Stuff you have made today

[Screwdriver]

Making up some replacement arm rests for a neighbour. Bought a chunk of sepele.

Slicing it up was easy enough and it's a tight grain hardwood so, "how difficult could it be"? I asked myself...

Not so much "difficult" as mind bendingly tedious to do everything eight (nine) times).

The really tricky bit was to "let in" the curved steel chair support. I had to use a pretty big cutter, sticking way out of the collet and some dodgy trick to give me the correct inset meant I couldn't use a nice smooth base.

Difficult and fantastically dangerous! Yes that spinning blade of doom was mere inches from tearing my arms open.

I won't be doing that again. Bit too sketchy even for my taste, really have to be super careful for hours on end. Burt I got there eventually.

This stuff should be absolutely beautiful when done. I might even be able to give them bookmatched armrests!

 

[MattF]

Next a good way to finish the metal work without losing the ( rust ) patina and making it all shiny !

I'd personally say linseed oil.

 

[Screwdriver]

I'd personally say linseed oil.

When I did something similar, I made a dip tank and used chemical blacking. came up a treat too. Project is on here somewhere. Link if I find it.

 

[roblane65]

I think I may have to try a few different finishes on some scrap and see how it comes out .

 

[MattF]

I think I may have to try a few different finishes on some scrap and see how it comes out .

That's the best approach. Try a few finishes & see which takes your fancy most.

 

[Puglet1]

That looks like a quality job you’re doing there. I like your tap holder, would you mind sharing its make / sourcing details?

 

[Richiew]

My tap holder is Gearwrench. They are pretty. The ratcheting handle is nice to look at. The tap holder jaws are like chocolate though.


This is pretty much the set I bought.

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I'll post a pic tomorrow of the bigger tap holder. It doesn't get a lot of use and the jaws are mashed up.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

That looks like a quality job you’re doing there. I like your tap holder, would you mind sharing its make / sourcing details?

Makita makes such a set in a box, it looks 1:1.

 

[Capri666]

Got tapped up this morning by a neighbour. Big wild bird enthusiast, wanted a heavy duty bird feeder to screw to his shed. Shop bought ones are a bit flimsy. He is not a bad lad so mocked this up for him. Have to check the dims and see how many holes he needs drilling into it, before I weld it all together. F.O.C. Paul.

 

[daleyd]

Got tapped up this morning by a neighbour. Big wild bird enthusiast, wanted a heavy duty bird feeder to screw to his shed. Shop bought ones are a bit flimsy. He is not a bad lad so mocked this up for him. Have to check the dims and see how many holes he needs drilling into it, before I weld it all together. F.O.C. Paul.

Any chance of moving that chunk of metal out of the way

 

[Capri666]

To be honest I never noticed it was in the way. Only have it up there to check the date.

 

[Blobber]

To be honest I never noticed it was in the way. Only have it up there to check the date.

Yeah right!

 

[dobbslc]

What's the date then?

 

[Capri666]

What's the date then?

Don't know, my eyes are real bad now.

 

[indy4x]

Thursday, full load of concrete and a big pump thingy to concrete in some footings at my lockup project







The ground is made up rubbish and I can't dispose of it as its got knotweed

Was about 1m³ short so picked up a load of all in and put the cement mixer to work

 

[Richiew]

@Puglet1

Tap holder jaws close up. The dinky ones are fine so far, the larger pair are terrible. They still work though.

The Gearwrench stuff looks nice. The ratchet handle is nice to use. The taps and dies are cheap carbon steel. The tap holders are as shown below. Not worth the money.

 

[Hood]

Couple of keyrings for friends.

 

[MattF]

for friends.

I've forgotten what those are.

 

[Hood]

I've forgotten what those are.

F,d if I know, just thought it sounded good

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Attended to the freelanders rear arches and rear arch bottoms. The body shop I use wanted £700 just for the arch bottoms. Took the plastic mud traps off and treated the arches and struts with vactan rust converter and firwood anti corrosive chassis black. Drilled some holes in the mud traps so I can poke the karcher in. Was only doing one but I was blacker than Ive been in a long time so persevered and did both and the arch bottom that needed patching. This cold beer tastes nice and I’ll be aching tomorrow but job done