What have you made/created today?

Bought a house last July and have been steadily working on it inside and now out. Recently had the driveway widened by a former student of mine. They hauled out 12 yards of fill and left us as many of the stones as they could find as they went. So I've been building a stacked stone wall on the far side.



Also did a facelift on an old set of brick covered concrete front steps. I framed out right over the top and widened the stoop by a foot on either side.

 

Took our research boat out for the first trip of the year and visited the Florida Keys. Its weird not being in the Bahamas, but snorkeling is snorkeling (especially when comparing the two).

Hope you enjoy!


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I just built this fountain for a friend of mine.

 

They're not what I created today but are new tools for future creations from the shop.



Gisi style molds for Sierra and Bolt Action blanks (bodies)


Cowboy Series molds for casting tube-in pen blanks



And a ring mold for casting ring blanks.

 

can your friend send me some money? That patio is insane!

 

I don’t think he wants to pay for that patio twice. LOL.

 

Better hope Kennedy doesn’t get three across

 

We talked about that at Xmas lol. Made sure my sister knew before ever taking pictures to verify the letters.

 

Looks great. I see you are in FL. Vanilla Ice (Rob) is there for remodeling homes which shown on TV. I don't know if he is building during COVID. Last I heard that they are releasing new season in July 2020. I noticed on the news that FL is really bad at COVID because the number of people have gone up.

 

Yeah COVID-19 is a pain in ass down here. Not sure if the root cause is more people. There’s some controversy on the accuracy of the numbers because of inconsistencies in testing, but either way it’s a pain.

 

You can check the FL stats here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/96dd742462124fa0b38ddedb9b25e429

I decided not go to FL for a vacation in June because of that reason. Maybe next year if all clear up by then.

 

Made floating nightstands for the fiancé.

 

Not much skilled involved but painted up 2 1/2 boxes of western red for my Victorian Carriage House preservation project.

This is less than half..

 

I thought you were building an ark at first glance

 

It would be appropriate...

 

Yeah, kinda neat how the string sloped like it did. It was all fun and games until I ran out of the nylon, had to go with a fiber type string that stretched much more than the nylon .

Had to scramble with some knots to get them up off the floor again

 

A little test run for a possible larger project. Don't like how it came out much so we will see

 

Concept is great; love it. My suggestion would be a little more definition of the hexagonal cells but not to much. If you have ever looked a hive of bees (or are those wasps?) that the critters are not aligned but are crawling in every which direction, even crawling on top of others. Chaos describes a beehive pretty accurately.

Feel free to ignore me!

John M

My Grandfather was a beekeeper and one my daughters is too.

 

Not created, just copied from you tube...paracord key lanyard

 

Finally getting around to learning fusion CAM, now the greatest finish, but not bad for testing feeds and speeds.