Hey Folks! Glad you found my site. I hope to begin to catalog my adventures here. I’ll try and document things I’ve made and stuff I’m involved with. I’m not sure how organized this’ll be, bear with me, rawr!
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Precision Machining
I started taking a night class twice a week on precision machining. Most people in the class are in the industry in some way or other. I think I’m sort of a weirdo taking it as a hobby especially given that I do not have ready access to any machining equipment. But it’s something I just want to get some hands on time with.
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Custom Laser Cut Boxes
I made a number of leather products as family gifts this x-mas. I wanted to put them in boxes that fit just right. We happened to have a rather large cardboard box waiting to go out for the recycling. I thought, ya know, I can reuse that cardboard and give it at least one more life as a box. So I worked out how you build a design in onshape CAD that makes a box but can then lay the material out flat for the cutting.
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Leather Glasses Cases
This year for x-mas I decided I’d dig out my old leather tools and make people something. There’s a great creator I’ve been watching on youtube Tony See. I saw his video on a fairly simple glasses case. Purchasing the pattern from him on etsy was under $5. I ended up making 7 of them in total.
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Intro to Japanese Calligraphy
This year for my birthday my wife bought me a ticket to a 2 hour into to Japanese calligraphy. I’ve been doing Japanese on Duolingo for a few months and find it fascinating. So this was an excellent gift. Also, for x-mas she got me a vintage ink stone and brushes. So there will be more to come. But for now, here’s what I achieved in those two hours.
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Fitting a Seat Concepts new upholstery
At a meetup I got chatting to a fellow rider about seats and they had recently bought the kit from seat concepts for their bike. They weren’t too sure about how to go about stapling it on and such and were looking for an upholstery shop to take it to. I suggested that I had all the needed tools like an air gun stapler and heat gun, etc. Just come by my place. So after being turned away be a few shops who didn’t want to do the work I got the call. Here’s how it worked out:
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Glass Blowing Workshop
We found a glass blowing workshop and thought we’d give it a go. We’ve been up to the Corning Museum several time and love it. It’s well worth stopping in if you are in the area. Anyhow, this “workshop” was just some blow torches, insulation mats and glass tubes. I don’t know exactly what I was expecting but it seemed a bit underwhelming. After a lot of instruction and talk of technique and safety we finally got a turn. We put some frit into the glass tubes for color, heated them and blew into them. Then we just had to wait for the slow cooling between the insulation. Here’s what I ended up with:
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