I made a gas fire pit out of an old pallet that had been sitting in the backyard.


The pallet


The table


The day a drill bit snapped and punctured my thumbnail.


The final product

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I also made my coffee table out of a couple palets. They were brand new when I started working with them. I had to stain them to make them look rustic. While sanding it down, I managed to get a toothpick sized splinter info my finger and it had to be surgically removed! My wife is a nurse mind you, and this was one week after drilling my thumb!

Parkers Tan,

Your first poem perfectly describes my relationship with my coworkers

This is my baby


not a recent pic put i put more cooling fluid into the block the monitor is temp on i had laying around.
The build process took a little under a hour counting cable management.

(March 27, 2015 at 2:31 pm)dyresand Wrote: This is my baby

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not a recent pic put i put more cooling fluid into the block the monitor is temp on i had laying around.
The build process took a little under a hour counting cable management.

That looks really cool! Can you play Mario on it?

(March 27, 2015 at 2:54 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:

(March 27, 2015 at 2:31 pm)dyresand Wrote: This is my baby

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not a recent pic put i put more cooling fluid into the block the monitor is temp on i had laying around.
The build process took a little under a hour counting cable management.

That looks really cool! Can you play Mario on it?

i can emulate anything on it even Ps2 perfectly
I have a drive full of roms and emulators on it.

Very awesome, Parkers Tan. Adelaide takes me back. Is that all you on those recordings?

I posted in the wrong thread.

These are two of my most recent. The first is a more or less basic six string, but the back (didn't save the pics of it, sorry) is made with a triangle centre section, which give an unusually clear sound in the lower registers. The second is 'spider cone' style resonator. The woman I made it for has some issues with wrist strength, which is why there's such a deep cutaway. Good tone with a looooong sustain.






Boru

Okay, noticing that my pic of my self-built SG is getting new some attention for reasons I don't really understand, I figure I may as well post a pic of the bass me and Dad are building from a kit.

The thing is STEM has a workshop where people can build a guitar and using the very rough design and the principles of engineering, build a guitar. Progress, however, is getting kind of slow.



It's a fretless bass because, quite frankly, I prefer the tone of an upright, and any way I can get closer to the tone of that without sacrificing the portability of a bass guitar, I'll take it.

I'm naming it Jaco after the famous master of the fretless bass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOnhzoC-i8

(March 27, 2015 at 3:34 pm)Exian Wrote: Very awesome, Parkers Tan. Adelaide takes me back. Is that all you on those recordings?

Thanks, bud. I play all the instruments on "Adelaide" and "5-0" -- drums were done playing to a click track using an old PCM keyboard for drum tones. I did all bass, keys, and guitar, as well.

On "Going Tharn" the bass was played by Tim D, a longtime collaborator and brotha. I played everything else.

Thanks so much for the kind words.