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

[gaijin]

Did you drill right into the the studs?

Yeah, they're drilled and sunk deep. Got the idea from this guy. Same screws. I intended on my posts touching the ground for more support for kids climbing, but the whole unit lifted .2mm when I pulled it tight. So, it actually is floating.

[jamesp]

couple little random projects...

work bench I made last summer:


book shelves (rough cut fir):

[Tosylate]

Its been a long time since this project has been 'completed' (still have to make drawer-pulls) but I forgot to post it up. Currently working on a chair to match.

Cherry writing desk:

[BmillsSkier]

Very cool Bushman! Nice pic TR.

[crashtestdummy]

Its been a long time since this project has been 'completed' (still have to make drawer-pulls) but I forgot to post it up. Currently working on a chair to match.

Cherry writing desk.

Very nice craftsmanship.

[PlayItLeo]

^^^^ what he said. Curved drawer fronts? No mechanical fasteners?

Every time I start to think I'm getting pretty good at what I do, some furniture making woodworker comes along and makes me say wow. Really really nice.

[BmillsSkier]

Its been a long time since this project has been 'completed' (still have to make drawer-pulls) but I forgot to post it up. Currently working on a chair to match.

Cherry writing desk:

Worth another look. Very nice.

[Moeghoul]

I replaced the thermocoupler on my furnace this afternoon. First time doing it. 7 years ago it cost me $350 for the heater guy to do it. Part cost $8. I'll admit there was a bit of a learning curve and tight and uncomfortable area to work in. Considering I had to drop $1300 to get a C/A compressor replaced in June, I'll enjoy the savings.

[Tuckerman]

Cement countertop for my bathroom with 24 broken Bud Light Platinum bottles and 1 sky bottle.

















I have two more days of wet grinding to go. My buddy has grit up to 1500 but I'm not sure I will go past 600? I will put 511 on it to seal it.

[crashtestdummy]

Cement countertop for my bathroom with 24 broken Bud Light Platinum bottles and 1 sky bottle.

I looked at the first photo and thought that it looked like shit, but the last one is really nice looking. How flat were you able to keep it?

[BigDaddy]

Very cool... How long did it take to polish it and is this your idea?

[Tuckerman]

Perfectly flat while it was curing. We did it in a basement and leveled everything out before the pour.

[Tuckerman]

Very cool... How long did it take to polish it and is this your idea?

Im still polishing for the next two days. Yes my idea, we did a few small tops a couple of years ago that still look great. This is the biggest and it has a hole in the middle. Id love to try a kitchen but Im not sure how the pieces would fit together and still look good.

Ill post more pics later on building the form (it took a while) and mixing the cement. The whole thing was made upside down.

[~mikey b]

you didn't drink 24 Bud Light Platinums did you?

yuk!

[krp8128]

Im still polishing for the next two days. Yes my idea, we did a few small tops a couple of years ago that still look great. This is the biggest and it has a hole in the middle. Id love to try a kitchen but Im not sure how the pieces would fit together and still look good.

Ill post more pics later on building the form (it took a while) and mixing the cement. The whole thing was made upside down.

Did you use plain plywood for the form or melamine coated?

[Sagamoron]

That looks great, I have a couple of big jugs full of sea glass and have been thinking about something like this...

[Tuckerman]

Did you use plain plywood for the form or melamine coated?

Just a real nice piece of plywood, knowing that I would gird the shit out of it anyway.

[Tuckerman]

you didn't drink 24 Bud Light Platinums did you?

yuk!

A buddy of mine had a party and I brought the beer. People will drink anything at the end of the night if its free.

That looks great, I have a couple of big jugs full of sea glass and have been thinking about something like this...

We talked about this (actually I'm helping the guy who let me use his dry grinder make a counter this weekend and he wants to use sea glass. I'll take pics of that projects also.) and we don't think it will work well. Sea glass is too big and chunky and its hard for the cement to fill in all the spaces around the chunks using our current process. In my top we spent half an hour picking out the bigger chunks of glass and I think we should have spent more time doing it.

[BigDaddy]

I think the sea glass won't work well because you won't see the smoothed edges once it's in the concrete. It will look like regular glass once polished, so why use it? But used as a mosaic I think would work much better... then you can feel it.

Idk... sounds fun to practice with, tho.

T-man, post some pics once installed.

[MacDaddy]

This is cool!

[Tuckerman]

I have two more days of wet grinding to go. My buddy has grit up to 1500 but I'm not sure I will go past 600? I will put 511 on it to seal it.

We stopped at 400 grit, mostly because no one could say for sure that if I went finer and more polishing would I polish the pours closed. I need the 511 sealer to get into the pours and do its job, so I stopped.

[Skidog]

We stopped at 400 grit, mostly because no one could say for sure that if I went finer and more polishing would I polish the pours closed. I need the 511 sealer to get into the pours and do its job, so I stopped.

Hey not for nothing, and i will say i have LITERALLY ZERO experience with anything like this, but i was thinking about the "bigger pieces of glass" dilemma. What if you put the glass in some sort of tumbler? Cement mixer comes to mind, so does a washing machine but that doesnt sound safe or practical. Anyway toss the glass in there, let er roll for a while and see if the pieces get more rounded and less large?

Just a though i had, totally random at bed last night...weird.

[Sagamoron]

Hey not for nothing, and i will say i have LITERALLY ZERO experience with anything like this, but i was thinking about the "bigger pieces of glass" dilemma. What if you put the glass in some sort of tumbler? Cement mixer comes to mind, so does a washing machine but that doesnt sound safe or practical. Anyway toss the glass in there, let er roll for a while and see if the pieces get more rounded and less large?

Just a though i had, totally random at bed last night...weird.

I was thinking along those same lines, maybe using one of those old rock tumbler kits I used to see in Hobby Catalogs when I was a kid...

[Skidog]

I was thinking along those same lines, maybe using one of those old rock tumbler kits I used to see in Hobby Catalogs when I was a kid...

Good so the only thing that makes me nuts is the fact that i am thinking about TGR threads when i go to bed, and they dont even pertain to me in any way...Im slightly happier now that i know im not completely crazy

[Tuckerman]

As long as they come out flat with straight edges and not roundish it might work.