Stuff you have made today

[Bullet2012]

It’s known as a pastry

if its traditional pork pie pastry even that wont be an option.

 

[Anguz]

 

[My Old Landy]

Designed and lasered up a display case for rolling stock. It was a test piece but I am pleased with the outcome so will make a few more.

 

[oldbikedavey]

Mostly, progress on making a stowage space for my recently acquired woodworking dust extractor, which is now happily ensconced underneath the parts washer.....
I have to fabricate a 3" hose adaptor for the inlet, but that's no great hardship.
It ought to be 4" hose but 3" is what I have hanging around, so that's what it will very likely get.
Or not, as the case may be......

 

[Bki26]

Filled most of the bag with the branches I'd prepped as kept tripping over them whilst shredding.

Also cut one of scrap pile brake discs in half, has now confirmed my theory that I can make a flywheel chipper with 7cm blades from it as a next project but also given me the idea of a stump grinder from the other discs in the pile as the cast pin stubs would certainly do the job!

It also turned me into a great Robert Downey JR tropic thunder impersonation, should have wore a mask soooo much rust

 

[Newlands]

Not exactly today, but over the course of the last few weeks I've been working on this (its a copy of a Duesenberg Alamo):

I laminated a blank from a couple of mahogany boards, and also cut a piece of redwood as a test piece as well - mainly because its so long since I used the CNC that I wanted something sacrificial that I could use to check tool paths and settings etc. Cut out a jig from 10mm ply to hold the blank in position - the body is symmetrical so I can flip it over and machine from both sides.

Machining the back of the headstock with a ball nose end mill.

Front of the body on both the dummy and the real thing. The mahogany machined really well, great finish straight from the machine

You can see the glue line on the mahogany blank - the two boards were glued with epoxy.

Made a couple of jigs to machine the holes for the control pots and pickup selector switch. I didn't do them on the CNC as I didn't have the hardware to measure up or visualise in-situ. Just as well, as I cocked it up first go ( which is exactly why I had the softwood dummy to test everything out!). So, some plugs and epoxy to repair the mess, and another go with a slightly modified jig and it all worked out.

The headstock veneer is cut from a piece of Curly Blackbutt I brought back from Australia a couple of years ago. The truss rod cover is from a scrap of ebony that I've had for years - engraved on the CNC and filled with pigmented epoxy. It's just a purely decorative thing, as there's no truss rod on a lapsteel as the neck has such a big x-section. Next on the list is to finish the body - it will be painted, probably with rattle cans from a proper old school auto paint shop near me. I'm thinking Old English White (a BMC paint colour if I remember correctly). I'm just off to see them now in the hope they will recommend the right sort of primer and clear lacquer to go with the colour.

 

[Onoff]

Daughter made this whatever it is montage of her and her boyfriend. Even hand painted the boyfriend's tattoos on the miniatures:

 

[badabec]

Very creative, I like it.
Let's hope she doesn't need these

Pardon our interruption...

 

[Onoff]

Very creative, I like it.
Let's hope she doesn't need these

Pardon our interruption...

She can get a bit "stabby".....

 

[Kram]

has now confirmed my theory that I can make a flywheel chipper with 7cm blades from it as a next project but also given me the idea of a stump grinder from the other discs in the pile as the cast pin stubs would certainly do the job!

Please dont - I think it will end badly.

Stump grinders nearly always have carbide teeth as they generally spend a lot of time in the dirt., often trees will encapsulate rocks and stone and takes quite a lot to blunt a stump grinder.
I can see cast discs shattering in that sort of use!

Chippers need a decent mass to them. I'd want the plate to be about 20mm thick steel or it will bend/shatter the first time its used.

 

[brightspark]

Commercial/store pork pies are grim. Proper hand made ones cooked by someone who cares about it though are a delight.

wifey bought some. they were a greasy tasteless blob even the dog turned its nose up at them . we only buy them from 3 local butchers now and there mint

 

[Bki26]

Please dont - I think it will end badly.

Stump grinders nearly always have carbide teeth as they generally spend a lot of time in the dirt., often trees will encapsulate rocks and stone and takes quite a lot to blunt a stump grinder.
I can see cast discs shattering in that sort of use!

Chippers need a decent mass to them. I'd want the plate to be about 20mm thick steel or it will bend/shatter the first time its used.

Decided against the grinder option as vertical blades are the norm it seems you don't get ones like a floor polisher so probably not effective to diy one lol.

The little Macallister mis2500 has a flywheel that's smaller and thinner than the brake disc powered by 2.5kw electric so it should be fine as I'm gonna get a large mower engine to power it and going to look at 2x Westwood 12hp ride on mowers for £150 just 10m down the road tomorrow as can take engine and pulleys from one and use leftover parts to get other one working to sell on effectively getting me a free engine

Seems I'm not the first to use brake discs

 

[Nick DV]

we only buy them from 3 local butchers now and there mint

Unfortunately local butchers are few and far between, forced out of business by well known mini supermarkets that sell the "greasy, tasteless, blob"

 

[Kram]

I've been chatting with another tree surgeon and he wants an Echo DCS2500T style clip for his climbing saws.

This is the initial result, top ones fit Echo 2511's and the lower fit the Makita pruning saw bracket. Ignore the useful 3d prints.

I haven't been climbing much, today I got to do an ash with dieback removal, they didnt want the connifer squashed so I climbed a bit higher than I would have liked.

I got to test one of the clips and it makes a massive difference being able to one hand stow it.

 

[arther dailey]

Having spent quite a while improving my home-made lathe, I thought it would be good to give it a test run to prove I hadn't done anything wrong. It turned out I had, but only in that I hadn't tightened up the pair of nuts that set the preload on the bearings, so it turned smoothly for a while and then started to wobble a little . Easily sorted.

Anyway with it running nicely, I started by a quick play (with no particular purpose) with a couple of bits of walnut:

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The one at the back was turned with a spindle gouge; the one at the front with two skew chisels. I found it really pleasing that all the bowl making practice last year had obviously paid off: I found it much much easier to turn those spindles than other similar things I tried before.

While I was lathing, I thought I'd turn a few bowls to convince myself I hadn't forgotten how to do it. Again it all went very smoothly:

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The biggest one is Brown Oak, the middle one Sycamore and the small one Lignum Vitae (turned out of a bowling ball that had a great big chunk taken out of it so I didn't think it would be much use for anything else). All finished with hard wax oil.

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The lathe isn't looking quite as neat and tidy any more

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stunning wood that lignum , glad its all working good . nice bowls

 

[nickk]

Some door latch keeps plus jaws,drive in plus a screw retention,the customer found standard ones were working loose after some months.

 

[Dr.Al]

I made a persuading stick out of a Lignum Vitae Crown Green bowling ball, a stick of Ash and an off-cut of Wenge for the wedge:

That was my first attempt at a mallet and I expect I'll make more: partly because my other half wants one for leatherwork and partly because I imagine that when I try to use it I'll find I'd like to tweak the shape of the handle and perhaps even the head. Nevertheless I was very pleased with it for a first go.

 

[roblane65]

I made a persuading stick out of a Lignum Vitae Crown Green bowling ball, a stick of Ash and an off-cut of Wenge for the wedge:

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That was my first attempt at a mallet and I expect I'll make more: partly because my other half wants one for leatherwork and partly because I imagine that when I try to use it I'll find I'd like to tweak the shape of the handle and perhaps even the head. Nevertheless I was very pleased with it for a first go.

Another spiffing job indeed , I'm still going to like your stuff even though I offered to buy a bowl and you wouldn't sell it to me and then went onto sell at work for charity

 

[Puglet1]

I made a persuading stick out of a Lignum Vitae Crown Green bowling ball, a stick of Ash and an off-cut of Wenge for the wedge:

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That was my first attempt at a mallet and I expect I'll make more: partly because my other half wants one for leatherwork and partly because I imagine that when I try to use it I'll find I'd like to tweak the shape of the handle and perhaps even the head. Nevertheless I was very pleased with it for a first go.

Ooh, I like that !

 

[Kram]

Hollow rotten chestnut that has turned to soil, piecing down the stem.