Post a photo of the last thing you made

[houtslager]

First part of a 20m picket fence to keep *#£@ dogs pooping on my dad's front garden. Plus finally getting a hybrid workbench glued up from joinery grade 4 by 2 redwood.

 

[againstthegrain]

This is the last project finished. A major reorganisation of my workshop. These are Euroboxes which come in various sizes and slide nicely on simple wooden runners. As you can see I keep fare too much stuff. Believe you me, this lot is still too much , but it is what I have kept after several Freecycle gifts, a few sales and more trips to the tip.

 

[Cooper]

My grandson (nearly 5) is into Lego, so his dad asked me to make a "Lego workstation" to keep all the bits off the floor

What a brilliant idea, and really nicely done. I especially like the trough with the sliding top.
Cheers
Martin

 

[Hallelujahal]

Made this small table decoration for today's lunch umm better rephrase that

 

[JDW]

Yes, I HANDED it to a man with a cnc machine

Well played

 

[danst96]

Waterfall walnut coffee table finished just today. My phone camera and the bright snow outside slightly exaggerates the grain but overall I'm happy. Leg custom fabricated by a friend back in Leeds.

 

[Graham Brazier]

First project in solid wood for at least 20yrs , made a router sled to flatten the board from 2x shower door Ali profiles and an old kitchen work top jig

Charcuterie boards to fit on my friends 4m long solid oak table

And my very first go at using epoxy resin learnt loads and had some fun

 

[xraymtb]

Danish stool following the Richard Maguire video series. Start to finish hand tools - local Elm finished with Fiddes Hard Wax Oil.

Lots of new stuff for me - curved rails, angled mortise and tenons not to mention the seat weaving (and it may take a week for my hands to feel normal again!)

 

[Cabinetman]

Danish stool following the Richard Maguire video series. Start to finish hand tools - local Elm finished with Fiddes Hard Wax Oil.

Lots of new stuff for me - curved rails, angled mortise and tenons not to mention the seat weaving (and it may take a week for my hands to feel normal again!)

That’s really very nice indeed, don’t need one but I want one! Or two!
What did you use for the woven bit? It used to be seagrass back in the day.

 

[xraymtb]

That’s really very nice indeed, don’t need one but I want one! Or two!
What did you use for the woven bit? It used to be seagrass back in the day.

Danish Paper Cord. Not the easiest stuff to find in smallish quantities but it looks nice and was easy to work with.

 

[Adam W.]

They make it in our local town at Randers reb.

https://danish-cord.randers-reb.com/danish-cord/about

 

[Cabinetman]

My grandson (nearly 5) is into Lego, so his dad asked me to make a "Lego workstation" to keep all the bits off the floor

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Well it’s a very good thought and very nicely executed, I did something not quite so good but with a lot more drawers and storage bits for my children 25 years ago and I can absolutely guarantee that the pieces of Lego will be strewn across the floor just the same as they ever were, sorry just warning you to keep your slippers on lol.

 

[Jacob]

Danish Paper Cord. Not the easiest stuff to find in smallish quantities but it looks nice and was easy to work with.

Lloyd Loom Danish Cord, Seagrass and Lloyd Loom Weaving Materials Price List

 

[Garden Shed Projects]

A bracket for the wife’s Echo Show. Birch ply with magnetic attachment. Turns out you can’t get a hanging bracket that swivels.

I took a guess at the centre of gravity and managed to get it a little out. Still works well.

 

[bourbon]

next door neighbour gave me a little job. The top had to be a specific thickness. So heat and a big hammer.

 

[bp122]

Bone shaped dog bowl holder out of solid oak - present for my sister in law's pup.

I first cut the inner circles out using a router (had to make a quick and dirty circle cutting jig):

I left a little bit of the material which I cut out using a jigsaw. I cleaned up the jigsaw edges using a spokeshave as I was doing this part at night without any power tools.


Then cut out the outer shape on the bandsaw the next day.

Thought of a lot of ways to join the legs to the top. Didn't want a boxy look, so decided to make some legs and glue them and using screws to reinforce it (ran out of time to think of a proper joinery procedure as it was approaching Xmas quite quickly)

So I cut the leg blanks out of the same board, and cut the shapes.

Clamped all the leg pieces in the drill vice and drilled two counterbored holes in each.

Used double sided tape to stick the legs on to eyeballed positions and transferred the holes on to the main piece.

Then I test fitted the bits without the glue. Also found a natural crack, which I fixed with some super glue. The screw length required was in between two standard sizes so selected the longer ones, drilled and tapped them to a depth on the main piece and then cut the screws to size (all of this had to be done after Xmas dinner, so no time to get the screws!!)




Couple of snags but nothing major. Then I used a punch to dot-mark each leg to its position and whipped out my old cabinet scarpers X 2(couldn't use the sander and the vacuum at 11 pm, let alone on Xmas day!!)

Deburred it and established 4 new edges in total. Then took my HSS rod and created 8 new burrs. Took less than 8 mins.

Scraped the main piece and the legs, including some of the edges which the spokeshaves didn't do a good job on -all without having to redo the scraper edges.

Then just sanded with a hand sander with 320 grit for 2 mins a piece and I was done.

Glued and screwed the legs.

Then brought it into the kitchen and only then thought to test whether it was level or was it rocking. Fortunately there was no rocking whatsoever (plenty of time for it to develop!)

Applied a home made beeswax + butcher block oil mix (at 3.45 am on boxing Day!!) and left it for a few hours.

Woke up in the morning, have it a good buff and wrapped it to be gifted later that day!

Couldn't find the branding iron in the recent workshop reshuffle, but was alright.

Was very well received. Sadly forgot to take pictures after I buffed it. It showed lovely grains.

Wanted to personalize it with the pup's name, but ran out of time!

 

[Orraloon]

Sure the pup will love it named or not.
Regards
John

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

Finally finished the drawers and door for the router table. Apart from adding a knob for the door so I can open it.

I am never doing drawers or hinges again. The fronts are in Duropal with miniature aluminium U-channel for the edging. I made many, many mistakes, but it is now good enough.

 

[MARK.B.]

Looks great Sporky a nice new addition to your shop

 

[Sporky McGuffin]

Thank you - you are all far too kind!

I'm off back to the workshop to put the doorknob on and see if I can make a basic box joint now that I've got a fancy-pants positioner doodad. Though I think the only metric bit I've got is an 8mm ball-end bit so they'll be funny looking.