Shit you built with your own two hands (picture thread)

[RootSkier]

I built this deck for my inlaws (like a reverse dowry, yeah I'm a moron).

The handrail system has zero metal fasteners, it's pretty cool.









What have you built? Houses, tree forts, poop sculpture?

[Rontele]

My ancestors built this, bitches

[RootSkier]

Yeah, the balusters are 3/4" copper. I built it a couple years ago when 3/4 copper was still like 30 cents a foot. It's like four times* that now.

*that's a guess, haven't priced it lately

[pechelman]

and a few others before her

[jeffmoore]

nice deck dood, i dig the pegs.

I built these snowshoes a while back - a pair for me and a pair for my girlfriend. I was obstinate and didn't want to spend the money to buy some, so I spent about two weeks building these at work. They worked well in cold weather, but I found that in warm weather snow stuck to the steel deck and needed constant clearing, so they were abandoned after only a few uses.



The frame is aluminum tube, crampon is stainless with spray on rubber on top, and the deck is perforated stainless steel. You would think they weighed a lot, but their weight was the same as most modern snowshoes. now i dont know what to with them.

[train07]

I built this deck for my inlaws (like a reverse dowry, yeah I'm a retard).

The handrail system has zero metal fasteners, it's pretty cool.









What have you built? Houses, tree forts, poop sculpture?

Yeah Baby!

(hey, are you the guy who said he had a timber frame background?)

[RootSkier]

(hey, are you the guy who said he had a timber frame background?)

What was the first hint?

[train07]

What was the first hint?

Well, I have a Mac !
(you fucker)

[jeffmoore]

Waxing the decks didn't help? Liquid snowboard wax, spray-on wax like they use for the insides of steel bike frames, or just crayon & polish hard ski wax?

truth be told i didnt try that much stuff. i tried some different silicon products but they just wouldn't stay on. and i tried that spray on rubber on the bottom of the crampon but that didnt help. i suspect some thick wax would have worked, but it would rub off and need reapplied, in the end i figured it was just worth it to pay the hundred bucks for some real snowshoes. i guess the fun was the build.

[steve]

[woodstocksez]

I made this totally sweet gavel with almost no help from my seventh grade shop teacher. Note the slightly off-center attachment of the handle to the head and the careful finishing of the end of the head. Excellence - I settle for nothing less.

[wicked_sick]

I made an automated ski stress tester. It tests the pressure required to deflect a ski x amount. it can test till failure, graph results, etc.

[Art Shirk]

[mushmouth]

Steve...what is that? My first guess would be the world's most complicated answering machine.

[steve]

Steve...what is that? My first guess would be the world's most complicated answering machine.

from chaos comes order..
really - a couple of power strips, a cablemodem, wireless router, vonage box, phone, and a bunch of AC adaptors. that's it. you should have seen the mess it made before I decided to neat it up one day.

there are hinges underneath it - swings down so I could access the back.

-steve