2017 Christmas Challenge

In my first post I said: "Match - how well do they match each other." but a non-identical pair might still pick up enough points if they design is clever enough... but the point of a pair of candlesticks has to be that they go together well.

Progress shots welcome and can be posted here if people want.

Neil

Here's my non-entry, a Halloween Candlestick. It isn't very heat resistant for a start and only one material (if you don't count paint). I suppose I could argue the Pumpkin is the other half of the pair demonstrating both CAD and manual carving skills...

Neil - You have been rumbled !!! BBC1 this afternoon, "Money for Nothing" Candlesticks made from old copper tubing plus brass fittings thrown out at the local tip and a bit of wood turning. Apparently cost £300 to make them and they sold for £400.
Come on lads, Neil is going to take all our designs and clean up - with the thousands he is going to make, he will hot foot it with a sack of gold on his back. Then he will buy up all the Super Adepts and probably Perfecto hand shapers.
What do you reckon ??
BobH

My family are convinced I have a workshop costing £50,000 plus and only use it to make swarf. They're right...

Dave

Dave, I think using Photoshop (or similar) to create a pair is possibly outside the rules

John

Oh, you mean the obvious bit, where all the outlying pieces of swarf are mirror imaged?

Nice one Dave, though your swarf doesn't look the same

Really need to get on with my efforts, though it's not far off yours

So how many materials is that? You just aren't taking this seriously, are you?

Posted by David Standing 1 on 24/10/2017 17:58:21:

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 13/10/2017 18:59:54:.

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... You just aren't taking this seriously, are you?

Or am I luring you all into a false sense of security? But if it was Fake News I wouldn't tell you, would I? Or would I? Perhaps it's a double-bluff...

Dave

PS I promise that I didn't use Photoshop™

NURSE!

It's Dave's tablets time

Nope, you used another photo editing software instead!

No good shouting for Nurse. I gave her the slip yesterday.

My entry for the 2017 Christmas Challenge.

Candlesticks made from mild steel, yellow Dymo tape and acrylic tubing & rod. All found in the scrap box, indeed the candle was marked ‘Decimal currency 2p’, so it is at least 40 years old. The steel bases could also be old CDs. If you don’t have any, get off to your local charity shop and buy a couple of Barry Manilow or Pan Pipes CDs. Either way, they are resistant to tipping, in the choppy waters of the Norfolk Broads or in order to withstand the celebrated Grand Union Bore. They are rather like a Captain’s Decanter, at least if you are captain of a Monitor… I had the had the idea at 7am Thursday morning and the job was done by 5pm. If you don’t ‘get it’, they are modelled on canal boat engine exhaust stacks. My lathe wasn’t big enough to face the ends, not having a Steady, but I realised I could square off the ends in the mill. Acrylic resists burning, but melts, so it should be safe, with care.

Then, on Friday, I had another idea, in collaboration with Mr Kipling, using preassembled foil, pastry, filling, and icing. The cherry was surgically removed and a pin drill used to mount the candle-holder without cracking the icing. This had the advantage that I could eat them afterwards, although the candles were a bit chewy. It took longer to find the Cherry Bakewells in the local shops, that it did to make them into candleholders.

Indeed! You don't think those candles were giving off strange fumes, do you?!

However, I have to say he's taken it more seriously than Dave (S.O.D) 

Edited By David Standing 1 on 03/11/2017 16:45:34

Well I'm going to knock a point off for using Cherry Bakewells instead of Mince pies, though sending me the rest of the pack of Bakewells could see your score reinstated

I think he's cheating by trying to get two entries in one. The tarts don't count though as removing the cherry means they only have one ingredient - 'bakewell'.

Whilst I admit many of my posts are nothing but hot-air, surely this entry must be serious:

There are two of them. The other blew away. You can trust me: I'm a doctor.

Dave

if you were half as good with a lathe and milling machine as you apparently are with image editing software, you'd have had a proper pair of bloody candle sticks made long ago!

Alas, it's true...