nostr:npub10fmsw3ukhmqnnsjmalfekl6j4cucxvfl50he9dmqcna36a99nf6s8zx0qg nostr:npub1puqlhx3wygzdmvz37tkfl3hhmxtkjxu4gm62r9rwxhdstp98keqqqsujtj Good call, Dan. Patrick’s Blood & Gore has lots on all the Stanley planes. The 444 is at the end of http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan14.htm
nostr:npub10fmsw3ukhmqnnsjmalfekl6j4cucxvfl50he9dmqcna36a99nf6s8zx0qg Loks like pieces of a Stanley 45 or similar, rather than a moulding plane, but it also doesn’t look complete.
So we went to the local library to do some volunteer landscaping this morning. And then this happened. #Eldorado at #SantaFe
nostr:npub195zpfpv8ct96zrnz57z04sj8x6tlgf4yuqla6c354z5vhldnu7mqq8x938 Nope. I sometimes think I should set up a game camera up there, but it’s enough hassle to deter me.
nostr:npub184rmmkmksg2rwruujcmfm7du2qtdsfgcmmrmhaj5hwxeer8ede9smy2t80 They were actually hopping around too. We guessed they were planing catch.
nostr:npub1a79gkc9t2x7j7p4ytru7dr9jk93053fc0gt9767f6uljkkw5pskqrk46mt Yeah. I figure I could handle the turning part today, but I’d need the better part of a year to get the carving just right. And I don’t have to work for a living.
nostr:npub1qk5czzdy2xdhn5yzplscqzf863vgudssv6q0v2elzyy6yx4gdt2sw4jlda You, sir, may have a bit of a cat problem. ;-)
Went out for a picnic lunch today for my birthday (which was on the weekend) on the Pecos River. Had the Windy Bridge Picnic Area all to ourselves, except for a confused hummingbird who thought my sweetie’s sweatshirt was a flower. #NewMexico
Two little boxes made in the shop and finished this morning. A walnut and birch box to hold my enamel paints and brushes, and a pine and hackberry box to hold all my various dovetailing templates. #woodworking
nostr:npub1mp3r053ngat7495tmkeg50hpwd4j6skyl8959mtvd50x8v0669esfaqjxj Whoa! The mail came... Very nice! Would it be alright if I did a blog post showing photos and linking to your Peekachello Art site?
nostr:npub1dm5seg0ukscz6zvhrfe6497ka2xdsqwt57nfnvuxu9pxkv25sngsdw5sqe Sure. That’s what it’s there for. ;-)
nostr:npub1tq2ph26wwq29sfu6gemc2tu5hw4sgt40kd54q4es7g672de2ad0sq9dkmq Yep. For one domain I owned, I had each visit to a web-page generate a unique contact address. That just resulted in hundreds of identical emails to that domain, which at least gave me a way to filter out most of the crap using spamassassin.
My suggestion is to just put up a contact form so the form emails a hidden address, and don’t sweat it when that address “leaks” and starts getting spam.
nostr:npub1v6aca0rwg2rwe76trv8s9zzcxeyee8seerpd5jm7lk3pxlaem66qzed7d9 When I was running a consulting biz, I would respond to these with a boilerplate “Sure, my rate is $XXX/hour, and here is the standard contract I use. As you are not a current client, we both need the protection of a contract in place so there are no future questions about intellectual property.”
It was pretty effective at identifying those who were serious vs. those who just wanted to waste my time.
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y Yeah, water’s a little harder to come by down here. And he’s not the biggest water bill in the neighborhood. There’s a guy who regularly breaks a grand in dry summer months, but he has a beautiful yard with lots of rose bushes.
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y As an example, we had days this June when the dewpoint here was lower than I’d ever seen it in Minnesota, even in below-zero weather. When you get a dewpoint of -20F and the temperature is in the 60s, you can almost hear your skin cracking. But hey, the flip side of that is that sweating works!
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y Yeah, water’s a little harder to come by down here. And he’s not the biggest water bill in the neighborhood. There’s a guy who regularly breaks a grand in dry summer months, but he has a beautiful yard with lots of rose bushes.
nostr:npub1qqukvtud3d690getk78r5xvg558rjuwlq36xk0eeddkygqhr8qxsgttjp4 There are also a lot of short-staffed hiring departments now. Could be the guy who knew how to delete a listing when the slot is filled isn’t there any more.
nostr:npub1m8vq2sjqqjxk27n66zqjl0kkzmxy02xec0ypagd7ujj02x2juy0s4jw90y I wish we could take some of that off your hands. Normally we get six inches or so through the monsoon, and this year, we haven’t broken an inch yet. Our newish neighbors just got their first $500 water bill (prices get a 50% penalty at 10k gallons, but they had to have broken 20 or 25k gallons) because they didn’t want all their new plants to die.
nostr:npub15jpnhn58ekauplteuxhk48f6qyp9xsynkys4ysstfk4yerjlp09qcr4unr The. S-braid was 5-30 and 7-14 gouges, plus a nail set. The hex was a 45 degree v-tool, about 6mm wide, followed by a 6mm wide #2 gouge. The bus was all v-tool. I’ve been carving this held in the twin-screw face vise on my bench, working basically straight down on it, since the bench top is 1m x 30cm x 9cm thick.
nostr:npub15jpnhn58ekauplteuxhk48f6qyp9xsynkys4ysstfk4yerjlp09qcr4unr Here’s progress shots on the hex. First outline it with a v-tool, just pushing the tool by hand, as I’m working in pine. Then use the #2-6 gouge (which I’ve sharpened somewhat rounded, rather than as a normal skew) to carve down at a 30-ish degree angle and remove the “petals” of the hex and widen the outside edge slightly.
nostr:npub15jpnhn58ekauplteuxhk48f6qyp9xsynkys4ysstfk4yerjlp09qcr4unr The. S-braid was 5-30 and 7-14 gouges, plus a nail set. The hex was a 45 degree v-tool, about 6mm wide, followed by a 6mm wide #2 gouge. The bus was all v-tool. I’ve been carving this held in the twin-screw face vise on my bench, working basically straight down on it, since the bench top is 1m x 30cm x 9cm thick.
Productive morning in the shop. Got the red S-braid one the bench cleaned up a bit and carved & painted the hexes yellow. That side of the bench will be ready for oil either Wednesday or Thursday, probably.
Also got the school bus transferred to the end grain of the bench & carved almost all of the lines on that (I see I missed three lines). The other end of the bench will get, “C’mon Get Happy 🎶” and the bus will get some bright primary colors. #woodcarving #HappyBench
