Rusty and gorgeous!

Now look at this! I received this awesome gift pack from a friend with a farm, a pile of iron thingies!

 And just a few days before I bought this massive 85cm circular saw blade from a junk store, I figured out all this would go nicely together.

 So first I took out all the bearings from the crankshaft and made some holes with threads for bolts to acquire good and removable couplings, since the finished table would not be moved easily as one piece.

 Then I comissioned a steel working company to drill a 28mm hole for the old weed cutter for horses to have it as a steady table top.

  They also lathe this iron cylinder for me to make a nice connection for the two lowest parts of the table.

 I brushed the dirt out and oiled all the iron to have a nice surface.

 And cut and moved the original crank of the weed cutter  upside down to hold the table top steady.

 Left the flywheel for the legs and polished all the surfaces with several pieces of old sheet.

Here's the cutie, ready to serve as a table!

Wellcome to check it out in few days to the Recycling factory!

Time to fly!

I once saw this artist who had made a chair that was floating in the air by the repelling force of magnets

and it raised a question that got stuck in to my mind;

How would it feel like to lie on a floating bed ?

Well I had to find out, so this is the story about it :)

I got this awesome pile of wood from a friend, and with some pondering I figured out how to make a bed out of it.

 Made few little adjustments.

Tested it out.

Got the legs ready for the magnets.

And the when the package of eight 400 kilo neodym magnets arrived,

 I carefully sealed them inside the legs.

(without any darn metal on the table) :D

Then made all the attachements to keep the bed from floating around the house ;)

 

Piled it up to for the test.

And Got all the answers needed!

Sweet dreams and welcome to test it to the Recycling factory in two weeks! :)

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Goggels behold!

As many of you might know, I'm attending the Recycling factory in couple of weeks as my first exhibition and on top of this I opt to participate to a recycle-fashion-kinda-costume-contest as a Airship Engineer !

So I have a costume to make and since good goggles are such a crucial part of steampunk I just had to make a pair.

 This is what I found for this, an old oil lamp and a lens collection from a epidiascope.

 Everything set apart to the useful pieces. 

 Lens set inside the crown to make it work as a telescope with another lens in front of the eye.

 Some leather glued to back and front.

 And behold the goggles! Works with bronzen boys,

                                            Babies,

With my wife :),

And with me with the hat of an airship engineers!

Needless to say, it's luxury!

I found this old drawer of a sewing machine table under our fireplace amongst old firewood stacked there

 and aspired to do something cool with it!

So I took an old waterfilter thingy and cut a good chunk out of it.

 

 Gave it a good spank.

Then drilled some holes with some help.

 Lined the box with some rough hemp fabric.

Made a apecialized hinge for the door and some mountings for the hanging.

Aaand here we have it! A wine bottle showcase for a dining room that has everything. 

True luxury! Never know I needed one before I had it! ;)

The Day of the Tentacle

What a gift I got, a bunch of classy cabinet knobs!

 First I snapped the screws and got them upside down.

Then drilled some holes in to a-half-a-horse-collar with old log drill.

 Evened it out from the ends and added some brackets for the wall.

 Moved a piece of iron from the end to the middle to get some leverage from the wall.

And it's ready to go! A tentacle.. or maybe something from a ship wreck.. those things tend to look a like...? :)

Shock teraphy!

 

I got this wonderful little box as a heritage from my past grandma and I sertainly had proper use for it. 

 This device was build by my father with his brother somewhat half a century ago. It is a sort of transformer, made to prank peole with electric shocks. Though with my brothers and friends we took it as a hobby to make a circle holding hands and get some high voltage shocks out of it.

 

That plastic container in the middle came from a juice bottle and I installed it almost fifteen years ago to keep this thing together. I wasn't too satisfied to it even then, but had nothing better in my hands. 

Now these lovely items came to help, a frame of a coffee grinder and a switch.

This old pump offered its hand(les).

And here it is,

 a box full of suprise!