This project ought to keep anyone busy for quite a while! The full instructable is here!
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This project ought to keep anyone busy for quite a while! The full instructable is here!
Toni Patanen – Darude Sandstorm (cover).
Toni Patanen aka Pupsi, also makes ocarinas, which you can see and buy at Sauna Ocarina, handmade in Helsinki.
Stairwell Weave-In by Shane Waltener.
This lovely piece, incorporated into daily life, is part of Taking time: Craft and the Slow Revolution, a truly nice idea. You can also have a lovely meander through the rest of Shane’s works, which can be seen here.
Mihai Marius Mihu has done a great job of creating Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell in Lego. Mihu did not immerse themselves in The Inferno for this project, limiting themselves to snippets about the circles, wanting their own take on it to dominate, and I think it’s a grand job. Lust is most impressive. I’m just going to post Gluttony here, because the red and black really attracted me, and you can have a wander through the other circles yourself, and also have a care if you curious sproggen trying to peek over your shoulder.
© Mihai Marius Mihu.
© Mihai Marius Mihu.
From Charly: This is the knife I have given to my Mom for Christmas. Scary sharp – I could slice that tomato paper thin. Seems to hold edge well, it was already used since I made it and the edge was not touched up prior to photographing.
Measurements: Overall length ~26 cm, blade ~14 cm lenght, ~2 mm thick, blade grind convex with no secondary bevel.
Materials: handle scales chemically treated Elder wood (Sambucus nigra) coated with PU, blade N690 steel hardened at home in impromptu settings.
I hope to improve the design based on my mothers feedback and make more knives like this one in the future, it was fun. Beautiful! Click for full size.
© Charly, all rights reserved.
From Charly, click for full size!
© Charly, all rights reserved.
From Charly, click for full size!
© Charly, all rights reserved.
From Charly, click for full size!
© Charly, all rights reserved.
Tesselation Phage, Twisted, 12-inch, Welded Spikes, “Only Nails, Always Different”, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Gallery, Lancaster, PA, Curated by Heidi Leitzki, 10’x 21’, 2015. Photo: Tom Bejgrowicz.
© 2016 by John Bisbee.
Seed in Progress. Photo: Luc Demers.
For nearly three decades, John Bisbee has welded and forged 12-inch spikes under the mantra, “Only nails, always different.”
Wondrous sculptures by John Bisbee. Have a wander today.
Oh do I ever have bookshelf and house envy right now. Raging envy. This is such a good idea! And all that spaciousness and light!
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are lovely, and can act as a robust focal point in any home. But accessing the high shelves can be a problem. The common side-kick has always been ladders, which can also add character and charm. But for smaller homes like in Japan they can be a nuisance, occupying too much space for not enough usage. But Japanese architect Shinsuke Fujii came up with a simple, yet brilliant solution that solves another problem too: earthquake safety.
The “House in Shinyoshida,” as it’s called, named for the neighborhood in Yokohama where it stands, was conceived shortly after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. The client, who happened to be an avid book lover, approached Fujii with the task to design a home around a large bookshelf that’s both easily accessible but also one that won’t spill all the books if there’s ever a tremor.
The solution was to slant the entire western-facing façade and create a built-in slanted bookshelf whose shelves also function as a ladder.
You can read and see more at Spoon & Tamago.
From Charly, who I think is being much too modest:
This is the first knife I have made with the help of my out-of-scraps built belt sander and my drill powered lathe. Because this was a learning exercise for me, I took a bunch of old worthless stuff – a rusty file, rusty pipe, some old hinges, broken furniture legs and a piece of cow bone dug out of the ground in the garden. I have also deliberately used only the machines to do most of the work, including polishing – I wanted to see what kind of fit and finish I will be able to get this way.
Because it was learning exercise and because the materials were of bad quality (the pipes were a bit too rusty, I sanded through them at a few places) the result is not something too great, but it is sharp, pointy and dangerous. The design is a sort of hybrid between the Fairbarn-Sykes and a medieval rondel dagger and I freehanded most of it, with almost no measurements.
Stats: overall lenght 33,5 cm, blade length 22 cm, work time approx 12 hours (not including curing of the paint)
I am not intending to stab anyone, but it is extremely good letter opener. Click for full size!
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All the amazing work Giliell did for Halloween, the kids must have been screaming in delight! There’s more below the fold, click for full size.
