what else you build? - Page 6

Great bikes! That's a great talent. That's renewing my interest in making a wooden bike.

Pirate cat alert!

Me and one of my car buddies made these. Mine's the orange one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGdI9sMQIE

I've always built things,

I this was my first project car in '96 (now a 3.9 Rover V8 & 4sp auto, when I bought the original landy it had a 2.25L petrol, converted it to an oil burner, then to a 3.5 V8, then finally to the 3.9)

I started this in '02, finished in '09

All the plumbing & wiring myself. Charge cooler, oil coolers, programmable ECU, electric WP, custom fuel system... and the list goes on!

designed and built the ECU wiring loom from scratch

Built the engine from a bare block, combined 27lb off the flywheel and crankshaft

Some insane stuff here.

I currently buils longboards, cruisers etc. From this background I want to get into Snowboard and Ski building.

Here are a few in my tidy workshop.

Using Composites

and tried my hand at airbrushing.

I make bamboo fly rods. Sorry no picture

what else do you guys make?

I'm making beer

Its just a mrbeer.com kit, which is really pretty much the kraft macaroni and cheeze of beer... just pour ingredients into a pot then into fermenter and wait... but there's a gazillion flavors you can order and its fun

first one i made was "cold morning maple wheat", which came out awesome if you dropped a slice of lemon in the glass. Now i'm making the stock west coast pale ale.

There's also microbrew supply shops here, i'll stop by and chat with them see what kinda stuff i can do to make more authentic better tasting stuff

im a machinist by day and tend to modify anything made of metal.

Also dable with rx7's as myself and a bunch of locals enjoy waisting our money on them.

As of latley ive been learning C programming for microchip brand mcu's for small automation i can use at work and the snowboard end of things

-Jacob

We have an electronics expert on my team that knows mcu's. We went to some seminar on the TI msp430 or something. I dont know anything about that stuff but i know that you can totally wire a board with power and circuitry

I make big messes mostly.

I've also made a lot of furniture and cabinetry. I made a nice out door farm table this summer for the deck. Making table quilt racks for my wife's mini quilts. They're framed stands to display mini wall hangings.

I used to do a lot of photography and had started on a coffee table book (self publish) before I got into ski building. Needless to say I haven't completed my book. Photographed motocross racing for NEMA back in the late 80's.

Wrote a few screen plays on a whim. It was harder than I thought. Had a couple of inquiries on one but nothing ever materialized. It's registered w/ the Writers Guild.

DBA by day.

I'm thinking about making a fly rod. I need a small stream rod something like a 7ft 3 wt fly rod for small streams and small fish.

I made bronze and stainless western art for several years. Lots of tig welding and mold making, rubbers and calipers. Western art should be abolished.

I am a very good potter and have made several kilns and thousands of wheel thrown parts for years.

I learned how to operate an industrial sewing machine several years ago and now do maintenance on them and try to avoid production.

ride a desk and talk to rednecks all day and spend someone else money on advertising.

I build lots of things, that's basically where all of my free time goes. I do a lot with metal, because I don't typically do well with wood. My latest shenanigans is with a gas turbine engine I built using an old turbocharger. No real point other than to see if I could (that's the same reason I got into ski building!).

It seems as though each project I do becomes exponentially more complex, expensive, and dangerous.

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I make beer as well. I have a 15 gallon brewing system. I don't brew that much anymore because it takes many hours and its actually cheaper to just buy microbeer! I have a passion for remodeling. I used to remodel and flip real estate properties full time before the market crashed. If you like to make things check out this site: http://blog.makezine.com/. They also have a magazine that is filled with super cool things to make.

I wish I knew more about electrical stuff, how to weld and build cars. A local guy makes 1963 corvette and cobra replicas. Gets 120,000 - 160,000 for them, interesting http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/08/12/driven

I always thought being a blacksmith would be interesting, just hammer the shit out of metal all day, but then I'd probably wish I had a desk job. I got enough hobbies/projects to keep my busy for now.

My wife and I just finished painting our car, does that count?

The van looks great! The ski-bike... looks AMAZING!

I built a coil gun last year, and modded a bunch of my friends xbox controllers. I made a 5 gallon batch of petit sirah/chocolate beer last year with someone else's rig...I'd love to have the equipment

. I figured out a photo-voltaic surface for roadways that's tougher than asphalt and generates electricity, oh and a cat wheel that charges a bank of batteries...let me get out of here haha

i used to build climbing walls for gyms and schools all over the us.

DSC_0285 by tnk70m, on Flickr

panorama1 by tnk70m, on Flickr

but that got nasty with all the concrete and welding. the company treated us like shit so i stopped doing that.

now i just build snowboards, big ass jumps, and make sure that my snowmobile is running all winter.

after getting the CNC we have been doing some cool stuff tho.

so i guess im a cartographer/signmaker?

topotests by strangesnowboarding, on Flickr

Lots of talented/bright people here. If you picked any 10 people here and stuck us in a room for a day we could probably solve the energy crisis.

Brazen lets here more about the photo-voltaic asphalt project. I read where BMW was working on getting rid of alternators by using a material wrapped around the exhaust pipes that generates electricity when heated. So use this material in a parking lot, your roof, your furnace... could produce electricity, no?

drill baby drill? kidding

i agree, seems to be a group of talented people here.

I am also interested in the photovoltaic asphalt. The BMW thing sounds like a good as well. i may have to google some peltier coolers now just out of curiosity and give it a whirl.

-Jacob

I can't believe no one liked the beer

The surface is easy...I can't name it exactly in a public forum but it works by temp differential, weight displacement (friction) and solar. If we could coat 1/3rd of the highways in the US with it and just run taps off the roads...energy problem solved. It'll never happen. We could even offer to re-surface the roads for free, just let us tap it...I hate to be the dark futurist, but there's no way it can happen here.

the germans will buy it and do it.

Oh, the beer had my attention, however the energy thing took over

The Germans will buy the asphalt photovoltaics AND the beer. Doneskies

if they buy my beer I'll keep making it, SO much easier than making good snowboards

in reality, i just have the basic kit you can get from www.mrbeer.com

you cant really make beer worthy for public consumption with these kits, plus you're just mixing someone elses ingredients, but i've had limited success so far

Despite what everyone says I like the search function on this forum. I tried to search for ‘shops.’ I am rearranging my shop and remember seeing a photo of someone’s tiny workspace but I found this thread instead. I may not have found what I was looking for but this is way better.

I am quite proficient at making beer and messes. Quite often I combine the two.

Since there seems to be somewhat of a beer/energy focus so far…. There are some really cool new energy saving innovations folks are incorporating in breweries these days. Several companies are using the biomass from spent grain to generate esters, biogas and electricity. I turn our spent grain into milk via a bovine intermediate.

Not many things better that a good day of powder skiing with friends then having that home brew to cap it off! One keg about down, one about to be tapped and one about to be brewed!

ra

> rockaukum wrote:Not many things better that a good day of powder skiing with friends then having that home brew to cap it off! One keg about down, one about to be tapped and one about to be brewed!

ra

Agree 100%

Built it in the blizzard of '10 in my living room. Built a treadwall on the side of house for outside use.

I try to grow some of my food.

Most of the food you young guys buy in the store is bad. Look at the photo of a Green Giant red embalmed potato vs a home grown KB. Both stored in my root cellar for 6 months. Green Giants rots before it sprouts. They radiate or chem treat them to embalm them. Spend some time cooking healthy food instead of fondling your electronic devices in your sweaty little palms guys.

I make country wine, do some photography and tons of other stuff I don't have time for.

Taken with Nikon F / Hassleblad SWC / c 1970's Just getting back into it scanning tons of old negs.

Finished this in Jan except for the exterior paint.

It got up to 170 last week. I had to open the window to cool it off some....am sweating like hell now!

PS...had one guy step up to make my 24 - 32 skiboards to replace Brazen's / Brett's massive failure. Kinda sad the rest of you guys were too scared to take on the job. Hope it works out with him. If not...will be back to find another builder.

> slackercruster wrote:Kinda sad the rest of you guys were too scared to take on the job.

Seriously? Keep it up, you'll make lots of friends on here.

You're obviously very good with your hands, that sauna looks amazing (seriously). Make your own damn boards, it's not hard.

Those comments also don't belong in this thread.

I make gluten free bread.

I've also made my own cider before.

I like to take pictrawrz and I also build neat websites in my little free time.

http://www.volitionskico.com

is that your bike?

I'm not a motorcycle guy, at all... but I like the color. Matches my Lotus

I also do some photography. I was working on a self publish photo book. The book contains BW and Color pics of the same subject. Tried to illustrate why/what makes a BW pic work over a color pic and vice versus. Then I got bit by the ski-building-bug. Needless to say the book is still unfinished.

sample pics:

favorite pic I took through the clear stained glass window from a castle in Miessen Germany.

Anyone for turbo systems?

Just wow. Do you do your own machining? Engineering? Just beautiful!

Cheers mate, everything you see there is from my own hands. I have done much more radical stuff than that but the racing scene is a secretive one so I can't really post pics.

Does this count?

(homemade gas turbine, using an old garrett t3... that was my shutdown procedure, gotta put out the oil fire in the exhaust nozzle

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Simply beautiful work gozaimaas, I'm impressed!

Now where did I put those marshmallows!!

Man, I just laugh from deep down evrytime I see that. So much awesome!

There really is nothing quite like an engine on a stand with no other purpose other than to entertain a bunch of blokes standing around drinking piss!

ps I can provide translation if that is too aussie for you lol.

Twizz I thought of your turbo project when I saw gozaimaas turbo. Very talented!

> twizzstyle wrote:is that your bike?

I'm not a motorcycle guy, at all... but I like the color. Matches my Lotus

Yep! That ones mine. And I thought I found you on facebook through desmond. I saw the lotus and was like saaay whaaaaaaat

I built a mobil bike park for kids last summer

http://youtu.be/0lFpEXbY1Wo

> PTTR wrote:I built a mobil bike park for kids last summer

http://youtu.be/0lFpEXbY1Wo

What a great idea!

I need to tune my SAAB 2.3 t

Please advice!

You more need air and fuel. You can turn up the boost until you run the stock fuel system to its limit, at that point you need to upgrade fuel pump and injectors to allow the engine to consume more air. Then you may find the turbo cannot supply enough air so you need to upgrade the turbo.

Its pretty simple really, just make sure you check the air fuel ratio as you tune, too lean and you will melt your pistons.

Another compound setup, they seem to slowly be showing up more and more. I contemplating doing on on my rx7 however sold the damn thing so, cant really do that now.

What kind of motor is that?

-Jacob

The advantages of compound turbo systems are enormous, you will see them come into fashion over the next 10 years I think.

The engine is what is known as ford xr6 turbo 4.0L but I have destroked mine to 3.6L to gain more rpm.

It is only released in Australian built vehicles.

> twizzstyle wrote:Does this count?

(homemade gas turbine, using an old garrett t3... that was my shutdown procedure, gotta put out the oil fire in the exhaust nozzle

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Simply beautiful work gozaimaas, I'm impressed!

Here is an alternativ use of a gun like yours. http://illutron.dk/posts/329

Ha, clever idea! Mine wasn't supposed to make flames, it's just a gas turbine engine. The fireballs I got was from an oil fire in the exhaust nozzle, every time after shutdown.

> slackercruster wrote:
PS...had one guy step up to make my 24 - 32 skiboards to replace Brazen's / Brett's massive failure. Kinda sad the rest of you guys were too scared to take on the job. Hope it works out with him. If not...will be back to find another builder.

I'm sure whatever troubles Brett went thru to make your sled dogs or whatever they are, it was probably a combination of the following: 1) waiting forever for material suppliers, only to receive 2nd rate graphics/cores/etc. 2) not getting paid at least 50% up front for the order, and 3) customer requirements keep changing, requirements/designs supplied needed massive work/changes, etc.

Aside from that, you only got one person willing to do it because nobody else WANTS to do it, the people that build great skis here love skiing. The people that make snowboards love snowboarding, and most of us wouldn't think about deviating much.

Last but not least, if you want something done right, do it yourself. Then, you'll discover how much really went into getting your stuff done, and i guarantee YOUR attemts at it will suck really bad for quite a while before you come up with something good. This stuff isnt done by magic. You can clearly build some things, why not go for it?

I had a good time building these.... so much fun that i built two.

(they were warrantied frames from kona, they all had one big crack in the chain-stay near the drop out) easy welding, except the tubing was thin and easy to blow through.

my golf funds are runnin low, so i tried my hand at building a couple.

This is a 3W and 5i hybrid. Snake Eyes model 695 heads. Aldila carbon shaft on the 3w, Apollo stepless steel on the hybrid. Golf Pride grips.

It was fairly simple and straightforward to do, just watched a couple youtubes.

Hopefully if all goes well I'll have a good report on how they perform

These cost about 50 bucks a pop to DIY.

O no u didnt... What youtube where?

Is that metal or composite?

My off season hobby for my on season hobby?

Btw im a freakshow golfer the less i golf the better i shoot. Ill go a year without swingen a club and go out and shoot a 85 legit with all penalties and no handicap.

The mors i play the worse i get.

Helps i can drive about 300 yrds consistant. Cant putt to save my life.

Nice clubs. I don't golf really, but I have an old set of clubs. I still have the bug to build a wooden bike. Check out renovo bikes....

> MontuckyMadman wrote:O no u didnt... What youtube where?

Is that metal or composite?

My off season hobby for my on season hobby?

Btw im a freakshow golfer the less i golf the better i shoot. Ill go a year without swingen a club and go out and shoot a 85 legit with all penalties and no handicap.

The mors i play the worse i get.

Helps i can drive about 300 yrds consistant. Cant putt to save my life.

i can only drive about 200-220 on a good day, one could build a good snakeyes driver for about 100 bucks.

Anyway i got all the components from Golfsmith. They own the snake eyes brand.

I'm still striving to shoot below 90

oh and the 3W is carbon shaft, the hybrid is stepless steel.

If that was your question.

just to the left of this photo is work benches full of CNC parts, hehe, took a break from that build to do this

If you have golfing problems, I'm a golf pro..

i need a golf therapist, i'm addicted

tools needed for the job:

a rubber shaft clamp holder thingem, it's like 1.50 in a golf store

hacksaw, or a fine tooth saw

tape

marker, pencil

epoxy (prefferably with shafting beads)

grip glue strips (i used ones that are water activated)

sandpaper, 80 - 150 grit

golf club parts:

head, ferrule, shaft, grip, grip tape (above)

I prepped the shaft ends, ferrules, and glued shafts to heads in about 2 hr the nite before, then cut shafts and gripped them the next morning. Let them sit for about 3 days then swung them, i've got probably 15 rounds on these and they're awesome!

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I cut them to size by sizing them up next to a known standard length club, marked a spot on the wall of that club's height, subtracted 1/2" and 1/4" for thickness of grip end and cut accordingly. Wrap masking tape around spot you're cutting, makes a cleaner cut especially with the carbon. Gripping can be done in 5min, and I aligned them better than the pro shop did with my girlfriend's clubs.

Used to build knives before I came to building skis. The main advantage of building skis is that I really love testing and using the stuff I build. Thats why I stopped the knive business for now.

I used to brew... that was my last hobby. I brewed 110 gal. for my wedding three years ago using a 10 gal. system. i still have my 27 gal. conical fermenter.

at work i build off-white powders from scratch:

this last year i decided i needed more head room upstairs and ripped the roof off my house:

i don't have a more recent photo but it's closed in for the winter (roofed sided etc.). next week sheet rock goes up.

That is awesome, cute house too! I've got an old house too (built in 1930) and I've been dreaming of adding a floor. It's just a matter of finding the right timing (not to mention figuring out the money)

Like a few others here, I'm a beer brewer. Been a while since I've done much though! Progressed from kit level to full grain, was pretty in to it with my now brother in law. We lived together through uni and had 5 beers on tap, not a bad uni house :P He's working on kicking off a microbrewery now.

I'd like to restore a car one day, had an old mini for a while but sold it. Done a ton of work on cars in the past. I'm a quality engineer in an auto oem so technically my job is building cars to some extent. Usually that just means process analysis but it has, at times gone past when it got critical, meant physically building cars too.

I've just started getting in to photography as well.

Just finished this carbon fiber mandolin. Took me two months, it's entirely from scratch and of my own design. Used my CNC router to make plugs for the body out of MDF, from which I pulled fiberglass molds.

Holy shit twiz...

is there anything you can't do...

That's beautiful and awesome!

sam

He can't lick his own elbow !

... I know everyone who read this will try....

I bet he can lick his elbow while playing that thing. I don't know anything about Mandolins but that is a beauty.

Ha, thanks Sam!

I don't really know how to play mandolin, but I can play guitar half-way decently, it's just tuned differently (like a violin) so it's just a matter of learning where the notes/chords are. It sounds awesome!

The elbow-licking unfortunately is unsuccessful. I'll have to see what I can rig up to accomplish that.

not yet done, i just clearcoated it. I tried to do an inkjet graphics transfer but ran out of ink and botched it. Gonna tweak the files and come up with cooler designs. Good way to upcycle crappy woodcores!!

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now i'm trying to figure out what else to make, now that i have some help with technology.

Figured I'd make some widgets out of failed snowboard and surf components. Stay tuned!!!

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... while I also make rad snowboards

> twizzstyle wrote:

There's a Tribble on the counter behind you! You should be over run with them by now. ;-)

sam

There are definitely some talented folk on here.

Pretty hard to go next after the house extension and a hand built Mandolin but anyway.

Build all sorts of things, cars, boat trailers etc but one of the more fun hobbies is building custom bikes.

Great fun riding from pub to pub along the river through the city.

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The red one I built for my girlfriend. The green one I did for her brother (as I was drawing it up it somehow looked familiar, I didn't realize until it was finished that I had built the Orange County Choppers logo) the brown one is my daily basher, the white one was just some left over pieces I put together for some fun and the yellow one is the latest one.

Wow, those are GORGEOUS! Really outstanding work there, I'm impressed! Some very unique designs, that blue-ish one with the sort of ocean wave look is especially eye-catching. Awesome!

> sammer wrote:
There's a Tribble on the counter behind you! You should be over run with them by now. ;-)

sam

Ha! Good old pirate kitty. Yar!

OMFG gav, they are insane. Great work.