What Do You Make?

[$MELTER-1]

I've seen scattered postings of rings and other cool stuff but how about one thread to show what you make.

I know there must be many very interesting products out there. Maybe some of you who almost never post could share in this one too?

What do you make?

Badger

Stuff like this.n lots more lol.

 

[venanzio]

I made a trench art style lantern from P47 casing from WWII. I made a yt video of the making but is is in Italian, don't know if I can post here.

 

[$MELTER-1]

I made a trench art style lantern from P47 casing from WWII. I made a yt video of the making but is is in Italian, don't know if I can post here.

LOVE trench art.wonder what future detectorist (if any) will be making with WWlll on the door step?

 

[$MELTER-1]

LOVE trench art.wonder what future detectorist (if any) will be making with WWlll on the door step?

Hopefully the Lord will come before thoes who would destroy the earth (us) does it.

 

[Cherry Picker]

LOVE trench art.wonder what future detectorist (if any) will be making with WWlll on the door step?

Here in southwest Kansas trench art is pretty rare. We were not a part of the civil war, so soldiers didn't spend days in a trench waiting for something to happen. We had the Indian wars of the 1870s. Finding a carved bullet happens, but as I said it is rare. The Cavalry soldiers didn't spend much time waiting around for the Indians to attack, so finding a carved bullet in the field meant something unusual happened there.

 

[venanzio]

Here in southwest Kansas trench art is pretty rare. We were not a part of the civil war, so soldiers didn't spend days in a trench waiting for something to happen. We had the Indian wars of the 1870s. Finding a carved bullet happens, but as I said it is rare. The Cavalry soldiers didn't spend much time waiting around for the Indians to attack, so finding a carved bullet in the field meant something unusual happened there.

Here in europe is a common find. I'm in Italy. Friends of mine find rings, bracelets and little boxex (find one too)... Sometimes we found military dog tags from US soldiers that we return to USA.. I remember one dog tag returned but happy to know that the soldier came back alive from war and live a long life.. they found even a crashed plane one time.. (sorry for OT).
Anyways I recover everithing... brass, alluminum.. etc. cal. .50 browning case back made great bushings for little mechanic projects... sometimes o found chunks of molten alluminum in the same location (Italian planes burned down in their hideout, P47's job) that i melt again etc.

 

[scoundrel]

The gold colored ring is a Sacajawea coin.
The heart ring is silver that I melted down.
I make whiskey glasses out of beer bottles from the 1800s. The candle lantern I made from an 1800s beer bottle, and an old brass drain that I found in the river, I fabricated the chain out of electrical wire. The Christmas ornament is made out of the bottom of a 1925 coke bottle that was bottled in Fort Pierce.

 

[Xxray]

Have long made 3d art and signs on CNC, lately I have been making things with my fiber laser, concept is to spray paint something white or clear black and etch a design in. First weird ones are AI generated images that I concert into a file that can be lazered, the material is white plexiglas painted black. The Carpenters one is clear plexi painted black, the design etched in, then silver stock glued to the back. Buckethead is CNC carved into highly exotic [and now unavailable] Yellowheart wood.

Laser images I make for fun but I suppose there might be a market for stuff like this, I could do memorials for loved ones and pets too, so I can see myself getting into that once I retire

 

[venanzio]

The gold colored ring is a Sacajawea coin.
The heart ring is silver that I melted down.
I make whiskey glasses out of beer bottles from the 1800s. The candle lantern I made from an 1800s beer bottle, and an old brass drain that I found in the river, I fabricated the chain out of electrical wire. The Christmas ornament is made out of the bottom of a 1925 coke bottle that was bottled in Fort Pierce.

beautiful lamp and beautiful color of the glass !!!

 

[venanzio]

Have long made 3d art and signs on CNC, lately I have been making things with my fiber laser, concept is to spray paint something white or clear black and etch a design in. First weird ones are AI generated images that I concert into a file that can be lazered, the material is white plexiglas painted black. The Carpenters one is clear plexi painted black, the design etched in, then silver stock glued to the back. Buckethead is CNC carved into highly exotic [and now unavailable] Yellowheart wood.

Laser images I make for fun but I suppose there might be a market for stuff like this, I could do memorials for loved ones and pets too, so I can see myself getting into that once I retire

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Love the lady with the zombies (?) It remaind me of Giger.. in some way.. very scary and sexy at the same time

 

[scoundrel]

I snubbed my 1858

 

[Solong]

OH NO . Scratch one beautiful BP pistol.

 

[scoundrel]

OH NO . Scratch one beautiful BP pistol.

Lol. I knew that was gonna be painful for somebody.

 

[Solong]

I have one also, yours would have been a nice match

 

[KSDirtfisher]

Wallet I am making for a friend. It is a LONG way from being done.

For my 1st hand carved fish, I am pretty happy!

 

[KSDirtfisher]

Another Pic. Ready for dye & antique gel now.

 

[Kwtony]

These days, I remodel historical houses and build some pretty nice new ones too in Key West. Last week, I built a quick bar for a locals establishment.

 

[Bioheat1969]

I don't so much make something, I restore vintage ice cream scoops.

 

[Solong]

I made a rock tumbler once that would spin from one of the return jets in our pool. I used a plastic jug with fins hot glued to the outside.
it worked on the same principle as the old paddle wheelers. Fishing line and a couple of swivels held it in place. It was a great conversation piece to say the least.

 

[KSDirtfisher]

Wallet finished. Better than any store bought wallet. Might not win any beauty pageants, but will get the job done.