What are you working on currently?

Very nicely executed dathi. Bravo.
:cool::)

My latest effort, stand for a sonos player:

Right. Posting this to draw a line under it, because I've never come to hate any project so much ... :mad:

It started as a simple idea: make good use of a cold wall. I didn't have quite enough insulation to hand to dry-line the whole rear (north) wall of what we'll call a utility room; and, for reasons that no-one in the locality can explain, this French country house has no cellar. So, waaaaaaay back in 2018 :eek: I decided to replace this mess (and the rickety shelves in particular) with a snazzy new wine-rack and vegetable store.



Inspired by the great work exhibited on this thread, it was going to be my pièce de résistance ... Well, the rest of the room got done by early 2019, while a gaping unfinished hole in the drylining stared at me and quietly started gathering junk again.

The plan was to make it entirely out of salvaged timber (of which I have a barnful) and to go for a "rustic-chic" rough-ish look, reminiscent of the boxes that fine wines come in. Won't be doing that again! It's bad enough dealing with walls (and floors and ceilings :rolleyes:) that are distorted in three dimensions without deliberately adding imprefections.

Anyway, as of Sunday, and even though it's still missing doorknobs and catches, in the words of the great Frodo Baggins: it is done!





If you look closely, you can see blood on the floor, where right up to the last minute, the f****kin thing was still fighting me. :mad:

The workmanship is nowhere near what I was hoping for (I gave up trying to do it "right" after the errors, miscalculations, tool failures [thanks, Lidl] and sheer fedupness got the better of me) - but it's fully functional, rodent proof, and - the one thing that did work out as planned - used only scrap wood.

There's a can of Guinness and a quarter bottle of Bushmills down the bottom there, beside the potatoes, but they're for my Christmas baking!

Started quite a simple little project.

It'll be a storage unit for my boy's consoles, games and accessories.

It's the first project I've started in my new shed, and it's great not to have to pack everything away when I'm finished for the evening

Working on some outdoor furniture recently, everything made from 2x4s. Seats include 1x4. Cushions arrived from IKEA today to finish off this part. Timber was easy but staining and varnishing took a while. Well worth it though.

mossym wrote: »

what stain/varnish did you use?? and i'm guessing it was jsut PAO, not treated timber?

The colour is ebony but I wiped it off with a cloth, which gives a lighter tint, couple of coats of clear varnish with sanding in between. It is pressure treated and was stored indoors before use.

webpal wrote: »

Working on some outdoor furniture recently, everything made from 2x4s. Seats include 1x4. Cushions arrived from IKEA today to finish off this part. Timber was easy but staining and varnishing took a while. Well worth it though.

Lovely stuff!! Could I ask if you could show any more pics of the frame or a link to any plans you followed?
Am planning on building same next month, but had thought about making the frame out of 1” box iron.

Sleepy wrote: »

I'm insanely jealous of your barn...

looksee wrote: »

A barnful of scrap timber, oh joy.

Well ... as I've been using the better quality timber from my stock, the pile of rejected rubbishy pieces inside the door has increased to "better do something about that" levels. So, at the start of the week, I picked out the worst that I could find ...



... and (despite still suffering PTSD from the wine-rack project :pac: ) went for an all-out "rustic chic" look and an extreme salvage operation:



30cm/5litre pot of tulips for scale.

Extreme salvage, as this time even the nails were pulled out of the timber and reused, and the varnish is a mix of the dregs of all the different tints that were well past their use-by date (the two planters are the same colour in real life - the difference in the photo is just a trick of the low evening sunlight).

The corner posts were planed and 80-grit sanded, as many of them had blue dye on them, and a lightly chamfered on all edges; the horizontal pieces were simply cut to the right length, but otherwise left in their rough state, complete with bark, nail-holes, sawmill markings and miscellaneous artefacts.

Finished my sideboard at last. Bit of a challenge this one-it is 20mm shallower than I wanted due to a router bit with a dodgy bearing which broke, challenging wood grain that was a PITA to plane, etc. but still happy with it.

























I used lots of scrap bits for the rear panel planed to 10mm as it won't be seen. It looks a bit daft with the heart & sapwood's mixed, but its the only way I could piece it together with the remaining wood.

Very nice work man! 👌

Where do you get the barrels?

webpal wrote: »

So finally finished some bar stools and an extra set with matching table. I also took apart my 17 year old shed and replaced all the rotten shiplap, studs etc. I tried to reuse as much as I could and ended up spending about 100 quid on it and 60 on paint. Felt roll I already had from last year.

I’m happy how it turned out, see last pic. The outer shelf folds in and I can put the hatch back up so it’s hardly noticeable.

I doubt I will ever have the time to do something like this again but I will definitely try. Next item on the shopping list is a table saw.

Now that's what I call a beer garden - lovely view and great work!