Show off your woodworking

[LeonardY]

I had posted this in the World Cup thread. Seeing the model train display above made me think to post it here as well. It is made of wood.

Taken from other thread......

I've been collecting World Cup Key chains since I was a kid. I just used to keep them in a box. My late father used to ask "why don't I do something with them?" when I was growing up. After he passed, I finally got around to building this frame/display for them and I have it hung up in the house. I have one from each tournament from 1974 to the present in this display. Just added the 2026 a few weeks ago. He was a huge fan of the tournament and futbol in general and passed that on to the family. If I live to be 96, I'll be able to fill this display completely.


ps. I would have used astroturf, but I couldn't readily buy a piece small enough. Green carpet mat from the dollar store, good enough?

Looks good.

Amazon has artificial grass in smallish pieces if you really want that.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS42XFFV?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Meursault74]

Looks good.

Amazon has artificial grass in smallish pieces if you really want that.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS42XFFV?tag=atomicindus08-20

Thanks for the link . I think I saw something like that when I had made it. $1 for some green carpet at the dollar store won out over ordering a piece online for more money. I think I got the hooks there at the dollar store too on the same trip, but I painted them white. The wood was scrap I had left over. The gold and white paint I already had from another project.
I think the green carpet goes with the gold I painted the frame to go with the trophy motif. The white, the lines from a field. It being a carpet gives a somewhat nod to grass. Well that's what I thought anyway with my limited artistic mind. I may have had some green paint at the time lying around, so using the carpet was a step up.

 

[Copymutt]

A very simple drinking cup of aspen made on a pen lathe. An entertaining endeavor.

 

[PirateTurner]

I'd like to see pictures of your lathes, and I dream of building a bowl turning lathe with a bit of swing capacity, but I don't have the contacts here for big wood, or rather I haven't gone out looking for the arborists who might have access to the pieces I dream of turning.

Stubby S750


Robust American Beauty.

If you want to build one, the simplest, IMHO, is a VB36 style.

And FWIW, I stay blessed with free wood. I'm still processing logs from Augusta's Hurricane Helene. And, some wood species age well when down. Some need to be processed immediately. Potential for tree damage in the weather forecast overnight.

 

[danielbuck]

My lathe is a cheap grizzly lathe that I got about 10 years ago, and an inexpensive chuck (seems like a vicmarc clone, takes the same style jaws). At the time, I thought I would want something this long, but turns out that I really only want to make bowls and shorter things. I have half a mind to chop this lathe down to save some space, but i decided I'd leave it, in the event that I ever want to make table legs or something, I'll regret cutting it down. It has 10" from the lathe bed to the center of the chuck, so 20" swing.

I hated the speed control on the lathe, and it wouldn't spin any slower than about 600RPM, so I removed the odd adjustable v pulleys and controls, put on a larger 3-phase motor with a VFD, added a reverse switch, and now it's alot of fun to use. it will spin real slow (nice for applying finishes). The usable RPM for turning is probably about 160-2400* RPM with the pulley that I have on there now, and overspeeding the VFD a little bit for the highest RPMs. But for bowls I probably only use 1/2 of it's speed. Slower than 160 or so and it doesn't have quite as much power, but plenty to apply finishes. I like it much better than the 600-4000 rpm than it had before, it was just too fast. Also put it on castors, made them outboard for more stability, and also to not raise the lathe up too high. It's been surprisingly stable on casters. a few folks told me that would probably be a bad idea, but it's fine.


Master power switch and VFD are under the head stock, spindle on-off switch, reverse switch and speed control are under the tail stock. I still haven't wired up the original RPM tachometer*, I did temporarily wire it up and verified that it still worked with alligator clips, but I just never got around to making it permanent. Also still want to make a cover for the link belt... I'm sure that will probably never happen.

I'd really love to have a nice lathe, but this one has to sit out in the carport so it's subject to humidity and stuff at night and during the winter, so until I have a place where I can actually store a machine indoors, I'll just stick with this franken-lathe.

(*edit) I installed the RPM tachometer, and I revised what I thought the lathe was spinning at

 

[Jim C.]

My latest project. Other than the four hinges on the doors, there are no metal fasteners holding this cabinet together.
Jim C.

 

[garfieldzzz]

My latest project. Other than the four hinges on the doors, there are no metal fasteners holding this cabinet together.
Jim C.

Thats a really cool piece. Must have been quite some work.

 

[Jim C.]

Hey Garfieldzzz,
Thanks for checking out my project. Start to finish it took 200 hours to complete. There’s more than just a little hand tool work that was required. The scales alone were very tedious to make and attach. No two are exactly the same. They were individually shaped by hand. They are beveled on the back, requiring a custom made jig and a pass through the bandsaw one at a time. Each scale was mounted on a door using toothpicks.
Jim C.

 

[Gmonkee]

Nothing fancy but a lady asked me to make a new top for a folding table. 3/8 plywood on the original legs. 2 X 4', she uses it as her street stand selling something.

The old press board top was crumbling on all sides, so she got it cheap. HD wasn't so nice on materials for the rebuild.

 

[Meursault74]

Nothing fancy but a lady asked me to make a new top for a folding table. 3/8 plywood on the original legs. 2 X 4', she uses it as her street stand selling something.

The old press board top was crumbling on all sides, so she got it cheap. HD wasn't so nice on materials for the rebuild.

for stuff like that, you can't DIY for less than just buying new. It really is an odd situation because it's not like Home Depot wood is top shelf stuff. (pun intended)

Sure the plywood is an improvement over the particle board. I've fixed wood projects with left overs and scraps I've had and thought to myself if I had to go buy the wood to fix this, it would cost more than having amazon ship a new one. Using scrap and the satisfaction of fixing something does have some value though.

 

[Gmonkee]

for stuff like that, you can't DIY for less than just buying new. It really is an odd situation because it's not like Home Depot wood is top shelf stuff. (pun intended)

Sure the plywood is an improvement over the particle board. I've fixed wood projects with left overs and scraps I've had and thought to myself if I had to go buy the wood to fix this, it would cost more than having amazon ship a new one. Using scrap and the satisfaction of fixing something does have some value though.

I agree, but it's still cheaper to fix this than buy a similar sized table locally.
Too many scavengers more ambitious than I and no plywood scraps found by me.

It's **** legs on a plywood top now but she has it Tuesday for her streetside sales the coming week. That is the goal.
Playing into the whims of an older lady is an odd game. She wants what she wants and that's what she is going to get.
I did make it easy on her for the labor. It's a quick job.