Crafty DIYers
 

Some creative expression come from the head/hand combination, like happy Monkey's roll of tape, or Limey's knitting needles.
Things people have built, such as this saddle stand.

That's glorious!

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But there's a danger someone might steal something that nice so you built a stone wall.

Wow.

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Very nice.

Holy cow, thats really something.

Looks almost like they divided by zero...

I've seen fireplaces and indoor stone comparable, but not outside.

You can make your own chairs.

Lovely!

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You can be rustic to posh.

How about a jewelry box, it could earn you some extra kinky sex.
Or a unique table/coffee table that'll make your friends and neighbors say, "Hell izat".

Or if you're after kinky sex with her and her girlfriend/sister/brother/clergy... ;)

After all that kink you'll want to sit.

Tables are handy, you can pile them up with future projects.

For the rugged individualist a throne, for the man cave if you're married, or the living room if you're not.
Even the bedroom, think of all the clothes you could pile on that baby. ;)
How about the fanciest damn doggie door in town?

Nice.

I keep looking at that door. I like it. I wonder how it's tied in to the wall. How is the wall constructed? I'm so used to straight pieces of wood. What does the lintel look like under there?

I'd guess the hinged edge is straight and the door closes flush against the back of the curved piece.

Do you think the curved piece holds up the wall? Is it structural for that part of the wall, or just finish carpentry?

Nevermind. I see it's a "cob house" which is made basically of mud and straw. This one is built on Mayne Island in BC. So it's not a concrete block wall covered by stucco, like I expected. It's mud and is totally organic.

Looks like the hinge side is a real stud covered by that driftwood log, and the swing side is the curvy driftwood log attached to the dried mud wall.

You can see it here at about 2:15

Inside view.
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I believe it's adobe, and the roof overhangs about four feet so it's semi-protected from the weather.

Oh, I didn't see glatt snuck in there while I was off looking, because I didn't remember where I found it. 99% of the Cobb house links are on pinterest and you have to sign up. Fuck 'em. Yes the curved and sort of straight timbers on the outside are just casings.

I did the same thing over the windows and doors in my bedroom, to look like peeled log lintels. I found 12 ft beams which had two sawn sides, and two peeled, but they were Sycamore which is too weak for beams. Maybe that's why nobody had used them. Anyway, I sliced off the two peeled sides on the bandsaw, cut to lengths, and screwed to the walls.

It's important to keep in mind you're making something YOU like, and it doesn't matter if I like it or not. You'll get the most benefit from the skills you develop so even if you fail, you win. Yin Yang tables and a desk.

Cool man.

If you know someone who has messed up their life, taken the wrong path and disappointed their sweet old mother, by playing bass, http://cellar.org/2014/whistling.gif you could make them look good with a custom axe.

that's some fine work and would make someone a very excellent cutting board

:D no i kid i kid, but i would not buy an instrument with fine woods or woodworking on the BACK of it

that's where the belt buckle rash goes, it's meant to be destroyed

Well it is a bass so you play it up on your tits or down on your thigh, right?

And you wear your buckle over your left front pants pocket, as any good mechanic would so they don't scratch the fender. Same idea, different kind of Fender.;)

DIYers build what they like, regardless of what anybody says. :rolleyes:

Hey honey, wake up, I hear somebody banging the front door. ;)

I'm thinking the crafty people are another kind of crafty too, because they like to build a place to park their butt.

This fence not only looks cool, it appears robust enough to stop a raging bull, and sturdy enough to survive children. ;)

It almost looks like a gate.

I like it.

Maybe it is a gate, that would explain that block at the bottom in the center.

I need to inspect that up close.

The more I look at it, the more I think glatt was right. Not a gate, but a pair of gates, that come together where I drew the white line. Each side is heavy framed, with a grid of 2x4s, then thin boards laid over the grid, interwoven together.

When you finish that gate, you can build saloon doors for the pantry, and a fancy closure for the chastity belt.

I think that gate is carved and fitted.

I was about to post this folding screen...
http://cellar.org/2015/DIY9.jpg
... when it occurred to me, it looks like it has a ton of work in, well crafted, but I don't like it. It must be art, which requires good taste. :haha:
Then I says to myself, self says I, hmm, I made one of those folding screens I wonder if I've got a picture? Well I know damn well I've got a picture... in one of nine 3-ring binders, bulging with plastic sheets that hold 8 snapshots each, and are in quasi chronological order, except maybe three of them.

Miner's bump cap, carbide lantern, steel toed boots, hold my beer I'm goin' in.
Holy shit, it was rougher than I thought, no cave-ins or paper cuts, but a tsunami of memories and (shudder) feelings.
My god, the things I've forgotten (or suppressed:o), I was lucky to get out alive, I tells ya.
But I did manage to snatch a couple pictures of some of the tons of shit I've built.

So this is the screen, as you can see it ain't art. I put the black fabric panels in and she added the print on one side. I had a tough time figuring out how I was going to do this until I looked in a hardware catalog (pre-internet) and discovered the hinges they use for saloon doors which have to swing both ways. Then it was a piece of cake to design/build. The pictures are distorted, the verticals are straight as a fucking arrow.

http://cellar.org/2015/screen.jpg

I like them. You knew what you were doing.

Actually I just knew what I wanted and kept cutting off shit that didn't look like it would be part of that. :haha:

Real purty.

The perfect desk for watching porn without getting bruises on your legs. :yesnod:

Whs

Since everyone is busy with football or getting ready for the coming work week, I slip this in while nobody's looking. :unsure:
It's not very pretty, and sure isn't art, but by god it worked flawlessly for nine months and I'm very proud of that.
Backstory - She broke her back and was going in for surgery with a long recovery. It came down to moving home with Mother, or install a toilet in the kitchen of the house(twin) she rented, since the bathroom and bedroom were upstairs. The dude on TV says, "Just don't fall" but those things are very spendy, so I built one. Time and money constraints said I had one shot at it.

http://cellar.org/2015/jills lift.jpg

A steel channel, actually two lengths, some angle iron, pipe, leather reclaimed from a diner booth, some roller bearings, and two garage door openers. Turned out I only need one opener but used both remotes.
The steel channel had been for an elevator in a private mansion, my buddy pulled it out of the dumpster during a renovation.
I measured her butt(12") and made the seat exactly as big as necessary to minimize the space used and not hit the wall when it swiveled.
The leather needed a serious treatment with Lexol to not crack when bent, and minimal padding because she's only sitting in it for less than a minute.
It rides in the channel on a steel plate with eight roller bearings for wheels, 4 on the bottom and 4 on the top so it couldn't lift or tip.
One remote at the bottom of the stairs and one at the top so she couldn't screw up and leave it behind.
Put a piece of 1 inch marine plywood in the landing at the bottom, pushed up against the door jambs, to attach the bottom to, and brackets screwed down through the carpet, midway and at the top.

The only problem she had was near the end of convalescence she would start to get off before it came to a full stop. Hey, garage door, do that and it changes direction. :smack: I hadn't anticipated that. Later she used it to carry laundry and shit, up and down, until she could carry it. I could have made it prettier but the paint was hardly dry when I installed it.

That's really impressive, Bruce.

Old boy you are bright. I knew about this, but never saw any photos. I want 2.

What glatt said.

Dude, you built that? That's incredible. I hope my son is as crafty and clever as you.

I was lucky, I'd intended to use garage door tracks, even tried a couple local installers but all they had was rusty bent take-outs. I'd dismissed that steel channel we had used to hang my 3,000 lb safe from, to get it off the truck, because it was too short. I mentioned it to me buddy and he says, oh, I have two of those. Badda bing, badda boom, everything fell in place. I still have the unused garage door opener in the box up in the attic, and the rest of that rig in the garage under the ElCamino. After she healed she didn't want it... or me. :haha:

Back to the crafty...

That was brilliant Bruce! What'd you end up spending on parts?

I think I paid $300 for the two garage door openers, but only used one of them. Then the channel was free and most everything else was in stock. I might have picked up some paint or something, but nothing major.

My main hobby has been capability, the goal being to be able to fix, or build/improvise anything, at any hour. Of course that's an unattainable goal, but I've done pretty well. Now my brother is pissing and moaning about all the crap I've accumulated, and urging me to divest before he has to clean up after my demise. :right:

I volunteer.

but I'm busy for the next twenty five years, so you'll have to just tough it out.

Where do you store all that good karma?

He sprinkles a little around the neighborhood every morning, keeping lawns neat and streets clean.;)


Old MacDonald had some wood strips, e-i-e-i-o
with a glued strip here, and a glued strip there
Here a joint, there a joint, everywhere a glued joint
Old MacDonald has a dining room set, e-i-e-i-o

I guess with leather backs not offering any stiffening, the frames would have to be extra strong. Love the joints.

Very interesting joint. I had to sketch it out. It's a symmetrical joint (all boards have the same cut), but a 2x3 rather than square cross-section.

I wonder what the joint at the rear upright looks like, I see it has an open notch at the outside.