quarta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2016

My Arcade

     


My arcade


Finally finished my Arcade, it's been a project i've been working a few month now. Unfortunately i dont have pictures of the construction and only started to take pictures in the end. It's all beed done by me , from the scketch , to the 1:1 model on cardboard, cutting all the parts from mdf, paiting and assembly. It's been a really good project to learn some tecniques, specially about painting. It's running on windows with a small pc inside and running Mala with Mame emulator. It has 16 buttons , 2 joysticks and it's quite good for 2 players. The screen it's a lcd of 17 inches. Any questions or comments let me know. I know the pics aren't that good but the day wasn't sunny for a good quality pics.









segunda-feira, 24 de outubro de 2016

Halloween lamp from Pallet

     


Halloween lamp from pallet


This weekend with the haloween getting closer and closer the ideia was to make a halloween lamp from a pallet to put outside. Something simple that culd be easely replicated. 

This is what i came up with....




Required Materials and Tools

1 or 2 boards from pallets.

Saw
Nails
Shoe Polish (optional)
Stick
Candle or a Led and a small battery

Here we go


1.Gather the board



2.Cut the board




3.Join all the pieces



4.Make the face and some holes to help cutting it




5.Cut out the face




6.After the face cutted out



7.Some nails to put all the pieces together




8.A lithle bit of sanding for a nicer finish





9.Assemble the holder base 





10.Some shoe polish for finish


11.Final result after assembled


After finished just stick it into your garden. You can put inside a small candle, a led and a battery or just buy a cheap lamp that flashes, you cen get them really cheap a put it in.

Forgot to take a pucture of the back side but it's splitted into 2 parts wich enables me to put the candle in.

See you next week.



domingo, 16 de outubro de 2016

Cutting Board

     


Cutting board mahogany and pine


This weekend i had some scrap of mahogany laying around and i've decided to do a cutting block with it. It's a easy project but requires some time since it has to dry the glue and also because of the sanding required. The pine gives extra strength since it has the wood grain crossed.

Her's the final product




Required Materials and Tools

2 Types of wood (i've used mohogany and pine)
Table saw
Glue
Clamps
Router
Planer
Mineral oil 

Here we go

1.Square the mohogany scrap



2.Cut out the pine to length



3. Cut the mohogany to insert the pine



4.Glue everything together and wait



5. Plain it



6. Sanding it



7.Squaring it again



8. Router to have a better smooth edge on top



9. After Router



10. A little of mineral oil for better finish



11.Final





Hope you like it.

Comments are wellcome.