Woodworking!

[strawman]

I've done pens before, but this one (celtic knot) is very cool, and a relatively simple execution. The kid who's doing it is selling pens for his college fund, which is a pretty cool idea.

 

[Silver Jelly]

The most I've done is picking up pieces of broken pens (and a lighter to fuse the plastic) to make new ones... they looked awfully frankensteinian.

 

[Tinwhistler]

nicely done.

That kid has access to thousands of dollars in woodworking equipment! wow!
Back when I was making wooden tinwhistles, I had to make due with this:

That's my entire woodworking setup, except another bench housing a frankenstein 35" wood lathe (Cheap ass $99 Harbor Freight setup) attached to an air compressor, attached to a gun drill, for boring long straight holes.

 

[North_Ranger]

Most impressive.

I sucked at woodworking back in high school. In three years, I managed to get two things done: a footstool and a large, roughly 4'x2'x2' chest.

Frankly speaking, though... the circular saw made me shiver a little. Remember the thumbaww a few weeks back? Yah, that's what took dad's thumb off. He's much better now, BTW... and back at woodworking.

 

[Vytamindi]

You guys and your wood.

 

[drawn_inward]

Very cool. I eventually want to get a small lathe for that very reason. Good stuff.

Do you build stuff steiny? I think either Gruebeard or FunSize also does some woodworking.

 

[Shegokigo]

He used that entire board for a single pen? Jeeze, no wonder the rainforests are dissapearing.

/sarcasm

 

[quandofloo]

nicely done.

That kid has access to thousands of dollars in woodworking equipment! wow!
Back when I was making wooden tinwhistles, I had to make do with this:

That's my entire woodworking setup, except another bench housing a frankenstein 35" wood lathe (Cheap ass $99 Harbor Freight setup) attached to an air compressor, attached to a gun drill, for boring long straight holes.

Wouldn't that be a woodwhistle?

 

[strawman]

Very cool. I eventually want to get a small lathe for that very reason. Good stuff.

Do you build stuff steiny? I think either Gruebeard or FunSize also does some woodworking.

If I had all the time in the world, woodworking is yet another thing I'd do. I've done pens in my dad's shop, but I don't have a lathe so no pens for me right now.

I'm building a shed at the moment, so most of my latest tools are cheap construction tools.

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

Do you build stuff steiny? I think either Gruebeard or FunSize also does some woodworking.

That is me, though I've not used a lathe in ages. I've built kitchens in the past as a job. And I've made furniture for myself, including the built-in computer desk I made for my place, pictures of which I posted here early this year.

My days doing this sort of thing are numbered, as I'm soon to lose access to any workshop, and I doubt I'll ever put one together myself.