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

[SorryBro]

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

Looks great. Didn't know you were in the ME department there. I was always jealous of you guys. While I was working and racing a concrete canoe, you guys got to build those and race them.

[rideit]

Needs a yakima rack and rocket box!

[GiBo]

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...

Thanks man. I'm really digging that DG.

Ya know, that was the last strip and I had to trim it. I just laid it wrong. Now that it's been mowed twice you can't notice it. Bugged the shit out of me for a while.

[farmer]

I've finished framing two fish tank stands. One for a 75 gal red bellied piranha tank, which will be in a home bar. The other sits behind the bar holding a 55 gal cichlid tank. Both with live plants.

Next step is to find and mill a tree into a 4" thick slab for the bar, then sheet the outside, install plexi-glass over the front of the 75 gal, build shelves off the side of the 55 g, and build the sump for the 55g.

I will post pics once it is all done.

[keipow]

Z, the dark walnut looking beams, is that structural?

great work.

[EarlyWood]

I'm gonna go out on a limb (see what I did there?) and call the beams stained oak.
Am interested to hear if the beams are structural...without visible checks or cracks am wondering if these are actually real beams..
nice work Z...
and Brice, et al
raising the bars high

[Zeedashbo]

They're not structural. They're big chunks of vg fir. We didn't install those, our carpenter buddies did. They were quite the bitch to work around. The house is styled after old french farmhouse. Big stone exterior and copper roof. Pretty cool

[brice618]

They're not structural. They're big chunks of vg fir. We didn't install those, our carpenter buddies did. They were quite the bitch to work around. The house is styled after old french farmhouse. Big stone exterior and copper roof. Pretty cool

Just put some of those up a few weeks ago. Big fuckers, used a scissor lift to put them on the ceiling and then built 2x6 columns under them as a support. Kind of sad they aren't structural.





And now I'm building a "barn" (metal building) out of rail ties. Hard work.

[EarlyWood]

Pretty creative use of railroad ties....what's the system for anchoring them, keeping the wall plumb, or tying them back to the steel??
very cool work

[Foggy_Goggles]

How many times have you cussed at that Dewalt chop saw stand? Such a POS.

Nice work in here peeps. I'll try and put some portfolio pics in here soon.

[toast2266]

And now I'm building a "barn" (metal building) out of rail ties. Hard work.

So does that place just reek of creosote now? The railroad ties I've worked with were pretty smelly.

[jfost]

Thanks man. I'm really digging that DG.

Ya know, that was the last strip and I had to trim it. I just laid it wrong. Now that it's been mowed twice you can't notice it. Bugged the shit out of me for a while.

I figured it was something like that, just wondered if there was some rhyme or reason to it... thought it might have been because of the sprinkler trench or something. Anyway, nice!

[Foggy_Goggles]

Almost done kitchen. Waiting on one cab, paint and sparky.

[PlayItLeo]

How many times have you cussed at that Dewalt chop saw stand? Such a POS.

Word. I'd rather cut on the floor.

[brice618]

Oh shit I really AKRover'd this one:

This is the first one we've done so we were just kind of winging it to see how to put it up. So we ended up cutting a load of oak shims and using those to make reasonably sized mortar joints and keep the rows level (a bitch with twisted/bowed/etc ties) that will be chinked later. We're also putting lathe in all the joints to help hold the mortar.

As far as the structure goes, we screwed 3 inch C purlins to the side and end wall girts at close to 4' centers from the floor to the eave/ soffit. Turns out the building was reasonably plum, so we have been stacking directly on the face of the purlins and lag bolting every other row with 4" lags.

The ties are all tied together vertically with 3/8ths rebar at each end of every tie and through all the corners.

The ties themselves are grade 2. Grade 1 would be a better buy. More expensive though. They don't stink, but they do suck to cut. We've dulled - a chain saw chain, 4 circular saw blades, finally figuring out that tree trimming sawzall blades on my orbital sawzall is the only thing that cuts them. So far we've spent over 500 bucks just in blades and drill bits.

Alright enough building nerdiness.

I hate that saw stand, but its also the only thing I've known, so I would rather use it than kneel. We have 3 of them so maybe I'm just used to the shittiness.

[PlayItLeo]

Seems like it's been raining off and on for two weeks so I thought I'd throw up some mudroom stoke.

Herringbone bi-fold doors made of reclaimed heart pine barn siding







Opposite from the doors is this bench/cubby thingy. My wife was stoked on this. It's impossible to get it all in one frame, but you get the gist.

[mobygrape]

^^^
hol-ey shit, you folk never cease to amaze. Nice job. Lots of quality woodworking stuff posted here.

[Buster Highmen]

Almost done kitchen. Waiting on one cab, paint and sparky.

Nice work!
Is that real wood for the counters? How much /ft^2?
From where did the cabinets come?

[Zeedashbo]

How many times have you cussed at that Dewalt chop saw stand? Such a POS.
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I really like mine. Bad experience?

[brice618]

I really like mine. Bad experience?

I'm going to guess the fact that the feet fall off all the time, the bolts never stay tight, and the arms sag too much for the height adjustment on the stops so your wood is never square to the base. That happens on all the ones we have. You can get around it mostly, but I'd be happy to have one that didn't do all the above.

[snoqpass]

Festool will solve your saw problems

[PlayItLeo]

^^^^ and empty your wallet. Their tools are crazy nice but also crazy expensive. The track saw is tits though.

[Foggy_Goggles]

IMO, Dewalt chop saws are garbage. I've had a Bosch something or other for years and I'll never go back. Zero clearance (no sliders, can set it right against a wall), bevel adjust in front, detent override (you can make a 3/4 degree cut well), way better ergonomics etc.).


Saw stand wise, a pair of saw horses, an old bifold doo, and a couple of 2X4 blocks at the height of the saw's table is the way to go. Besides the above mentioned falling apart issues, I can't stand the fact that any type of longer material with any whip just falls right the fuck off.

Buster - real wood - Lumber Liquidators, AristoKraft cabs.

[skifishbum]

didn't build it with my own hands cause I sure as hell wouldn't have left the fuckin facia an " and a 1/2 high and used two different peices of drip edge and created a fuckin gelande ski jump at the bottom of the roof.


was hopin to put off the roof for a few more years but the icedams kicked my ass this winter
so dealt w/ it
ended up running a new sheet of 3/8 ply over the n side featherin er out and a couple rows of ice n water should end that issue

Put in a skylight in each bathroom and 2 in the kitchen
wanted openers but 5 bills 6 by the time you buy the flashin kit got vetoed
by the cfo

threw on a 30 year tamko dimensional of the painted desert flavor can't belive those things are like a buck a peice these days 27 squares was about 3k. probably ~6k in materials cludin the dumpster and essentail roofin safety supplies

thats dealt w/ not eggzackly how i hoped to spend mermorial weekend/week but stoked it's done before the summer heat sets in and one more of the seemingly endless fixer upper list is dealt with

[skiballs]

^ that was one big ass ice damn you had. couple of them courses look crook to me