ADJUSTING THE MACHINE TO CORRECTLY SELECT CHARACTERS FOR PRINTING There are two aspects to adjusting the Selectric mechanism correctly for printing characters - tension on the two metal tapes and…

I've had this Ohio Tool #96 plow plane for a number of years now and I really love using it. So much so that I haven't used my Lee Valley plow plane since I fixed up the wooden plow. But recently I…

Thoughts 🎸 Finally spent some more time over the weekend working on my hand built guitar. Planed it a bit more and then started cutting away the extra. It's all being done with hand tools to…

Spent some of the day plotting more cards for the Patreon peeps, using a bit of maths to 'blend' from one set of colours to the next, turning each one of these into nine colour pen plots, which is...…

I had a picnic this weekend and at it I gave Phil a pen plot that I had been meaning to for a while: I want to explain it here because I think it's cool! This was drawn with a pen plotter, which is a…

The exception which proves the rule! As we saw Chris's most recent parachute toy finds/donation in a post at the end of April, I thought we'd look at the civilian vehicular portion of the last…

Kick plates are supposed to protect your door’s paint job from getting…well…kicked. That sticking door that needs an extra nudge to open or the challenge of opening a door with your hand filled with…

Presets can be a little tricky to explain as a concept, but a travel guitar that came in for a setup gives a really clear illustration of what's happening.

last night I came back to the shop and filled in the screw holes with unfinished golf tees. I wanted to start from square 1 in the AM which I did. <td class="tr-caption" sty

Us N scalers hold out hope every Bachmann quarterly ‘announcement’ for a mild refresh of the already excellent Farish 37. The last batch are now, pretty much sold out everywhere, so trying to find…

Here is a picture of a really bad looking mini to get you started. When was the last time you looked at badly painted miniature? It's one of my first. I didn't have much of an idea of what I was…

"Had this idea for a couple years. Go fanless with relatively large radiators and full copper on a wall mounted custom ‘case’. I’ve seen projects similar, but not all in the same build. Without the…

The best part of exhibiting a layout a real place near that place is hearing the comments and stories from the people who have a connection with it. That's one of the reasons we were so much looking…

We&#8217;re nearing the end of our reviews of the new LEGO Editions FIFA sets and the next one we&#8217;re checking out is Cristiano Ronaldo – Soccer Legend (43016). This set hs 854 pieces and…

I have another Star Wars beastie today for Monster May(hem) a Varactyl as seen in " Revenge of the Sith" movie, in the film it was ridden by Obi Wan Kenobi, but this one is being ridden by a Utai,…

looking good A bit of rocking but the deck here but the deck is as flat as a plowed field. It feels solid and there aren't any gaps at the rail/leg joints. So far I can't see or feel any difference…

The floor of my work room is just coarse-grain particle board, which is notoriously terrible to get wet. There was a patch that had been left unpainted — probably because there was something standing…

Word Count: 321 This will probably be short, but I wanted to talk a little bit about making things, and the barriers I seem to have to making things. I used to (and sometimes still) find it pointless…

Okay, so it's mid-May already and I have yet to write a review for this month! &nbsp;Ack! &nbsp;My excuse is that I've been working on two reviews at once, which slows me down in the short term but…

This video was a fascinating watch. The thing I loved most about it is the way it felt like an artifact from a parallel universe, one where instead of the LED we got micro-fluidics.

At the end of January, I pre-ordered my first 3D printer, an Anycubic Kobra X, and used the waiting time to look for an open-source (or free for non-commercial use) CAD application, as well as…

I installed the track for the loop around the launch pad and had to give it a test. Next up, installing the track down into the pit.

Train Wreck The last time I watched a high school band nearly fall apart mid-performance was when the relatively new, certainly nervous band director started the piece off much faster than what the…

I adapted my Celtic/Viking dragon head to something I could carve into an eraser stamp, and made a couple attempts with different tools. The post Dragon Head Hand-Carved Eraser Stamp appeared first…

To me, my sweetheart is a phenomenon. With two needles and an indefinite amount of wool in various colours, she whips up all sorts of little marvels at a speed that would take me just to get my…

This year has been fairly eventful so far, though some of the global events are probably best left to a separate post. In this one, I'll be talking about my goings-on. New Hobby! I acquired a 3D…

A retrospective on my recent apartment overhaul.

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For Christmas, I received one of those Lego Game Boys. It's a really nice object! It's almost the right scale to be a real Game Boy, with a few fudges to fit the brick size. The most impressive thing…

Last month (now two months ago, since this post took me a full month to write) I hit a huge milestone for myself - I was part of a small, informal ceramics show here in Brooklyn. The theme was…

It all started with a chair.&#160;&#160;Well, maybe not.&#160;&#160;My yearning for a coat made from a western-style blanket actually started inside the Pendleton Store in Jackson, Wyoming. For those…

A few days ago, the BrickLink team revealed the final details of Series 8 of the BrickLink Designer Program, including the piece count and price of each set. They will be available for pre-order…

My sliding doors came together well. With the drawers fitted and tidied up I just have the handles to consider, but probably will not have handles on the doors as such. My first thought was to make…

The camera … has a great view of the proceedings

Link to project Ravelry page . project notes I started these when my boy started showing signs of walking, thinking I would whip them out before his first birthday, and then I hated doing so much…

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Nightingale Hall, University of Nottingham; image by mattbuck @ wikimedia commons; licensed under CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported I’m happy to let you know that I will be a special guest at…

I hate that so many car repair instructions are hidden in closed forums or lost in the memory hole that is YouTube, so here&#39;s some notes on repairs we recently did ourselves on our 2021…

Today I have a Star Wars monster size creature to show for Monster May(hem) a Jawa riding a Lugga Beast, now if you don't know this creature you can be forgiven as they appeared in Episode 7 of the…

We seem to have settled back into a routine that is allowing us to make significant progress while now living in the house full time. Basically Will and I crack on three days a week while Donna takes…

I've been working on working out the details of positioning the track for the Tintin 2001 layout. It's very technical and mathematical and geometrical and doesn't make for fantastical posts, even…

I wasn't even shopping for a Game Boy Pocket. I was looking for a good deal on a Game Boy Camera. The best price I saw at the time was an auction for a bundle that included the Camera and a pair of…

I remember that in those ancient times when the year number still had two zeroes in the middle, I read an article in a computer magazine, it was either CD-Action, or CHIP, an article about this new…

One of the aspects I prefer about living in the new home is the freedom of creating anything: stone walls, woodsheds, green areas, vegetable gardens… You name it. I&rsquo;m slowly transitioning into…

When was disassembling an old calculator (as you do) I found these cool VFD tubes: Normally, a whole display is built into a single flat package, which doesn't look particularly interesting. These…

There are those annoying people who cheerfully and obnoxiously tell everyone, with psychotic glee, just how many days are left until Christmas. And then there is me. I love Hallowe'en! This year, as…

The Art of Memory Collecting 15 Scrapbook, Collage, Trinket, and Zine Projects for Crafting Treasured Moments by Martina Calvi photos by Petrina Tinslay Quadrille 2024 The Art of Memory Collecting is…