Shit you built with your own two hands (picture thread)

**OSECS** · 07-15-2011, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

Here is a mock-up of the lazy susan...
It will have a glass top up to 18", the thing is smooth as silk.
(chris king headset bearings)
I can also do some embellishments under the top glass (pieces of chain, etc), but i don't think it needs it.
it is elegant, muscular, geometric, and functional.

(if that embed doesn't work:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bicyclArt

I think $150 is fair...(but i can do a less elaborate/smaller one for ~$90, or super cheech Dura Ace/campy chainrings, etc for $250)

I'll post better pics when i get it done.
Early, I am reworking the wood backing with solid cherry in order to make it more durable, I loved the veneer, but it was finicky. Should have your done end of next week.

Definitely digging the lazy susan. Got a couple projects that could benefit from such a design feature.

**iceman** · 07-15-2011, 03:50 PM

Man I can barely make my bed.

**OSECS** · 07-15-2011, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

Man I can barely make my bed.

Uh, that's what wives are for.

doughboyshredder · 07-15-2011, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

Here is a mock-up of the lazy susan...
It will have a glass top up to 18", the thing is smooth as silk.
(chris king headset bearings)
I can also do some embellishments under the top glass (pieces of chain, etc), but i don't think it needs it.
it is elegant, muscular, geometric, and functional.

(if that embed doesn't work:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bicyclArt

I think $150 is fair...(but i can do a less elaborate/smaller one for ~$90, or super cheech Dura Ace/campy chainrings, etc for $250)

I'll post better pics when i get it done.
Early, I am reworking the wood backing with solid cherry in order to make it more durable, I loved the veneer, but it was finicky. Should have your done end of next week.

I think you should charge more than that. (maybe not for mags, but in general)

**iceman** · 07-15-2011, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by OSECS

Uh, that's what wives are for.

Not in this house bro.

**rideit** · 07-15-2011, 04:01 PM

I just got an e-mail from my supervisors, the price just went up to $225 due to the Japanese Tsunami.

I just made another one with fewer parts that I feel comfortable selling for $150. Pics later, gotta go up to targhee fest.

**hawkgt** · 07-15-2011, 04:18 PM

nice one strawjack... love no stress projects where beer is the focus and the project is the assistant. Always wondered WTF your avatar was.... now I know.....

**EarlyWood** · 07-15-2011, 07:47 PM

Originally Posted by rideit

Here is a mock-up of the lazy susan...
It will have a glass top up to 18", the thing is smooth as silk.
(chris king headset bearings)
I can also do some embellishments under the top glass (pieces of chain, etc), but i don't think it needs it.
it is elegant, muscular, geometric, and functional.

(if that embed doesn't work:

http://www.youtube.com/user/bicyclArt

I think $150 is fair...(but i can do a less elaborate/smaller one for ~$90, or super cheech Dura Ace/campy chainrings, etc for $250)

I'll post better pics when i get it done.
Early, I am reworking the wood backing with solid cherry in order to make it more durable, I loved the veneer, but it was finicky. Should have your done end of next week.

Look at you go! :-) ... love watching this develop.

**BigDaddy** · 07-15-2011, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by EarlyWood

Look at you go! :-) ... love watching this develop.

Was just logging in to basically say the same thing... looks amazing. Nice work.

Originally Posted by iceman

Not in this house bro.

Iceman makes beds in jeans...

**Whiteroom_Guardian** · 07-17-2011, 03:29 PM

I'll play.

Pool house + stone wall and landscaping from last year in background. Beginning of addition (enlarged dining room + screened in porch) I just finished.

Nearly finished addition minus stairs, stone flower beds, and paint.

#2 pine floor in dining room laid by hand with cut nails. (the original portion of the house is roughly 250 years old, so we always stick to an early American farmhouse look)

Storage closet on screened porch for storm windows/odds and ends

Stone + concrete stairway as well as stone wall face on dining room. (all stone hand picked on site)

Closer

And I just started a climate controlled garage for this beauty!

SCARY. FUCKING. FAST.

**Egg Beater** · 07-17-2011, 08:23 PM

**BigDaddy** · 07-17-2011, 08:36 PM

Me too, EB!:

Nice work there, WG... did you do all the building, stone work, etc.? Looks like a sweet spread.

**Whiteroom_Guardian** · 07-18-2011, 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by BigDaddy

Me too, EB!:

Nice work there, WG... did you do all the building, stone work, etc.? Looks like a sweet spread.

Yep, I did all the work with one other guy, from laying the foundation through finish trim work. Only thing we don't do is wiring/plumbing. It's my father's house on 100 acres in New Jersey. Its a beautiful spot.

**JET123** · 07-18-2011, 10:32 AM

Gear baskets from 100% recyclable & re-purposed materials!

**rideit** · 07-18-2011, 10:39 AM

^^^^^^^^Excellent!
Now I want to make a rocket box out of recycled space shuttle panels....

fuck, anyone know anyone in Houston?

**rideit** · 07-18-2011, 10:30 PM

Ok, last two pieces before I start a new thread of mah own.

First one is for Loon:

And this one for Mntlion:

**Loon** · 07-19-2011, 01:29 AM

Thanks, looks great but how do you tell which end of the pbr wrench to read?

**rideit** · 07-19-2011, 07:44 AM

Good Question.
It's too light to attach anything to, I'll make you one with red at the business end, if you want.

**BigDaddy** · 07-19-2011, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

Good Question.
It's too light to attach anything to, I'll make you one with red at the business end, if you want.

Can't you use an opener, that's held on by an electric magnet until 5pm, and then polarity is reversed, shooting it off the clock into your hand as you're walking to the fridge???

**booner** · 08-31-2011, 08:19 PM

A few recent ones

**iceman** · 08-31-2011, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian

And I just started a climate controlled garage for this beauty!

Hmmm. Suspiciously clean.

**WK Monoskier** · 09-09-2011, 07:27 PM

Well Mercury built it originally with someone else's hands but for the past 21 years I've been building this car. Started off as a 1980 Capri Turbo RS-4cyl. 4spd. 1 of 5000 made.

Now has a Sportsman block 5.4 liter with billet 4 bolt mains, Forged Steel Crank internally balanced, Forged H-Beam rods, Forged pistons, Canfield aluminum heads cnc ported, solid roller cam-over .620 lift, fuel injected-G-Force T-5- Torsen T2R diff. Griggs GR-40 Suspension and 13.5/12.2 4piston brake kit. And the list goes on and on.

2900# and 400 rwhp.

This is an older shot of the engine before the fuel injection was installed and the valve covers and intake were painted black and before the big brake kit was installed.

doughboyshredder · 09-10-2011, 08:33 AM

something is going on with picture attachments. If I click on one of those it opens in the same window and then when I hit the back button it goes back to the threads page. Weird.

Nice work on the car.

**zartagen** · 09-10-2011, 11:30 PM

I did a lot of work on my old Boy Scout meeting room back home 2 summers ago. Me and 2 other guys did most of the work, with other people helping out here and there. The room was stripped to nothing when we started. I moved here to CO before it was completely finished, but it was nearly done.

This stage required a lot of precision cuts and was definitely fun to build.