I started uploading pictures of my work to photobucket. I wanted to post some of them here, I am in a rut and need to stay connected to the build stuff thing, so posting pictures of the things I have built helps with that. You guys are pretty cool about stuff like that so here it goes.
The mellow lamp. I built it as a birthday present to the wife. I never built another one.
The first of the glow in the dark clocks. It lives in my kitchen.
Please ignore the click here thing, it was on another site.
Good incense burner picture.
Another lamp. It turns on and off via a key switch that sticks out of the side of the jar. It operates both the top bulb and the one inside the jar. The second picture shows the switch detail a little better, and the bulb inside the jar.
Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness
- bobenhotep
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Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness
For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.
Re: Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness
Very cool! Functional art! I like all of the clocks that you have posted pictures of. Do you build things with an idea first and then find your material, or do you take materials and let them become your finished product? Did you ever figure out your shipping/packaging problem?
Simon
65 f 100
56 willys m38a1 SOLD ( Have had since high school )
65 f 100
56 willys m38a1 SOLD ( Have had since high school )
- bobenhotep
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- Joined: January 9, 2007, 4:15 am
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Re: Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness
Thanks!
I do both in a type of feedback loop process. Ideas and materials are constantly influencing each other. I get ideas from found items, and I get ideas and look for parts. So a sort of " I have this idea, need this- found this instead, but I could build this, then I have to find a part to get this to work with that...)
The short answer is that I do both.
I have switched over to FedEx, the shipping is usually low enough that I can afford really good packing materials and all turns out well.
I do both in a type of feedback loop process. Ideas and materials are constantly influencing each other. I get ideas from found items, and I get ideas and look for parts. So a sort of " I have this idea, need this- found this instead, but I could build this, then I have to find a part to get this to work with that...)
The short answer is that I do both.
I have switched over to FedEx, the shipping is usually low enough that I can afford really good packing materials and all turns out well.
For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.
Re: Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness
Cool stuff! I too, endlessly tinker with odds and ends.
Working on a '66 F100 with a '71 240 and the original three-on-the-tree...
- bobenhotep
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- Joined: January 9, 2007, 4:15 am
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Re: Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness
More strangeness
Lamp
The first of my copper clocks
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I sold this clock, this is its new home in a recording studio in California.
Lamp
The first of my copper clocks
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I sold this clock, this is its new home in a recording studio in California.
For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.
- bobenhotep
- Posts: 911
- Joined: January 9, 2007, 4:15 am
- Location: Las Cruces, NM
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Re: Clocks, incense burners, and other strangeness
Finished a new clock design. Hopefully it can get me many truck parts.
For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.
My '63 short wrongbed
"The Iron Rhino"
300 I6, 3 spd manual, DS II/ HEI ignition.
Stuff I added to Hints and tricks
-300-6 choke tube repair
-duraspark II/ HEI
-Horn ring contact tube repair
-turn signal indicator fix
Mikhail Kalashnikov and Nikola Tesla are the guys i think of when i build things.