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 Happy new year to everyone here and thank you for the interaction and lessons learned since i joined! I've been wanting to make this for a while now but never seemed to get around to buying the supplies that I needed. That being said, I decided to just wing it and attempt a prototype. I scrounged some pallet slats and glued them together, then I RE-glued them since I don't have any actual woodworking tools such as clamps, let alone a planner, joiner or bandsaw and so had to make do with what handtools I had available. Having those would have made this process much, much simpler lol. Anyway the body is the aforementioned pallet pieces, the nozzle is from a former ceiling light that I straightened. The plan was to keep it simple and basic, but nooooooo I couldn't do that!! I attempted carve it and make it pretty, not so much haha but not gonna lie I'm pretty happy with it since it works and I won't have that light-headed feeling anymore. Besides, that, I've invented a new "style"...I'm calling it "RUSTIC GOTH"!! 

thanks for looking! 

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that is cool as heck man I love it!!

Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms.

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!

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3 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

that is cool as heck man I love it!!

Thank you!

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Looks great! Nice work.

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10 minutes ago, DieselTech said:

Looks great! Nice work.

Thank you! 

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Very nice work! I like the carving.

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26 minutes ago, TXBob said:

Very nice work! I like the carving.

Thank you! I wasn't able to get the carving as complete and refined as I had in mind, since I got a quarter sized blister on my palm and decided I was good enough and that's where I came up with "rustic" part of my design. 

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That's pretty awesome!  Way back in the day Tandy used to have a kit for a bellows.  I made one for my brother.  It had a tooled leather piece on the topside (opposite side from the valve) instead of carved wood, and while it was probably easier to build than yours it didn't look anywhere near as cool.  Nice job.

    /dwight

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2 minutes ago, DwightT said:

That's pretty awesome!  Way back in the day Tandy used to have a kit for a bellows.  I made one for my brother.  It had a tooled leather piece on the topside (opposite side from the valve) instead of carved wood, and while it was probably easier to build than yours it didn't look anywhere near as cool.  Nice job.

    /dwight

Thank you! I didn't even know Tandy had a kit like that, might have to work on my goog-fu and see if I can find out more...

Tooled leather...hmmm I would have never even thought about going that route. Perhaps I'll have to give it another try and go that way

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I dig it.  That's cool!

Regards,

Littlef

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