Show us something that you MADE

Years ago I called on Morton Fab and they showed me their pumpkin chucker.   

Beer, welders, open farm fields, slow Saturday’s.......

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In reply to ORIF :

Can we play checkers with yellow and green squash slices? Oh right, Mom says don't play with your food....

It’s not special but I wanted a table for my kamodo joe.  The metal stand was breaking at the welds and this is actually narrower!  It’s also more stable.  It had to be cut to fit our odd shaped little patio.  It isn’t finished but it is functional.

Whipped up this guy to hold my grinder disks:

Two old random bolts and a chunk of scrap wood.

Dash knobs for the Valiant.  ABS in front, painted PLA left rear, factory right rear.  I had to simplify a bit to get it done in Sketchup, because I'm a newbie there.  

In reply to freetors :

1/2 of my bedroom doors.  Fiddleback white oak over Black Walnut v

frenchyd said:

In reply to freetors :

1/2 of my bedroom doors.  Fiddleback white oak over Black Walnut v

I know for a fact that I've NEVER seen 'fiddleback' white oak (bird's eye maple on occasion)......let alone displayed on a pallet of much sought after black walnut planks ......shoot I'm just a wood butcher with a skilsaw and forty year old True Temper 20oz hammer.... carry on...I'm know going to build saw horses  with 'seasoned' material....layin' around .......BEAUTIFUL STUFF !!!! 

 In reply to 759NRNG : I don’t actually know if there is “fiddleback” White Oak. It just has the same grain pattern as Fiddleback Maple.  ( the back of a Stradivarius Violin has a striped pattern which has come to be called Fiddleback).  I also have a 20 foot long x10 inch wide board of Fiddleback Black Walnut already in use. My problem is I’ve got too much wood, really unique wood laying around and not enough time.  In fact my sawhorses are 4x4 Black Walnut. 

I’ve got 22 inch wide 10 feet long solid Burl planks   Sitting in a pile of wide planks each unique in its own right.   Big timbers and unique little pieces that are just too nice to throw in the trash.  

When friends and family come over I try to give them some wood but they all back away like I want to show them slides of my vacation.   I tried to sell some on Craigslist and I wound up selling over 1200 bd ft of FAS grade white hard Maple for $200 I had sat for a whole day at the end of the sawmill line and hand selected the best planks and paid over a dollar a board foot.  

frenchyd said:

 

When friends and family come over I try to give them some wood 

Maybe you're just using the wrong context... If I'm ever up in MN I'll be sure to give you a ring!

 In reply to Robbie :

So how big is your truck? Smiley face 

Speaking of Fiddleback Maple...  The high school music teacher had some beater old instruments that weren't usable and needed repair.  So I thought I'd give lutherie a try.  Here's Offender #1 - a little 3/4 violin with multiple cracks in the top.  I was a bit rough getting the top off and you can see the splinters that stayed with the sides.  First violin opening for me.  They got glued back in later.

And Offender #2, a 4/4 with issues that are obvious:

Here's the #1 with the cracks glued and braced with little cleats:

My daughter and I made some spool clamps and here's the glue-up of #1:

We used Titebond glue on this one, which would have "purist" luthiers barfing in their rouge-bags, but this was just our first go-around.  For the #2 fix we bought some "Old Brown Glue" - basically real-deal hot-hide-glue in a bottle.  You heat it up in a hot water bath and use it just like hide glue.  Pretty cool stuff.

And here's #1 all buttoned up and ready to go!  It actually sounded ok and didn't buzz or anything.

I don't have any pics of the #2 fix downloaded right now, but it turned out ok too.  Sound on it was actually very nice.  Both units are back over at the school, ready to be further trashed and abused by a new generation of would-be string players.

Wow, y'all got talent. As far as car stuff, I've made brackets and mounts for coils and IC spray tanks and such, maybe an engine mount or two, and put a fair bit of effort into helping my pal John put my rally Protege together, but certainly nothing like summa the projects here. 

I didn't make this fireplace insert either. But I did the install (except the flue... farmed that out), had to knock out enough drywall on both sides and bring the wall fwd 4" to meet code, that it made sense to frame it out and rock it. Herein I learned that stonemasons earn their keep. I could never have afforded to farm this gig out so it was all diy. I think it turned out pretty good. We loooove our fireplace :)

I didn't make this awesome airbrush piece either. Mike Lavallee painted this and yes it kicks very much butt. Mike owns Killer Paint; yeah that one. If you haven't heard of this outfit it is worth googling. I decided this panel needed a frame, and made it outta angle iron. I tried to get arty-farty with the angle grinder before spraying a clearcoat. Just got this hung on the wall today. Am muuuch more thrilled with the artwork than I am with my sillyass frame..

I like micro controller projects:

I can't claim engineering on the electronics on the watch thingy called a Flora NeoGeo Watch but I did machine the case:

(Oh and my helper is called Otto, it was the first time I got something 3d printed, it uses a microcontroller and servos, sings and dances)

I tried to make it fit around my wrist better so I could wear it:

But it is still clunky, It doesn't help that I am a thin individual.

The NeoGeo has a GPSr, Magnetic sensor, etc in it. My electronic designs with microcontroller includes astrophotography mounts, an emf meter because I wanted to know if there were ghosts around, you know just fun stuff. And just this morning I was eyeballing the Megasquirt 2 DIY. Its time I joined the 21 century and learned to tune a car with a computer.

frenchyd said:

 In fact my sawhorses are 4x4 Black Walnut. 

And we now know who has the most expensive sawhorses in the world.

Great work on the violins, some inspiration if you haven't seen it already: 

In reply to pinchvalve :

Love the Stew-Mac videos!  Definitely an inspiration for my instrument messing-about!  That's also where I bought some of the violin strings and parts, and the sound-post setting tools.

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I made some freezer jam.  It was almost gone so I added some peanut butter to it, gave it a quick stir.  This mix made a delicious sandwich that didn’t drip the jam out.

This box to ship a small motorcycle across the country.

In reply to akylekoz :

THAT IS A GREAT FORK LIFT! LOL!

Some mentioned more/better/whatever tools. But everyone on this forum already uses the best tools there are, their brains and their hands! I love this forum because it's not "give me blueprint, i follow instructions....duh" and the closest is the "learn me" threads and every time I see one of those the person learning takes off and does something better.

Shipping crate out of scrap for a blower going from FL to CA. Set up to use a pallet jack for moving it around because the blower's heavy. Blower was also wrapped in foam before top installed.

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what is that wondrous machine behind the box?

So my wife built this while I was at work today. It's a headboard and yes she can do carpentry allot better than I. I was shocked.

Not "mine" per se, but I'm pretty proud of it.  Kazoo Jr. built this during the "sheet metal work" portion of his aviation technology class.  It was a  skill demo for basic rivet work and shaping aluminum.  

Quick and dirty lamp build out of a Bombay Sapphire (the only way to make a Martini) tin

Coat and hat hangers, folk art from recycled horshoes and industrial bearings for my daughters horse club to auction off