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30 Days of Creativity, Day 6: Ring Clamp
I’m posting this from the train to Chicago, from Milwaukee. I’m also posting it from my phone, so we’ll see how this goes. First, a disclaimer: if you don’t have a desire to make a ring clamp, but need one, just buy one. It took me three hours of messing around to get this one …
30 Days of Creativity, Day 3: Annealing pan
Some of you know that I am slowly adding some metalworking capability to my little home workspace (Mike’s lent me his Sherline mill, Frankie dug up an old welding outfit, my dad supplied the bench grinder, etc.). As I save up for the items and services I’ll need to pay for, I’ve started to build …
30 Days of Creativity, Day 2: Sweet Moleskine Cover
So, yesterday’s plan to etch some stuff didn’t really work out. The toner didn’t stick well, and so I never even got anything into the etchant. Today, however, I have. The original plan was/is to use a special paper that allows me to print my design, transfer it to the material to be etched, and …
30 Days of Creativity, Day 1: Brass Bookmark
I don’t remember how I ended up at http://30daysofcreativity.com, but I remember thinking “Wow. What a neat idea. I’m going to do that.” Well, here I go… I’m working on a project that involves etching thin sheets of brass, and I’m having a bit of trouble with the process. The result is that I have a …
First ride of 2011 or first repair of 2011
Knowing we would be out of town for a while, and that the weather would almost certainly not hold, I made sure I got my bike out last weekend. It only took a little coaxing to get it started, and then everything was great. Great, that is, until I tried to pull in the clutch …
The “shop”
Draft created: 12/17/2010 One of the things I struggle with in my home shop (calling it that is a bit of a stretch, I suppose) is organization. The place always seems to be a mess, and while I can usually lay my hands on the specific tools or parts I need, it takes a lot …
Nerf escalation
Draft created: 2/6/2011 Just after Christmas, when everyone at my office was getting back into the swing of regular work, someone (Ben) introduced a collection of small, single shot nerf guns, one for each designer/developer/Laslo. He also brought in his notably more effective [weapon]. This, naturally, led to something of an arms race, resulting is a fairly …
Just in case I was not sure what this was
I realized that I have a bunch of little posts in the Drafts folder; I’m never going to add to these, so here they are. I still have those ones I’m working on, but for now… Draft created: 1/28/2011 Tom and Laslo (Matt) went ahead and labelled everything at my desk, including several pens, my …