JCB
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New Air Conditioner Leads to Cabinetry
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JCB
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Great birdhouse, Dan! I just promised to make one for a friend, and yours is one of the nicest samples I've seen. I love the way that it looks like an historic post-and-beam house. Did you use copper nails on the faces, or something else?
I'm pretty sure I have some little copper nails, but I used some dark colored tacks I had - they were short enough not to penetrate to the inside. Whole project was done with stuff I had in the garage. I used a French cleat type mount to attach it about 20 ft up a pine tree; makes it easy to take it down for clean outs.
Desk/ac cover is outstanding! I love innovative solutions.
evo
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I made many concrete water falls with my dad before he passed.
Those cheap grocery store kid balls make for some good molds, just cut one open and pour your mix in, drill a hole and you get a bubbler. Some plastic pots for the base make good molds too.
Play with your mix, get straight cement, mix with sand at half ratio, sub perlite and peat moss for gravel and the other half of the sand. Perlite cuts down on weight, peat moss makes a sub strait for growing moss (and weight).
data farm 26
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Oh cool, do you have any of them left? Great tips with the peat moss and perlite! I will definitely remember that if/when I get back into casting. It's such a fun medium with endless possibilities. Sorry about your dad, mine died when I was young too. He was a concrete man by trade doing foundations and flatwork which is how I was familiar with aggregates. He never did any artsy stuff that I know of but I certainly felt his presence when I started doing the casting work.
evo
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Unfortunately no, there might be a few on the remaining half acre lot which I still have. Probably buried in leaf litter and ivy
pete3d
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I spent about 20 years as a professional woodworker and did some projects that I was proud of because of the exceptional way they honoured the trees that they were made of.
This is a large toy chest made in the 6 board style - no laminations just fine plain white pine boards about 23” wide.
Here is a wooden suspension piano bench I designed and built in 1989. It was made of an elm killed by Dutch Elm Disease.
This is a cedar strip canoe that was one of six we made in 1998 with my woodworking class in Kanesatake. It was eighteen feet long and although the red cedar strips were pieced its clear ash gunwales were not.
This is a large toy chest made in the 6 board style - no laminations just fine plain white pine boards about 23” wide.
Here is a wooden suspension piano bench I designed and built in 1989. It was made of an elm killed by Dutch Elm Disease.
This is a cedar strip canoe that was one of six we made in 1998 with my woodworking class in Kanesatake. It was eighteen feet long and although the red cedar strips were pieced its clear ash gunwales were not.
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JCB
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The coolest piano bench ever!!!
pete3d
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Thanks.
I got the idea for the wooden suspension piano bench swaying, while sitting by my good buddy Malcolm at the back of the bar on a conventional straight legged bench with loose and cracked tenons, as he played the honky-tonk piano. I made 4 of them in different iterations and would make a show - all 200 lbs. of me very vigorously jumping on them, like a trampoline, while the legs bent and sprung like tree branches. They do have a very pleasant “ride”.
data farm 26
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That's some really high quality stuff there, very cool. Especially like that canoe, it's wonderful.
data farm 26
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View attachment 20230113_134725.mp4Just got this phallic bubbler back in the house and running again!
IMHO, that fountain isn't worthy of sitting on that table.
data farm 26
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Maybe not, I like it like that for now, might be on the ground somewhere. The table is just a bunch of scraps screwed together that I dumped epoxy on, I kind of like the fountain more. Thanks, though!
data farm 26
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Who doesn't like a good knob 
Treetopflyer
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Levi just tried to qoute your old post and add this one new not sure wth is happening . Here's a balck walnut cut board with epoxy pour handle , loved how the light penetrates through handle and juniper deck stairs I just did ( the nieghbors baby appoved! Sunday weekend warrior chit. Can't be all treework all the time ayyyyy
You guys working on anything lately?
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data farm 26
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Man, great work, Aaron! I love the stairs and cutting board as well, really nice looking stuff. How is the handle attached to the board? Are there some pins or rods sticking out of the wood for the epoxy to grab onto? And the stairs, freakin beautiful man. Love me some juniper. Seal of approval from the cute baby you know you did some good work. 
I've been in a non creative phase for quite awhile now, no shop right now and not much inspiration. I have been thinking about some epoxy/wood/concrete projects I may get around too but mostly my puppy takes all the time I have that isn't for family and work, such is life!
I've been in a non creative phase for quite awhile now, no shop right now and not much inspiration. I have been thinking about some epoxy/wood/concrete projects I may get around too but mostly my puppy takes all the time I have that isn't for family and work, such is life!
Treetopflyer
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Shit dude just saw this !! Glued the wood together and clamped routed and poured through handle!Man, great work, Aaron! I love the stairs and cutting board as well, really nice looking stuff. How is the handle attached to the board? Are there some pins or rods sticking out of the wood for the epoxy to grab onto? And the stairs, freakin beautiful man. Love me some juniper. Seal of approval from the cute baby you know you did some good work.
I've been in a non creative phase for quite awhile now, no shop right now and not much inspiration. I have been thinking about some epoxy/wood/concrete projects I may get around too but mostly my puppy takes all the time I have that isn't for family and work, such is life!
