What Do You Make?

[Xxray]

This is why I often give stuff away - Results in future orders.
Bought this 15" clock from walmarts for $15 and repurposed it into another club clock with CNC, put LED's in this one too but I think it looks better unlit. Club ordered 3 of them for Xmas presents, I am now an expert at disassembling and reassembling cheap chinese clocks !
[I used a highly reflective rainbow metal as the backing, it sometimes looks all silver but turns to all different colors from different angles]

 

[airbornebob]

Wow... 15 years of posts... I build scale models of WWII armor and aircraft... been doing it for nearly 60 years now... hard to do now since I have two little boys (4 years old and 2 years old!)

 

[stetam]

Wow... 15 years of posts... I build scale models of WWII armor and aircraft... been doing it for nearly 60 years now... hard to do now since I have two little boys (4 years old and 2 years old!)

Nice work and great job with the weathered look.

Steve

 

[markinmichigan]

Can't metal detect so I'm thinning out my scrap wood in the shop. Cutting boards are easy, fast, and a good mental check for being accurate. The argyle pattern was a first for me, need to watch grain orientation. Plaids are easy, Most of the boards I'm making are end grain.

Mark in Michigan

 

[markinmichigan]

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Leather to me would be a another rabbit hole. Do you do commissions? Like your work

Mark in Michigan

 

[airbornebob]

Can't metal detect so I'm thinning out my scrap wood in the shop. Cutting boards are easy, fast, and a good mental check for being accurate. The argyle pattern was a first for me, need to watch grain orientation. Plaids are easy, Most of the boards I'm making are end grain.

Mark in Michigan


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I'm looking for a good cutting board... do you sell any of your works?

 

[Xxray]

Wow... 15 years of posts... I build scale models of WWII armor and aircraft... been doing it for nearly 60 years now... hard to do now since I have two little boys (4 years old and 2 years old!)

Kee Bird, nice memorial to a tragic aircraft that came so close.
Used to do models alot, my B-29 is hanging from a ceiling and is pathetically caked with years in dust, B-52 off to the right not much better.

Can't metal detect so I'm thinning out my scrap wood in the shop. Cutting boards are easy, fast, and a good mental check for being accurate. The argyle pattern was a first for me, need to watch grain orientation. Plaids are easy, Most of the boards I'm making are end grain.

Mark in Michigan


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Looks nice, I do glueups, pretty basic. I rip them into thin pieces and make stuff with them, often guitar parts like pic guards.

 

[markinmichigan]

I'm looking for a good cutting board... do you sell any of your works?

I do. PM me and I'll get more details from you.

 

[airbornebob]

Kee Bird, nice memorial to a tragic aircraft that came so close.
Used to do models alot, my B-29 is hanging from a ceiling and is pathetically caked with years in dust, B-52 off to the right not much better.

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It's rare that some one recognizes an aircraft with a small bit of history... thanks! And yours really does need a bath!

 

[BobOso]

I repurpose things, 1 of many I have made.

 

[airbornebob]

I repurpose things, 1 of many I have made.

I'm recruiting you when the zombie apocalypse happens!

 

[MasonDixonMding]

Can't metal detect so I'm thinning out my scrap wood in the shop. Cutting boards are easy, fast, and a good mental check for being accurate. The argyle pattern was a first for me, need to watch grain orientation. Plaids are easy, Most of the boards I'm making are end grain.

Nice work!

 

[KSDirtfisher]

Made this wallet for a Retired Veteran I met over the forums. He needed a new wallet & really could not afford it living on a set monthly budget.

So I got off my butt yesterday & made this for him.

Some of the finest Italian leather money can buy! Conceria Walpier Buttero in the color chestnut. Sewn with red thread.

He is genuinely going to be surprised when it arrives.

 

[PaulRevere’sGhost]

COIN RINGS. I saw this on utube and thought I could do it, with the minimal tools they said were required. And I did. But then I got carried away. Whenever I travel I make some from State Quarters specific to my destination and give them as tips. Also, when one comes out (less than perfect) I toss them on beaches in the dry sand. Hopefully they make someone’s day a little brighter. I bought some one ounce copper rounds to practice on before i attempt a silver round, at today’s prices. It’s a fun hobby to just vege out and create things, and make people happy.

 

[Cherry Picker]

COIN RINGS. I saw this on utube and thought I could do it, with the minimal tools they said were required. And I did. But then I got carried away. Whenever I travel I make some from State Quarters specific to my destination and give them as tips. Also, when one comes out (less than perfect) I toss them on beaches in the dry sand. Hopefully they make someone’s day a little brighter. I bought some one ounce copper rounds to practice on before i attempt a silver round, at today’s prices. It’s a fun hobby to just vege out and create things, and make people happy.

I started coin ring making several years ago. A lot of fun and rewarding.

My Coin Ring plant.. I started out with just the minimum, too.

Some of my rings I made for my kids. One for each the year of their birth.

 

[vmc1161]

I started coin ring making several years ago. A lot of fun and rewarding.

My Coin Ring plant.. I started out with just the minimum, too.

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Some of my rings I made for my kids. One for each the year of their birth.

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That is so awesome. How long to make one ring? What is Just a rough estimate on how much the tools and miscellaneous things needed to make them cost. I see how cool it is what you have done, then I think maybe I should try. Then I see how cool it is that something else someone has done and get distracted. And realize I'm already doing too many things. Wife wants me to retire so I'll need winter things to do, so maybe.

 

[Cherry Picker]

That is so awesome. How long to make one ring? What is Just a rough estimate on how much the tools and miscellaneous things needed to make them cost. I see how cool it is what you have done, then I think maybe I should try. Then I see how cool it is that something else someone has done and get distracted. And realize I'm already doing too many things. Wife wants me to retire so I'll need winter things to do, so maybe.

Starting out basics-wise,a Ring Stretcher Reducer is about $170. It can get expensive once you get the tools that make it quick & easy. I can turn a quarter into a ring in less than 10 minutes. The key is first making the center hole, which can be done with a drill, then annealing it (heating it and cooling it off) to make it so it can be bent without breaking it, and then use the tool (Ring Stretcher Reducer) to make it a ring. That is the basics.

Once you start buying the other tools that make it easier and make more quality rings is costly. I probably got close to $2,000 wraped up in my set.

 

[the colonel]

I've been wanting a shovel style digger, and the ones in the store are much heavier than I want. I built this using aircraft tubing and the blade of a small shovel. It breaks down into two pieces for travel and weighs

2.4 lbs.

 

[the colonel]

Ok, first time I tried to post photos, as you can tell!