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2 hours ago, Kimjon said:

Trying to make a timber feature wall.

I brought 100 fence pailings at $0.85 each, some black thermo paper at $32 and that's about it really.

I cut the gib at the cornice so I wouldn't have to redo them. This created a 20mm gap (10mm cornice, 10mm gib). This allows me to buzz the top boards down to 20mm so it doesn't look silly where it meets at the top. I thought about this problem obsessively until coming up with this as a solution. Fucking stoked with how this part turned out, as it would have looked ridiculous if it didn't do this step.

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I put black paper on the wall so if the boards shrink, the gaps will be black behind.

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also added more studs, so I could be a bit random with board placement. I didn't want it to look like bricks...all neatly stacked. I was more after a random rustic look.

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I ran each board over my 10" planner/buzzer to tidy up the surfaces. I did each board a different number of strokes varying the thickness of each board, once again to make it more random looking. I'll finish the corners in angle iron. The timber will be stained a dark colour.

Then next is to make a new bed frame to try move my life out of the 1990's...

That looks farking epic! A good friend did his barn house with plywood squares of all different colours and thicknesses for a similar look. Nice work.

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On 27/12/2019 at 13:49, MaxPower said:

was dirt, pumice, sand , clay, then sand when i hit the water now I'm into pumice\sand where the water is, have dug 500mm today and the flow rate is 20L a minute its been running for about an hr now and is starting to run clear. Will get the water tested but happy just to have water for the animals, garden, spa pool and possibly the toilets if i can be arsed.

Sweet as! That's s pretty good flow rate, water quality should be ok if it's being filtered thou pumice and sand, static water table should only come up in winter? That's a epic digging effort by hand! You obviously arnt colstrophobic!

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37 minutes ago, rusty360 said:

So I needed to sort these headlights out as Mr wof said next time it will be a fail son!

I used to do a bit of high end injection mould polishing so thought it must have been easier than that. I'm farking stoked with the first one.

 

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That came out great 

What did you use? 

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On 28/12/2019 at 21:38, Mof said:

That came out great 

What did you use? 

So I started with 1200 Grit wet and dry and gave them a good sand to move all the oxidation etc, sanded along the length of the lens, next i crossed it at 90 deg with 1500G to remove the 1200 Mark's then 2000Grit at 90deg to the 1500Grit Mark's. You want to end up with the sanding Mark's running the lenght of the lens.

Then hit it with the blue buff, 8 bucks from super cheap, with some random cutting compound I had in the shed, prob went over them 3 times.

Cleaned that off then went over them with the red buff and some plastic polish. 

Just ran the buffs in a battery drill. The sanding is the time consuming bit.

They came up much better than expected how long they last who knows but it's not hard to do it again.

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Helped a friend with his deck, turned out pretty sweet. He'd made a few compounding errors that got away on him...I helped straighten it out, well at least it looks straight now, even if it isn't really.

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I've made him some floating steps, 1 on one side, 2 on the other. Ran out of time today (12hrs, no breaks) and my brain isn't working. Shit, shower, shave and I'll be good to go again.

All he needs to do is wait for concrete to dry and slap on the boards for the steps which are framed and ready to go.

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