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

[rideit]

Here is the beginning of a whole new product line, using cogs tig welded together to create really unique, memorable items. I will be doing a lot with lights, including sconces, outdoor lighting, hotel/restaurant lighting, tea lights, and more. Here is a little taste of much, much more to come. This one can be hung, put on a table, mounted as a sconce, or used to throw incredible shadows. I haven't seen anyone doing exactly this. I will be adding fused and stained glass to the insets, check it out!




This is hung as a corner light, porch light, or sconce.


Here is the bottom (for on a table) or top (chandelier)


And here is a cute little tea light. I will be adding fused glass to the cogs.
The ladies are gonna dig this one by the bath...



MUCH more on the way

[wicked_sick]

[BigDaddy]

Here is the beginning of a whole new product line, using cogs tig welded together to create really unique, memorable items. I will be doing a lot with lights, including sconces, outdoor lighting, hotel/restaurant lighting, tea lights, and more. Here is a little taste of much, much more to come. This one can be hung, put on a table, mounted as a sconce, or used to throw incredible shadows. I haven't seen anyone doing exactly this. I will be adding fused and stained glass to the insets, check it out!



MUCH more on the way

d00d!!!

[rideit]

I would love to make you one of these, BD! I am looking for the 'perfect' higher end home furnishings/handcrafted shop in the Madison/Clinton/Guilford area, can you think of any contacts? I NEED to get some east coast presence. Maybe near Miller's Pond area?

[RedWolf]

Wicked Sick, that's... well, wicked sick! How's about some details? How's the system put together? What're you growing and how much, what kinda fish, numbers, filtration, etc?

[wicked_sick]

The system is put together with of 2x4s and plywood along with some PL400 adhesive and #8 wood screws. The light support is made of 1/2" electrical conduit, and I pulled the fluorescent fixtures out of a scrap heap. The reflector is metal pipe jacketing from the same scrap pile. The bed is lined with food grade reinforced polyethylene and filled with 3/4" river rock. A pump runs continuously bringing water from the fishtank into the growbed (pours in from the top). When the bed fills to the top of the siphon (about 3/4" down from the top of the rocks) it rapidly drains back into the fishtank and the process starts all over again.

Right now I'm growing kale, basil, cilantro, lettuce, mustard greens, various lettuces and a celery. I also have a coffee plant in there just for fun. I'm going to get rid of the mustard greens because they are gross and put in more basil and salad greens. Stuff grows ridiculously fast and can be planted really close together.

As for fish, I have 25 or so Blue Nile Tilapia. The gravel bed/plants provides the filtration, and the fish provide the nutrients. As the fish grow larger, I may consider adding some worms to the system to take care of solids, or maybe a cyclone type separator, but that will require some re-plumbing and tinkering.

This whole thing is kind of an experiment. Once I have more space I'd consider a much larger setup in a greenhouse or some such thing.

[Skipig25]

This isn't me, but thought this would most appeal to people who look at this thread.

This dude makes his own foot-powered lathe, and he doesn't use any power tools or metal fasteners. If you like wood-working, check this guy out

[RootSkier]

All that work for a gigantic wooden buttplug!?

[Roxtar]

All that work for a gigantic wooden buttplug!?

Never underestimate the value of a well made gigantic wooden buttplug.

[rideit]

A but plug that can double as a pirate's leg!
Handy!

[Zeedashbo]

cool fire place we built for some rich guy. the install was almost at hard as making curved cabinets.





armoire

[skiballs]

^ Nice
I miss my Rumfurd fireplace I had in my old house. The herringbone pattern is nice.

[RootSkier]

How far apart are those two fireplaces?

LOL stupid rich people -- keeping craftsman/dirtbags employed since the dawn of time.

[brice618]

i'm gonna be that side scrolling asshole.

[Zeedashbo]

How far apart are those two fireplaces?

LOL stupid rich people -- keeping craftsman/dirtbags employed since the dawn of time.

Upstairs and downstairs. this is their guest house.

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[GiBo]

Tore a nasty assed pecan tree out early spring. That thing dropped more shit than Hugh in a padded room thread. So I figured I'd fix the yard up.

After cutting out the old shitty Bermuda with a sod cutter (best $60 I ever spent), I was down to bare dirt.


Next came raised garden bed and irrigation.



Building the manifold. Easier than I thought it would be.


Forming up the mow strip. Let my boy take on most of this. It was his first cement pour.

Making the curve for the flower mound.

Time to import 6 1/2 yards of the valley's finest for the bed and mound. The beer tasted extra good that evening.

Dirt in. Ready to pour. Didn't take pics on pour day. I did almost come to blows with an old man who got all shitty with me because I was blocking the alley with the cement mixer trailer. Evidently I should have wheel barreled that shit from the street. Man what a grumpy old fucker he was.

Prepped for 2 inches of crushed rock and two inches of decomposed granite.

Rock in.

Granite stamped in.

Steer shit down and ready for sod.

7am delivery.

Finished!

Flower mound.


Once it grows in a little and I add a patio set to sit out there, I think it'll be a pretty cool place to chill. Come on over for a beer!

[itsnowjoke]

Before & mostly finished after.

Two and a half days.

Beer time!

[EarlyWood]

hose clamp
plastic mollys
two nuts

[BigDaddy]

Jesus sat/shat here. That tank looks like it might have come out of one of the pyramids... but love the ingenuity. Saved yourself a few bucks, too.

[RootSkier]

wow, that is some next level shit

[EarlyWood]

there was no one home when I beat my chest and did the rooster walk...

[rideit]

Genius!......

[jfost]

...Once it grows in a little and I add a patio set to sit out there, I think it'll be a pretty cool place to chill. Come on over for a beer!

hey nice work! Why did you lay what seems to be one strip of sod in the opposite direction?

the raised bed, flower mound and DG are really nice...

[bad dancer]

Can remember if I put this up before.
Finishing the final touches of my cabin.



Finished the cedar deck and trim around the door.Solid fie door was a bargain at the used building store for $100.
Trim will be black.

[bfree]

Just finished up this beaut with some friends (I was mostly making the composite monocoque chassis).