sexta-feira, 14 de outubro de 2016

Small Doormat from pallets

     


Small Doormat from pallets


With the rain starting i've remebered that the rug sops easily. Let's make a small door mat so that the rug keeps dry in winter. 
Her's a small project very easy to make, cheap, no time consuming and that everyone can do.



Materials

Disassembled Pallet 
Nails
Saw
Hammer

1.Gathering the materials


2.Cut to size


3. Cut out the corners of the boards to look better


4. Assemble in place


5.Final Result




Hope you like it.














quinta-feira, 13 de outubro de 2016

Mini planter from Pallet

     


Mini planter from pallet


Had some pallets laying around and decided to make something with them. Her's the first project. Unfortunatelly i didn't take any pictures of the construction of it but it can be made in about 30 minutes or so. If you have any questions please let me know.
The main idea was to make something rustic with it to plant something.






Materials List

1 Dissasembled Pallet
1 JigSaw or Chopsaw
Nails/Screws
Hammer


1.After assembled and slighty sanded




2.After some protective coat of Bondex



3.Final product



Hope you like it.




terça-feira, 4 de outubro de 2016

Chips and Dust Collector

     


Dust and chips colector


My first project is not a craft project but something that will help me out in the making of future projects. Has a problem the other day when paining some wood, the mess that it made. After the need came th desire to make somehting to help prevent all that trash. This is not someting new , is something well knows and made by a lot of people just with a personal touch.

The project execution can be considered easy and can be even made with buckets for smaller shops.





Required Materials

Barrel , i've used one with 100L
Drill
Jig Saw
Drill bit with 40mm
Several pipes of 40mm
Silicone

Acrilic (optional)





1.Gathering materials




2.Cut the holes for the air in and out



3.Cut the pipe where the vacum cleaner will connect


4.Pipe assembly, top


5.Pipe assembly , bottom


6.Silicone for fixation of the pipes


7.Extra window to see the inside without opening.



8.Acrilic to the peep hole




9.Fixation of the acrilic with screws




10.Final Result





After some tests i was amazed with the result. It will surelly help me out with the making of future projects. It will not be the last time you will see this here.

Make somehting , allways with safety in mind.



terça-feira, 27 de setembro de 2016

Let's Do it

     


Let's make something





This is a small blog with some of my projects. The intention of this is to try to inspire people to make something instead of simply be a consumist. The projects can be made from several materials , wood, plastic, metal or any other material that i like or that i might be inspired from. The ideia of making something ourselfs is much more appealing to me that simply buying somehting from a shop that was mass made. With all the errors and imperfections that they will have i still find them more valuable that a mass made product. 
Another reason to make them is thta i've been aquiring some tools and i need projects/ideias to use those tools and that way learn how to use them and practice with them. All the projects are amateur since my profession has nothing to do with bricolage, most of them will have only one copy since they are all trial and error tests. 
With this i hope to inspire someone also to make stuff and eventually help them not to make some of the mistakes i'll be making on my own projects.

Let's go.