Bobpine: That’s a great workstation you’ve got there, and you have you have air tools… I’m wicked jealous 
Superb, bobepine! :bravo:
I’ve always wanted to make furniture out of driftwood. Now I’m living on a beach it really is time to start doing it. I have liked this idea since I was about 20, mainly because I think all wood is precious.
HG
I have this obsession with becoming a locksmith. I can’t freaking shake it…there is a guy next to our school…I can watch him for minutes…
[quote=“Salvatore Armani”]Bobpine: That’s a great workstation you’ve got there, and you have you have air tools… I’m wicked jealous [/quote]The power tools were a present from my better half. I didn’t even have a compressor at the time.
There was an old electric scooter abandoned outside our place. I asked the security guards for it, I fixed it and I ended up selling it to buy a compressor with the money. I sold it at a day market/flea market where I bought most of my tools.
I found and old gas powered weedeater in the garbage. I fixed it, and traded it for a bench grinder.(the black one in the picture) 
[quote=“HG”]I’ve always wanted to make furniture out of driftwood. Now I’m living on a beach it really is time to start doing it. I have liked this idea since I was about 20, mainly because I think all wood is precious.[/quote]I love working with wood. Driftwood is harder to work with than what you saw in the pictures I posted. Not necessarily harder, but it requires more specialised and expensive tools. The end result is even better, though. Drift wood furniture is just awesome. I have not worked with drift wood either. I would like to.
Working with willow is easy. Power drill, knife, hand saw, pruners, hammer, mesuring tape, screws and nails. That’s it. The hardest part is gathering the wood.
The bed frame I made was more work. I peeled the bark with a single exacto knife. 40 hours just peeling bark. But still doable with minimum specialised tools.
The point is, it will cost you a bit more to get set up with what you need to work with drift wood, but it’s worth it if you have a wood source near your place. Before coming to Taiwan, I sold every single piece of Willow and Birch furniture I made, including the pics I posted earlier, one of which was my very first chair. The best part is I had fun doing it.
The other thing I’d like to make is bobepine’s house just around the corner from mine. Then when I need to borrow tools. it’d be a cinch. I’m also sure my constant queries on how to for various aspects of the furniture building would eventually lead to him doing it all! 
HG
I love that furniture!! I want to learn to make a quilt, sew clothes, etc. The concentration involved in doing manual things can give other parts of the brain a rest. It’s a kind of meditation.
Nice job, bobepine! The last one looks especially nice.
I wish I could make replicas of ancient Chinese bronzes. And carve marble statues. And make stained glass windows. And build my own castle. All doable, of course – I just don’t think I’ll get around to it.
Holy crap! Sounds like you need a spokeshave for your bag of tricks, mister.
Tools are cheap here. I plan to purchase a few premium items and some cheap odds and ends before I leave.
I love rustic furniture. Love it. Has anyone been to the Hotel Saranac in Saranac Lake, NY? Their entire lobby, bar and restaurant is furnished with super high quality silver birch furniture. I’ve had fun making simple stuff, nothing as nice as your bed BP, but for chairs and larger stuff that bears heavier loads, making sockets for the main loadbearing members is really the best way. You can buy expensive cutters to do this, but I’m still looking for an effective shortcut.
i wish i could make a million clones of myself like Mr. Smith in the Matrix.
Some cool stuff here guys.
How about one of these?
geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/ … /pic3.html
(Can’t show the image here due to download restrictions, but check it out!)
Art, cakes and bestsellers.
I wish I knew how to make a bazooka hidden in my motorcycle.
a movie
a book
a house
and some great Mexican food to share with others.
it… I simply wished I could make “it”…
[quote=“Namahottie”]a movie
a book
a house
and some great Mexican food to share with others.[/quote]
A movie sounds like a joint venture. What do you need?
A book sounds like something you can only do if you get away from everyone else. I tried to set aside an hour a day for non-inane writing, and ran out of energy after a week. But if you have the discipline you don’t need much in the way of external ‘stuff’.
A house sounds like a grand undertaking. But there’s a lot of skills to learn first. Why not start with something simple? How about one of these:
[quote]Stonehenge Aotearoa, which opened this weekend, is a full-scale adaptation of its Salisbury Plain ancestor, built to work for the Antipodes… a henge of 24 upright pillars and connecting lintels that is 30m in diameter and about 4m high. In the centre of the henge is a 5m-tall obelisk, the eye of which points at the south celestial pole.
Set into a tiled mosaic that runs out from the obelisk along the meridian is a 10m analemma, the figure of eight pattern that the path of sun traces over a year. Outside the circle of the henge stand six heel stones, the markers for the rising and setting points of the sun at solstice and equinox.
Inside, with an eye to performances and weddings that will be held here, the stones are also wired for sound.[/quote]
[quote=“tmwc”][quote=“Namahottie”]a movie
a book
a house
and some great Mexican food to share with others.[/quote]
A movie sounds like a joint venture. What do you need?
A book sounds like something you can only do if you get away from everyone else. I tried to set aside an hour a day for non-inane writing, and ran out of energy after a week. But if you have the discipline you don’t need much in the way of external ‘stuff’.
A house sounds like a grand undertaking. But there’s a lot of skills to learn first. Why not start with something simple? How about one of these:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40827000/jpg/_40827509_stone3_kimg_203.jpg
[quote]Stonehenge Aotearoa, which opened this weekend, is a full-scale adaptation of its Salisbury Plain ancestor, built to work for the Antipodes… a henge of 24 upright pillars and connecting lintels that is 30m in diameter and about 4m high. In the centre of the henge is a 5m-tall obelisk, the eye of which points at the south celestial pole.
Set into a tiled mosaic that runs out from the obelisk along the meridian is a 10m analemma, the figure of eight pattern that the path of sun traces over a year. Outside the circle of the henge stand six heel stones, the markers for the rising and setting points of the sun at solstice and equinox.
Inside, with an eye to performances and weddings that will be held here, the stones are also wired for sound.[/quote][/quote]
Wow a muse!!! I guess my cooking is not up for discussion 
A movie. I need a group of people who would be willing to devote their weekends to helping the dream become a reality.
The book. You’re right. I just need to do it. Nike style.
The house doesn’t have to be actually built from hand. But I should say a “home”. A place where I come, there’s lots and lots and lots and lots of love and people to share that love with.
This definitely needed saying again.
tmwc, I know what you’re going on about. I have one or two ideas I’ll share with you in the fullness of time.
This definitely needed saying again.
tmwc, I know what you’re going on about. I have one or two ideas I’ll share with you in the fullness of time.[/quote]
oh vey. my typing gaff. Should have been A place where I go, but too late now. Everyone’s had their laugh for the day… 
I wish I could make Snadman stand up straight…
That slouch is driving me nuts.
[quote=“the chief”]I wish I could make Snadman stand up straight…
That slouch is driving me nuts.[/quote]
That’s not a slouch. I’m in the process of OWNING someone’s arse – much like bare-titty man in your avatar.