Bicycle Tool Garage Art
Turn your old tools into art.
Supplies
Old tools. Sand paper. Some screws Chocolate, preferably the 75% coco butter stuff. Paint. A bit of wood. Oil for that wood.
Umm. I Missed This Step and I Don't Know How to Remove It
Get Your Piece of Wood and Sand It
This is rimu. A native New Zealand wood. I found this in a skip. An old weather board. It was crazy. This stuff is impossible to find new. There's like problems felling and milling native wood in New Zealand and these guys decide that it's OK to pull down a 100 year old house and put it in a bin and not give any thought the wood can be recycled
Oil.
Looking nice. I used this oil and gave it 5 coats. Applied with a lint free cloth that was previously a t-shirt
Arrange the Tools So They Look Good
Looking balanced. Looking like some care and attention went into placement.
Paint the Tools
Clean the oil off the old tools. Use soapy water. Some methylated spirits. I sprayed them with black paint from a rattle can
Screw Things Down
Brass screws. I ate the chocolate during this step. Added a bit of wire to hang it. There we go. Art for your garage made from old bike tools.