A day off - about time. Early partner call. Helped J. put up stainless wire for rose training in the garden. Plugged away at garage tidying with more good progress. Lunch with the family outside in…

Purchased a paper towel holder from Amazon. The installation instructions were a wonder, but actually installing the rack wasn’t that bad.

If you do this job, you'll find yourself needing good lighting in really awkward areas. I decided to do something to try and make this easier.

Yes it's Star Wars day again ( which is most days in my house) but this is the worldwide recognised one. Todays post could have been called Furry Nice, but I'll stick with the official one ! LOL…

Buy 3, get the 4th free. To celebrate curiosity, imagination, craft, and artistry and using their respective forces for good, not evil, I’m offering a buy 3, get the 4th free on my patterns by using…

I was unexpectedly contacted at October last year by the PCBWay - a Chinese manufacturer providing PCBs, milling, 3D printing and similar stuff - that they have found my blog and are willing to…

My office is a little small and barely able to contain all the machines I’ve accumulated. The 3D printer I turned into an etcher for specular holograms was obnoxiously tall, and really…

I love getting mail. It's like a surprise gift that arrives six days a week, and I look forward to seeing what I've gotten, even if some days it is only bulk mail.

If you like classic Macs and home automation, you’ve got to check out the Cydintosh project: https://github.com/likeablob/cydintosh I assembled mine and it’s working great! It’s…

The body of the mandolin is now together, so what’s next? In this video, I look at routing the rebate for the purflings and bindings. The purflings take quite a while to fit as there are tricky…

This is a project I've thought about for a long time. We don't do a whole lot of gardening here at the humble abode, but when we do get a new plant it would be nice not to have to re-pot it on the…

anyone who knows me personally knows i LOVE a reset. it's my favorite word in corporate, it's my favorite part of a new month, and it's also a word that literally means nothing to me but a chance to…

Hey everyone — Cifer here 👋 This project started as a simple experiment, the kind where you just want to test an idea quickly and see if it works, but somewhere along the way it turned into a full…

Purple silk dress, c.1840, from The Met. Looking for 1850s dress inspiration, I stumbled upon this fun c.1840 silk dress with a surplice/cross-over style bodice. At first glance I took it for an…

There are so many ways to make a chair, but this one is similar to how skateboard decks are made. Let’s start at the beginning, though, when plywood veneers were being made in British Columbia way…

Painted miniatures from my Kingmaker campaign

There are many things that make me extremely uncool, but one of my particularly nerdy interests is the London Underground. The evolution of its iconic map, showing long-forgotten stations; old…

1971 Eco fiberglass camper restoration Trying to put an egg (camper) back together again. Making a smart vintage camper My attempt to bring modern tech to a very old camper. Meet my new (to me)…

After the "let's print legs out of TPU" experiment failed, I moved forward to other parts of the costume. Starting with the head. The post Charr cosplay: head design appeared first on Tamius'…

Mum wants a bracelet that I made and I know she likes the leather one I posted but as someone with fibro (that is currently in a 'not so bad as before phase) and knows how bad it can be from being…

My treatise on best practices for kit maintenance.

Yesterday I found another saw filer, a Foley f61. And this one had an original foley stand! I’ve never come across one before and I’m glad I got to it before the owner decided to trash…

I’ve seen quite a few Foley Belsaw machines but another brand that occasionally pops up during searches is Burr manufacturing. The retoother is a solid machine and I had always wanted one and I…

Exploring the world of circuit bending, and how an inexpensive toy camera can be a great gateway to it.

Wooden skis, created from scratch. Watch a video of some off-piste skiing further down. I have a great passion for skiing, particularly in backcountry and alpine terrain. My collection of different…