use the more common name of "Diamond".  ;)

No, that's the real thing!

The center stone is a 19ct (E, VS1) radiant cut and the side stones are 3ct (E, VS1 & 2) trillion cut each. The mounting is made out of platinum.

No CZ work out of my shop!

 :o :o

There becomes a point when the diamond can be too big......

That ring passed that point 24 cts ago..... :P

Is it a very stunning setting and highlights the stones well.   [thumbsup]   

It's a setting worthy of such a jaw-dropping piece of geology. Fantastic work.

Cat tower from scraps:

(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn43/Desmodiva/DMF/ZahZah.jpg)

It all comes apart to travel easy.

I'll need to dig to find picts of my other work.   :P

Thank you for the complements!



I think you hit the point of too large to wear when you get to something like this:

108.36ct D, Flawless

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/billybongthorten/108cts.jpg)

It's available and I might be interested in trading for your cat tower! ;) [beer]

That's an awfully realistic looking cat.

[laugh]

It is a real cat!  You silly.   ;D

Especially one made from scraps.

19ct? That doesn't look big enough to me to be 19. Just based on the ring size for comparison, it looks like 4-5. Granted I don't know much about stones. Is there anything else besides size that ct is used for?

BTW, I'm not doubting you, it just sounds funny to me...

It's hard to make a large stones/ring look and fit like a smaller piece, I guess that the mission was accomplished.

To give you a better idea of size of the stone:

-a 5ct would measure roughly 8.25 x 6.25mm

-this stone measures 18.53 x 14.23mm

This pic gives a better idea of size:

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/billybongthorten/19ctwTrill4.jpg)

I'd like to get that for my wife.











Do you take trades?  ;D

I'm open too cat towers and babies!  ;)

You can have this one-we can always make another.

HO
LY
SHIT!

this is my kind of thread...

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(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed001.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed016.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/Jonesboro3.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/Jonesboro5.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed006.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed005.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed002.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed003.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed007.jpg)

(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/cbartlett419/ed009.jpg)

the hand is made entirely of punches, files, chisels, and star drills and a red oak log

the outdoor piece is installed in Jonesboro, LA in front of a nonprofit college alternative learning center

the kiln is a cone 10 soda type at LaTech's ceramics lab, that door articulates to be slid straight into the kiln opening(trick) and the door arm is made of 2" rebar

the saw bike can be ridden and operates alot like it looks, but it definately pedals!!

and the tattoo machine I made for a local tattoo shop and after being dicked around regarding the payment I collected my shit and now it lives in my bike shop

I've more but this was most everything done in 2009, I haven't had time to do shit in terms of making since the divorce and new business(September), but I've a stash of used bike chains and cables that will undoubtly sacrifice all on the workbench alter

Vindingo, that kitchen is stunning!

Just a few things that I have done, My first welding cart.
(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/g6racer_album/DSC00084.jpg)
   Drum key for my brother (his was stolen).
(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/g6racer_album/DrumKey.jpg) 
   Small slide hammer for mold insert removal.
(http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/g6racer_album/Picture050.jpg)

Building things is cool 8)

Amazing work!  Thanks for sharing...

I make this for a living


(http://dnr.state.il.us/education/ExoticSpecies/images/striped-bass.jpg)






(full disclosure: not my pic....I'm too lazy to walk across the parking lot right now and take some. If any fishermen want to see what we do here, I'll be more than happy to take some....but at the moment I'd rather just sit at my desk and do nothing  [laugh])

I help normal people with their transformation to this:

(http://loot-ninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/fat_gamer_kid.jpg)

FML

Do you grow wipers (hybrids) or striped bass.  I'm itching for striper season to kick off here in about a month.  The big dudes come up the Potomac chasing river herring pre-spawn.  Awesome stuff.

Does fsihing count as being creative?  One of the smaller fish.  We regularly catch fish over 50"

(http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v722/50/40/1545666740/n1545666740_75861_2984.jpg)

so jealous.

I practically live on the Potomac from early March through early May.  I start my day 3-4 days a week at the river by 5am and off by 9 or 10am.  Fishing for stripers then hickory shad, then American shad.  The next couple of months make living in DC tolerable......If you are in the area during that time, I guarantee that I can put you on fish.

My creative project from yesterday (in an effort to stay on topic).

(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs183.snc3/19071_1302070082259_1545666740_773514_568729_n.jpg)

Getting a new furnace and new AC this week and needed to fix some serious grading problems.  Will finish with a brick surface and I will use it to hide the trash cans on a side of the house I never see.

As a Daddy I don't have the time to run off for fishing anymore. I used to do a lot of night fishing for cats. And in CO I always enjoyed fly and creek fishing for trout. I've never caught anything remotely close to that size. A couple cats at 2+ft but not even in the ballpark. If I ever head for DC I WILL be contacting you for a little river guide action.  [thumbsup]

I'll fish for anything with anything, but my favorite is fly fishing for trout.  The trout fishing around here is OK, but my favorite is anywhere in the Rocky Mtn's.

Some days striper fishing you can't keep the blue cats off your hook.  I've had days where you could fill the row boat with blues over 30 pounds.  We regularly hang 50 pounders on whole herring.  I like catching them, but we will usually switch holes if we are catching cats and not stripers.  The Potomac is FULL of giant blues.

Sorry for the thread jack.....I've been jonesing all week for the spring action.

The hatchery I'm currently at only does striped bass. I transfered about 4 months ago from a larger facility that did 50/50 hybrid/striped. The place I'm at now is a more research oriented facility (thats why we have full grown fish on site). All the fish that we raise go into public water bodies in the state of Texas (and some in CO the last couple years). If you've caught a hybrid or striper in Texas, it most likely came from one of our hatcheries. There is only one inland water body in the state that substains it's own striper population.

We also do Channel cats, Small mouth, and saugeye here.

Right now we are in the middle of a put and take trout season in Texas...but we buy all these fish grown out, as we don't have proper conditions to do our own trout in Texas

Here are a few of my drawings.

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/IMG_3197.jpg)
The figure in this is Mercury. It was taken from the pedestal of a bronze sculpture in Florence by the mannerist artist Cellini. It is located in the Loggia dei Lanzi by the Pallazo Vecchio.

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/IMG_3195.jpg)
Minerva, taken from the same pedestal.

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/IMG_3186.jpg)
This is a portrait of myself, sitting on a ledge in Fiesole overlooking Florence. This drawing represents inspiration (to be artsy fartsy about it)

Enjoy!

Thanks!  It can be seen down your way...

It is in NOLA on Magazine St.  It is called the Savvy Gourmet.  It was orignally a cooking school/retail store, but now I think they are a restaurant.  They also may still have cooking classes.  I worked on it when I was in architecture school.

Holy crap! I've never been in, though I've been meaning to get over there for a class (they mostly do Wed. evenings these days). I've received a number of presents (cookware) from that shop, and based on what I've got, I suspect it's really nice.

Lazylightening...as one artist to another  [bow_down]
Fantastic, I love your use of geometric patterns as counterpoint to the organic. Most excellent and very original... at least it's not something I've seen a lot of.

A couple of my pieces...
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc260/WannaDucBad/Ansons20painting.jpg)
I was inspired for this by some photos I saw of Detroits abandoned warehouses.... hmmm. Most my others involve nudes. And while they are not porn I know someone would cry that they were in a thread not marked NSFW. Oh well... ah here we go, a link to them I have posted elsewhere.

http://www.sportbikez.net/forum/f11/my-art-some-nudes-nothing-graphic-nsfw-21925/ (http://www.sportbikez.net/forum/f11/my-art-some-nudes-nothing-graphic-nsfw-21925/)

Most of the time I try to make vehicles look good in a advertising way

School bus for rich private school

(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/jacopansegrouw/16112009019.jpg)

Jeep for a local demo

(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/jacopansegrouw/IMAG0480.jpg)

Airbrushing attempt for the Monster Contest

(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/jacopansegrouw/4-1.jpg)

And my best achievemant sofar

(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm272/jacopansegrouw/SNC00130.jpg)

Your best is, well, your best  [thumbsup]
psst. Someone put the steering wheel on the wrong side of that jeep.

Scottish: Thanks for the interest! It is always encouraging to hear good, constructive criticism from other artists. I find your work fascinating. It seems almost like something out of a dream... sublime, colorful, and confusing in a good way. I am a perspective freak so I enjoy your use of it.

Troubled Bear: Your airbrush work on the Monster is incredible.

Now, I am about to jack this thread and turn it into a full blown show! Chyeah! Here are some of my more "mainstream" paintings.

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/IMG_3212.jpg)


and one more I promise....


(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/IMG_3205.jpg)


Ok I am done. Enjoy!

I thought I'd celebrate the fact that I found a local artist with a forge & anvil who enjoys the (rather noisy) company of a blacksmith by putting up a quick mobile pic from yesterday:

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1384.snc4/163654_485494029289_631574289_6221009_2976129_n.jpg)

I didn't take pictures of the work from yesterday yet, but here are some quick things I knocked out from scrap rebar a couple of weeks ago to give away/sell for Valentine's Day:

(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs072.snc6/168285_482419609289_631574289_6174391_7441480_n.jpg)

Thanks, Sitting Duck Studio http://sittingduckstudio.com/ (http://sittingduckstudio.com/) for letting me sit in!

So what did the rest of you make in 2010 or get started in 2011???

Not sure how I missed this thread for a year!  Very cool stuff inside.

mitt

"How bout we put a lil bush here"... hey lazy, you rock the fro too?

fixed it for you...

Spanks.. ill post wat my cuz n I did to my car later on...

I am amazed with the skills and talents you all seem to have.  [bow_down]

The best thing I can make at the moment is a cup of tea and maybe a roast beef dinner!

BGB

Most recently, new parts for the Duc

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/Jervisaurus/DSC01667.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/Jervisaurus/DSC01674.jpg)

Media rack out of an old bunk bed.  The jackass left the bed when he moved so it got, *ahem*, refunctioned.  I didn't do any beveling/routing due to lack of tools/shop at the moment.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/Jervisaurus/DSC01377.jpg)

Bike stand built from old bed frame and scrap lumber.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/Jervisaurus/DSC00989.jpg)

Unfortunately I look more like someone in between Greg Allman and the Brawny Papertowl guy. Bob Ross IS my hero though...

In my defense, I must add that the landscapes are what sells the easiest around my neck of the woods. The conservative Lancaster County people just don't get anything else.

Here is some new stuff
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(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC02237.jpg)

This one is for the Andy Goldsworthy enthusiasts
(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC01901.jpg)

A mural of Keith Richards I did for the company that I work for
(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC02841.jpg)

And now for my most recent hobby..

This was my first one on somebody else
(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC02513.jpg)

My left leg was my guinea pig
(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC02512.jpg)
(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/IMG_0472.jpg)

Badass man..

So I discovered that the battery clamp on the ST2 had developed a crack & was on the verge of failure, right as I was suiting up to ride over to the metal shop where i've been smithing lately. What to do? Zip-tied it in place for the ride, and hand-forged a quick replacement.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5024/5625726092_7065541938_z.jpg)

The flat stock I used was the right size to begin with, but after I forged the spiral & the tab for the screw mount, I couldn't resist peening the edges and smacking all of the visible surfaces so it'd look a little more rustic and, you know, hand made...

Pretty much all of this stuff is awesome, most of it beyond my capabilities.

I have stuff to add after I sober up.

 [beer]

 [thumbsup] 

Very jealous! Massive amount of talents here.   [clap] [thumbsup]

(http://i367.photobucket.com/albums/oo118/Speedbag/2010_0912Image0001.jpg)

Damn...

I almost forgot how green that thing is. ;D

Only when the light's just right.  ;)

That isn't loud, is it?

 [thumbsup]

I can't show some of the stuff I have built from composites (non-compete expires next year), so I will share what else I make:

www.myspace.com/dougrogers (http://)

Yes, I am a musician.

Huh??

 ;D

Make me one please..... flat black :-)

I'm currently building a 30,000 liter bio-reactor that I designed, for growing algae (mostly for bio-fuel production).  I might be able to post pictures when I'm done, have to check with the Boss...  [coffee]

Growing algae? Hell, I thought that's what my 'frig is for? Gotta clean that sucker out one of these days. ;D Maybe I'll just sell it to your company! [laugh]

Ha! [clap]  Actually, we grow it to sell to other companies, to seed their grow operations.  Large ponds for serious production are over 100,000 liters up to a million liters.  We grow specialized algae with really good characteristics for others...our systems are closed bio reactors which keeps the product pure.

There, now you know way more than you wanted to...  [thumbsup]

Dresser

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/dresser2.jpg)

Murphy Bed

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/MurphyBedII.jpg)

Livingroom furniture

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/Livingroom.jpg)

Bed

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/bed.jpg)

Zaster, you are one crafty mothermake the beast with two backser!   [thumbsup]

Well thank you ;)
That was before I started picking up the  [Dolph] habit

Nice woodwork Zaster!

That definitely takes a skilled hand

very cool furniture Zaster........... really like the murphy bed.

+1

Not to mention a nice complement of tools.....

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My other hobby  :P

Taking pictures?
 

;) :P

No, my caffeine addiction.

This came to our table at breakfast a couple weeks ago...

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It's kinda cheating, cause it's what I do for a living, but it's all I've got. Lost hundreds of pics of all my work over the years in a hard drive crash. It's nothing special deck-wise, but I like the fact that there's a tree in the middle.


(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d45/Gibsonchild/KeltonDeck.jpg)

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Teriyaki Garlic Shrimp Fried Rice!

Is it cheating on my diet if I made it from scratch?

That looks delicious - and it's almost lunchtime!

Here are a couple of things I've worked on recently; thanks to the generosity of my friend Rick Hartner, the proprietor & artist at Sitting Duck Studio http://www.sittingduckstudio.com/ (http://www.sittingduckstudio.com/). He lets me sit in & use his forge and well-appointed metal shop.

This is a piece (not complete in this photo) I helped him with for the Garden Show at the San Diego Botanic Garden; his idea was to build a Roadster out of rebar & other re-claimed materials as required by the show. He asked me to make the driver; just a few days before he had to load everything up and head to San Diego, he added a spectacular dog to the passenger seat, tongue waving in the breeze.

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The hands & feet were the most fun to figure out; Rick suggested that shoes would be easier than feet, but since it's a city on the ocean I opted for flip-flops:

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Last Friday, I spent some time plasma cutting shapes out of an old truck bumper we dug out of a sandbar as a part of a big community-wide creek cleanup. Of some ten tons of trash that Prescott Creeks volunteers pulled out of the creeks that day, about three tons (ie., all the cool metal bits) will be "upcycled" into art pieces, many of which will be sold at auction this Fall to raise money for the organization. I'm thinking of these as the wind-catching elements for an Alexander Calder-inspired mobile sculpture; don't look too close, as I really suck at free-hand plasma cutting:

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Update: Rick just e-mailed me a photo of the sculpture as installed; I think it's supposed to be there for several months if you happen to be in San Diego.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3478/5836906617_dc79954cf4_b.jpg)

Nice.. how hard was it to bend the rebar into a circle? 

Not that hard; steel is remarkably easy to persuade when it's red hot.

It's almost torture. ;D

I made some sawdust this weekend.  I cleaned my bathroom on Fri and it looked kind of empty.  The picture frame is a stud I pulled out of my 140 year old barn, with a scrap of walnut ply in the middle.  The chunk of walnut slab is a scrap from a dining room table I am building for my mother.  I also scrounged up the last little bit of solid 3/4 walnut I had to make the bracket.  I'd say about 4 hours worth of work, $0.00 spent.  

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That's beautiful.

Agreed. Nicely done.

that shelf is kinda sexxy.

Thanks!  Mother nature did most of the heavy lifting in the looks department, I just tried not to mess it up.    


Triangleforge, I have a project in the works (in my head) for a headboard I want to build with a similar detail to the photo below.  Are these dovetail keys something you could make?  I'd love to have you make them if you were interested.  
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5914491502_ab4fcff4c3_z.jpg)

 

Oh I like making stuff.

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An 11" carcase saw, I think I finished it last year. I've used it to build some furniture.

FPants - that's splendid work!!!! I wish I had the skills & tools to do that kind of woodworking.

Vindingo -- I'd be honored to do up some forged dovetails for you; pm me and I'll send  you a mailing address where you can snailmail some paper templates with the sizes, shapes and thicknesses you have in mind and I can take it from there.  

got your pm...   [thumbsup]  Laid out the boards this evening, so it shouldn't be long.  I hope to take progress shots along the way just for fun. 


FP- that saw is pretty.  I picked up a Veritas DT saw about a year ago, and I just can't get into working with western saws.  Japanese saws just do it for me, but I'm sure I'd learn to love it with a saw as nice as that one! 

Thanks ya'll.
The handle is a copy of the Gramercy carcass saw.

I have a dovetail and another carcass saw (crosscut) waiting for teeth and handles sitting in my project pile.

I have some random bits of furniture too, but no pics yet.
Nothing as impressive as some of the furniture I've seen here though.  [thumbsup]

Do you cut and set your own teeth?  How is that done?  Interesting.  I taught myself how to set up and sharpen big peg and raker crosscut saws but I don't know much about the small ones.

Yes, I did it with a 5" double ex-slim taper saw file in a saw vise. I think it's 11teeth per inch. I used an old Stanley 42X saw set for fairly minimal set. I used a template made by a home/hobbiest saw maker who spaced some lines out (11 lines/in) in AutoCAD and used the printout as filing guide. Very tedious work, but it was worth the effort after the first few cuts. It was filed rip, since this was my second saw I've ever made or even sharpened, I didn't want to confuse myself with crosscut teeth and all the fleam angles/etc...

The saw plate was cut from a section of .020" thick 1095 spring steel and fit into a .020" slot machined into a 1/4" x 5/8" piece of brass.
Well, I say machined, but it was a jig I made with a slitting arbor in a drill press.

Impressive

I made this for my sister yesterday - i added another set of fins & did some finish work after taking this photo, but it's not quite done yet and this gets across the idea.

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She's working on her old house in Oregon and plans to give a nod to the whole feng shui idea of water in the entry by painting a koi pond across the floor of her enclosed front porch. I was aiming for more of a trigger fish...  I started by cutting the halves of the fish out of 1/8" plate, hammered them concave so the finished fish is hollow & about an inch thick (one side had the dorsal & other small fins, the other had the tail on it) and welded the two together. Grinding, adding the pelvic & pectoral fins, popping a round weld bead on each side for eyes got it to this point.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/Batman50/25acaa3b.jpg)
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I always wanted one made out of wood but they didn't make them at the time so I made it. It has a plastic core from a speed cube, hand carved red oak edges, and veneers on the faces burls, rainbow wood, zebra, fire maple, etc.

Thats pretty darn cool!  Great Job!

Cool idea!!!!   [thumbsup]

Way too cool!!!!!     [thumbsup] [thumbsup] [thumbsup]

That fish is pretty cool.  Any photos of it in her yard? 

Unfortunately that project I wanted to collaborate with you on fell through... those slabs of wood are now being used for a $ making project.  Its bitter sweet I guess.  I don't really need a headboard, but I hate tapping into my personal stash of wood.  Hopefully in the near future I will be bugging you to make some metal bits for me.   

The new project will be finished in a few days.
Teaser pics:
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Dresser in the foreground... wife took over the nice dresser in the background.  Nothing special, but it certainly works well!

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and two side tables

Vindingo & Punx - that's beautiful work; I've long wanted to do more work in wood, but haven't had the skills or the tools. Lucky me, the barn/garage across the street is slowly turning into a shared workshop among several of us in the neighborhood -- I've moved my welding table & little 115 MIG welder over there, and a big, rehabbed air compressor, and one of the participants is a friend & pretty accomplished woodworker (and he's renting the house in front of the barn, so that's where his tools will live) so I'm hoping to pick up some knowledge.

Looks like the fish will be a Christmas present for my sister, so I've been playing with it a little more. I added another set of fins and used a hand torch to get some color into the fins & mouth.

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Another project that's getting closer to done is a knife I'm making for my godson from a worn-out file, to commemorate his becoming an Eagle scout. I picked up some saddle leather yesterday (I'd forgotten how expensive that stuff is!) and made a simple sheath:

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I still need to color the leather & emboss his initials on it, and I'm still messing with the edge profile toward the tip of the knife, but it's getting close.

I like the knife - that 1095 doesn't pull out that thin easily - looks good.  How are you going to heat treat it?

Fortunately, it was a fairly thin file to begin with. I did the quench in transmission fluid, then cleaned the blade up. For tempering, I heated up a big chunk of steel in the forge to orange heat, pulled it out onto the bench and set the spine of the blade on it. It's slower and more of a PITA than using a torch, but I'm not that good at controlling the temper with a torch, and the big chunk of steel method is a lot easier (for me) to direct. I drew the temper out to light straw along the edge.

eagle scout knife? needs an eagle. period.

Good point. I'd been looking at the BSA eagle badge (I've got one of those in a drawer around here somewhere...) and trying to figure out if I can do a stylized rendering of it. With my limited skills & equipment for leatherwork, trying for too much detail will get very ugly, very fast.

most files are made of 1095 or similar.  After you quench,  you can put it in the oven at 375 for an hour or so and let it cool slow - should give you RC 59 or so.  It should cut like mad!

Some "newer" stuff... Paintings can be seen and bought at http://www.artchateaugallery.com/ (http://www.artchateaugallery.com/)

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And here is some fun stuff on a day out in the trails...

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for reference

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Thats about all I have to say about that

wow!  I really like that one.  Your gallery is right near my parents house, I will have to swing by and check it out.

Thanks! If you swing by, tell Kevin and Georgia that you know me.

I actually live in PA but have contacts in the area. It's beautiful up there and the houses are  :o

I liked them all, but like V, that's my favorite.

I actually like the river art.

Reminds me of some stuff I saw in the White mountains years ago when I was fishing just south of Crawford Notch.

If you are into "nature art" then you should definitely check out Andy Goldsworthy's work


http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/TEST/index.html (http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/TEST/index.html)

Finished the bar in a few days..  still needs some touch ups after yesterdays party.. seems the oil based paint on the bar didn't fully cure in couple spots and wrinkled up in the getting drunk process. 

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Family new years night...

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Going to sand it down a bit and repaint.. but then I want to put some pictures, bottle caps etc and poor an acrylic over top..  anyone know a good one? Should I make a frame around the top about half inch or more to shape and hold it in?  How do I make it so when I pull the frame off it doesn't stick?

Pouring 1/2" thick epoxy is going to be $$$ and it will take you about 4-5 pours to get 1/2".  That is a week (one layer per day to cure) of having noxious fumes in your apartment.  You are better off leaving out the bottle caps, using only the photos and pouring a 1/16" layer of epoxy.  Open a window with a fan blowing out. 

It looks like you learned what happens when you sand veneer ply too much.  Some 1x trim and brad nails could dress up the edges nicely.   

Yea I used wood filler n sanded.. but it only really shows in the pictures. Ill check out the trim..  Yea ill just do the pic thing only...

Make sure you wear long gloves and maybe some other protective items - some people are allergic to those resins.  My wife poured a lot of cypress clocks, and other items and usually ended up with a nasty rash out of it until she started suiting up when she used it.  I don't seem to react to it, but be aware you might or someone else in your household.  It didn't seem to be directly related to contact so watch the vapors also.  They do look cool when you are done though! 

Thanks..  any specific one I should try..?

She used some stuff called EnviroTex Lite - it seemed to work pretty well but I don't know if there is better stuff out there - we haven't done much of this in the last 5 years or so.  Wouldn't hurt to snoop around a bit and see if there is some newer/better products.

An interesting spot to do sand casting - and a cool project, too!

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/hexagonal-pewter-stool-forged-on-beach/20pa6k0l?from=en-us_fblike (http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/hexagonal-pewter-stool-forged-on-beach/20pa6k0l?from=en-us_fblike)

(Sorry, I don't think Bing.com videos display on the board the same as YouTube or Vimeo...)

Since that's not me doing the creating (though it does spark some ideas), here's a quick update on a project I just finished. The local bicycle/pedestrian advocacy group just held their big annual dinner and asked me again this year to come up with four awards for people, businesses & organizations they wanted to honor. I remembered the  forged rebar hands I'd made for another sculpture a while back, and decided those might look kind of cool holding bike cogs:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-BYhfQMV24d4/T6gWw0XMFbI/AAAAAAAAAvQ/jIinyLHM6xQ/s512/IMG_20120414_160552.jpg)

I mounted them on pieces of salvaged mahogany and oak, and I'm pleased with how the awards came out:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-KxAi3OPK6qE/T6gWX0HQZZI/AAAAAAAAAuA/tjftN02mgHc/s640/IMG_20120414_160423.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Yla9S050Yts/T6gV7Yr-mwI/AAAAAAAAAto/h2bNWTJCYF4/s512/%255BUNSET%255D.jpg)

Very cool!

Pretty darn nice!

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I've been thinking about doing something similar, but with pennies, nickels, and dimes.

There's a cafe downtown that used chunks of reclaimed wood (they're located next to a theater, and would get donations from each set tear down). I think they only did one pour, so the surfaces of their tables are pretty uneven, but yet still usable for glasses and plates.

Tonight is opening night at Granite Mountain Brewing, a new brewpub opened by a quartet of my friends in a cool space downtown.

Since it's opening night and I'm no longer sworn to secrecy, I can post this picture of a piece I did for over the front door, steel silhouettes that are set off the wall by an inch or so of two local landmarks - Thumb Butte on the left and the bar's namesake Granite Mountain on the right.  (And a soon to be obsolete Ducati Corse #46 hat in the middle)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ETH28JuTJoc/UBb50lDxoFI/AAAAAAAAA8M/63Su1ejjcbY/s640/IMG_20120729_121103.jpg)

It wasn't exactly a paying gig, but I now have credit at the bar that it's going to take me a very, very long time to work my way through.

Another little piece I did for them as a sort of bar-warming gift are their initials in horseshoes:

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But I take no credit for the two truly stunning things in the bar - the bar itself made of solid birdseye maple & walnut, with a pattern loosely based on the Arizona flag & GMB logo, and the steel mug tree behind that bar, made by my friend Rick Harnter:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-wJgO027rQWI/UB7dOc-0JsI/AAAAAAAAA88/dUbvGns0Xno/s640/IMG_20120804_162037.jpg)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zGIjHbV8DvM/UB7de6gfYQI/AAAAAAAAA9E/PlWqReSsRVA/s512/IMG_20120804_162021.jpg)

Well, that and the beer. The beer's pretty fantastic too, and I take no credit for that either.

Very Cool
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Nice work, TF.   [thumbsup]

Where in town is the brewery?

Whiskey row?

For those who know Prescott, Arizona, Granite Mountain Brewing is on Cortez street, across from The Raven and toward the middle of the block - one block and around the corner from Whiskey Row.

For those who don't know Prescott, Arizona, the central attraction of our mountain town is Whiskey Row - so what more do you NEED to know?    [drink]

 [beer] [thumbsup]

Nice work Brad.

That bar top is something. My compliments to the builder.

I think I could live in that bar! 

Beautful workmanship on all accounts - solids and liquids!    [thumbsup]

I finished off a bunch of stuff over the weekend, most of it for an upcoming show & auction that my honey is putting on for Prescott Creeks, the local watershed protection group - it's all "upcycled" art, made by local artists from stuff pulled out of our local creeks. This started out as a rusty piece of steel about an inch wide, half an inch thick & about 18" long. And the walnut in the handle came from scraps I scavenged along with some odd bits of birdseye maple from the bar pictured a few entries above.

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More info on the art show at this link: http://www.prescottcreeks.org/featured/2012/03/28/tickets-available-one-mans-treasure-upcycled-art-show-auction-support-creeks (http://www.prescottcreeks.org/featured/2012/03/28/tickets-available-one-mans-treasure-upcycled-art-show-auction-support-creeks)

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I was looking through this thread and realized Triangleforge never posted this here...

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7264/7827376322_49f6c19a85_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26408631@N02/7827376322/)
door knocker 005 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26408631@N02/7827376322/#) by nh_painter (http://www.flickr.com/people/26408631@N02/), on Flickr

pictures don't really do it justice.

I'm pretty sure Rat put up some photos - including my favorite, the one of the knocker on his Ashville front door!

You are correct sir.  [thumbsup]

Completed another item on my honey do list yesterday. 

The stack of mags/catalogues was forever falling off the back of toilet.  Now they have a proper home.

(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn43/Desmodiva/FB_IMG_1358641239785551.jpg)

Constructed of pallet wood and copper braising wire.

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That's very cool - I may have to steal that idea!  [thumbsup]

I'm about 95% finished with this bathroom...

Brad (triangleforge) made a couple forged pieces for me a while back, which I incorporated into this project. 

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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8359/8399683465_574ac61f80_z.jpg)

still needs mirror and plumbing hooked up
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That's a badass bathroom!

fantastic looking bathroom vindingo!  [thumbsup]

triangleforge, those pieces look great.
They have a vey industrial-type look to them.
Plus the rustic patina gives them that "woren-in" appearance.

Can we get some close ups?

These tiny items can't compare to the beauty of Vinny's wood-working or triangleforge's metal-art, but they have an appeal to me that's endured nearly my entire life.
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These are "pictures" of molecules determined from X-ray diffraction.  The grey ellipsoids are carbon atoms, red = oxygen, blue = nitrogen and pink = boron.  Hydrogens and several other carbon atoms have been omitted to reveal the "business end" of the structures.  The grey lines connecting the atoms are bonds.  I designed their construction with certain torsion angles in mind.  Amongst other things, the structures are being "used" to uncover the details of how molecules conduct electricity. 

I think that's impossibly cool, DucHead.

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+1!

Thanks!  I've always wanted a molecule-based sculpture for my home, but I'm sure I could not afford one.

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Want.

That bathroom is....oooouuuuuunnnnnnggggggggghhhhhhhhh.... :'( sorry...I just messed my pants...  ;D

Anyway, as I have been upgrading my home audio gear, I am eyeballing my latest project.

For my 2 channel system, I want to build a 2 or 3 shelf audio rack. The shelves would be separate from each other but stackable.

Materials list:
6061 Aluminum Sheet 3/4"x24"x24" (Shelves...unfinished...maybe roloc disk lightly ran over the surface)
4x 2"x2"x10" Bocote (or any other exotic hardwood 2x2 turning blank for that matter) Legs
4x 1/2"x4" machine head screws (appropriately sized brass inserts for legs)
4x 6061 "isolation" cones with 3/8" studs (appropriate sized brass inserts for the bottom of the legs)

The design is pretty simple. Center the legs 1/2" in from each side at the corners. Drill through the top of the aluminum sheet centered on the leg location. Drill the legs for the insert. install the insert and do the same for the iso cones for the other ends of the legs.
The top of the sheet would be countersunk to allow the next shelf's cones to rest snugly in them.

Pretty simple design. Now if only I could find 3/4 6061 in that sheet size for under $300 each lol

That is absolutely beautiful.


2 Questions.... What species of wood is that and what type/brand finish did you use?

Thanks.  Hopefully it will be my last project before I retire as a carpenter.   
some build pics if you are interested: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35214159@N05/sets/72157631089179352/with/8399683465/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/35214159@N05/sets/72157631089179352/with/8399683465/)

Eastern Black Walnut, General Finishes Enduro-Var

What are you going to be when you grow up? ;D

I've been trying to get into medical school for the last couple years, final got some interviews.  Knock on walnut... maybe I can hang up the tool belt soon. 

Congrats on the interviews.
Best of luck.  [thumbsup]

Need the doctor's income to buy some more Festool goodness?  [laugh]

Good luck with it.

With your manual skill...you should be a surgeon. ;D

+1

I'm a carpenter, and that piece you posted ain't 'carpentry'.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What he said.

This is carpentry

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7196/6926715931_611b9455b1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26408631@N02/6926715931/)
interior partitions 009 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26408631@N02/6926715931/#) by nh_painter (http://www.flickr.com/people/26408631@N02/), on Flickr

What you do is art.

Well the aluminum shelves idea is being shelved (HAHAHAHAH I am so funny!).

Instead, I ended up finding some ambrosia maple square stock for legs and a 6/4 chunk of rough cut Walnut that has been sitting in some garage rafters for 57 years now that is 11ft long by 18" wide. Perfect width for high end audio gear...and 6/4 walnut is plenty sturdy for a 100lb+ amp.

Also revised my design. Going to break out the sketchup and see if I can rough draft it. But I tend to do carpentry on the fly without much more than an idea in my head.

Pretty much this with ambrosia maple legs and rough cut walnut shelves.

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Here are a couple of cutting boards I have made for my wife over the last few months...

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa289/ZLTFUL/cmwn2_zps194e932a.jpg)

(http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa289/ZLTFUL/mapwalplat_zps58441bc0.jpg)

my attempt at fixing things  :P

cluttered desk with no legroom
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_8621_zpse3957169.jpg?t=1358963484)

add one weekend and ...poof!

uncluttered desk with legroom
(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_9017_zps6baec106.jpg?t=1358963547)

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Digging the bridge and wall shelves Joel.

Hey Timmy, where did you source that slab?

I have been searching for live edge or rough cut edge slabs about that size for 4 days now and they closest I am getting has too much variation end to end (I need 16in width or more from end to end for my project)

I had a GREAT piece of eastern red cedar picked out that was perfect and straight as a (see what I am about to do here?) board.  [cheeky] It was 10/4 thick and long enough to get all 4 shelves out of but some fugger sniped it from me.

The Lumber Shack in Webster City, IA has some pretty nice live edge stuff but most of it is cut for burl and so a lot of their slabs have odd angles/cuts.

I am going to the local hardwoods retail tomorrow but it is looking more and more likely that I am going to be forced to source something from afar (Ohio/Virgina/New Hampshire).

Seeing all these gorgeous wood projects reminded me that we/my fam has a big century old barn in Michigan that no longer houses equines.

However, beams and wood exterior are in great, termite-free shape for those rustic remodeling projects if there are any builders who are in this niche' market.

PM me for more info or pics.

If you need it I've got a source here (ME) with a big supply of live edge.  Not sure what species you're after but I can find out what he has.

Prefer walnut or eastern red cedar. Open to other darker hardwoods/harder pines/evergreens.

Need at minimum 16" width, 6/4 or more thickness and minimum of 22" clean end to clean end.

Good luck Vinny!

I think you mean me (Vinny), and unfortunately I got the slab local.  There is a guy 15 min away from me with a mill, any wood you want (that grows on the east coast) up to 36" wide 20' long. 

The slab in that bathroom was like $35. I have a dozen more stickered and drying out because the deal was just too good not to buy everything he had. 

He drives around his property in a back hoe, and wears feathers in his hat-- an eclectic fellow I am glad to have met. 

My modest little audio set up made from scrap plexi-glass, and some painted maple
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8418998788_fe82c19d80.jpg)
Old house with bouncy floors, so I went with a wall mount for the TT.     

Thanks Paula

As a physician who loves what he does, I second that. As someone who drools over your work that I've seen here, well, I'm sure you'll do fine either way  [thumbsup]

Yeah...meant you lol.

I hate you so bad right now. LOL.
I found a place about 45 miles away but they are asking around $200 for a slab like that.
I went scrounging today and hit up an architectural salvage company that had about a dozen oak slabs about that size. I nearly pooped myself when he said that he couldn't let them go for less than $450 each.
I wandered around and found a nice 18 inch wide 2 inch thick by 82 inch long he wanted $180 for. Closer to what I want to spend but for that kind of money I can pick up a piece of Zebrawood, Yellowheart, Purpleheart or Padauk at the local hardwood shop.
Unfortunately, they don't deal in live edge or rough milled slabs.

So...if I was willing to drive out there, would you be willing to sell me a slab for a small profit?  ;D

What TT is that? Nice little 2 channel rig.

Fortunately, I am dealing with maple over concrete for my floors so a floor unit is safe. Hehe. I have an old Kenwood KD-550 turntable. The plinth is a solid block of Corian but I have dreams of finding a slab of Gabon Ebony or maybe Cocobolo and copying the plinth onto that.

I know others have said it but that is nice work!!!

I didn't make it, but my dad did...race car bed for my 3 y/o son, in gulf oil colors.  [thumbsup]

(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n258/JJGeo/IMG_0098.jpg)

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "live edge"?

Still has the outside edge/edges as the tree grew...not squared.

Ahhh, figured it was something like that...s

That's about the time I would have started checking prices on portable mills...  ;D

A friend of mine here in town improvised a sawmill with a chainsaw and does some nice work; he's even more of a cheapskate than I am, so I'd wager he has less than $200 in the whole set-up.

My dad and his cousin had turned many trees into usable lumber with a portable mill.  Works great and We've got a nice supply of boards we can use to make stuff.  Dad's retiring and has a basement full of woodworking stuff.  It'll be going full force I'm certain.

JM

I've been trying to look into portable mills....any recommendations from folks that have been using them?

Audio rack step one...

Legs of ambrosia maple:
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Shelves are going to be zebrawood. I found a 17.5 inch wide by 5/4 by 88 inch long slab. It's spendy but it is absolutely gorgeous. I will be picking it up on the way home from work tomorrow.

5/4 inch?

 [cheeky]

 ;D

I do a lot of rough framing with 8/4" x 16/4" lumber (well, 6/4" x 14/4", but who's counting?)

As far as portable mills go - we had a large windstorm that knocked down 3 of my black walnut trees and several monster spruce trees in my yard.  A buddy came in with his Wood Miser Portable Mill and knocked them up into lumber pretty darn fast.  With some other logs I had brought in, I think we did about 3500 board feet.   The mill seemed really easy to operate and accommodated
the variations in logs easily.  That was about 10 years ago and he's still running that mill. 

The Lucas Mill has a good reputation also but I don't have any first hand knowledge of it.

I would do a portable mill in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, we already have a car and 2 bikes wedged into our 1 car townhouse garage.  [laugh]

If I could get my buddy interested in turning this into a weekend gig, I would do it in a heartbeat and he has 2 garages and a shed that are nearly empty.

Warren, you have any of that lumber left? I love Wisconsin and haven't been up that way since the last time we met up in Elkhart Lake. So I would be happy to come help you make use of some of it. ;)

Last week while I was at work.


Before:
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After:
Lumber
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Lumber and sticking
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Slab
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Now I just need to restack the whole lumber pile with the sticking between each layer so it can dry.  Maybe this weekend Ill start on that.  Maybe.

You are giving me the shakes man...

You should tell me where that stack is. I swear, I only need one hit...comeon man...just gimme a fix...  [drool]

My dad has dibs on the Cedar, Im building a shed with the nominal sizes of the pine. Some of the Cherry, Ash, and most of the wide pine, however, might be for sale.  [thumbsup]

Shipping is gonna be a pregnant dog... ;)

*Buyer pays shipping.  ;D

Warren, you have any of that lumber left? I love Wisconsin and haven't been up that way since the last time we met up in Elkhart Lake. So I would be happy to come help you make use of some of it.

Come on up.  I have a fair amount of black walnut, some white oak, butternut and some cherry. 

Audio rack step 2...

zebrawood shelves

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/603047_10200488314399451_395158627_n.jpg)

But I have other units I need to still build so I am still trying to scrounge the wood for those.
Warren, I will definitely be in touch.

Let us know..  prob cheaper for some of us to drive then pay shipping

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Trainer RC plane I am working on this winter.  Just starting to cover with monokot.


mitt

I SEE THE MILLER HIGH LIFE YA GAWDDAMMED HIPSTER!!!  [laugh] [beer]

True, but where is the treadmill?  That's what I want to know.

He's taking the pictures from it. DUH!  ;D

Cross posting this from my shop thread...

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Does this look familiar?






How about now?

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/900rider/SMT/IMG_20130202_184107_zps7feda46b.jpg)



Now?  

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That's right!  You guessed it, its a 4x scaled up, billet aluminum 4x2 Lego brick!

:D

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/900rider/SMT/IMG_20130202_200307_zps91206562.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/900rider/SMT/IMG_20130202_200405_zpsa1c33341.jpg)

Kevin...I want a whole set. Cost is no object.  ;D


Audio rack step 3:

Cut up wood into shapes that fit together and could hole audio gear...

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Got everything roughed together and seems like it will all play nice.

Just need my other 2 sets of isolation cones to show up and I am set to finish sand, assemble and then try and figure out what kind of finish I want to go with.

Right now, clear lacquer or tung oil are the front runners.

So after assembling the first level and finish sanding it, I have decided that I want to build 2 more identical units...then I want to use 2 for the base and have the third bridging those 2.
*sigh*...now I just have to find 2 more shelves.

that is awesome! now to really test your skills, i wanna see a lego man next!  ;D

You didn't put the lego logo on each cylinder  :'(


 ;D

Life sized or what were you thinking?  ;D


Copy wright issues... Lego enforces it even on the little guy. Its for a friends birthday. He and his wife have a business selling Lego stuff. So if they were to sell these I think there would be trouble.

I was going to put his initials on the posts but I couldn't get the lettering to look right :(

What joint is that on top?  How are you going to hold it all together? 

Duct tape.  ;)

Just 1 inch dados.

1/2 inch holes were drilled at the shelves on the sides of the legs. The joints were glued and then a 2 1/4 inch cabinet screw run into each hole. The holes were then filled with 1/2 inch black walnut dowels, cut flush and sanded smooth. It looks like it was pinned together.

I will post up more pics this weekend. I decided to do the 3 identical units/bridge thing but I couldn't find another piece of 15 1/2 inch wide zebrawood so I had to order 2 8 inch wide pieces from Kansas City. I pick them up on Friday and then to the shop to biscuit join them, glue and clamp.

Also Friday night, I am going to shoot 2 coats of black lacquer on a pair of speakers I am refinishing.

Sunday, 2 more coats of lacquer on the speakers and then run the shelf stock through the planer, cut to size and cut the remaining dados in the other 8 legs.
Assemble, finish sand, let all the glue dry.

Sometime next week after work, I will finish sand, wipe clean and then start layering on the gloss tung oil.

My wife made me do it  :D

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/001-3_zps56e049d2.jpg)

Every time someone tells me that you can't make beautiful furniture from pine going forward, after I punch them in the dick, I will show them this picture.

Absolutely stunning work Karl.  [bow_down]

Thanks Ryan, beats the alternative of paying for this:
http://strictlysouthwestern.com/furniture_lg_htmls/Entertainment_and_hutch_lg_htmls/corner_hutch.htm (http://strictlysouthwestern.com/furniture_lg_htmls/Entertainment_and_hutch_lg_htmls/corner_hutch.htm)
since I got the tools and like making this kind of stuff [thumbsup]

Yours is much nicer.  [thumbsup]

Ayup. Excellent work!!!

First coat of tung oil is on...

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Also made some cutting boards out of cherry and maple scrap. Have about 7 cutting boards worth of scrap left then I need to get some projects together to make more cutting boards. LOL.

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My 1962 Fisher 500C tube amp would look really nice on one of those.  ;)

I was thinking a pair of McIntosh MC-30 mono amps would do nicely. But in lieu of that, my pair of Adcom GFA-555s will have to do hehe.

Still waiting on my second Adcom to show up but I started setting everything up today...

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/528457_10200727176770861_1809884964_n.jpg)

I also updated/slightly modified the crossovers.
The originals looked like this: (electrolytic capacitors and small gauge inductors)
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/546928_10200709904619068_1753768757_n.jpg)

While the new ones look like this: (metallized polypropolene capacitors and much heartier inductors and better resistors)
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/14812_10200709911659244_1618609693_n.jpg)
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/524877_10200709912659269_1323707274_n.jpg)

That's the first one I did. So definitely a learning curve. The second one was much cleaner looking. I am amazed at how much of a difference the crossover upgrades made.

(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c363/swangas/Ducati/photo_zpsf3bd25cd.jpg)

Forged mild steel wall hook. Currently occupied by the GF's diamonds.

looking good, its almost too bad you are putting stuff on them.

I know what you mean.  :-\

Nice! [thumbsup]

Thanks man!

Been watching your posts for a while. I just got started with blacksmithing, I'd be lying if I said some of your posts weren't the impetus for me wanting to take it up. So, thank you [thumbsup]

A friend wanted a tongue in cheek trophy for a bunch of friends who were riding their vintage bikes up the hill from Phoenix to Prescott, which had devolved into a good-natured pissing match about who's bike would be slowest - everyone claiming that their classic bike was WAY slower than anyone else's.  [laugh]

I knocked this together in about five minutes (amazing what you can do when you don't care enough to prep the welds):

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yFx-hnqYO5o/UTJ_M9IEw4I/AAAAAAAABYI/cPOj-nDfk58/s641/IMG_20130301_180108.jpg)

And took about another ten to stamp out the title:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p_SY2Q_6_w0/UTJ_XiLELCI/AAAAAAAABYQ/10OYaS9qItU/s855/IMG_20130301_180130.jpg)

 [thumbsup]

 [thumbsup]  [thumbsup]

Triangle,

That trophy is great.  I know that would be very welcome in my home.

 
 
 O1 blade, red bronze bolster, hippo tooth handle
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-GufNB4eZUdc/T3eOXCsx-VI/AAAAAAAAAeE/_veq3hnU7Qg/s912/IMG_2676.JPG)

Nice work!

(http://[IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/2yualg2.jpg)[/IMG]
This is a table I made for advertising my abilities. I designed and built from scratch using mostly scrap wood given to me by a local finish carpenter. It's mahogany.

(http://i33.tinypic.com/2dln684.jpg)
Ok I think I got it now. Thanks Ddan for re-posting.

Fail  :D

the thread is about making things...he made a fail ;D

 :D

Nice dovetails, but, well...

Sweet, an anti gravity box!

 ;D

Sorry, I don't understand. Did I do something wrong?

Nevermind. I see it now. ;D
I posted these from tapatalk on my iPhone. Either it doesn't work well or I don't know what i'm doing. I'll stick to woodworking I think.

neato [thumbsup]

Got bored in the months following my military retirement before employment came along...had this on my "want to do list" for awhile.

Made with some scrap particle board from another project and some left-over paint...total cost - $0.00.

Not quite done but getting close!  Gonna look great at my new work desk!

(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8380/8676957304_972ab1dfdc_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26492271@N03/8676957304/)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8113/8676957292_727b492a4e_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26492271@N03/8676957292/)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8266/8676957286_c6117ef996_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26492271@N03/8676957286/)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8675852513_1ebf840a2a_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26492271@N03/8675852513/)

How much are you charging including shipping?

Let me see how the finished product comes out.

Thats one giant guitar pick.

Here's an idea I'm playing with - a helmet/jacket hook made from a piston/con rod (bent 90 degrees) & a valve (bent into a hanger hook):

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-9eflgPiQIPs/UXrfnkkibAI/AAAAAAAABbc/8-bIfFwWFO0/w374-h498/IMG_20130426_084327)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ttefCz_ba3M/UXrfgI6M2wI/AAAAAAAABbM/wg5MncOhu74/w374-h498/IMG_20130426_084255)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-doqEQzYFnMo/UXrfQrzNPJI/AAAAAAAABa0/5SDnKV4V1j8/w374-h498/IMG_20130426_084511)

So far, I like it, though a smaller piston than a small block Chevy might work better - not that my head's terribly small, but the piston skirt catches more than I'd like on the helmet pads. That, and they guy who's my source for all the leftovers from motor rebuilds has started casting aluminum and it's easier to talk him out of little Honda pieces than big V8 bits.

Thats a pretty cool idea! 

I've been trying to teach myself how to forge chain and forgeweld the links.  Interesting.

Don't know what it is about the spring, but everybody wants something made, and they want the day after tomorrow, and they'd rather get it free.  ;D

Made these awards in a pretty hectic afternoon for the annual gala fundraiser of our local bike advocacy group. They had plaques engraved to go on the wooden bases to honor the winners.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ixuraJP8Bz0/UYmVBFWsNHI/AAAAAAAABcg/Yewkyw48sgU/w756-h567-no/IMG_20130501_080801)

And with our first daughter graduating high school next weekend & the entire extended family descending on us for the ceremony & barbecue afterward, we needed more outdoor tables. My excuse to finish off this project that had been loitering partially finished in the garage for quite a while - a table made from a round section of old cottonwood.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AD0Nkas6as0/UZLJpAjHI1I/AAAAAAAABd4/rj2gv9X9fo8/w756-h567-no/%255BUNSET%255D)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-c-bgKV8W1Ag/UZLIzIPRhkI/AAAAAAAABdw/W7AMg71l650/w425-h567-no/%255BUNSET%255D)

Just came into a very cool piece to use in a project: a V-12 block from an 80's BMW 750il. It's going to need a lot of cleaning, beadblasting & disassembly before it's ready - including knocking six of the heavily corroded pistons out of the bores, but at this early stage I'm looking for ideas.

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/998612_10151478101304290_1219968712_n.jpg)

My first thought is to have a tempered glass top cut for it & maybe etched with the BMW logo, using the block as the base for a coffee table, as on Top Gear:

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01816/top-gear-wide_1816574c.jpg)

But I'm open to other ideas for that and for the crank...

The pistons & rods are just about perfect for the helmet holders I showed earlier in this thread - except for the fact that they don't seem to have the BMW logo stamped or cast all over them, which would probably double the price I could ask for 'em.  ;D

I should add that - as our tiny little house barely has room for a coffee table, much less a man cave that would need a coffee table - my objective is to make something cool that a wealthy BMW owner or maybe even a dealership would be proud to buy & make a prominent part of their decor.

I'm down with the table idea [thumbsup]

The crank would make a cool closet rod for hanging moto gear on

After seeing a bunch of your work and creativity on here, I am sure what you will come up with will exceed our expectations.  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Buy a Harley and use it as an auxiliary anchor.  ;D

Nah - it's lightweight cast aluminum - not NEARLY heavy enough.

Probly all it will pull though.

use the pistons as doorknobs

Instead of the coffee table, pitch it up on end, figure a way to use 4 pistons and rods as legs, have a round tempered glass top made and make one kick ass pub table.

with storage for wine bottles in the cylinder bores...

BAM!!! That guy ^ gets it.  [evil]

You can't tell me that no one out there is making anything cool - share it here! 

In order to bump this thread, here's a picture of a trophy I just finished this morning - a friend of mine is putting on a Strava-based (I think...) mixed Mountain/Road race that kind of follows along with the Tour de France. He wanted something with a mountain bike, a road bike, and a rough approximation of our local landmark, Thumb Butte.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EJQ1IfqZ8_A/UcjT8KETKfI/AAAAAAAABf8/R74HA0xE7Ls/w913-h685-no/IMG_20130623_172424)

Sweet!!!

Are those off the BMW engine?

Nope; six of the Bimmer slugs are still frozen in the block awaiting some brute force, and the other six will need some serious cleanup before they find a home in anything - I'll probably leave the pistons attached to the rods & make helmet hooks like the one further up this thread from a Chevy 350 piston & rod.

They do come from the same source, however - my neighbor, the automotive machinist & owner of the $350 Paso featured in another thread. His scrap barrels at work are FULL of treasures!

Most scrap bins hold tons of treasures. 

I know ours at work does.

I love treasure

:D

So my wife and I decided to buy some high dollar Amish made bedroom furniture. Heirloom pieces to be sure based on the quality and most probably the last set of bedroom furniture we will ever buy.
But after my daughter moved in, we ended up moving my 2 channel system into the bedroom. The Zebrawood rack doesn't really match the rest of the bedroom furniture so I decided that a new rack was in order.
Cherry with natural finish was the decision. But similar design to the original Zebrawood model. Made a few refinements and away I went. The Zebrawood rack is moving down to the living room and will be home to the home theater gear.

Picking up the raw materials...
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(The wife really wants a Guanacaste live edge slab dining table after seeing this behemoth..future project maybe...but I digress.)
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I had to biscuit join the shelves as there aren't many 17 inch wide cherry boards to be found too often.
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Dadoed and drilled the legs...
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Glued, screwed, pegged and sanded...just need to finish sand, install the feet/isolation cones and then I am ready to finish sand and finish...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1501344_10203007704102619_1708912111_o.jpg)

I also ended up with 7 more cutting boards from scrap hardwood...

Last of the batch ready to be shipped...there were 2 smaller walnut and cherry "bar" boards that went to local friends.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1548044_10203040862931569_798367082_o.jpg)

which one of those is mine?



 ;D

Zilbert=Crafty Basterd. [thumbsup]

Did this last spring, not much compared to a lot of the artwork in this thread, but it was an "I'll give it a shot and see how it comes out" and turns out, I really like it...now I need to duplicated it in the rest of the house.

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2 tone oak window sil.  Off the shelf wood from the local big box store.  2" oak, 1" bull nose trim from the stair tred section.  Minwax red oak stain for the bullnose, natural finish stain for the insert.  Glued and biscuit jointed the pieces together and carefully fit the bull nose returns with a couple predrilled 4d finish nails.  Carefully scraped and sanded the glue resedue (to not harm the stain).  Installed and applied 3 coats of Spar Urethane.


I also posted a pile of wood a year or so ago.  Just thought I would post what it turned into:

(https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1398394_763636868996_705751846_o.jpg)


Zilbert...still have a lot of pine I need gone...as well as the cherry and the ash... ;) ;)

^ Nice, since I can't do squat with wood I always admire those that can and the outcome of their work and talent. [thumbsup] I'm like my late father, working on metal things with wrenches is OK but I can't cut two pieces of wood the same length and I hate to paint.

I've always liked this thread. Some talented and creative DMFers out there.

I may have to come up for a visit. I am going through my wood stock like...well any food item through a goose.

The rack is finished. Just waiting on the isolation cones to show up and then I will be swapping it out. Unfortunately, now my wife wants me to build a cherry bookcase for the bedroom to replace the mission style oak one currently in there...

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^   This


I got nuthin'.   Although if I could figure out my Flickr password, I'd take pics of mint chocolate chip chocolate cookies I'll be making in the next day or two....   ;)

Ditto.

^^ That woodwork is beautiful!!! I have always admired that!!!

We are between shows right now so that gives me time to have some fun.

Still in progress

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Guitar.. made from a cigar box

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Some repeats but did my first end grain boards yesterday...


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Wow.  [clap]

To all of it - the woodwork, the painting, the luthiery - all of it.

Awesome, love it.

Wow...

luthiery?

Learned a new one. [thumbsup]

And here is a wall unit and a bar I built for a friend's basement remodel a few years back...
The openings where the speakers are have custom fitted black grilles over them now.
 
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I didn't get any finished pictures of the bar (opposite end of the room from the wall unit) but the bar was faced in acid washed copper with aluminum panels treated with a grinder and backlit. Black granite top with maple cabinets and glass inserts in the doors...

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Churned out another one at work while the going is slow.

The frame is out of some sort of African wood we had left over from a job. It's super heavy and unbelievably dense. Great stuff. A lot of work to frame a painting made out of shitty house paint.

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Picked up some rare exotics for my next project...which I have no idea what that will be... camatillo or Mexican Kingwood...

(Not mine but very similar in size and look) I ended up with 4 large "turning" blocks that are 5x5x36 and 6 boards that are 1x6x30
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Tired of engines not cooperating when I tell 'em to go stand in the corner.

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We really need a Like button...nice work 'dog!  [beer]

one of my forums have a thanks button...   saves space..

looks like African purple heart wood.....beautiful stuff....I have a medieval style crossbow made with that wood and it is gorgeous !!!

Not artistic, but still fun and something different. 

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Arduino Pulse Width Modulation motor speed controller.

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I have been doing a lot of arduino uno projects lately - anyone else into micro controllers?

mitt

Some really nice projects shown!  I like the piston helmet / coat hanger - might have to source one.

My job is microcontrollers, so.. yeah, you kind of have to be "into it"

Mitt -- I'm thinking of teaching a two week long intensive class for High School students this Spring on the Maker Movement, and know that I need to know a whole lot more than I do about the Arduino and similar open source items (among other things) -- Look for a PM from me down the road as I start to try to get my brain around the syllabus. I sense a bit of barter might be in order...  [thumbsup]

Sounds fun.  I am a novice, but between google and trial, it isn't too difficult.

Here is a little solenoid moving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6LVsEb7i38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6LVsEb7i38)

Here is the same solenoid, but running an "engine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfSMSpi2eo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfSMSpi2eo)

I made one of these  [roll] [laugh]

DB Fletcher Capstan Ilona expanding table (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh_qn62zny0&feature=youtu.be#)

I think I may have a problem...an addiction if you will...

More stock for boards...
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Then I whipped up the materials to make 3 checkerboard patterned end-grain ones...these were before I glued and clamped em.
They are done and have been oiled once so far but I haven't gotten pics yet.
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I also threw together some wall boxes to mount flanking the fireplace for BDs and DVDs...
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Zilbert, Your skills with wood are amazing.  Gorgeous work.  [thumbsup]

Got the boxes mounted up tonight...
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Checkerboard...uh...boards...all oiled up.

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Any of you woodworkers use ammonia to fume your projects? I am a big fan of Stickley furniture and have made a few pieces but never have used this method to darken the wood. Always relied on stains, etc.

Zilbert, I am super jealous.  I did some luthiery work for my first full-time job as an adult, and I was immediately hooked on woodworking.  I used to have a nice small collection of hand tools, a router table, small table saw, etc.  I eventually gave them away to friends as my career changed and my apartments got smaller and smaller.  :'(

Working with wood is just such a joy: the smell of sawdust, the sound of a hand plane shaving off a layer, fitting a perfect mitre, just looking at weird slabs of wood at the local lumber store and thinking about what you can do with it---it's all such a throwback and so pleasurable.  Keep posting pics and let me live vicariously through you.  ;)

Very nice work for just whipping them together.  Nice space to work to it looks like  [thumbsup]

It is when it isn't full of crap from his jobs. Hehe. But then his jobs supply me with about 90% of my wood for projects.

...we got a 3D printer at work...

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Mockup of an index plate to so that I can put a plunger style reversing lever on my lathe.

    [popcorn]!!!

I do have to be careful what I do with it...(like printing a 4"x4"x6" demon head out of bright green PLA...that guy had some questions waiting for him...)

But printing a prototype of a bracket like that one can go completely un-noticed...at least it LOOKS like a machine part...just not a part for one of their machines...


But yes...Im sure I'll make some fun stuff.  (and try and remember to post pictures)  I also printed a couple of ABS models of HSS lathe tools...that way when I grind the HSS tools I can do a side by side to check the angles and such.

I guess I didn't really MAKE this...but I sort of did...and I will use it to make other things...

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An award I made this morning for tonight's gala fundraiser for the local bicycle/pedestrian advocacy group. The space at the bottom is for the plaque, engraved with the awardee's name (still a big secret as of this afternoon...). Welding up the bicycle chain has set me on a search for all the worn out motorcycle chain I can find; I've got a cool idea for an outdoor end table...

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Very cool. [thumbsup]
My only suggestion would be to put an ogee edge around the plaque with a router.

That would have looked good! One of these days, I need to get around to buying my own router; on this one I was limited to the bits that were in the box with the one I borrowed, so I went with a simple round bead.

Looks great....waiting for a sneak preview of the end table idea  ;D

How many chains you need?

All of them.  ;D

One interesting wrinkle in this is that the guy who's asked me to make these awards for the past several years (which I've done as a volunteer) owns not only a local bicycle shop, but also a Moto Guzzi/Royal Enfield dealership in town. I'm going to hit him up to see how many moto chains/cogs/sprockets he sends off to scrap each month. I'll also touch base with the bigger Honda/Yamaha/Kawasaki/Victory dealer one town over.

Moto Guzzi will yield no chains to speak of.
Enfields moreso, but there's likely few in service.

The HYKV dealer should be much better.

Talked to him just this afternoon (turns out, there was about half a keg left over from last night's festivities, so I paid him a visit) and he's got several large buckets of dead chains. Guzzis, of course, won't have chains (or sprockets) to replace, but he's also the de facto service place in town for any non-Japanese or vintage Japanese bikes, so they do a lot of work on all manner of motorcycles.

The basic idea would be to weld up a spiral similar to the bicycle chain above, up to about 2' to 2.5' in diameter for a first attempt. I'd start from a steel sprocket in the center, maybe with a smaller cog in the center of that. Because it wouldn't be all that structurally rigid, I'd fabricate a star pattern of supports that would support it underneath.

The other cool idea I've seen is to use much larger chains as the perimeter of a square end table, with a whole variety of steel tools & parts fit into a jigsaw pattern & welded together from the bottom making up the table top.

Maybe have a few cogs intertwined.   

I made this with my hands...  [roll]   [cheeky]

(please excuse the polyticks portion, it was a class requirement 8) )

Michael and Me

“Opinions are like noses: everybody has one.” That was my grandmother’s P.C. version of the old adage. It’s a simple enough phrase, but if you really dig into it, you’ll find it to be a rather complex theory. But breaking anything down to its elemental properties, be it a phrase, a lifestyle, a car, a religion, a song or even something as simple as somebody’s nose takes time. Rarely do any of us have the time it takes to go about deconstructing everyday things. A large portion of our day is spent taking in things superficially. Quick observations lead to quick assessments with opinions formed in the blink of an eye. A brief study of just about anything will reveal little more than just an object’s form. It takes time and a little mental spelunking to reveal a subject’s content. For the most part, posthaste assessments are not that big a deal, but sometimes, depending on its relevance, choosing to skim a subject’s surface can have detrimental consequences. This takes me back to noses, Michael Jackson’s nose to be precise. Without trying to sound gross, if you look deeply enough into something as mundane as Michael’s nose, you will see the importance of a subject’s content, or lack thereof, and the roles content and form play when forming an opinion, especially in a climate that celebrates pop culture.

I guess I should preface this paper by stating that I’m not a rabid MJ fan. I grew up listening to the Jackson 5 and have been known to sing along with most of his songs while driving alone in the car, but I’ve never purchased anything Michael put out. I do, however, in a very detached way, feel a certain connection with the man. Not on an entertainment level, but in that as children of the same era, we essentially grew up together. Because he and I were close in age, our physical and mental evolution should have been on par with each other. I write “grew up together” because we both did, in fact, physically grow; only Michael seemed to purposely halt his mental and emotional growth. During the time in his life when intellectual growth should have been occurring within Michael, an odd surface transformation began: his nose began to change. The longer he fought off the natural progression of intellect, the smaller his nose became, almost to the point where it appeared to be a fake, empty prosthetic device. It’s as if his body and mind struggled to remain balanced. Michael died looking, acting, and sounding nothing like the fifty year-old man he was. I, on the other hand, a typical human with average IQ, have found my interests becoming more cerebral as I age. Those quick superficial decisions I made in my youth have been replaced by more drawn out, time intensive analyses of things. Not only do I think smarter, I still have the same misshapen nose I started out with. Michael’s nose ties into the discussion of form and content and why a balance between the two is necessary in the digital age where computer users are more likely to skim through information sources just because it’s faster.

I think it’s safe to say that electronic sources like computers and other forms of digital media are the primary sources the current generation uses to take in information. Computer processors help dictate the speed with which information can be accessed while online. Moore’s Law states that “the number of transistors incorporated in a chip, will approximately double every 24 months,” essentially meaning that computers will double their speed every two years. Gordon Moore is a cofounder of Intel, a leader in computer processors and he penned this law in 1965, oddly enough, right about the time Joe Jackson was molding his boys into the Jackson 5. The speed with which a computer can provide a human with information appears to have limitless bounds. But the speed with which a human can process that information has its limitations, thereby creating a struggle within the human for balance. Author and Researcher Nicholas Carr explains the experience in his book The Shallows: “We’re distracted by the medium’s rapid-fire delivery of competing messages and stimuli”(118). When distracted, the brain shifts focus, leaving any content discarded in its wake, much the same way the fibro-fatty content of Michael’s nose was discarded in favor of a simplistic form.

Michael was the undisputed King of Pop. The pop medium is, by design, something that is fast paced and easy for the mind to digest. Most pop items like art, literature and music are form-driven entities, meaning the artist is looking for more of a sensory response from the audience than an analytical response. Looking back into songs that Michael recorded at different stages of his development as an artist provides a glimpse into where Michael was in his development as a human. When you compare and contrast Michael’s work against that of his peers, it becomes clear that Michael chose to retard his brain’s natural evolution. But this requires looking at Michael as a simple human being, and not as a larger than life manifestation of all things pop who lived outside the same mental constraints all the rest of us are subjected to.

One of Michael’s musical counterparts of the time is Andy Partridge. Andy is the driving force behind a rather obscure band (at least in the States) called XTC. XTC quickly rose within the British pop community playing original songs with quick tempos and simple rhythms.  “This is Pop” was one of their earlier hits. Written in 1978, its unsophisticated lyrics and catchy beat is indicative of the type of song an artist would put out early in his or her career. The phrase “this is pop” cycles through the song so many times one might think Andy ran out of words that rhymed together and used the phrase as filler. Twenty six years later, a look into Andy’s lyrical content  finds him no longer swimming within the shallow constraints of the pop pool. In a self-reflective song titled “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul”, Andy writes, “The man who sailed around his soul, from East to West, from pole to pole, with ego as his drunken captain, greed, the mutineer had trapped all reason in the hold. The man who walked across his heart, who took no compass, guide or chart, to rope and tar his blood congealed when he found his-self revealed ugly and cold” (Chalkhills). It’s clear that Andy has not only grown as a lyricist, but as an introspective human as well.

A look into Michael’s craft and the songs he chose paints a much different portrait of a man and his journey through life when contrasted to that of his peer Andy. Trowbridge Publishing is an online resource for transcribed interviews and quotes from people within the music industry. In October 2002, Trowbridge published a transcript of a VH1 interview with Michael. In the interview Michael is asked which of his songs were autobiographical. Michael responded by citing several from his collection, but the first he mentioned was “Stranger in Moscow”. Musically, the song has a quiet flowing melody with Michael’s voice gently floating over the notes. The lyrics are almost hidden within the song. If you pull the lyrics out and look at them separated from the music, the words appear to be somewhat juvenile: “Here abandoned in my fame, armageddon of the brain, KGB was doggin' me, take my name and just let me be, then a beggar boy called my name, happy days will drown the pain, on and on and on it came” (AZLyrics). When you compare these lyrics to those Michael wrote fourteen years earlier for “Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough”, there is no real difference in depth. Fast forward to 2001. In Michael’s last studio album Invincible, you see no more depth in lyrical content than when he first ventured out on his own and away from his brothers at the age of seventeen. Michael made his money, not by asking listeners to dive into his soul via the lyrics: He wanted them skimming the dance floor’s surface.
 
The human mind grows and expands not only in a physical sense, but in a literal sense as well. A semi-simplistic explanation is that there are three stages of development where form and content play different roles. In the early stages of development, form plays the more dominant role. During the middle stage, the weight that form carries and weight that content carries have a tendency to balance each other out. In the later stage of development, content is in the forefront. As a father of four, teacher’s aide in Alternative Education and Special Education classrooms, and all-around old guy who’s learned a thing or two, I know this to be true. As a child you want the shiny thing dangled in front of you, then as a young adult, you try to balance having fun with earning a living. The golden years are spent wandering the aisles of Barnes and Noble looking for a copy of Walden while wearing black socks and sandals because they are comfortable and you’ve learned not to care what people think. The art of writing an essay is also a good example. In grade school, the essays basic form (structure) is stressed by the teacher. As you age, form remains relevant, but content starts to play a more involved role. At the collegiate level, basic form should almost be invisible to the reader, leaving content left to do the heavy lifting.

Let’s get back to Michael’s nose for a second. It would appear that staying relevant within the pop community meant Michael felt forced to reign in the body’s natural aging process, not only in the mental sense, but in the physical sense as well. Pop music has traditionally been the sport of youth, with young artists seeking the admiration and wallets of their fans. Many people, fans or not, speculate as to why he went about the physical transformation process that he did. Some think he did it because his father was abusive and some are inclined to think that he wanted to appear more “white”. I think, that by accident or design, it was the manifestation of an inner struggle within Michael’s mind. The natural evolution where content attempted to push past form for superiority was purposely being held in check by Michael in an attempt to remain King in a superficial realm. It’s almost as if his nose said “Fine, you want no content… I’ll show you no content.”  I had a pair of shoes when I was sixteen that I thought were unbelievably cool. They fit for about two months before my feet outgrew them. I chose to continue wearing them, favoring the style/form over the pain caused by cramming my foot’s content into a restricted space. Remembering the discomfort I dealt with during that short time frame, I can’t imagine the pain Michael felt restricting his mind’s expansion for as long as he did.

The proper balance between form and content is all relative to whatever the subject is. In his book Everything Bad is Good For You, author Steven Johnson uses current pop media staples like Grand Theft Auto and The Real World to help build upon his theory that even those things that are widely acknowledged as “bad” can, in fact, be viewed as beneficial in regards to cognitive learning. He refers to the process as The Sleeper Curve. In the book’s introduction he writes, “I believe that the sleeper curve is the single most important new force altering the mental development of young people today” (12). The problem with this statement is that, later on in his book, Johnson asks his readers to remove any negative and potentially destructive content from this developmental process. Jello is a food source that has form but no content (spend a day eating nothing but Jello and you’ll see what I mean). The implications of filling your body with a substance devoid of content, much like Jello, where you are conscious  of the fact that you are ingesting something without content, is far less destructive than purposely immersing yourself in something with known bad attributes. It’s like eating a shit sandwich and telling yourself, “Well, it looked like a sandwich and sandwiches are nutritious” all the while ignoring the crap between the bread, not to mention the bad taste in your mouth. Johnson appears to be a “the glass is hall full” kind of guy, and I commend him for that, but in selling his theory of subliminal learning, he neglects the reality that most things that reside within the pop world are, in fact, by design, more half empty than they are half full. I find this approach to be somewhat disingenuous and in some ways dangerous.
   
So you may be asking yourself, “Why is there a push to sell form over content, and why does this even matter?” The world’s population is currently hovering somewhere around seven billion and most of us fall within the average IQ range. Those of us with low to average IQ’s do not buy/use/understand the same things the “gifted” ones do. There is an intelligence ceiling that all are subjected to. But the reverse is true with regards to simple understanding. The MENSA member not only gets to partake in more complex thought, but he or she is afforded the opportunity to skim simplistic concepts as well. Pop mediums like art, music, movies, and advertising share a much wider market thanks to this. The larger the role content plays within a subject, the narrower the audience gets. People of all IQ’s can listen to a Michael Jackson album and take something away from it, but not all will listen to an Andy Partridge and Harold Budd collaboration and appreciate the depth of its content. In his research paper The Messages of “The Medium is The Message” author and researcher Jay Rosen writes in his review of Marshal McLuhan’s book The Mechanical Bride, how McLuhan was embarrassed by his book’s thesis that “the medium was the message” or more simply stated, that form was more important than content (45). Rosen goes on to add  that while McLuhan’s original theory was relevant, his interpretation of McLuhan’s embarrassment stemmed from the realization that the average person of average IQ would not take the time to fully understand those distinctions (46). Simply stated: simplicity sells.

For most of us, music, art, and advertising play a part in our everyday lives. Typically, those roles are superficial and insignificant, not part of any “big picture”. Politics, on the other hand plays a much larger role. For the bulk of us, that role is hidden from view. We go about our days, not giving much thought to the depth, complexities and underlying reach that politics has on our everyday lives. During his 2008 Presidential campaign, Barack Obama utilized pop media like no other candidate before him. In a recent commentary titled The Pop Presidency of Barack Obama, author Tevi Troy paints a picture of a candidate well-versed in not only what out there makes up pop culture, but how best to use those same pop entities as a way to sell himself. Using celebrities to help sell a candidate is nothing new, but as Troy points out, “Obama has sold himself as the pop culture president when pop culture had evolved to a point where no single source-no Walter Cronkite, no New York Time, no I love Lucy-either dictated or reflected the nation’s tastes” (46). Obama was/is the master at picking media outlets that are inclined to cast him in a positive light. Advertising his agenda by utilizing pop sources known to attract people who just skim the surface, meant that he not only picked up votes from the intellects that agreed with and understood his agenda, but he also appealed to the much larger market, those of us who don’t break the surface looking for depth. With recent events regarding the President’s healthcare initiative, we see President Obama’s approval numbers slipping to dangerous lows. Those people who were sold a simplistic version of a complex issue via pop mediums are pushing back against the reality of having a complex content-driven structure forced upon them, much like the concept Nicholas Carr talks about in regards to computers and how humans react to digital overload. I find it ironic that chief amongst the health care complaints, are those directed at the federal website. According to Stephen Johnson, “There is a kind of exploratory wonder in downloading a new application, and meandering through its commands and dialog boxes” (122,123). People meandering on the Obamacare website are actually pissed about having to deal with the very same things Johnson claims we subliminally enjoy.

A much quoted phrase states “You live by the sword, you die by the sword.”  It would appear that “pop” and “sword” are interchangeable words. It can be argued that restricting his mind and body’s natural evolution caused Michael’s premature death. The official cause of Michael’s death was drug-related. I believe Michael used the drugs as a way to quell the pain caused by restricting the natural evolution of his intellect. During the child molestation trial of 2004 (a critical moment in his life) Michael, who, at age forty-five should have had the intellect to properly articulate his innocence, chose instead to express himself in the form of a show by dancing on the roof of an SUV parked outside the courthouse (CNN). Will all artists who fight a similar battle suffer the same fate? It’s hard to say. Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber are two examples of prominent figures within the pop community who appear to be headed down the same path Michael took, slowly deteriorating before the public’s eye. Their surface appearances and actions have left many scratching their head thinking “WTF” much the same way many of us did when Michael took the bandages off his face.
 
Not all pop figures or mediums are bad for you, it’s all relative. The danger comes when important issues like education, politics, or even religion are formatted in such a way that favors the medium over its message. Procedures involving rhinoplasty and gastrointestinal complications due to digesting fecal matter will no longer be covered under the new health care law as of 2014, regardless of preexisting conditions.

Joel,

I think I'm going to kick you in the nuts...

I'll have a couple of drinks and decide later. :-*

 [shot]

 :-*

I just got an A on an abortion research paper.... wanna read it?




 [laugh]

My second belt. I'm happy with the results [beer]

(http://catie.smugmug.com/photos/i-B6zqM4J/0/L/i-B6zqM4J-L.png)

^^

Cool!

I'm hopefully getting started on a canvas that will be attached to a vaulted ceiling in a church-turned house. Keep your fingers crossed.

It will be a renaissance themed.

Pics to follow.

Nice belt!!! I've done only a little leather stitching & other leather work (mostly sheathes for knives), but would love to learn more. I just picked up one of those lovely old craft books on leather braiding that's going to be fun; I'd always wondered how to do Mystery Braids like these, where the ends of the leather strips aren't free:

(http://apolishgranddaughter.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/muffins-mystery-braid-059.jpg?w=640&h=360)

How the hell?   Twist and looping entire strip?

Easy.

Dark magic.

Not to mention careful twisting and weaving.  ;D

My latest furniture project. A sideboard made of old growth cedar and finished with teak oil:

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/0024_zps394bce96.jpg)

Stunning work!  [thumbsup]

If you turn those belts over you would see the free ends (leather strips).
Look closely and you can see where the ends go in between and into the back side.
Looks cool though.
EDIT: Also looks like I was wrong according to the Martha Stewart website.

Those braids are cool.

I don't see any loose ends hiding.

My dad is big into tying knots.

http://www.marthastewart.com/908041/mystery-braided-leather-cuff (http://www.marthastewart.com/908041/mystery-braided-leather-cuff)



am i the only googler here?

Nah, I knew it was real, I've been around.

I want to see what triangleforge has got in mind.  [popcorn]

I know how, it's just that sometimes mysteries should stay mysterious.  ;D

But for Ducatamount's edification, here are the steps for a basic, three-strand mystery braid (no free ends required):

(http://www.rudedogleather.com/free_leathercraft_classes/mystery.jpg)

Wow !! amazing work ...are you selling by any chance ?

Thanks! Unfortunately I have no plans to sell them. I have a few weeks time between work projects ( temporarily unemployed contractor,) so I'm keeping myself busy  ;D ;D

I like the way the grain continues across each drawer and door. 

Thank you.
I was fortunate to be able to pick out the boards from the guy
that has a saw mill.

Finally made something semi-worthy of adding to the thread. A box for recipe cards. It's made of old jarrah fence pickets.

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b157/howleylongboards/IMAG1404_zpshrovunsh.jpg)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b157/howleylongboards/IMAG1406_zpsknxbzh6a.jpg)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b157/howleylongboards/IMAG1403_zpszti64rjn.jpg)

(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b157/howleylongboards/IMAG1408_zpsvk8mox0t.jpg)

neato

Want!

I like that a lot!!!  [thumbsup]

Badass!

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20140609_172201_759.jpg)



bracelets made from old bike spokes.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/adamandeve.jpg)

I did this a few years ago.

its  a back-etched and glue chipped mirror,  it's a depiction of Adam and Eve being kicked out of the garden of eden. painted in gold.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/Picture007.jpg)

custom cut , back-etched and painted desmo owners club mirror I made for my old tiny office ( hgtv says mirrors give the illusion of more space)

i cut the top shape to look like the valves profile.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/Picture005.jpg)

my old bump-cap from when i made roofing shingles.

all done with industrial spray paints.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/ambivalence.jpg)

self portrait.

Wow, Joel - I like all of it!!! Nice work!

thanks.

I've always loved woodcut prints, so I did the mirror to see it carving into glass would have the same depth that wood cuts give to paper.

I used this old Holbein piece from the 13th century as the model. Like a dummy, because I was working on the back of the mirror, I forgot the image would be flowing to the left, and not to the right. I spent two long weeks drawing it on the back, then two nights cutting out the areas to be sand blasted, a day blasting it, then a day chipping it, only after I painted the gold, did I realize my goof up. I... was... pissed.  [laugh]

(http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/files/Holbein-004x-768x1024.jpg)

I wouldn't sweat it; if anyone insists that Adam and Eve were driven from the garden from left to right and only an apostate would infer the opposite, you've just identified someone not to invite to your next party.

At the same time, I definitely feel your pain - I would probably need both hands to count the number of times I've forged something to fit into a very specific place, only to discover that I've done it in mirror image & there's nothing to be done but throw that one in the scrap bin and start over.

This week I took a taxidermy class for reasons I frankly don't even recall.  Anyway, here is my mouse:

(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/IMG_20140619_231538248_zps170dbcdf.jpg)

The wires extending from his legs/arms will be clipped in a day or two when he has "stiffened" up.  I'm also thinking of fashioning an old-school leather helmet for the little guy.

his name has to be Ed.

why?  I had been calling him Herman.

Because he's on a Norton, and BP likes to think he's Tyler Durden.

actually is becase it resembles famed white-haired republican Ed Meese.


The Norton part is inconsequential.



 ;)




 8)

A couple of months back, I had a piece sell for an OK price in a charity auction; unfortunately, I really wasn't done with it when it had to go out on the block. I asked the buyer if I could get it back to work on some of the bits that I didn't particularly like and he agreed.

After a couple of hours work yesterday, "Moto Goosey" was at least closer to what I was picturing when I started messing around with the Honda three-wheeler gas tank, and the buyer was very happy with the revisions.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w0jhLtOk1d8/U683UxAJj6I/AAAAAAAAEiM/zjE1pDULmD0/w732-h549-no/20140628_140617.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gizxy1FLJmc/U683YaUmIII/AAAAAAAAEiU/a_i2z6AL3e4/w732-h549-no/20140628_142739.jpg)

 [clap]

If you've filled that tank with sand, it's a faithful rendition.  [beer]

WOW!

I LOVE IT!  ....but I think you should call him Ralph. 

It's Ralph S. Mouse!

Just found this thread. Great stuff folks!
Here are some of my illustrations. They are created from scratch with a Wacom tablet and photoshop. No photo manipulation. Just straight digi painting.
Astrozombie
(http://i62.tinypic.com/1pxhmt.jpg)

Delivery
(http://i57.tinypic.com/2exu041.jpg)

Tarot card "The Fool"
(http://i60.tinypic.com/az7246.jpg)

Tarot card "The Empress"
(http://i57.tinypic.com/2e6937o.jpg)

neato [thumbsup]

That's some sweet artwork.  [thumbsup]

My hat's off to you, that's some quality artwork.

That's very cool, Memper!!!

The summer pretty much went to hell on me, so I didn't have as much time in the shop as I was hoping. But I did get a couple of new things knocked out.

An award for the local bike/ped organization to honor a person who'd done standout work over the past year for bikes & pedestrians:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ss-NLj8v-8c/U1LwiYmVx4I/AAAAAAAAD_k/BGshWDoUrqY/w404-h538-no/20140419_121207.jpg)

And my third iteration of the moon door knocker I did way back when for Gerry via Nate:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iiyJmiS588w/U8cNB98KiuI/AAAAAAAAEsM/GTZ9zNAmNU0/w435-h538-no/20140716_163213)

Still a beautiful piece Brad.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/Cat_and_Dog_Yin_and_Yang_by_BlackShuck616.jpg)


need a cat/dog knocker

Thanks folks. Heres some moto inspired stuff
(http://i60.tinypic.com/2edpdnp.jpg)
(http://i62.tinypic.com/nfl182.jpg)
(http://i61.tinypic.com/do526u.jpg)

Hmm.....tf, I think I might need one of them there moon knockers for my upcoming new front door.....

I know a guy - just sayin'.   ;D

Here's last weekend's work; the Arizona High School mountain bike league hired me again this year to make the awards for their races (don't tell anybody, but it's a fun enough project I probably would have done it for free...)  These are the team trophies for the season-opening race this weekend. The spaces at the bottom are for the engraved plaques the organizers are having made. For scale, the wrench in the first place trophy is probably 15" long.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iz-o8R6u4dg/VAuLu8JhgaI/AAAAAAAAEz0/-ZWlpwO90dc/w748-h561-no/20140906_152435.jpg)

Love it, Triangle Forge.  Maybe I need to move to AZ, go back to high school and start Mtn biking again so I can win won of those bad boys. 

Those are some of the best trophies I've ever seen (and wish I could win one).

Some work from this past week:

I did another set of trophies for the AZ High School Mountain Bike League (racing today up in Flagstaff)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Dm-NqFXRyIM/VCgcYzX-lwI/AAAAAAAAE3o/8FGxn0w4Ml8/w732-h549-no/20140925_185857.jpg)

Very little actual metal work on these this time around, though it was fun - the fasteners are long brass screws and the heads looked big & ugly, and I didn't want the screwdriver slot. I turned them down to the size I liked on the machinists lathe a friend has parked in our shared workshop, then ground away the slot & peened the remaining head to look like a brass rivet.

And then yesterday I got out to the forge to catch up on some projects, including this cool new collaboration with a friend who's become fascinated with taxidermy, and particularly the preservation of skulls and bones. She's going to supply the bones, I'm going to do the metal work.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SbVIL0oQ1XI/VCgI5L3gMOI/AAAAAAAAE3I/l3ncIC3zd_o/w329-h549-no/IMG_20140927_063904.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-9vrfoOv-kS4/VCgI2uZwmdI/AAAAAAAAE3A/IHA7nIkLef4/w367-h549-no/IMG_20140927_063359.jpg)

Our next project together - a metal base for lamp that incorporates a pronghorn skull!

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=50756 (http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=50756)

I would have made this guy dead.

Not sure this thread is the one you wanted to put that vid in.

But yeah, I'd make it clear to that bozo that he's over the line.

it's the stuff I made thread... I make a-hole die.

@ tri-forge :
The bone stand in the second pic is a serious art piece. [thumbsup] [clap]
My brother has done some "unusual" pieces combining Adirondack birch furniture with brightly colored translucent vinyl air filled cushions or small abstract sculptures carved in bone and polished then mounted in a wooden box that unfolds into the sculpture base.
The juxtaposition makes you take notice.

Forge: I have a piece that I'm slowly working on that involves the skull from a deer. Shellac works really well for finishing bones and giving it a little extra edge.

Great metal work though. What type of steel rod would you recommend that can be bent without heat?

Very impressed w/ the work here.
Love this place, great thread.   This is a cedar shelf system I designed and had a few biker friends help me build. 4x4's and 2x12". I'm not much of a carpenter but I enjoy it and had skilled help.

(http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag190/silas1064/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsafb7ead2.jpg) (http://s1368.photobucket.com/user/silas1064/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsafb7ead2.jpg.html)


(http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag190/silas1064/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps14724acf.jpg) (http://s1368.photobucket.com/user/silas1064/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps14724acf.jpg.html)


(http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag190/silas1064/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps045bba31.jpg) (http://s1368.photobucket.com/user/silas1064/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps045bba31.jpg.html)


Happy Halloween (image & pumpkins from 2 yrs ago)

(http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag190/silas1064/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps6c626727.jpg) (http://s1368.photobucket.com/user/silas1064/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps6c626727.jpg.html)

I really like that cedar shelf - nice work!!!

I've got a couple of other bone & metal projects in the offing - the woman with whom I'm collaborating gave me a big horse vertebra that's mine to do with what I will, and a pronghorn skull she wants to adapt into lighting. She's also prepping a deer (doe) skull for me, and I gave her the bull elk skull (without antlers) I've had stashed in the garage for years, wondering what I'd do with it. The correct answer presented itself: give it to Drea!

As for steel rod that would bend easily, LazyLightnin, you can pretty easily cold-form anything up to a quarter inch or so. Get a lot larger than that, and the cold-forming tools you'd need are going to cost more than a forge or an Oxy/Acetylene or Oxy/Propane torch set up that could at least give you local heat. Heat will also help you get smoother bends in most any diameter stock. 

up to 5/8" re-bar can be bent without heat... http://www.grainger.com/product/WESTWARD-Rebar-Bender-13A596?s_pp=false&picUrl=//static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/13A596_AS01? (http://www.grainger.com/product/WESTWARD-Rebar-Bender-13A596?s_pp=false&picUrl=//static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/13A596_AS01?)$smthumb$

It would probably take some practice to get smooth arcs, but 90's are no problem.

I watched the concretians bend it for our foundation a few years ago and they used something very similar to the above...wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.

Nice shelves.   [thumbsup]

B is almost done with the bar he started a while ago.

Finally got the electrical put in for his new tig welder.

Up next is some metal/birch ply shelving and desk for B's son. 

A few more bits from the past couple of months.

I've continued the collaboration with my friend who is getting really good at the process of cleaning & preserving bones. She does the bones, I do the steel stands. The horse vertebra is mine, while the pronghorn skull is hers - she wants to put a light inside it; we tried it out with an LED flashlight, and skull is so thin & translucent that the thing lights up beautifully (sorry I didn't take pictures of that). 

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-g6LJsFNwnjQ/VGPD5JcRlRI/AAAAAAAAFGo/lokQtlVAR6M/w791-h593-no/20141108_121712.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v47y0hrzezY/VGPDiEQzzrI/AAAAAAAAFGY/BKvxIzuoCSA/w445-h593-no/20141108_121756.jpg)

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/--iWo0-9VEa0/VGPDNOSpkkI/AAAAAAAAFGI/UmE0ywuJmGU/w791-h593-no/20141108_121921.jpg)

And more trophies to finish out the Arizona High School Mountain Bike season:

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dyXiZH7ZTlw/VExgNpVz15I/AAAAAAAAFDc/lO0Gg-YKsuk/w791-h593-no/20141025_080513.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nqXyQ2dXvGI/VDcslz0h_sI/AAAAAAAAE5k/omQRGT_jedk/w791-h593-no/20141009_171640.jpg)

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HSeg1R5osIM/VF23ML9X-nI/AAAAAAAAFFk/jHHJdOPXt08/w791-h593-no/20141107_194308.jpg)

Awesome work, thanks for posting  [thumbsup]

OK, I know other folks are making stuff -- I want to see it!

But in hopes of getting others back into this thread, here's a piece I made over the weekend for friends who own a local brewpub, Granite Mountain Brewing (http://www.granitemountainbrewing.com/ (http://www.granitemountainbrewing.com/)). It's their logo, a stylized rendition of local landmark Granite Mountain, and yes, I worked in exchange for beer (lots of beer; my last tab for art there lasted a couple of years).

This is a prototype in wood, which we'll eventually replace with plasma-cut metal. The whole piece is 3" deep with the central elements floating flush with the outer surface. The inside is back-lit with blue LED rope lights, while the outside perimeter is lit with white LEDs.

Here it is on my shop floor (where you can see the colors better):

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-dkUwlm5jQWw/VN7LhQaPYtI/AAAAAAAAFZ0/iMou5gNDnEI/w741-h556-no/20150213_194608.jpg)

And here it is in its natural habitat (sorry for the low light photos -it's a bar, after all):

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v23bzIu74FE/VN_yB6UEhAI/AAAAAAAAFaE/RHky973-lwU/w417-h556-no/20150214_173059.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cmQtrE0dHfw/VN_yEE0OmzI/AAAAAAAAFaM/-HeHG7lsGXc/w741-h556-no/20150214_145130.jpg)

OK now it's your turn - and if you don't, I'll post pictures of the other thing I made this weekend... a seven foot tall junk metal assemblage that is a mash-up of a corn dancer kachina doll and Saint Francis of Assisi. Don't say I didn't warn you.

For the record, this is one of my favorite threads on the DMF.  I just don't really make stuff much these days...

But how about this?  I made this painting of a fish, and then I made the fish (for dinner).

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8578/15462425273_5097129e52_c.jpg)

Likewise this one, although I think the salmon I made for dinner was atlantic, not king, but the king looked cooler so I painted that.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7472/15459776744_8d3aa1a60b_c.jpg)

Nice! Painting in watercolor has always seemed like a bit of tricky magic to me - well done!

Thanks.  The trick is to embrace---not fight---the unpredictability of it.  It's kinda a metaphor for life.  ;)



Now, who else has made something they want to share with the group?

Nice paintings  [thumbsup]

Twenty nine years ago my son was born.

I helped make him.

Showoff!  [thumbsup]

I have a few projects I need to snap pics of.
Did a set of maple and wenge stands for single record sleeve, single CD case and single Blu-Ray/DVD. Sort of a poor man's "Now Playing" display. Still need to finish them and add feet to them.

I also found a couple of nice oak burl pieces. One was sanded smooth and then finished with bar clear epoxy and now resides as the centerpiece on our dining room table.
The other one was more randomly shaped and is being made into a mantle clock for a friend. Of course, I am having a hard time locating a face and dial set I like for it.

Have any of you crafty bastards ever made a dining table using a marble or granite or any other type of stone? 
Any recommendations? Advice? (For top and/or base.)

Can't find a dining table I like (prefer something unique) so was thinking about having one made.  Thnx!

Concrete table my GF & I made:

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2950/15477473511_6f40dec9be_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pzG6Dz) (https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3942/15293901670_6714bb71e7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pitf8Q)

A lot of work, but it really is a cool piece.

Excellent.  I've messed around with concrete acid staining and it was a lot of fun.  Making a concrete countertop or table is still on my list.  We were gonna do one for the kitchen but ran across a piece of granite on Craigslist for cheap and used it instead.

Bob

Very cool SpeedDog!

I really like the look of stained concrete for counter tops and like it as a small table as you have but not sure I want to go that route for a dining table.  Although it's not scratched off the list yet...

It's regular concrete tinted with powder when we mixed it.

Only downside is it's ridonkulously heavy, didn't weigh it, I'd guess 200 lbs.

A typical dining table would be colossal.

IIRC, there are lightweight concrete mixes available.

Not sure I would want stone for a table.

I can imagine how fast a cold stone table top would pull heat out of my nice warm meal. 

To each her own.  ;)

I hope you have lots of good friends with strong, young backs and that you do not live in a 3rd floor walk-up.

What about particle board with a 1/8" coat of concrete on top?  ;D

And this is why I look to the DMF for answers and input!   Didn't think about that aspect.  Thanks!   ;)


And this is why there will unlikely be a concrete table. 


Hmmmm.....!

Hope I'm not offending you Stella, never mind stone but as a woodworker, wood gives me a woody  ;D

And there, Stella, you have the base for your table.

 [laugh]

Well trust me Zaster, I love wood too.  Tables and...well.... nevermind.

Anywho, I cannot find a wood TABLE I like or that works with limited space or that isn't custom made for eleventy billion dollars (relatively and "budgetly" speaking of course).

I'm open to suggestions or resources so keep 'em coming!

I'm partial to the reclaimed wood style a friend built me from my design.


(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8620/16412906417_260571baf0_c.jpg)

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8664/16433230380_574673a6c1_c.jpg)

Piggybacking on Kopf's adoration of recalimed wood...

Last summer I got an old wood dresser from my cousin who had 3 too many and was looking to offload.  After $35 for paint, wood stain, and new handles, it looks awesome and stylish.  My point: don't underestimate the effect of a sanding and re-finishing an old table, whether yours or one bought on the cheap.  Wood is such a beautiful material (it apparently aroses some DMFers  :-\) that it often looks best when left alone or with minimal finish.  Much cheaper and easier to carry up 3 flights than marble, etc., and it looks better (to my eye at least).  ;D

Fixed.  ;D

Crap now I want one

I do what I can...  8)

I bought a kiln on Saturday.  It came with these pots/vases/urns/whatever and all the "furniture" to fire things of a ceramic nature.

I intend to melt metal with the kiln, but if someone is interested in the ceramic arts... I don't have an artistic bone in my body.  Two of the vase/lamp bases have been drawn on/etched with southwestern themes.  I don't need these things, but if you crafty bastards want them, let me know.

Does restored count?

My parents brought this matched set back from California back in '74 or '75.  They were used for a while, but then stored in the basement.  The wiring was in terrible shape and basically a fire hazard.  I got wiring and switches from Lowe's and went to work.  Now, I have two perfectly good lamps that are pretty unique.

Table lamp - I has three modes, base on, top on, and both base and top on.
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/House/DSC_0226%20-%201024.jpg)

Hanging lamp - It was the easy one, just on and off.
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/House/DSC_0227%20-%201024.jpg)

JM

Yes, yes it does.

Nice job, JM.  [thumbsup]

Thanks! 

A side note - the table it's sitting on was made by my great Uncle.  It's made from Apple.  I've got an entire matching bedroom suite made from the same orchard.  The orchard was just a couple minutes from where I live now.

JM

Nice stuff,
really like the grain of the wood!!

So on my recent adventure ride my chain broke in the middle of the jungle stranding us if not for a well-prepared riding buddy who had a spare master link.  The delay and roadside repair came at the worst time but in spite of that, it was fun and it reminded me of Ted Simon's comment that "it's the interruptions that are the journey, not where you're going."

I kept the failed link:

(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/R0001472_zpsbpzdnglh.jpg)


I would like to make something crafty out of it.  The obvious suggestion is a keychain.  Just drill a hole in the middle and attach to my current keychain ring.  But I thought I'd throw it out to the Crafty Bastards group for alternative solutions.  I'm sure you have more imaginative ideas than I.

The first thing that comes to mind would be to mount it on a nice piece of dark polished wood or a nice polished rock like jasper and turn it into a slide for a bolo tie. Then again, we occasionally wear those around here (Arizona) non-ironically, so your mileage may vary...

Love the lamps, Journeyman, and there's nothing quite like having woodwork from your own neighborhood.

Nice idea, but I'm trying to get away from tie-wearing, bolo or otherwise.  I have even successfully started wearing jeans at work but using a pair of kahki colored ones---they think they are dress pants.  Small victories...

Well, belt buckle then. Unless you're giving up pants next...

I hadn't planned on that, but now that you mention it...

 ;D

Sorry for the crappy IPhone pics..

A few pen and ink quickies

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/844DE8F0-D067-4BBD-973A-58C07C0AB1BC_zpsnsegtgfo.jpg) (http://s784.photobucket.com/user/rappevan/media/844DE8F0-D067-4BBD-973A-58C07C0AB1BC_zpsnsegtgfo.jpg.html)

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/9A74DBB9-431C-4E4B-8B7A-F5F662794FA5_zps85rzdlhs.jpg) (http://s784.photobucket.com/user/rappevan/media/9A74DBB9-431C-4E4B-8B7A-F5F662794FA5_zps85rzdlhs.jpg.html)

And a few to pass the time at work in between shows

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/2C2931E3-F113-4AFC-B331-55458F25EAD3_zpsro5wxf93.jpg) (http://s784.photobucket.com/user/rappevan/media/2C2931E3-F113-4AFC-B331-55458F25EAD3_zpsro5wxf93.jpg.html)

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/C26F2A40-98FC-4866-8286-FAD9687F183B_zps29acuswn.jpg) (http://s784.photobucket.com/user/rappevan/media/C26F2A40-98FC-4866-8286-FAD9687F183B_zps29acuswn.jpg.html)

Awesome work, LL!  [thumbsup]

Ok...  so, its just a door bell! But, everyone has just a plain old door button!   ;D

Anyhow, at my front door I had a daggy bit of ply wood covering a hole that has the house 'smart wiring' (I dont even know what the wiring does, its like a phone cable with 6 wires inside it. )
on that I had a normal door bell button stuck on.

(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q41/monsta904/20150119_163021_zps3kdxjlaw.jpg)

I though I might make something a bit better.
I had a bit of nylon kicking about, so cut it to size and routed the edges, then gave it a few coats of paint.

Then I went onto google maps and took a screen shot of my neighbourhood, then cleaned it up in photoshop so I just had the roads.
I then sent it to my mate that has a CNC router that he built and gave him the piece of painted nylon to weave his magic on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PCbqb6qB9c

so, now I have the finished backing plate and button positioned where my house is on the map..

(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q41/monsta904/20150319_150110_zps7dasd0kj.jpg)

But I need to connect it to the existing button that controls the wireless doorbell.
And, I want it to have a light.

I dont have power there so it would have to be battery...
I found a small rechargable 12V battery at the local electronics place and I had a set of LED lights that I was going to use as a number plate light on my bike.

To wire it all up I had to solder  a conection to the 3V LED on the door light button (because it has a delay on it) to a box (that was also bought as a kit from the local electronics shop) that triggers a relay to run the 12V LED via the battery. (the LED's are taped to the battery with some red cellophane covering it)

(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q41/monsta904/20150304_200725_zpsrra0nbbb.jpg)

Then fitted all that in the hole in the wall.

(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q41/monsta904/20150304_201214_zpswdqgzvej.jpg)

with the end result here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyhOJkVPpH4

BTW... its an MP3 door bell, the sound is the desmosedici going down the back straight of Sepang when I was there last year... :)

Very cool!!

I wonder how many people will actually get it.

 [thumbsup]

That. Is. Awesome!

Even if your guests don't get what they're looking at, the graphic impact of the street map is very strong. But I think a majority of those who are intrigued enough to look closer will get it right away.

Excellent work!!!!

That's a really neat idea!  The road map is really ingenious!

BTW that six stranded wire looks like RJ-45

JM

thanks people!   [thumbsup]

My mate asked if I wanted my house (knowing that I was gunna put a button there) in the middle of the board.
I said that I didn't want it in the middle. Reason being that it might make people think about it... maybe!  :)

So JM, if its RJ-45 what do you think I'm supposed to use it for and where do you think it would be connected?
I have the same thing in each room of the house and at the back door there is one with 2 cables there.
I tested the continuity between the one at the front door and the cables at the back door and they aren't connected!?

RJ-45 is the connector used for a network cable. The cable itself is called Cat-5e or now they have Cat-6. Most houses are pre wired and the same cable can carry either signal, or both with the right connector.

What dp said.  Having RJ45 wired into each room gives the ability to network devices.  Everything from game consoles, Blu-Ray, TVs etc. around the house.  There probably is a places where they all terminate so you can attach them to a router from an ISP and what not.  I have wired my house in a similar fashion.  DSL router comes to one room, I've ran cables to all the devices we need networking for.  Three cables to the living room, one for the Blu-Ray, one for the Xbox, and one for the DirecTV box.  I also have cables running to my computer and to another room where we used to have a computer.

JM

 [thumbsup] [thumbsup]

I forgot...the two signals are phone and data.

Cleaned up my faded and scratched and slightly rusted bumper:

As it was:
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Truck/DSC_0246%20-%201024.jpg)

After sanding and primer:
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Truck/DSC_0247%20-%201024.jpg)

First oat of black (original color)
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Truck/DSC_0248%20-%201024.jpg)

2nd coat and finished.
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Truck/DSC_0249%20-%201024.jpg)

This was all done with a rattle can believe it or not.

JM

The bar B and I have been working on for a while.

The wood I salvaged out of the scrap bin in the architecture shop when I was in school.  It was a head and foot board set stained a dark brown.  We sanded off the stain and I coated in with tung oil.

(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn43/Desmodiva/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-03/20150322_182004_zpsrtoqgjyx.jpg) (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/Desmodiva/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-03/20150322_182004_zpsrtoqgjyx.jpg.html)

We still have to add some lighting and transfer all our bottles.

B found the stools on clearance at Tractor Supply.

^^^^ That is bad ass.  [thumbsup]

I like it!!!

Neato [thumbsup]

Saw it on Facebook...love it!

I made food. Then I ate it! Turkey, brussel sprouts with bacon and crispy shallots, sweet potato, and beer.

Yum! Food can be very crafty, and goes better with beer than metalwork. Actually, I take that back. Beer goes with everything.

A couple of new things I'm learning --

I saw a video demo on YouTube, and realized I had to learn how to forge horseshoe hearts - here's the first batch:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-qxedyKFJBAU/VQsxDEtMWPI/AAAAAAAAFpM/gjKsiVhss_0/w683-h512-no/20150308_155757.jpg)

And a little further outside my comfort zone, I've made a couple of forays out to East Jesus in Slab City, CA (check out http://eastjesus.org/ (http://eastjesus.org/)) and the last time I was there, they let me dig through their "inventory" and build this wind sculpture in the Art Garden:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Jj_ZPUXqa-M/VRFr4Ovzp-I/AAAAAAAAHiw/E5tFX5RqqqU/w702-h468-no/10440802_10152759893677503_5706115813171736500_n.jpg)

And these letters for their vehicle gate:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-0GDcogYzOnY/VQswIcfmRxI/AAAAAAAAFoc/brOD7wQ--lg/w683-h512-no/20150314_084300.jpg)

Now with lighting.

(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn43/Desmodiva/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-04/20150408_173811_zpsqhre9xam.jpg) (http://s301.photobucket.com/user/Desmodiva/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-04/20150408_173811_zpsqhre9xam.jpg.html)

Now . . . I want to make one . . .

Maybe with the bike cages . . .

That's Beauteous!!!!  [clap]

Needs a bottle of Bowens. Gimme your address.

Love it!

VERY cool.  8)

Good looking stuff everyone!

Here is one I am proud of, US patent 8907236 .  It was a solution to a problem of high resistance electrical contacts after they were arced on. 

(http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US20130248335A1/US20130248335A1-20130926-D00000.png)


More details here if you are interested:

http://www.google.com/patents/US20130248335 (http://www.google.com/patents/US20130248335)

 [clap]

That's excellent - you should be proud!

Very cool, mitt!  [thumbsup]

I've gotten close to a patent a couple of times, but nada. Definitely something to be proud of!

Good job man, that's a lotta hard work on a long road.

Something my dad made for us.  Walnut has a very nice grain.  I'm learning his woodworking trade a little at a time.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/House/DSC_0442%20-%201200.jpg)

JM

Dad does nice work.  [thumbsup]

It's always nice to have something 'family made' in a house.  Bedroom suite is my great uncles creation!

JM

My own woodworking. Only I am painting the grain.

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/9F44435C-5EFC-40AA-9EA3-076C35A9EB40_zpsm84ajnsb.jpg) (http://s784.photobucket.com/user/rappevan/media/9F44435C-5EFC-40AA-9EA3-076C35A9EB40_zpsm84ajnsb.jpg.html)

How do you mean painting the grain? Are you doing trompe l'oeil, faux grain? I've never seen that in person, but some of the photos I've come across are stunning stuff.

This is faux grain over hard coated foam.

Just another crafty day at work  8)

Very cool.

A new set for a show?

Indeed.

I Heart Country set.

I made this for my Nigerian Dwarf Goats...

(http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/p513/NAKID1/E4D13E7E-C3F8-4F19-B47C-DCDC1B281BFB_zpsftu903ob.jpg) (http://s1153.photobucket.com/user/NAKID1/media/E4D13E7E-C3F8-4F19-B47C-DCDC1B281BFB_zpsftu903ob.jpg.html)

 [clap] Cool.

Follow-up question: what does one do with nigerian dwarf goats?

They don't do much in that dog crate.

That's their "coyotes, please don't eat me" pen. They go in there at night. Otherwise, they have free reign of the yard.

And as far as what does one do with them, they're just pets. Very intelligent, very loyal, and very playful. They get along great with the dogs...

Thanks.  I learned something today.   [thumbsup]

Building is moving ahead on the off-grid place up near the Grand Canyon; last weekend we made good progress on the solar equipment shed. I couldn't resist doing something a bit more entertaining with the brackets to to attach the big 2"x12" floor joists to the footings; the other three are a club, spade & diamond.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3812/32473816034_694d742c76_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RtAN8U)2017-03-07_09-54-32 (https://flic.kr/p/RtAN8U) by triangleforge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/7138702@N03/), on Flickr

That's just plain ol bad ass!  [thumbsup]

If that 2x is CCA treated you'll want to put some sort of barrier between it and the steel, or that really nice handiwork will be gone in a couple of years.  Maybe copper behind it, so you can see it through the cut out?

Thanks!!! I didn't know that - and I sure as hell want to deal with this now while the joists are still open, before the flooring & the rest of the building goes on top and I can't get at the nuts on the carriage bolts any more.  Copper sheet would look really nice, and oxidize to a good green.

Thanks again!

Use the same thinking on all the fasteners going into the PT. Hot dipped galvi or stainless. The PT is nasty. Have you gotten a splinter from it yet?

I think tf needs to make me a nifty moon door knocker (like Rat's) for my new upcoming front door.  ;)

I wonder if his family knows the story behind that?

All of the fastneners (carriage bolts, joist hanger nails) are hot dipped, so I'm happy about that. No splinters, yet. Knock on (non-PT) wood.

I wonder if Gerry passed along the story to his family; I hope so. I know I'm eternally grateful that he shared it here, so at least it lives on with us.

And Speedbag, my door (metaphorically) is always open; drop me a line and let's chat.

 :)

I've been working with the kids on pushing past tagging as a means of artistic expression and communication.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170310_180135.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20161220_121912139.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20161222_130016972.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20161223_114958.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170309_135232571_HDR.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170123_115238.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170308_094703087_HDR.jpg)


And this is what I receive in return...

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170303_113332463_HDR.jpg)

 [laugh]

Well, the spelling is correct.



And the art you're getting from your students is really excellent - nice work!!!

Those were sample pieces I made for them to use as visual guides. I like seeing thier version because each one sees the work differently and then executes the assignment as they see fit. No two are ever the same.

I stand corrected - beautiful work, Joel!

Awesome, Joel!

 [thumbsup]  [clap] [bow_down] [thumbsup] [clap] [bow_down]

I really like the one with the guy under the umbrella. [thumbsup]

reminds me of a Banksy

I wish I could take credit for the design of that one. The teacher found it online and asked if I'd do one for the kids as a hard copy. My version is a bit too crowded with color. The original looks waaaaaay better.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170310_114048593_HDR.jpg)

My wall of suck just got bigger.

 [laugh]

Same artist. I recognize his style immediately.

Made a cooler stand for the deck out of cedar decking and cedar fence pickets...

(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14117914_10210582845596422_1476320371403963341_n.jpg?oh=09152a70cdc4f3535b35cb7a45730321&oe=592CCD2F)

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(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14233086_10210582846996457_5553955710061902778_n.jpg?oh=b58dabcfd05e0592c96c1070527de0fd&oe=5956535E)

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I am building a larger one to sell but that has been on the back burner since I have been working on finishing out the basement in the new abode.
I have the storage room, bathroom, my office and hallway framed and rocked. Got the theater, bar and den all framed but am waiting for drywall to be delivered and hauled downstairs before continuing.
Got the fireplace and chimney chase framed in, bar framed, sheeted (stone face), all wiring done and all plumbing roughed in.
I built a set of hickory cabinets for the bar. Bar will be hickory cabinets, Brazillian pecan flooring, granite bar top...faced with cultured stone with rough hewn cedar corners.
The back wall of the bar and den will be done in unfinished cedar board, rough hewn. The fireplace chimney will be cultured stone faced with a cedar live edge slab for the hearth and a rough hewn cedar mantel.

Got tons of work to do but when it is completed, I will post up a build thread.

Neato.

That's really cool!!

<Edit: no pun intended>

I need one. Build thread required.  [thumbsup]

How do you get the bottlecaps out of the bin? Does the bottom slide out?

This was the "prototype". The cap catcher is just a box. It has holes drilled in the bottom to allow any rain to drain out since it sits outside all summer but the caps simply need to be extracted via your mandibles.

As for a build thread, I really didn't snap pics throughout that build but will on the next one. The cap catcher on it will be a removable copper box to match the opener and the hardware.

You plan to remove the bottle caps from the box using your lower jaw?  [laugh]

Or did you mean phalanges?  ;D

I'd use my fingers.

I'd use a magnet.  8)

ahhh..two in the box

"Did I say two? Better make it three!"

I'm more of a "tip the whole thing over and let the caps fall out" kind of guy.

;D

Nope...I meant mandibles...I got one helluva underbite!  [laugh]

A light student load created an abundance of free time to play with watercolors.

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170328_110453248_HDR.jpg)

Me gusta!

I remember riding that bike...  [thumbsup]

Found a couple of slabs of cedar for the fireplace mantel and hearth in the bar downstairs...

(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17629843_10212681016329379_4420202145761031628_n.jpg?oh=915de07bb6b95a595c785b99ebca3016&oe=598DF37B)

 [drool]

those look like bacon

Only you would make that comparison.

 [bacon] [bacon]

They do look like bacon [drool]

Mmmmm dinosaur bacon!  [drool]

my wife wanted a ladder shelf and I didn't want to pay for one:

(http://i.imgur.com/a2phKda.jpg)

 [thumbsup]


So ....If I don't want to pay for one, you'll make one for me too?

uhhhh

My extension ladder sucks and I got tired of risking death to clean gutters while on it.

I made the Gutter Master 5000 today.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/900rider/Misc/IMG_20170529_134034_zpsas7xtlcl.jpg) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/900rider/media/Misc/IMG_20170529_134034_zpsas7xtlcl.jpg.html)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/900rider/Misc/IMG_20170529_134046_zpspznjreix.jpg) (http://s2.photobucket.com/user/900rider/media/Misc/IMG_20170529_134046_zpspznjreix.jpg.html)

It seems to work.

Infomercial
"The new Gutter Master 5000! Fear heights? Then fear no more!" :D

ML that should work.

However the length to diameter ratio looks a bit iffy.  Maybe it will be stiff enough not to bend with the water pressure on the inside.

I was thinking that looked a bit dodgy.

Nothing too crafty but still pretty useful. These solar lights break and shorten the string of the weed eater and you cant really mow around them.

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_2475_zpslxbvzgha.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_2475_zpslxbvzgha.jpg.html)

I made them so that they can be taken out and put back in by driving some PVC pipe into the ground.
Leaving them pointed at the pipe helps to find the pipe more easily.

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_2476_zpsbvonwkcb.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_2476_zpsbvonwkcb.jpg.html)

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_2477_zpszelr8ogj.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_2477_zpszelr8ogj.jpg.html)

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_2478_zpsj3ikx796.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_2478_zpsj3ikx796.jpg.html)

Difficulty level 1 unless the ground is hard. If there is a convenient Yellow Jacket nest, you can skip driving in the pipe, and just put the light in the hole.


Oh and I poured that concrete and did a couple of other things around there.

Before

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/Shasta%20way%20property%20right%20after%20fire%20purchase%204_zps8e1cgjjo.jpeg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/Shasta%20way%20property%20right%20after%20fire%20purchase%204_zps8e1cgjjo.jpeg.html)

Moments ago.

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_2479_zpsm7priecv.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_2479_zpsm7priecv.jpg.html)

DP, let me know if I should post in Flea Market instead of here.

Approx. 10 slabs of cherry wood for you crafty bastards (Zilbert) for the taking.  Just need to cover shipping/packaging costs from Newark NJ area.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4258/34243559823_5b56250a80_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UaZciR)Cherry_3 (https://flic.kr/p/UaZciR) by incorrigible05 stillincorrigible (https://www.flickr.com/photos/140352167@N03/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4245/35013902846_2b3580a8f4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vm4ps7)Cherry_2 (https://flic.kr/p/Vm4ps7) by incorrigible05 stillincorrigible (https://www.flickr.com/photos/140352167@N03/), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4286/34243560023_00d5b857cb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UaZcni)Cherry_1 (https://flic.kr/p/UaZcni) by incorrigible05 stillincorrigible (https://www.flickr.com/photos/140352167@N03/), on Flickr

 [drool] [drool]

If I were you, I'd post it in the Misc section also.

There are some that don't come to NMC and play with us unwashed types. ;D

 [thumbsup]

How many feet of board?  That is some pretty wood.

Waiting to hear back on exact # for you.  And yes, it is very pretty!

The word is:


65 usable board feet.  More if you use the live edge.  

One board is 24" x 80" x 1-1/4"  Others are 6' and a few are 5'



1-14 – 1-1/2" thick
8-24" wide

Stella, you do know you spelled basterds wrong?

Summer classes have kicked in and there is way less work to do. lm has pimped me out to do water color pics of her coworkers pets.

It fills the day ;D

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170522_134130709.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/a915d552-b4b9-4d42-80ff-07681b7e4846.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170607_094645358.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170523_110433225.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170523_092756746.jpg)

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170515_122159.jpg)

 [thumbsup] ;D

The wife is easily distracted at work, so I made her this


(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170602_123152.jpg)


 [evil]

 Great work BP!   [thumbsup]

Do you take commissions?

I know a few people that would be interested.

They've been giving lm gift vouchers from local restaurants. I think it should be free, but they insist on giving something. I personally don't think it's worthy of  anything other than a thanks. It helps oass the time at work, and I'm getting paid for that already.

I'll pass your note along to TriangleForge.   ;)  [thumbsup]





Great paintings BP, really!  Especially the squirrel. 

 [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t180/bobspapa/IMG_20170608_073527727.jpg)


sometimes the students get a little inspirational note....

 :)

I shortened it some but yeah, it's a little bendy.

make the beast with two backser worked great though :D

Cool, especially with the bonus of not falling off a ladder.

Holy shizzle Stella! Send you a message on Facebook! Tasty lookin' stuff there.

Right. I hate having to extend that thing and get on it.

Made a gate for my neighbor including before and after pics:

Before:
(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/P1030844_zpsuwlmh9k5.jpg)

Gate in progress:

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/gate_zpsxjf0h3ze.jpg)

After:

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/zaster99/P1030886_zps2uqqs0ag.jpg)

That's pretty bad ass.  [thumbsup]

Neato [thumbsup]

Well crafted Zaster! [thumbsup]

Killer!

Got tired of my all-black lid, and my tempera paint mock-up, so laid something permanent on it.
Fineline masking and blue tape, and a little bit of heavy stock.

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4232/35430703801_29aa017516_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VYTBRt) (https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4213/35430706071_212b5bb68a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VYTCwB)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4206/35560708435_d8431a3fbc_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WbnVGF) (https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4232/35430707911_a2e8767a63_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/VYTD5k)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4290/34719814854_8422297478_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UU58ku) (https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4206/35560716015_832759536a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WbnXXn)

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We test paint on cars, thousands of paint jobs, this car was 1-1/4" thick of solid paint, so I hacked off a chunk with a sawzall and crafted this as a gift for a client.

That's pretty cool!

This is a favorite thread. 

I started "pour" painting with acrylics recently and love it.  The finished pieces are super lame but there's one out of the bunch of a dozen I kind of like.  Will post that up sometime.

Agreed.

I forgot about this thread, but I finished this about a month ago:

(https://i.imgur.com/f7qry7y.jpg)

progress pics:  https://imgur.com/gallery/PT7LGQI

Some in-progress pics of the bar area in the basement...

Fireplace in the bar mantle and hearth are slabs of eastern red cedar...
(https://www.avsforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2357058&amp;d=1517947746)
(https://www.avsforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2357060&amp;d=1517947746)
(https://www.avsforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2357062&amp;d=1517947746)

Pano shot of the bar in progress...
(https://www.avsforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2357056&amp;d=1517947746)

A cooler stand I built for the deck...
(https://scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19598571_10213666438444316_7613437032073278311_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_oc=AQkUkQfjekdGQlQAn4HnZqDYEOv6AI7BBDbIOQMARJhDi8NixjiUpYtTokUvlSsbkEM&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-2.xx&oh=8a4751360f937c336422cd5edc80293c&oe=5DC1BB01)
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Another round of a BUNCH of cutting boards I made for last Christmas/selling through the Iowa Food Coop...
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(https://scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/48254061_10217838039211728_4080637535892537344_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&_nc_oc=AQkV6l6tJrQfcNtInBXKle6618LNTUGUUjSyQdhLQ4xrEpCDvPo-JKYxYrQjRxb4bLg&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-2.xx&oh=a5855a76a93af2004dac854c94748042&oe=5D7F70E4)
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That woodwork is incredible Zilbert  [bow_down]

Here is my most recent attempt at woodworking.... only the table is built out of MDF and I painted it to look like wood  ;D

There hearth in the background is also all faux stone and concrete.


(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48249879202_c3384d233a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2gvFf61)IMG_4229 (https://flic.kr/p/2gvFf61) by Evan Rapp (https://www.flickr.com/photos/164926774@N07/), on Flickr

Nice! Can it double down as a torture apparatus?   :)

The MDF might swell considerably with any fluids.  [evil]

Looks quite similar to my media center: https://www.roomandboard.com/catalog/storage-and-entryway/media-cabinets/linear-media-cabinets

I always choke when I see the prices of media centers like that. We bought one very similar to what's in the link 10 years ago and I think it was $1,400. I still have it and it's held up very well so I feel it was worth it but that's still a lot of money for what amounts to a shelf with some doors.

Agreed.  But since I'm not that crafty of a basterd, I pay.

This summer I got into making mandolins.  Just about to finish my third one (on the left), right in time for the cold weather when my garage shop becomes unusable.

(https://i.postimg.cc/DfNNtMqR/IMG-2522.jpg)

Man, and I thought my truck was kind of cool. Those are off the charts badass.

Nice job!

Your truck is way cooler!

Your truck is cool.

Those mandolins are cool as well.

Just two different skillsets

True beauties!

Awesome!