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What have you made lately?

That's super cool. My wife has been asking me to get her something like that, or make it out of wood from our yard.
 
Made this vase stand for my Daughter. Errrr, I was corrected: Dad it's a "VAZ" !!!
Wood was leftover scraps, birch veneer plywood and 2x6 redwood boards. The VAZ is kinda pear shaped and about 26" wide and about 30" tall. The angle cuts are so the it sits back in the corner of the room. Thought about making the top a 90deg triangle but it made the actual top size too small and the VAZ to close to the walls. Used hardwood dowels for the plugs.
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Ha, ha... and this masterpiece, for my fireplace, came about as I was smooshing and cutting up cardboard boxes for recycle and what to do with two old, nearly empty gray and white spray paint cans. Heading back outside after getting fresh razor blades I looked at the fireplace and an idea... make a covering for the fireplace opening.
So, about 30 minutes later, cardboard, white and gray paint and pencil... Ta-Da !!! I call it "Winter Trees". :laughing
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Took me a few moments and some zoom to ascertain that the light wood was not bonded into the darker wood of the table it's resting on.

That plywood has that edge banding on it?
 
I make so much stuff I lose track. Needed a new bed but beds are garbage off the rack. And very few could house 12 plastic bins underneath with no supports. Recycled Doug fir legs, pine frame, oak cross members. I can stand on the middle with no deflection. Solved.
I bought a recycled euc slab for a table and bench. The old round table was wasting precious corner space. The X table legs got binned for smaller ones. I’ll repurpose the legs for an outdoor picnic table.
Even though the slab was kiln dried it cupped pretty hard, so there was a second shaping. Eucalyptus is brutal to shape and finish. Bulletproof once finished though…
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those huge granite inspection plates are CHEAP on the used market... relatively. painfully expensive when you need a new one but nobody wants them when you need to get rid of it. I have to build a garage in the next year or 2 and i'm keeping an eye out to inset one into the floor because fucking why not?

example 5feet x 8 feet for $850 (transportation etcetc blah)

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I wonder if those used one are too far out of calibration to be brought back into spec in a cost effective way. They are far from indestructible when you need them flat within an RCH. There are grades. Garage floor grade is pretty wide open though lol
 
Might as well use a tape measure if RCH is your tolerance

I expect the could be brought back in tolerance but probably not worth it by the time shipping and machining and lost productivity are factored in.
For a garage floor it can have divots missing :laughing
 
Eric B said:
I imagine that was some cycle time.
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.060” ball tool for the nip to webbing radius. 9800 Rpm with a .003” stepover. 14 ipm.

.125” ball mill on the webbing. 9500 Rpm with a .005” stepover and 40 ipm.

26 hrs cycle time on the finish. I was pretty happy with the results. We run no coolant but I dis use an MQL oil blaster. The part is a mold insert so the goal is to help the polishers out as much as possible.
 
auntiebling said:
Might as well use a tape measure if RCH is your tolerance

I expect the could be brought back in tolerance but probably not worth it by the time shipping and machining and lost productivity are factored in.
For a garage floor it can have divots missing :laughing
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there are companies that can lap and calibrate on site. I picked up a nice grade A 36 by 48 with rolling stand for 200
 
FLH03RIDER said:
What is the "big plate of nipples" intended use?
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This is the pattern it will be paired with. It will create the dimples you see here. I think i just finished making a riot shield for dogs. ;)

Eventually we will mold parts that look like this pattern i made. The plate-o-nipples will be incorporated into the mold (we call the finished molds “tools”) we will mold, hand finish paint and assemble these doggie riot shileds complete to the customer. Manufactured start to finish here in Santa Cruz. :flag
 
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