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

[old goat]

Weird plywood sizes and all other dado/grooving needs are much easier to handle with a kerfmaker. I just got the most Chinese sample available and it works great. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F25X12K...ing=UTF8&psc=1

I cut the dado for the top crossbar on these racks with a kerfmaker and a box joint (flat top grind) blade.



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The tool obviously works great. The description on the Amazon site is possibly the most tortured use of the English language I've seen or heard, at least since January 20.

[old goat]

[QUOTE=Not DJSapp;6337483

The piece is 6'6"w, 27"h, 24"d so you can just walk it though doors. And up stairs.[/QUOTE]

Up stairs? I would have to make it in 6 pieces.

[Moeghoul]

I've been busy building my own version of Shangri La and finally motivated myself to build a teeny pub in my basement. One outstanding resource up here in the VT hinterlands is thrift shops like Re-store and Resource. It's a tip of the hat to a couple of J.H. bars and medieval celtic/teutonic influences. Still under construction and finishing work, but the bones are solid. Using Ipe leftovers from a deck I built 20 years ago for the bartop and 130 year old rafters for the base. Gonna sand the Ipe clean, drill out holes for the coins and give it an oil or wax finish. Should look like mahogany when it's done. Completion pictures to follow in the near future.

Added a red oak arm rail and speed rax.

[snoqpass]

Screen doors are getting popular, made a custom handle from a old RR spike

[snoqpass]

Next project will involve fire

[stealurface831]

pretty nice beads there.

[Iowagriz]

Like the railroad spike door handles. I could see those in a future home.

Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk

[Buster Highmen]

Here's where it started last summer and fall using eztube foundation pylons:


(the inline will disappear, here's the insta link: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDe-WXljvhY/

Foundation detail with threaded rebar that is screwed down onto the bracket holding the wood to the pylons.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDe-CZ9jTSA/

East wall first floor up. I got some salvage windows and full light doors.
2x6 studs, 2 2x10 boards for the header. Virgin framer.

[SirVicSmasher]

Next project will involve fire

Good looking welds

Sent from my SM-G981U using Tapatalk

[m2711c]

[Buster Highmen]

East wall first floor up. I got some salvage windows and full light doors.
2x6 studs, 2 2x10 boards for the header. Virgin framer.

At the glacial pace of Chez Highmen, the #dreamshack back wall is up.
Using salvage windows and door:

[climberevan]

A vanity commission. It was pretty fun.

[old goat]

A vanity commission. It was pretty fun.

Very, very nice work. While I'm not a fan of mid-century modern myself (that piece could have been in my parents bedroom) it certainly is popular these days and it sure beats the "rustic" stuff made out of branches stuck together that used to popular around here. (Unfortunately my mom died just before the MCM craze--I think her bedroom set went to the thrift.)

[ntblanks]

A vanity commission. It was pretty fun.

a lot prettier than your swamp cooler. that's gorgeous.

[shroom]

damn that is killer!

[old goat]

What's the wood and finish?

[climberevan]

a lot prettier than your swamp cooler. that's gorgeous.

Haha, thanks. When I want to I can do a bit better than ghetto AF especially when someone's paying me.

It's maple veneer armacore with a too-dark stain (IMO) to match other stuff in the house. Sprayed with pre-cat lacquer because they wanted the slight golden hue. I try to use waterbourne finishes whenever I can but they just look like no finish at all. I'm in the process of doing a bunch of decorative wood accents in other areas, and there are maple framed mirrors to match the vanity ready to go in. I'll try to get decent pics when it's finished.

[old goat]

It's a good looking finish.

[Buster Highmen]

At the glacial pace of Chez Highmen, the #dreamshack back wall is up.
Using salvage windows and door:

North wall of #dreamshack now up.
This one I mangled the studs and had to realign them once the wall was up. I learn something with each phase.

[Norseman]

Nice, man. Can I come help you sheet it? What's the plan for roof trusses?

[Buster Highmen]

Nice, man. Can I come help you sheet it? What's the plan for roof trusses?

Ya shure yabetcha. We's be having a shed raisin'.
Shed roof with 4' overhang, but have to get second loft floor up.

[waveshello]

Looking forward to seeing that ^^^ come together.

My dad came over this weekend and we built this little trellis I had drawn up and replaced the skirting on the deck. Next project will be to stain the deck and repaint the railing.

Apparently kiwis will grow in central WA, so we're going to give it a shot... We've had that one in the ground for over a month now and it's looking pretty happy.

Sent from my BND-L24 using Tapatalk

[Buster Highmen]

...and elsewhere, groutation complete.
I only backbuttered, wife did the layout/design and cut virtually all the tiles.

[climberevan]

That's quite the tile design!

Here's some more from the MCM house. 12' ceilings gave plenty of room to work with. The skinny maple strips beside the fireplace have a blue background as well. It was a bitch to get them straight and solidly connected to the 1/8 MDF backing without a lot of face nailing. The blue behind the shelves is an embossed wallpaper that we painted.

[neufox47]

Nice work. My wife would be in heaven in that house.


Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums