There’s something about the texture of terracotta, like plaster – it reflects and captures light in a way that seems unusually clear and crisp.
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There’s something about the texture of terracotta, like plaster – it reflects and captures light in a way that seems unusually clear and crisp.
Old school mold-makers and modelers like Adam Savage use a technique for framing molds in which they cut cardboard boxes and glue them together with hot glue.
Before my big end-of-year spate of travel started, I did some forge-welding and made a few pieces of bar-stock. One of the pieces was intended for a bread-scoring knife for Commentariat(tm) member Jazzlet.
Yesterday we went to the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC! Is there some way I can make “going to museums” a career? Would any national magazine like a museum reviewer? Contact my agent.
Andrew M emailed me with a strange factoid.
Post vises are popular with blacksmiths because they can clamp incredibly strongly and the ajax-style threading allows them to be tightened quickly with one hand.
I had a sudden trip to Boston that I needed to work into my schedule, which meant I had to get up early, vote, go to the post office, and then drive fast and furious down to Washington airport to get the 6:00pm Jetblue flight northbound.
The scenarios I read about cyberwar have always struck me as crude and more than a little bit pointless.
This video takes you briefly into another world – a world where things are careful and precise, elegant, serene, and as close to perfect as they need to be.
In both the Pittsburgh shooting and the Thousand Oaks shooting, there were “good guys with guns” who tried to stop the shooter and wound up getting shot, themselves.