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Jun 23, 2011

Oscars Kick Bike - No Pedals!


I designed and built this kick bike for Oscar for his birthday this year.  
As you can see, he's every 3 year old girls dream and her parents' worst nightmare. Yup, he's hardcore.



It's made from all-American, solid steel (actually it might be from China, I just don't know).  
.120 wall round tubing to be exact.  Pretty heavy duty stuff.

I designed it in AutoCAD then printed it out full size to make sure all of my bends were correct.



We welded it all up and fitted the seat, headset and dropouts (the parts that hold the wheels, also drawn in AutoCAD)



The picture below shows the bike all together before I disassembled it for sand blasting and powder coating.  Also, the handle bars weren't finished in the above photo.



Finished product.  The finish was a clear coat powder coat over the natural sand blasted steel.



Jun 21, 2011

WE'RE BA-ACK!!!!

We're back!  This is my first post (Jared) and I'm going to be showing off some of the stuff I've been designing/building:

I really dig steel and wood lately - so I designed and built this desk for our computer.

This is a simple 1-1/2" square tube steel frame


The top is reclaimed butcher block that I used for a work bench.


Not long after I built this I sold it to someone in New York City on Etsy.  
So, now we're out of a computer desk.  

Looks like I need to build another one.