First time in a long time we’ve watched the #sunset but it was cool enough that I even got a little chilly before the show was completely done. It wasn’t much rain this evening, but it was enough to cool off the air and provide a good show. #NewMexico
Got a little bit of actually-made-the-sidewalk-wet rain this evening. Neighbor’s weather station says .01 inch so at least we don’t have to water the cactus this week. #NMwx
nostr:npub13n409lc4d9w06xuqurrkkh4mtdzc2afc5m07tkkc26u7p2lcq04qkh3h2h If only you knew someone who could configure your mailserver to bounce all email from them….
nostr:npub1jcndd6ht0dvq7l9mn4fx4ax40szxdylxxl9nypplflueecvng8sszl0xst I find myself wondering if “acab” is a singular or plural collective… I think in England, you would need to ask “Do acab include the grammar police?”
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y The birch branch came down in a big storm at Timber Bay Lodge in northern MN back in 2018. I scavenged it from their firewood pile, and it was still pretty dang green. I think it weighs about half now what it did when I grabbed it.
I strongly recommend finding a branch and making your own whacker to suit you and your hands. You’ll find a preferred side and if it’s too big, you can make it smaller. If it’s too small, try again. Oak is probably better than birch, but birch works.
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y Also, if you get a green branch and a half-decent drawknife (https://www.woodcraft.com/products/flexcut-5-curved-blade-drawknife is definitely half-decent), making a mallet like that is less than an hour. If you’d rather spend money, Blue Spruce makes a nice round mallet, which is my preferred form for general use. https://bluesprucetoolworks.com/products/round-mallet
I also have a “dice mallet” made by a buddy (the one in IA with the lumber): https://www.lumberjocks.com/threads/dice-mallets.331334/ and if he has a spare on hand, I bet he’d give you one. That’s my second-most-used.
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y Thanks! I had a friend, Anthony, who wanted to know how I carve with a V-tool, so that was a quick demo. I generally don’t name my tools.
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y I have a chunk of birch branch, about a foot long. I made it round-ish with a drawknife, and made the handle smaller and roundish with the same drawknife and a saw. Then I soaked the end grain of it with glue, which had the benefit of holding the birch together longer than it would have without the glue.
Recently, I’ve lost three annual growth rings due to hard use and it drying out, so I soaked it with linseed oil and didn’t use it for a week.
In use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPwQtesjKT4
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y The birch branch came down in a big storm at Timber Bay Lodge in northern MN back in 2018. I scavenged it from their firewood pile, and it was still pretty dang green. I think it weighs about half now what it did when I grabbed it.
I strongly recommend finding a branch and making your own whacker to suit you and your hands. You’ll find a preferred side and if it’s too big, you can make it smaller. If it’s too small, try again. Oak is probably better than birch, but birch works.
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y I have a chunk of birch branch, about a foot long. I made it round-ish with a drawknife, and made the handle smaller and roundish with the same drawknife and a saw. Then I soaked the end grain of it with glue, which had the benefit of holding the birch together longer than it would have without the glue.
Recently, I’ve lost three annual growth rings due to hard use and it drying out, so I soaked it with linseed oil and didn’t use it for a week.
In use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPwQtesjKT4
nostr:npub1a8vpwpyd2xu0jhttyhhrdrl0h5gt4pnqpsnyu4td7dlt50yyz60qgk60mr Alas, Discord is literally the LAST way I wish to connect with anyone.
nostr:npub1nqnu937mg7dh93hyllep7w7930wsdy0cellnxdyzwactamlh4hxqgvnxtd Looks good for your second piece, and not THAT uneven.
nostr:npub1envwngtk5hfa2jut6q5xl5kfdnauv64j2gpxv3pmr7zekk4lwk7s4882t0 My friend nostr:npub14w3xe9rww88thet39dxj6ynp86q5s0y33pg7u5hk8gzkuvq74xgspadtw2 repairs mixers, but he is roughly half a world away from you. That said, he may be able to offer some remote advice.
nostr:npub13yhtced946jss464sh05p0lfp9xaa0ypfeh89fy69ceksdwxfx9sdha5se MicroCenter was one of the best. Better than Fry’s in my opinion, but I lived in Minnesota and imprinted early.
nostr:npub1flslgfa98hecfvqeaqqa924fdrpnx3qwyktglfzuv0gy6t73walqpfsgsw I did. And when CSS came around, I styled them differently.
But then I also used a non-monospaced font on a monochrome monitor to edit code, and styled comments with and constants with because I could (my default settings also made each indent level make the font size 10% smaller, so I seldom nested code very deeply), so I am almost certainly both a heathen and a heretic.
nostr:npub1mp3r053ngat7495tmkeg50hpwd4j6skyl8959mtvd50x8v0669esfaqjxj love the split command-key-icon in the carving.
nostr:npub18tqknudk09cau9wxnh4eztxxa6lepau3znj0gffysgmvf7q8p0cqknqmye Thanks. Stylized hearts from an old Swedish piece that I took from Karvsnitt. https://lostartpress.com/products/karvsnitt-carving-pattern-color-in-the-slojd-tradition
nostr:npub1z3ucelz9w8z8l72u8jqkh5tkewr9lj654c2aw7q64cqmqnrjpxlsppf3g6 Thanks. There are also a few more egg beater drills that haven’t yet been cleaned up, and one of these days I’ll get around to making a couple of my own hardwood and brass braces.
nostr:npub1mp3r053ngat7495tmkeg50hpwd4j6skyl8959mtvd50x8v0669esfaqjxj Nice!
That's a lot of braces... There are clearly different types (I'm not well versed in braces) but ten?
nostr:npub1qkjdmeavpdgmrshrhext2lmd55enrhdxkf99xteuxjh63uwrp78s6cttnr Well, there’s one of each for the sizes from a 4 inch sweep, up to a couple 12 inch sweep braces. But there are also a few duplicates of the more common sizes, and because I acquired a few Yankee 2100 braces. Plus there is one with a hollow auger (for making round tenons on the end of things) in it, one with a spoke pointer in it (for starting a round tenon), and one with a tapered reamer in it, all sized appropriately so I can use them.
http://www.blackburntools.com/blog/yankee-2101a-brace-disassembly-and-cleaning/
Productive morning in the shop. Got the carving on the sitting bench painted before the milk paint I mixed up on Monday went bad, plus finished emptying the boring tools till, hung it on the wall, and began refilling it with tools. The shop is getting back to normal! Yay!
nostr:npub1mp3r053ngat7495tmkeg50hpwd4j6skyl8959mtvd50x8v0669esfaqjxj That'd be nice, wouldn't it? My understanding from a book I read is we get worse at sleeping. And while that guy said things I definitely disagreed with, I have no reason to disagree with him on that part. I've been having to learn how to sleep better over the past 6 years just out of self-preservation. It's been going in fits & starts, but... hell, IDK WTF to tell you. :)
nostr:npub1luxhuf9pa2vy3m3tes3y5cwvkdvt53sehu6xm62pl307uhxeez3san07kk Yeah. I’m sure we do get worse at it, but it still doesn’t seem *right.*
One of the things that seems odd to me is how, as we age, it becomes ever-easier to “sleep wrong.” Seems like something we should get better at over time, rather than worse at.
nostr:npub1wvshqc0kcns7exp598aa0z6q0m0fjcfjeae8sxrhx29t0uva3dusd69g9x Never mind that clangy blinky thing floating there in the water. Full steam ahead!