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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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?
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.
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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.
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.
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,
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...
... 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.
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:
The perfect desk for watching porn without getting bruises on your legs. :yesnod:
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.
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.
That's really impressive, Bruce.
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:
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.
so the corners are rounded off not for ease of assembly, but for the ease of the ass
/thighs
I believe you're correct. Or he accidently chipped one corner and made the rest match. :haha:
Looks like one of grandpa's, or great grandpa's. Olde Tyme craftsmanship.
Since everybody is playing Paul Revere yelling, the snow is coming, the snow is coming, I'll slip in another one of mine. :unsure:
I had tons of small scrap pieces of various types of wood, so I laid out what I wanted on a piece of plywood, kind of an oval with squared off ends, I think if I hadn't squared the ends it would have been six foot. Screwed it down to my work table.
Aside; that work table is recycled bowling alley, on shortened wooden file card cabinets.
I cut the pieces of wood so the were more or less pointing to the center, then glued them together and to the plywood, I didn't have a planer at the time, and cutting those little pieces to the same thickness on the tablesaw is scary. Since I'm a pussy, I figured after they were glued I'd even them up with a belt sander, but I didn't relish the amount of dust that would make in the cellar. So I took a couple of steel tubes with blocks of wood on each end, and used the router like a manual milling machine cutting the glued blocks to uniform height. Then cut the outline in the blocks and plywood with a Jig/Saber Saw and sanded smooth.
Then and only then, 'cause Mama didn't raise no fools, 'cept my brother, carefully made a paper template of the opening. Took that to the mirror store and said make me a half inch beveled mirror this shape... Oh, and this side up in case my hand cut opening was a little wonky. I'd measured and eyeballed the hell out of it, but it had to be right on the money. Covered with two part Bar Finish epoxy... I'd have preferred a flat finish but chicks like shiny. Covered the back with thin plywood and the mirror is glued to that
I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out the reflection in the mirror. I was sure that's my spare bedroom by the half curtains and wood shutters, but it looks like a black rollaway toolbox and I never had one. After much photoshoping I discovered three's an amp and tom-toms. OK, that's when a friends band was using that room for rehearsals. Duh. :smack:
What you won't do for the ladies. :)
Nice piece of work.
What you won't do for the ladies. :)
There's only so much punishment a man can take in pursuit of punani.
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Honey, I've finished the bedroom, call our daughter and have her bring her children to see it. :lol:
Every time I see one of these fantastic kid bedrooms, and this one is fantastic, I wonder if they realize how fast the kids grow up. Maybe that's why he built it strong enough for three adults. ;)
That is awesome. It also acts as a deterrent to adult children moving back and a honey pot for Grandchildren visiting.
One guy in Hawaii...
Albizia, aka "The Tree That Ate Puna," is a highly invasive pest. Land with a lot of albizia growing on it is less valuable than an equivalent lot with no albizia on it, because of the cost of removing the undesirable trees.
The wood is weak and brittle, leading to its most notorious feature... dropping heavy branches with no warning. It has been responsible for numerous downed power lines, crushed roofs, injuries, etc. as well as strangling out ohia forest. It is unsuitable for structural uses.
It can be burned.
But another Hawaiian...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - They are known for their broad canopies and brittle branches. Albizia trees are a nuisance to some, and something to eradicate for others. But for Gary Young albizia is a choice wood.
"I started looking around at what grew here. Albizia was sort of an abundant resource," he said.
Young turns that abundant resource into surfboards. For years he has used albizia wood and an epoxy laminate to craft a board he claims is as strong as a fiberglass surfboard.
"They weigh the same or less than a fiberglass board. And they have higher durability," he said.
Young is a seasoned surfboard maker. He has built them out of wood since 1976, using koa, bamboo, and now albizia.
"It's the best material I've ever worked with," he said.
I like that picnic table. Looks easy to make at first glance, but it's a bit trickier than it seems. Getting those flats of the logs even with one another to make a smooth table top when the logs are all different thicknesses. I imagine they are notched underneath, but would like to know.
Could lay the half logs face down and level a plank across them. Then run a skillsaw or router along the plank to make notches of even depth to the faces.
Or rough out notches in a stringer then set the half logs in the notches with epoxy to make them even. Have to take the bark off though.
Could lay the half logs face down and level a plank across them. Then run a skillsaw or router along the plank to make notches of even depth to the faces.
That's how I'd do it. (Assuming the skill saw blade would reach that deep.) It's not incredibly difficult. Just not as easy as slapping the thing together using 2x10s for a table top.
Combination guitar stand and music stand. I'll refrain from further comment. ;)
It's a manufactured door, what can go wrong? :rolleyes:
The homeowners could thoughtlessly have put the hinges on the wrong side of the house.
It's a manufactured door, what can go wrong? :rolleyes:
You had ONE job, Al.
I suppose they could be midgets and wanted the stained-glass windows where they could peek out.
Oh,:litebulb: I've got it, they were shipped an Australian door by mistake.
Combination guitar stand and music stand.)
That's pretty cool.
And it looks fairly straightforward to replicate.;)
Here's another straight forward easy to build item, but I doubt it would hold as many clothes as a stationary bike. :haha:
I don't think that word means what they think it means...
This could be tricky, but a simple 90 degree arc jig, lacking a lathe, and a router could do it.
Bocce is for pussies, croquet might cost you your head, ten-pin is the way to go. You don't even need kids, the pins are reset with strings.
Love the finish on this table, so classy.
This was a spur of the moment project. I'd bought a big set of
Forstner bits for making big holes in wood that are the size you want and not all torn to shit. So I was experimenting with blocks of different types of wood at different angles to the grain. So much easier and cleaner than a hole saw, pretty quick I had a pile of these blocks. So I spiffed them up a little while I thought about it.
I had been in this junk shop one time and bought a hanging lamp, a small ghetto crystal chandelier, just because it was the ugliest lamp I'd ever seen, and thought it would make a great gag gift for some poor bastard. It had a bunch of these big cut glass shapes with a coating that made them sparkle and throw colored beams like third rate real crystals. I hung one in each of the blocks to create suncatchers. Not terribly pretty but worked pretty well in the window.
The one with the stripes is glued up 1" hardwood marine plywood we'd found in a barn. The sheets were 4' square, and every other ply was light or dark... I don't know why?
I wonder if there is a layer of tropical hardwood?
Could be, it's very dense, very heavy, and strong like babushka.
Yeah, it's a Nakashima, but he did it himself. :blush:
This looks like a doable chaise lounge.
It said hand carved, but I can't figure out how big this really is.
This looks like a fairly easy project. The design is flexible enough to tinkered with and the materials easily available. However I have one rather large reservation, I don't think it's sturdy enough for really vigorous sex. :headshake
Yes, it's a matter of where she sits.
Looks like a chair ya'd sit in when getting a manicure.
Or pedicure, which leaves her open to... uh, suggestion. :blush:
The trestle style base seems to be de rigueur, for wide board tops.
This is an easy one anybody with a jackknife and a hunk of tree can do.
Observer: How did you carve that easy chair?
Carver: I just removed everything that wasn't an easy chair.
Reclaimed wood table/ I don't like it.
Make your little princess a magic chair...
Reclaimed wood table/ I don't like it.
The design and the wire legs are very 60s. Quite retro.
Lead paint is extra tasty.
OK, you've had time to resharpen your jack knife, so just grab an Oak stump and have at it.
Different, kinda cool, but I wouldn't want it in my house. Not entirely sure why, it just jars my senses. Be a bitch to dust too.
He won't have to worry about moths...
If Cedar doesn't deter the moths, scare 'em away...
You could knock the puppy out in a weekend or two... :lol:
Different schools of thought on patterns in a strip built boat. I like taking the donor wooden beam and cutting it into book matched strips that will wrap the boat in what appears to be a continuous matching grain pattern. If you select wood that's fairly uniform in color, you can get what I consider to be gorgeous grain patterns.
I prefer the more uniform color to the contrasting strips of different color.
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It's a little garish for my tastes, but I highly appreciate the skill and dedication needed to pull that off. Probably won't get stolen either.
How about this beauty...
Beautiful boats. My FiL has a lovely wooden canoe but its to pretty to use so he bashes around in fiberglass.
Cute picnic table for swingers. However a couple things bothered me about this picture.
First was the wide open S hooks holding the chains, but I guess since they aren't really swinging it doesn't matter all that much.
Secondly, I'm pretty sure the backboard for the basket ball hoop is a glass window. That's a genuine WTF were they thinking?
Here's something you can do with that clapped out CJ rusting away out back.
Awesomeness, but like Griff says...
OK, then that old clapped out CJ which was hit by a rocket propelled grenade, causing it to swerve over an IED which blew it 40 ft in the air, then came down in the path of a 100 ton tank with no brakes, rusting out back. Better?
Christ, what a bunch of sentimental softies, you're better off staying home playing pool.
Alrighty then, a 72", 7 drawer dresser...
That is a chest of drawers.
Looks like a stomach and legs of drawers...
Little bench under a tree, rustic, but enough poly to make it wipeable, for bird poop and tree dirt.
Good spot to read a book, poison a pigeon, or shoot a squirrel.
But still open enough you can spot werebunnies sneaking up to drink your blood, and gnaw your bones.
If you're strolling in the wilderness and become the target of an angry Badger or amorous Moose, here's what you do...
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I think this one is more suited close to the house, maybe a covered porch.
Or maybe you'd rather sit in a chair. I wonder if the leather will make fart noises?
Crayon bud vase...
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Could be rough to look at, the morning after a good night. :haha:
I like it. It wouldn't work in my house though. Our rooms are small, and my furniture and stuff is shoehorned into this place. This chest of drawers begs to have open space around it so you can see it.
I am Gravdigr, and I approve this chest.
Heavy tables keep the drunks from knocking them over and dumping your birthday cake on the floor...
Or for something lighter you could do a little whittling.
I like that whittled figure
DIY lets you choose, lets you create what you want without being restricted by convention or opinions of others...
even if your taste sucks.
Here's something you can do with that clapped out CJ rusting away out back.
Nooooooo must rebuild!
Then a firepit...
You don't need a big shop you can do miniatures...
Or for something lighter you could do a little whittling.
Who's that? Nobody.
I
just got that.
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♫ I ain't got no body... :lol: Yeah but you did get it, right?
I've made this type of lamp, it's not too hard if you don't get fussy with the design. Those are best left to lasers or water-jets to cut out.
You don't have to be a woodworker to be creative...
Heh. That will split a toddler's scalp open when they are learning to walk.
Fuck those toddlers, keep them away from my house. Adults(without cats) don't have to live in rubber rooms. I had a guy come over one time with his spawn in tow. The first thing the kid grabs is the fireplace poker I made and starts drumming on the glass fireplace doors. His father was amused. :mad2:
The copy said this is a Queen sized bed, so they must be using itty bitty side rails to display the head and foot boards.
I case you're off your rocker...
OK, this is for glatt.
My ancient Craftsman Table saw has cast iron wings on both sides so it's pretty big, but doesn't make cutting tricky shit any easier or safer.
It has guide groves for a miter gage on both sides of the blade, so I made two hardwood strips the width but not quite the depth of these grooves. The strips were attached to a piece of plywood so it would slide across the table. It turned out to be a lot of drag so I cut reliefs in the down side with a router, then with a little wax on the strips it would slide like butter.
On the top side I screwed a backstop perpendicular to and carefully squared with, the blade. The hardwood strips extended a couple feet past the plywood(which I recently broke) with a piece to tie them together, allowed the plywood to be pulled back past the blade, and make it more stable after it's cut almost all the way through.
This jerry-rig is a dream to work with, pieces can be clamped to the backstop or even screwed down to the plywood, or wedged for tricky angles. Anything it takes to keep my fingers away from the blade.
One habit I developed at Boeing, cutting aluminum extrusions on a 5 hp, direct drive, rolling table, pattern maker's saw, is keep the blade cranked all the way up. The safety people freaked, but It works well. The blade is trying to push the work down into the table instead of throwing it back at you. I always could see the blade and knew where it was. It's not coming to me, to get hurt I have to go to it, so I always want to know where it is. If I slip and hit the blade with a knuckle, it will most likely be on the side rather than the teeth, no harm, no foul. Your mileage may vary, it's a mental thing.
Yes! It's been on my list of things to make. A table saw sled. And really, there's no good reason not to make one. Except that it takes a little time and I could be using that time to make something else. But I know it's an investment in my tooling that will pay off in ease of use later.
I currently am making do with miter gauges that have plywood fences bolted to them. A sled would be much better.
Big tables, if you're going to the trouble to make something, it's an excuse to invite a lot of people to see it.
I wouldn't think twice about avoiding sitting on this stuff. :eyebrow:
For relaxing with leather straps...
It doesn't have to be serious...
A beautiful table or desk...
I know I've seen this one before...
At first I couldn't figure out what was going on, but now I realize the surface area of the table top gets smaller as it turns into a table. You can see the gap along the edge in the flattened table that comes together into a tight joint once it's set up. That's how much it shrinks.
Your cat would love this table/desk.
Just grab a rock and chip away anything that doesn't look like an arrow head.
Just grab a rock and chip away anything that doesn't look like an arrow head.
That's all there is to it. Easy-peasy.
Need stirs? Just take a tree and chip away everything that doesn't look like stairs.
Ever sleep in a truck bed, you can at home too...
It's a pool table...get it?
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Bicycle gate, cats on the fence and cobwebs...
Or you could make this gate...
When you need a really big table, like this one for a commune.
You'll need a crew to move that beast.
A stand for the gitfiddle...
Chain and scrap wood table...
I like it. I like the chain and I like the wood grain. Gotta wonder how they got the worn away look in the wood grain without visible tool marks. Wire brush followed by sand blasting?
Just a wire brush on old weathered wood.
Wow - those are gorgeous.
You could have your very own Harry.
When times are tough you can always burn it for heat.
Would be best to have a fireplace or stove though.
This is so fucking cool I'm salivating... I can picture this in Griftopia.
I like that a lot. I probably would have gone a little more deliberate on the glass colors, but still. Very cool.
Hmmm... my cousin does stained glass and I've got the bike bits.
I don't know, yeah cool but they don't looking comfy. They could be, but not inviting. :confused:
This is so fucking cool...
I like that a lot...Very cool.
Mos def.:yesnod:
My balls in a corner pocket...
Structurally good, carefully planned and executed, ugly as hell. Just not pleasing to look at, different for differences sake.
The bike/glass work is marvelous...
...but I have to admit, a design automatically annoys me when I see gears placed in a configuration where they can't actually crank.
For example, these gears won't turn, and so the "making it work" metaphor is ironically broken:
Yeah, a little hilarious actually.
1~We are freeborn sprockets.
2~We each have our color, shade, and destiny.
3~We will not comply with the human plans.
4~We will not be subjugated, will not mesh.
WE ARE SPROCKETS!! HEAR US ROAR!!
PS, the gears are on their own, fuck them.
Here we have a bronze in the vein of that wood carving in post #137.
Structurally good, carefully planned and executed, ugly as hell. Just not pleasing to look at, different for differences sake.
maybe it's one of those arty pieces that transforms into the image of a nakey woman when viewed from one particular angle.
Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat...
Nice bench, looks like the hide is suspended, so it should be more comfortable, but that also means it might have to be replaced periodically.
They make it look so easy.
I don't think it is. One little mistake on any surface and the camel looks like crap.
A bad move on the lathe and you've got a Dromedary. ;)
There was a lot of thought that went into that piece.
Awesome.
:notworthy
But when they thought about it, they ended up going around in circles. :rolleyes:
OK, when you're sitting around with a full tummy, too stuffed to do much, whip out your jackknife and personalize your gitfiddle.
I'd guess it was carved then glued on, but that's only a guess.
Carved then glued back together, maybe, but you couldn't add a whole outer layer of wood to the body without completely fucking up the sound it made.
A little poking around..
Dude who made it is AR Nelson, and he's active on the Acoustic Guitar Forum.
He's got
a huge thread that details the construction of the guitar, much like my band saw thread, but way more impressive.
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And youtube video to show how it sounds.
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...the triple sides are simply a lamination of 3 normal thickness sides bringing it to the .275" thickness that the back has. Backs and sides generally fall between .08 and .11 for me depending on the species and/or the stiffness of the specific pieces being bent. So, for this build, the back and sides are 3 times the total thickness of a normal build, but with all of the deep carving, and the species, it won't be much heavier than a normal mahogany guitar. All of the bracing and linings are spruce for this build to cut down on weight as well. Although the pieces are thicker, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will be less resonant. For electric guitars, more mass generally means more sustain. I have found this to also be true for the acoustics that I have built. The heavier guitars that I have built tend to be less punchy, but have more overall projection and sustain, which also creates more overtones. So, I would expect this build to react the same.
I saw these while doing an installation last week.
In the last one I tossed in a 250 year old salad bowl. ;)
Those tables and bowl look like they're in somebody's basement.
Rustical bench...
Carve up old bones, next time the dog drags home part of a human.
Those tables and bowl look like they're in somebody's basement.
The woman is an antique dealer. We put a new HVAC system in for her. They are in her storage bay area.
Narrow back, wide seat, mixed message chair...
Brilliant.
An old classmate of mine does metalwork for a living. Her designs are amazing.
http://romametalworks.blogspot.com/I like her style. Take the Owl & Bird, replace the Owl's spots with stars and make a gate at the White House. :thumb:
Those were complicated and intimidating so how about a simple cutting board.
While you're settin' on the porch whittlin' with your pocket knife you can depict an event.
This guy shows the birth of a tree.
While you're settin' on the porch whittlin' with your pocket knife you can depict an event.
This guy shows the birth of a tree.
I like this one.
Don't fret the zombies...
It's called a Cockfight Chair because it was depicted in a number of paintings of Cockfights. It was said to protect spectators and handlers from errant claws. But that's bullshit, it was invented to accommodate the growth of libraries and people reading books. You could use yours to hold the camera for your porn selfies... or cockfights.
Major Tom's coffee table.
Yeah, that is kinda neat.
Notice only one sperm made it through the glass. :haha:
I found 12 ft beams which had two sawn sides, and two peeled, but they were Sycamore which is too weak for beams.
Why you no good so and so..
Just don't drink Jim Beam.
You'll be fine.
The touch sensor butterflies are a neat idea.
Can you carve this in nine months?
Brass butterflies are neat till some damn kid puts a cold drink on them ...
The brass butterfly switches in the night stands are liable to be activated accidently fumbling for things like glasses or dildos, but not terrible if it's just working a lamp.
Cellular, modular, interactivodular... well done but not my cup-o-tea.
Hold your fire in style...
When he goes to bed, he really goes to bed...
Either ironing or kinky sex...
While you've got your jackknife out...
After the electric company trims your tree...
You could chip a bathtub out of an old rock...
While you're whittlin'...
In case you've got grumpy stumps hanging around...
You can make chairs out of junk wood...
In case you've got grumpy stumps hanging around...
I reckon this installation has similar appearances from varied perspectives around the group.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...
Quoted for truth.
When glatt is done with the bandsaw the extra scrap wood could be a chair...
Is that an eight bit chair?
I see something like that and only wonder how they made it. Not so much if it's beautiful. Upon further consideration, this is cool because it's different, but it's pretty ugly.
Yes, in the same vein, I'm sure whoever made this is quite proud... but damn...
Back to good shit, a door to be proud of...
That is nice. I wonder how evenly it will age color wise wood vs glass?
Big family reunion? Seat the whole family tree...
This, I like. A lot. It just looks natural outside. Something organic like this would look out of place to me inside, but out in the yard, it's fun. It's functional. It's interesting. It looks natural and right at home.
If I think about it, the only downside is that it's never gonna be moved. Keeping the grass looking good around it will be a chore. You'll get tufts of long grass around the legs, and weeds and bare dirt will appear underneath. Small price to pay, though, for the awesomeness.
Stickley Bros, 100 years ago...
Hate to put things all over it, like dishes...
Looks like a wall texture from Doom.
HM, I just finished reading a book called "Masters of Doom." You would enjoy it.
Want to get rid of that tree? carve it and let it fly away...
Princess gets the back and suitor gets the butterflies.
Choice of bench, blocks, or chair...
Lot of work for bowls that won't hold much soup...
While you have your penknife out...
You better use a damn coaster...
You better use a damp coaster...
typo
A couple simple designs you can knock out in a weekend or two... if you have a bandsaw. ;)
Perfect to put your muddy boots on...;)
Interesting (and beautiful) technique to stretch the width of that slab.
Simple, just take you penknife and glue in different color woods....
Too nice for a table cloth...
Two lefts make a politically incorrect...
That goes over a toilet, I guess?
I don't think so, remember the toilets back then had the tank high on the wall. Looks like a fold down desk to me.
Practice chair for lap dancers?
A must have for every dungeon...
How?
Are there staggered lag bolts bolting each one to the one below and then the heads are covered by the tread above?
Or up from the bottom where they won't show?
Git my victuals on the table... chop, chop!
I long for the days when all that happened when I banged into the coffee table was a bruised shin...
Side note: I just learned, after listening to a radio show about language, that victuals is actually pronounced vittles.
If this is your patio you better have two maids and a butler.
Re: the wooden stairs, it looks like the bottom half is actually supported by stone stairs underneath. Then I bet the top half is secured horizontally by extending into the stone wall.
I don't see mortar around the edges if those logs to hold them in the wall. I think they are not in the wall, but I agree that the wall provides support. I bet there is hidden hardware that goes into the edge of the logs.
They don't have to be in the wall, just abutting with steel rods or pipe into the stone work. That's not their only support, they also have the tread beneath.
I think we're saying the same thing.
[strike]Rosebud[/strike] Rosewood...
If you've gat a gnarly piece of firewood that's a bitch to split, paint it.
Now you can be a Lion or a Tiger in bed...
After you've been a Lion/Tiger in the bedroom, don't beat your chest and slide down the bannister if you have this newel post.
Now you can be in a Lion or a Tiger bed...
Fixed it.
Oh my poor shins... :eek:
That is the opposite of my bed design. Shin friendliness was a primary concern of mine.
Yeah, I remember yours, very cool.
You would have to have a large room for that to work. Then you would have plenty of maneuvering space around the bed and could approach it from the sides.
In my room, I have maybe a foot on the side of my bed before you hit a bookcase. I'd be bashing my shins constantly. It would get me coming and going. Right shin on my way to bed and left shin when I'm getting up in the morning.
It looks good though.
Easy to break down and move. No fasteners.
You could prolly make it work without the projections.
Not without fasteners, though. (
linky)
Or you could just use a ladder.
If your family has a musical bent, or they don't but you want them to get bent...
The bass clef legs on that bench seem really fragile where they contact the floor. I'd like to see a shot of the legs to see how the bass clef floating side dots were handled.
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I dig the bench though.
I'll be damned. It's a book case, not a bench.
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Cool! I like it better as a bookcase. A lot of the "cool because it's difficult to make" stuff in this thread is not to my taste, but I genuinely appreciate the look of that.
After I graduated with a degree in furniture design (would you like fries with that?) I was offered an informal critique with a FOAF who worked for Wendell Castle. Apart from being very helpful and insightful, he called attention to an aspect of my work that he said is pretty common especially with beginners and craft people, it is called "Woodiness."
It's marked by infatuation or even over use of different kinds of wood for the sake of different kinds of wood, sometimes gratuitously.
The music shelf, for example, is woody. From a design standpoint it makes more sense for the notes and bars to be the darker wood, like the ink on the page. As it is, it's mostly about the showing off figure of the maple.
Consider on the other hand, this piece by Ruhlmann,
it's made with highly figured veneer, inlaid with ivory. Yet I wouldn't call it woody. The figure is used as part of the design, the ivory accentuates the shape of the figure of the rosewood, it doesn't shout "Yo bitches, I'm ivory!" All of the elements of the design work towards the same goal.
The music bookshelf is undoubtedly cool and very well made and, for me, illustrates the difference between craft and art. And this IS the
crafty DIY thread.
Ruhlmann is a damn showoff. :lol2:
I couldn't own that piece, because the elevated, spotlighted, turntable would take up too much room in my living room.
Shelves to can use safely...
Hell no, not in my house. :headshake
If I had a house, where it could dominate a room, then maybe. As it is, it would dominate my entire condo.
It would have to be opposite the front door, so the first thing visitors see is me in my white tux, petting my white cat, while chuckling evilly.
The unholy spawn of art and craft
Now that's my kind of gate, perfect for pissing off snooty people. :lol2:
Here's a project for you knapper wannabes.
I like that gate.
I love that arrowhead.
That arrowhead is spectacular.
I'd never loose it though.
Here's a projectile for you knapper wannabes.
FTFY
Hand carved Buffet, Circa 1890
It probably took hundreds of hours to build that and then the food was served from the buffet in five minutes.
(too obscure)
If you have a view, maximize it.
That would make a cool medicine cabinet, mirrors instead of glass...
A place to store your dramamine?
Cabinets for speakers or whatever...
Looks strong enough to have sex on... :rolleyes:
Make this sneaky device and you can shovel in the lion's share of the Asian buffet when nobody's looking...
Perhaps the first step would be to build yourself a bench for your creativity to bloom from...
You need a massive bench to support that
$425 hand plane.Looks like a desk, but obviously can't be....
I can picture a war map on top with little totems for the army positions and those pusher sticks.
I'm trying to figure out how they did that thing with the leg braces, the ends crossing and sticking out the leg...a bit Escher-ish.
I would guess cross laps, just hidden behind flat panels.
If you break a table leg, just melt some wood and pour a new one....
Here is one from the masons in RI.
How do they do that? Looks awfully top heavy. :eek:
Wtf is up with the horns?:eyebrow:
The bricklayers I've know were always horny. ;)
Nice, but watch your toes on the front legs. ;)
that bench *gives* me wood.
Make all those bandsaw scraps into a conversation piece. :lol:
You could gussy up the front door a mite for the holidays...
If you make a cool toybox, you'll still step on a LEGO with your bare feet in the dark. :lol:
Would a toybox aged kid want that in their room?
Any age, kids love monsters and icky things, don't they?
I guess I'm too far removed from that age. I don't remember any more. I think they would like it during the daytime, maybe in another room, but at night having it staring at them in their bed might be unnerving.
All four of mine would have been terrified of it. But they are on the emotionally sensitive side. Minifob cries at sad commercials.
What do I know, I never had a toybox. All my treasure had to stay in the cellar because my room way the main thoroughfare from the kitchen and backdoor to the bathroom.
I love them, I'd love to make one. I think my kids would have liked them.
Can't get much easier, even a cave man could do it.
Since I can't play the piano, this seems like the perfect use while listening to the radio.
Treat her like a queen...
Pass.
It takes me five minutes til I can walk more than a step or two in the morning, I'd tumble down those steps the first time I got up in the night to piss.
Pissing yourself while breaking your neck is no way to go through life, son.
Pass.
It takes me five minutes til I can walk more than a step or two in the morning, I'd tumble down those steps the first time I got up in the night to piss.
Pissing yourself while breaking your neck is no way to go through life, son.
Is it your ankles? If so, rotate them and flex them for a few seconds while you are still lying in bed. Gets the accumulated fluids out of the joint and releases stiffness before you put weight on them and strain them. Knees too.
Knees, back, feet, all of it, pretty much. Oddly, even though I've sprained and hairline-fractured each of them several times, my ankles don't bother me. Which is weird.
Yeah, I do the limbering up routine, if I have time. I have the prostate of a ninety year old. And I don't mean in a jar on a shelf.
Know what you mean. Use to be able to shit, shower and shave, in time it takes me to pee.
you guys are scaring the passengers.
Sandbox to keep the cat shit out...
You don't need an elephant to have a trunk.
That is beautiful, but I would need to employ others just to carry/move it around.
You need an elephant to move your trunk.
Add a little class to Levittown...
Add a little class to Levittown...
I likey!
Sent by magic.
Bookcase for people who's mothers made them take lessons and hated it...
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has produced Liquid Marble, an installation of sculpted marble which represents the movement of the ocean. The complexities of the moving water were captured using sophisticated 3D software developed for the film industry. A single block of marble was machined to replicate the files and hand polished to create a reflective surface. This is the third installation of the Liquid Marble series, and the jet-black piece was designed specifically for the Norfolk Music Room at the V&A.
Liquid Marble was displayed as part of The London Design Festival 2016 at the V&A.
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Looks to me like there's no clear coat for a flat surface, so it's strictly a piece of art with no utilitarian use?
A good place to hide your climate change date. ;)
Compact, but I doubt comfortable...
Probably good for the kids.
I don't think that grillwork will keep the flies out... tigers either.
I wonder if the door was structurally falling apart, and rather than replace the antique they figured out what would be necessary to brace it back together and then commissioned something artistic in that shape?
Could be, it would certainly look better than L-brackets, threaded rod, and turnbuckles. :lol:
Yeah, but does he have a bandsaw?
I don't think that grillwork will keep the flies out... tigers either.
Very pretty
Yeah, but does he have a bandsaw?
Too pretty
Man oh man, look at that tall ceiling!
Man oh man, look at that tall ceiling!
My cellar has two steel beams that are about 5'10'' clearance.
I hung 1x3s on wires about 2" away from each, so you could at least decelerate. ;)
This bed looks like it wouldn't rock or bang the wall.
If the kid is a pain in the ass, it would be easy to slap some plywood over the holes and it becomes a shipping crate. :p:
Simple turned bowl decorated by woodburning.
Can't swear to it but I think it's a desk. Probably a secretary's desk, wide open so the boss can check out her garters.;)
Here is one from the lathe department. If ONLY we had someone here with a lathe...
How do you make something like that hollow?
It would be tricky to lay it up hollow. It can be hollowed out through the small hole in the top, but it would be a royal pain in the ass and take a long time. Better to make a larger hole in the bottom to work through then plug it and glue a piece of anti-skid/anti-scratch material over it.
My choice would be to stick a dried posy in it and forget it.
Perfect cat, no litter box...
It would be tricky to lay it up hollow. It can be hollowed out through the small hole in the top, but it would be a royal pain in the ass and take a long time. Better to make a larger hole in the bottom to work through then plug it and glue a piece of anti-skid/anti-scratch material over it.
My choice would be to stick a dried posy in it and forget it.
Why not lay it up with a hexagonal unglued blank section? Like you put a support in an arch of bricks? Then at the end, just pull the "plug" out. Of course, how much empty do you need? Just enough for a couple of flower stems. Drill it out.
Or lay it up over a blank of Styrofoam, drill the hole, and dissolve the foam. ;)
A very, very old Scandinavian door...
Very much do I like that.
Do big slab doors like that move with humidity changes?
I like it a lot, but imagine it would bind in the summer and let cold air in in January.
If it closes against the casing rather than inside the casing, it shouldn't be a problem. Or if it fits loosely in the casing but against a stop trim.
This is wild, a slab of Black Walnut and four wrenches...
looks ... plush. petrified plush to be precise.
Perfect cat, no litter box...
Want
How about a hand carved motorcycle?
forget falling out of the ugly tree, that guy's riding it, every single branch
Somebody is off their rocker...
Has the potential for comfort.
We have a very similar chair and the armrests are surprisingly uncomfortable. The hard unforgiving armrests in contrast with the plush cushioning elsewhere.
This is the evidence burner glatt should have gotten. ;)
Stairs have been around forever. Because of that designers and architects have always been trying to come with something cool and different.
But stairs have one basic function that doesn't change.
Hard to slip a noose over your head...
I couldn't quite grasp it, but, finally I figured what I was troubled by in those pics.
Two different chairs.
That style chair with the very tall back has a name, but, damn if I can come up with it. Queen back doesn't sound right, but, keeps popping into m'head.
Before carving that choice piece of wood you should practice on an apple.
I'd be more impressed if there was a video showing the process.
It looks very fake to me. What tool lets you do that and produces an unmolested skin? What apple doesn't turn brown when you remove the skin?
might be more ivory. or basswood.
I'd be more impressed if there was a video showing the process.
I'm not here to impress doubting Thomas's and negative Nellies. If you can do it, show it, if not, don't berate those who can. Learn from them, grasshopper, they will show you the path. :p:
What tool lets you do that and produces an unmolested skin?
A very sharp one
What apple doesn't turn brown when you remove the skin?
One that has had lemon juice applied to it.
Does look a bit fake, though there are those paper cutting folks that do shit like this
Learn from them, grasshopper, they will show you the path. :p:
I'd love to learn if they would only be willing to teach. A video would be nice.
Toy Boat, toy boat, toy boat. Say that three times fast. ;)
You don't need paint, to decorate...
There's probably a particular spot where those blue posts sticking out line up with the perspective of the image.
Or you could just add a simple porch for settin' & rockin'...
Hey Jim? Come to South Central and build me a deck like that? I got like $500 to throw at it.
Cocktails on the Lido porch...
Cool Boat Cool Boat Cool Boat...
You could build the Welsh version if you don't want skin in the game. ;)
You could build the Welsh version if you don't want skin in the game. ;)
Wow.
That's a lot of leather.
You could build the Welsh version if you don't want skin in the game. ;)
Wow.
I missed something.
What was it?
What'd I miss?
I missed something.
What was it?
What'd I miss?
The Welch version is covered with wood rather than skin or canvas.
For a bathroom floor. Doesn't copper fight germs?
I missed something.
What was it?
What'd I miss?
The boat's hull is made of skin, leather.
Curvy, carvey, spikey, chair...
Whip out a simple bench for your mud room...
I missed something.
What was it?
What'd I miss?
The Welch version is covered with wood rather than skin or canvas.
For a bathroom floor. Doesn't copper fight germs?
The boat's hull is made of skin, leather.
Then there's the double meaning of welsh as to welsh on a bet or loan, meaning to not pay and the meaning of skin in the game as making a financial investment as well as being committed, so a lot of layers of meaning there.
You make it so complicated. :haha:
You make it so complicated. :haha:
We all have our cross eyed bear.
If you're into woodworking and your wife can weld aluminum, you could build this hybrid piano as a family project.
You can't fill all that time the kid is at piano lessons with sex... or can you?
Piece of cake, take a board, carve three stripes, and tie a knot in the center stripe. What could be easier?
that is one solid figure eight knot
You can't fill all that time the kid is at piano lessons with sex... or can you?
Not with a piano.
But, maybe with an organ.;)
Piece of cake, take a board, carve three stripes, and tie a knot in the center stripe. What could be easier?
OK Now that's just showing off.:eek:
OK then, just carve something simple that matches your skills, regardless of your taste in art.
Here's some joints you'll never make, just to remind you know how challenged you are. :lol2:
Make 'em, I can hardly post the pictures. :o
What? Those joints are to hard? OK here's some easier ones...
Now that's a toolbox :joylove:
A very old Scandinavian doorway. Carve yours now and you're great grandchildren will have a very old doorway.
Now that's a toolbox :joylove:
Iz teh awesome.
I don't know? I like the table, and I like the chairs, but I don't think they go together. :confused:
A very old Scandinavian doorway. Carve yours now and you're great grandchildren will have a very old doorway.
Imma get on that.
Grab a couple doors from the junkyard and build a unique[COLOR="Red"]*[/COLOR] wardrobe.
[COLOR="red"]*[/COLOR] code word for ugly.
That's like something out of Sid's room in Toy Story, after he hits puberty.
That's like something out of Sid's room in Toy Story, after he hits puberty.
Ew.
There's a seam in the middle of the "I" shaped piece in the picture on the left. Those pieces split to become the bottom left, and top right corners in the picture on the right.
OK, like this. There appears to be a seam in the center, probably to make the leaves a manageable size, but both would have to be used.
Need an axe? Carve one or weld one.
Convert an old upright piano to a desk...
I could do that. Although, I like the liquor cabinet treatment too and would probably get a lot more use out of that transformation. Which one would sell for greater profit I wonder....
I have the means, motive, and opportunity. All I lack is ... permission. I'm not willing to substitute forgiveness at this point. I am saving that trade for the unexplained disappearance of the pellet furnace. shhhhhh.....
She said I could get into her drawers, but I got lost...
A common college trick to keep your bricks neat and tidy so you don't stub your toe. ;)
She said I could get into her drawers, but I got lost...
You'd look funny wearin' her drawers anyway.
Oh I don't know, with thigh highs and heels I might be quite dapper. :p:
You might have legal problems if you point this at your neighbors or the street. :cool:
That belongs on the hood of Grand Cherokee One.
OMG it's almost Valentines Day and you're broke! Got and axe and a big rock?
Dude reminds me of the fellow what dragged the anvil up that hill on Arran.
Actually, he reminds me of Vinnie Jones.
Dude reminds me of the fellow what dragged the anvil up that hill on Arran.
That was my first thought also.
I'm a little teapot, gnarly and stout...
Nothing like a gnarly teapot.
Since we're killing off all the animal species, some people are making their own critters.
The great thing about whittlin' is porn suddenly becomes art. ;)
They look cool but the handrail stops 5 steps up.
Over 1 Million injuries and 12,000 deaths as the result of stairway falls.
Staircase and stairway accidents are 2nd only to motor vehicles.
Most falls start at the first, or last 3, steps coming down.
It looks like a mid-stream design change...
or he was unable to stretch the pole used for the handrail
Wood burned and painted...
Of all the games to make permanent...
you could say it controls the whole table.
While you're whittlin' cut up a pencil...
Less impressive when you consider that the "pencil" is 18" in diameter.
Who says ceramics have to serious? I think it's great, I'd love to own it.
I thought this was a teapot, or a bong, but it's a bud vase. :rolleyes:
These Adirondack chairs look pretty comfy...
Yes, they do.
They are right at the top of my list of projects to make to decorate the deck. They look very, very comfortable.
I don't care how many architectural awards you got, no, just no!
Instead of that ridiculous staircase make this cool infinity table.
It looks rugged, and the seats are defined to you can tell the fat guy, or the seam sitter, to move over.
Another one of those huge slab tables. I like it but the metal sutures and the odd mismatched plugs... well, I'll just say it's not nearly as elegant as George Nakashima would have done. Kind of like a school shop project, Jimmy do this hole, bobby do that hole, etc.
I've driven past a... Well, it's a parking lot. But there's a sign, and maybe a shack, and dozens of big slabs. The ones I've seen are 4ft wide and they're stored on end, they look... 16 ft long? More maybe. Gigantic.
I'd love to produce something like this, but I'd be working in the yard under a tarp for. Who knows. Still, ruggedly beautiful.
Good idea for a quick change from couch to bed, BUT invariably the couch is up against a wall, so folded down like that you have to climb over it to pee in the middle of the night.
Build one of these, then if you're busted you can say you're off your rocker.
It doesn't have to be fancy to be functional and comfortable.
You could whip out a Chinese fireplace over the weekend... ok, two weekends.
If you're going to make shit, ya gotta have a little bench.
We have discussed titles before, so I won't go into detail, but I think it's a little silly that he put his dentistry training credentials on his woodworking bench.
I also think the strategically placed wood shavings on the floor are silly.
But that bench is freaking gorgeous and reinforces an idea I had to incorporate into my bench a floor length wooden vice that was my grandfather's brother's.
That is quite a dovetail.
I suspect the dentist commissioned it.;)
You can be off your rocker and glad of it.
This is a spy shot of Grifftopia which Griff hewed out of the wilderness, with the support of his lovely wife, and two miniature slaves. ;)
You could do this, just grab that big old tree in the park and whack it up. ;)
Another chance to be off your rocker... as if you needed an invitation.:rolleyes:
That looks wicked comfortable. Tiger maple, I guess?
the wood does look beautiful.
Why settle for a trellis or arbor, when you can have a portal...
It's probably comfortable but just looking at it makes me wants to get the Band-Aids. :eyebrow:
These tables, sometimes with the benches, seem to be a popular item. You'd need a big room or big closed it porch because nobody in their right mind is going to leave that on the patio. I'm also concerned the rough bark edges will run my pantyhose with how short my skirts are.
Woah... those are mindblowing.
Not without pantyhose, that would be obscene.
I guess this is for the politician who wants to stump his/her constituents, but realizes they might have to get out of town in a hurry...
Another one of those giant tables. While the shiny finish is good protection it's not my cup of tea.
I also like a thinner finish that lets you feel the wood texture. These french polish finishes take a lot of work too.
Our dining room table is a little discolored from hot pizza boxes being placed directly on it with no hot pad. That steam coming through the cardboard and the heat make the finish a little cloudy. You can be diligent for years and then just forget one time, and the finish gets messed up.
A pizza?!?!
We need your delivery guys around here.
You can fool the ladies and children with a bench and some tools/wood chips on the floor. But if you want to impress the big boys you need... :lol:
Once you make a toolbox that fits all your tools perfectly, you can't get any new tools.
That's what the drawers in the bench are for, you don't actually use the tools in the box. :lol:
Youze guys that drool over slab tables, it's not at hard as you think. It's been mentioned slabs are available in many places,
here's one in CA.Know anything about kiln-dried wood? I've got wood, and a kiln somebody gave us.
I assume the kiln is small, I mean like not big enough for 8' ft planks. Probably the sizes that would fit your kiln would fit in an oven.
Kiln drying requires a low heat and moving air to carry the moisture away. It's much faster than air drying and the time varies with the species. The finish moisture content also depends on what the wood is going to be used for.
If you've got the time you could hammer out some really cool hardware for your kids toy chest. But if you have a kid with a toy chest you probably don't have the time. :lol:
Ya'll can make practical things too, just don't lose your shit when you see somebody dumping Cheetos in one. ;)
Nifty little gift for your gitfiddle playin' friends.
Fancy wood joints.
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Nifty little gift for your gitfiddle playin' friends.
That is sweet. Makes me want to quit my job.
Sharpen up your jackknife and you can whittle yourself a chair for the grandchildren to fight over when you're dead. Use the chips to heat a cuppa.
I assume the kiln is small, I mean like not big enough for 8' ft planks. Probably the sizes that would fit your kiln would fit in an oven.
Kiln drying requires a low heat and moving air to carry the moisture away. It's much faster than air drying and the time varies with the species. The finish moisture content also depends on what the wood is going to be used for.
I figure I can season fresh wood, for use as fire wood, by kiln drying it? Good point about the air circulation, though. Not sure how I'd accomplish that.
Sure. You could do that.
Nobody else does that because it makes no economic sense, but firewood is probably entertainment for you instead of a source of heat. Normal economic rules don't apply. Entertainment is frivolous by its very nature.
I actually heat my house with firewood. I have a heat pump, but I try to arrange things so that it never comes on.
I have tons of trees on my property, and a chainsaw, but this doesn't really get me "firewood" until waiting around 2-3 years for it to dry out.
Somebody gave us a kiln, and I wondered, could I jump-start the wood seasoning process? Maybe, I could at least do batches of small branches--those should dry out quicker? The small branches I actually use a lot of, because after the fire box is hot, and I put fresh wood on for the night, I stuff every conceivable airspace inside the box with small bits of wood, until it's a solid block that will burn slowly all night.
The wetter wood smokes too much and leaves too much ash.
this isn't a pottery kiln, is it?
I was going to, but somebody said, "pottery, schmottery" so I decided to grow my bangs out and smoke cloves instead.
Vaping those cloves might be healthier.
Step drawers... or drawer steps.
Another decorated upright example...
Make the kids pick up all the stones in the south forty, then you can build a dry laid firepit.
Maybe rent it out to young skateboarders in the off season. ;)
too relaxed? Add some tension into your life.
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And who's going to dust that shit? :crone:
just give a broad strumming and it all vibrates away. do you dust your harp or your guitar?
Give it a strum on one side and it will vibrate the whole thing just enough for the dust to work it's way into the cables all over.
And do you remember what happens when you trip and fall into this thing?
Pepperiage Farms remembers. :shock:
But Pepperidge Farms ain't gonna keep it to Pepperidge Farms' self. Not for nothing. Maybe ya buy a bag o' these Milanos...And maybe Peperidge Farms forgets everything.
They'll still remember how to slice bread, they'll just forget who got sliced on a chair. ;)
Just fucking with you V. The methodology is cool I've tucked that away, I even have much of the material, but that chair is not my cuppa, I can see jackets and socks I toss on there ending up on the floor.
As the earth warms, the icecaps melt, and the land floods, you should have a plan B...
Then when your fancy boat is floating across the great wide open, you can amuse yourself by carving some simple utensils.
But, but... you can't even pretend you're going to use those tables for anything...
The wave "tables" make you seasick so you don't care if you have no food. ;)
Lot of work to park your butt when a keg or crate will do. :haha:
Fancy table I guess, or some perverted use the Japs have come up with. :eek:
But, but... you can't even pretend you're going to use those tables for anything...
Perhaps they're not tabletops, but chest lids.
Who's that? Nobody.
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I have to watch how I slide pages. I was over by about post 140. Been looking from #1. Mighty good work gentlemen[emoji1] .
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Oh yes tie me up, whip me, thrill me, make me write bad checks. :haha:
This looks like it might be a little difficult. :rolleyes:
Keep your chisel sharp :eek2:
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That dude would be so offended at the state of my chisels...
I didn't know anyone else was watching Paul Sellers. Good stuff.
Nice idea for a desk but the legs make me nervous...
wondering how it folds up, particularly how to wrap the second leg around the body
I don't think the legs fold.
Maybe not. The rest of it sure looks like it bundles itself up though. And the legs do look kinda strappy.
I think it converts between a sideboard and a desk. I doubt the legs fold.
The legs are gusseted front to back but the only lateral bracing seems to be the sides. There still looks like a tremendous amount of leverage where the leg meets the chest.
I would like to see the thing in action. I suspect a lot of flexing if not wobbling.
OH SNAP! THIS JUST IN:
https://durangoherald.com/articles/87109
http://www.tvweek.com/open-mic/2015/03/questions-finally-answered-about-the-bizarre-finale-of-ellens-design-challenge-and-what-ellen-needs-to-do-if-the-series-is-renewed/
Video at bottom of page where he explains his plagiarism. Sort of.
He got fucked, but his legs don't fold like the Brit's.
Kind of rustic, kind of modern, kind of weird.
There are doghouses and accommodations for your best friend...
Damn! That's nice! I could do that.
I might....
I bet the guy that built that has forgotten his wife's birthday more than once.
Whoops.
Thanks for the reminder!
Your baby wants a chandelier? Just dig a room under a bigassed tree and hang christmas lights on the roots... easy peasy.
That is truly lovely. I don't have a likely location for such an application, but I appreciate the effort.
Nifty concept. Would definitely need to try before buying, though.
That's the bad news, you'd have to spend a lot of time and money building it to find out if you like. :lol: For me, yeah looks cool, but I have enough trouble getting out of chairs without that shit.
The guy in the video never actually looked comfortable.
He qualified that by stating that he was 6'4".
Yeah yeah, I used to tell them all 6", but you know...
Even a novice with a little common sense, should know if you're making a huge wooden wrench, it's not a good idea to used the weakest part of the wood for the jaws. Yeah yeah, it's just for display, but it's tacky and even non-woodworkers will spot it.
Looks nice, but not very comfortable for long because of the shape of the back.
You're meant to be leaning forward, and to your right.
you know how footfootfoot reminded us that when you make a boat longer, the additional expense doesn't come from the thin pointy part at the end, but from the fat part in the middle? looks like this guy got a discount on his dugout.
"Zero per stool" refers to zero waste wood. I'm sure his trash is full of stuff use to prepare and apply the epoxy.
This table would give you impetus to suck in that gut.
When you're entertaining this table will give you a hand.
Giant mime in glass coffin measuring his three-inch-punch.
I feel his pain, I have a three inch... [SIZE="1"]nevermind[/SIZE]:o
Looks like an award for particularly good waitstaff...
[size=1]Waitstaff. That was in tribute to Sundae. She used that word often.[/size]:)
I use waitstaff all the time now.
Don't like arms that slope down. :headshake
This doesn't look that comfy either, but at least you can see the clawed denizens creeping up on you.
Floor lamp, the two cylindrical sections light up...
A lot of thought went into that.
In my house, the edges would get all dirty from the floor, so in table mode there would be grime all over the tops of the side rails. I guess I would just wipe that off though.
It's smrt.
Cats! Cats everywhere!, even carved into chairs!
I love it, simple design and superb craftsmanship. What's not to love?
It's very well made but I'm ambivalent about the style. Arts and Crafts never did much for me. I like colonial or shaker styles more.
Much better use than getting all sweaty and dirty in the hot, sun-beaten, bug infested wilds.
That Jeep kitchen is one of the worst things I have ever seen. Bad idea, bad execution, just garbage. :2cents:
Must have been a politician's idea.
I don't think it's a kitchen, more like a man cave bar.
I don't think it's a kitchen, more like a man cave bar.
A bar that
you can't sit at.Shoulda been a motorcycle bar.
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Real men stand up, or get back to the theater seats, poker table, or pool table. :haha:
Details for an old Chinese trunk.
Wow. Thats really special. I LOVE old wooden creations, small or large.
Lot of work in this wood, probably just the carving would take you two or three weekends. ;)
When I saw this picture I was more interested in the pipe sculptures I first thought were scaffolding stacks.
The Chinese had such cool shit for the rich. Simple clean lines that take a shitload of work to execute.
In these days of digital effects and printed plastics not many people realise the work and skill required to make something like this table.
Anybody can gussy up their stairs. It can be simple or complex, and most any material. Hell, you can make it into a real waterfall... but I wouldn't recommend that. ;)
Don't have quite enough wood to build that project? Negative space baby, negative space.
This one will take more than a weekend... maybe two. ;)
Where's the glass? The lighter triangles? The doors don't appear to be glazed.
I believe the glass is behind the spindles.
You could use up your scrap pieces but a lot of damn work. :eek:
A cave man could do it... if he had bottle caps and epoxy. ;)
The boy wouldn't want to get off his rocker...
Cover the bench with a bear skin, the backrest with a tiger skin, a few slaves waving Ostrich tail feather fans, maybe plucking a lute an also a harp.
Near Naked women serving peeled grapes, dried figs, and wine chilled with snow carried by runners from the mountains.
Still doesn't match a La-Z-Boy and Netflix. :haha:
Nice.
A stern seat for a naughty odalisque.
Are you talkin' dirty? :eyebrow:
It's the first day of Summer in the top half of the globe so if your firepit isn't ready better get your ass in gear. :elkgrin:
If you could only slide up.
You could make your own planes, although it's probably smart to buy the blades. They're a whole nother kettle of fish.
My god those are steep! They're practically scrapers instead of planes. wtf?
Reclaiming an industrial table/bench is easier than from scratch, but they've become pretty spendy because of increased demand and diminished supply.
You could whittle an Indian from some Cedar...
Shouldn't take more than twenty minutes.
I've thought about that actually. But I haven't gotten as far as sourcing a log.
I'd prefer to carve a figurehead.
At first it sounds like a great idea, but it may be more trouble than it's worth.
It would take a specific lifestyle to make it worthwhile.
You could do a plane crash, truck/car collision, or any disaster which would produce a lot of steam/smoke. maybe a Divorce Court. :eyebrow:
The top two are a table?
Pretty cool. I wonder how dey do dat?
Probably upside down. A couple dowels that line up with the stacks then create the smoke/steam around them, but that's just a guess.
You could rip out the center and stick a TV in there.
Another one of those tables that look so cool but are of no use to you unless you can afford that 20 foot TV I posted somewhere.
Clever, but not my cuppa tea.
I don't get it. Sure, crates joined together to make a coffee table. But what's with the rocks and milk bottle?
It fills the square hole in the center.
I've assisted building one of these.
The rocks are cool, don't care for the bottle though. Maybe a nice bowl, or something in which to put those remotes.
Can you imagine the cost of this tub? Not just buying or having it built, but a full time maid to maintain it. :eek:
Its beautiful, I would definitely get it if I were rich.
Bathe in Camel milk with a couple young eunuchs wearing turbans waving Ostrich plume fans? :D
:p:...of course, (but they dont have to be eunuchs)
It *is* gorgeous.
But I doubt it's any more difficult to maintain than any other fiberglass tub. I'm sure it's fiberglass over wood. It looks like a strip built boat hull, albeit, an awkward boat shape. I could make one. I wonder how thick the walls are. I built my kayak from 1/4" material, glassed with 8.9 oz satin weave glass and it is BOMBPROOF. Easily strong enough to be a tub of that scale.
The finish is flawless, on the tub, not the boat. That's not my long suit. I'm sure having your bare bottom slidin around in it, you'd figure out pretty quick where the high spots were.
The tub is a thing of beauty.
I built my kayak from 1/4" material, glassed with 8.9 oz satin weave glass and it is BOMBPROOF.
But is it one wild woman and two not necessarily eunuchs proof? :haha:
Did you ever carve a heart and initials into a tree at your favorite romantic spot?
Buy now you can't take others girls to that spot?
Just whip out your jack knife and carve them away.
Never again say, "I wish I had that tool at the shop with me".
Is that a trailer in a car port, or is that roof actually sides of the trailer that fold open to be a shelter?
The trailer is sitting outside.
They look cool, might ever be comfy for the limber, but getting out of them looks hard with bad knees. :eyebrow:
I dunno, with only three legs, they may tip forward "helping" you get up/out.
In that configuration, they'll tip diagonally backward.
I picture someone sitting in that chair listening to a Maxell tape.
:devil:
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Love that ad.
I used Maxell 60 minute tapes almost exclusively.
60 minutes were better quality because of their thickness, but 90s could fit a whole album on each side.
Yeah, but car stereos of the time ate them (the 90 min tapes) like Skittles.
How can it be thread drift that's obviously a DIY project. :haha:
Another of the partially submerged critter tables...
Well, it was a mini thread drift...the three posts before grav's skeletal hand.
FTW - Thread Drift Award
Who said welders, mechanics, and machinists are not craftspersons.
Well, it was a mini thread drift...the three posts before grav's skeletal hand.
Oh, you mean the ancillary information interlude. We like everyone to keep abreast, or give a breast, to our cumulative edumacation. :blush:
I really like the submerged animal ones.
Oh, you mean the ancillary information interlude. We like everyone to keep abreast, or give a breast, to our cumulative edumacation. :blush:
I loved it, plus it was a blast to the past. I used Maxwell tapes mostly. And I did put a lot of my brothers albums on the 90 minute ones. They actually survived for a long while.
Yes, I had a ton of tapes, a lot of used ones I got in trade for a reel to reel also.
Car use, hot weather, extreme abuse, the Maxells stood up to abuse better than anything. :thumb:
I always used Maxell 90 minute tapes. They always worked.
Driftwood horse I suspect had some shaping of parts before finishing, but I love the look.
Speaking of drift wood, I think this got some help also.
looks at home there. Now put it in the living room of a doublewide and see how it looks.
Looks like it belongs in
Pyke.
If you're handy with metal work make a little bike, if not buy one and put tabs on it. Then set it on top of a bottom sash and wait for the moon, or cheat and put a globe lamp behind it.
Butterfly bench for the garden.
I like those butterflies.
I wonder if they're plywood... Otherwise their grain is going the wrong way.
Good point, blowing up the picture of the largest butterfly it's not clear. It looks sort of like a design in the wood?
Could be regular butterfly joints, covered with an inlay.
What is it? Damifino, I guess it's a desk with embellishments. Maybe Timothy Leary's desk. :stpaddy:
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With a little imagination you could make a pipe out of that pussy cat. ;)
Jap wood treatment of Cedar is supposed to make it more fire resistant.
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I learned about
that after watching
this:
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To preserve the wood from the spoiling, fame posts, sills, top beams and final cladding boards are treated with fire and pine tar mixed with Tung oil. This wood preservation technique was adapted from the Japanese traditional wood preservation technique Shou Sugi Ban (焼杉板).
Exterior cladding boards recoating each 10-15 years with Tung oil and pine or birch tar mixture, the house can last more than 500 years. As an example is taken Norwegian stave churches that stands more than 500 years until nowadays.
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Something tells me this wasn't built with an axe and adze. :headshake
Jap wood treatment of Cedar is supposed to make it more fire resistant.
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Interesting, I do something similar to protect wooden xc skis.
Something tells me this wasn't built with an axe and adze. :headshake
Wow. The more you look at it, the more impressive it is.
This is strange, obviously not wood.
It's interesting. The seams at the edges look like formica with the obvious white joint. If it's wood veneer, it's interesting that the woodworker was skilled enough to make the edge joints of the veneer completely disapear in the curved area, but was unable to make them disappear in the corners.
If it's wood veneer, it's interesting that the woodworker was skilled enough to make the edge joints of the veneer completely disapear in the curved area, but was unable to make them disappear in the corners.
Veneer or not, I can see the joints in the curved area pretty clearly, especially on the closeups on the page you posted.
You see the joints in the curved area because of the grain changes at the joints.
exactly. I see where the joints should be, but I don't see the glue line.
There aren't any glue lines because everything is pressed together with a high pressure after being soaked with resin.
On the corners and edges, there's not much you can do about it if you want the clean lines of the veneer to go all the way; one or both of the ends of the veneer will be visible, and if the veneer makes a sharp corner, it's likely to chip. Some get around it by adding a frame of solid wood, or metal, around the edges, but that would break up the lines.
Pretty fancy whittlin'...
Zig-Zag stitch instead of butterflies, makes that opening more usable too.
Yeah, but that oozing and running calls for a different medication.
When we were teenagers a friend of mine did that to his bed using chain and eyebolts.
Swung himself to sleep every night.
OK, building your own band saw is cool, and maybe your own block planes, but I can't buy making a tape measure. Nope, no way.
Another of those glass tables but a little different than the critters rising up through the surface like it was water. One thing you can count, an absolute truth, when there is a figure it will be female.
Another one of those tables that look so cool but are of no use to you unless you can afford that 20 foot TV I posted somewhere.
https://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=993061&postcount=678
Looks a bit like the beautiful wood counters at the pot store.
Custom crafted from a massive 750-year-old sunken tree that was pulled from the Willamette River six or eight years ago. Not long before the store opened, one of the owners saw an ad for the tree on Craigslist, and got an idea . . .
Driftwood horse I suspect had some shaping of parts before finishing, but I love the look.
https://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=993919&postcount=712
As you leave the Portland (OR) airport, you'll see these . . . beautiful!
[SIZE="4"]Deborah Butterfield Horse Sculptures[/SIZE]
In 1995 the Portland International Airport commissioned Deborah Butterfield for an exhibit of her horse sculptures for which were placed along the drive as one leaves the airport.
"... Butterfield developed her faux-wood approach at the Walla Walla Foundry in Eastern Washington because her early stick-and-mud horses had deteriorated -- distressing art collectors. The wood shrank, wires loosened, dirt disintegrated and bugs attacked. Tiring of a secondary "veterinary art restorer" career, she sought permanence for her ephemeral sculptures. In the labor-intensive solution she documents and disassembles her wood horses, makes a mold for every stick, burns out the wood and pours in molten bronze. After reassembly, patinas restore nature's hues. ..."
"... Butterfield sculpts the original piece by piece by fastening logs, branches, sticks, planks, and boards onto an armature that gives the basic posture of the particular horse. After fashioning the horse out of wood and organic material, the piece is photographed from all sides and angles, particularly the areas where individual pieces are joined. These photos are used to reconstruct the various elements after casting. ..."
[SIZE="2"][Judy Wagonfeld, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ART REVIEW, Friday, July 22, 2005, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington, Website, 2006][/SIZE]
Seeing those horses would give a veterinarian nightmares. :haha:
This may be slightly beyond your DIY skills without a little practice.
But
these dudes make a bunch of different size and shape tambour furniture. I think this one is only $24k. :rolleyes:
I was wrong on the price, that one is W41xH36xD18 at $14k.
The bigger one is W46xH62xD15 at $18k.
That is nice. I wonder what you use for a strap, and how it is attached, that is both long-lasting and replaceable.
It looks like the mechanism with the bronze rails is made, then the veneer added. What makes me think that is the grain pattern doesn't seem to be interrupted so the must be cutting the veneer with a laser or some other very narrow kerf method.
That is nice. I wonder what you use for a strap, and how it is attached, that is both long-lasting and replaceable.
My mother in law has a tambour side cabinet as part of a dining room set, and while bored out of my mind at her place one day, I was closely examining it. There is a special cloth, a lot like canvas that is used.
And according to
this online store, there is a tambour glue.
The thin kerf cut also really impressed me. I wondered how they did it. Maybe it's a standard 1/16th inch kerf that you would get on a thin kerf saw.
Sure, using the bunch of straps glued to canvas is the easiest way, but unless the curve in the track is gentle, the slats will open up a lot. The way around that was to make the strips of wood half rounds so the separation on turns wasn't noticeable. The high end pieces skipped the canvas and machined each slat to interlock. With that method there still had to be some rounded relief between slats. What these guys are doing is beyond that, big bucks beyond that.
:idea: In each of the material lists they mention leather but I don't see any showing. I wonder if they use leather for a backing on the tambour?
This may be slightly beyond your DIY skills without a little practice.
But these dudes make a bunch of different size and shape tambour furniture. I think this one is only $24k. :rolleyes:
WANT!
Another one of those common pieces of factory equipment turned into a fancy table for the people who closed the factories and sent the work to China/Taiwan/ India/Africa.
Just find yourself a purty piece of wood... and some quarter sawn boards, then build a box.
Just glue your scraps together for a beautiful table.
[SIZE="1"]Nice scraps required[/SIZE]
Carved fireplace surround/mantle. I'll bet with a fire and a few candles or whale oil lamps for light, that sumbitch make some spooky shadows. :unsure:
If you want to graduate from carving wood to stone you can carve an Indian as big as a mountain, or fancy headstones for Russian gangsters, or something less ambitious like a bird.
Unique clock you can make, even cheat with doll or puppet hands.
No thalidomide jokes, please.
Of course not. After all, it's a *digital* clock.
Now this is a toilet, hand me a corn cob...
Wonder if it's called Hot Seat?
Pretty cool. What did those come out of? Not a Geo Prizm.
No idea, the crankshafts from a small 4 cylinder and the brake rotors from something yuge. :haha:
This will keep those poker players from flipping the table over...
Carving a guy who can't be president, look at those hands...
Build it then spend the rest of your life carving it.
The front of this desk looks simple and straight forward, although a closer look shows some subtle detailing. But when the top comes into view all that is forgotten.
It occurred to me that a few of the projects in this thread may be a teeny bit advanced for some of you.
The easiest thing in the world to build is a clock. A battery powered movement is only a couple bucks,
and any old board or, pie plate or hardbound book can be a base. Go for it!
I like the dominoes.
I really like the timing gears.
:eek:Chair backs fill in the table skirt, do if there's a hole in the skirt somebody stole a chair... or a leg.
I built a screen, it's harder than it looks.
Coffee table of Mango... be careful where you set your glass.
I suppose the trouble and/or expense is worth it if it gets you laid, but I doubt better sleep is in the equation.:headshake
I usually sleep better after I've gotten laid.;)
Beds with foot boards are for shorter people.
Perfect gift for you astrologer...
Chick: What's your Zodiac sign?
Dude: Dragon.
Chick: Dragon is not a real Zodiac sign.
Dude: None of them are real.
That may be true, but Dude ain't getting laid tonight. :headshake
Lots of bargains at the thrift store. You can do amazing things with no woodworking just paint.
Lots of bargains at the thrift store. You can do amazing things with no woodworking just paint.
Amazing, you can get into her drawers by just pulling.
The industrial look sells well without regard to comfort. :rolleyes:
Very cool carving. It amazes me someone can not only envision the possibility, but execute it without cutting too much off in the roughing. Although we'll never know if the plan got changed along the way. :lol:
Yeah, working with the entire length of the tree, if he screws up, he has a lot of material to work with. He just has to start over and go a little deeper to get the shape he was going for.
An over the top resort design, woodpile staircase, "textured" interior surfaces. Kind of like the Waltons arriving in a stretch limo.
Spirit bear is not happy with climate change...
If you suspect you spouse of playing footsie under the table with guests....
Another bench fit for the finest woodworking, black tie dinner, or rowdy sex.
I could use that table in soooo many ways.
All of them perverted in some way.
I mean, the clamps/vices are already in the right places and everything.
does that make you a bench dog?
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
Hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new land.
To fight the hordes and sing, and cry.
Valhalla, I am coming.
Always sweep with, with threshing oar.
Our only goal will be the western shore.
A do it yourself podium for when you become potentate.
Forget the antique store, make your own. Why should nature interrupt the World of Warcraft.
You can do it the hard way or the easy way.
While dad's got the chainsaw out cutting yule logs, have him knock out a bench...
You'll be off your rocker a lot with this one, because you'll want to get up and admire your handy work.
No problem just one chip at a time...
You could copy this table...
You could copy this table...
Challenge accepted.
That is a beautiful table.
Well within my skillset, though I'm not French and I doubt beechwood will be by wood of choice. Nevertheless! I'm wondering how the tabletop is attached to the base... Your thoughts?
The title of the video says "DIY Useful *Tools*", but... it fits in with this thread nicely, I think.
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... I'm wondering how the tabletop is attached to the base...
A grove in the stone mated to a tongue carved from of the top of the wood and gravity?
I have a large sectional oak cart with shelves in which top and bottom go together that way. Due to its weight it's quite secure.
The title of the video says "DIY Useful *Tools*", but... it fits in with this thread nicely, I think.
They killed a lot of sewing machines in the making of that video.
Challenge accepted.
That is a beautiful table.
Well within my skillset, though I'm not French and I doubt beechwood will be by wood of choice. Nevertheless! I'm wondering how the tabletop is attached to the base... Your thoughts?
That does look like fun!
It claims to be 18th century but I wondered if the top has been replaced?
No problem just one chip at a time...
You don't have a link for this do you?
No, I ran across a couple pictures of the guys work but no information, not even his name.
Ah, now all my dates I bring home will have red panties.
Do some whittling, catch dinner.
A table project...
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Do some whittling, catch dinner.
Heh. They could have started with a crooked stick and just painted it.
Coulda spent $1.98, and used the time for something else.
Tree to chair... the hard way...
Looks rugged enough to hold the remote, your beer, and your feet...
Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle....
What? Custom cabinetry, I guess?
Beautiful amp & head.
Mesa Boogie...I always loved the sound of saying that.
A couple of the glass top tables...
Don't drink the rum first or you'll never find what's in the other drawers. :nuts:
Secret, but not one of then is big enough to hide a body.
This took a shitload of work and planning. I appreciate that, but I don't like it.
Definitely a fantasy piece, like who could get one, no less four, cats to do something helpful.:rolleyes:
Fancy inlays you could do yourself and save $39,000.
I haven't seen one like this before.
What'll you have buddy? Pour me a nightstand.
Wow. That's crystal clear. No air bubbles. Clean surfaces too. I'd love to see it up close in person.
I'm aware somebody may have poured their heart and soul into doing this... but.
Wow. That's crystal clear. No air bubbles. Clean surfaces too. I'd love to see it up close in person.
Big rigid container to hold the mold, (and that is a crapton of epoxy/resin), and a git 'er done vacuum pump to draw the bubbles to the top.
The bubbles are the amazing part. That log, with all its cracks, would be full of air. And a mold is theoretically possible, but I wonder if there was a lot of grinding and polishing like a diamond being cut.
I've used a penetrating epoxy, stuff is horrible / miraculous. It's about 70%VOC. It really, really penetrates, seeps into the wood like water into a sponge. Then it hardens, like stone. That could be a good way to displace much of the air in the block, and make it less buoyant too. I'd still use a vacuum pump to draw out surface bubbles. And I'm positive the was a box around the stump when the urethane or epoxy was poured in around the log.
THEN, ENDLESS grinding and polishing.
Also, it is tough to say how big that work is. Those might be matchsticks in the background.. Maybe it's a paperweight or a bookend and not a table..
Gotta have a bench, why not a good one?
It's a nice bench to be sure.
But I have a few quibbles.
Why so many bench dogs in the picture? (those removable pegs sticking up) I know the picture is posed, and meant to show off the newly made bench, but do you really need to show that you have all those bench dog holes? In practice, you are only going to be using one bench dog in most situations. You don't need a dozen of them. Just one, and you move it to different holes. Maybe a spare in case you misplace the one. Actually, you would want a second dog for the support next to the side vise.
What's with the red accent paint on the chamfer on the vise? I feel like that's just asking to have red markings get on all your projects as you accidentally bump against it. It's this guy's vise, so do what you want, but I wouldn't want that.
And the vise spinner has just a metal bolt sticking out. Carve a wooden handle for it to match the tail vise. You're not done yet.
Sorry for being critical. It's a nice bench. It really is.
The wood appears to be mahogany which is fairly soft and not all that strong.
It's almost like the guy who made this doesn't know how to use a bench.
You should start off with an old hollow core door on top of a couple saw horses. Use clamps to hold your work down. Once you figure out how you work, and what you need, look at solutions others have used in the past if you want to upgrade. If you are going to customize a tried and true design that has been used for centuries, that's great! But make each change for a reason that suits you. Don't just use some wood that you read about as being a fancy wood and think that it somehow makes the thing superior. And that red paint or gel stain or whatever it is?! Why is that on the vise handles? It doesn't look like something I would want to touch. And why on the vise chamfer itself? But I'm repeating myself. Paint doesn't belong anywhere near a workbench unless it is paint splatter from a project you are working on and your workbench is a hollow core door on a couple sawhorses.
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I can see the vice chamfer, sometimes working on a piece held in the vice you want to cut or drill on an angle and the vice jaw gets in the way, especially one this thick. The chamfer allows the piece to be clamped lower in the vice than would be necessary with the thicker jaw.
The red paint warns of potential bump and pinch zones if you happen to be working nude.;)
Oh, the chamfer is a fine idea. It's painting it that I have an issue with.
It might take awhile to built a nice bench so you could grab a commercial one to use in the meantime.
You can go crazy with base design...
When you get too old for contact sports like jousting or boxing, you can sit in aggressive looking chairs and swap threats and lies.
I love this one. The rounded corners are a very nice touch.
Yeah, no unwelcome shots to the ribs
A gentleman shouldn't have to leave his chair...
I mean, it's cool, but... it's only good for 2.5 years, max, unless you keep popping out a steady stream of boy babies.
Hey hey that's sexist. Girl babies can use it too. Or puppies. ;)
I like it, clean but not exactly plain.
For the dyed in wool Pontiac freak...
... or just a sick fuck.
Good way to get a guest to leave a deuce unflushed.
I don't see anything that looks like a flush lever.
It's an... auto-flusher.
:facepalm:
It's an... auto-flusher.
You! Go stand in the corner!
I'm not sure if it would be harder or easier for her to carry me up to the bedroom, but it sure looks purty.
Looks like the tail of a tornado.
Yeah, that may be what they were going for. Good eye.
The base is 1950s but the top is timeless.
There's a reason you don't see tables like that every day. It takes considerable effort fighting the wood to avoid having big cracks obviously showing. But I like the looks of it.
Back when America was great...
Are you horny, Bunkie? Tough shit, make an ashtray.
I think those prominent pegs would be a pain in the ass...
Didn't Steve Miller have a hit with that song?
Wait.
That was
Swingtown.
Ne'ermind. Sorry.
Sorry urrbody.
Most of us don't have access to a sorting hat, so a sorting box will have to do.
I'd never get to it... I've been known to dump cans of screws into concrete pours.
What's 'hardware', if it ain't screws, nails, washers, nuts, and/or bolts?
In the concrete it goes. :haha:
What's 'hardware', if it ain't screws, nails, washers, nuts, and/or bolts?
whatsits and gewgaws.
Man knows his widgets and turnouts.
Will to put it by the dock to cut fish on?
Will you cut it up for chopsticks? Toothpicks?
Flock it green for a model train table?
Many many chances to change the design on the fly. ;)
7 stringer? Is that a Les Claypool bass or something?
Kidz these days are all about the 7-string guitar, it includes a low B string
Better sharpen your jackknife for this one...
Better sharpen your jackknife for this one...
Those are gorgeous. But are they comfortable?
Sent by magick
Comfortable? Haven't you heard an artist must suffer for their art? :lol2:
I've seen a lot of art, and thought that the artist should be made to suffer...
Tentacle porn that literally gives you wood...
What's not to like?
Tentacles over the edge would drive me crazy.
You're losing looks like 1-6 inches of the table edge.
Table on tentacles. Not under. Not among.
Jesus, does anyone read Tentacle Furniture: Ethics & Accepted Practices anymore?
Pfft.
Looks like it's a table to display other things on, or serve finger foods from, not one you sit at.
Tentacles do what the hell they want. :p:
I shoulda said tentacle foods.
Just make a knife and slice them off.
I want to look at this later to see if the bottom leg tentacle grows back.
Table on tentacles. Not under. Not among.
Jesus, does anyone read Tentacle Furniture: Ethics & Accepted Practices anymore?
Pfft.
You pretty consistently crack me up
I like the idea although I'd change some colors, but it looks like a tripping hazard. Foot tripping not acid.
Yes, very cool.
Though I wish the middle of the three light blue squares were a different color; them overlapping to make the same color again makes it look like something isn't colored correctly in the middle.
Perhaps this doesn't belong in this thread.
Deconstruct It Yourself?
Why not?
Is there a bandsaw in there?:eyebrow:
A different nesting table look.
Some tips, tricks, and skills to make you feel inadequate.
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If ya ain't got a slab fake it. Probably more comfy anyway.
Nice work although I hate French Brushed anything. :(
Nice inlay work on this humidor...
A window down the middle for checking legs...
I like that. Green was a good color choice.
When you're done polishing your joinery skills you have a place to rest.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle...
Trick table...
I don't see a practical application for this other than look cool. :confused:
At least this one is smiling...
There's an awful lot of work for the end result...
That shitboard classes it right up though.
The Italians call it a blond wood interior.
lol I better get my eyes checked
No, in the smaller pics it looks like particle board, and I still don't know what it is. :confused:
Gussy up the front porch...
Bet this would give your insurance agent nightmares...
George Nakashima's daughter...
Lot of whittling there, my good man...
George Nakashima's daughter...
I love this.
The inside looks like that weird wood again...
The children are grown and gone. Their childhood friends got left behind...
I like that desk, yes I do, yes I do.
Set that stool under a cow somewhere.
You can build a Batarang.
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I've played with boomerangs before, plastic and wood. I've had success in catching my own throws many times. I'm probably a step or two beyond beginner.
I'm telling you right now, that's a bad idea waiting to happen.
Of course the regular way of catching a boomerang is to "clap" it between your palms, trapping it. OF COURSE, you don't always catch it properly. I can tell the "Batarang" in the picture's never been thrown, or at least it's never been closely missed because the wing-tip opposite the thrower's hand and the trailing edge point just behind the back of the thrower's hand are not covered in gore.
Done well, the end of the flight is close to where it started (duh) and it's slowly (relatively speaking) helicoperting to the ground, in a flattish orientation.
If it works right it doesn't come back, it hits what you were hunting. ;)
If you perform correctly, so will the boomerang.
Had to ponder a bit, but I think I do like it.
I don't.
I mean, it's well built and uses nice materials and everything, but I don't like the form. A person sitting at it can't reach any of the storage. Also, it's a bit clunky looking. I like thin, light looking furniture similar to the Shaker aesthetic. Although it's hard to make a desk with storage look light.
Maybe it's for a really important CEO with two secretaries to hand him/her things. :lol2:
I don't.
I mean, it's well built and uses nice materials and everything, but I don't like the form.
I did have to ponder a while.
You could use this one for a desk and have a minion bring you file folders as needed. ;)
Good thing this is only a coffee table, having the kids table close to the adults table could traumatize the wee ones when drunk uncle starts talking about the red light districts during the war.
What happens in the foxhole, stays in the foxhole.
~Drunk Uncle
That's not a door, THIS is a door...
Based on standard brick height, those side doors are 4 feet tall and the center door is 8.75 feet tall.
One advantage of DIY is you can make stuff no respectable professional craftsman would, unless you offered a lot of cash and he still wouldn't sign it. :haha:
I find this hard to believe, no splitting and I didn't see drilled pilot holes. I guess it's like the 2x4 through a phone pole from a hurricane. I suspect the "nails" have to be fresh, plus the right phase of the moon and weight of the jockey.
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Easy to drill out if one is defective, but hard to know whether one is defective, before or after use. I would expect the relative hardness of the woods to matter.
Beech is fairly hard, and "compressed beech" is probably harder. If there's any other treatment/infusion to keep it compressed, it would be even harder (and may compensate for defects in the wood grain).
Not sure I'd trust it as the sole fastener for the use shown in the video (fasten 2x4 as table leg, fasten corners of a bedframe), but I probably wouldn't trust a metal brad for that either. To keep a real joint from slipping, though, it ought to work fine.
It's basically dowel joinery, without the glue. But the glue doesn't matter if the "lignin welding" actually does bond between the wooden nail and surrounding wood like they claim. HM is right, though, that it's not going to make a very strong joint all by itself.
I can see it being used to nail decking down. Gravity is holding those boards in place anyway and the wooden nails just keep them from shifting.
Here is the technical data they offer for the strength of their LignaLoc wooden nails. I'm not smart enough to understand what that means. I think shear strength is probably the most important value. They talk about "Shear resistance" being 362 Newtons for the wooden LignoLoc nails. When I look up values for screws to see if they compare, I found this
one reference that talks about Simpson screws having "fastener allowable steel strength" in shear of 800 lbf. One lbf is 4.45N, so the steel screws have 3,560 N of shear strength vs. 362 N for the wooden nails.
So steel is ten times stronger than wood.
But maybe you don't need all that strength for everything you make.
Very useful if you're sneaking a deck through airport security.
"Sir, are you hiding something in your pants?"
"Just my deck."
Mama said, if you're going to have vices make sure they are clean ones.
I like. It's very ornate, of course, and I would be afraid to really whale on that little anvil surface at the front by the clamp. But it's perfect for smaller more precise tasks.
Very useful if you're sneaking a deck through airport security.
Get out of my head.
Tricky case...
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Hell no. A thousand times no.
The butterfly is pretty.
If you're going to fill in the voids with resin, why not be honest and make it visible.
I would do that with a different color.
...why not be honest and make it visible.
Because it looks like shit.
My shit ain't blue. :headshake
Then be some fancy stairs...
Beautiful. I like it lot.
I've seen a Dutchman holding a crack together before, but never in a structural element. It looks sturdy, but I wonder if the builder did any calculations.
A little pool? Or would that be billiards?
This is just crazy, DIY racing game...
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So unrealistic!
I mean, who has that much cardboard just laying around?!
Nice pool tables.
I don't like six-legged pool tables.
No idea why, just prefer four legs.
Make your own mosquito breeding facility...
Make your own mosquito breeding facility...
Thats why you have fish in it to eat the larvae. The coons love fresh fish when they come by in the night.
If you find a crashed flying saucer move right in...
Before you tackle the creation of your dreams you must know about tools...
Tools explained.
DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.
WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light . Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh--!'
SKIL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.
PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.
BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.
HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.
VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.
OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.
TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.
HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes , trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.
BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.
TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.
PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.
STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans.. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.
PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.
HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short.
HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.
UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use.
SON-OF-A-BITCH TOOL: (A personal favorite!) Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a BITCH!' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.
Haggis!
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I can testify to the truth in that post, xoB.
Thats why you have fish in it to eat the larvae. The coons love fresh fish when they come by in the night.
Regular Walt Disney circle of life thing.
For when I can't find the SOB tool, I keep the GDMFCS one handy.
I started my acquaintance with tools under my future brother-in-law's '48 Dodge. He had holed the pan and offered me 20 bucks to put a new one on. Pliers and 12" crescent wrench were my arsenal.
My shop was the driveway under my mother's at-home office window.
"Jimmy! Where did you learn those words?"
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I've made a bunk bed from bamboo and I used several techniques she demonstrates.. It's a very satisfying material to work with.
Why buy a lawnmower when you can knock one together from an old axle...
Genius.
Deadly af, but, genius.
Winter is coming which means more indoor time. Holidays are coming which means big bucks, steal stuff, or make gifts.
Cutting boards are usually a safe bet because every home needs one.
No matter how serviceable the resident board, what Mom/Wife/Sister wouldn't willingly chuck it for a hand crafted gift from a Son/Husband/Brother.
And If you accidently build a pretty board, they can hang it on the wall as culinary artsy fartsy.
DIY bicycle...
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"for" 200 hours. Weird how prepositions give non-english-as-a-1st-language-speakers trouble.
OK, the government/landlord/Mom says you can't have an elevator so you have to use the stairs, but you can redecorate.
So you'll be using these stairs at all hours of the day/night, and various mental/physical conditions.
Which is safer the plain or patterned treads?
If pattern or plain doesn't matter how about lighting, dark or bright?
If that's the pattern, I'll take unlit.
Cutting boards... the hard way.
I hope those are tails...
Cutting boards... the hard way.
An Escher cutting board?
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Wow, look at 'em all!The problem is they are distracting when you are using a pointy slicey tool around your fingers.
This is how you can save a bunch by building your own safe...
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I built my own safe about thirty years ago. Is there another link that works better for that site?
Better link? There is no link, only a video.
All I see is "Unsupported Viewing Environment"
All I see is "Unsupported Viewing Environment"
How can they possibly know your viewing environment?
Go to Vimeo and search Forged and Filed. There ya go.
It works for me, but then I'm special.
OK, I had to open this in Google Chrome.
That is pretty slick, but mine may be tougher and is definitely heavier.
Still working but luckily untested by robbers and fire.
Mine is about 3,000 lbs empty. But not near a clever or elegant, and I didn't build it myself.
Vimeo video 288711470.
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Apparently ya can't do a search for a vid @ Vimeo like that.
I can't, anyway.
I know what ya was doing, tho.
My gunsafe only weighed like 700-800 pounds.
I highlighted, "Vimeo video 288711470", right clicked, then hit "search Google for Vimeo video 288711470". It showed me three videos, and one was the right one.
Well, dumbass me figgered if it was a Vimeo clip, Vimeo should be able to find their own damn video.
Guess it's beyond their ability.
Cut 'em up...Glue 'em up...Cut 'em up...Drink 'em up.
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I love both of these, but I'm only going to reproduce one of them.
I *DO*have a lot of tape...
Why have long boring stairs when they can be interesting. They can tell a story, teach history, or you can create a story, even dialog for the figures as you ascend or descend the stairs.
I love both of these, but I'm only going to reproduce one of them.
The bug closet, right?
I *DO*have a lot of tape...
I like the simplicity of your decision tree.
Those statue stairs have got to be creepy as fuck at night.
I've had the bug closet in a file since june 28th and never got around to it, still had 12 in front of it. :lol:
I can't get enough of these stone fireplaces...
Do you think he laid that out dry fitting flat in a frame first?
I wanna see it fall out in the floor next time the door gets slammed good and hard.
Yes, I am aware there are adhesives in the world.
It's cool to have a fancy outside too.
That is b and impressive.
A little coffee table for the playroom or maybe the porch...
I hope this guy is fucking with me:
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:eek: I so hope this guy is fucking with me.
I hope this guy is fucking with me:
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:eek: I so hope this guy is fucking with me.
Fuckin' hippies.
What?
You don't think Yanni is smoldering hot?
Haters gonna hate.
It's an environmentally responsible way to wood-burn, if you have a steady hand.
Anyway, a strange bench, it would have to sit in an open area to justify hanging that slab on the back.
Looks Jesusy? I wonder if that slab flips up as a writing surface for the pew(?) behind.
I wondered that too, but the way it's notched in at the bottom makes me think it's attached to the uprights to make it solid. Could be wrong though.
Whatever it is, that cushion is a crime against humanity.
I don't think so but it's possible. It looks to me like the three uprights have the backrest and that back slab attached to either side of them.
Oh well, gotta have a place to put the books...
More books more places for them to accumulate...
I like the chair bookshelf the best. Perfectly located and properly stored books for the reader. Clean lines, neat, orderly - that's how books should be stored. Not at a tilt, all cattywumpusy. Busts the spines, loosens the glue. Bad, bad, bad!
IMO, most of the wall-art bookshelves would still be interesting to look at without the books in them.
If you have a cat you have to provide a suitable change of design. ;)
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Izzat a Roomba?
I wanna know why the left vertical edge isn't the same from top to bottom. What's the point of that indented space?
That's the cat stairs.
Ah, I see. Thank you!
I'm betting the cheap bastard is banking on her being so blown away she'll insist on keeping this ring as the ring and say forget about upgrading. :lol:
You and your box fetish....
Good catch, didn't know about it my own self.:lol2:
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I reckon that's a cat bed. They love to perch on top of things like that. Probably has a soft fleece liner.
Hey, y'know, uh, I know cats is fucked up and all, but...:eyebrow:
And for leftover guitars...
Exposed copper connecting electrical fixtures and plumbing? No thanks.
No problem, any electrical leakage goes directly to an excellent ground, there is no way you could provide a better path with your body.
Build your own trailer, kits aren't cheating...
Twil is enchanted by the teardrop tiny trailers we've all seen. We're going to have one. I told her I could make one, which is true, but we'll probably buy a commercial product.
A guy I know has a Li'l Snoozy.
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They seem to like it, they use it fairly often.
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Instead of a big expensive renovation you could make the house more challenging, interesting, fun...
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Abandoned button factory.
Ah.
Thank you.
I have late Grandmadigr's Jar O' Buttons.
I love the color and finish.
Pretty, but kind of spendy...
That's really pretty.
Not as pretty as a box of hundred dollar bills. Not even close.
But what do you do with it? Eat and drink on my $100,000 table? Like hell you will. :mad2:
I'd have some difficulty putting my drippy coffee mug on that...
Yeah, those planks should be on the wall... behind a couch so you can't touch them.
This is more suitable for touching than that table, even rubbing your butt on...
After you pull the splinters from that rough bench outta your ass, sit on this...
Better DIY these, they're expensive...
I wouldn't want to move this very often...
Stairway to bankruptcy...
Just imagine all the crap you could accumulate...
Traveling Hardware Salesman's display trunk...
Adirondack chair made of skis and painted deadhead. :bonk:
Unique BBQ and toolbox...
Expensive versions of the anti-homeless benches.
You can spend hours knob polishing...
I can attest to that.
I've been polishing mine for years.
:D
I guess this would be casual furniture...
That lamp would depress me. I don't want my furniture looking sad.
If the shade was leaning back instead of forward it would look like a lamp getting a blow job.
I wouldn't like that either, though, cuz I don't want my furnishings getting more head than I am.
I could make a clock that looks as good and tells time as well as this one...
Something to think about.
Cool. I saw that clock in person. You can see the wood grain through the white paint of the carved sheet.
After examining it, I was impressed with the skill of the craftsman. I prefer a functional object, but wouldn't have studied a real clock as closely as I studied that art piece.
Shrug.
So he's doing in wood what they use to do in stone.
I like the stone one better.
So he's doing in wood what they use to do in stone.
Cuz he don't got the stones.
Got to have tools... nothing fancy, plane ones. :rolleyes:
Couple more for you to say, Ohhhh pretty... but looks like work.
Damn, I posting one after that last plane but it's not there. I must have previewed and forgot to post... again.:(
No grounded plugs on the white one. The black one has moving parts that don't have to be, I'm not sure that's a smart move. :eyebrow:
If you have a bug, make it a feature.
Make it a couch, a hammock, or a target, just get that rolling roadblock out of the way.
Ooh, a Swiss split-window...
Use the other half to make benches.
I love this box...
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It would be supercool if it was laminated wood of two colors.
You could make a rocking chair for your old age.
Or a longer table out of it.
Edit: How did the box and guitars sneak in there?
Things you can make yourself.
I meant that I expected my reply to follow the table pic directly, but those two got there first.
Now this is something you could do while you're watching TV with the family in the evening. Like knitting, or braiding rugs. Just cut the pieces like the west coasts of Ireland and Scotland then cut the background to match.
Shelving. On wheels? I'd want at least one diagonal.
Yeah, I don't get the wheels.
Don't get me wrong, I know what wheels are for...
There is a chance it is diagonally stable, but it would have to be attached something.
If the thing it is attached to is diagonally stable, sure.
As it stands, it's a mechanism.
These were very popular when mini-skirts were in vogue.
He needs to distress that.
I've spent too much time trying to figure out the stairs in the foreground... unsuccessfully.
Heartwood shifting to sapwood?
I'm trying to identify the steps and risers.
There is LED strip lighting affixed to the underside of the nose of each step. The light is shining on the risers a little bit and also illuminating about half of the step below. You can see the little bright dots reflected on the third illuminated step.
Hm
Regular stairs, with a strip of lights under the bull nose leading overhanging edge of the tread, two stairs have lights that aren't lit...
What am I missing?
Wow, late poster.. Sorry..
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I'm trying to identify the steps and risers.
It's pretty disorienting. The bottom two steps line up exactly from the angle of the photo (you can't see the risers), the next two steps have the reverse of natural lighting (lighting where a shadow should be), and the top two steps DON'T have rope lights, breaking the pattern.
I'm sure they thought the LEDs would be a cool addition, but they make the steps a little more hazardous by making them hard to see.
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Ah, thank you. I couldn't figure out why they looked weird, and didn't think of step lighting. :smack:
Here's another great bench too nice to use...
you could walk barefoot in that shop. Look at it!
Probably the end of the day after they cleaned up to go home. :rolleyes:
Tell me more about this “cleaned up” you mention. I am curious what that is.
Every shop I worked at the benches were brushed off and the floor swept at the end of the day. Home shops, not so much. ;)
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I think they just swept up for the pic. Also sawdust on the other (left) side, too.
That's their stash to mix with glue to repair oopsies.
Extra material? No extra material, incorporate it!
That's what ya get when ya build yer bench outta willow and don't seal it properly.
I once cut a willow tree for a guy and he told me to "just put that log over yonder in that ravine". I came back several years later to dump a load of chips there, and there was a 20-foot willow tree growing out of that log.
[Jeff Goldblum]Life finds a way.[/Jeff Goldblum]
But if I was a vagrant I'd be scared to sleep on that bench. :eek:
This will be Griff's floor when he's done with that new toy...
yes, it is very pretty.
the saw marks on that floor were made with a circular blade.
Yeah, recycled barn boards. I worked on a house where the woman had the 2.5 car garage converted to a living/entertaining room. The floor was covered with Chestnut boards from a barn in VA that must have been 35 ft long. Just the thought of them walking on it with high heels made me sad.
I hope it's more comfortable than it looks...
That tv antenna won't pick up nothing.
A ribcage on your ribcage.
Build your own death trap.
I pinched my finger, my scrotum, and the sensitive skin on the back of my upper arm while viewing that picture.
I pinched my finger, my scrotum, and the sensitive skin on the back of my upper arm while viewing that picture.
You're a lot more flexible than I imagined.
Uh, you were imagining his flexibility? :rolleyes:
A DIY project anyone can do, mount the flatscreen on the wall...
Leave it. Looks like an art installation.
Run, prisoner zero has
escaped!
...mount the flatscreen on the wall...
Studses?
We don't need no stinking studses!!
...and we'll mount it on a lever, so it'll be sure to stay up there...
This is what the boss buys when he can never find anyone to blame because they're all hiding.
Such a bargain :rolleyes:...
Save what you can from it...
Put those derelicts to use...
Learn a lesson from the tree... it got stoned and got turned into a coffee table.
Pssst, wanna buy a slab?
No. I'm already getting some wood...
Nixie clocks could be a profitable hobby, especially since the tubes have been made more reliable.
There's a hell of a lot of work right there...
New Zealand gets short shrift in that projection.
That's fair, Hobbits are short anyway.
How about a versatile chair that can be used for business, pleasure, or in the la-bor-atory doing biology experiments. :eek2:
New Zealand gets short shrift in that projection.
They seem to prefer that, unfortunately rich Americans are planning to ruin the vibe down there.
Some heavy inlay work... it could save you a fortune.
Doing this you wouldn't have time for a mistress or hangovers.
I noticed the spade and the diamond on the inside of the lid have the wrong color..
He should start over.
I can tell you want these so bad you're salivating. There goes the kids college fund, Grannie won't need a headstone we'll know it's her, and the cats are natural born killers they can get their own food.
My brain isn't scaling those, they forgot the banana.
Very seldom have to wrestle Google quite so hard for information.
And I still don't know what a poke table is, but I know more about this one:
http://www.jordanmozer.com/shop_poke-table-brightMy guess it that the wooden thorn is "poking" the metal bit.
Google has other poke tables.
Had to put "-poker" in my search, but apparently so...
Think of missionary position.
I want to build a table but I won't take a whole Redwood/Sequoia tree just one little slice.
After all they're hundreds of feet tall, they won't miss a couple inches.
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This one may be Cypress, I don't remember.
Whatever it used to be, it looks petrified now.
Well, it's old. If you were that old you'd look petrified, too, woodn't you?
:D
The beautiful and the whimsical...
I love the birbs
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Then how about a table to go with them...
Now anyone can make their patio, carport, any slab of concrete, look like a rug.
All you need is a bunch of colored stones and stickum.
I'm going to show that to a freind of mine that does that kind of work. He gets $30.00 Hour you can do the math. And yes that is beautiful.
And a year or so!
A year? Dream on. :lol:
Unique shave set if you're into that sort of thing.
You could make these yourself...
Figured out what Griff is going to do with all those planks he's been cutting up. ;)
Somebodies finish work is much nicer than anything Griff would do.
Nothing like people friendly furniture...
Stoned? Rocked? Mineralized?
Stoned? Mineralized?
I've been mineralized
a lot lately...:joint:
I'm Mineralized rite now.
That sideboard is gorgeous.
Beautiful, indeed. And heavy, I bet.
And $87,000
A man's home is his castle... until he gets married. After that he must settle for his desk being his castle.
I didn't know bad taste was so expensive...
Hmm... I may have a future in terrible furniture.
I think this is intriguing, coffee tables, end tables and the like. They can be trash as you only need half.
I spot two tables he used both halves... ;)
I'm not usually into these "cool only because they're weird" pieces, but I like this one.
Is weirder more expensive? Sure don't look comfy.
Leaning back would be difficult which is good because it would be unstable...
Like playing in the mud, with PlayDoh, or with clay?
I wonder how long to suck the heat out of the water?
You could make a tricked out stereo cabinet...
There's probably a 3 ft diameter circle, whose center is 9.7 ft from the audio intersection of those two horns, that you must sit in with your ears 3.55 ft above the floor, for maximum effect. :rolleyes:
I know where that same spot is my bedroom. My speakers aim at the spot from the corners of the room.
It is a sweet spot.
Meeting him, seeing his work in his store, was cool but a down.
Loved his work but knew I'd never be able to afford it.
Then this table was about $3,000, now they're $17,000.
Cool effect leaning tree table...
I have enough trouble with spider webs already.
Cobwebs? That's easy, flame thrower.
You're going to do what with this board?
Oh no you're not!
You could modify most chairs to incorporate this feature...
Or, ya just lean to the left or right and give it the ol' One Cheek Sneak.[/GeorgeCarlin]
This is strange, the top, bottom, front and back are made up of sliding slats.
The frame keeps it together but you can't set anything on top, or place anything inside, without
risking it ending up on the floor. All it's good for is demonstrating how useless it is.
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All it's good for is demonstrating how useless it is.
Reminds me of this:
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But this guy has more humor and more free time:
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This guy cruelly pits one against the other:
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Elegant, complicated, *and* useless:
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Thanks to Moore's Law, they're getting smaller. But now they can also sense your approach:
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:lol: I'm not surprised. Man after my own heart. :thumb:
Gather up the loose coins and build furniture...
The man was magic with wood...
Sexy joining. I'm guessing all the crap particle board stuff you see in hotels was meant to reflect that work.
From a short distance it looks like rough sawn lumber but up close you seen that's the grain of the wood with different reflectivity causing that effect.
This is just one of many paper sculptures on this guys website.
It is easy to get to the whole thing if you like this one.
I wish I could figure out how to include the pic.
https://www.ivan-markovic.com/uploads/2/5/1/2/25124265/the-ramblers-rear_orig.jpg
One more:
https://www.ivan-markovic.com/uploads/2/5/1/2/25124265/the-outcast-2012_1_orig.jpgYou have to download it from there and upload it to here, no hot linking allowed.
Could make some cool patterns with this...
Buying quality lamps is such a painful process.
the lamp pictured doesn't seem SUPER complex. I think there's a lot of potential for a lamp like this with the addition of different colored gels. I like the idea of making different colored shadows.
You don't have to bother with gels, LEDS got that covered.
True, but then I would be stuck with one unchangeable color per light.
Buying quality lamps is such a painful process.
You can say that about many things. I started a toaster thread about it many moons ago.
You have to download it from there and upload it to here, no hot linking allowed.
Don't understand.
When you want to post a picture from another site you can not move it from there to here. You have to download it from the other site to your computer then upload it to here.
If it has a simple URL, the upload image dialog can do the copying.
Was what I did on the paper sculptures (1252) "hot linking?"
Nope, it won't let you...
I'm guessing those legs are attached to the box...
Hopefully you don't measure your time in nails.
Worth it, though.
Wouldn't be too bad with sharp tools and the right jigs/fixtures able to repeat reliably.
Speaking of chess...
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This chess set has been made using fourteen different woods; including
1.Mahogany, 2.Walnut, 3.Flamey Birch, 4.Spalted Hornbeam, 5.Zebrawood and 6.Douglas fir.
The board is made of 1cm thick pieces of Mahogany and 7.Sycamore, with a plywood substrate.
Rows one and eight are raised up 2cm. Rows two and seven are raised 1cm.
The case is made of Flamey Birch and has been treated with diluted tung oil to bring out the figuring.
The 'dark' pieces use six different woods.
Rook - Douglas fir treated with diluted tung oil.
Knight - Zebrano [aka Zebrawood].
Bishop - Walnut.
King and Queen – 8.Oak treated with diluted tung oil.
Pawns - body is 9.Ebony, head is dyed 10.Beech.
The 'light' pieces also use six different woods.
Rook – 11.Maple.
Knight – 12.Lime.
Bishop – 13.Cherry
King and Queen - spalted hornbeam.
Pawns - body is 14.Ash, head is beech.
The pieces have been designed according to their direction of travel.
A rook can move forwards, backward or side to side.
A knight can move one square forwards, backward or side to side plus one square diagonally.
[COLOR="Magenta"]No, that’s not how the Knight moves!!![/COLOR]!
A bishop can move diagonally.
The king and queen can move in any direction.
Their direction of travel has been indicated by their bases, rather than by the shape of the piece.
Are the light ones treated with something?
If not, cherry darkens over time... could get confusing.
No idea, it didn't say. I think the whole set is ugly.
Now that's a fireplace...
I'm sure there is as it's surface on the net a few times over the years.
Here's a place to sit while you search...
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I just looked up the HMS Royal George. Keel laid in 1747, launched in 1756.
Yup 9 years, but the largest warship in the world when launched.
Fought some battles, yada yada yada, in 1780 the hull got coppered but then it gets weird.
In August of 1782 anchored at Spithead while they were loading supplies for Gibraltar she tipped over and sank... 800 people drowned. What!?!?
There was about 1200 crew, 200 to 300 relatives seeing them off, 100 to 200 Ladies of the Point visiting, merchants and traders selling to the sailors, and a number of carpenters doing last minute repairs. The officers had been warned by the ships carpenter it was too far over but they ignored him.
They were all acquitted in a court marshal. :facepalm:
Always listen to the carpenter.
I'm always stubbing my toe on my chair, and its feet don't even stick out past the seat.
That won't happen if you walk backwards. :haha:
I don't think many people have ceilings this high but you can cut a hole for it. ;)
The odd cubby on the upper right side is just killing me.
Yeah, 4 that go in from that side, plus 4 down below.
Or just whittle and call it art...
Head, shoulders, elbows, knees, but no toeses.
Can't decide if I like it, or no.
No toeses because if you assign those bumps to shoulders an elbows it would have to be kneeling. It's waiting for the fire to gender reveal.
When I first heard of that party down south, I thought it was some teenager announcing his/her decision.
Fireworks in that area in September are not a good idea.
I really like that one!
Same.
It dawned on me that maybe after 1200 posts you're sick of the do-it-yourself bullshit and just want to buy some stuff.
Fair enough, here ya go, my buddy Louie will fix you up. Louie, Louie Vuitton ...
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Now do you remember why you got into doing it yourself?
Got it! Hanging chair for the price of three 2020 Tesla Model 3's.
Easier than building a ramp and door to get the Teslas into the living room.
But the Teslas could act as your house battery whereas that...
House batteries? How plebeian. You think I should dismiss the crew in the power generation station behind the indoor riding ring?
How would they ever they feed their wives and babies... and polo ponies?
I have a solution:
Feed the wives and babies to the polo ponies.
What? Polo ponies need their protein.
It would be more fair to have the wives, babies and polo ponies, rock-paper-scissors to see who eats whom.
Amy Walters had Happy Monkey's art prominently displayed on her shelf last night.
For real? Or just a piece of art that looks like his style?
Art in his style, as far as I know.
Amy Walters had Happy Monkey's art prominently displayed on her shelf last night.
For real? Or just a piece of art that looks like his style?
Art in his style, as far as I know.
Similar to his style, given that the panes are not regular polyhedrons.
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I have done occasional pointier triangles, where the math works out:
I don't think I've ever done that particular shape, though, with the square-base pyramids. I wonder how that works out.
In Bethlehem, PA they sell those stars like she has, along with the pointier Moravian Stars.
What are they constructed with?
Glass or Plastic, depending how deep your pocket.
In Bethlehem, PA they sell those stars like she has, along with the pointier Moravian Stars.
What are they constructed with?
Glass or Plastic, depending how deep your pocket.
Seeing as it's Bethlehem, you'd think they'd be made of
steel.
Seeing as it's Bethlehem, you'd think they'd be made of steel.
Or myrrh.
