I see one of those bowls you make, they are beautiful!
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In the shed today…
Deepened the overhang and added a screw to secure the wooden chocks on my boat wheels:
Bored some holes in my bench for my new holdfasts:
Clampy clampy:
Just a tap on the back to remove:
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The holes for the hold fasts is clever. I wouldn’t have thought of that.
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They’re also good for bench dogs:
If you enjoy clever clamping solutions, check this out:
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Meanwhile, today in the Wandershed:
I was chiselling out some mortices for a stepstool I’m building…
…but then I decided that my overly-chunky carpenters mallet may have something to do with the elbow pain I’ve been affected by lately.
So I grabbed a bit of scrap from the firewood pile and got to work:
Nearly there:
All done:
Much less chunky:
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Not quite making per se, but we finally have enough of the unpacking done that I can start re-assembling the shop.
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Last month my cat got out while friends were over and distractions abounded. Within the span of an hour he was dead. Since then I’ve been working through my grief by painting a portrait of him to place beside his ashes. It’s been about ten years since I painted and I’m amazed the oils are still usable. Plus when I did paint I was making abstract cerebral gallery-centric work so this is a deep challenge on many levels.
Just feet and whiskers to go though. I’m so scared of the whiskers.
I just want to do him justice in representation. But this process has reminded me of how fulfilling it can be to see a painting take shape.
I wrote a song for him too, or I suppose about the nature of grief, and now in the process of recording it. It isn’t much, what I can do. But he was my companion through some of the hardest points in my life and I miss him profoundly.
- Sorry for the lousy cell phone image. Once it’s done I’ll try to take a better picture.
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I hate whiskers, too. My hands are always so shaky.
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Your work is inspirational though.
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Still learning certain things, though.
Right now, stone is a struggle. There’s an artist, Giovanni Uidice, who just won a competition in Sicily, and he paints stone and ocean water like nobody’s business.
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Christmas beers are in the fermenter. A nice stout, should be about 9.5% ABV when its done.
Edit: had a rupture in the bucket on the left last night. The airlock clogged with suds and so the lid popped open and blew foam half way up the wall. I had to siphon off a gallon into another container. Hopefully the beer didnt get contaminated. I guess I’ll find out later.
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I’ve mostly been fiddling with the boat this last week, but I did take a moment to knock together this Charmingly Rustic™️ footstool:
About a metre of construction pine plus a few bits of heavily battered Tasmanian oak that I recovered from the half-rotten pile of scrap that was in the shed when I moved in.
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Coffee table in progress.
Roman ogee edging on the reclaimed Tassie Oak top:
Glue-up beginning:
Pre-glue pre-sanding loose fit to give a rough idea of the final product:
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That stepstool is gorgeous!
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Need some help with my halloween snow bat globe project! I have acquired a very nice acrylic globe, much like the one adafruit sells but larger, but: I need a castle or spooky house or something that will fit inside it!
The base has to fit in a circle less than 2-1/2 inches, though it can be fairly tall. Anyone know where I could find such things? So far I found only one castle that could fit, on a German souvenirs site, despite my strong google-fu, and I’d like more choices. Maybe Michael’s has something that would work.
Or maybe get them 3D printed? I’ve found some nice models on Thingverse, but I have no idea how small they can be printed before losing too much detail.
Any and all advice gladly welcomed!
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This, I suppose, could be given a creepy paint job, and the flare on the base could be filed or sanded if the footprint is too big.
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Maybe you could disassemble a castle, and reassemble it within the globe? Rather like building a ship in a bottle?
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Thanks so much for the links!
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Now there’s a thought! I know that a lot of 3-d printed building models are actually modular in construction; as long as each piece is small enough, that could work!
Another possibility, I’ve done some papercraft (actually matte-board craft) models; perhaps the industrial-grade sealant I bought would be enough to protect them from water damage. I’d rather not risk it though, as I don’t think there’d be any way to open a globe back up after gluing the stopper in with epoxy.
Thanks muchly.
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Inspired by my African daisies, I decided to add googly eyes to them for Halloween.
Bought a bag of eyeballs on clearance at (evil) Hobby Lobby, and some dry-flower wire. Putting the wire in a container and threading the wire through a hole in the lid is a good way to prevent bird-nesting.
Drill a 1/16" hole in the eyeballs. Cut wire in 12" lengths and put a small loop at about the 2" mark. Cram the 2" of wire into the eyeball up to the loop. It makes a good anchor for the hot glue.
Leave to set.
Twist the wire around your plants to attach. Done!
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I can’t stand the sight of it!
Seriously though, I love it. Maybe this is what D&D 5e’s ‘Awakened Shrub’ looks like…
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