Post a photo of the last thing you made

[Buckeye]

Finally finished this oak garden bench for my folks. Too many hours and too many mortise and tenons. I could never make a profit on making this if someone asked me to make them one. but I guess being set up for production, better skills and better equipment would help. Anyhow my parents are well chuffed so that is the main thing.

 

[MarkDennehy]

This is what happens when stoopid Americans have their Mothers' Day in May and you forget you did yours in March already...

http://www.stochasticgeometry.ie/2018/0 ... -finish-2/

American black walnut with maple stringing on poplar feet with walnut stringing. Finish was just two coats of Osmo thin wood wax, nothing fancy. Many thanks to Custard and the others for advice and help with stringing, hadn't tried it before.

 

[Racers]

Some trestles and boards for my sons to play their games on.

Trestles by Pete Maddex, on Flickr

Pete

 

[Rustybin]

That reminds me of a table / landscape / diorama thing that my dad made for me to run matchbox cars around when I was less than five years old. I am forty nine now and still remember it and think of hium. I promise you your kids will always remember the love that making something like this for them shows.

(I may have had slightly too much Glenmorangie. So off to bed now all tired and emotional but the point still stands.)

 

[custard]

Finally finished this oak garden bench for my folks.

This one passed me by Buckeye, so belated congratulations!

Immaculate work, no wonder your folks are delighted. In particular the way you selected the wood for the crest rail so that the grain emphasises the shape is real evidence of both care and quality.

=D>

 

[Paul200]

Finally finished this oak garden bench for my folks.

That's beautiful mate! The kind of work I hope one day I can aspire to.

Paul

 

[Racers]

That reminds me of a table / landscape / diorama thing that my dad made for me to run matchbox cars around when I was less than five years old. I am forty nine now and still remember it and think of hium. I promise you your kids will always remember the love that making something like this for them shows.

(I may have had slightly too much Glenmorangie. So off to bed now all tired and emotional but the point still stands.)

Mine are 23 and 25, they helped with the construction.
Hopefully they appreciate me, being boys they don’t tell me very often.

Single parent family myself so I don’t know how these things are supposed to work.

Pete

 

[El Barto]

Some beautiful stuff on here lately which is nice to see. Here's my latest effort: salad servers as a wedding present for a friend. Taken from an ash tree cut down in the woods above their house. Going for sentiment (and thrift) with this one

They look a bit grubby in the photo, not sure why :?

 

[thetyreman]

I made a breadboard end chopping board from some bits of meranti from an old door I hacked up, I used oak for the draw bore pins, finished with de-waxed shellac as a sanding sealer, then pure tung oil, the project is one of the ones on woodworking masterclass by sellers, so hopefully I can now use the technique on other things as well, I'd like to make a few more of them.

 

[thick_mike]

Very simple shelf made from walnut to hold my currently playing record sleeve. Finished with walnut oil naturally

 

[Steliz]

Nice shelf and a great choice of music. I had The Rising Suns on just yesterday.

 

[thick_mike]

I’m ashamed to say that I’ve been a fan of Taj Mahal for 30 years, but I have never heard of the Rising Sons! I’ve just had a quick google and I obviously have some homework to do this evening. Many thanks for the tip

 

[whiskywill]

Very simple shelf made from walnut to hold my currently playing record sleeve. Finished with walnut oil naturally

What is that quaint looking machine with the giant Pontefract cake on it?

 

[MarkDennehy]

Have you never seen a vertical lathe before?

 

[AES]

Bit too thin for a Pontefract cake isn't it? Must have been flattened out a bit

 

[Racers]

Very simple shelf made from walnut to hold my currently playing record sleeve. Finished with walnut oil naturally

Oooo a 401, nice.

What's the rest of your kit?

Pete

 

[Moonsafari69]

Made from recycled white pine and took me 6 weekends and some nights to build.
Style - European / Paul Sellers design
36” High x 72” Long x 27” Deep
Top is 5” thick
Legs are 5 1/4” x 5 1/2”
Well is 9” wide x 3 1/2” deep
Front vice - Record No 53 with Sapele jaws and suede-leather on the front jaw
End vice - Record No 52 1/2 E with Sapele jaws
Finished with Boiled Linseed Oil

 

[g7g7g7g7]

https://imgur.com/a/YrARp15

Linking to imgur so I don't have to bother cropping or converting files, really quite happy with this bench, It started last year but got sidelined when I needed to move my workshop so glad to finally have the thing finished and in time for good weather as well.

Made of poplar, I have no idea what the plugs are, the wedges are Beech, Sapele and Maple, just cos I had wee bits kicking about.

 

[thick_mike]

Very simple shelf made from walnut to hold my currently playing record sleeve. Finished with walnut oil naturally

Oooo a 401, nice.

What's the rest of your kit?

Pete

Big Denon PMA850 behemoth from the 80s, into Zingali Overture 3S speakers...

Too good for my ears really

 

[thetyreman]

Made from recycled white pine and took me 6 weekends and some nights to build.
Style - European / Paul Sellers design
36” High x 72” Long x 27” Deep
Top is 5” thick
Legs are 5 1/4” x 5 1/2”
Well is 9” wide x 3 1/2” deep
Front vice - Record No 53 with Sapele jaws and suede-leather on the front jaw
End vice - Record No 52 1/2 E with Sapele jaws
Finished with Boiled Linseed Oil

very nice bench! I bet that's pretty heavy, especially with not one but two heavyweight vices, great job.