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General Category => Brag Forum => Topic started by: EIEIO on March 07, 2013, 03:19:27 pm

Title: 2x4 Cups
Post by: EIEIO on March 07, 2013, 03:19:27 pm

These little cups are cut from a scrap of 2x4. They make good nut and bolt holders or desktop paperclip cups. Quick to make and interesting coloring from a crappy piece of wood.

The left cup has a 3" outside diameter vertical outside wall, 1/4" ring width (2.5" I.D.), and a 10 degree tapered inside.
The right has a 3" O.D., 2.5" I.D., with a 27 degree taper inside and outside.

Laying the internal waste plug on its side makes its bottom surface parallel to the blade, so it's easy to slice off the bottom section to fit back into the cup to make a bottom. On the right cup, the bottom was glued in then sanded flat. On the right cup, the bottom was glued in and the slight extension (1/8") below the bottom of the cup was left as a small stand-off.

These are rubbed with Feed-n-Wax for a finish.

For the pilot hole, note that most 1/16" bits are too short to drill through a 2x4, especially at an angle. For these cups I cut off a 4" length of 3/32" steel welding rod and sharpened the tip like a pencil on a belt sander, then chucked it in a hand drill. The welding rod drilled through the pine 2x4 with no trouble, but it gets very hot in the process (let it cool before trying to remove it from the drill or you'll get burned).   

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Post by: Keefie on March 07, 2013, 03:43:31 pm

nice work, they look great.

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Post by: saggioculo on March 07, 2013, 05:59:43 pm

These really look nice.  It's great to find a use for scrap.

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Post by: DWSudekum on March 07, 2013, 06:11:10 pm

Very nicely done.  Thanks for sharing it with us.


DW

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Post by: Russ C on March 08, 2013, 07:14:39 am

They look great, nice work.  :)

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Post by: frankorona on March 08, 2013, 08:08:47 am

Beautiful work, they are adorable and well made, thank you for sharing

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Post by: Tomsunnu on March 08, 2013, 08:36:52 pm

looks great!

Mahendra

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Post by: wombatie on March 09, 2013, 04:28:17 am

Very nice.

Marg

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Post by: Scroll Down on March 09, 2013, 06:32:04 am

Great Idea.

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Post by: newfie on March 09, 2013, 07:40:01 am

great looking little cups thanks for sharing

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Post by: smitty0312 on March 09, 2013, 07:40:40 am

Looks great, nice work, thanks for sharing.

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Post by: Al W on March 09, 2013, 10:44:48 am

Great idea.  Thanks for sharing with us.

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Post by: Marcellarius on March 09, 2013, 10:59:24 am

might sound strange saying this to a man, but you have 2 great cups ;)

hahaha