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

[farmguy]

Maybe a little weight added to help the traction problem?

[Cross]

Right now I just have a servo on the blade. It will eventually have full hydraulics.

I know more weight will help with traction. This will come as I finish things. Once I get all the hydraulics, lights, and working tiller I probably will not have to add much weight.

[RootSkier]

Interior updates on this never ending project that has appeared numerous times in this thread...

[skinny_kid]

Since this thread has been bumped I will post another project. This was my first commissioned piece of furniture and I just delivered it the other day. It's a 72x36x30 kitchen table that is build out of heart pine. Pretty nasty stuff to work with because of all the pitch and bug damage but it turned out well.

[Mulletizer]

Really nice table, I like it.

[Roxtar]

I've recently gotten into knife building.
This is my first, started from scratch, product.
Blade is M42 tool steel, handle is black canvass micarta.










I first built this belt grinder to do the pointy work:

[quienes?]

this thread makes me painfully aware of my suck. My astronomical level of sausage-fingered suck. Nice work Skinny Kid. Any chance you could toss a ballpark cost for commissioning a table like that?

[BigDaddy]

ditto... nice work Skinny Kid. It's hard to tell, but are those legs tapered?... very subtle or maybe camera angle.

Root, your stuff is way too classy... hardly belongs in the "shit" thread!

[montanaskier]

Since this thread has been bumped I will post another project. This was my first commissioned piece of furniture and I just delivered it the other day. It's a 72x36x30 kitchen table that is build out of heart pine. Pretty nasty stuff to work with because of all the pitch and bug damage but it turned out well.

Nice table....AWFUL fucking license plate.

[skinny_kid]

this thread makes me painfully aware of my suck. My astronomical level of sausage-fingered suck. Nice work Skinny Kid. Any chance you could toss a ballpark cost for commissioning a table like that?

A lot depends on the material and how complicated it is. I will go out and say that I was payed $750 for that table. I think they got a pretty good deal for how solid it is and for the fact that it is unique. The client already had the wood for me to use and because of that I ran into a long finishing process. I would have liked to get a little more but they are friends and I was happy to get my first commissioned piece.

ditto... nice work Skinny Kid. It's hard to tell, but are those legs tapered?... very subtle or maybe camera angle.

Root, your stuff is way too classy... hardly belongs in the "shit" thread!

The legs are tapered. They are 4x4 at the bottom and are 4x6 right under the table.

Nice table....AWFUL fucking license plate.

[Mustonen]

Really, most of this was shit my old man built w/ his own two hands.... I was there for a lot of it, though.

Everything used to look worse (much worse) than that rock wall. The grassy area by the dock used to be under water, depending on the time of year. Everything else was a ruin of broken concrete, fallen pilings, and slag. I don't have any digital 'before' pics.

[RootSkier]

Root, your stuff is way too classy... hardly belongs in the "shit" thread!

Thanks, this is the last house I will ever be big boy carpenter on!

Who wants to buy some tools?>?>?>?

[EarlyWood]

I killed some time working not too long ago.
Owner provides big slabs of cherry and says "make me a ladder and I'll add some hand rails".
Slabs were so wide it only seemed natural to do this. Just put a guide on the router and followed the live edge with a 2 1/2" long staight bit.

Thanks, this is the last house I will ever be big boy carpenter on!

Who wants to buy some tools?>?>?>?

I'm almost there with you Root.

[Pillsbury]

I will go out and say that I was payed $750 for that table.

Screaming deal.

[Orphic Seth]

A 15' 8" Goat Island Skiff designed by the Australian Mik Storer. Okoume marine ply glued onto cedar framing, doug fir chinelogs and gunwales. Not one screw. All marine epoxy. 105 square foot sail-- balanced lug rig. Planing hull. Took about 10 months which includes a New Hampshire winter (garage too cold for glue) and many many days away from home. Not to mention the vertigo inducing learning curve. I went from ZERO woodworking experience to this (I ripped all my lumber with a cross-cut saw blade and used almost double the glue needed.) Many mistakes, not perfect, never finished, but done. A great hobby that is a nice break from athletic pursuits-- looking forward to many a happy day sailing and camp-cruising (finally! enough building already) but thinking about project two (aren't we all!?)

Hello and good skiing to all!

[skinny_kid]

Very cool project. I like your ambition. I have been building furniture for a while and want to try my hand at a boat sometime. In the latest woodenboat magazine there is an article about a boat called the Rescue Minor that has a lot going for it. Not too hard to build, great fuel consumption, and draws 6". It also had a flat bottom so it beaches upright.

[skinny_kid]

Awesome slabs of wood and I like the way you went for an unusual hand hold. Very cool.

[DoWork]

I've recently gotten into knife building.
This is my first, started from scratch, product.
Blade is M42 tool steel, handle is black canvass micarta.

That's sick, I made myself a sweet machete last year and I'm making the nandle out of satinwood right now... Got any more of that M42 kicking around you'd like to get rid of?

[DeeAre]

A 15' 8" Goat Island Skiff designed by the Australian Mik Storer. Okoume marine ply glued onto cedar framing, doug fir chinelogs and gunwales. Not one screw. All marine epoxy. 105 square foot sail-- balanced lug rig. Planing hull. Took about 10 months which includes a New Hampshire winter (garage too cold for glue) and many many days away from home. Not to mention the vertigo inducing learning curve. I went from ZERO woodworking experience to this (I ripped all my lumber with a cross-cut saw blade and used almost double the glue needed.) Many mistakes, not perfect, never finished, but done. A great hobby that is a nice break from athletic pursuits-- looking forward to many a happy day sailing and camp-cruising (finally! enough building already) but thinking about project two (aren't we all!?)

Hello and good skiing to all!

This is awesome.

[AbsolutStoli]

I've recently gotten into knife building.
This is my first, started from scratch, product.
Blade is M42 tool steel, handle is black canvass micarta.

very nice! any interest in making an 11" right handed sashimi knife (yanagi)? im kinda shopping around for one, but it would be sick to have a one of a kind.

[OSECS]

I killed some time working not too long ago.
Owner provides big slabs of cherry and says "make me a ladder and I'll add some hand rails".
Slabs were so wide it only seemed natural to do this. Just put a guide on the router and followed the live edge with a 2 1/2" long staight bit.











I'm almost there with you Root.

Veeeeeeeeeeeeery nice !!!!!!!

[mock vomit]

A crappy cell phone before/after pic of my buddy Savage's circa 1888 Idaho Spring's CO place. On left the temp wall after the Jeep plowed thru the front of their home (that she lived with for over 2 years), on the right the rebuilt (from hand dug foundation thru primed exterior) bay window and far wall (obscured). I still need to remake 2 matching brackets and his wife will add its painted lady final paint coat.

[krp8128]

^^^at least the jeep had good aim and didn't clean out a structural wall (from what I can see).

[mock vomit]

^^^at least the jeep had good aim and didn't clean out a structural wall (from what I can see).

Well... good aim if you don't count running over Savage, nearly killing him necessitating a 2+ year hospital stay with 34 major operations (and counting), putting him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

(Sorry, I know you had no way to know that. Just venting... Peace out.)

[karpiel]

http://www.lcni5.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?...17200040040003

Guy responsible got off light.