In a recent posting, I described a situation involving a few pounds of epoxy and a steel pressure can. [stderr] Commentariat(tm) agent MattP (must mock his crappy brain) suggested a cross-bar and a threaded rod, and I liked that idea.
I may have mentioned before that it’s really hard to drill a hole through composite steel, since (sometimes) the metal hardens from the heat of drilling through the layers. Thus, you get a ways into the piece and think “this is going well” and suddenly all activity ceases until you re-anneal the work.
This is another really awkward story from the build files.
I didn’t get much in the way of pictures, because things got busy and a bit hectic.
I haven’t been doing a lot of photos, so I don’t have a photographic narrative of what Q’s been up to. That’s because it’s pretty much the same as every other step of the process, which you’ve already been exposed to. Part of me is thinking there must be a limit to how interesting any number of blobby-looking pieces of glowing red steel can be.
A fellow computer security hacker is going to be joining me for the next few days, while I teach him how to make a knife.
One of the nice things about completing a knife and then auctioning it off, is I don’t have to confront the occasional failure. For reasons I’ll go into, this last week has been a bad one, replete with failures.
When you screw up, screw up with style and try not to bleed too much.
We continue the saga of the splintered resin/wood bowl.
Resin and wood make pretty neat effects, so I’ve worked on more than just the red resin/bog oak bowl, which is sitting on my desk next to me as I type this. [stderr]