my next door neighbor growing up who gave me use of his shop for a long-ass time and taught me a lot of the basics once told me that you can tell the quality of a workshop's output based on how clean it is
based on the state of ours, i really hope that isn't true
my next door neighbor growing up who gave me use of his shop for a long-ass time and taught me a lot of the basics once told me that you can tell the quality of a workshop's output based on how clean it is
based on the state of ours, i really hope that isn't true
A lot of people like to spout that bullshit. But then, I've done some of my best work lying on the side of a road in the mud under a truck with various animal excretions dripping on me, so they can go fuck themselves. If your workshop is a cluttered, disorganised, unsafe pigsty, then that does actually impact heavily on your ability to do work to the highest of your abilities and in a timely manner.
However, if your workshop is cleaner than the production line of a semiconductor manufacturing facility, then I harbour doubts as to how much work you actually do, or if you're really just all talk.
An operational workshop with a reasonable budget, that is, a workshop that cannot afford to pay people specifically just to clean, is never going to be as immaculate as a place like the McLaren factory.
I'm not sure if I ought to post this, as I have a lot of 'projects' that never go anywhere, but I'm feeling good about this one.
We were going to do a Mad Max themed airsoft game day and I'd done some little bits for it, a fancy steering wheel, some clothing. But the game was cancelled twice due to the weather (and rescheduled another time due to people having other things on). And now there's at least a four week gap until we can do another game. So... I might have gone a little bit mad. Initially it was just going to be a prop for some CTF type games, but I think it'd be much cooler as a weapon. So I'm going to have a bb gun built into it that will be activated by the tremolo bar, same as the flamethrower in the movie.
This is the planning bit. It's mostly in pencil so it doesn't show up well. You might notice that the flamethrower is missing, that's because 1) I'm not a fan, it clutters up the guitar and 2) if it turns out that the guitar really needs it I can easily add it after I am finished.
This close up of the body shows a bit more of the detail. The mechanism for firing is very simple, the lever just presses against the trigger. The bbs will travel up a pipe on the back of the bass neck, they'll lose a lot of accuracy, but it's a flamethrower, it's meant to spew fire (bbs) everywhere.
However,the magazine poking out the bottom was a bit of a problem. It reminded me too much of the ak47 guitar guns. They're cool, but I'm building a flamethrower, not an AK guitar. I could use a smaller magazine, but I don't want the person using the gun to have to reload mid-game. So I've moved the bb gun to fire up the guitar neck. This hides the gun and will also make it a little easier to aim. The simple mechanical lever will need to be replaced with an electronic system, which is superior in every way but one. It won't quite have the same mechanical feel. Like the difference between turning a door knob and flicking a light switch I guess. It's a small thing but I hope I can simulate the feeling of doing something mechanical and not just have a switch.
Here's what I've got so far. As far as the wood bits go, I've just got to find a couple of nice bits for the necks. The necks you see in the photo will be cut down as much as they can be, they're just there for the real necks to attach to. After that I've got a lot of sanding to do.
I've very nearly got all the materials already. I've got leftover metal sheets, copper pipes, little gizmos and electronic bits. I'm just missing some strings. It won't be a playable guitar, but it has gotta have strings.
Despite the size of the project I'm feeling like I have a decent chance of success.
my next door neighbor growing up who gave me use of his shop for a long-ass time and taught me a lot of the basics once told me that you can tell the quality of a workshop's output based on how clean it is
based on the state of ours, i really hope that isn't true
A lot of people like to spout that bullshit. But then, I've done some of my best work lying on the side of a road in the mud under a truck with various animal excretions dripping on me, so they can go fuck themselves. If your workshop is a cluttered, disorganised, unsafe pigsty, then that does actually impact heavily on your ability to do work to the highest of your abilities and in a timely manner.
However, if your workshop is cleaner than the production line of a semiconductor manufacturing facility, then I harbour doubts as to how much work you actually do, or if you're really just all talk.
An operational workshop with a reasonable budget, that is, a workshop that cannot afford to pay people specifically just to clean, is never going to be as immaculate as a place like the McLaren factory.
The only thing that needs to be clean is a paintshop. You don't want static cling sucking dust into a fresh coat of paint.
Also it's better to have your tools organized, findable and easily retrievable. Adam Savage has this concept of "First Order Retrievability" which basically means not having to go into a room, open a tool box, lift up a tray and pull out a drawer to get to a tool. He takes it to pretty crazy lengths and builds custom stands on wheels and stuff
my next door neighbor growing up who gave me use of his shop for a long-ass time and taught me a lot of the basics once told me that you can tell the quality of a workshop's output based on how clean it is
based on the state of ours, i really hope that isn't true
A lot of people like to spout that bullshit. But then, I've done some of my best work lying on the side of a road in the mud under a truck with various animal excretions dripping on me, so they can go fuck themselves. If your workshop is a cluttered, disorganised, unsafe pigsty, then that does actually impact heavily on your ability to do work to the highest of your abilities and in a timely manner.
However, if your workshop is cleaner than the production line of a semiconductor manufacturing facility, then I harbour doubts as to how much work you actually do, or if you're really just all talk.
An operational workshop with a reasonable budget, that is, a workshop that cannot afford to pay people specifically just to clean, is never going to be as immaculate as a place like the McLaren factory.
The only thing that needs to be clean is a paintshop. You don't want static cling sucking dust into a fresh coat of paint.
Also it's better to have your tools organized, findable and easily retrievable. Adam Savage has this concept of "First Order Retrievability" which basically means not having to go into a room, open a tool box, lift up a tray and pull out a drawer to get to a tool. He takes it to pretty crazy lengths and builds custom stands on wheels and stuff
Pretty much, yeah. I mean, it's almost a physical impossibility to keep a metal shop or wood shop free of dust. A paint shop, however? Don't even spray WD40 if you're standing downwind, because you'll fuck up someone's paintjob...
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
When I worked for my dad in a sign shop, we'd finish work every friday at 1pm and clean the shop. As soon as the weekly upkeep, cleaning, tidying and chores were done we were all free to go home.
It was a good way to make sure it all got done every week and it usually got done quickly.
When I worked for my dad in a sign shop, we'd finish work every friday at 1pm and clean the shop. As soon as the weekly upkeep, cleaning, tidying and chores were done we were all free to go home.
It was a good way to make sure it all got done every week and it usually got done quickly.
Well yeah, but your Dad's nice. There's LOTS of shop owners that want you either doing productive work or clocked off and out of the building. Time is money!
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So I bought a few plain coloured tee shirts a while ago because it's hard finding any fun designs in sizes that fit me and a good friend of mine prints vinyl on shirts as a side business so I could put whatever I wanted on there. Today I finalized the designs.
I adapted artwork I found online but I don't feel too bad since they weren't being sold as shirts and I'm never going to sell them, just making one for myself.
Chipping away at it. Photos under spoiler so I don't have a tall post.
Made the blade thing under the guitar.
I was intending to use a thinner metal that I could cut with tin snips as I have some metal spare, but I managed to get some scrap bits of steel. It's slightly too small, so the blade won't be quite the right size, but it's worth it. I was anticipating needing to buy some more jigsaw blades but a copious amount of oil enabled me to do it with only one broken blade. I still need to file the edges to make it look pretty as it's fairly rough atm. And I think I can borrow a tool for cutting the holes, so they'll look real good.
The movie guitar uses a kickstand for the tremolo arm, I had a spring loaded kickstand on an old junk bicycle but it was cast metal, I think? (I don't really know what I'm doing) Bending/cutting it to make it fit would have been a real pain. So I gritted my teeth and bought a kickstand. It's exactly the same but it's stamped instead (I think?). Whatever, I could bend it! I've bent it to 90 degrees so it'll be easier to install and it has been filed and oiled to make it work smoothly as a lever. It's also shiny and chrome, so I consider that a good omen.
Finally, I've cut out the silhouette of the aeg that'll be the 'flamethrower' in the middle layer. I still need to cut out the silhouette for bottom layer, I decided that I will trace the middle layer onto it rather than draw it twice. Hopefully that means that it will line up nicely when it is put together. You can see some lines on the layer, those are going to be cut out to reduce weight, as the guitar is quite heavy. Ignore the keyhole looking thing, that was the hole for the tremolo arm, but it's now going to be different.
Finally, everything I've done so far together. I still haven't done the actual guitar necks, those are just the bits they'll attach to.
Next step will be cutting out the bottom layer. And the guitar necks. I'm putting off assembling it as I'm planning on gluing it together. If I screw up one part I can make another, but if I screw up after it's all glued together I'll be in trouble. So at the moment I am just making the bits and planning how they will fit together.
The photos were the right way up, but uploading them seems to make them revert to their original orientation.
Apparently, you can't rent one and if you don't know anyone with one, you're just out of luck.
My jigsaw can not cut through 2.5"
Where are you located? You might be able to find a community tool lending service or a co-op creative workspace where you can become a member to use the space or pay a small nominal fee to use some time there.
Where are you located? You might be able to find a community tool lending service or a co-op creative workspace where you can become a member to use the space or pay a small nominal fee to use some time there.
I've been looking all over and can't find such a place within an hour drive.
My last resort is my stepfathers tools that have been sitting in a shed since he passed away. I'm hoping that they are still operational!
#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
Bandsaws are incredibly simple pieces of machinery. It is super common for workshops to still be happily using 50 year old bandsaws. If the motor runs you can change out the blade yourself and oil up all the moving parts and it should be just fine.
So I took a sculpture class with Jordu Schell today at Jerseyfest. The project was sculpting The Goon, from the comic book series, which was surprisingly challenging:
It was a good project, at least! I learned I can sculpt things even when they aren't something I'm deeply passionate about, which is useful to know, in terms of doing things like taking commissions and so on.
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hitting hot metal with hammers
hitting hot metal with hammers
There are other kinds?
Yeah, I'm of the opinion that an overly-neat workshop is considerably more conspicuous
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based on the state of ours, i really hope that isn't true
hitting hot metal with hammers
A lot of people like to spout that bullshit. But then, I've done some of my best work lying on the side of a road in the mud under a truck with various animal excretions dripping on me, so they can go fuck themselves. If your workshop is a cluttered, disorganised, unsafe pigsty, then that does actually impact heavily on your ability to do work to the highest of your abilities and in a timely manner.
However, if your workshop is cleaner than the production line of a semiconductor manufacturing facility, then I harbour doubts as to how much work you actually do, or if you're really just all talk.
An operational workshop with a reasonable budget, that is, a workshop that cannot afford to pay people specifically just to clean, is never going to be as immaculate as a place like the McLaren factory.
Well, not if you want to keep all your fingers, anyway...
We were going to do a Mad Max themed airsoft game day and I'd done some little bits for it, a fancy steering wheel, some clothing. But the game was cancelled twice due to the weather (and rescheduled another time due to people having other things on). And now there's at least a four week gap until we can do another game. So... I might have gone a little bit mad. Initially it was just going to be a prop for some CTF type games, but I think it'd be much cooler as a weapon. So I'm going to have a bb gun built into it that will be activated by the tremolo bar, same as the flamethrower in the movie.
This is the planning bit. It's mostly in pencil so it doesn't show up well. You might notice that the flamethrower is missing, that's because 1) I'm not a fan, it clutters up the guitar and 2) if it turns out that the guitar really needs it I can easily add it after I am finished.
This close up of the body shows a bit more of the detail. The mechanism for firing is very simple, the lever just presses against the trigger. The bbs will travel up a pipe on the back of the bass neck, they'll lose a lot of accuracy, but it's a flamethrower, it's meant to spew fire (bbs) everywhere.
However,the magazine poking out the bottom was a bit of a problem. It reminded me too much of the ak47 guitar guns. They're cool, but I'm building a flamethrower, not an AK guitar. I could use a smaller magazine, but I don't want the person using the gun to have to reload mid-game. So I've moved the bb gun to fire up the guitar neck. This hides the gun and will also make it a little easier to aim. The simple mechanical lever will need to be replaced with an electronic system, which is superior in every way but one. It won't quite have the same mechanical feel. Like the difference between turning a door knob and flicking a light switch I guess. It's a small thing but I hope I can simulate the feeling of doing something mechanical and not just have a switch.
Here's what I've got so far. As far as the wood bits go, I've just got to find a couple of nice bits for the necks. The necks you see in the photo will be cut down as much as they can be, they're just there for the real necks to attach to. After that I've got a lot of sanding to do.
I've very nearly got all the materials already. I've got leftover metal sheets, copper pipes, little gizmos and electronic bits. I'm just missing some strings. It won't be a playable guitar, but it has gotta have strings.
Despite the size of the project I'm feeling like I have a decent chance of success.
Anyone have any ideas for how to hand them better than poster putty?
Your wall fish are lovely!
A nail gun. It got the job done in Quake!
The only thing that needs to be clean is a paintshop. You don't want static cling sucking dust into a fresh coat of paint.
Also it's better to have your tools organized, findable and easily retrievable. Adam Savage has this concept of "First Order Retrievability" which basically means not having to go into a room, open a tool box, lift up a tray and pull out a drawer to get to a tool. He takes it to pretty crazy lengths and builds custom stands on wheels and stuff
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Pretty much, yeah. I mean, it's almost a physical impossibility to keep a metal shop or wood shop free of dust. A paint shop, however? Don't even spray WD40 if you're standing downwind, because you'll fuck up someone's paintjob...
It was a good way to make sure it all got done every week and it usually got done quickly.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Well yeah, but your Dad's nice. There's LOTS of shop owners that want you either doing productive work or clocked off and out of the building. Time is money!
I adapted artwork I found online but I don't feel too bad since they weren't being sold as shirts and I'm never going to sell them, just making one for myself.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I was intending to use a thinner metal that I could cut with tin snips as I have some metal spare, but I managed to get some scrap bits of steel. It's slightly too small, so the blade won't be quite the right size, but it's worth it. I was anticipating needing to buy some more jigsaw blades but a copious amount of oil enabled me to do it with only one broken blade. I still need to file the edges to make it look pretty as it's fairly rough atm. And I think I can borrow a tool for cutting the holes, so they'll look real good.
The movie guitar uses a kickstand for the tremolo arm, I had a spring loaded kickstand on an old junk bicycle but it was cast metal, I think? (I don't really know what I'm doing) Bending/cutting it to make it fit would have been a real pain. So I gritted my teeth and bought a kickstand. It's exactly the same but it's stamped instead (I think?). Whatever, I could bend it! I've bent it to 90 degrees so it'll be easier to install and it has been filed and oiled to make it work smoothly as a lever. It's also shiny and chrome, so I consider that a good omen.
Finally, I've cut out the silhouette of the aeg that'll be the 'flamethrower' in the middle layer. I still need to cut out the silhouette for bottom layer, I decided that I will trace the middle layer onto it rather than draw it twice. Hopefully that means that it will line up nicely when it is put together. You can see some lines on the layer, those are going to be cut out to reduce weight, as the guitar is quite heavy. Ignore the keyhole looking thing, that was the hole for the tremolo arm, but it's now going to be different.
Finally, everything I've done so far together. I still haven't done the actual guitar necks, those are just the bits they'll attach to.
Next step will be cutting out the bottom layer. And the guitar necks. I'm putting off assembling it as I'm planning on gluing it together. If I screw up one part I can make another, but if I screw up after it's all glued together I'll be in trouble. So at the moment I am just making the bits and planning how they will fit together.
The photos were the right way up, but uploading them seems to make them revert to their original orientation.
But I feel like that would mostly just be me
I need a band saw.
Apparently, you can't rent one and if you don't know anyone with one, you're just out of luck.
My jigsaw can not cut through 2.5"
Sunbelt Rentals stocks them if you have one local to you, though day rentals are like $40-50.
Where are you located? You might be able to find a community tool lending service or a co-op creative workspace where you can become a member to use the space or pay a small nominal fee to use some time there.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
the nearest one to me is over an hour away. Gas and rental costs would almost buy me one!
I've been looking all over and can't find such a place within an hour drive.
My last resort is my stepfathers tools that have been sitting in a shed since he passed away. I'm hoping that they are still operational!
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
not that that will help me much, but it'd be neat to play with!
I love watching woodworkers cut complex joinery just with a table saw and a chisel.
As you may have noticed, I love the Fine Woodworking youtube channel
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
P.s She LOVES cats so that's why the backing is kitty fabric
It was a good project, at least! I learned I can sculpt things even when they aren't something I'm deeply passionate about, which is useful to know, in terms of doing things like taking commissions and so on.
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union