Category: Creative
Christmas Lights 2017
Gingerbread House 2017
Jackolantern 2017
Sandy Memorial
This is how I made the best dog ever’s memorial plaque.
I started with this picture taken 11/24/16.
Then started editing, first with the iphone photo editor.
Then with Adobe Photoshop.
Then with Adobe Illustrator.
Then used Corel Draw and an Epilog 150W CO2 laser cutter to burn the image onto a 1/4″ piece of plywood from Home Depot. Then sanded it.
Stained, sealed, added her dog tags.
Personalized Time & Forbes Magazine Front Covers
The Thinker-bot
Inside the chicken coop is an old wooden pig trough. On that pig trough sits the Thinker.
The Thinker bot is steel scrap welded together. I collect random pieces of metal kind of like Ray from Star Wars and once I have enough I weld it together. The Thinker bot is about 2′ high and weighs around 70 lbs.
Custom Snowboard Adirondack Chair
My brother and I started this project one night just for something to do. We had a couple of old boards from Deseret industries nobody used anymore lying around and some old 2×4″ planks.
First, we hashed out a quick diagram.
Then turned the diagram into reality.
Next, mounting the boards was easy.
Our bench survived a year or two but eventually fell apart because the frame was 2 distinct halves. With no cross-member to keep them together it lost a lot of strength and eventually broke.
I decided to make a chair this time, but since the last one fell apart I wanted this one to be very durable.
I built this chair with scrap pallet wood and snowboards from Deseret Industries.
This chair is solid as a rock. It’s kind of heavy but it’s not falling apart any time soon.
Recycled Yard Windmill
I had 2 old bike rims that were going to be thrown away at the bike repair shop I worked at and thought to myself, “These would make a great yard windmill!” I cleaned and repacked the bicycle hubs, added a table saw blade as a fin and mounted it about 8′ high on a 4″x4″ post.
Paul the Reclaimed Orangutan
This little guy is made from recycled bike parts I scrounged when working at a bike shop. We named him ‘Paul’ and he hangs from one of the outside lights by the garage outside. As he has gotten older rust makes him more and more orange, just like an orangutan.