Anyone been making stuff lately?


https://imgur.com/a/MS17NsM

I've been setting up my printing station in my shoffice today. Not making stuff as much as making a place for making stuff.

Got it set up well enough to make a fantastic mistake.

Why yes i am always printing stupid warhammer shit

Here's an assortment of stuff I made for my wife and myself when we went to Disneyland for this past Halloween. We did the Batuu bounding thing - dressing up as non-specific characters from Star Wars. Although, given the number of people we saw in full costume, we could have gone further with it.


This was my case that I wore at sort of a backpack attached to the back of the bandolier. It was my first time working with leather, but making the belts and bandolier was super easy and didn't require any sewing - just a hole punch and chicago screws.


She wanted a case of her own, so I customized another for her and made a shoulder strap.


I carried a Sabacc set in mine, which we played in that area of the park while waiting for a dinner reservation one night. She carried the credits and other little items in hers.

These are the stenciled hoodie vests we wore.


This is a blast visor I customized and fitted to her hat.


Here were are getting our nerd on.

Hell yeah

So the chinrest on this fiddle has been broken since forever. The front part of it broke off. And in a fit of absolute brilliance, I spent about $350 on a large chunk of Arizona Desert Ironwood burl. In my head, I was going to replicate the thingy but in the much awesomer looking wood. In a later fit of absolute soberness, I realized I am not up to that task. Also five years have passed and now my genius idea is to maybe pay someone else to do it for me. I would supply the wood, and a factory fresh replacement chin piece or two that I'd want to duplicate, so you could measure, destroy, use the hardware from it, etc. I'm not even sure this is a job for a woodworker. Some things I've read about ironwood suggest that I might need the kind of crazy metalworking shit that Calvin's got.
Anyhow, that's my pitch. I'm always impressed by people who can actually get shit like this done. Feel free to either hit me up for info or just ignore this. Have a nice weekend!



PS i'm not actually ghoast

Just glue the front part back on and bob is you are uncle.

Arthritis ate my hands :(

Working on more cabinets, posted the existing ones in the homeowner thread

My neighbour lent me a tool that costs more than any four of my tools - a festool tracksaw to cut up plywood.

I set it up, plugged it in, squeezed the trigger and - nothing

I was going to have to tell him his like thousand dollar saw didn't work and hoped he wouldn't blame me for it. I don't really know him very well at all other than that we've been neighbours for like 10 years.

I screwed around with it for a while first, and found that if i rotated the blade to certain positions it would almost start and sometimes would actually start so i thought it was the brushes that were bad... He took it apart and found that one of the brush springs or something was a little jammed... and got it working again

That thing is niiiice

I don't know if this counts for this thread, but I've been cross stitching a project for husb.

It's not done, but I've only been able to stitch it when he's out of the house - usually about an hour at a time. He's leaving town on the 6th for 3 days so I hope to be done witth it by the time he gets home.



It's supposed to look like this:

The white thread glows in the dark.

That's awesome. Great work so far!

Thanks CH. I'm gonna work my ass off on it tomorrow and see how far I get. I'm also going to put it in a nice black baroque style frame because it seems like that's sleep token's jam.

I've got a spare printed sleep token mask if you want me to ship it your way.

Oh cool!! I might take you up on that!

Made this today. It's one of (30?) quilt blocks.
Headphones for scale.
This is going to take a while.

I do a bit of sewing, and make the occasional kite.

lol awesome phap. Love the bug


and cool design on the patch scarl, post the quilt when you're done

Omg I love the idea of making a kite!!! That's badass!

Did you use a pattern or did you free hand it?

Scarlet said:

Omg I love the idea of making a kite!!! That's badass!

Did you use a pattern or did you free hand it?

The Kinetic Caterpillar kite was done at a workshop where patterns were supplied, but it all the fabric had to be cut out & sewn.
Very complex project, has over 300 individual parts.
It took about 3 days of hard work to get it mostly done, and I finished it later at home.
It's over 4 metres long, and makes a kind of chugging sound as it flies in the breeze.

The one with the long white tail is based on a commercial kite, but I drew up all the templates myself, and enlarged/modified the original's design.
It's also fairly large, nearly 3 metres wide x 2.3 metres long.

That is a really cool idea to sew your own kite. I'm going to talk to my mom about making one. Thank you for the info.

JDH said:

Working on more cabinets, posted the existing ones in the homeowner thread

My neighbour lent me a tool that costs more than any four of my tools - a festool tracksaw to cut up plywood.

I set it up, plugged it in, squeezed the trigger and - nothing

I was going to have to tell him his like thousand dollar saw didn't work and hoped he wouldn't blame me for it. I don't really know him very well at all other than that we've been neighbours for like 10 years.

I screwed around with it for a while first, and found that if i rotated the blade to certain positions it would almost start and sometimes would actually start so i thought it was the brushes that were bad... He took it apart and found that one of the brush springs or something was a little jammed... and got it working again

That thing is niiiice

It's not actually that nice. I had to open it up 3 times last night and fudge with the brushes to get it to start again. If I could find a place, locally, to buy the real brushes for it, I probably would buy them as a thank you for borrowing it, but the only thing I can find is off-brand ones. That would be good enough for me, but its not my saw

they have really great marketing
overhyped and wayyy overpriced

I've been looking for a cheap used tracksaw
and if a festool popped up with a track under 200 I might buy it
but I'd prefer a makita

I've also found 2 different forum posts with someone saying that one of the 2 brushes is physically stuck in the saw... that is my experience as well... and there is either no response or just "mail it in"

After looking over various designs, I made this in tinkercad and printed it out. Nerf target practice and day dart storage all in one.

👍

I made a different deck box for the D&D commander decks.

... Son of a

This is the last and has certainly been the most interesting of the upper cabinets. The top half will be a cupboard and the bottom is the microwave zone.

Doing a lot of work on the kitchen table because its too cold in the garage... Doing a little bit of filling and then the next step is edge banding. Might have to wait for spring to use the paint sprayer though 🫤

Need a minisplit in that garage.

Cabinet looks good!

I made a part out of a 5" round of copper.

is it reversed

spiritually Australian

it's beautiful, what it do

No eye deer.
Some sort of optics thing.

cray

Finally finished painting my 3d printed terrain for Star Wars: Shatterpoint.

Tog oah wupiupi?

Wupiupi?!

On a whim I went and purchased this tabletop for a utility table in the laundry room. It was on a major sale for the piece.

But I've never really built a table before. The most I've done without a prefab kit is some cabinets and small items.

My plan is to actually build a platform using a piece of 3/4" plywood sized to the inner cutout and screw the aprons and the table legs to that, and just lay the tabletop on top of that. I might secure the tabletop to the plywood just to prevent it from shifting but the thing is solid wood. Would that work?

That link wants me to move to Canada.

wander said:

My plan is to actually build a platform using a piece of 3/4" plywood sized to the inner cutout and screw the aprons and the table legs to that, and just lay the tabletop on top of that. I might secure the tabletop to the plywood just to prevent it from shifting but the thing is solid wood. Would that work?

Your plan will work, but how sturdy or robust it will be will really come down to a bunch of choices.
Legs screwed to 3/4" plywood will not make a very sturdy base
unless you have some cross-bracing in there as well, or the legs have wide contact points at the top.
Just setting the wood on it will work as well, but does not sound like a good idea to me
vs even a handful of short screws up through the plywood into the solid wood.
If you secure it well, more than just a few short screws, it will help reinforce and strengthen the whole thing.

Well, the idea was something like this for the aprons:



Rather than the integrate leg, I'd lay the plywood on top just a rectangular, braced frame serving as the apron. The legs would be something like the counter-height Ikea legs, for simplicity right now, perhaps screwed through the plywood and the tabletop both:



Why am I doing it this way? Because I don't really want a permanent build here, I just want to put the utility table in its place and perhaps consider how to re-build it later.

Alternatively the listing does show a steel frame that the tabletop can be bolted to, which would also work for me but I'm not sure where to find something like that.

Oh, also, I might need to get a little creative with leg placement to get it into the space because of some funny business with ducting and other stuff on the floor itself from the previous owners that I really don't want to tear apart, so I'm buying six legs and distributing them as needed.

Custom solutions can be as goofy or unstable as you want as long as they work.
Sounds like you’ve got a good enough idea
and should just go for it.

I’ve got a custom corner table I built for my dining room
where the lynchpin leg isn’t attached at all,
staying in place due to gravity holding it down.
It’s been that way for 2-3 years without any issues.

Been makin stuff ig
I made some fingerless mitts for a pal too. Working on a sweater for the kiddo

lol yep that alllll tracks
v nice

Damn that stuff rules. Those gloves are amazing.

I made ridiculous earrings from some CNC trash.

They look stabbeautiful

takes all the hassle out of having to manually shave

as long as its windy, that is