I didn’t get much in the way of pictures, because things got busy and a bit hectic.
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.
Speaking of failure… Well, it’s not over until it’s over.
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.
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]
In an earlier posting, I asked “why does coffee work for etching knife blades?” It’s all the rage and it does work. [stderr] [Read more…]
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
Perhaps some of you know what’s going on with this; I’m mystified.