DIY Thread

[Converge#12]

snails are bugs
Snails are mollusks not bugs. Thank you to the person who posted the link too.

[Danger Bird]

Bugs just means a pest, something that bugs you. I think you are confusing bugs with insects.

[plebeian scum]

I'm making a simple stencil of a local band's logo. I can't decide what to do with the "a" -- none of the bridges I've made look right. The best thing I can come up with is to fill in the A completely.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/A55-1.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/A55-2.gif

Any suggestions/someone who would do it for me? (**** "diy")

I'll post some pics of what I've done recently sometime.

[Danger Bird]

I'd just cut straight across and let the middle of the A be a solid color. Like just don't make any bridges.

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

So I realized all the stencils I've been doing have been of other stuff. So I figured I'd make my own **** and throw that up just to get some street cred or something.

So Jark Shark is my secret alias among my friends, and I made this stencil to go with that.

I have yet to even begin the actual cutting or anything, but I'm gonna make this one super high quality and put it up all over, so everyone knows me.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g236/JarkShark/jarksharkstencil.jpg

[asdf]

I haven't made a shirt in a long time, and since all my friends were elsewhere today, I decided to make an against me shirt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/againstme.jpg

It's not finished, because I still have to paint in the faces and do some touching up, but I like it so far.

Also, the hands turned out like crap. I'm going to need to think about how to fix that.

[iam2000pounds]

That's so awsome. I wish I was better at making stencils.

[mullets suk]

yea its pretty sweet the way it is, and the hands you can tell are hands.

as for scum, i would go with making a bridge. make the smallest bridge you can, and just hope to go it doesn’t break.

as for shirts ive made recently, ive made a Abfluss shirt (German or Belgium punk band) its just the name across the front, and there anarchy sign on the back, nothing grand.

[plebeian scum]

yeah, I'll figure out the *** patch later.

Here are some patches I've made in recent days:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches001.jpg - Profane Existence
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches002.jpg - World/Inferno
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches003.jpg - Bush
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches004.jpg - Radiohead bear
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches005.jpg - Low
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches006.jpg - DK's

[BCT]

asdf and scum are you using fabric paint

[asdf]

asdf and scum are you using fabric paint
I am.

[plebeian scum]

asdf and scum are you using fabric paint
White and black are; not the red.

[POINTLESS5448]

asdf that shirt is so good. i am amazed by it. i need to master the art of using fabric paint and making **** on black shirts.

i got my wisdom teeth and some other secret teeth out a couple of days ago so ive been ****ed up on painkillers so i havent been doing anything. im going to make some strike anywhere stencils for my backpack for school first. then i have a sean connery 007 stencil i need to make. i also am planning on making an aganst me shirt but i dont know what im going to do with that yet.

[iam2000pounds]

http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g199/iam2000pounds/?action=view&current=jkghhjg.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

That's a stencil I made for Against Me! I haven't used it yet though.

[good rats]

I dont know if I've posted about this yet, I probably did a while ago.

This is my dads old road bike from years upon years ago. It's been sitting in the rain for about four years so I decided to fix it up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/1.jpg

It's all pretty much finished now. I just need to get some new photos of it. I've re-taped up the handle bars, replaced the tubes and tires, patched up some old tubes, got rid of the leather strappings on the pedals, slowly worked on getting rid of all the rust, adjusted the brakes, removed the drink holder and added a light on the back for riding at night.


EDIT: here's a crappy camera phone picture.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/bike.jpg

[Ender_]

Nice man, I'm sure that thing kicks ***. :)

[BCT]

do you guys use spray fabric paint or a roller? that spray **** does not work well i think i might try it agian. i am thinking about making a silk screen soon. has any one else done that?

[asdf]

do you guys use spray fabric paint or a roller? that spray **** does not work well i think i might try it agian. i am thinking about making a silk screen soon. has any one else done that?
I use a brush. Roller works just as well. According to my friend, that spray stuff is ****, I really wouldn't even bother with it.

[BCT]

i have never even considered a brush those little foam brush might work well. i am goint to start so many diy projects when i move in to my own apparment on the 16th

[Microwave meals & ideals]

yeah, I'll figure out the *** patch later.

Here are some patches I've made in recent days:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches002.jpg - World/Inferno


Your World/Inferno patch is amazing. I'd make one if I had the slightest clue how.

[Jono9119X]

i dont have one clue on how to make a shirt...

no idea how you guys are doing this...

but can i just make a stencil, and put it over a white shirt, and use black spraypaint, and spray over the stencil?

[Pirate Satellite]

Yeah, Jono, that would work fine, but it'd give a different feel than fabric paint. Whenever I paint shirts, (which, granted, aren't very punx,) I use a brush set and So Soft Fabric Paints. I have made two with spraypaint, and they look pretty rocking, but they don't look store bought. The best part about it is how nicely they fade.

A few tips for doing that, though: make sure that it's a preshrunk t-shirt, and put something between the layers of the shirt so it doesn't bleed. I do most of my painting with my shirts stretched out over my guitar case, which works effectively and bleeds through hella cool-like. My guitar case looks all dope and psychedelic.

[Jono9119X]

haha niiice

i dont want to make them look store bought anyways
i like homemade stuff haha

what guitar do you have, i have a gibson sg special faded, and im getting a white and black epiphone sg, this week, for 200$

[Pirate Satellite]

I had a black and white Epiphone SG, but recently a pipe broke in my house and soaked the pickups. Actually, it soaked just about everything, caused 40,000 dollars in structural damages, and got us evicted because we couldn't pay for it.

But whatever. Life goes on.

I use my acoustic guitar case neck to paint things with. it fills the shirts out really well, because I'm a small and the fit is perfect. My acoustic guitar is an Ibanez purchased from my brother's ex-girlfriend for twenty bucks. Best buy of my life.

[Jono9119X]

damn, sucks about your house, and your guitar, was the epiphone a G-310, cuz thats what im getting, looks sooo sweet.

yeah, i wont be painting, i cant do that yet hah, just spraypaiting.
ill make my own stencils out of cardboard, and then just spraypaint over that wtih a white shirt. That will work well, im guessing.

[plebeian scum]

i dont have one clue on how to make a shirt...

no idea how you guys are doing this...

but can i just make a stencil, and put it over a white shirt, and use black spraypaint, and spray over the stencil?
http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/print_stencil.html - though that's a bit more involved than spraypaint.

Your World/Inferno patch is amazing. I'd make one if I had the slightest clue how.
http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/world_inferno.gif

Stencilpunks is where it's at.

Oh, yeah, this sounds dumb, but what kind of places sell safty pins? They're tacky as hell (and I'm not one of those people that think they look cool), but I'm too lazy to sew, especially if it might just be temporary. I'd like to aviod the big discount stores also.

[AIRIC]

HOT TOPIC!!!!!! lol

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/print_stencil.html - though that's a bit more involved than spraypaint.


http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/world_inferno.gif

Stencilpunks is where it's at.

Oh, yeah, this sounds dumb, but what kind of places sell safty pins? They're tacky as hell (and I'm not one of those people that think they look cool), but I'm too lazy to sew, especially if it might just be temporary. I'd like to aviod the big discount stores also.basically any arts & crafts store. try joann's or michaels.

[Danger Bird]

Any drug store will have safety pins.

[asdf]

I made another shirt today. This one is a streetlight manifesto shirt, and I messed it up a few different ways, but it still looks passable.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/streetlight.jpg

[AIRIC]

Looks really good. What'd you mess up on?

[Ghostfire3]

Nice work asdf.

[asdf]

Looks really good. What'd you mess up on?
I didn't center it on the shirt, and I didn't center some of the layers correctly. I know it's something that'll only bother me. I can't care too much anyway, because I'm wearing it right now so I'm inhaling lots of paint fumes.

[mullets suk]

i dont think ive ever centered anything on any of my shirts. i look at it and just place stuff what looks good. im normally off a few inches to low.

the hardest thing i actully tried centering was the joe strummer shirt a while back, but the entire image was still inces below where it whould have been.

[POINTLESS5448]

i usually center whatever im doing good but whenever i do a layered stencil i always **** up on lining up the layers correctly.
asdf that shirt is good as **** youre owning everyone in the shirt department id say.
im making a strike anywhere backpack today well see how that goes.

bct designed a 8 or 9 layer stencil of david hasselhoff holding a rocket launcher from halo. its so funny. hes supposedly moving today and i think hes going to spray it on his wall in his new place whenever he cuts it.

[BCT]

I just figured out a new way to design stencil in photoshop. They come out sick but i have not sprayed one i did like that yet. The david hasselhoff one is like that and so is an ODB one i just started to cut it is starting to hurt my hand form cutting to much **** so i am taking a break for a while. I cut 2 of 6 layers of the odb one already the david hasselhoff is 8 for hasselhoff and 3 for the rocket launcher it is going to suck to cut. Jodan will you take pics of the elphants on the box and the shirt i made for nick and put them on your photobucket.

[Splinter364]

This thread is dead!

hey asdf, you have experience with tie dying right?

I want to dye a pair of jeans (they're a little dark blue) to just black, and I know a store near me has RIT dye. Can you reccomend me a technique to use to get the most of dye, so I dont waste a pair of jeans or a packet of dye? The jeans are made of 55% Ramie, 45% Cotton and 5% spandex (if that helps!)

[asdf]

This thread is dead!

hey asdf, you have experience with tie dying right?

I want to dye a pair of jeans (they're a little dark blue) to just black, and I know a store near me has RIT dye. Can you reccomend me a technique to use to get the most of dye, so I dont waste a pair of jeans or a packet of dye? The jeans are made of 55% Ramie, 45% Cotton and 5% spandex (if that helps!)
I'll tell you right now: RIT dye sucks. For what you're doing, it would probably not be good at all. Have you ever seen someone with a tie-dyed shirt where the colors just looked extremely faded? That's because it's RIT. The colors are not vibrant and they don't stay well.

There's also the problem with your jeams only being 45% cotton. I don't know how RIT reacts to non-cotton fabrics, but the dye I use does not work well, at would probably rinse right out.

So sorry to tell you, but I think you'll have to try something else.

[Splinter364]

I'll tell you right now: RIT dye sucks. For what you're doing, it would probably not be good at all. Have you ever seen someone with a tie-dyed shirt where the colors just looked extremely faded? That's because it's RIT. The colors are not vibrant and they don't stay well.

There's also the problem with your jeams only being 45% cotton. I don't know how RIT reacts to non-cotton fabrics, but the dye I use does not work well, at would probably rinse right out.

So sorry to tell you, but I think you'll have to try something else.

aw okay. Thanks alot for replying so fast!

[Ender_]

Rather than cop-ping out and buying a loft for college, I built one. Today is my second full day, so I'll have to take pictures of it here in a little while. It is pretty sweet, I think you guys would like it.

[ibanezman575]

VA tech, i assume?

[Ender_]

VA tech, i assume?

:thumb:

I'm so blown away, and nothing has really started yet. :)

[ImAnIdiot]

Hey whats up?
so any ways... Ive been using transparencys to make stencils but they keep falling apart. What are other ways to make a stencil?

[Ender_]

Hey whats up?
so any ways... Ive been using transparencys to make stencils but they keep falling apart. What are other ways to make a stencil?

manila folders, cardboard, contact paper, the list goes on. I typically use the contact paper, because it has a sticky side that will keep the image from shifting. The only bummer is if you have any minute details, ripping the actual overlayed area off will tear the stencil, so it won't be much more efficient in long term use. :/

[ImAnIdiot]

what the hell is a manila folder?

[Ender_]

http://ask.yahoo.com/20031110.html

Dear Yahoo!:
Why is the "manila folder" called "manila"?
John
Montezuma, Georgia
Dear John:
The ubiquitous and sturdy office folders owe their name to manila hemp or abaca, a type of fiber that comes from a relative of the banana plant. Commonly used for ropes, paper products, and coarse fabrics, manila hemp is indigenous to the Philippines and gets its name from the country's capital.

Abaca was first introduced in the West in the early 1800s and was primarily used for cordage. Until stronger synthetic fibers were invented, abaca was the primary source for marine ropes because of its strength, water-resistant properties, and lightness.

Today, those same qualities make it the perfect ingredient for durable paper products like currency notes, high-quality writing paper, and of course, the stack of folders sitting on your desk.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/6/6c/Manila-folder.jpg

[ImAnIdiot]

so how do i make that into a sencil? do i print out the design and put the page over it then cut it out, or what?

[Ender_]

tear one side of the folder off, and either shove it in the printer to get what you want, or draw it on there yourself. Then take an exactoknife or razor and cut what you want to out. Then just tape it to a shirt or bag or whatever you want to stencil, and paint over the folder.

[ImAnIdiot]

wouldnt the folder get soggy with the paint? I m looking for ways to make a LASTING stencil.

[asdf]

wouldnt the folder get soggy with the paint? I m looking for ways to make a LASTING stencil.
I genenerally use posterboard-like material, and I've used them more than once. Sometimes the get a little bit out of shape, but just crush them under something heavy for awhile, and they should be good again.

[ImAnIdiot]

OK ill try it out.
so, laters

[Ghostfire3]

Some craft stores carry stencil sheets that are kind of like plasticy and they can be used over and over. Those should be exactly what you're looking for.

[Ender_]

wouldnt the folder get soggy with the paint? I m looking for ways to make a LASTING stencil.

depends on how caked on you put the paint. If you do moderate layering you should be fine.

[sam-a-lam]

wouldnt the folder get soggy with the paint? I m looking for ways to make a LASTING stencil.


i just use printer paper... and put tape over te edges where the paint will touch

[POINTLESS5448]

so im at bcts new place in orlando. its almost 230 am and were starting the night. he already sprayed his 6 layer odb stencil and it came out quite well. i have a picture of it ill post when i get home. last night i made a pretty big 95fo skate krew stencil and a regular sized one. i had to trace it off of a shirt that i already had to get the same picture which was quite a mission but it worked out in the end. im going to make a new shirt with that when i get home aswell.

[Danger Bird]

Holy Hell, 6 layers? Pics, please!

[Teeb]

I cut this out and painted it on in under 10 minutes, and just used normal paper for the stencil, so I'm happy with how it turned out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Teeb/DSC05843.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Teeb/DSC05842.jpg

[mullets suk]

Some craft stores carry stencil sheets that are kind of like plasticy and they can be used over and over. Those should be exactly what you're looking for.

about how much are those, i may start using those for the more detailed stencils that i make, or the ones i like the most.

[Rise Me Up]

I cut this out and painted it on in under 10 minutes, and just used normal paper for the stencil, so I'm happy with how it turned out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Teeb/DSC05843.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Teeb/DSC05842.jpg

Sweet. I like it.

[Ghostfire3]

about how much are those, i may start using those for the more detailed stencils that i make, or the ones i like the most.

I'm not sure. Not very expensive. I'm guessing 2-3 bucks.

[Ender_]

I cut this out and painted it on in under 10 minutes, and just used normal paper for the stencil, so I'm happy with how it turned out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Teeb/DSC05843.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v414/Teeb/DSC05842.jpg

Hah, I want to do aardvarks on a surfboard knockoff ^.^

[POINTLESS5448]

im uploading alot of pictures and its taking a while so ill make a big post with all that later.

but for now....

bcts 6 layer stencil:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/0820060110.jpg

r.i.p.
o.d.b.

edit: its ****ty because its a cameraphone picture. thats all i have though.

[World Burns To Death]

im uploading alot of pictures and its taking a while so ill make a big post with all that later.

but for now....

bcts 6 layer stencil:

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/0820060110.jpg

r.i.p.
o.d.b.

edit: its ****ty because its a cameraphone picture. thats all i have though.
that is truly awesome.

[POINTLESS5448]

yeah he sprayed it himself too. he usually sucks at spraying ****.

[Rise Me Up]

Pretty cool.

[Ender_]

damn dude, that is kickass.

[withering_rose]

that "SOAP" shirt looks good teeb.

I have a concrete floor, I can pretty much do what I want with it. what should I spray paint onto it?

[Sieg Howdy]

What kind of pins do you guys usually wear? What do you know about making pins DIY?

[asdf]

What kind of pins do you guys usually wear? What do you know about making pins DIY?
I have a button maker, so that's all the pins that I get. http://www.badge-a-minit.com is where my button maker is from.

[Sieg Howdy]

I have a button maker, so that's all the pins that I get. http://www.badge-a-minit.com is where my button maker is from.
oh, that's cool, where do you get the designs to punch on? or can you just resize any picture and print them out from your computer?

[asdf]

oh, that's cool, where do you get the designs to punch on? or can you just resize any picture and print them out from your computer?
Resize and print from the computer is exactly what I do. It works really well, espcially if you have photoshop.

[plebeian scum]

'nother round of patches:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches007.jpg - canoe
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches008.jpg - trash your tv (stencilpunx)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches009.jpg - ***

That last one looks like crap. Ugh. I've had problems with that paint before -- I completely ruined a new shirt. The stuff is watery and thin. So, yeah, don't buy Jacquard brand textile paint. It's sit. And, yes, I did shake it.

I made a negativland patch that was even worse than the *** one. Same problem with watery paint, plus the fabric had too wide of a weave I think.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/violent-femmes-stencil.gif
Here's a violent femmes stencil I made recently. Obviously it needs bridges. Haven't painted it yet, but I think I'm going to make a shirt out of it for a friend's birthday.

[Ghostfire3]

I like the t.v. in the trash can one.

[mullets suk]

Déjà vu, i swear you posted that exact same post before. either way, real nice job on all of them. what are you going to do with the patches.

i havent really done any thing. ive been meaning to do a "The Pack" stencil, but ive been really lazy.

but ive decided im going to try my hands at making a lamp. http://www.instructables.com/id/EECBH5S42FEP2870OC/
except there would be a stencil between the lights. also i would be able to hang it up on a wall. It seems really easy.

deja vu commnt was to scum

[Ghostfire3]

Dude, let us know how making that lamp works out. Sounds really cool. Post pictures of it if you can.

[ratsinthecity403]

oh, that's cool, where do you get the designs to punch on? or can you just resize any picture and print them out from your computer?

Yeah, resize and print. You should be able to get a .PDF that shows you the exact dimensions the designs are circles are. If you're making a lot, I photocopy them because it's cheaper than printing off a lot of sheets.

and if you're going to be making a lot of pins at once and are too cheap to spend a bunch of money on something to cut the circles out, then line up multiple sheets of paper and tape them together at the edges. Cutting two or three circles out at one times saves a lot of time...

[plebeian scum]

Déjà vu, i swear you posted that exact same post before. either way, real nice job on all of them. what are you going to do with the patches.
I might have. :P I wrote that post when the forums were down a couple days ago, and copied and pasted it in last night. I'm thinking I'll put the good patches all over my backpack. I didn't really have a specific place in mind when I printed them though.

Those lamps are cool. They remind me of something that'd be in MAKE magazine. Anyone ever heard of it?

[Twin Human Highway Flares]

I have. There is some seriously cool **** in there. I particularly liked the one where they showed you how to make a potato cannon.

[mullets suk]

i looked around for factory made versions of those lamps and they went up like $200+. If i make it should be about $20.

[Ghostfire3]

You should definitely make one and tell us how it goes.

[Danger Bird]

I like that canoe patch, scum

[POINTLESS5448]

i didnt realize the kids name was scum. i thought you were being a jerk :lol:

[POINTLESS5448]

so, bretts parents were getting a wall knocked down. we took advantage of this situation:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0363.jpg

kennedy getting shot:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0392.jpg

a 3 layer elephant:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0381.jpg

mario:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0377.jpg

my friend laurens dad vinny:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0376.jpg

chuck berry:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0375.jpg

clint eastwood:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0374.jpg

my friend corey and his best friend hitler(and bob on the right):
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0371.jpg

2 layer mxpx guy:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/CIMG0373.jpg

all the stencils are bretts exept for the last one which is mine.

a while back we made a shirt for my friend nick with frank the bunny on it:
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/0802062121.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d172/pointless5448/0802062121a.jpg

thats how we do it.

[iam2000pounds]

That's wicked, especially the Clint Eastwood one.

[World Burns To Death]

swweeet

[mullets suk]

Frank the bunny looks awsome, and so does the kennedy getting shot, cept for the red paint.

[Ghostfire3]

Niiiice. I especially like the Chuck Berry one. He's sweet.

[asdf]

I made a negativland patch that was even worse than the *** one. Same problem with watery paint, plus the fabric had too wide of a weave I think.Negativland patch like this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/P1010103.jpg

Yeah, I hate when you get crappy paint like that. It's happened to me a few times, but now I stick to the same couple of brands.

[POINTLESS5448]

Frank the bunny looks awsome, and so does the kennedy getting shot, cept for the red paint.
it got sprayed over by little imature girls.

[plebeian scum]

Negativland patch like this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/P1010103.jpg

Yeah, I hate when you get crappy paint like that. It's happened to me a few times, but now I stick to the same couple of brands.
No, I had an Escape From Noise man. It's a simple stick figure running from some soundwaves - like what's printed on the CD.

[coheneran]

Does anyone know anything about making wine/beer/liquor out of fruit and vegetables?

[sketchyjoe]

http://www.blacktable.com/gillin030901.htm

I plan to try that at some point this year.

[SantaDuJuan]

http://www.blacktable.com/gillin030901.htm

I plan to try that at some point this year.
Man I read all of that.
Seems interesting.

[Rise Me Up]

Haha interesting for sure.

[Ghostfire3]

Wo, that was really interesting. I bet it would taste like absolute **** though.

[asdf]

My dad used to brew his own beer. When he stopped he still had all the equiptment just sitting in the basement for years. That stuff smelled so rank.

[plebeian scum]

My dad used to brew his own beer. When he stopped he still had all the equiptment just sitting in the basement for years. That stuff smelled so rank.
yeah, my dad used to too. It smelled up the whole house. Plus, it blew up a couple times, and got sticky stuff everywhere.

[asdf]

yeah, my dad used to too. It smelled up the whole house. Plus, it blew up a couple times, and got sticky stuff everywhere.
Oh yeah, that happened once over here. My dad and his friend were carrying it in the kitchen and it blew up. My dad's friend took off running, for fear of how my mom was going to react.

[Danger Bird]

Here's my half-assed, too lazy to stencil, bored on a Wenesday night pot leaf patch, done in the timeless medium of sharpie on part of an old shirt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/BPMead007/psychedelic/08-24-06_0126.jpg

[coheneran]

Pruno sounds punx as fux, but I'll probably try something a little more sophisticated. If I remember my chemistry lessons (I only ever went to two of them, so read 'chemistry lessons' as 'drunk old people in a Scottish pub'), sugar + yeast = alcohol. Pears are about to go ripe and there are a few trees around here, I'll probably try to make some pear wine. I just need to sort out a way to stop the mould from growing. What's the best way to sterilize a glass bottle before I leave wine to ferment in it?

[sketchyjoe]

Boiling water?

[coheneran]

Boiling water?

And what should I use to seal it? I know you can get special fermentation caps from some chemists, but that wouldn't be very DIY.

[sketchyjoe]

Rubber bungs? Corks?

You have to let air out though otherwise it'll explode.

[coheneran]

I could probably use a rubber bung and open it for a few seconds once a day.

[plebeian scum]

Here are a few pictures of my Byke. It's old and inferior, but it's my best friend.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0758.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0760.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0761.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0763.jpg (it creates oligarchy)

Bought it last spring for like 40 bucks, and I've done a fair amount of work on it since then. New cables, new tape, swapped out the seat and front derailuer, cleaned the whole thing thoroughly (there was about a pound of gunk between the sprockets and rust all over the drivetrain). I'm not sure what I'm going to do next ... I might go for toe clips. I've also been meaning to get a light, now that it's not light out until like 9:30. It's really stupid to ride after dark without a light. It needs new brake pads, too. Always looking for new stickers, as well.

Anyone here ride single/fixed gear? It's something that intrigues me. I want to start winter riding, and fixed seems like the best way to go. Less things to be damaged by the wet/salt, and braking is better. Instead of a conversion or new bike, I might just take the back derailuer and chain off, and replace them with a short, wide chain. Wouldn't even need to break the old one. But, I don't know, I got a few months until I need to think about that.

[Liebensaft]

I could probably use a rubber bung and open it for a few seconds once a day.
Put a balloon over top of it, maybe with some tape. Every time you see the balloon getting pretty big, let out some of the gas.

[good rats]

Here are a few pictures of my Byke. It's old and inferior, but it's my best friend.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0758.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0760.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0761.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/IMG_0763.jpg (it creates oligarchy)

Bought it last spring for like 40 bucks, and I've done a fair amount of work on it since then. New cables, new tape, swapped out the seat and front derailuer, cleaned the whole thing thoroughly (there was about a pound of gunk between the sprockets and rust all over the drivetrain). I'm not sure what I'm going to do next ... I might go for toe clips. I've also been meaning to get a light, now that it's not light out until like 9:30. It's really stupid to ride after dark without a light. It needs new brake pads, too. Always looking for new stickers, as well.

Anyone here ride single/fixed gear? It's something that intrigues me. I want to start winter riding, and fixed seems like the best way to go. Less things to be damaged by the wet/salt, and braking is better. Instead of a conversion or new bike, I might just take the back derailuer and chain off, and replace them with a short, wide chain. Wouldn't even need to break the old one. But, I don't know, I got a few months until I need to think about that.
Thats a nice looking bike, it looks kinda like mine.

I asked the same question about converting to a fix a couple of pages back, I did a lot of searches since then. Search google about fixed gear conversions, you'll get heaps of instructions about it. I'll hopefully be converting my bike soon to a fixed, or at least a single speed. I'll post photos and let you know how it goes.

[Hagbard Celine]

Hah, I want to do aardvarks on a surfboard knockoff ^.^
How 'bout sharks on a tractor?
I prefer freehand painting, myself.
I just did (a)DOOM(e) on the back of my vest, across the bottom. It's drying as I type this.
I also have handpainted Crass patches, some Illuminatus!/Discordian stuff, and other things in the works.

[Volume8]

Does anyone know anything about making wine/beer/liquor out of fruit and vegetables?

Strangely enough, Yes!

I built my own steel, You can make your own booze by buying yourself some copper pipe, a big big pot, an old barrell,

Ingrediants for moonshine!

12 Cartons of fruit juice
7 Kg of sugar
Yeast
And some water!

To be honest you are better off buying booze, because once you have bought all that shlt you still have to wait two weeks for it to ferment.

And remember, If its above 40% proof it'll burn, If its above 60% proof, it will burn blue

[ratsinthecity403]

How 'bout sharks on a tractor?
I prefer freehand painting, myself.
I just did (a)DOOM(e) on the back of my vest, across the bottom. It's drying as I type this.
I also have handpainted Crass patches, some Illuminatus!/Discordian stuff, and other things in the works.

Post some pictures!

[Converge#12]

Strangely enough, Yes!

I built my own steel, You can make your own booze by buying yourself some copper pipe, a big big pot, an old barrell,

Ingrediants for moonshine!

12 Cartons of fruit juice
7 Kg of sugar
Yeast
And some water!

To be honest you are better off buying booze, because once you have bought all that shlt you still have to wait two weeks for it to ferment.

And remember, If its above 40% proof it'll burn, If its above 60% proof, it will burn blue
Well that was vague instructions.

[coheneran]

**** it, I'll make Pruno.

[sketchyjoe]

Go for it.

[Hagbard Celine]

Post some pictures!
i don't have a digi camera, nor a scanner for regular pictures (because i'm dirt poor).
About homebrewing: remember that if you use a "kit", many of them use isinglass in the fining process, wich is a product of the fishing industry and thus not suitable for vegans.

[coheneran]

Sugar + Yeast = Alcohol, I'm told. That's why potatos make such potent wine, because they are so full of starch.

[Hagbard Celine]

Sugar + Yeast = Alcohol, I'm told. That's why potatos make such potent wine, because they are so full of starch.
very basically, yes this is true. HEY! Is that Dr. McNinja?

[coheneran]

You're damn right it is. I used to LOVE Ghost Busters!

[BCT]

pointless and a buch of my other friends used to make moonshine. most people hated it i ****ing loved it but that **** does smell strong but it was like 135 proof so it was a good time. when i get some pics i will posted this odb stencil it came out pretty well

[coheneran]

Moonshine instructions?

[Liebensaft]

Essentially the longer it brews, the higher the alcohol content. And the basic formula is yeast + yeast food = ethanol. Yeast food can be fruit and someone said sugar, and I assume other things work as well.

[Rise Me Up]

Is it really that hard to get alcohol?

[Liebensaft]

No, but this is cooler, and in the long run, cheaper.

[Rise Me Up]

But not nearly as tasty.

[Liebensaft]

Yes, not as tasty as cheap vodka.

/3,800th post.

[asdf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cTbaBApM4

I'm going to make one of these.

[Ghostfire3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cTbaBApM4

I'm going to make one of these.

I love upright basses. Good luck and let us know how it goes.

[POINTLESS5448]

one batch was cherry favored. i forgot how we did it. it was the only relatively good tasting moonshine we ever made.

brett i already posted the odb stencil.

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cTbaBApM4

I'm going to make one of these.Holy crap. I have got to make one of those.

[Liebensaft]

Wow, that was the coolest homemade bass I've seen.

[Ender_]

Wow, that was the coolest homemade bass I've seen.

I'm pretty sure that's the coolest homemade anything I've ever seen.

[asdf]

Yeah, the only thing I'm wondering is if it still sounds good without the pickup. I mean, I do have a pickup for an upright bass already, but with an awesome instrument like that, I'd probably want to use it acousticly (like playing on street corners with friends).

It is really cool. I'm sure that when I show the video to my dad he'll help me make it.

[Danger Bird]

Here's my homemade hookah. It hits great.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/BPMead007/08-26-06_1354.jpg

We got a vase at goodwill and stuck a cork in it, punched 3 holes in the cork, stuck this weird funnel used to pour wine into bottles into one of the holes, put two segments of stainless steel piping into the other two holes, and attached plastic tubing to the steel pipes.

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

Here's my homemade hookah. It hits great.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/BPMead007/08-26-06_1354.jpg

We got a vase at goodwill and stuck a cork in it, punched 3 holes in the cork, stuck this weird funnel used to pour wine into bottles into one of the holes, put two segments of stainless steel piping into the other two holes, and attached plastic tubing to the steel pipes.Hahaha. Potheads. :thumb:

[AIRIC]

That's awesome. Nice job.

[Danger Bird]

Lol, a guy got mad at me on a cannabis forum for smoking weed out of a hookah instead of flavored tobacco. I told him I chewed bubble gum while I toked it and that made him especially mad.

[coheneran]

Lol, a guy got mad at me on a cannabis forum for smoking weed out of a hookah instead of flavored tobacco. I told him I chewed bubble gum while I toked it and that made him especially mad.

Awesome. Hey, could you write a proper instruction-post on how to make one of those? It sounds awesome.

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

So I've been using spray paint for all my stencils up to this point but I"m think of swithching over to fabric paint but the only thing I don't know is how well will it show up on black fabric?

Will it be as bright, or will it be blended in like spray paint gets?

[holy_roller99]

i almost always use white on black with fabric paint. just it needs a couple of layers before it wont see through.

[Jon]

What colours should I use to make stencils for a camo jacket?

I want a big Johnny Thunders one, for starters. I'll probably use this image (but without the text, that was just the first version of it I found):
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/images/johnnythundersincold.jpg

No idea what colours to use to make it stand out on the camo though..

[Converge#12]

Some things on this site are good for DIY. http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page

[Danger Bird]

Awesome. Hey, could you write a proper instruction-post on how to make one of those? It sounds awesome.
It's pretty much all there in my first post. Should I make a diagram or something?

EDIT: Here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/BPMead007/psychedelic/hookah.jpg

Materials:
Vase or other large class vessel
Cork
Something for the bowl (we found an oddly-shaped metal funnel at Goodwill)
Two stainless steel pipes
Two segments of vinyl tubing
Marywanna

Avoid using plastics, copper, aluminum, or other cheap metals. My friend and I actually argued for a while about whether that vinyl tubing was okay to use. I would have preferred some stainless steel braided tubing but eventually gave in due to the cost, and the fact that only cooled smoke would be passing through them. Glass is the best possible material for any part.

These should all be easy to find, the only places we went for this were goodwill and the hardware store, so you should be able to build one wherever you live. I believe the total cost came to about ten dollars (except for that nice 1/8th of purple haze ;)).

[Liebensaft]

That's a very large cork. It looks real good by the way. I'd love to have something like that, but it's difficult to conceal.

[Danger Bird]

Yeah, we're keeping it in a chest in the woods.

[holy_roller99]

just steal some stuff from chem lab. believe me it is worth it to have a pyrex beaker, a stopper, and a few straws

[Liebensaft]

Well, I was really thinking about that last year when I had chemistry. You and your lab partner have a designated drawer with all the stuff you use (except chemicals) in it. There was a time when the people next to us weren't there, so potentially I could have taken an erlenmeyer flask. I wish I had.

Florence flasks though, if you've seen them, are so perfect for bongs. They literally are bongs, except without a hole drilled for a bowl.
http://img5.ranchoweb.com/images/flowerdew2/f.flask.jpg

[holy_roller99]

yeah but they are incredibly expensive to buy. we just grabbed an erlenmyer and we also grabbed a metal peice. luckily there was no camera in the room and w just pushed it in our bags while our pot smoking teacher was not looking. i am sure he would have figured what we were doing if we had gotten caught.

[AIRIC]

Would he have cared?

[Ghostfire3]

What colours should I use to make stencils for a camo jacket?

I want a big Johnny Thunders one, for starters. I'll probably use this image (but without the text, that was just the first version of it I found):
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/images/johnnythundersincold.jpg

No idea what colours to use to make it stand out on the camo though..

That'll look cool. Johnny Thunders is awesome.

[World Burns To Death]

Don't people know that a hookah is just a fancy water bong? with tubes.

[Danger Bird]

Actually a proper hookah uses charcoal to keep the tobacco lit, and the advantage to mine is that my friend and I can get high in half the time because we can take simultaneous hits.

[coheneran]

A Palestinian friend of mine told me that a nargilla (what you in your ignorance call a hookah:p) doesn't actually need water, it's just a tourist thing to make it seem more exotic. It's an elaborate pipe, okay?

[Ghostfire3]

My Arab friend got a hookah from his grandma when he was like 12 or 13. It was pretty sweet.

[Liebensaft]

Yeah, I was pretty sure the water was optional for hookahs. Also, I remember in England, they had these places that looked like restaurants, but when you go in, they just had couchec with big hookahs on the table and signs advertings "shashi" or something, which I later discovered was flavored tobacco.

[Jon]

What colours should I use to make stencils for a camo jacket?

I want a big Johnny Thunders one, for starters. I'll probably use this image (but without the text, that was just the first version of it I found):
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/images/johnnythundersincold.jpg

No idea what colours to use to make it stand out on the camo though..
Any advance on what colours to use?

I have black and fluro-green fabric paint, I'm guessing they won't show up on camo.

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

For camo I'd go with a bright red or bright blue.

[dirtypirate337]

I'd go red myself.

[Jon]

Just made the stencil and did a quick mockup of how it will look.

I had to do it in Imageready because for some reason Photoshop won't work, so its probably not as good as it will be

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/jondz3003/jt001.jpg

Do you think its recogniseable as Johnny or shall I go with
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=42039&cat=502&si=johnny%20thunders&perpage=8
?


(I based this stencil off of
http://www.voodoovenue.com/images/DVD/incoldblood.jpg
instead of the image I said I was going to use)

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

Maybe glam rock people would recognize him, but I don't.


Although the fact that it says Johnny Thunders right on it, might show people.

[coheneran]

Just made the stencil and did a quick mockup of how it will look.

I had to do it in Imageready because for some reason Photoshop won't work, so its probably not as good as it will be

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/jondz3003/jt001.jpg

Do you think its recogniseable as Johnny or shall I go with
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=42039&cat=502&si=johnny%20thunders&perpage=8
?


(I based this stencil off of
http://www.voodoovenue.com/images/DVD/incoldblood.jpg
instead of the image I said I was going to use)

Kickbutt dude, kickbutt.

[Jon]

Would the stencilrevolution link I posted be better?

[iam2000pounds]

I like the Stencilrevolution one a lot.

[Converge#12]

I searched the thread and couldnt find it but does anyone know what shoe companies dont use slave labor. I think new balance doesnt but I'm not sure. I know this isnt DIY related but this was mentioned before.

[Liebensaft]

Do you think its recogniseable as Johnny or shall I go with
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=42039&cat=502&si=johnny%20thunders&perpage=8
?
I think it kind of just looks like a general face, but the "Johnny Thunders" in the corner should help. The sprayed stencil looked good though.

[coheneran]

I searched the thread and couldnt find it but does anyone know what shoe companies dont use slave labor. I think new balance doesnt but I'm not sure. I know this isnt DIY related but this was mentioned before.

Here you go mate:

http://nosweatapparel.com/

Have fun shopping.

[Ghostfire3]

Would the stencilrevolution link I posted be better?

Yeah, I would go with the stencil revolution one. It's more recognizable.




I have a question. Does anyone know how to fade a pair of black jeans to give them more of a grayish-black color?

[coheneran]

Time. Lots and lots of time.

[plebeian scum]

I have a question. Does anyone know how to fade a pair of black jeans to give them more of a grayish-black color?
Just get some at a thrift store.

[plebeian scum]

I searched the thread and couldnt find it but does anyone know what shoe companies dont use slave labor. I think new balance doesnt but I'm not sure. I know this isnt DIY related but this was mentioned before.
I've kind of been wondering about New Balance also. Wikipedia says they have five manufacturing plants in the U.S., but the lower-end shoes are made in Asia.

Seem better than average, at least.

[coheneran]

Like I said, http://nosweatapparel.com/, http://nosweatstore.com/, and http://www.nosweat.org.uk/ though they seem to be offline for a bit.

[Jon]

Yo Eran, I took a photo today of a vintage Exploited flyer, they were playing at some tiny village hall in Hendon or something. All handwritten and stuff.

You want me to upload it?

Also, Nargilas only need water as much as bongs need water, they do the same job.

[coheneran]

Oh, please do dude, sounds interesting.

[iam2000pounds]

I searched the thread and couldnt find it but does anyone know what shoe companies dont use slave labor. I think new balance doesnt but I'm not sure. I know this isnt DIY related but this was mentioned before.


You could try blackspotshoes.org

[Jon]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/jondz3003/IMGP00101.jpg

[_lower_class_brat_]

Moonshine instructions?

try this, its wine, but it looks easy to make

http://www.warpbreach.com/6/6.html

[Liebensaft]

try this, its wine, but it looks easy to make

http://www.warpbreach.com/6/6.html
Thanks, I'll definitely be trying this as soon as possible.

[coheneran]

That's an awesome flyer Jon, where did you see it?

[asdf]

Last night I made a shirt of the cover of the residents album "duckstab." Pictures to come later.

[Jon]

That's an awesome flyer Jon, where did you see it?
The Sound Of The Suburbs exhibition at Church Farmhouse Museum in Hendon.

There are flyers for it in the library and stuff if you want to go.

Its free to get in but pretty short; don't expect too much.

Its got stuff about the Vibrators, Chelsea, etc, and the Torrington.

[Ender_]

my DIY bed. ;)

http://www.jdees.org/upload/userfiles/Ender/loft1.jpg
http://www.jdees.org/upload/userfiles/Ender/loft2.jpg
http://www.jdees.org/upload/userfiles/Ender/loft3.jpg

[coheneran]

my DIY bed. ;)

http://www.jdees.org/upload/userfiles/Ender/loft1.jpg
http://www.jdees.org/upload/userfiles/Ender/loft2.jpg
http://www.jdees.org/upload/userfiles/Ender/loft3.jpg

What happens when you want to have sex in more positions than just spooning?

Cool bed though.

[Ender_]

What happens when you want to have sex in more positions than just spooning?

Cool bed though.

use my roommate's bed
:thumb:

[coheneran]

use my roommate's bed
:thumb:

Fair enough.

[Jon]

Haha that was an A+ answer dude :lol:

[_lower_class_brat_]

heres a few stencils i'm thinking of making

Conservative party(Canada), i'm thinking of wheatpasteing this around town
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h175/j_hetsler/courrupt.jpg

Joe Strummer
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h175/j_hetsler/joe.jpg

[coheneran]

That first one was pretty cool.

[Ghostfire3]

That's a cool picture of Joe Strummer.

[Converge#12]

I've kind of been wondering about New Balance also. Wikipedia says they have five manufacturing plants in the U.S., but the lower-end shoes are made in Asia.

Seem better than average, at least.
Yeah I'm pretty close to a new balance outlet and I'm pretty sure they are an honest company. I'm thinking I'm just gonna buy a pair because like you said five plants in the US. I'm pretty sure the majority of there shoes come from here.
So I dont get off topic, does anyone know how to fix a zipper on a backpack. Mine open up even when its supposed to be zipped.
Edit: also does anyone have a JFA stencil with a jodie foster picutre in it?

[Ender_]

Yeah I'm pretty close to a new balance outlet and I'm pretty sure they are an honest company. I'm thinking I'm just gonna buy a pair because like you said five plants in the US. I'm pretty sure the majority of there shoes come from here.

Made in America?

Aside from "Endorsed by no one", one of New Balance's marketing points is that it is "Made in America". However, New Balance, like virtually all athletic shoe manufacturers, is supplied (at least partly) by Chinese factories. [2]

The company underwent sustained scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission on this issue in the 1990s. The F.T.C. insisted that 90% of a product must be American-made to justify a "Made in U.S.A." claim, while New Balance acknowledged that their soles, which the F.T.C. estimated as 75% of the product, were made in China. The percentages, which many companies joined New Balance in criticising as arbitrary, have subsuquently been made less stringent, and New Balance still describes its high end shoes as primarily American-made. Lower-end New Balance shoes are generally made in China, and are described as such on the labeling and boxes.


and are described as such on the labeling and boxes.
Ambiguous as to exactly how they do it, but you should be able to find primarily what you want.

About the zipper, from my understanding, this should help:
http://www.aceleathergoods.com/store/zipper.htm

[coheneran]

Wow, thanks for the link Ender!

[Danger Bird]

What happens when you want to have sex in more positions than just spooning?

Cool bed though.
Why, what are public parks for?

[Jon]

This all links up marvelously:

1) Eran, is it illegal to jump the gates of Regents Park or Cavendish Square? (after they're locked at night) They're my favourite shagging grounds.
2) Are you allowed to use fireworks in public parks? We nearly set Regents Park on fire tonight.
3) DIY recipe to remove cumstains please :upset:

[coheneran]

This all links up marvelously:

1) Eran, is it illegal to jump the gates of Regents Park or Cavendish Square? (after they're locked at night) They're my favourite shagging grounds.

I don't know, but I had gay sex in Green Park one summer dawn not too long ago.

2) Are you allowed to use fireworks in public parks? We nearly set Regents Park on fire tonight.

When Class War tried it, the coppers tried to confiscate them under the Terrorism Act (this was Guy Fawkes Rememberance Day, 2005). Didn't work, we set them off anyway, 'twas cool.

3) DIY recipe to remove cumstains please :upset:

Let them dry, then scratch off as much as you can, wet what's left a bit and rub it vigorously (:naughty:), then machine wash and hope for the best.

[Jon]

Thank god it was just my boxers, beats having parksex with a bare arse.

[Ender_]

This all links up marvelously:

1) Eran, is it illegal to jump the gates of Regents Park or Cavendish Square? (after they're locked at night) They're my favourite shagging grounds.
2) Are you allowed to use fireworks in public parks? We nearly set Regents Park on fire tonight.
3) DIY recipe to remove cumstains please :upset:

Dishsoap works for me. ;)

[Liebensaft]

Put them in a washing mahcine, I'd say.

[asdf]

Finished shirt of the residents album cover Duckstab.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/duckstab.jpg

I don't think I'm ever going to have someone come up to me saying they know what it is, but if it happens, that'll be awesome.

[Rise Me Up]

H8u.

[asdf]

H8u.
Why? :(

[Liebensaft]

Jealousy.

[Rise Me Up]

Why? :(

What Joe said. You are TOO good at DIY.

[asdf]

You guys are too kind.

Right now I'm doing at home shoe repair! sewing and the use of gorilla glue. Very zen thing to do at 2 AM.

[World Burns To Death]

because i know you'll love it
because i know you love me too.

[Ender_]

You guys are too kind.

Right now I'm doing at home shoe repair! sewing and the use of gorilla glue. Very zen thing to do at 2 AM.

I've got to run to the hardware store to pick up gorilla glue too, today! My damn dorm fridge broke (it was pre-owned). The seal pad (you know, right?) between the door and base of the fridge ripped off. I'm hoping some GG will fix it (might use industrial epoxy if worse comes to worst).

My kicks are also going to hell. The foam sole has finally started to separate from the cloth foot cover, so hopefully the GG will fix that. If not, Duct Tape will. :)

[mullets suk]

I don't think I'm ever going to have someone come up to me saying they know what it is, but if it happens, that'll be awesome.

i dont think any one has ever come up to me and said they know what my shirt is, even the more famous bands like "the adicts", or even joe strummer. hell most people ask who they are.

[Jon]

Rory if you don't become some proper famous fashion designerer or something when you're older then the world is broken.

[coheneran]

Does anyone know if there's a better way to record tracks onto a mixtape, using a dictaphone, than just holding it up to the speaker?

[Jon]

Don't dictaphones take mini cassettes?

Why don't you just use a normal walkman?

[coheneran]

It's a walkman/dictaphone. It has a microphone, but recording it open-air makes the song quality shite, I want to be able to hook it up to my computer so that I can record straight onto it, but I've no idea what sort of cable to use.

[Jon]

Does it have Line In?

[coheneran]

The walkman? Yes.

[Jon]

Connect that to the headphone socket on your speakers, or the speaker port on your soundcard.

[asdf]

Rory if you don't become some proper famous fashion designerer or something when you're older then the world is broken.
Jon, I know for a fact you know more about fashion than I do.

[coheneran]

You need to be more than fashion-wise to be a queen. Jonni's not a queen yet because he's still closetted.

[Jon]

lmao, eran, you just wish you could get into my pants you prick :p

I know absolutely nothing about fashion, I guess I just tend to have a creative mind and that extends to the stuff I wear.

[coheneran]

ARGH! I can't find another double>single jack anywhere! I tried recording with a single>single jack straight from the sound card to the walkman, but the quality on that is worse than open air, so I thought I'd hook the walkman into the amp, and record from my PC into the walkman via the amp, but I need another double>single for that damnit!

[Danger Bird]

I have my computer going into the aux input on my receiver, so I can just record computer songs on my tape deck. You could take a cable with red + white prongs on one side and a standard male headphone jack on the other and plug your walkman into one of the tape inputs on the receiver

Wait, that might be exactly what you said you are trying to do. Was it?

[coheneran]

I have my computer going into the aux input on my receiver, so I can just record computer songs on my tape deck. You could take a cable with red + white prongs on one side and a standard male headphone jack on the other and plug your walkman into one of the tape inputs on the receiver

Wait, that might be exactly what you said you are trying to do. Was it?

Yes it was.:p

Prong? Male? Jack? What is this, Homoerotic Sublimination Day?

[sketchyjoe]

It is every day with you around.

[World Burns To Death]

oh lawdd

[coheneran]

It is every day with you around.

Well pwned.

I found another double>single and I'm now recording The Promise Ring - Make Me A Mixtape onto the mixtape I'm making for my friend in Sheffield. Fingers crossed the sound quality will be good.

EDIT: DAMNIT! All it came up with was a bunch of static. Any ideas?

[Jon]

Gain - turn down the Output level in the sound control thing. Then roll d20 to determine if it will work, LOL

[coheneran]

Gain - turn down the Output level in the sound control thing. Then roll d20 to determine if it will work, LOL

There isn't one for output, but there're 2 for input; one for Aux1 and one for Aux2. D20 says yes, but I have a -5 penalty for no previous sound-engineering experience, so it comes under 10, looks like I lose.

[Jon]

I assume you're using windows.

The volume control. In the system tray. Click that. The one labelled 'volume control'. Turn that down to maybe 50% and try again.

[coheneran]

Should I just try and stick a single>single from the PC speaker output into the walkman input?

[Jon]

Why not.

[coheneran]

Didn't work.

[Danger Bird]

Just use CDs, god obviously hates you too much to allow you the analog pleasures of cassette tape.

[coheneran]

I'll record it on CD, then use my friend's decks to stick it onto tape!

[Danger Bird]

I'm glad somebody else is using tape. I never use CDs anymore, it's records at home or tapes when I need portable audio or a mix.

[Twin Human Highway Flares]

I would buy/listen to vinyl and tapes exclusively if my main method of listening to music wasn't iTunes. Once I get the vinyl ripping system set up, I'll be in business. I feel like a poseur if I have the choice between CD and vinyl and go for CD.

[plebeian scum]

I would buy/listen to vinyl and tapes exclusively if my main method of listening to music wasn't iTunes. Once I get the vinyl ripping system set up, I'll be in business. I feel like a poseur if I have the choice between CD and vinyl and go for CD.
Same here. Vinyl's got a infinitely cooler feel to it than CD's, but it's just not as practical.

I bought a wool jacket for 11 $ yesterday. It's pretty sweet, but it's a bit big, so I might try to bring in the bottom, so it's fitted with a narrow waist. 'Cept I have no idea how to do stuff like that. I was also thinking it would be sweet to line the sleeves with microfleece or something, cuz it's kind of rough wearing short sleeves underneath.

I will probably end up doing nothing with it, though.

[Twin Human Highway Flares]

I made some cutoffs awhile ago and held onto the cut off parts, thinking I was going to make patches out of them, but I decided today to use them to make a holster for my TI-84+ for use on a utility belt I'm making. I haven't decided on what else to really put on the belt, but I think it'll be quite awesome.

[AK47]

Utility Belt! Radical Batman!

[Rise Me Up]

I made a Defiance, Ohio shirt:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a223/chairmanofthebrad/DefianceOhioshirt.jpg

[iam2000pounds]

I made a Defiance, Ohio shirt:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a223/chairmanofthebrad/DefianceOhioshirt.jpg

I made a patch of that picture a few days ago. Your shirt owns my patch.

[Rise Me Up]

haha thanks.

[Ender_]

that looks like a clean job man. Nice. :)


A holster for a calculator? hXc, nice job. ;)

[Rise Me Up]

Thanks man.

[asdf]

I've made it so my shoes can last even longer than they already have past their life expectancy.

Does anyone have the problem where the bottom part of their shoe can completely separate from their shoe like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/crappyshoes1.jpg

Because if that's ever the case, gorilla glue is your best bet. It really worked great for me. I had tried using a hot glue gun a few times before, but that doesn't work at all.

Then I started sewing up the big holes in the sides:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/crappyshoes2.jpg

I know these shoes aren't worth saving... but I'm very attached to them.

[Danger Bird]

I would buy/listen to vinyl and tapes exclusively if my main method of listening to music wasn't iTunes. Once I get the vinyl ripping system set up, I'll be in business. I feel like a poseur if I have the choice between CD and vinyl and go for CD.
Yeah, man, I got my computer going into the AUX of my receiver, so I can take all the files I download and make mix tapes.

[Jon]

What's Gorilla Glue? Superglue?

[Ender_]

What's Gorilla Glue? Superglue?
A polyurethane adhesive used for all kinds of stuff. Its supposed to be really f'ing strong, almost to the point of industrial epoxy.

[Jon]

Epoxy is the ****.

It gets you high, *and* you can cause days of mayhem with it :cool:

[POINTLESS5448]

damn those shoes are ****ed up! do you skate in them?

[asdf]

There's no way I would be able to skate with them. They have no grip at the bottom.

But no, I don't. I just really hard on my shoes. I've had them for a bit over 4 years now, and I don't even wear them all year (boots in the winter, sandals in the summer, and the fact that I own two other pairs of converse).

I just refuse to throw them away. They were 12 dollars, and I've definitely gotten my money's worth.

[Converge#12]

Epoxy is the ****.

It gets you high, *and* you can cause days of mayhem with it :cool:
This woman at gillette stadium apparently actually fell for the epoxy on the toilet seat trick and had to go to the hospital to get it neerly surgically removed.

[mullets suk]

I just refuse to throw them away. They were 12 dollars, and I've definitely gotten my money's worth.

how'd you get them for $12?

This woman at gillette stadium apparently actually fell for the epoxy on the toilet seat trick and had to go to the hospital to get it neerly surgically removed.

haha, thats fun stuff.

[Flagjacket]

They're Chucks, dude. They're already like, 20 bucks.

[Jon]

Chucks are the equivalent of $50 here =/

[asdf]

how'd you get them for $12?



haha, thats fun stuff.
Well, they were bought before Nike had bought out converse. I also bought them used (however, the condition you see them in now is caused all by me. They looked and felt completely new when I bought them, other than one little scuff on the front).

I also have some expensive plaid converse that I got as a gift after the whole Nike deal.

Then I got another pair for 10 dollars used (but practically new), which would've been 12, but he gave me a discount because I was also a vendor where he was selling them.

I scout out the deals.