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10 minutes ago, Earache said:

I made the bar and tables (ones on the right with benches) for a local brewery. Did 8 tables with two benches each and two "L" shaped bars that were put together like a square.

Took  me over 2 months to do - one of my bigger projects . Still have some left over beer that they gave me...

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Nice work Eric!

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Nice skills @Earache, I wish I could do that but me and wood are not buddies ......................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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28 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Nice skills @Earache, I wish I could do that but me and wood are not buddies ......................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Maybe Pedro could help.

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1 hour ago, Earache said:

I made the bar and tables (ones on the right with benches) for a local brewery. Did 8 tables with two benches each and two "L" shaped bars that were put together like a square.

Took  me over 2 months to do - one of my bigger projects . Still have some left over beer that they gave me...

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Pics of you making em or it didn’t happen 

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2 hours ago, Earache said:

I made the bar and tables (ones on the right with benches) for a local brewery. Did 8 tables with two benches each and two "L" shaped bars that were put together like a square.

Took  me over 2 months to do - one of my bigger projects . Still have some left over beer that they gave me...

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Looking good, I would love to be able to do that sort of thing.  My father was a boat builder and that was the sort of thing he did when his real work was slow.  I can do it but not with the speed or immense  skill he had.  Problem here is real seasoned timber is prohibitively expensive for any sort of home projects.  Funnily enough my father in law was also a boat builder and a very clever man, I have a good friend now who still does it.   I'll find some pictures of his stuff.   I think he is a genius.   

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This is what my mate Louis does for a living, 

32' Cornish Pilot Gig 

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This is his latest commission that is bound for Ireland.  He did tell me what it is but in one ear out the other.  A work of art just the same.   

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3 hours ago, Marcel said:

Which type of wood?...hard wood  or soft wood...

Cheapest shit I could find as they were broke. This was all beetle kill pine - soft as shit. I made the table frames with steel supports so I could switch out the pine when it went to shit... but 6 years later and they haven't crapped out yet.

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2 hours ago, Six30 said:

i like contemporary art ... done this one this morning , i just imagine stuff and painted it.

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Your brush strokes are wrong, your absolutes are inconsistent and your appositives are shifted out of order.  Go back to your crayon work .............

 

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Just now, boboneleg said:

Your brush strokes are wrong, your absolutes are inconsistent and your appositives are shifted out of order.  Go back to your crayon work .............

 

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What do you know about art …. Go and tidy your garage you heven 

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During and after install of some barn doors. Panels and frame made from alder (neither soft nor hardwood - kinda in the middle) and handles made from scrap rebar I had in the shop.

I made the slide as well - it kinda looks like a piece of 1/4" X2" steel because it is ...

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3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Heven you say, is that like a heathen that knows all about art

 

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It’s arty talk … you wouldn’t know 

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3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

You're correct , I forgot that you are the crayola king .................

 

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I have no shame concerning my crayon work .

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I don't do much in the larger scale type stuff. I've made a couple decks I suppose but mostly it's smaller things. 

Back when I played around with guitars I made a few things for one forum's annual "build challenge"

The first one was a "Travel Tele" which was a copy of something available commercially, but this was cheaper. 24" scale, headless. Ended up stripped for parts a year or two later.

http://teamyikes.com/TravelTele/build_3922c_l.jpg

 

After that was a small scale Telecaster. The body for it was made out of wood from a tree my dad planted when I was a kid. It came down in a storm a little after he died and I ended up with a couple logs from it. They weren't big enough to make it full sized so it's something like 7/8 scale? 3/4? I forget. It's elm, which is a bitch to work with. I have more of it but will eventually burn it rahter than build anything from it. The neck is made out of scraps I got from his shop when we cleaned it out. Fingerboard comes from a stash of boards he had from when he built banjos. 

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Then a Telecaster Uke. It was built during a "polar vortex" storm here in Michigan, basically a lot of cold snowy weather, so I had planned on going with a winter theme instread of the typical tropical theme. It has "snowflake" fret markers  and obviously a polar bear cub on it, but a lot of th epallned graphics never happened. The was going to be an igloo with a palm tree sticking out of it but there's only so much space on a tenor sized uke. That'd be Sophia, my favorite dog ever, checking it out. 

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Next to a standard sized Telecaster

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I've also made a couple tube amps. First one was a 5 watt Champ clone. I don't use it often and last week went to play around with it but was greeted with silence. Well, a hum really because tube amp. But no volume. Then I started to smell the scent of tube amp death so I unplugged it. It's on now my bench awaiting triage. 

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After that came a FireFly tube amp. Around 0.5 watts I think? It sat around half finished for a LONG time, so I decided to just slam it together with whatever I had around. Here's what I ended up with. It's rough, but it's supposed to be! Yes it's done. Yes, the handle is a spark plug wire from a flathead Ford V8 I had sitting around. 

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Other than that I'm really good at making messes. 

EDIT: Fack me, I keep forgetting this site doesn't allow simple [img] tags. I may or may not deal with it later...

 

EDIT AGAIN: They're links now. I'm not downloading all of the photos just to re-attach them here.

 

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37 minutes ago, DesmoDog said:

I don't do much in the larger scale type stuff. I've made a couple decks .....

 

 

And I bet ya stole the lumber for the deck, ya bastage!

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8 hours ago, Earache said:

I made the bar and tables (ones on the right with benches) for a local brewery. Did 8 tables with two benches each and two "L" shaped bars that were put together like a square.

Took  me over 2 months to do - one of my bigger projects . Still have some left over beer that they gave me...

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There must be something lost in translation here, left over beer? not sure such a thing exists :classic_laugh: 

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1 hour ago, Earache said:

And I bet ya stole the lumber for the deck, ya bastage!

Only the first one!  I had forgotten that story.

He's not lying. I ordered all the lumber for a deck, but there was some delay in getting it delivered. For whatever reason I then cancelled the order. They refunded my credit card. I left for a business trip and when I came back, there was a bunch of lumber in my lawn. 

I called the place and told them that the order had been cancelled. They said they'd come pick it up.  But they never did. I called again. It was killing the grass so I moved it into the garage. 

Finally I decided screw this and built the deck just to get the stuff out of my garage. 

Some of the stuff they delivered was all warped and twisted so I DID go buy replacements for that.

And then might have returned the twisted stuff.

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50 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

There must be something lost in translation here, left over beer? not sure such a thing exists :classic_laugh: 

It's peppermint flavored Xmas beer - who the fuck drinks that????😆

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17 hours ago, Saul said:

This is what my mate Louis does for a living, 

32' Cornish Pilot Gig 

louis2.thumb.jpeg.dd9e356b50d9a343b92dbb5c21d0abf4.jpeg

 

This is his latest commission that is bound for Ireland.  He did tell me what it is but in one ear out the other.  A work of art just the same.   

louis1.jpeg.44d78dbd24ff597c5d33f66a6e949afa.jpeg

Very nice.

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