Diy Hands On Projects

[JEBar]

outstanding work

 

[Made in USA]

outstanding work

Thank you. I try.

 

[Made in USA]

Making progress on the spindles. Need to make about five more.

 

[AriLea]

So I couldn't find a cat door for our slider windows, not tall-enough and/or not secure enough.

So I've made one. Just need to seal in some polycarb sheets and I'm done.

 

[Coss]

That looks kinda like the one they sell (I've got one that I took out) wish I knew you were looking for one, I would have given you the one I have.
I'll have to see if I have pics of it, or go take some and send them to you.

 

[AriLea]

Love that quality wood work. Too bad I usually undershoot on the quality side myself, but I like to do that stuff. Although, I do excel on sand-it-to-perfection skills. Wish I had a picture of it, but once I made a hope-chest with hearts on it for a girl once. Nice sculpted corners and other wood carved(by router) details. Much-much later, I come to realize it looked a lot like a coffin for a child. My Bad!

Anyone have any MacGyver'd Bailing-Wire and Bubblegum projects? And then there is hot-glue and tissue paper projects, lol;

Being in a survival situations for 28years, I have done a few of those.
Here's one. 10 years ago, being a programmer, I had developed a repetitive tendon issue with my mouse accessing thumb and fingers, and I did not like the plan my doctor had to fix the thumb. Not at all. The common mouse was never designed for my hand, IMHO. So I created an alternative that completely halted the progression of the condition.

I made my own hand saddle for the mouse. Little hot glue, cardboard, some craft pop-sickle-sticks and a pool floatie, couple screws etc etc.

There were other survivor projects if you are 'corona-bored' enough to read them.
Cheap and dirty; box-bin shelves for the laundry that the kids won't put away. Should I post that? Probably hurt your eyes, but I love that kind of thing. Crazy me.

 

[AriLea]

Have you ever made a chess set?

That is a fun one.. Yes, about 3 I think. Have no pics unfortunately.
But what is fun... I may have told this story, sorry for the repeat... but here goes; (be prepared!)

When I was in high-school, in 1969, me and my three brothers liked to play chess. But often three wanted to play, but only two can. And by the age, each is a little differently skilled.

So yea, we thought of 3-way chess. Look it up, they are common at this point, but not back then as far as I know.
Since you can look it up, I won't go into details. But I will say, It does have the nice attribute that different skill levels can play together since two can always gang up on the guy who is ahead. Can be very long or very short games. You can not predict it.

Really helps with a boring summer.

Flash forward to 1989. I'm Working at Boeing, and I see some chess being played at lunch. So I'm thinking it might be interesting to expose them to 'Cut-throat' chess. So I mention the game to this somewhat strange coworker with a notable Mensa-style personality. He just says, "oh yea," and walks away. Little odd I'm thinking.

Next day he brings in a new looking box, with unopened package of chess pieces, called 'Cutthroat Chess'. And says, "you can have this." The board was only a little different than mine, same rules and three colors of players, Red,White and Black. Now for the fun part.

This guy was a Lawyer in his home state. (he changed careers) In the box was a letter to 'Tom'. Says, "Hey Tom, how do you like my prototype? .... August xx, 1969."

The board is a nice challenging wood working project.. just say'n.

Update for history buffs...
FROM THIS WIKI
Self's Three-Handed Chess:[14] .... By Hency J. Self (1895).
Waidder's Three-Handed Chess:[15] ... By S. Waidder (1837).
Triple Chess:[18] ... By Philip Marinelli (1722).

 

[AriLea]

Sooooo, what do you do with an old laptop that has no redeeming value at all?
Well first, I open it up just to check out how current laptop tech looks.
Then I open up the hard-drive and grab those magnets for the refrigerator.
(wife says stop that, we already have plenty!)

Then I'm looking at the thick plexiglass, OK, with the corners cut, that became a cutting board for the bathroom sink. Didn't need it really. But I do seem to use it all the time, now that I got one.

Next laptop...
Well, I just can't toss that plastic plate away! I didn't really need this at the time, but I do love these things.... but my wife was not too impressed, so she says, "that's nice dear, WHAT is it?".

A light board! Don't see them much in the digital age. My wife did find a use for this one long before I did.

So she uses it to transfer her embroidery patterns to cloth. Now she says it's the best thing ever!

As you see by the paper image, I finally used it for something! Ah..ammm, believe it or not, making a patent submission for a new scuba fin design. (NOT the one you see). And my digital graphics need to be hand drawn. So I'm using the board to copy them. Now it's the best thing ever for me 2! Grand kids do seem to like it as well.

 

[Coss]

The ones I had that had no redeeming qualities, I donated to Goodwill, I let them worry about what to do with them.
I take the write off on taxes.
I still have one left I'm going to send to the computer museum to see if they can do anything with it.

 

[Made in USA]

The ones I had that had no redeeming qualities, I donated to Goodwill, I let them worry about what to do with them.
I take the write off on taxes.
I still have one left I'm going to send to the computer museum to see if they can do anything with it.

I have my dads Altair 8800B with 8" floppy drives. Will probably sell to a collector one day.