Paul Hexem Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Yesterday I was building myself a new desk (old one was too flimsy for all my monitors), and found it ironic that I was building a desk for a computer that I'd be using to access SL- where I'd build virtual stuff. Wondered if I'm the only one that does that sort of thing. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I sometimes use SL to dummy up something to get a feel for how it can go together and fit with other things. I did a mock-up for a proposed twin-beam CNC plasma cutter that actually showed the inherent error in the system at the extremities of movement would render it unworkable. I've also made stuff in SL and 3D-printed it after reducing it in size. To be honest though, SL is really best suited for making the things you can't make/have/do in SL 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animats Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I used to do a lot of building in RL, before TechShop tanked. It really works. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan Amore Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 34 minutes ago, Paul Hexem said: Yesterday I was building myself a new desk (old one was too flimsy for all my monitors), and found it ironic that I was building a desk for a computer that I'd be using to access SL- where I'd build virtual stuff. Wondered if I'm the only one that does that sort of thing. At least it's more like building with prims in RL. I put together a bookcase yesterday. Does that count as building? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Rhiadra Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Profaitchikenz Haiku said: I sometimes use SL to dummy up something to get a feel for how it can go together and fit with other things. I did a mock-up for a proposed twin-beam CNC plasma cutter that actually showed the inherent error in the system at the extremities of movement would render it unworkable. I've also made stuff in SL and 3D-printed it after reducing it in size. To be honest though, SL is really best suited for making the things you can't make/have/do in SL Really interesting! I think there is a great deal of potential for SL modeling of RL applications. For instance, I used to rely on a rather unimaginative use of cat's eye in RL, but I've had really good luck testing eyeshadow palettes and singles, as well as styles in SL and applying them (mostly) successfully in RL. Also, hair styles and ombres. Really, the sky is pretty much the limit, I think. Edited January 31, 2021 by Scylla Rhiadra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceka Cianci Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 That's actually one of our family businesses.. Someone picks a plot for their cabin or whatever type of home..The guys go in terraforn the land and do everything from grading, foundation building the home, all the plumbing electric and communications lines, all the finish work, all utilities and the appliances and anything else the customer may have wanted.. Even the landscaping.. So when they are finished, all the customer has to do is move their things in.. Working on the sides of mountains, the weather can be a big issue.. If it rains, you have to get off the mountain pretty quick or you may slide off.. then it has to be dry enough to go back up.. then a lot of times they have to re-dig the footings because they were filled back in with soil from all the rain.. That happens a lot.. But I tell you what, The homes and the land when they are finished, always astonish me.. Especially seeing the before and after images. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shireena1 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 well,maybe i do lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I've done a lot of household repair/remodeling over the years, and have made and repaired furniture. My welding skills are mildly laughable, but I can build or repair some metalwork too, as long as "strong" is more important than "pretty". My Dad taught me that it's important to know how to maintain the things you can, and to know what the professionals are talking about if you have to call them in for the tough jobs. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryanne Solo Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I am designing a simple, (but large), greenhouse for RL. I did make an entire garden area but now we want a greenhouse. I am using illustrator to make the plan. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie Calavera Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I've always been a tinker/maker in RL. Just like getting my hands on things, designing things. One of the best tools I've bought in recent years has been a 3D printer. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tari Landar Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 Umm.... yes? It resembles a lot of my sl road incidents too! (very well loved, and heavily used, table, lol) But, really, I do actually, lol. This year's back yard project will be largely based on something I've built in sl, specifically so that I could recreate it in rl. Sl makes for a great testing ground. 3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marianne Little Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I did some when my health was better. Work in the garden, making raised beds of wood, stairs of treated wood, building walls of natural rocks, and also a concrete wall by the garage. Now I can barely walk and the garden is weeds. 😪 I have done usual home improvements like painting and new floors. A bit unusual thing: Tearing down open fireplaces from the 70ties, mending the wall, and installing both a woodburning stove and a pellet stove. I mean the whole thing, filling the old huge hole in the chimney, making a new. The house has not burned down, so it was done right. I don't think many women has the done that. I used to love all sort of craft, from making dolls of porcelain clay, patchwork, sewing clothes. And much more. I don't have the strength or energy for anything more. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Profaitchikenz Haiku Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 9 hours ago, Marianne Little said: I don't have the strength or energy for anything more. I'd give you a hug but I'm worried you'd pass out because of it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnet Psaltery Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Apart from assembling flatpacks the only significant things I built were a Plasticine model village during my late 20s and early 30s, and a related 3D representation of its mythical homeland using lots of cardboard strips cut to its contours and held together at right angles in a lattice with notches. I don't know if that makes me a builder or just slightly potty. Edited February 1, 2021 by Garnet Psaltery Clarification. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindal Kidd Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 20 hours ago, Paul Hexem said: If you put a skin of plywood on the bottom of that it will greatly increase its resistance to bending/sagging. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hexem Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Lindal Kidd said: If you put a skin of plywood on the bottom of that it will greatly increase its resistance to bending/sagging. The top is 3/8" solid mounted on 6 legs. That alone would be more than sturdy enough for the average computer desk. The 2x4's are just me going way over the top and building a framework for me to mount monitor arms. Needed to keep the bottom open so I can get under there and see where my bolts are going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artorius Constantine Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I build combat robots, among other things, in RL. usually I design them in SL. As you can see by the pictures about halfway through this build video. Also building a compound in the desert. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnightamber Berithos Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Never thought about it but...I am a texture designer and builder in SL In RL I have often refinished and restored furniture and I am an accomplished seamstress who can spend hours browsing fabric stores. Interesting thought. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Mistwalker Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 On 1/31/2021 at 1:12 PM, Ceka Cianci said: That's actually one of our family businesses.. Someone picks a plot for their cabin or whatever type of home..The guys go in terraforn the land and do everything from grading, foundation building the home, all the plumbing electric and communications lines, all the finish work, all utilities and the appliances and anything else the customer may have wanted.. Even the landscaping.. So when they are finished, all the customer has to do is move their things in.. Working on the sides of mountains, the weather can be a big issue.. If it rains, you have to get off the mountain pretty quick or you may slide off.. then it has to be dry enough to go back up.. then a lot of times they have to re-dig the footings because they were filled back in with soil from all the rain.. That happens a lot.. But I tell you what, The homes and the land when they are finished, always astonish me.. Especially seeing the before and after images. I've stayed in both the Rooster's Perch and the Bunk House. I want a place like the Bunk House. http://www.pioneercabins.com/our-cabins/index.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairreLilette Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) I have designed furniture but someone else built it. I design and make my own jewelry also and can also sketch out clothing from a complete creation in my head. I started building things with my Dad when I was very young because his hobby was carpentry, but being a girl, I learned by fetching him things and watching rather than hauling lumber or using a saw. My father and I also inlayed mosaics for his furniture and we did some gold leafing as well. I've always loved building but am not physically strong to actually do it. But I can plan it all out as well as just explain and someone else builds it. This is a beautiful table with antique china pieces as the mosaic. Antique china dish pieces as mosaics are my favorite. Edited February 2, 2021 by FairreLilette 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Vortex Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I've put together Ikea furniture a few times. That's the extent of my carpentry skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollymews Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 i have a little electric chainsaw and a little splitting axe. I have yet to find anything woody for the garden that can't be made by cutting it up with the saw and dongy knockering it together with the back of the axe. Planter boxes, seats, guide fences, stuff like that a while ago my lawn mower puttered out and I had to send it to the shop to get fixed because I never worked out I how could hit it with the axe to make it better. And then because was taking a while at the shop, I mowed my lawn with the chainsaw - the long bits anyways, brmmm!! My neighbour peeked over the fence while I was doing it, just stared at me and then went back into their shed and never came out again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orwar Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Does putting IKEA furniture together count? If not .. Well. From back when I did some work as a carpenter ... Long-stitch ... Tight-back millimetre binding. Guest book. My first attempt at tooling. Somewhat shaky. Full suede with hand-riveted copper plate covers, stained edges. Marbled paper. Book made from that paper, blue leather spine and fore-edges. Exposed spine binding, French sewing on tapes. Tooled graphite edge on a millimetre binding, half-leather with paste papers (that I made myself, of course). Pancakes. Limp vellum binding. Long-stitch binding with parchment cover. German Silk endband. French silk endband. Half-cloth bands with fore-edge and corners and paste papers (which again, I made myself). ... Not sure whether that counts as 'building', though. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christhiana Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 37 minutes ago, Orwar said: ... Not sure whether that counts as 'building', though. I think we can swap building for making. Amazing job on the books! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christhiana Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I like to build things in RL. I'm rebuilding my shed/workplace atm. Made a new roof for it last year. I did a lot of rebuilding on our home as well. I sometimes mix RL and SL up and I want to try to edit and stretch 2x4's in RL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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