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I have aged horseshoes and horse rasps with vinegar and salt in a spray bottle. Keep spraying them every day until you get the finish you want, then rinse off with fresh water. They get a nice rusty appearance that I then seal with spray satin clear paint. I have used it for a bunch of stuff in a friends house that has a western theme.
 
I made several kid-sized 3-man waterballoon launchers for an upcoming party out of some old jeans and ratchet straps:
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And after getting used to the sewing machine, I made a backrest cover for my golf cart:
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None of it is anywhere close to perfect, but don't think it's terrible for being the first time touching a sewing machine since middle school.
 
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Made iron acetate for the first time. Tore up a new pad of 0000 steel wool & put it in a Ragu jar with white vinegar.

Going to fake "aging" on new pine.
Will brush w/ brewed black tea to add tannic acid (pine is low on tannins) and let dry first.
The iron acetate reacts with the tannins to darken the wood & fake aging / weathering.
"Weathered wood stain" on a test piece told me I wouldn't be happy with it. Hope this kicks ass.

It'll be the base for 7 pony shoes nailed flat in a horizontal row oriented like "U" & bent out on 1 side to hold coffee cups.
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It'll work well. I've done a couple of bar faces clad in railway sleepers and used it for any visible cut ends to match the aging on the face.
Didn't have to use the tea as Australian hardwoods are loaded with tannin, but in theory that should work.
 
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Interesting to see how that works.
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Wendle said:
It'll work well. I've done a couple of bar faces clad in railway sleepers and used it for any visible cut ends to match the aging on the face.
Didn't have to use the tea as Australian hardwoods are loaded with tannin, but in theory that should work.
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The photos below are shit for showing the color detail, but it worked well & we're happy with the result.

Worked the wood over by hand with a wire brush & a loose 24 grit 7" disc, then wire brushed a bit more before the tea & iron vinegar. When that was dry-ish, I laid out the horseshoe locations (9" centers, pattern cheated 1.5" to the right so the coffee cups line up w/ the opening the board frames). Pricked each nail hole with an ice pick, then pre-drilled 1/8" through 42 times.

After bending up the shoes, lined 'em back up 1 at a time w/ drilled pilot holes, inserted #4.5 race nails, & pounded 'em down hard with 2x4s underneath straddling the nail area.

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Flipped the board over afterwards, bent each nail 90 at the tip & again where it came through the back of the pine, then set that down on a piece of steel & re-hammered each nail head from the top to fold it flat & embed it flush on the back.

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This little nook where we have our coffee maker & microwave now has some definition, a place to hang 7 more coffee mugs, and the top rail hides a small motion-activated light above that area.

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Side trim in that^ photo gives you a better idea of what all the wood looks like (potato flash caught that board right). Bottom front faces of side trim are cut at 70 degrees (max. on miter saw) to thin them down to 1/4" deep to match thickness of 1/4" base trim.

BDK said:
I have aged horseshoes and horse rasps with vinegar and salt in a spray bottle. Keep spraying them every day until you get the finish you want, then rinse off with fresh water. They get a nice rusty appearance that I then seal with spray satin clear paint. I have used it for a bunch of stuff in a friends house that has a western theme.
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I left the shoes as-is after bending 'em, decided to go wtih no coating on the shoes or the wood for now.
 
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mine looks like this so that I could put beads on 1/2" copper tube for 5/8" heater hose connectors, but I kept the wire cutter on the end because I still use it as a wire crimper too
 

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Time to try quitting again. Down to 5 a day.
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Long piece is an unfinished 5.56like case. primer pocket but no flash hole, straight wall. Shorter piece is cut .223 chamfered & deburred. Smoke half snuff it out, fits in the pack Or pocket with no extra stink.
 
Simple little coffee table I named "the Vageen"
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up next is the alien dining table. These will both be built from the same tree (along with a few other pieces ie: another coffee table, sofa table and piece of wall art). I found all of these pieces while digging through a stack of wood at my local mill and was able to book match them too make what I think is/will be cool looking shit. I already sold the Vageen but I'm on the fence about keeping or selling the rest of the pieces when they are complete
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my kid says it looks like this thing from called the "Bug Facer " which is apparently from the All Tomorrows Universe, whatever that means but I have to say I agree with him!

Not sure why this one won't attach (perhaps because it's a screenshot from a website I have no clue) but hopefully y'all can see it!

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WunTon said:
Simple little coffee table I named "the Vageen"
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up next is the alien dining table. These will both be built from the same tree (along with a few other pieces ie: another coffee table, sofa table and piece of wall art). I found all of these pieces while digging through a stack of wood at my local mill and was able to book match them too make what I think is/will be cool looking shit. I already sold the Vageen but I'm on the fence about keeping or selling the rest of the pieces when they are comp

my kid says it looks like this thing from called the "Bug Facer " which is apparently from the All Tomorrows Universe, whatever that means but I have to say I agree with him!

Not sure why this one won't attach (perhaps because it's a screenshot from a website I have no clue) but hopefully y'all can see it!

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Olive?
 
Mailbox stand. Weighs something around 400lbs with the box. 5 bags of concrete.

The other one is a driveway address sign.
 

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Finally finished my mail box

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I hope you don't mind if I sort of copy that in about a year. It won't be exactly the same, and have a security box, but I'm going to sort of copy that. I've been thinking about what to do for a mailbox pole for my new house for a while, might throw a couple of horseshoes in there.
 
It’s just a 3” pipe with a cap and open on the bottom end. The cap will keep the inside of the filter from getting mangled or chewed up because operators.
 
BDK said:
I hope you don't mind if I sort of copy that in about a year. It won't be exactly the same, and have a security box, but I'm going to sort of copy that. I've been thinking about what to do for a mailbox pole for my new house for a while, might throw a couple of horseshoes in there.
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I don't mind at all. I see the horseshoe ones somewhat often which is where I got the idea.
 
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It’s just a 3” pipe with a cap and open on the bottom end. The cap will keep the inside of the filter from getting mangled or chewed up because operators.
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I'm a cheap-ass so I would have probably waited until I had 8 of the same oil filters and then cut them open for the canister and rounded bottom. :laughing: I bought one of those filter cutters and have been looking for ways to re-use the bodies of the filter here lately.
 
billybob_81067 said:
I'm a cheap-ass so I would have probably waited until I had 8 of the same oil filters and then cut them open for the canister and rounded bottom. :laughing: I bought one of those filter cutters and have been looking for ways to re-use the bodies of the filter here lately.
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Weld on a handle and sell them as hipster beer mugs or coffee cups.
 
A breaker hammer is useful to have around - except it is a pain to lug around and also to store.

Harbor Freight makes a cart, but it's pretty short. When you're over six foot it's like trying to push the one of kiddie carts around the grocery store. Worse when you're trying to maneuver it across an uneven job site with the little wheels.
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So I looked at theirs, grabbed a hand truck off of craigslist, gathered up some scrap metal, fired up the welder, and made my own.
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I'm debating whether to bend up some bars for the back like on the HF one to make it easier to slide into a pickup bed and need to grab a rubber bungee to hold the breaker in place. Otherwise the taller handle and larger wheels make it much easier to move around.
 
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