haha, fair enough
My work has announced a pretty generous āwell beingā bonus to spend on anything that might benefit our well being.
Once I got over the idea of spending it on cocaine and a hooker, Iāve decided to buy some power tools and build some ramps. Pretty excited.
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CMOAC,
Made that pizza oven for my wedding the week before it, wood fired monster made from scrap steel I found lying around. Could do with a big pizza stone in the bottom though.
Further cmoac, made the suit when we had to isolate, nicest Iāve ever looked.
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Fucking hell, welding and tailoring. Thatās a lot of OG man points for one person. Did you harvest the flour for the dough by hand scythe too? Well jealous.
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A true renaissance man!
too cheap to pay other people to do things.
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I was going to reply to this with āskillsā but it deserves a proper comment, along the lines ofā¦
Bloody well done. As someone who can just about sew on a patch and hem a tee (or some trousers), making a suit seems incredible. 
Pizza oven is ace too.
Wow, was just thinking how good you looked and that I could do with a decent suit with my new frame. Iād love to do the same to be honest.
Itās really not that hard once you figure out the pattern and donāt rush. I did mine from a ādifficultā pattern where there is a load of assumed things you have done before, most I had, some I googled but itās not that bad at all. Took about 4 days with the tie, shirt, and 3 piece.
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This is the very reason I starting making guitars
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That along with the āhow hard can it be?ā mentality opens a lot of doors for me
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Exactly, nothing is that hard, just having the balls to go at it and not be scared of fucking up.
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You literally only need to get a couple of things right and the rest is subjective. I like that, I donāt think people realise how unregimented a guitar can be.
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They do after they play one of mine!
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Ha! Iām sure theyāre great. Iām just refinishing an old one of mine and sorting out some of the issues it had.
Wtf. I need to her more about this. Amazing.
I did a butchery course a couple of years ago. We butchered a deer carcass into sausages and steak. That was rad.
Iāve got a blacksmith course soon.
Prepping for the collapse of modern society into a feudal medieval situation.
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I really really want to make some kitchen knives but canāt justify a forge in my house.
Iāve built quite a lot of furniture around the house partly because my house isnāt a normal size so finding off the shelf options doesnāt always work.
Other than than its mainly been building guitars and amps. I fancied getting into leather working like Pulman was doing so I could make guitar straps but never got round to it.
brian cant is completely right, someone can make it so why not try. Its the same mentality as cooking, you may cock it up but just try again until you get it.
Iād like to make a suit though Niall, thatās banging.
Thereās a guy in Bristol that does courses - nouko knives I think is the name.
Otherwise, Iāve got a forge but havenāt had much of a go at knives yet. Come down over the holidays at some point and weāll light it up. Got a big chunk of spring steel I found on Lyme Regis beach for just such a thing.
Holy fucking hell yes. Thatād be amazing.
You reckon we could get one done in a day? Iāve got some nice birdseye maple we could use for the handles.
