GARAGE ART: What'd you build?

What is an outlaw derby??? Like soapbox derby for big guys? I'll bet that would be Rowdy as hell!! BILL RINALDI

 

Hey Walt,

The lamps with pistons as lights get a 20 watt "undercounter" puck type of quartz light. you can upgrade to a 25 watt bulb, but 30 watts gets too hot for the metal piston. The big Jacobs Radial lamp gets a 50 watt quartz light with a dimmer. Others have a 40 watt quartz in a "scoop" type shade, with dimmers too.

I think the 20 watt lamps give off a nice light. it won't flood your desk with other overhead lights on but it works pretty well. The 40-50 watt ones need dimmers cause they can be too bright.

I have some on the bench now with regular 40 watt hid bulbs and they are bright. The bulb is a regular screw-in type in an intermediate base.

Dave

 

It is just hanging on the back storage mezzanine area post some day I will make one for track roadster project car 37 thru 40 Bantam Grill. These picture's were taken before it went in the dip tank.

 

Just got these today,found them in a parts car a customer bought for his '54 packard carribean, just need to decide on what to build with them,wall art,couch or chair.....

 

couch!

 

Wow, that's actually very reasonable for an original piece of functioning artwork! Unfortunately the wife's got me on a pretty tight budget these days and artwork doesn't factor in, functional or not

 

Alot of talent on here for sure . I play with tables myself when I am truly bored . I am waaaaay outclassed here in this thread but what the heck .















Rick

 

Here is a clock I made from a 54 Buick headlight cover

 

Rick...you need to give up the smokes or build yerself a ciggy bucket

 

.............rack-o-header............

this is to ward off evil spirits;

 

That's sweet! Nice job.

 

Here's a lamp I just built -

 

Very cool stuff. I wish I had a fraction of the creativity of some of these people!

 

A boat shaped toy chest I built for my son a few christmases ago. Mostly out of all old wood from other projects. I like it, he lves it, and we always get compliments from any that comes over to our house. Might not be garage work, but it was built in a garage.

 

missing the glass but this is my corner table for the old ladies plant.

 

Is that a Thunderbird logo on a VW steering wheel? Cool.

 

I built something like that out of an O/T steering column and a flywheel. Love it!

 

none of these are mine but they are really cool.

 

Some of my handy work!

 

Lamp

 

Here are some pics of a stand that i made for a friend to hang a bell from. He got the bell from a decomissioned ship he served on in the Navy.

I designed the base and had it water jetted, the stand is a model A torque tube. Had some aluminum foot pads made and it was powder coated blue vane. A finished pic of it in his house in up state New York.

 

4 String guitar made from an old license plate. the license plate acts like a crude resonator

 

This is yard art/grandkids jungle gym I built from scratch last summer...


And a couple of signs that I made and painted, first is for my garage, and second I gave to the wifey for Christmas...

 

Brilliant art work! very inspritational.

 

I have an idea on a tool box...not giving it away but I'll contribute to the thread once I get to that point.

 

I built this display cabinet from an old Tokeim 39 gas pump.
Cheers!
Mickm

 

Great thread. Very creative and skilled hands. ................."My mine is a torrent of thoughts" Harvey Coreman " Blazing Saddles"...................

 

added some class and style to my bench light.

 

Way to many good ideas..