Things I Have Built

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#302
Made a mailbox post for my elderly dad. The pre-assembled pressure treated posts at HD and Lowes were crappy so I built my own. Found some cast iron black powder coated post caps on line for the top and back of the post.

Picked up 2 scrolled shelf brackets and put 5 coats black paint on them, attached with black head stainless steel screws.

Cut a board for the street number and routed a decorative edge on it. Painted it and hung it with stainless steel hooks.

Added a mailbox. I think it turned out nice.
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Nice work but you shouldn't have posted it here. Some VN ne'er-do-wells are pine tarring their baseball bats and gassing up the trucks even as I type this.
 
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I built a ramp off of the back of my in-laws house so they don't have to do the steps.
 

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My latest cane. Made this from a vine twisted tree a friend cut down for me on his property. It was stripped of leaves so not positive what species it is. Very hard, light colored wood and fine grain so maybe a hard maple? Sanded the concave parts a LOT to remove the bark and get the weight down and left the inner layer of bark on the spirals. Added a light colored stain and a few coats of poly. Used a brass T coupler to attach the handle. Turned out pretty nice

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larjoranj said:
My latest cane. Made this from a vine twisted tree a friend cut down for me on his property. It was stripped of leaves so not positive what species it is. Very hard, light colored wood and fine grain so maybe a hard maple? Sanded the concave parts a LOT to remove the bark and get the weight down and left the inner layer of bark on the spirals. Added a light colored stain and a few coats of poly. Used a brass T coupler to attach the handle. Turned out pretty nice

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Nice work
 
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A coat rack I made for a customer.
It’s made out of the pallet the building materials were delivered on.
 

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Orangeslice13 said:
A coat rack I made for a customer.
It’s made out of the pallet the building materials were delivered on.
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I made shelves for my wife out of pallets like that, they are on the walls in our living room. She loves them. Only the width of a 2x4 deep, with the front piece sticking up about 2 inches above the "floor...kinda like a planter that goes outside a window for flowers...she puts pictures in frames, a book here and there, knick knacks etc in them...have you seen the little statues at lifeway without faces (Woodbridge?) Ihave bought her several of those, and she puts them in those little shelves also. I found an old pallet that was red oak...hard as a rock...but beautiful...and made her 4 of those shelves about 3 feet wide each. Didn't cost me a dime, only time.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
I made shelves for my wife out of pallets like that, they are on the walls in our living room. She loves them. Only the width of a 2x4 deep, with the front piece sticking up about 2 inches above the "floor...kinda like a planter that goes outside a window for flowers...she puts pictures in frames, a book here and there, knick knacks etc in them...have you seen the little statues at lifeway without faces (Woodbridge?) Ihave bought her several of those, and she puts them in those little shelves also. I found an old pallet that was red oak...hard as a rock...but beautiful...and made her 4 of those shelves about 3 feet wide each. Didn't cost me a dime, only time.
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I use pallets for all kids of stuff.
Currently I’m making a small kitchen in the basement of my house. My oldest lives in the apartment down there. We are doing it in rustic industrial (because that seems to be the thing to do.) did 2 walls in pallets.
 

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That is cool slice. I have been tryimg to post a pic for half an hour but I can't get it to upload when i go to attach the photo..I am on mobile..but I am always on mobile. I have never been to VN on a desktop. Ever..
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
That is cool slice. I have been tryimg to post a pic for half an hour but I can't get it to upload when i go to attach the photo..I am on mobile..but I am always on mobile. I have never been to VN on a desktop. Ever..
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Thanks.
I have some tin roofing I’m going to use for ceiling. It’s from an old general store I demoed.

I’ve been having picture issues too. They post sideways or upside down no matter what I do
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
That is cool slice. I have been tryimg to post a pic for half an hour but I can't get it to upload when i go to attach the photo..I am on mobile..but I am always on mobile. I have never been to VN on a desktop. Ever..
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After you upload and hit close, post a comment and reply. It doesn’t really tell you the image is attached I don’t believe.
 

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For whatever reason freak, it won't finish uploading. I have 4 out of 6 bars service..

But you are right.. I normally type a period, then upload, then whatever I had to say about the pic...and just trust its there and go check afterwards...but it won't finish uploading this time. Not sure what's up. Thanks for always helping me out though, and thanks for the site. As you know, slice and I are here every day. 365...

Edit..for whatever reason, I go select the file, then push the upload button, and the blue progress bar in the top left nevwr gets past the "g" in the word "manage"..like my phone can't hook up to the VN mothership...then after about 30 seconds it times out I guess and goes back to "no file chosen" instead of having the alphanumeric sequence up there describing my photo...not sure what's up but it did it last night,too...no Wi-Fi here, but I bet it would work on Wi-Fi...
 
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It did post...just sideways. Hmmmm...

Anyway, built that for my daughter. Freehanded all the pieces with a jigsaw. Sadly, that mane and tail took me 2 hours, just as long as the carpentry. No fasteners, drilled and doweled everything. Weaved the mane together. Only power tool I ever used was a jigsaw, and a drill for where i used dowels. Everything else was elbow grease.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
It did post...just sideways. Hmmmm...

Anyway, built that for my daughter. Freehanded all the pieces with a jigsaw. Sadly, that mane and tail took me 2 hours, just as long as the carpentry. No fasteners, drilled and doweled everything. Weaved the mane together. Only power tool I ever used was a jigsaw, and a drill for where i used dowels. Everything else was elbow grease.
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Nice!
 
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