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Here you go folks, let's see if we can't liven things up a little around here. Couple of 'rules' I guess, just to try and keep it 'on track',

1. Let's try and not let it turn into Facebook/Instagram with us posting every meal on it (the occasional spectacular offering is fine).
2. Doesn't have to be woody, but given that's the point of the forum it would be good if that was the main focus where possible.
3. Finished items can go in here, but feel free to link to WIP posts if they exist so people can dig deeper into it if they want or if they missed the WIP.

That's it, let me know if you want any further guidelines adding in but other than that, crack on.

I'll start us off...My boy (12yo) asked for a 3D printer for Christmas and after much discussion about how he needed to present a 'business case' as to how it wasn't going to turn into an expensive ornament, Santa duly delivered.

We went with an Elegoo Mars 3 Pro resin bath printer with an associated washing/curing station. As part of the setup and calibration process you need to align the build platform with the glass plate at the bottom to make sure prints don't fail, then they give you a test file to print, which is two stylised chess pieces with a helix and spiral staircase running up the hollow centre.

This prints off as just over 1000 layers and I must say I am incredibly impressed with the quality for a device that cost under £300. You can't see the layer lines at all with the naked eye and can just about feel them under a fingernail. :eek:bscene-drinkingcheers:

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There's some slight distortion around the bottom of the base in the last pic, which i think is down to the Boy and I being impatient after a failed first print, so pausing the process to have a look if it had actually bonded to the plate, which shows that while you can do it, it's advisable not to because it clearly causes some re-alignment issues and affects the final print quality.

All in all though we're delighted with the outcome and are currently playing with it to refine the design,slicing/printing processes and coming up with new/novel ways to use it.
 
Here's something recently finished. Not wood related simply because it's cold and miserable in the workshop right now.
Emerald is wife's birthstone (centre), peridot is thing 1 (2 and 3), tourmaline is thing 2 (4 and 5) and whilst mine maybe diamond, I'm closer to cubic zirconia (6 and 7). Band is sterling silver.
 

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novocaine":au52jqa5 said:
Here's something recently finished. Not wood related simply because it's cold and miserable in the workshop right now.
Emerald is wife's birthstone (centre), peridot is thing 1 (2 and 3), tourmaline is thing 2 (4 and 5) and whilst mine maybe diamond, I'm closer to cubic zirconia (6 and 7). Band is sterling silver.

Impressive, and suits you sir!
 
novocaine":26tcslyf said:
Here's something recently finished. Not wood related simply because it's cold and miserable in the workshop right now.
Emerald is wife's birthstone (centre), peridot is thing 1 (2 and 3), tourmaline is thing 2 (4 and 5) and whilst mine maybe diamond, I'm closer to cubic zirconia (6 and 7). Band is sterling silver.

That's impressive - I'm looking forward to the accompanying WIP as I've no idea how you'd go about making something like that :D
 
sorry folks but not a chance of a WIP. It's hard enough to do it as is without having to find a camera and I'm not particularly happy with it to be honest, it's a bit crowded and the claws aren't as well formed as I'd like.
 
I know nothing about 3D printers or indeed making jewellery so a great start to the thread :eusa-clap:

My contribution is a little more mundane, a few weeks before Xmas I fitted a wooden loft ladder & hatch for a couple as their daughter had moved back home & needed to utilise the roof space more.
A week or so later they got in touch to ask if I could come up with something that would help prevent anyone falling out of the loft when up there, also stop debris that got blown onto the hatch falling down when it was being opened & finally stop the heat rushing up there when they were accessing the roof space & sorting through stuff.
With all this in mind I thought some kind of hinged box would cover their needs so yesterday afternoon I knocked up a 3/4” plywood box.
The top was rebated to accept the sides & give more glue surface area.

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The sides were then glued & nailed to the top & the corners reinforced these reinforcing pieces would eventually sit on the frame of the hatch.

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This morning I’ve been & fitted the box this is what you are presented with when you lower the ladder

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The handle on the side allows you to easily raise the box as it is hinged on the right hand side.

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When in the roof the box is easily lowered to stop any chance of falling out of the roof & also prevent too much loss of heat.
 
Nice Doug. I made two loft access hatches like that last year (kitchen has a loft along each side), filling the boxes with 150mm insulation and adding a back board. Rebated door hinges and a cylinder lock to act as a catch. They lie flush with the ceiling and turn the lights on automatically when lowered.
 
I made this (complete building) over the past year or so. As with almost all of my projects it was not quite finished, and since early December I have been doing wiring and snagging, making steps (see carving threads etc).The oak frame has moved a bit with a super hot summer and pretty wet winter, so it was wise to delay the snagging :cool:

I've posted bits and pieces before maybe (?), but not a WIP as I couldn't face the photo posting. But I do have snaps of everything from ground prep to concrete pour, timber framing, roofing, laying the stone tiles etc, but as it recedes into history I suspect it will never see the light of day here.

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Here be the sliding door that leads to another room. That room is panelled and the door is disguised on that side as part of the panelling. This is before I fitted the step and wall sockets in December. Paint is Mylands.

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Sorry. I did do the photo rotate thing, but it didn't work for some reason.
 
Keeping it woody, I just made 100 key fobs.

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Keeping it recycling, the Beech came from old table legs.
 
Malc2098":3gwpnxy3 said:
Keeping it woody, I just made 100 key fobs.



Keeping it recycling, the Beech came from old table legs.

Nice (well, you weren't going to say it, were you? :lol: )
 
I've already posted photos of the last woody thing I've made, so here's one I made a couple of years ago but haven't posted on this website ever (I think). It's one of the things I've made I'm most proud of and, despite looking at it almost every day, I haven't felt the need to wince at the workmanship once!

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It's a monitor stand for my two wide-screen monitors, made out of oak, maple, european walnut and american black walnut, with a stainless steel frame underneath.

Pattern close-up:

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In situ for a better sense of scale:

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More pictures (including a few in-progress shots) here: https://www.cgtk.co.uk/woodwork/furniture/monitorstand
 
Doug":1f27cru1 said:
I know nothing about 3D printers or indeed making jewellery so a great start to the thread :eusa-clap:

My contribution is a little more mundane, a few weeks before Xmas I fitted a wooden loft ladder & hatch for a couple as their daughter had moved back home & needed to utilise the roof space more.
A week or so later they got in touch to ask if I could come up with something that would help prevent anyone falling out of the loft when up there, also stop debris that got blown onto the hatch falling down when it was being opened & finally stop the heat rushing up there when they were accessing the roof space & sorting through stuff.
With all this in mind I thought some kind of hinged box would cover their needs so yesterday afternoon I knocked up a 3/4” plywood box.
The top was rebated to accept the sides & give more glue surface area.

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The sides were then glued & nailed to the top & the corners reinforced these reinforcing pieces would eventually sit on the frame of the hatch.

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This morning I’ve been & fitted the box this is what you are presented with when you lower the ladder

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The handle on the side allows you to easily raise the box as it is hinged on the right hand side.

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When in the roof the box is easily lowered to stop any chance of falling out of the roof & also prevent too much loss of heat.

Nice solution Doug :eusa-clap:
 
Dr.Al":2m9l40l2 said:
I've already posted photos of the last woody thing I've made, so here's one I made a couple of years ago but haven't posted on this website ever (I think). It's one of the things I've made I'm most proud of and, despite looking at it almost every day, I haven't felt the need to wince at the workmanship once!

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It's a monitor stand for my two wide-screen monitors, made out of oak, maple, european walnut and american black walnut, with a stainless steel frame underneath.

Pattern close-up:

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In situ for a better sense of scale:



More pictures (including a few in-progress shots) here: https://www.cgtk.co.uk/woodwork/furniture/monitorstand

Lovely Al! :eusa-clap:

I'm glad you added the final pic because I initially thought it a coffee table and thought the top looked dangerously thin! :eusa-doh: :eusa-whistle:
 
TrimTheKing":leiektuu said:
Malc2098":leiektuu said:
Keeping it woody, I just made 100 key fobs.



Keeping it recycling, the Beech came from old table legs.

Nice mate, to sell, give away or fun?


A local laser etching business wanted them for promo giveaways.
 
What I have made today (or at least made public today) is a very non-woody thing: a little tool to make typing symbols (on Windows PCs) a lot easier:

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Rather than having to remember obscure Alt codes like Alt-241 for ±, you can use hit a shortcut key (e.g. Win+K) and then use more intuitive (in my opinion) two-letter "digraphs", like +- for ±, DG for ° etc. I've been using this for years and would hate to have to go back to the Alt-0176 method. If I want to type something like 10.5×10³ Ω , it's really easy (obviously in that case I'd normally type 10.5 kΩ, but it was just an example). Learning the Alt codes for × ³ Ω and the non-breaking space between the number and the unit would be far too hard!

Anyway, on the off-chance anyone here is interested, it's available here: https://github.com/abudden/digraph
 
Malc2098":14ve48yv said:
TrimTheKing":14ve48yv said:
Malc2098":14ve48yv said:
Keeping it woody, I just made 100 key fobs.



Keeping it recycling, the Beech came from old table legs.

Nice mate, to sell, give away or fun?


A local laser etching business wanted them for promo giveaways.

Did a very similar thing for name place giveaway things at my sons wedding couple of years ago, prepared long strips of oak which a friend then laser burnt all the peoples names into, then cut up, all nicely rounded and added strips of leather which was held on using Chicago bolts – went down very well.
 
You learn something every day, never heard of Chicago bolts. Had a google and now know the proper name of those thingys.
 
Lurker":3uemwfk7 said:
You learn something every day, never heard of Chicago bolts. Had a google and now know the proper name of those thingys.

Well here’s another name Lurker, some people call them sex bolts, supposedly because one bit screws inside the other, but then don’t all nuts and bolts? Unless it’s way beyond my experience and they’re used in piercings, not for me thank you.
 
Made a few little table gifts for Christmas table, seam rippers for the women, a simple rule gauge for my son and a family of gonks/gnomes for granddaughter, daddy gonk pictured. All these were last minute so quick and simple with little effort for quality and were wrapped up in home made crackers so just a bit of fun.

Also made up a large marbe in a cage not properly sanded and no finish to test out our 9 year old grandaughter, it took her just a few minutes to work out that the wood had no joins and so it must have been stretched to get the marble through the gap "did you heat it up grandpa? Boiling water so close enough but I'm gobsmacked she could get to that conclusion.
 

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And....... a gift last week for my missus purely selfish so she stays motivated to cook my meals and wash my clothes. ;)

Rose stands around 250mm high with petals 75mm across made out of scrap copper sheet from an old water tank and stem 8mm c/h microbore, I left it unpolished to retain the colours from the annealing process. The base is a nice chunk of yew from a tree I felled 25 years ago.

Sorry the photos are cr*p. :oops:
 

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Nice Bob. I haven't really seen or done much metalwork since my dad died. Brings back memories.
 
Bob, that rose is clever and stunning.
The talents that some of your guys have around here makes me feel very inadequate :cry: Who knew we had jewellers in our midst as well.
 
Not strictly made by me, but made to work again by, for a brief while before the balance spring failed. Joys of "serviced" by a fool before me.

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The trays and vice were designed by me and made by the printer.
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Lons":2xm608uj said:
And....... a gift last week for my missus purely selfish so she stays motivated to cook my meals and wash my clothes. ;)

Rose stands around 250mm high with petals 75mm across made out of scrap copper sheet from an old water tank and stem 8mm c/h microbore, I left it unpolished to retain the colours from the annealing process. The base is a nice chunk of yew from a tree I felled 25 years ago.

Sorry the photos are cr*p. :oops:
Wow! Love that!
 
Made these bedside cabinets about 15 years ago, it’s surprising how often I have been asked for pieces with a Gothic design element.
Push to open drawers, and not obvious from the photo but there are glass tops, made from Oak and Mahogany.

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Looking back at them now I think the arches are crying out for a chamfer, heyho.
 
Lons":24fc11o0 said:
And....... a gift last week for my missus purely selfish so she stays motivated to cook my meals and wash my clothes. ;)

That's lovely, :eusa-clap: . I've done a lot of metalwork in my time but it's much more functional stuff and I'm always impressed by things like this. I'd love to see a WIP if you ever do another.

Lons":24fc11o0 said:
Also made up a large marbe in a cage not properly sanded and no finish to test out our 9 year old grandaughter, it took her just a few minutes to work out that the wood had no joins and so it must have been stretched to get the marble through the gap "did you heat it up grandpa? Boiling water so close enough but I'm gobsmacked she could get to that conclusion.

That's impressive deduction from a 9 year old. I made a couple of these a few years ago and they live on my desk as things to fiddle with when I'm thinking. One of the experienced senior engineers at work picked one up and fiddled with it for a while and then asked me, quite seriously, whether I'd heated the brass nut up to get it on. Brass has a thermal expansion coefficient of ≅18 μm/m/°C, so how hot did he think I'd heated it to make the ID expand from 16 mm to 26 mm to get it over the end?! :eusa-doh:

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Andyp":1azpk97l said:
Please tell the less engineering minded amongst us, or maybe just me, how that was made Dr.

The stainless steel bar is two pieces. Each piece of 26 mm bar is very carefully faced on the lathe to have a flat end and is drilled and tapped (M8 I think, but I can't remember for sure). A bit of M8 threaded rod is used to join the two pieces tightly together and then the combined piece is machined to reduce the diameter of the middle bit and then cut the (four start) thread.

Once that's done & the nut has been made, the two stainless parts are unscrewed, the nut added and the stainless parts screwed back together again.

Because a lot of care and attention was paid to making sure the two parts were faced perfectly flat at the start and because the join is in the threaded portion, the join is virtually impossible to see without a microscope or similar.
 
Presume it's just a brain teaser Al rather than having a practical purpose? Clever.
 
Two types of engineer, those that know and do and those that solve equations but can't do. OK it's a scale, but for me those define the end points.

most of the people I was at university with fell in to the latter with only a few of us sliding along the scale to the former. i believe most now work in banking.

nice doohicky Dr. :)
 
Thanks for the explanation. I had to look up four start thread…..never knew such a thing existed. Every day is a school day.
 
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