I wish you could smell this wood. It’s sugar maple; my neighbor had a tree blow down and was out chainsawing it up. [Read more…]
I wish you could smell this wood. It’s sugar maple; my neighbor had a tree blow down and was out chainsawing it up. [Read more…]
Having a good design in a build project is key; if you’re spending energy, time and money on something that is just going to suck, it’s triply debilitating.
I loathe the whole christmas-expectation-of-being-given-things, and I usually try to break Hallmark’s lock on my time by just doing whatever I want and sometimes randomly giving people stuff.
This is how I made the scabbard/storage sheath for the letter opener. [stderr] I cheated.
A saya nomi is a Japanese-style chisel for making scabbards.
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
This for the FtB legal defense fund. See [go fund me] for details. Rules are below:
Someone commented somewhere about how I was outfitting people with “stabby things.” I have to say that most of what I have published so far are cooking knives of some sort or another. This is a “stabby thing.”
I know that cosmetic things don’t improve machinery’s lifespan or behavior.
Recent discussion [stderr] got me thinking about safety shoes. For the last two years my official forging shoes have been a pair of old Timberland “euro hikers” (that I wore to Chernobyl) but I know that the laces are flammable because I already set them on fire once.