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Popular Post tortron Posted August 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 6, 2022 And for day3 I have my eye on some old totara timber from a knocked down house to close in the sides, will see if I can sneak enough home Think I will waft some high temp black over the bbq, got to trim a bit off thr front lip of the bench for lid to fit nice, then screw it into the frame. Maybe some chimney caulk to seal it in there 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintin Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Ready to take to the local craft shop 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tortron Posted August 8, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 8, 2022 Day 4ish between rain Painted the bbq with some rustoleum bbq black, used a small roller and it came up nice with a slightly hammered/textured finish. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 Fitted the bench top with 4 coach bolts on the corners. I also construction adhesived the rest down, but it didn't hold on the front left (there's a bit of tension here so I will probably throw another couple of bolts through on each side Also fitted bottle opener 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted August 8, 2022 Share Posted August 8, 2022 The fire bowl is held with 4 big coach screws. It has a good air gap between the wood frame and the bench, some heat will transfer through the bolts, but should be fine, very few reports of bbq tables catching on fire 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Grizz Posted August 15, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 15, 2022 My kinda thread with the amount of random stuff I get up to. Dry summer. Hot days, relative to monsoon weather, has made the yield of wild fruit less than usual as @kevins and I both realised. So this year my fruit collection was in three different places. Near the vets was good for about 1.5kg and one of Sally, Bonnie and my walks has a few trees, of which only three had any accessible, usable fruit, it gave about 2.5kg as well, so I had 4kg by Saturday afternoon, stashed in the fridge. Perfect dog walking paths. Finding the fruiting trees becomes a game too. Sunday I went looking about 7 miles from home on the isle of grain down the road my electrician lodger goes to,work, I recalled there was fruit when he came here last year…… Booooom as @pauly says. Jackpot. Of course I had to share with this girl, I thought she was a boy…….. Friendly. https://youtu.be/qZoM5jUZAsE About 6 varieties of plums all told in my collection that made up 12kg raw with stones. Back home I cleaned them all, and weighed up the lot. 8kg from the trees in the lane, of course minus what the horses had. So a total of 12kg in fruit. I went to the village and bought 10kg of sugar as I use less than the traditional 1 to 1 mix of fruit, sugar and a cup of water per kilogram. Split the lot into 2 and 4 kilo and cooked them in two pots, with the stones in. MISTAKE. But I got the stones out when halfway through. Will do the second 6kg tonight after work. And will remove all the stones before cooking, another spectacularly shiite job, but has to be done. By 8.00pm I had bottled and cleaned up the kitchen. RESULT. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Long overdue carving. This COVID 19 pandemic has allowed me to take a bit of time to create a Tiki Racer garden ornament. Inspired by Mr Tiki, nd a toy I bought t a boot fair years go. So I went down to my -lie of blocks. Pulled a special one out/ Basic design Excess cut away. Of course cutting this part between the wheels will be interesting Baby steps. Seat cut out. Quick prototype Tiki driver from an off cut. Shaped. And in place. At this point I come inside. Tomorrow the hard part starts, carving and defining the wheels, recessing the drivers cab and seat. Plus getting the front and rear curves just right. Later. . 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Carried on tonight, doing the sides. Original plan was to do lattice work sides, but decided to keep it very plain, so as not to detract from the front detail that I finished as well tonight. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross10_zps50315d72.jpg Side details completed. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross11_zps1c20ad4e.jpg http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross12_zps8a5ea886.jpg Altogether now. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross13_zpsea1e5e79.jpg Next up will be doing Nicola's birth year in Roman numerals across the back. MCMLXIV Then I need to keep my mouth shut till the 5th Feb. Carried on tonight after work. Roman Numerals for 1964 pencil drawn, but as you can see, freehand left some space, so I just freehand carved over the pencil. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross15_zps37cdfce1.jpg http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross16_zps63994539.jpg http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross17_zps4192bfc0.jpg Back where we started, a before and after together. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/cross18_zpscd4f9727.jpg Now to wait till the 5th February..... Going to be difficult to keep quiet and not show her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 FFS. Trying to copy and paste from 8 years ago….. some give pics, some don’t, seriously wtf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grizz Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 One more try. Been tossing this idea around in my head since making the Celtic Cross. Today, after helping a mate move some gym equipment (two trips) I came home, and got going with it as Nicola was out shopping. First up, I drew up a rough robot to get placement and size on the block. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/rob1_zps1c346e10.jpg Started by cutting away the excess. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/rob2_zpsbe1262b0.jpg Hand held blade works a treat to get into tight spots. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/rob3_zpsbed5e7fd.jpg http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/rob4_zpsd2501da3.jpg Arms made thinner. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/rob5_zps26684abf.jpg About four hours later my wife thinks I am a hero. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/rob6_zps1f744bd3.jpg And in my opinion ...... enough of a reason to spend more than 4 hours in the garage sucking dust. http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm90/niknakpix/rob7_zps7cfe9ae0.jpg Ohhhh, and she still does not have the Celtic Cross. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tortron Posted August 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2022 Did some final trimming, put some drain holes in the corners, and added a Dr200 spoke with Cork handle to control the lower vent. Might add to it in the future. It lives here on the deck for now, vegepod handy for herbs 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tortron Posted August 26, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 26, 2022 Just bleached the deck too, that's due another coat of stain for this summer 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tintin Posted August 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 27, 2022 On 03/07/2022 at 17:57, tintin said: Started working on a clock So while I wait for the rest of the clock bits to turn up I will add a little bit of colour to it at some stage Finally finished it 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintin Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Time for the next one, I wonder what this treasure will be 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63Ragtop Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 Was going to buy one of these but thought, what I need is another project! Salvaged some angle steel. Some other junk. Weldie weldie. Welder was running like a bag of dick's, finished it off with my bros. Seems to work. So this will allow the case to be open, receive the crank, cam etc. Then get sandwiched with the top half. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Must be getting close to 20 years since I started this garden archway. I bent the hoops to an elliptic profile (which looks better than 1/2 round) in the early/mid 2000's then it sat around getting in the way like this until the first 2020 lockdown when I finished the lattice on the top 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nominal Posted September 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2022 This year I got sick of the space it was taking up so decided on a sun shape to fill the sides, made the flames using the little forge and anvil and bent the rings rather dangerously on the old lathe and welded them in. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nominal Posted September 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2022 Took it up to PNorth to get hot dipped as I don't want it to rust. Then painted with Galv One primer and black lumbersider on top. Pretty happy with the outcome, should have got on with it sooner 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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