Crafty Basterds -- The Stuff I made thread

[OneWheelDrive]

My other hobby 

[The Bearded Duc]

My other hobby 

Taking pictures?

[OneWheelDrive]

Taking pictures?

No, my caffeine addiction.

[The Bearded Duc]

No, my caffeine addiction.

This came to our table at breakfast a couple weeks ago...

[Timmy Tucker]

It's kinda cheating, cause it's what I do for a living, but it's all I've got. Lost hundreds of pics of all my work over the years in a hard drive crash. It's nothing special deck-wise, but I like the fact that there's a tree in the middle.

[zzilla]

Teriyaki Garlic Shrimp Fried Rice!

Is it cheating on my diet if I made it from scratch?

[triangleforge]

That looks delicious - and it's almost lunchtime!

Here are a couple of things I've worked on recently; thanks to the generosity of my friend Rick Hartner, the proprietor & artist at Sitting Duck Studio http://www.sittingduckstudio.com/. He lets me sit in & use his forge and well-appointed metal shop.

This is a piece (not complete in this photo) I helped him with for the Garden Show at the San Diego Botanic Garden; his idea was to build a Roadster out of rebar & other re-claimed materials as required by the show. He asked me to make the driver; just a few days before he had to load everything up and head to San Diego, he added a spectacular dog to the passenger seat, tongue waving in the breeze.



The hands & feet were the most fun to figure out; Rick suggested that shoes would be easier than feet, but since it's a city on the ocean I opted for flip-flops:



Last Friday, I spent some time plasma cutting shapes out of an old truck bumper we dug out of a sandbar as a part of a big community-wide creek cleanup. Of some ten tons of trash that Prescott Creeks volunteers pulled out of the creeks that day, about three tons (ie., all the cool metal bits) will be "upcycled" into art pieces, many of which will be sold at auction this Fall to raise money for the organization. I'm thinking of these as the wind-catching elements for an Alexander Calder-inspired mobile sculpture; don't look too close, as I really suck at free-hand plasma cutting:



Update: Rick just e-mailed me a photo of the sculpture as installed; I think it's supposed to be there for several months if you happen to be in San Diego.

[cokey]

Nice.. how hard was it to bend the rebar into a circle? 

[triangleforge]

Nice.. how hard was it to bend the rebar into a circle? 

Not that hard; steel is remarkably easy to persuade when it's red hot.

[ducpainter]

Not that hard; steel is remarkably easy to persuade when it's red hot.

It's almost torture.

[Vindingo]

I made some sawdust this weekend.  I cleaned my bathroom on Fri and it looked kind of empty.  The picture frame is a stud I pulled out of my 140 year old barn, with a scrap of walnut ply in the middle.  The chunk of walnut slab is a scrap from a dining room table I am building for my mother.  I also scrounged up the last little bit of solid 3/4 walnut I had to make the bracket.  I'd say about 4 hours worth of work, $0.00 spent.  

[triangleforge]

 

That's beautiful.

[Buckethead]

Agreed. Nicely done.

[yamifixer]

that shelf is kinda sexxy.

[Vindingo]

That's beautiful.

Agreed. Nicely done.

that shelf is kinda sexxy.

Thanks!  Mother nature did most of the heavy lifting in the looks department, I just tried not to mess it up.    


Triangleforge, I have a project in the works (in my head) for a headboard I want to build with a similar detail to the photo below.  Are these dovetail keys something you could make?  I'd love to have you make them if you were interested.