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

[TNKen]

Does refinishing and rebuilding a 1950 Brunswick Anniversary pool table count in this thread?

[~mikey b]

sure why the fuck not?

[old goat]

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I made a lamp, among some other things. Happy with this one though.

you'll poke your eye out

[Dobish]

Did a French cleat system in the garage and baked a bread that looks like a squid.

[snoqpass]

Does refinishing and rebuilding a 1950 Brunswick Anniversary pool table count in this thread?

Bringing cool old stuff back to life counts in my book, post pictures

[snoqpass]

All finished up
Before




After

[Dobish]

I built some drawers for my brother. Finally finished them up.

[criscam]

Just finished up a pergola in time for...winter?







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[Doremite]

Nice work!
Trampoline looks deadly.

[schindlerpiste]

Pergola. I have one. What do you do with it in an area where grape/wisteria don't grow?

BTW. nice work

[criscam]

Pergola. I have one. What do you do with it in an area where grape/wisteria don't grow?

BTW. nice work

Maybe some hops.


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[AK47bp]

I’m not handy at all but built this work bench for less than $50.


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[Gepeto]

Pergola. I have one. What do you do with it in an area where grape/wisteria don't grow?

Roof It
/;~>

[EWG]

I’m not handy at all but built this work bench for less than $50.




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Out of curiosity, why is the light switch taped off?

[BigDaddy]

Patina. It's called patina.

another word for scum

Yes, but really classy scum.

I laughed... and totally agree, the word is definitely patina.


Is that PTW or cedar Criscam? Nice job.

[criscam]

I laughed... and totally agree, the word is definitely patina.


Is that PTW or cedar Criscam? Nice job.

Rough cut Douglas fir.
Trying to finish sealing it before the winter.


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[AK47bp]

Out of curiosity, why is the light switch taped off?

It’s the furnace switch. Identical to a light switch so I taped it off so nobody tries to flick it.


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[muted]

It’s the furnace switch. Identical to a light switch so I taped it off so nobody tries to flick it.


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My 2 year old does this all the time. It's waist-high, a light switch, and in the laundry room.

[Skidog]

My daughter requested a desk "like the other table you made dad". Ok sure. I had another pallet I was looking to use. Again I am not handy or a woodworker at all.

Disassembled pallet, sanded and cleaned up the edges best I could. Glued and clamped for a couple days. Sanded from 50 down to 220. Couple coats of watco Danish oil dark. Bought some cheap legs I will paint and put on. Bam desk.

Also got some heartland reclaimed pine. 8.5'long like 12" wide x 4" thick. 4 lengths I am going to make into a 7.5' table. Will get pics of lumber. It's beautiful.

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[Skidog]

Here's the heartland pine. 4 pieces. Can't wait to get it done.

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[BigDaddy]

Love the reclaimed heart pine... post the results.

It’s the furnace switch. Identical to a light switch so I taped it off so nobody tries to flick it.

My 2 year old does this all the time. It's waist-high, a light switch, and in the laundry room.

I use these things for switches I want to keep on (motion lights, etc.):

[Skidog]

Love the reclaimed heart pine... post the results.






I use these things for switches I want to keep on (motion lights, etc.):

I will post when done. Hope to be done by Xmas. Have to ask a friend to weld some legs. Mother fucker is going to weigh a ton. It's really beautiful lumber. Anthropologie stores spare very little expense.

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[splat]

All finished up
Before




After

Very nice.

[dan_pdx]

Not really at the same level of what other folks have been posting, but I finally got around to installing ceiling trim on our coved ceilings in our living and dining rooms. It has been a long journey to get here - we started with a crappy 8-foot dropped ceiling, which my wife and I tore out during a miserable Portland heat wave while using respirators.

While we were at it, we decided to move the entrance to the kitchen, which would give us better counter configuration options in the kitchen. The best spot for the new entrance was the space where the built-in was, so we tore that out too. It was a crappy 60s built-in that had replaced the original Craftsman built-in, so no loss there.

I don't have a lot of photos of the living/living room room with dropped ceilings, but here's a screencap of a panorama I took. What a dump.



Here's what the dining room looked like part way through the demo. The lumber in the dropped ceiling was mainly clear grain fir from the 60s - nice stuff. I saved it and some of it went into a benchtop that will be installed by the backdoor as soon as I get around to it. The carpet was about 10 years old and we tore it out. The original hardwoods were in pretty good shape and we have since had them refinished.


While we were demoing the dropped ceiling, we found that we had coved ceilings and they were 95% intact. At this point, we also saw there had been ceiling trim when the house was built - it wasn't there anymore, but there were visible impressions on the ceiling where it had been installed. When the demo was done, I hired a sheetrock crew to make repairs where needed - sheetrock fixes on curved surfaces is way, way above my skill level. This was probably the wrong order of operations, but after the sheetrock was done, I painted. We decided to have a two-tone paint job, with the ceiling trim serving as the border between the two colors.

I engaged in some jiggery pokery with a measuring jig which I used to mark 4 corners (harder than it sounds because the coved ceiling makes it hard to measure out from the wall), and then used a laser level to show the straight line between each corner, which I used as a painting guide. Then I had to think about how to install the ceiling trim so things sat like this for 2 years or so. I'm a slow thinker, sue me.



The hang up with installing the actual trim was basically me sweating alignment - how was I going to make sure the trim covered the intersection between the two paint colors? So yeah, trim then paint would have been a lot easier. I thought about using a Zipwall system to hold the trim pieces up and let me verify length and positioning before cutting and nailing stuff in, but couldn't rent one anywhere in Portland and didn't want to buy one. Harbor Freight came to the rescue with a poor man's substitute that only cost $14 each.

I bought the trim this summer and did all the finishing outside while the weather was good (one coat of primer and two coats of paint with a sanding before each coat) . Would be a huge PITA to do that this time of year, so "measure twice, cut once" was even more true than usual.

The Harbor Freight giant spreaders made it possible, but it took longer than I expected to get things cut and aligned on the ceiling. Other than taking forever, things went pretty smoothly and I'm happy with how things turned out. Still need to fill the nail holes and caulk around the edges, but the end is in sight.

(I have no idea why this is the only photo I have of the trim in the dining room.)



Also did ceiling trim in the living room, which was way easier because we just used a single paint color there.

[EWG]

Nice work Dan. Did you have any idea those old ceilings were up there? Why the hell would anyone cover that up...