My new fishing net. Free old beat up tennis racket a new 14 inch rubber net replacement and a handful of cable ties total investment of about 17 bucks
In reply to pilotbraden :
You're a genius! Nice work.
In reply to pilotbraden :
You're a genius! Nice work.
In reply to pilotbraden :
You're a genius! Nice work.
My CF hood. First fully-functional large CF panel. Kinda ugly, but it weighs 6lb lol.
I have several more CF things in the works (roof, doors, seats, etc).
Not so much made, but put together. Now to learn me coding.
Keeps the tools out of the hands of children, but my wife would complain.
This is a long term project I'm just now finishing up. Hand forged steel stand and a copper sphere made from 0.040" copper sheet. Sphere is 18" in diameter and I have no idea what the overall height is.
After I finish sand it to 400 grit it goes to another artist that will paint a globe on the copper and use an etching/engraving technique to etch through the paint into the copper with scientific data about climate and surface temperatures in her signature style called "Numberism".
And a sample of the work at Sienna Art Studios
I'm really excited to see what the final product looks like.
A rolling workbench for various tools that I didn't have room to mount elsewhere. It's functional if not pretty.
The side shelves fold down; they and the drawers are repurposed parts of wine cases. The casters can be folded up so it sits on the legs for stability. Probably need to make some cutouts to make it a bit easier to open the drawers.
Another C8 Corvette rollcage. Fully removeable and fits with the stock dash and trim. The owner bought a pair of door panels and we removed the lower section for doorbar fitment. He also bought a dash cap that I cut around the a-pillar bars. This one took some additional time but was well worth the effort.
Nothing on the level of some of the other stuff posted, but it's useful...
Rack for the HF parts bins:
My grandfather made the small drawers on top, they're prb 60+ years old.
XLR99 (Forum Supporter) said:Nothing on the level of some of the other stuff posted, but it's useful...
Rack for the HF parts bins:
My grandfather made the small drawers on top, they're prb 60+ years old.
I like it! I need to make something similar for my shop.
Thought I'd put this here because I think some other forum members may be interested in doing this: I took a weekend metal shaping class with Karl Fisher of JapHands Kustoms in Mission, BC. Karl has a Youtube channel and is a super talented fabricator and craftsman. He's also a great teacher which doesn't always follow. I really enjoyed the class and I want to expand on my own skills after this small taste of metal work.
Everybody did a couple of these bowls; I made one with the power hammer and one by hand with a mallet, stump, and sand bag. I did planish both out with a power planishing hammer. It's impressive how quickly the power hammer shapes the metal -- and how quickly you can ruin a piece! I coined the edges of that bowl heavily and had to trim them.
Stretching into a bag
Checking fit against a template
The bowl on the left was my hand formed one; it actually came out better than the raggedy one on the right where I used the power hammer.
My Sunday project was a trial at making a wire form and shaping an aluminum piece to fit it. I want to make a new air intake for my Z06, and this was a first try at the technique I'll use. I cut a 4" steel circle to represent the throttle body inlet, then made the rectangle to represent the air filter inlet. Then connected them with tacked sections of TIG rod.
Aluminum piece was hand beaten on a sand bag, then English wheeled to smooth it out. Karl thought I could probably do the whole shape in 2 pieces; I'm pretty sure I'm not good enough for that yet..and right now I'm trying to get the car to run with the ugly one I made previously!
Here are a couple of the cars they're working on in the shop. The roadster has a custom grille shell, grille, hood, firewall, floors, inner door panels with brass bead rolled inserts, a custom bomber style seat frame, yada yada. The Lincoln Zephyr is even more radical; it started as a 4 door sedan and Karl is transforming it into a 2 door, chopped coupe! Check out his channel for recent videos as he's basically hand forming the entire back half of the car.
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I have the shop and equipment to build most everything that I need out of metal/aluminum, but envy you guys that have woodworking skills. I've built a few houses, sheds and garages, but that's framing and "rough carpentry". The above wet coffee bar is something I'd love to be able to do. Mad skills, I'm jealous! Maybe if I ever stop playing with cars, I'll try to learn finish carpentry and cabinet making.
lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) said:I have the shop and equipment to build most everything that I need out of metal/aluminum, but envy you guys that have woodworking skills. I've built a few houses, sheds and garages, but that's framing and "rough carpentry". The above wet coffee bar is something I'd love to be able to do. Mad skills, I'm jealous! Maybe if I ever stop playing with cars, I'll try to learn finish carpentry and cabinet making.
Funny, I feel the same way about metal working! We should be neighbors!
In reply to lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) :
A big part of it is having the right tools, the rest is having the patience to do it, and when you mess up, doing it again..
This was my first time ordering and installing the countertop, I had to sign a few times that "these were my measurements and no returns." The fronts for the refrigerated drawers (middle bottom) were tricky as there is no real template for them, but all in all I'm happy with the result.
I do think it needs a brass faucet and glass rinse vs the current one, but then I think the faucet does match the coffee machine, so leave it alone.
In reply to Crackers (Forum Supporter) :
Wow! How did you form the sphere?
lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) said:I have the shop and equipment to build most everything that I need out of metal/aluminum, but envy you guys that have woodworking skills. I've built a few houses, sheds and garages, but that's framing and "rough carpentry". The above wet coffee bar is something I'd love to be able to do. Mad skills, I'm jealous! Maybe if I ever stop playing with cars, I'll try to learn finish carpentry and cabinet making.
Off topic but..
If you happen to have an account on Instagram.. check out western NY house framer Ryan Smith. A rough framer with the precision of a watch maker:
In reply to OHSCrifle :
That is nuts, I know what I'll be watching on a flight Tomorrow.
I'm also jealous of the sphere above, that takes talent I don't have.
Used flat pack tubing from a company called connect tubes but still quite a bit of diy
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In reply to Caperix :
That's pretty cool! Was the cladding and frame part of a kit or did you "stick build" it?
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