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TerminalSaint posted:When axe chat comes up I'm always compelled to share this: https://youtu.be/22tBYD-HMtA Watching the poo poo out of this later. Thanks!
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Are there any good YouTube videos on sanding? This is such a strange question, but getting metal parts I've been building to a mirror shine is surprisingly difficult. Knowing when you're done at a particular grit is the most boring skill to have to learn
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Oct 24, 2017 23:48
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The idea of using finer grits during sanding is to remove the previous grit's marks. So essentially you want to try to knock it all down to a flat (not in a gloss/flat sense but a surface sense) and even surface with one grit before moving on to the next. Once the whole piece has pretty much the same finish while sanding with any given grit, you're pretty much done. I picked up a vintage shifter handle this last weekend and cleaned it up with sandpaper. Went from this (on the left):  to this:  Now it's not a perfect mirror finish, but these are aluminum handles and not chrome plated. Process started at 1000 grit and ran all the way up through 12000. Took maybe a half hour or so. Probably less. Again, I just gave it a good solid pass with each grit until it looked like it wasn't making any more of a difference. Don't know if this helps at all, but maybe it will give you an idea with what to shoot for.
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Oct 25, 2017 01:37
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ante posted:Are there any good YouTube videos on sanding? This is such a strange question, but getting metal parts I've been building to a mirror shine is surprisingly difficult. Knowing when you're done at a particular grit is the most boring skill to have to learn When possible it helps to sand in a different direction each time you change grits. It makes it much easier to see whether you've fully eliminated all the scratches from the previous grit or not.
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Oct 25, 2017 04:57
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Illuminado posted:I'm quite partial to John Neeman, now 'Northmen' stuff. Good hangover watching, thanks for that.
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Oct 25, 2017 08:15
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Good hangover watching, thanks for that. Hell yeah, that's some good watchin'. All their other stuff is more/less the same and I'm just enraptured when I tune in. Mostly because I don't get to play with those toys on my own, one day.
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Oct 25, 2017 16:19
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Yeah, that really is a great watch.
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Oct 27, 2017 19:39
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I'm thinking about making a thread for Burning Man art projects. Is there any interest in that kind of thing in this forum? The Prodigal Swan is probably the prettiest project I've worked on.  A couple buddies and I built this guy for Burning Man in 2016.  The crown shoots fire, of course, because why wouldn't it?  I didn't manage to get any good pictures on it at the burn itself, but here I am on it at an event in Oakland. It's built on top of an electric load hauler and can carry around 6 people comfortably or 10 if they squeeze, plus a bumpin sound system. All the plating is hand cut sheet metal, we bent tubes to form the wings and the structure inside the neck and head, and the wings and driver's seat are covered in expanded sheet metal. Tom Clancy is Dead fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Nov 8, 2017 |
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Nov 8, 2017 10:11
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Overwhelmingly yes. That's incredibly cool.
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Nov 8, 2017 10:28
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yes please 
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Nov 8, 2017 13:30
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I mean 
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Nov 8, 2017 15:06
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Is there any interest in that kind of thing in this forum? Man what the gently caress you think?
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Nov 8, 2017 15:38
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Holy poo poo yes  Work in process would be awesome too
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Rotten Cookies posted:Man what the gently caress you think? 
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Nov 8, 2017 17:23
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Alright. Alright. I'll start working on one. WIP shots to be included for sure.
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Nov 8, 2017 19:31
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nice
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Nov 8, 2017 19:35
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:The idea of using finer grits during sanding is to remove the previous grit's marks. So essentially you want to try to knock it all down to a flat (not in a gloss/flat sense but a surface sense) and even surface with one grit before moving on to the next. Once the whole piece has pretty much the same finish while sanding with any given grit, you're pretty much done. Looks nice. You could fill in all those dings with solder if you want to, given that they're aluminum.
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Nov 9, 2017 02:14
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dyne posted:Looks nice. You could fill in all those dings with solder if you want to, given that they're aluminum. That's decades of character, man! Can't cover that up 
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Nov 9, 2017 03:29
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:That's decades of character, man! Can't cover that up Wasn't there decades of character before you started 
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Nov 9, 2017 03:37
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dyne posted:Wasn't there decades of character before you started Touche... But I like the dings and dents. They tell stories of guys banging out hard 2-3 shifts as they try to pull ahead of the guy that was just giving them poo poo at the last stoplight. Or maybe they got made by somebody stealing the handle out of a car and then dropping it in a parking lot as they ran away when the owner came back. The oxidation and grime is kinda sad. It speaks of unuse. So get rid of the years of waiting and get ready for another adventure. And I like shiny stuff. Boaz MacPhereson fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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Nov 9, 2017 04:21
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Okay, I made the thread for BM art. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3840035 So far it's just context but I'll dive into more detail soon.
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Liked and subscribed.
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Nov 9, 2017 05:16
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I freshened up an old leather pouch with a new zipper and lining from a shirt. Should've cut the fabric in the corners to avoid bumps but I like it.
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Nov 20, 2017 16:36
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Skills. Looked good. Did you sew by hand or machine?
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Nov 20, 2017 21:08
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wormil posted:Skills. Looked good. Did you sew by hand or machine? There were nice regular holes where needed, so I reused those and hand sewed everything. vvv: thanks ! unpacked robinhood fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Nov 21, 2017 |
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Nov 20, 2017 22:17
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very clean looking.
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I got a used scroll saw a few weeks ago, and I suck at using it. The only way to get better is with practice, so I decided to make some Christmas ornaments for friends and family. My wife's friend returned to Nebraska from several years living out of state. I made this ornament to celebrate her return. I dropped it as I was sanding it and it broke in two, so here it is mid-glue-up. I have since refined the cuts inside the letters, sanded the whole thing, and mounted it to a little piece of pine. The little bits inside the 'e' and the 'o' are lined up somewhat better, but still not perfect.  My wife's parents are pretty conservative, so I made this delightful silhouette of Colin Kaepernick kneeling. I made this out of 3/4" pine and cut it down the middle so I have two of these.  My mom passionately dislikes Donald Trump, so I made this for her:  Yeah, my scroll saw work could be a bit cleaner. Practice makes perfect (someday, I hope).
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Nov 21, 2017 22:19
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Scroll saw is hard. I’ve got a big pile of terrible ornaments.
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Nov 22, 2017 23:52
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I finally finished my main project for my Welding Fabrication class! Its a square steel tube frame with oiled birch shelves. It stands about 5 feet tall.  I made it to match another desk I made as a personal project
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A mate of mine and I both have 3d printers and an engineering mind, so we are competing to make the best slingshot. I looked at spearguns and that German slingshot fella on YouTube.  The influence is quite obvious  This was my first self made design with moving parts My CAD designs were a bit tricky but Fusion360 is very well made and intuitive. I had a bit of carbon fibre floating around from a previous project to put between these pieces   I made a small scale version to test fit everything and it ended up being rather fun . I ended up giving a version of it to a mate as a birthday present. https://youtu.be/F7birzUZ4I0 And I eventually got around to doing the full-size print   And the money shot https://youtu.be/-zt1GGC8a4g
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 I had a box of cranes in the closet so decided to string them up with yarn and put them in a shadowbox. I was surprised that I could actually thread a normal needle with yarn which is what I used to get the yarn through the cranes. I used a staple gun to hold the yarn down on bottom and top of box. Then I covered the staples with black paint to hide them. Overall it took about 2 to 3 hours to finish, but that included a lot of planning and measuring. I will probably make another and it should only take an hour. This is assuming I don't have to fold more cranes (120 in total). If I did decide to go with another pattern of paper or ran out, it only takes maybe a minute per crane to fold. Super happy with the outcome!
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Dec 19, 2017 17:40
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yooooooooooo thats dope as hell
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poemdexter posted:
I don't know of cranes but this poo poo is amazing. Drive on creative goon...
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Dec 20, 2017 07:09
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This is great.
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Dec 20, 2017 17:49
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Nothing major. But I bought some second hand furniture and I'm cleaning, sanding and oiling it. Came up pretty well I think. Bought it for a new deck and it looks good.   
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Booger Presley posted:I don't know of cranes but this poo poo is amazing. Drive on creative goon... https://www.origamiway.com/origami-crane.shtml These are the cranes. I fold mine slightly differently, but everyone folds differently anyway.
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Been kicking this around in Sketchup, trying to come up with something simple and uncomplicated. 1x4's seemed to work out with the least amount of math. Pretty much all straight cuts. Roughly 30" tall, 36" wide, 23" deep. Considering making the cooler part out of 2" polyiso rigid foam insulation with a food safe resin or fiberglass coating. I wanted a bit of a table surface on the side, but I'm not sure of the proportions. 
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Hard to tell from looking, does it allow for wood movement?
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FogHelmut posted:Been kicking this around in Sketchup, trying to come up with something simple and uncomplicated. 1x4's seemed to work out with the least amount of math. Pretty much all straight cuts. Roughly 30" tall, 36" wide, 23" deep. Considering making the cooler part out of 2" polyiso rigid foam insulation with a food safe resin or fiberglass coating. I wanted a bit of a table surface on the side, but I'm not sure of the proportions. You could use tongue and groove planking for some of the structure on that, and go thinner than 1" on those bits. This might save you a bit of money too.
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wormil posted:Hard to tell from looking, does it allow for wood movement? Well, no. When you Google "country cooler" no one else seems to either. I could probably accommodate for this with the tongue and groove planking mentioned.
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