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Just get her to wear a baseball cap backwards and place the Shield over that.

Hi.
SWMBO requested some pen holders for her desk for this time of home schooling and self isolating.
I thought I would play with shapes and use a recently felled tree as the drought took its toll...

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Hi all,
It's been a while since I've had time to do any woodwork for pleasure, but enforced quarantine has its benefits.
First time I've used my grandfather's large and chisels, first time turning...

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Hi all,
Long time lurker, rarely poster, deep digger...😉.
With this isolation due to covid, I have finally got time to do some turning, it's only been ten years...
Anyway, I've turned some small...

can you make the slats a panel, held together by another couple of slats underneath, hidden, and only secured to the boat by four screws, one in each corner of the slat panel. like a slat bed base
...

I was going to ask the same thing and was searching for a thread of similar title.

i was looking at doing an import from the states for a large steel super deputy.

Cost from Carba-tech is $636,...

in regards to CAD programs, if you want to use it in a future career, a lot of what sketchup does is not compatible with other CAD programs.

If you were looking at getting right into the CAD...

Thanks Rod, did a search back to May 2010 and cannot locate, will keep looking when i have time.

Thanks for your responses so far, and am still thinking about the skirt as a way to keep it...

yes you could hold up a bridge with that size, but the specs are, big, chunky and straight, and i think i got initial dimensions incorrect for the legs, my apologies.
The sketch below has the...

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Next project about to undertake is a table for our dining room. I have gotten a hold of two lengthy slabs of silky oak at 250 x 40mm thick, they have been "drying" on the back verandah of...

made my son a "baseball bat" (he's 3) out of an old long handled shovel. It got confiscated and made its way to the tinny after he got a bit rambunctious with it. dunno what timber, but the long...

if you use treated pine, use the correct metal. the chems in treated pine corrode normal steel really quickly. gal works great

I built a slab computer table for my sister in law and to keep the top clear, she ended up getting a wall mount for the monitor and a wireless keyboard and mouse set. the keyboard and mouse were...

this sounds awesome, just a question from left field though, why don't you take a different approach?
Secure the bottle caps with a small amount of liquid nails or similar but only low. once all...

design coming, just figuring out how to do ellipses and extrude them on sketch up.....

my thoughts exactly, but who can argue with swmbo and the outlaws......

was thinking a "car bed" / simple design bed with the wheels and "carriage" as bolt on accessories.

was looking at...

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Time has come to make my daughter a bed. my son loves his bed that i made a couple of years ago (build up somewhere in this forum...

is that treated pine? if so, would you be concerned with the chems to treat the pine leaching into the soil. I know i was recommended not to use treated pine for that reason for a vegie plant box,...

i love it, making a bar at school. esp since the uproar about yr 12's in townsville getting stubby coolers. don't leak it to the press haha.:D

wet bar is good idea, incorporate a hidden ice...

second the option of a pull string spinning top. i made a larger one and used a bit of dowl to go right through the centre after gluing up a section of scraps as a segmented form. used a bit of...

hear about the NASAA, they spent 5 billion developing a pen that would write upside down, in zero gravity and in space, the russians used a pencil...

a trolley one end and a skateboard the other end, we moved house like this (it was only through the fence:D)

a mechanics low slider thing they get under cars with

i like it, but i wonder if the character would change much if the stripes rotated 90 degrees from their current position and then angled out so the "wave" of the dark wood imitated the grain of the...

talking about stolen or raided pots, police are now involved around mackay as the raiders are using a knife to destroy the pot to get to the crabs, so not just lost tucker but lost dough as you have...

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I have a harmon Kardon AVR130 powering a set of Warfdale diamond 8.1 towers, centre and Yamaha inceiling surrounds. It also powers a Harmon Kardon sub.

About a year ago the sub started...

if you are like my missus and have heaps of shoes, the extra depth and maybe height allows for a good shoe rack to exist.

find a mob that does the approvals as part of the construction process.

maybe a little bit of heat to assist might be in order.

kind of like the bed i made for my son who is two
I have finished it and just have to make the sliding drawers underneath.
simple to make yourself, drill, sander, jigsaw and two sheets of 25mm ply...

not morse code is it, one table of 6's and the other 0's, for her 60th?

I have a GMC Lathe, bought due to budgetory purposes. I have made a couple of items and posted them in the critique pictures (top sticky on this thread...

thanks for all your encouragement and compliments above!!

along with the platter previously, i have made these two bowls as xmas presents to be piled with rum ball and the like.

i wanted them...

it would be good to store full drawer width items that are deep, so that you don't have to lift them vertically out of the drawer. like a row of wine bottles stored with the neck facing forward. ...

sounds like a silly comment, but SWMBO had this problem, when i got home two days later (luckily the car was out) i "unlocked" the garage door. it then worked fine. turns out she had locked it...

quick bowl i attempted this arv after platter i posted in critique. golden cane, cut today.

easily ripped, very soggy, some stringy bits didn't want to cut, turned the outside then turned it...

Okay, hit me with it. since high school (97) i have done little until recently when i impulse bought a lathe with the missus, i have mucked around a little but this is the first piece that i have...

hahaha,
sorry guys, i just did a search and found this has been asked once a year for the last 4 years at least, made for some good reading.
whoops

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just a quick one to see if anyone has ever turned palm tree timber. My bro-in-law cut down a heap of golden canes and i grabbed a 75mm round log just to see what it looked like turned and...

what a way to propose....

whack a big medium rare T'bone with "marry me" on it in front of your missus.

sure get a reaction, and if she likes steak it may be a good one

though me thinks...

westfarmers owns coles which owns bunnings and liquor outlets and fuel stations
woolworths owns new hardware store, dan murphy's and fuel stations

what is left for them to monopolise? ...

good point with the colours, it is a kids bed after all......

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current project underway.
scope was to
- build a kids single bed with storage underneath.
- Has to be "cool"
- bookshelf at end of bed
- reletively cheap
- strong for years of abuse...

Hey bullfrog, i have been chasing some plans liek these. i can't seem to dig them up on the net, could you flick me a link if you ahve it so that i can start this project?

Cheers
TS

and some photos of it finished and in position

fits well, i didn't take into account the location of the power point though.

sits under a breaky bar and was designed as a stylish work desk...

an original design by the both of you taking into account needs, materials and location of bed would be ideal?? am doing just that for my sons first bed, as we want under bed drawers, shelf etc. ...

i thought i would update with progress.
It has been slow due to my not getting consistant time (weddings, work away from home, in-laws and outlaws etc) but have had some fun
i wish i had thought of...

my paito is as Pusser said, above the gutter line. It has advantages by letting smoke out when you fire up the bbq, you always get a breeze through no matter wind direction. our roof size is 6X9...

i have a small toybox, and the best idea that it has is a soft close hinge. it means that a weight can't slam down on little fingers. you actually have to pull it down, not great deal of force...