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I work in the manufacturing industry as a materials handler. We manufacture big industrial trucks. I used to work a normal desk job in front of a computer all day, but I have to confess I really like the change of pace. It's great to see something your company helped make at the end of the day. Years ago, I remember hearing all the stories of things people used to make: RVs, cabinets, boats, canoes, suanas, tiny houses. It almost seems as if the DIY build it yourself culture has kind of died out. Honestly, today I know of very little people that make their own things.

One day, I plan on building my own boat with space for an outboard motor. I just got the name and number of a guy who is interested in the project, but it's all up in the air. Here is what I had in mind of building:





On a side note, did anyone used to watch the show junkyard-wars? It was such a cool premise for a show. Teams would go to a junkyard and take scrapyard items and make them into a vehicle (submarine, plane, rock climber).





Post what your pride of joy is.

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I make wooden amulets with various symbols burned into them for friends and family, and I’ve sold a few on Etsy.

Post: #3

I make bows. This is the latest.

Post: #4

I make outrigger canoes. Well, I've made a few.

My favorites are made out if koa, that's fancy hawaiian wood.



There's a nice dark one:



You really gotta slather them over and overy with coconut oil. My dad made one we still got that he chopped on for months. My sister made little jewelery out of the koa shavings. That is hard wood, but easy to carve. Nice stuff.

Aloha!

Post: #5

Kona, beautiful canoes and good looking wood. Are you maybe aware of its bending properties/potential? Do people make bows or made it in the past from it?

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(07-24-2018 03:52 AM)sterling_archer Wrote:  Kona, beautiful canoes and good looking wood. Are you maybe aware of its bending properties/potential? Do people make bows or made it in the past from it?

I don't know the science of it, but people make koa bows. I'd imagine you gotta constantly oil it. There's curly koa and normal koa, one of which is really knotty.

There's a koa paddle that I used to use that's really bendy.

Aloha!

Post: #7

Nice work Kona and Sterling! Imagine if RooshV had their own yurt community somewhere out in California. It would be like the new Menlo Park.

Post: #8

Thats a damn nice boat.

Post: #9

(07-25-2018 04:16 PM)Kona Wrote:  

(07-24-2018 03:52 AM)sterling_archer Wrote:  Kona, beautiful canoes and good looking wood. Are you maybe aware of its bending properties/potential? Do people make bows or made it in the past from it?

I don't know the science of it, but people make koa bows. I'd imagine you gotta constantly oil it. There's curly koa and normal koa, one of which is really knotty.

There's a koa paddle that I used to use that's really bendy.

Aloha!

I just researched a bit more and it seems that koa is maybe more preferable to use as a handle material on bows, or maybe as a riser on takedown bows, opposed to being used as a bending limb.
But I believe in notion that pretty much every hardwood can be bent into a bow, if properly designed of course.

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There isn't much I haven't replaced on this truck, still an ongoing thing. I wish I had better pictures of when I first got it, it was a real turd. Rusted out panels, broken leaf springs, blown shocks, shitty tires and wheels.. rode hard and put away wet. It was pretty much ready for the scrap yard, although it has really low mileage. I paid $1300 for it and found a mint donor truck with a blown engine for $400. Various other parts came from the junkyard, including some upgrades from other ford vehicles. I have some go fast parts for it in my shop, just need to find a few more odds and ends before I can build up an engine for it.