Crafty Basterds -- The Stuff I made thread

[desmopr]

this is my kind of thread...


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

Amazing work!  Thanks for sharing...

[Le Pirate]

I make this for a living









(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  )

[DarkStaR]

I help normal people with their transformation to this:



FML

[angler]

I make this for a living


(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  )

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"

[Scottish]

so jealous.

[angler]

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).



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.

[Scottish]

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. 

[angler]

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.  

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.

[Le Pirate]

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"

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

[lazylightnin717]

Here are a few of my drawings.


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.


Minerva, taken from the same pedestal.


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!

[Vindingo]

Vindingo, that kitchen is stunning!

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.

[swampduc]

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.

[Scottish]

Lazylightening...as one artist to another 
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...

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/

[Big Troubled Bear]

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

School bus for rich private school



Jeep for a local demo



Airbrushing attempt for the Monster Contest



And my best achievemant sofar

[swampduc]

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