Making progress. Six months have flown by. You know how I know? My year-long embroidery project went from this back in February to this: Additional notes since my initial post: This is a…

Now that we have more power I needed to do some work to the brakes. The rear drums have plenty The post Brake work and cleaned up decklid on Hodgepodge appeared first on Car Worklog.

I wanted to build a custom action figure of Han Solo after he had been freed from carbonite in Return of the Jedi (1983), because I don’t like the “Last 17” version of Han Solo in…

Quick and encouraging update on last week's complaints about how hard Eurorack rails are to get right : using a template seems to have solved all my problems. I created this template , grabbed some…

Now I've painted up the scavvy king and completed the entire Confrontation range, I've uploaded some catalogue style images of the full range. I'll take some scenic and full gange pics in due course,…

getting three stepper stages to work with GRBL software and drivers

I went out to my workshop fully intending to tidy it up, but I found some off-cuts from some long-forgotten project sitting under the lathe and made these three little pots instead. They're about…

painted sprigs awaiting wiping and paper After discovering that the increased scale of my stacked sculptures was causing cracking, I decided to test some alternate clay bodies under basically the…

My current workbench project - to make a replacement for the model of replica NWNGR carriage 24, which we gave away for a very good cause - continues in fits and starts. In recent decades the FR has…

I’ve been thinking about something that’s always puzzled me in woodworking. How can one craftsman build something beautiful and functional and sell it for an astronomical price, while…

One of my favorite Star Wars toys was the Kenner Power of the Force Tatooine Skiff from 1985. I don’t remember the circumstance of getting it–was it a present or did I purchase…

QUILT UPDATE I finished the thing! Many new lessons with fabric were learned (whatever synthetic stuff that pink bedsheet I used was not a good choice - it melted when pressed and frayed like crazy)…

Desktop 5-axis CNC machines are arriving at sub-$10K prices, but simultaneous multi-axis CAM still costs 20-40% of the machine price per year. Buyers should ask harder questions, and machine vendors…

We have been working most recently on the Drawing Room on the south elevation of the castle, and have now finished plastering and painting the room. This completely changes the character of the space…

Several months back I posted on the Fediverse about a wind turbine project I was working on for a university class - sharing my troubleshooting efforts as I try and power through an interesting…

Reviewing my robot builds

Insulation is key for comfort in the modern climate, both in cold winters and ferocious heat waves. The insulation is

A lot of people ask us why we decided on hempcrete as a wall structure. There are many logical reasons

Back in 2014, when I pulled out some old Bratt miniatures and painted them anew, I didn't imagine that it was the start of a Confrontation obsession that has lasted twelve years. In that time, I have…

Today I wanted to share a game we play often on my email list with the public and invite you to join us. You can sign up and join the weekly fun if you’re interested here. Here we go! Three…

For over 20 years this site has been up and providing resource on all things American Girl Doll. I never had any of their dolls, or interest in them as a kid, but thought this was a cool site with…

Ever tried explaining why somebody needs a 3D printer? "It prints stuff" sounds profoundly unimpressive. 3D-printer owners make it worse by enthusiastically showing you the ugliest plastic objects…

If there’s one defining factor about 3D printing you have to account for when you’re mak... Continue reading →

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To mesh or not to mesh 10: more large eyelet variations provides a review of information in some of my previous posts, and links to information to achieve the combinations shared by others. The…

Recently one of the followers on our Facebook page posted a comment asking if we'd ever considered connecting together our two Festiniog layouts Dduallt and Minffordd . It's an interesting question,…

Casey and I saw one of these Shaw-Walker wood-and-aluminum chairs at an antique mall and I liked it.

A logo that lives on a screen, moved into a room. This is the Discourse mark - the speech bubble made of nested colored arcs, red through blue, wrapped in a heavy black field. It's a shape I look at…

AI can be an incredibly useful tool when you’re planning a pond. It can calculate pond volume, help size filters, work out flow rates, check your maths and talk through

It's LitKathryn and I attended a candle making class after a hearty meal of Mexican food and mojitos. We basically had to crawl our way to the event since the mojitos were so tall, but the buzz wore…

The Sunday Paper #618 August 16, 2026 The Red Cliff Paper Retreat begins tomorrow. It was fun to get a text from two people who are coming and made a point to visit my installation, The Wish, at…

An archive folder of contradicting decisions, a critical finding that was wrong, and a design session with prototypes you can play with.

I have two condensers: one is nice and quiet and the other is insanely loud. I thought it was just the compressor itself and so I put a sound blanket around it. I was sad that it didn’t seem to…

Hello and welcome to another Burf Update. July was a month of the robots telling me I was wrong.Six bugs found by watching a robot move, one found by listening to it not move — and every singleone of…

How I silenced the second hand of my second-hand vintage Audubon bird clock by replacing the clock movement

Another Simon prototype, another miss. This time need to figure out armscye ease. The sleeve is too tight at the shoulder. Again, learning my body is out of range for a lot of things. Or give up on…

Had a great day! John and his wife (a delightful couple) came over to pick up his new Nava mandolin. So, for me, happiness is seeing the delight that a client has with their new mandolin and also,…

One day I was strolling through IKEA and stumbled upon VARMBLIXT wall lamp. I found the design intriguing and thought it would complement my living area perfectly. For the most part, the lamp…

For years I’ve been inching my way through various home automation projects. Some solar array visibility, some way to turn of inverter should batteries get low, some way to detect wildlife tearing…

I designed a heraldic-style griffin passant, carved it into an eraser stamp, and printed it on red+blue parti-colored cards. The post Griffin Passant Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp appeared first on…

fourth-level ferry remote Restoring Balintore Castle has given me an unprecedented understanding into the meaning of the word "remote". The first description of Balintore Castle I read featured the…