"Memorial day coming up.
Just having a flashback. On the 24th? Feb 1991 I was Bustin the Berm into Kuwait with the Tiger BDE, 2nd Armored Division.
I had a wife an baby at that time, and I didn't think I was coming home. We were told…"
Make it!
What have you made recently? Anything useful? Fun? Necessary?
I love the feel of creating something with my own hands. Bonus if it's functional and beautiful, but that's hardly the point if I get down to it. I like the "doing" more than the "having done."
So show off a bit.
I love the feel of creating something with my own hands. Bonus if it's functional and beautiful, but that's hardly the point if I get down to it. I like the "doing" more than the "having done."
So show off a bit.
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Permalink Reply by Liam S. on -
To start off - I lost my favorite ashtray to a pet accident (dog knocked it off the porch 4 flights, and it broke). So I made a new one over one lazy Saturday morning.
Ground out a small piece of 1/2" maple plywood to the shape I wanted, painted it black, then stapled a piece of 24ga copper sheet over it, and hammered the copper to shape. Total cost - $0 + 1.5 hours. Everything was scrap from my big box of shop supplies.
Simple, quick, functional and (I think) attractive. Should get a nice patina over time.
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Permalink Reply by Liam S. on
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Thanks Terry. Thought I owed it to my family's heritage as coppersmiths to give it a go. :)
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Cool!
OK, here's mine. It is version 2.4 of a display framework used at Starbuck HQ here in Seattle.
This is just the skeleton, but it can be folded flat and when dressed up for a marketing presentation, appears to float above the ground by about 1/2 inch. The totally rough hand-made look was on purpose to go well with Starbuck's own new store redesigns.
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And another thing: raised garden beds in a friend's back yard in Portland, OR:
They weigh a ton.
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A mural in my bedroom. I live in the city, but I come from the country:
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I like making medieval armor
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I had some scrap maple, and some 3/8ths all-thread (and copper pipe) laying around. So I mandel shaped the pipe to fit over lock nuts, and added a 3" PVC pipe and some craft foam to pad it (and flat black paint to class it up). And voila! A headphone stand for my office.
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