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

[The Reverend Floater]

Are you using the shop in Carey for some of your work? Nice looking knife.

You talking about reclaimed lumber? Not yet, but the thought crossed my mind.

Camp knife is nearing completion. Stoked on the handle. Still need to polish and refine.

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[mtnjam]

You talking about reclaimed lumber? Not yet, but the thought crossed my mind.

Camp knife is nearing completion. Stoked on the handle. Still need to polish and refine.

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When we rolled through Carey last week saw the Sun Valley Bronze shop and wondered if you were using their forge.

[The Reverend Floater]

When we rolled through Carey last week saw the Sun Valley Bronze shop and wondered if you were using their forge.

Heh..no. I have my own little propane forge. One of the more fun tools I've ever owned.

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[Not DJSapp]

Life has been busy and I haven't been getting enough garage or ski time. But the rough log to furniture project goes on and today was a milestone. Rough assembly day. Shit fits within my tolerances.

Now the kid has an eternity of sanding in her future.

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[Art Shirk]

Good lookin


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[The Reverend Floater]

Dope!

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[Not DJSapp]

Woodworking. I can't remember where I heard it, but the trick isn't that you have to get everything right. You have to be able to recover from your mistakes.

Did a gravity check on the largest piece of the bedframe project and it rolled off the workbench and down the face vise before hitting the floor. Somehow remembered that you can fix dents by wetting the wood and hitting it with an iron or heat gun (don't overdo it and burn it). It actually works.

Sanding is finally done. Onto finish. So done with this thing.




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[singlecross]

90 minutes, some scrap wood, a few bowls of Sativa… Voila!
Boat trailer becomes kayak trailer. Much better for more paddling.

[Not DJSapp]

Rough logs to finished bedframe is finally done. Kiddo is super stoked, and it looks pretty good too. Now she needs a matching desk before high school starts in a month. Put that in the hopes and dreams pile kid, this took 7 months.

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[Not DJSapp]

Desk is complete enough to use. Need to add a little pencil drawer, but that will screw on out of sight. A-frame legs and a thick top. The domino is a massively stupid time saver and in the time vs. money argument it cannot be ignored. Legs and slab roughly built in a weekend, another weekend to shape and sand.

Using that big table profile router bit is a brown pants operation for sure. The bit is too big to fit through my crappy router table so I was handheld. But I'm super happy with that leg profile, and I'm gonna build a bigger table because I'm never doing that again.

Slab wasn't quite wide enough to go with the super modern inverted A-frame leg look. I kept the template because it looks awesome and I'm sure I'll think of something in 25 years and I'll do it.

Also super happy with the general finishes water based high performance. Doesn't yellow the color of the blue pine one bit. We'll see how it holds up vs. high school homework. If anyone else is using blue pine, I'd absolutely recommend it.

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[old goat]

That is gorgeous.
I used a bit like that in my router table (homemade so the hole is big enough). Definitely against the instructions and definitely scary. I wore full face shield. And if I ever need to do it again may invest in a variable speed control. Or maybe a new variable speed router. I think I deserve one.

[Not DJSapp]

Variable speed router is key. That bit is like 7000 rpm max. Turned the Bosch all the way down and it was still flying.. That thing would break the sound barrier at 25k, and I'd have carbide imbedded in my chest.

The spin down still took ages. So much momentum

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[The Reverend Floater]

Dope.

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[riser4]

Fly.

[MyNameIsAugustWest]

Furniture looks fantastic NotDJ.

Hired a contractor to build a garage. He was a loser and I was going to fire him but he talked me into letting him finish the job by offering to build a covered walkway between the garage and the house. Stupid me. He did finish the garage but not the covered walkway. He did leave me the 12" X 4" Hemlock beams so I decided to take it on myself. I did have the help of a friend with a tractor to lift the beams into place but I did the rest by meself. I picked the 2 hottest days of the year to shingle the roof...


The canoe/kayak mansion in the background was another project from a few years ago. I had doubts about the roof support design but it's held up under some pretty significant snow loads over the years...


I did have an electrician install an RF 3-way switch for the LED lights. Believe it or not, it was actually cheaper than paying for 50 feet of 3-conductor 12awg wire (25 would have been too short) and running that between the house and garage myself. I used 1" X 1" aluminum angle stock painted flat black for the trim. The beam supports were the most expensive thing in this entire project. Over $300 for the 4 of them ($100 of that was to powdercoat them black).


Pretty happy with the results.

[Foggy_Goggles]

Looks awesome DJ!

With those big roundover and chaffer bits, I like to remove as much material ahead of time. Whatever it takes table saw, jiggy, planner, grinder etc. Then the router doesn't have to work as hard.

[Not DJSapp]

Looks awesome DJ!

With those big roundover and chaffer bits, I like to remove as much material ahead of time. Whatever it takes table saw, jiggy, planner, grinder etc. Then the router doesn't have to work as hard.

Yup. Had it in the plunge router base to drop it down in 1/4" steps and took 3 passes. Still needed the brown pants with that one for the final pass.

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[old goat]

I have a panel raising hand plane. The nicest way to do raised panel doors if the wood isn't too hard or squirrly--and I'm not doing it for a living.

[Art Shirk]

So it looks like the server fan kicked back on and I can post pics.

Here’s the my new woodshed closer to house which is now full to the brim with more than enough for a winter of manhattans by the fire. And one of my helper.




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[Trackhead]

Nice furniture DJ!

Art, I just built a wood shed too but it’s not nearly as artistic as yours.

[Buke]

This project is effectively done, so I can post some pictures of it. I've been talking about building a shed for the family bikes and yard tools for years. This summer, we committed to stay close to home so I built the shed. The project was complicated by the fact that there is very little flat space in my yard and I didn't want to use any more of that flat space than necessary. I solved the problem by aligning one edge of the shed with the edge of the flat area and propped the back of it up on a couple of posts. It's about 5' off the ground at one corner, and around 3' off the ground in the other corner.

By far the best part of the project was how involved my 11 year old son got. He helped do pretty much everything and by the time the project was over he was measuring boards and cutting them to length with the skill saw on his own and he can explain everything that we did and why. It was a good reminder to me that usually the best way to learn something is to do it.

The beginning excavation and formwork:


The lumber is all leftovers that my parents had sawn on their property for various projects over the last 20+ years.


Concrete day, we moved nearly a yard of concrete from the front of the house to the back yard with a wheel barrow:


Stripping forms and setting the precast pad footings (That string is the future floor elevation):



Framing is definitely the fun part:





The only thing left at this point is paint, sorting out the entry step, and cleaning up the yard of the last bits of construction debris. I guess I also need to figure out how to optimize the storage space inside but that will be an ongoing process. I'll try to get a final picture in a couple weeks when the paint is done and the yard is cleaned up.

[Bosco]

Great work Buke. A lot of effort put into that shed.

[m2711c]

nice job.

[Art Shirk]

Buke, you are an engineer yeah? Nice job with that weird slope. So fun working with the littles and having them get excited about this stuff. Core memories created.


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[Trackhead]

100% ground up DIY snowcat build. Started in late June. It's almost done.

Engine: Yamaha RX1 + CVT
Gearbox: Yamaha RX1 Forward/Reverse
Turning: Brake steer with chain drive differential from 1 ton truck
Seating: Six
Heat: Diesel vented heater