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

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We bought a table for far to much money at Pottery Barn. Got it home and realized it was made with Pine. Pine, and spent well over a grand for it. We were going to buy the benches that went with it, but at 500 bucks a piece for pine... I just couldn't do it. So I went down to the lumber yard, bought large ash slab at 12 foot x 16 inches, picked up another long piece of rough Ash 15 feet by 4x4 and went to work.

Finished to match table with a liquid dye, then BLO, then 5 coats shellac, then wax. The slab had a minor split at the end I stabilized with walnut butterfly's I created.


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nicely done!

[flyman683]

Looks nice, how'd you do the leg to slab joinery? Doesn't look like there is a "trestle" or "stringer" underneath so how is the lateral stability?

I've got two benches to build in my future as well...

[charlesj]

Made this in August (I had a few parts already). It was a big installation at The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids MI. More info here...

http://charlesjev.wix.com/technician3

mini documentary by Sidecar Studios...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXm_M6C6BXA

yes, it was a PITA

[snoqpass]

We bought a table for far to much money at Pottery Barn. Got it home and realized it was made with Pine. Pine, and spent well over a grand for it. We were going to buy the benches that went with it, but at 500 bucks a piece for pine... I just couldn't do it. So I went down to the lumber yard, bought large ash slab at 12 foot x 16 inches, picked up another long piece of rough Ash 15 feet by 4x4 and went to work.

Finished to match table with a liquid dye, then BLO, then 5 coats shellac, then wax. The slab had a minor split at the end I stabilized with walnut butterfly's I created.


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Hopefully you got some new tools out of this

[frozenwater]

Wish I could say mortise and tenon, but the angles were to funky for hand tools and I don't have the skills. I bought the heavy duty kreg pocket screw jig. The legs are three by three and I got four of the large screws in per side. I did/ do worry about the stability but damn they seem stable and I just didn't like the cluttered look of the stringer that I had ready and speckled on the one I made out of old fence posts as a test piece.

[snoqpass]

Found some glass insulators around here, making some new pendant lights with them , just need to find a better bulb

[charlesj]

Yes, it's a bed. Just place mattress or futon on top. I think it works well

[Gerome]

Yes, it's a bed. Just place mattress or futon on top. I think it works well

What's the flex rating on your bed?

[charlesj]

I am tempted to make some stiff jokes. I used a bunch of 195s of varying flex and thought about what to put where. One end of the ski is fixed, the other floats/slides on a 2x6. My GF/SO hates the bed but it is good for sleeping etc and there is plenty of room for storage underneath

[iceman]

Charles, just saw the post about your exhibit and checked out your site, that was pretty cool.

[charlesj]

Thanks Iceman. Would love to install it again somewhere if I had the means. Right now I see that albatross of an art project as a $ vacuum. Had to do it but wish I had saved a few bucks for skiing

[krp8128]

[RootSkier]

Sweet gimp cage with ez removal tray!

[farmer]

Found some glass insulators around here, making some new pendant lights with them , just need to find a better bulb

Edison bulbs.

[Flake]

I like that glass insulators thing. I've got a few of them lying around. Might have to copy that idea.

[crackboy]

Put together this door our of reclaimed barnwood, going to be a slider on barnstyle hardware

Front


Back

[total.activation]

I made a shelf for shower beers out of scrap wood and gorilla glue after spilling a few too many. Since it wasn’t PT, the wood swelled and made for a nice snug fit.

[LHutz Esq]

I recently went from a truck with a 8ft box to a 6.5. We also added a new dog to the family. Things were getting chaotic in the back so I put these together with scrap lying around. I got the idea from looking at my old man's gun rack.

After a year - works great. Won't fit the long boards but anything under 200 works.

[Mustonen]

Made this in August (I had a few parts already). It was a big installation at The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids MI. More info here...

http://charlesjev.wix.com/technician3

mini documentary by Sidecar Studios...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXm_M6C6BXA

yes, it was a PITA

That is really cool.

[That was Pontus]

Pissed rain all long weekend so bike riding was out of the question. Decided to get busy on this behemoth. Folds up, swings out of the way of the rear hatch. Once I get the wheel hoops made up, it should be good for 4-5 downhill bikes or whatever else fits like roadies, beach cruisers, etc... No fat bikes...

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Cedar planter boxes. PT framework. False bottom 12" down. I made one fancy one, and two plain ones. A few more to go.

[skifishbum]

been 5 years now in this old seventies house momo mansion fixer upper
try to crank out a major project or 2 a year
and well yeah its goin on 365 for the guest crapper remodel
and there were sfotexs maggots hand involved with the lectric wifes hands and my bro tophers and a few others offering advice tools etc
before

gutted


the demo framing and pex work went pretty good
i wanted to build frame and waterproof a shower pan but the better 1/2 decided a $900 shower pan woud be faster and easier
the first tile ready pan came cracked in the back corner so they said theyd send another well a month and a half later the second one came in worse shape missing pieces that fell outta the holes in the box.

i'd imagine the shipping is about as much as the cost of whippin these Styrofoam treasures together
Ended up with 2 free ones the original which i epoxied and installed and another that became a clone containment home.
Well summer happened there's this fishing addiction a bunch of roofing work came in and my ability to install roofing product in the summer heat and come home and accomplish much been compromised, probably one of them past your prime things
finally got the pan in walls framed
of course nothing square and i didn't think of the existing pitch of the shower drain pipe needing to be changed by moving the drain to the hallway wall that was a shitty space wasting linen closet.
ended up being easier to raise the subfloorm than redo the main plumbing stack that includes the master broom shitter and i dig the 3" step up

granite guys threatened to resell the chunks we aready paid forgot er framed rocked and waterproofed there was spiritual interventions were sought and hopeless cause prayers sent

Well then the white grains of another hopeless addiction started falling and skibummery once again came calling
nuffs got done to keep the spansership but the glares had a sheen
got it tiled, the door, turd bucket, cabinets ,counters n copper sink in to make it functional cept showering fore the holidays


never worked with glass block before


came out nice

it's all over but the grouting and ive come to take whats mine or as the mrs. would say you sure took your time

funny thing is i coulda spent the time earning roofin duckets paid someone to do this and not dealt with one of the more stressful dyi ive done and it'd been done and probably cleaner
but i woudn't get to post in the threads

[snoqpass]

Shampoo rack

[That was Pontus]

4 bikes it is...



Primer tonight, paint tomorrow, some wiring (yea, this thing is getting tail lights... radiator spear is a last resort for inattentive douchnozzles), ready for next weekend.

[TomCrac]

Shampoo rack

One of those things ain't like the other.

Nice storage work LHutz.