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

**Dobish** · 03-22-2010, 11:17 PM

the table that i spent about 100 hours on finally all but disintegrated... no more ski beer pong table.... i think i am going to turn it into a tile thing...

**krp8128** · 03-23-2010, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

Hmmmm, that shape looks familiar...

I see your snowboard, and raise you a pair of skis:

Graphics are not mine. It's been pouring rain outside for the past few days so no outdoor pics for now.

Oh yeah, put together the portable bike/ski tuning bench too.

**Roxtar** · 03-23-2010, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by krp8128

Hmmmm, that shape looks familiar...

I see your snowboard, and raise you a pair of skis:

Graphics are not mine. It's been pouring rain outside for the past few days so no outdoor pics for now.

Oh yeah, put together the portable bike/ski tuning bench too.

Very nice.

I'll see your skis and raise you a bike frame:

The only frames I could find with enough standover to fit my 8 year old son were cheap heavy kid's bikes.

So I built one out of thin wall aluminum.

**krp8128** · 03-23-2010, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by Roxtar

Very nice.

The only frames I could find with enough standover to fit my 8 year old son were cheap heavy kid's bikes.

So I built one out of thin wall aluminum.

Nice!

One of the things on my list of shit to do once I get out of my tiny ass apartment and into some real space is a custom frame, likely carbon fiber. Just for the hell of it.

**Skipig25** · 03-23-2010, 07:25 PM

I see your bike frame, and raise you a bike.

we built 4 of them. well, 3, the fourth is in the works. all different. this is the second one we built (me and my 2 roommates) which was achieved in a weekend by cutting apart frames we had around. now we are making them a little better from tube stock, and not cut apart old frames.

Pretty fun to ride around town, and it gets lots of comments from people.

edit: mine has a 7' 4" wheelbase. the one we are currently making (or trying) for my roommate has a 9'6" wheelbase. and the frame is a single bar instead of a triangle. dunno how that one's gonna work. got a feeling the headtube is gonna snap off

**OSECS** · 04-08-2010, 05:51 AM

Nothing I built, but I thought the design, craftsman, landscape arch., fabricator crowd would get a kick out of these gates. Look like they were built in the 20's or 30's in Hot Springs, Va. located in Bath Co. southwest corner of the state in the blue ridge mountains, near the Homestead resort and the "Hot Spring" bath houses that've been in use since the 1700's.

**supermodel159** · 04-08-2010, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by doughboyshredder

Very nice.

PM me if you have any 2nds you want to get rid of.

**krp8128** · 04-10-2010, 04:30 PM

Built the 14'x16' deck 2 weeks ago. There is a shitload of screws in that much trex decking, I much prefer a nail gun. Today we dug out and put down 127 16x16 pavers, 69 left to go. It has a pretty screwy pitch to keep the water out of the corner, as well as to put the pavers at a good height coming out of the shop door and at the base of the stairs. the big mistakes was not compacting and running a screed over the whole thing. instead we left it, dropped the pavers in and used a trowel to level as we went. At this point I was just handing the pavers over to the homeowner, definitely not the way I would have done things...

**Caucasian Asian** · 04-10-2010, 05:38 PM

^^^No border? What's to keep them from moving?

**Pinner** · 04-10-2010, 06:08 PM

Glad that's not your fail patio.

**krp8128** · 04-10-2010, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Caucasian Asian

^^^No border? What's to keep them from moving?

It is getting one more course along the front, and then the grass will be brought up to the edge. I'm not really sure if this will hold everything in place, like I said had this been my yard I would have done things a bit different.

Originally Posted by Pinner

Glad that's not your fail patio.

What?

**runethechamp** · 05-17-2010, 06:34 PM

This really doesn't measure up with the other posts here, but I made a 4x9 "addition" to my piece of shit greenhouse in my back yard so I could use it as a workshop. I'll post the nice stuff once I have a couple of cabinet doors built. Total size after the "addition" is 9x13 feet or so. Some pics:

Long workbench with wood from my old hot tub stacked underneath:

A bunch of crap and a saw and a jointer:

Not the worlds' smallest workshop, but it would be nice with some more space:

**Skipig25** · 05-21-2010, 10:21 PM

rides so well. detailing tomorrow with orange paint pen

**HankScorpio** · 05-23-2010, 08:30 AM

^^^^^ that bike looks great. steel or al?

**pappag** · 05-26-2010, 11:20 PM

Final piece to complete the man cave: DJ booth with enough space below to house well over 500 records and a floating shelf above with 3 fluorescent cabinet lights:

**mock vomit** · 05-27-2010, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by NPG

Final piece to complete the man cave: DJ booth with enough space below to house well over 500 records and a floating shelf above with 3 fluorescent cabinet lights:

**Skipig25** · 05-27-2010, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by VTsession

^^^^^ that bike looks great. steel or al?

1.5" steel tubing that we had laying around

now has a 26" rear with coaster brake, and is for sale in bozeman. (/spam)

**booner** · 06-05-2010, 06:30 PM

Here's a bunch of recent projects

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

BIG FACKING WALLS @ ALFRED U

LARGE STEP SYSTEM @ SENECA LAKE

NATURAL STEPS INTO HONEOYE LAKE

**wicked_sick** · 06-05-2010, 08:27 PM

Nice stone work. We make imitation stone at work and it seems to be pretty popular. I'd take real stone any day, but i bet the fake stuff is a hell of a lot easier to install.

**tank3467** · 06-06-2010, 01:19 AM

Had a small bonus room in my house didnt know what to do with it so I decided to make a bar room. Turned out great and now the main place people hang out.

Before and after pics

Added the keg frig and tap about a year later.

**Cross** · 06-11-2010, 09:36 PM

I have actually made progress on my snow cat. It looks like a cat now and actually runs.

**abraham** · 06-12-2010, 04:44 PM

That is awesome!!
I doubt I could ever do something like that. I still have a wooden P-51 that my grandfather and I started 10 years ago.

**wanghoeby** · 06-12-2010, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by Cross

I have actually made progress on my snow cat. It looks like a cat now and actually runs.

Major props on building that thing from scratch!

Although for nine minutes, I was kind of expecting the construction of a super sick booter, complete with a successful back flip of a McConkey Huck Doll. Looks like the dry sand is kind of hard to form up though. Does the cat enough power to move around wet sand?

**Cross** · 06-13-2010, 06:33 PM

The cat has enough power to push the sand. The problem actually can be traction.

I would have built a kicker except the blade is rigged up to work right now. It is not the way it will actually be. So the blade has very little movement so I cannot do much with it.