Do you know how many wars have been started by clocks!?
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Nope, no idea.
Alls I know is, if my brother and I go to war over it, there won’t be much left of the Pacific North West.
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About 15 years ago, I moved from the DC area to North Carolina. Most moves prior to that had been paid for in full by the companies that my ex worked for - people would show up and pack all our stuff in boxes and load it on a truck for us. But this time, the negotiation had been for a set price. One day, I woke up and realized that our stuff wasn’t really worth the amount we were being paid to move it. I started selling off all the furniture and winnowing through all the boxes we’d been lugging around from house to house without even opening half of them. I got rid of so much stuff.
It was tremendously freeing.
When I got to North Carolina, the company that had hired my ex almost immediately went into bankruptcy and so we ended up living in the temporary rental we’d gotten until we could buy a house much longer than expected. We’d had to put some of the stuff into storage since we’d rented a little place, and that ended up sitting there for a year until he got another job. When we opened up the storage unit, it turns out stuff we didn’t even need for a whole year - well, we didn’t need at all. We tossed most of it.
So we ended up at the end of the original move and then the second from the rental to our own house with about a quarter of the stuff we’d had in DC.
Now I really don’t get all that into stuff, but still I will always have things. I focus now much more on having things that I really love and feel are expressive of me.
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@kimmo that ride is sweet. steel, alu, or titanium? not familiar with that manufacturer.
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Nice.
I need to get my dremel press set up.
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Avanti is a Kiwi mob. I’ve had that frame for sixteen years and gradually pimped up the bits… Being from the days when ally frames were fancy, it only has a 1" head tube, so that you-beaut Easton fork is a rare variant…
It doesn’t really look that sweet; that’s a photochop. It’s just bare brushed aluminium, polished here and there from use. This is my design for a super-snazzy anodising job, with matching paint on the carbon fork.
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I think you should make that reality because the etched top tube would be so sweet. I was suckered. I thought it was real. It should be!!!
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It’d be pushing the limits of a custom job; that stuff’s pretty hardcore. The idea is to polish the shit out of it, mask off the Avanti text on the downtube, have the first bit of anodising done with the fade, then anodise it again in clear to do the Avanti text, and then have the top tube text, head tube badge and tubing badge on the seat tube etched, and then anodise it again in black to get all that… and the fork needs to be stripped (I think blasting with plastic beads might be the go), then painted in a fade to match the frame, fading to bare carbon on the tips, with custom decals to go under the clear.
I reckon I’d be lucky to get it done to a standard I’m happy with, and I’d be lucky to get it done for less than $1k… still wanna go for it, though. There’s a local mob does fancy anodising and they quote a basic anodising job on a bike frame at only $120, so that’s a good start.
$120 isn’t bad for the anodizing part. And I’m all for one-piece integrated design, but there could be shorter ways to get the same result. There are metallic decals out there that could look nice if applied properly. You already have the file, so convert it to vector, laser cut the decal and apply it yourself. Test it on some other aluminum tube first (get a sample from the anodizing place?). Could save you a ton of time and hassle.
At first I thought you sneaked into my garage and took a picture of my mess!!!
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it’s my kitchen! :^)
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Oh sorry. Derp.
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no, it was funny :^)
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They work well. You have to move slow and a traveling press makes it much, much easier.
I loved this coffee table. We found it at our neighborhood garage sale as urethaned oak table with no inserts. My SO sanded it, lacquered it, and stuck some louon on the back to make trays. It was our first day cutting stained glass, mostly meant to give us practice cutting, so we had purchased 10 lbs of broken glass from the stained glass store in East Lansing to do it. It came out nicely, so we grouted everything in place and put a couple layers of resin on top. Then we started using it and it got beat up. Badly. A couple weeks ago, and with much sadness (on my part), it went to the dump:
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You did a good job. It was really pretty. Sorry for your loss 
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That is much beauty, much sadness to let go of.
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That is a really nice bit of work. Sadness that it is gone but I guess it got well used and loved so not much else to ask for.
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Thanks, everyone. The funny thing about the glasswork is that it only took us a couple hours to cut and fit everything, and I really loved how it all came out. It was a fun project and we did have for several good years. I’m looking forward to the day that we decide our current coffee table needs some jazzing up so we can create a new mosaic. I’ve now got upwards of 40 lbs of leftover bits and broken glass just itching for a new mosaic project.
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Just got back from Vermont, where I saw the well-known Depression-era quote (apparently attributed to a Mormon who was born in 1924, so probably not accurate) on the wall:
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
You have completed the cycle with that table, and can move on to the next beloved piece.
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