This is how I made a wood/bone walking cane for my dad and his 70th birthday.
Making a Walking Stick
Can I Convert a 3D Printer into a CNC?
Well yes, I did and this is the video. I turn an old Prusa i3 into a budget CNC with a spindle kindly donated by Banggood. Its not a bad little machine for the cost and will cut wood, plastics, arcylric and even just about handle aluminium (with issues) Check out the video here and…
Making a 3D Printed Animated GIF
This tutorial will go over the steps I made to create the Picard animated GIF in the video using 3D printed frames – a 3D printed animated GIF if you will…..
Wooden Bandsaw Reindeer
In a festive mood and wanting to try out my new 6mm blade on my bandsaw I thought I’d have a go at a 3D reindeer that I’d seen on Matthias Wendals site. Using a scrap piece of 2×4 I cut it down to roughly the size I wanted and printed out the template to…
Wood Turned Xmas Tree
November 1, 2017 Wood Turned Xmas Tree Categories Christmas Decoration, Lathe, Project Still with xmas on its way I wanted to make another practice object on the lathe and had an idea for an xmas tree decoration. I had some holly from a work colleague which I had been seasoning in the shed for 6…
1st Wood Turned Snowman
I still hadn’t made anything on the lathe other than sawdust and round bits of wood so I needed to make my first thing. As it was xmas, a snowman seemed ideal. I used a piece of 2×2 construction pine and set about rounding the stock with my roughing gouge. I had previously been…
1st Whistle
In line with the “projects my daughter will love but my wife will hate” set of projects I wanted to make a simple wooden whistle that my daughter could use during playing with her trains. I’d never stopped to wrap my head around the theory of how a whistle works nor remember ever being taught…
Hanging Ikea RIBBA Frames
We wanted to put a large selection of photos on the wall in Ikea black Ribba frames but this was a plasterboard wall and we wanted them in specific locations. Picture hanging wire and other hanging solutions have never worked for me so I needed to come up with a new solution. Please note as…
1st Carved Spoon
I’m not planning on becoming a full time spoon whittler any time soon but I love the idea of spoon carving and am impressed by the craft. I wanted to make a little spoon for my daughter that she could use but also keep and in years to come say “my dad made that” I…
Pallet Wood Planter
It’s been two months since we moved so I really felt I needed to just make something rather than spend the time doing what we’d been doing for weeks, unpacking and tidying. Plans for the garden dictated some planters so it seemed a good placeto start. With my limited funds, I love the idea of…