Speaker Mount for the Bike

I had this plastic mount that just sucked, and fell apart, so I made an all aluminum one at work.  Here is the finished product.

   

Post-It design drawing after some figuring and dimensioning

Turned 1" OD 6061 down to a nice little thumb screw

All parts machined, some rubber for grip, and ready to go on the bike

Mini Rummikub Box Set

My buddy rob made me a laser cut rummikub for my birthday, and I needed a way to keep it together and playable.  An hour or two, some 3/4" and 1/4" plywood, some glue, and a table saw.

Scrap Live-Edge Wood Projects: Coat Rack

Found some scrap live-edge stuff at the shop, and spend a sunday making something useful.

 Think it came out pretty good; some dowel scraps, a couple screws, and an hour or so later.

Also found out that forstner bits are super sharp....grazed the edge moving wood around.

Frame Jig for a Bike Frame

Machined some aluminum cones at work.  These are threaded to hold the BB.

First test fitting of stuff in my bedroom.  So far, only $5 spent for the threaded rod.   

On a workbench mostly assembled, with uncut tubing test fit.  Welder in background dusty and sad.   

Hammered Copper Bowl

Made an attempt at hammering copper.  It was supposed to be a mug. 

This was like, 20 annealing cycles and way too many hours of hammering.  Came out looking decent, but definitely was not a mug.  For a first try at hammered copper on a homemade "anvil" I am happy.

THE SPICE! rack

Got tired of having this empty wall, and tired of having a pile of spices over by the oven.  

Some scrap plywood, a couple hours on a saturday, some glue and some leftover stain...not bad

Small Testing Fixture

6061 turned and milled aluminum body, 1100 aluminum "pistons", and PEEK insulators.  Shown half assembled, half apart.

Planter Bench in Somerville

Didn't take any photos after growth started but before everything died this winter, but this planter bench  became a positive focus on the street.  A quick solidworks model to get rough sizing, some pressure treated home depot lumber, a couple hours on a saturday, and some rocks/dirt from a park nearby.
Turned an empty unused concrete slab into a good sittin spot with a small garden.  Tomatillos, green beans, tomatoes, and some herbs.

Fixing cracks and making things better

My first "real" trick frame was this purple Sadio Booster that I really liked, but just like everything else I have ridden, it broke [my heart].  After only about three months of riding it, the top/head tube joint cracked almost all the way through the weld. 

I was eventually refunded my money, and got a US made frame in the meantime, but this purple guy just kept calling me to be ridden.  My new workspace at Arc-en-Ciel finally lit a fire under my ass to get this thing fixed and riding again.  Ha, it was basically Josh making fun of me for not doing it sooner.  First step was to re-weld the crack.  Second step was to put beefy ass gussets on it to prevent it from ever breaking again.

 I hand cut these on the bandsaw from some 16 gauge sheet in the shop based on some cardboard cutouts I drew up. 

It had been a little while since I'd welded anything, so these welds are a little ugly...the beauty of steel, though, is that it doesn't really matter that much.

Once it was welded up, I took it up to the roof for a quick and ugly paint job to make it seem like a new bike.   

Put on some paint-pen highlights and crappy pinstriping, and this beast is ready to ride again.  And yes, of course I have matching sunglasses.  

I realized as I was building it up that I was going to need like 4 or 5 standard spacers, and also that I didn't have a dust-cap or the inner compression race/ring for the integrated headset.  Since I now have the tools, I spent a couple hours and just made them both.  I don't have a picture of the race/ring since it's under the dust-cap/spacer, but it's just a simple 45 degree cut on the OD of a 1-1/8" ID ring with a slit cut in to allow it to compress in.  

After many months of sitting sad and lonely, this bike is being ridden again.  I built it up with some new 26" wheels I made, and have been abusing this thing in the most fun way possible.  

Drink holder for Andrew

There's not a lot to say about this.  My buddy Andrew sarcastically demanded a drink holder for his keyboard stand at a practice so I made him one.

I plan to make a better version of it, one that can be used on any kind of rack/stand and not just a horizontal one.  It was a quick project, done in a couple of hours for a show we had coming up.