Post a photo of the last thing you made

[Zeddedhed]

Last sensible thing I made was this - timber surround for the appallingly fitted uPvc evil things on my own house.

Before:

After:

The surround is made from Douglas Fir, (eventually) painted with Sikkens Rubol Plus Satura

Construction is simply Dominos and Glue.

That's about as good as it gets from me at the moment!!

 

[devonwoody]

Yeah that looks good, but not so good if it was three floors up and needs repainting in the future.

 

[monkeybiter]

It would make that hose pipe difficult to reach as well!

 

[Zeddedhed]

Yeah that looks good, but not so good if it was three floors up and needs repainting in the future.

Ha ha!
Fortunately the first floor windows are ones I installed and don't need any further work. It's just the ground floor ones that are in this state.
The really embarrassing thing is that I built the extension myself and left the installation of the windows to a 'helper' whilst on holiday for a week.
I came back to find the mess you can see here. I could have fixed the problem there and then had I taken a step back, slowed down and thought it through.
The brick cladding (brick slips) was not installed at that point and I just thought "I'll fix that later' and steamed on with the rest of the build, including plastering inside.
What I should have done is move the windows further out.
Now six years after moving back in the missus has put her foot down and told me that i can't build/make anything else until I've sorted the problem.
She's probably right - how we've never had water penetration through the window reveals is beyond me. I guess Tyvek house wrap really does work and the extra effort of correctly lapping it around corners etc has paid off.

As for the hose pipe Monkey, that's her domain, not mine. Never use the thing unless it's for giving the kids a dousing when a game of footie turns into WW III.

 

[mark w]

Pair of table leg frames with various wood laminations, made for Alardus Van Den Bosch (http://www.alardus.co.uk). He mounts his intarsia table tops to the frames.
They should be on display at this years Celebration Of Design & Craftsmanship at Cheltenham.

 

[hammer n nails]

Made today.

 

[houtslager]

Gradually recovering from my broken shoulders, and getting back on the tools finally,
made a few of these for sale, people like them but as usual the price puts them off, Bleeding **** they take 4 hours to make by hand and spray the required colour, but I ain't selling them for less then my hourly rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KF6YjpN0PI

Fun to make, but too much time in making the angled through joint, got to devise a quicker method to bring the price down.

 

[UrbanSpaceman]

Here's my last effort. I cut up a crappy Argos bookcase for the top, and the bottom half is all 3x1 pine and the worst quality 12mm ply I've ever seen!

Long haired commander-in-chief was happy though

 

[Saint Simon]

Made this sort of Shaker clock for my son's wedding. The beautiful brown oak came from MAC timbers and the movement from Cousins. The hardest part was the dial; printed on card, glued to ply, coated with epoxy finish and drilled. Took four goes.



Great fun.
Simon

 

[devonwoody]

Here's my last effort. I cut up a crappy Argos bookcase for the top, and the bottom half is all 3x1 pine and the worst quality 12mm ply I've ever seen!

Long haired commander-in-chief was happy though

good conversion, =D>

 

[UrbanSpaceman]

Here's my last effort. I cut up a crappy Argos bookcase for the top, and the bottom half is all 3x1 pine and the worst quality 12mm ply I've ever seen!

Long haired commander-in-chief was happy though

good conversion, =D>

Thanks, it's certainly better than the traveller bookcase it once was.

Speaking of which, I put this in the space freed up when I removed the bookcase. I estimate it has 250% the capacity of the old one.

 

[david123]

Zero clearance insert for my TS200 today, just need to cut out the slot. Not the best picture on the world, but hey ho.

 

[marcros]

Dave, do you know how to cut the slot, using the fence to hold the insert in place and raising the blade?

If so, sorry- grandma suck eggs etc.
if not, well, that is how you do it.

 

[david123]

Hi Marceos
Yup, I have made them before, but thanks for sharing..
Have a good weekend

 

[nev]

Todays output from the shed.
Bowl. unknown exotic wood (smelt medicinal :shock: ) finished 240 to 600 and EEE ultrashine.

 

[david123]

I like that, nice

 

[gasman]

2 identical sycamore glass cabinets for displaying glasses etc
They are big - 1000 x 1600 x 450mm.
They took me 180 hours in total - with lots of stringing inlay in the top and base and the 4 shelves. I do love ripple sycamore!

The mark you can see in the middle at the top is the thing I put on all my work - a square with a circle above it - usually it is very discreet but the client wanted it very obvious. One cabinet it is in purple heart the other one in pink ivory
Cheers Mark

 

[devonwoody]

Very nice and superb workmanship, your client should be happy.

(hammer)

 

[Richiet]

I've studied each page of this thread and come to this conclusion............................I ain't posting pictures of my rubbish on here.

Some really inspirational pieces.

 

[monkeybiter]

I've studied each page of this thread and come to this conclusion............................I ain't posting pictures of my rubbish on here.

Some really inspirational pieces.

This thread needs pictures of everyday run of the mill stuff that gets knocked out just as much [if not more than] as the high quality output of some of the members, to encourage and include the rest of us that just enjoy the making rather than excel at it. I know I appreciate the opportunity to post a picccy of something I've made that wouldn't justify a thread of it's own. The postings are frequent enough that your embarrassment won't last long, and you would have helped to keep this as a window into the ordinary, allowing others [like me] to just show some of the normal day-to-day output.