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Re: Things you have made

Postby halfdome, Danny » Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:21 pm

Thanks
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Re: Things you have made

Postby Greg M » Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:17 pm

There goes Danny again. Taking a perfectly humble object and classing it up to the point of art :D
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Re: Things you have made

Postby halfdome, Danny » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:21 am

That was a very kind complement Greg. :D
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Re: Things you have made

Postby MtnDon » Sat Jan 30, 2021 1:04 pm

Those are very nice Danny. Very nice indeed!


I made a box just before Christmas, just because I felt like it. I gifted it to my wife. It joins some other wooden things I have made.
(purpleheart, padauk, osage orange and something brown from the scrap collection, plus glue)
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Re: Things you have made

Postby Juneaudave » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:37 pm

Just finished restoration of a 1972 Honda CL350. No power, bad brakes, horrible suspension....but you got to love the chrome!

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Re: Things you have made

Postby halfdome, Danny » Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:31 pm

Thanks Don, I like your box, well executed. :thumbsup:

Speaking of boxes my wife Jane has made a few herself and will start spraying lacquer on the 4 in the second photo tonight.
It takes a lot of patients fitting and refitting all those angled pieces.
She has fun, even though she will complain it takes too long.
The piano keys are a butcher block but anyone in their right mind would never use it for that.

My neighbor said today going for the mail is the highlight of his day.
He needs a hobby, especially during this pandemic.
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Re: Things you have made

Postby pchast » Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:15 pm

Those boxes are quite good. :thumbsup:
Better than many I've seen with their fit and symmetry.
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Re: Things you have made

Postby MickinOz » Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:42 am

Juneaudave wrote:Just finished restoration of a 1972 Honda CL350. No power, bad brakes, horrible suspension....but you got to love the chrome!

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Nice. Very nice.
3 hp more than my 500 single Yamaha, so not too bad power-wise really.
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Re: Things you have made

Postby rowerwet » Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:12 pm

Before I created the sawfish foam kayak design, I built a fleet of these out of plywood, they're a free design called the mouseboat. The mouseboat was created by a guy in England called Gavin Atkin.
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I liked it so much, I built one out of foam before I built my foam teardrop.
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I wrote a set of instructions on how to build a foam mouseboat https://www.instructables.com/Seafoam-Kayak-the-Unsinkable-Foam-Kayak-Anyone-Can/ and published them. Almost 20 have been built all over the world.
This one from eastern Europe was the first one based off the instructions
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Re: Things you have made

Postby rowerwet » Mon Feb 01, 2021 7:25 pm

I currently know of almost 100 Sawfish kayaks that have been built from my free instructions https://www.instructables.com/Sawfish-foam-kayak-build-a-funtional-light-wieght-/
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my nephew paddling one I built for my parents
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my 35 pound 16 foot tandem sawfish
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Re: Things you have made

Postby Tom&Shelly » Mon Feb 01, 2021 9:04 pm

rowerwet wrote:I currently know of almost 100 Sawfish kayaks that have been built from my free instructions https://www.instructables.com/Sawfish-foam-kayak-build-a-funtional-light-wieght-/


Nice! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

This may become a future project for us. Thank you for sharing!

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Re: Things you have made

Postby Greg M » Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:12 pm

Danny,
Tell Jane “Well done”. That kind of fidly marquetry takes skill and patience. Probably why I never tried it ;)
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Re: Things you have made

Postby halfdome, Danny » Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:09 pm

Thanks Greg, Jane is a stickler for getting things right and I'm proud of her. :thumbsup:

I've been putting my clothes in plastic drawers for sometime now so it was time I built me a couple dressers that fit in our walk in closet.
The woods are the same that I've used in the rest of the furniture in the house.
The 16" deep Sapele drawers are push to open, push to close.
The larger one is 36" wide and 48" tall.
The Canary wood is getting harder to find and it went up $4 a board foot.
Had to drive to Portland Oregon to get just 3 wider boards for the drawer fronts and 3 times to Seattle.
I didn't want to pay about $200 for a 3/4" sheet of Walnut plywood for my ends so I made raised panel ends that probably cost as much :roll: .
Like always, I drew them out full size on a sheet of cardboard before buying or cutting any wood.
Portland was the farthest I've been since this pandemic started, felt free for a day :applause: , get my second vaccination tomorrow, 8)
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Re: Things you have made

Postby pchast » Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:05 pm

Wow. :D
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Re: Things you have made

Postby DrewsBrews » Sun Mar 28, 2021 7:47 am

Built some speakers for myself. Originally planned on a Klipsch Heresy knockoff but 3-ways are tough to design for (sound wise). So I went 2-way instead. JBL titanium compression driver and Dayton audio 12" pro woofer.

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