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[Will_White]

here's my latest bass build

 

[Stomper]

My youngest daughter holding my 80% AR pistol.... so technically I made both of them.

 

[Member 5605]

Second attempt at bacon...

I made it. Smokey maple and the best I've ever had. 9 day wet cure.

 

[Stomper]

Mmmmm..... bacon.

 

[etrain16]

I used to build custom slingshots, but I've been away from that for a while. My FIL has been asking me for a couple of years to make one for him. A few weeks back, I came across one I had started for someone else but had never finished because I lost contact with them. So I decided to finally finish it off and customize the build for him.

He's a big fan of Lewis and Clark, Mt Hood and the Oregon Territory, so I looked around for something to add to it to personalize it a bit. I eventually found a little Lewis and Clark Medallion that was the right size and had a Forstner bit that matched the diameter exactly so it could be set in place nice and tight.

The materials are maple, with a strip of orange ossage. The core is homemade micarta (or you could say homemade G10) made from many layers of paper soaked in 2-part epoxy and pressed to make a solid slab. It is incredibly strong material that, when you file or sand at an angle, you see some really nice layers of color. In the case of the slingshot, you don't get to see that as well because of how I used it - but at the bottom of the photos, I included a photo of the same material, a scrap piece, that I sanded at an angle so you can see those layers of color. The finish is multiple layers of Tung Oil after lots and lots of sanding.

It's banded with a homemade leather pouch and Theraband gold.

I'll be giving this to him next week.











And a view of the homemade micarta material when it's sanded back at an angle:

 

[IronMonster]

Here are a couple things I have cranked out of the shop in the last few months.

The firepit ring a friend cut out, I just rolled it and welded the ring on top.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I had to travel to Alaska to take these pics (lost the originials)... Yeah, some will say that I went there just to fish but in all honesty, I went to spend time with my son (fishing was just a bonus)...
This is the humidor that I built for my son years ago. Made of Honduran mahogany, the inside is Spanish Cedar (along with the trays) and finished with red oak varnish. In person the wood grain pops out at you but pics do not do this piece justice, it is by far my best work before my back injury which took away my desire of WW.

 

[Member 5605]

I'm not handy with tools but damn I'm good with this stuff..

Wifey and I busted out the equivalent of 96 ½ pints of jam tonight in 5 hours.

Before being married she had never done anything related to this...

L-R
Blackberry & Raspberry
Raspberry & Strawberry
Raspberry
Strawberry

Picked from the farm, canned at home. Nothing beats simple and fresh ingredients.

 

[11Charlie]

These are some of my summer honey do's that I have been working on. Thank God the list for the summer is almost done.



860 sq ft paver patio and trying to get the man cave finished up. @Joe13 this is why I haven't been able to go shooting. August is just around the corner and range time will be had.

 

[Joe13]

These are some of my summer honey do's that I have been working on. Thank God the list for the summer is almost done.
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860 sq ft paver patio and trying to get the man cave finished up. @Joe13 this is why I haven't been able to go shooting. August is just around the corner and range time will be had.

Well it's no wonder your busy.

 

[etrain16]

These are some of my summer honey do's that I have been working on. Thank God the list for the summer is almost done.
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860 sq ft paver patio and trying to get the man cave finished up. @Joe13 this is why I haven't been able to go shooting. August is just around the corner and range time will be had.

Nice work!

 

[11Charlie]

Nice work!

Thank you!! That dang retaining wall about kicked my arse. I'm getting to old for that stuff.

 

[etrain16]

Thank you!! That dang retaining wall about kicked my arse. I'm getting to old for that stuff.

I don't mess with masonry stuff myself, but I sure love how it looks. I'd be a bit intimidated to tackle a project like that.

 

[11Charlie]

I don't mess with masonry stuff myself, but I sure love how it looks. I'd be a bit intimidated to tackle a project like that.

It was intimidating if were not for the help I had that alone would have taken me six months

 

[Caveman Jim]

You don't work concrete, concrete works you.....

Nice work Amigo!!!

 

[IronMonster]

Some gates and a couple signs I'm working on.

 

[11Charlie]

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Very cool that gate must have taken some serious time to put together.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Awesome work IM, I learned to weld wood instead.

 

[Quartermaster]

My youngest daughter holding my 80% AR pistol.... so technically I made both of them.

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Wait, how young? Too young to buy her own rifle ammo?

I'm not handy with tools but damn I'm good with this stuff..

Wifey and I busted out the equivalent of 96 ½ pints of jam tonight in 5 hours.

Before being married she had never done anything related to this...

L-R
Blackberry & Raspberry
Raspberry & Strawberry
Raspberry
Strawberry

Picked from the farm, canned at home. Nothing beats simple and fresh ingredients.

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It took an entire evening, but I canned five gallons worth of my mirabelle plums into jam last weekend. Federally banned from importation, but I've got a little tree in my yard that soaks up the sun like crazy and produces amazing fruit.

I made this drink today. Does that count? It's called "Good morning Vietnam!" Espresso over OJ after I mixed in a shot of Strike Force energy to the juice. It has enough caffeine to kill a pygmy, and I can hear colors.

 

[The Heretic]

'72 Datsun converted to 4x4
Jeep axle housings with Dana 44 diffs
Dana 20 transfer case - divorced with Advanced Adapters adapter.
The drivelines were the same length so they could be swapped.