The "Awesome Things You Have Made" Thread! NSF 56k

[plytho]

4 year necro for my concrete-copper candle holders:

Spoiler:

Without candles:

I made the one on the left first and had some trouble with the concrete mixture. When I took it out of the mold (too soon) part of it broke. I don't mind too much because now it looks more industrial.

With burning candles:

[somitomi]

They look pretty cool. That break was a lucky accident apparently, it looks like it was intentional.
I enjoy making stuff as well, but it's usually small electronic thingamajigs and those don't have much in terms of good looks. I also have a lot of plans for which I don't yet have the tools, knowledge or time to even start them. Anyhow, looking through my files I found photos of a model railway layout module I made last year. It's not quite finished yet, a lot of small details (more vegetation, signs and such) are missing still and the grass could use a little more work. What you see was done in about a month and then the project halted due to university stuff.

Spoiler:

I am quite proud ot the trackwork, this was my first attempt at making a track bed.

I messed up the river part by adding too much paint to the resin, making it way to green in my opinion.

[plytho]

They look pretty cool. That break was a lucky accident apparently, it looks like it was intentional.

Thanks.

I enjoy making stuff as well, but it's usually small electronic thingamajigs and those don't have much in terms of good looks. I also have a lot of plans for which I don't yet have the tools, knowledge or time to even start them. Anyhow, looking through my files I found photos of a model railway layout module I made last year. It's not quite finished yet, a lot of small details (more vegetation, signs and such) are missing still and the grass could use a little more work. What you see was done in about a month and then the project halted due to university stuff.

I like the way the ploughed fields look beside the track. Very impressive overall.

[djangochained]

They look pretty cool. That break was a lucky accident apparently, it looks like it was intentional.
I enjoy making stuff as well, but it's usually small electronic thingamajigs and those don't have much in terms of good looks. I also have a lot of plans for which I don't yet have the tools, knowledge or time to even start them. Anyhow, looking through my files I found photos of a model railway layout module I made last year. It's not quite finished yet, a lot of small details (more vegetation, signs and such) are missing still and the grass could use a little more work. What you see was done in about a month and then the project halted due to university stuff.

Spoiler:

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I am quite proud ot the trackwork, this was my first attempt at making a track bed.
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I messed up the river part by adding too much paint to the resin, making it way to green in my opinion.

I like it. pretty well done:)

[somitomi]

I like the way the ploughed fields look beside the track. Very impressive overall.

I like it. pretty well done:)

Thank you both. I might have something more to post here later, if repainting model railway cars counts as "making something". I decided to buy an airbrush, because the list of projects waiting because I can't paint them got long enough to justify it.

[plytho]

Here's another thing I made:

It's an LED cube based on intructions found here: link.
I built it with a friend a couple of years ago. It's a bit banged up and a couple of connections need resoldering but other than that it still works fine.
As you can see we connected a NES controller, that's because we programmed a 3D version of snake to run on the cube.

Spoiler:

Cube with NES controller:

Start up screen with level select. The double row of LED's represents 8 speed settings.

This is what you see after dying, it shows the final length of the snake.

I can't really show the game in action because I can't make a clear picture with the LED's burning on multiple levels.

[somitomi]

Cool, the NES controller is a nice touch. Are there cheat codes?

[plytho]

No cheat codes, it's a very simple program. I guess I could have the Konami code display a "you win" animation. I'll have to figure out the code again first

[the apprentice]

Bronze sculpture:

Hearts


Oversized Letterpress Bookends


Self Portrait

Hi

Please could you tell me what you used to make the master mould.

[the apprentice]

Hi

I am a retired engineer tool maker and have been looking for this kind of thread to share my ideas and pictures of what I have made.
Can someone advise if one needs to have a certain amount of posts before you can show them?.

[SecondTalon]

Hi

I am a retired engineer tool maker and have been looking for this kind of thread to share my ideas and pictures of what I have made.
Can someone advise if one needs to have a certain amount of posts before you can show them?.

Rules thread. Five posts.

[the apprentice]

Hi

I am a retired engineer tool maker and have been looking for this kind of thread to share my ideas and pictures of what I have made.
Can someone advise if one needs to have a certain amount of posts before you can show them?.

Rules thread. Five posts.

Many thaks Talon.

[the apprentice]

Here is something I made several years ago after my leather and shoemakers course.

An adjustable leather strap cutter, it has a cam operated clamp for fast adjustment between widths of 12 to 80 millimeter. The handle I turned from burr hazel with a hand rolled Sterling ferrule. The blade was made from a section of recycled industrial hacksaw blade.

She has a hold down roller which runs across the entire width of cut itself adjustable from zero to 6.00 mm thick. Mainly brass with an odd piece of PB102 Bronze.










Being keen gardeners for a decade or so now, here are a couple of wooden objects I made last year for our allotment. An Amish style wheelbarrow made from recycled timbers, including the proper wooden wheel and removeable sides so it can be used as a flat bogie.

And as we call them here in Yorkshire, A Settle, or garden chair made from birch plywood sides cut by jigsaw and standard 50 X 25 mm roofing lathes which have had their upper edges rounded over to prevent knifing.








While everyone was watching Zulu on the box for the umpteenth time this new year holidays I ventured into the workshop to knock together this my own version of an artificial inseminating apparatus from queen honey bees.







It's loosely based on the original Laidlaw system of American fame with a few of my own ideas thrown into the throng.

It has also a built in hydraulic syringe that I made to do the insertion stage.

It works very well indeed, there are also a few short videos of the delicate operational stages on YouTube if anyone here is a beekeeper.

I saved well over 3k by making this myself.

If anyone is interested in can add links to the whole global step by step building program.

Please don't multi-post when one one will do it. Also, removing the weird postimage referral links while at it. -Moderator

[somitomi]

Wow, cool stuff there.
This next thing is nowhere near that amazing or useful. It's actually useless except for whatever artistic value it might hold. Behold:

It started from a bit cut from the end of some magnetic tape I've bought for my reel-to-reel. I kept it around without any discernible use in mind and then gradually came up with making a cassette shape out of magnetic tape. The tape turned out to be too short for the entire outline despite my calculations and casting it in resin didn't quite go smoothly but it turned out all right I guess.

[Taylor90]

I made a huge cake for my kid in his birthday. Is it counted

[somitomi]

A while ago I found these LED signs at a homde decor store and while the idea appealed to me, the price seemed too much for a plastic box and some LEDs. So I just bought a pack of the letters (since I didn't see a way to make those at home) and proved once again, that if you already have the tools you might actually come out a little cheaper than mass-production by investing about half a day (what's "opportunity cost"?). The recess around the power plug is a bit of a bodge, because I didn't plan this very well. Just like how I changed the placement of the LED strip at the last minute to use half as much as originally planned while still illuminating the front sort of evenly.

Spoiler:

"Nobody messes with Adam We"

Looks kind of like those old cinema signs you see in movies

[plytho]

That looks very nice! I'm impressed. It looks sturdier than the plastic ones I have.

[somitomi]

That looks very nice! I'm impressed. It looks sturdier than the plastic ones I have.

Thanks. I do hope it's sturdy, sides are 9 mm slats and the backplate is 3 mm plywood. I now realised I don't really have a use for it, but it was a fun project

EDIT: A little update on the thing: I realised sticking the LED strip straight onto the frontplate wasn't a good idea, because the heat given off by these bright LEDs causes the plastic to expand and warp. I tried creating an air gap between the front plate and the LED strip, but no dice. I might need to drill some cooling holes or reinforce the front plate somehow.