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This winter I made wooden turned Bavrian-style icicle earrings for a number of family members from recycled floor from the boat we used to cruise. I liked the connection. I left them with a nice burnished finish. They were tiny, so I actually turned them on my metal lathe rather than the wood lathe (I have a wood-turning tool rest for it and it does high RPM). Curiously, you use full-size chisels even for such tiny work. You just work delicately.
Not a good image, but something I snapped of a few. Fortunatly for me, you really can't see both earrings at the same time, so slight difference are OK.
Not a good image, but something I snapped of a few. Fortunatly for me, you really can't see both earrings at the same time, so slight difference are OK.
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Those are pretty cool. Its just so hard to throw away all that amazing wood on our boats right?. The teak in some of our older boats is probably from trees that were growing in the 1800's. I wish i had a giant warehouse. I would collect it all haha.
Thank you. The pictures are from a photographer/ fellow sailor 'Lauric Thiault' https://lauricthiault.com/. Him and his partner are sailing around the world. The pics are from their time in Patagonia. I'm going to give them to my sister who built her own cabin in Maine and is a talented clay/potter artist. I think she will absolutely love them.
I absolutely love seeing people turn reclaimed wood into something completely new and different than what it was originally used for, but keeping it recognizable in its previous form in some way.
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And here I thought they were fids for these new fangled lines we're using now.
Most of my projects are from reclaimed wood, but none has come from a boat, and very little of it looks so finished and meaningful.
Absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for posting.
-Will
Absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for posting.
-Will
Not as fancy as you guys. I had some 2x framing left over from adding on to the house.
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Good grief... I still have left-overs from when I was building boats in Spain in the 1980's... Now think about that for a second - that means I actually shipped it all back to the US when I came back in the 1990's... I've used numerous bits and parts on projects but I still have a stash...
dj
lol...I was gonna comment that you must live in New England then i saw your profile under your name.
Welded from those crappy bed frames they send with a new mattress. The cedar was left over from a friends boat project, so it sort of qualifies.
I made six of these. Four are longer and wider and go across the front of the house, two like this bracket the entry. The top frame lifts off, the boards drop into slots, and there is a plastic liner for the soil. It took quite a few frames, but an inquiry on the neighborhood net got me a whole stack. One day to cut and weld, some more hours cutting cedar boards and finishing everything.
Now that I'm mostly retired, I get some joy out of fabricating stuff from scrap, even when I could just buy the materials. It's fun and feel-good.
I made six of these. Four are longer and wider and go across the front of the house, two like this bracket the entry. The top frame lifts off, the boards drop into slots, and there is a plastic liner for the soil. It took quite a few frames, but an inquiry on the neighborhood net got me a whole stack. One day to cut and weld, some more hours cutting cedar boards and finishing everything.
Now that I'm mostly retired, I get some joy out of fabricating stuff from scrap, even when I could just buy the materials. It's fun and feel-good.
I hear you - I'm in the midst of getting the towns permission to put in a shed on my property so that I can get my "land tools" all in one place and start doing lots of projects. I use the excuse I have lots of boat projects (which I do) but there will be a lot of others also...
dj
I have come very close to building things in my basement shop that would not fit through the door. Very close! I welded a rolling kayak rack that was in doubt for a few moments.
Hahaha - yeah - so the plans are to have one end of the shop with full wide and tall double doors making that scenario virtually impossible...
I might have to confess to a dark past where the "virtually impossible" did not have the "virtually"... it required taking off the doors, removing the door frames and parts of the siding - given that taking apart the boat was much harder to do...
dj
I considered building a sea kayak. But in addition to the cost of materials rivaling a pretty nice used boat, I would have to build it next tot the shop, in a finished rec room. Probably not popular.
But it's the cost of new materials that often stops projects. If it is remotely something I can buy these days, inflation and all, unless I can can get the materials for free or nearly so, it's hard to convince myself to build something I could buy as cheaply. Custom boat stuff is different, and even then, I strive to use repurposed or salvaged like-new materials.
I built this railing for boarding a few weeks ago. All the material was from the skip. Square tube and 1/8" strap. It's a little thing, but it helps. I've never seen a railing that attaches with bands to a piling, so custom was the way. The bolts and paint were also free leftovers, so the cost was a relaxed 3 hours of cutting, welding, and painting. The cleat was also free cycle. The rope too, I think. Our marina has a bin next to the trash bin for reusable stuff.
Hence the construction of an outside building - called shed for the town - otherwise called my workshop. It's amazing the bureaucracy. I started this project - as in beginning to get all the permissions etc. from the town - last May. I will be lucky to have it done and functional by this coming May... And I don't even what to talk about the costs... I could buy a ton of new materials for the price of permission...
I love working with salvaged materials. It makes me get inventive with design and construction. I do buy raw materials though through various sources. I'm always watching on Craigslist for deals. I found a custom cabinet shop that the owner was retiring and closing up shop. He had a pile of Red Grandis in rough cut lumber - some really nice sizes. I made a book shelf for my office and was able to plane down to 1" shelves, 1 1/4" vertical end support pieces and a 2 1/8" center support. It's floor to ceiling and covers most of one wall in my office.
Having full 1" thick shelves allows me to have 3 1/2 foot spans for the book shelves with absolutely no sagging - full of books. I've still got let over lumber. The plan is to use it to build a corner cabinet at the end of my current book shelf and complete that wall. Not sure yet if I'll need more book shelf space with that added on, it will be close. The entire load of lumber cost me like $250. I priced out a similar option through a lumber mill and the cost was $2k + ....
Looks great! Nice addition to the on/off!I built this railing for boarding a few weeks ago. All the material was from the skip. Square tube and 1/8" strap. It's a little thing, but it helps. I've never seen a railing that attaches with bands to a piling, so custom was the way. The bolts and paint were also free leftovers, so the cost was a relaxed 3 hours of cutting, welding, and painting. The cleat was also free cycle. The rope too, I think. Our marina has a bin next to the trash bin for reusable stuff.
dj
That does require more finesse than 2x's.
The cedar strips were easy to rip from boards, but they were purpose-bought, not leftovers, and building was in the basement.