Show us something that you MADE

In reply to FJ40Jim :

 I'm genuinely glad it helped someone else!

My build partner Justin (AKA Phongshader on GRM), has been showing off his tech skills by 3d scanning my roll bars, drafting up connectors in Solidworks and 3d printing them. Now I just need to fab up the steel versions!

I got an engine support bar from the Amazon and it came without one of the hardware packs that included a bracket that bolted to the "foot" and thumb screws and washers (as far as I could tell). Being as it was heavy and box was ruined, I didn't feel like sending it back, so me and my 4 year old made replacements. She mostly used shop sharpies to draw "the plans" on the bar and told me what I needed to be doing. And I used mostly leftover BMW hardware and some allthread couplers to enact her vision. 

*And yes, my toenails are painted a deep red. See aforementioned 4 year old daughter. Plus it protects them from weld spatter.

In reply to Spearfishin :

Life rule #1:

Never weld in sandals.

earlybroncoguy1 said:

In reply to Spearfishin :

Life rule #1:

Never weld in sandals.

I don't actually think I did *that day* but I certainly have, and probably will again. 

In a similar vein, my great aunt had a cross-stitched thing on the wall at their house we used to stay in for a week every year when I was little that had a pair of boys acting out the words stitched below: "never whittle towards yourself or piss against the wind". They have stuck with me as words to live by. 

If you are thinking, that looks like a door, you would be correct. This is the door that leads to the outside world from the rear of my garage. It was original to the house, so coming up on 80 years old. It had 4 glass panels in the top, the bottom had been kicked in at some point, the paint had long since cracked off, and it had the old cartridge-style knob/lock combo with a skeleton key that was lost to history. It was ugly, drafty, and raw wood exposed to the elements is never a good thing. 

I decided that instead of paying $$$ to buy a custom-made steel door to fit the odd dimensions, I would rebuild the door on a grassroots budget. I paid $17 for a panel of 3/8" plywood and used scrap wood and leftover paint I had in the house. I removed years of staples, layers of paint, rotten wood, broken glass and the old hardware. I sanded, scraped, cut, filled, and drilled my way to something that is solid and looks OK from 10 feet away. It is not perfect, that was never the point, but it looks a lot better and leaks a lot less. It needs another coat or two of paint, then I will call it complete. 

CNC Plasma, baby, yeah!

And it finally works today (it caught fire yesterday....)

My first attempt at making a knife, a chef's knife in this case. 0.104" Magnacut with a (supposed) food release grind.

A chassis jig/ build table thing.

I've been remodeling my great-grandparent's farmhouse a weekend at a time for the last 5-6 years.  In the log house part, walls taken down, logs cleaned and chinked, drywall replaced the paneling, a new staircase built, and finally the floor is down and was finished last Saturday.