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DethMarine21 posted:It seems like Chrysler has been progressively trying to make the Jeep brand as awful as possible since they acquired it so yeah, probably don't buy a new model. As for me some day I will own a 2-door XJ with a 5spd, I swear poo poo, good luck. I've been chasing that unicorn for years. At one point, there were exactly TWO on ebay like that.
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My wife and I did something extremely similar to this in our bedroom last summer. White Billy bookcases and all. Our wall didn't fit them quite as nicely as yours, so we went with 2 wide ones, 2 narrow ones and a few of the 3-square wall-shelves for the TV. I had to get creative with some iron-on veneer banding and some white paint as well. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures, but it turned out pretty well. Yours looks great!
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devmd01 posted:
No such thing as overbuilt.
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Trabant posted:This one has previously made the rounds on various DIY and/or mommy blogs, but drat if it isn't a good way to somewhat hide the inevitable cable jungle under/next to your desk. Made one of my own: That's loving brilliant and would do wonders for the nightmare that currently resides under my desk.
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Blooot posted:I did this thing http://www.facebook.com/completecontrolrobot Holy poo poo, I just saw this on Sunday! Very crafty 
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It's no basement remodel or new addition, but it's my most recent finished project. I needed something to display my ornaments as I'd run through my current space pretty rapidly. Did a little figuring and measuring and whipped this up out of 1x3s and some 1/4" plywood. Took me a while to find ten 1x3s that didn't look like boomerangs, but I think I did pretty well. Finish is one coat of Ebody Minwax. I thought about doing a second coat, but I really like the way it turned out. Pictures don't really do much justice.   Left some room to grow as I'll get 3 or 4 new ones every year and I'm still missing some from previous years.
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CaseFace McGee posted:That wall vent really shows the scale of that display case, it must be pretty huge... How heavy is it, and how did you secure it to the wall? I have a collection of all the Hallmark Lionel train ornaments through ~2010 that could use a similar display, but I haven't bothered to sketch it out yet. 61.5" by 30.5" if I remember correctly. It really doesn't weigh much. I don't have any scales to weigh it, but I can't imagine it weighs more than 20 pounds. Pine 1x3s are pretty light. I found some aluminum french cleats at Home Depot and used those to hang it. Each is rated for 75 pounds and I'm using two. Each one has one screw in a stud and 2 screws in beefy drywall anchors. I put some little rubber feet on the bottom corners to match the offset from the wall due to the cleats.
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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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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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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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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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I heart bacon posted:You could always smash walnuts open with it. Or a dedicated ice smasher for mint juleps.
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Electrified legs. Keeps the dogs in line.
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Dude, that is super awesome and you are a kick-rear end uncle. Looking to pick up a nephew any time soon?
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First Time Caller posted:One fine morning months ago my wife said: "We should paint the ceiling in the upstairs guest bathroom. It's so yellow and ugly." I'd call it $800 well spent. Looks great!
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Most recent project started and finished in about a week. Picked this up for $85. Bridge was actually broken so that was the priority, but it needed some serious love all around. First picture doesn't really show it, but this thing was filthy. Dressed up the frets, gave it a good cleaning and conditioned the fretboard. Swapped knobs, strap buttons, and the bridge and then gave it the full setup treatment. I'm happy with it. Probably get some new tuners and new electronics, but not in a hurry about it. 
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