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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Sep 12, 2013 - 08:06pm PT
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In between framing two houses,one for Habitat For Humanity.
I am finishing up The Twisted Rail Brewing Company in Canandaigua,NY.
It is good to be busy,again.
Great to have a ton of work,but miss climbing ,riding and life.
But beer must be brewed!
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 12, 2013 - 08:15pm PT
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Wilbeer, what are those two white tubes used for in the bottom pic; I'm not familiar with those.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Sep 12, 2013 - 08:24pm PT
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HA. Sealant. Note they are not open!
Sounds like you are going to get familiar with sealant up in BOULDER.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 12, 2013 - 08:46pm PT
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Crack machine yesterday. It hurts
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Sep 17, 2013 - 09:05am PT
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One down ,one to go.
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Happy Idiot
Trad climber
Santa Fe
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Sep 24, 2013 - 09:11pm PT
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Are you ready for the zombie apocalypse? Well, maybe I'm over-preparing....
But my house got robbed again yesterday. They smashed in through my french doors.
They ransacked every room, but didn't actually take all that much stuff. Just my "home theater system" aka DVD player and subwoofer (but not the other speakers.) Worst of all they took my old shotgun that I got from my favorite uncle when I was ~10 years old.
Yet, for the second time in a row, the f*#kers didn't touch a single piece of my skiing or climbing gear....
So...... to what I'm building.......
My temporary repairs are actually, oddly, much more solid and secure than it was before. Should I leave it like this? Might appeal to a certain type of gamer grrl.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Oct 23, 2013 - 04:42pm PT
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Geeky, but fun and surprisingly versatile. The $25 computer... raspberry pi. Building Perl scripts on it because my regular Linux server went south and I'm waiting on a new CPU. And this whole little computer is running a Debian kernel. I can surf the web and write Perl. That's all I need right now.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 23, 2013 - 07:04pm PT
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HappyIdiot, bummer, especially for the second time. I'm not being snarky
but maybe it's time for a security system? They're not too pricey these days.
You could do one yerself with motion sensors that trigger a recording of a
shotgun being chambered and
"Are you feeling lucky today, punk?"
Of course that doesn't work so well in the daytime when most breakins occur.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Nov 16, 2013 - 09:28am PT
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The photo doesn't do it justice, but that's a 20" wide piece of cherry.
The tree was dead standing on the property. It was dropped and Alaska milled into rough sawn. We took it to a proper mill and then installed it as flooring.
There are three pieces with this dimension, so cool to work with this lumber.
We just don't see cherry at this size around here anymore.
Two more coats of Waterlox and the project is done. The stairs look especially nice.
It's a great feeling to take lumber from the property and apply it in the residence. I wish I could do this all the time.
What are y'all building?
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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Nov 16, 2013 - 06:25pm PT
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Today is my wife's birthday, and also the anniversary of the day we met 28 years ago.
Karol's birthday present, a wind-chime made from found items from our road trip and our old home. The eagle-shaped wood branch was found at Craters of the Moon, Idaho; the obsidian was collected at the Needles Mine in Modoc NF, California; the turkey breast feathers were found near Club Pond in New Durham, NH; and the porcupine quills were found near the Merrymeeting River in New Durham, NH. The beads are sponge coral and black onyx.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Nov 16, 2013 - 06:57pm PT
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I finally got up the nerve to make myself a REAL workbench. Laminated oak.
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Onewhowalksonrocks
Mountain climber
In the middle of the ocean
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Nov 18, 2013 - 11:05pm PT
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Didn't build it. But I striped it and painted it.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Nov 18, 2013 - 11:08pm PT
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Damn, SLR...that looks nice enough to eat off of...
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Nov 18, 2013 - 11:25pm PT
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I make really cool stuff with tolerances in the low nanometers and microns,
all on a 50 yr old machine.
I wish I could share photos of the part, but I can't.
Big props to all you amazing craftsmen.
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adatesman
climber
philadelphia, pa
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Nov 19, 2013 - 08:10am PT
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Drljefe- I assume that's a polishing or lapping machine for optics?
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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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Nov 20, 2013 - 10:20am PT
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I love making sh#t.
our new dinning room table, 4x4 cedar posts, a chopped up and glued together sheet of 1/8" 1080 steel and 8 bags of concrete. so basically like $200 in materials + 1000 hours of labor spread over a year.
was NOT fun moving it into the house!
with that done, effort swings back to the jeep. I am taking some late 80's Toyota FJ60 Landcruiser axles and custom fabing them to work with the wrangler springs installed into my CJ. should be a pretty badass setup when all is said and done.
my funky spring plate idea.
fully fabbed front axle.
front axle installed. added 6" of width total.
getting started on the rear.
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adatesman
climber
philadelphia, pa
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Nov 20, 2013 - 11:04am PT
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Euroford- Why did you use 1080? That's high carbon spring steel!
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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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Nov 20, 2013 - 11:12am PT
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my bad, 1018. I TIG weld everything that i do now, so it saves my a lot of cleanup work to stick with cold rolled material and not deal with mill scale.
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