Cypress:
Any chance you will have a stall at the Christmas market at The Rocks?
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Very unlikely; I’m not good with crowds or noise these days.
But there’s always the Etsy shop:
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Merbau tops:
And another redgum bowl:
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EDIT: this “no more than two consecutive posts” thing is irritating.
Redecorating the turning workshop:
And a Merbau dish:
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First beer of the year!
Making a Hefeweizen. It will be ready just before memorial day. OG 1.054, so it should come out about 5.7% ABV
And lots of spent grain left over to bake some beer bread!
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Anyone here have experience building small plywood boats?
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Nice! I just brewed my first ever beer (will be bottling it this weekend) & only too late realized i should have saved the spent grain for baking (or growing mushrooms). Hows the bread?
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The bread turned out quite sweet because of the residual sugars. The rice husks that I use in the mash are a bit annoying because they can jab your gums. The batch I did in November didnt have rice husks mixed in and turned out great.
You have to use or freeze the spent grain quickly. It will go bad and ferment after only a day. I scoop it into 3-cup batches and freeze it right away. Compost heap gets the rest.
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I recently enrolled in a “Maker” class to pick up some new equipment & coding skills. Here’s a walking robotic birdhouse I’m working on.
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That’s amazing! Very cool.
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That merbau grain in the top is very nice, really gorgeous. Does it just come out dark like that with your regular stain?
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The merbau pieces were finished with friction polish (a mix of linseed oil, shellac and alcohol). No stain.
Merbau tends to be a fairly dark red/brown in colour; it’s sometimes called scrub mahogany. I particularly like the gold-flecked endgrain.
It’s a bugger to sand, though. High silica hardwood; takes forever to smooth and wears out the sandpaper extra fast.
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Six bird houses ready for the neighborhood kids to paint and hang. The wrens and house finches are house-hunting so they’ll need these soon.
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The dust bunnies multiplied over winter, so it’s time for spring cleaning. Cleaning the desk with my development Pi is a problem: The Pi is in one of the stock plastic cases, okay to keep it from shorting out, but too light to stop it from skating all over the place when I move the cables. (Keyboard, mouse, monitor, speaker, USB hub, HD drive, printer, plus whatever I’m working on with a protoboard.)
Time to throw it in yet another $3 Dollarama wood box with hinged lid. A Dremel-ish circular cutter would have been the perfect tool, but what I have is a drill, keyhole saw and files.
There’s some beech stain/coating in the basement that was too glossy for the kitchen cupboards, but might as well go on this. There’s another case in the works for a portable Pi and several hours of batteries. I might put some stripes of high-viz green Krylon marker paint on that one. 
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The Wanderfound Woodshop is moving house in a week. To here:
…which is going to put a hold on the woodturning for a while. Because, once I get the move done with, the next things to do are:
- Build a workbench.
- Build some raised garden beds.
- Build a dining table and chairs.
- Build a computer desk.
- Build a boat.
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Yay! 
🤸
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New paintings posted over at the 2D Art gallery…
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I’ve been watching a bunch of woodworking Youtube lately, and I particularly like these channels:
Both aimed at ordinary folks with ordinary budgets.
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Start with the boat.
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