Funny, I got back last weekend from the show to find someone had 'found' an internet image previously seen here, and posted it without context, but with the usual 'What do you think readers?', and…

doing what's necessary here these days, but... it's Saturday and I chose and cut out fabrics for the purple hexi spiral this month. Color of the month is purple! and tried to start setting up my new…

The Sunday Paper #623 September 13, 2026 I am enchanted with the various ways we capture the light. Today, I am recalling my newborn son being distracted by the light of the moon when waking up to…

Approaching MID September. What? Just a tip on making a lidded box finish. Pain in the pancake isn't it? This is easier. A simple dollar store or craft store paper mache box is perfect. Rather than…

I took a break from working outside for a couple of weeks to relax a bit during the continuing excessive summer heat and get some woodworking done. Temps are finally down to the low 90s this week,…

oops I forgot to tape this off before I put on the primer. Today I sanded and scraped it to bare wood. I need bare wood so I can glue the bottom edge of the molding to it because that and a couple of…

I mentioned the other day that these were on their way from the land across The Pond, and they arrived a few days later, it took me a week or two to photograph them, then I managed to delete one lot…

I have more Graham Farish Class 08 than one man can need, yet there is something so very alluring about the model; I keep returning to re-work, to repaint, to detail up - to enjoy... This latest…

I’ve started knitting fingerless gloves again. I love knitting these things, they are quick little projects and I want a stack in a lot of colours as I wear them...

To date, I have completed two tasks in the ColecoJAM project: The Colecovision game cartridge reader and the Colecovision emulator. Both are using Adafruit’s Fruit Jam. My third task will be to…

Experiments with folded and cardstock paper planes, model railroad design and builds, probably some laser cutting stuff, too.

Huzzah for Liz (and us all) The Sewing Academy is back.

The shocked Pikachu meme, as a rug. The whole face is one flat field of yellow, cut to the silhouette so the ears reach up and out past any frame. There is almost nothing inside it: two round black…

I am working on something incredible! It has been a monumental project. What you are looking at here Source

It was a beautiful morning to pour concrete. The Grand Prix Festival is going on down in Watkins Glen, and it's Mitzi's birthday. A lot going on. We got the gable poured, and the footers for the deck…

I have several left over 5" Shaker boxes, why not use them. Not mounted or filled yet, I plan on trying a 4" with lots of padding to see if it works. Once this is filled, margins will of course be…

Designing the ideal faucet using thermostatic valves

Because what good are tools if they can’t be thrown to make cool sounds *throws stud finder, disappointing breaking sound* these are a couple videos of Zach “The Speed Square King”…

I have had, for some many months, a pile of large diameter PVC plumbing parts and a commercial grade toilet roll holder loitering around the door to my garage/workshop, all of which I fished out of…

The Michael Jordan syndrome has been in full swing with this one..

I didn't get much done today. I felt blah and spent the day vegging out at my desk. In the AM I finally dragged myself to the shop and got the primer on the bookcase. That is all I got done today and…

This was originally shared with paid subscribers to my newsletter. A few weeks ago, Creativebug (an online creative learning site) had a watch for free week and I made use of that to watch…

Large white arc on right is an 8" radius curve: minimum for the RDC-M. Small white arc on left is a 3" radius cure: minimum for my HO-9 locos. I rummaged through my track spares and salvage box…

I finally got a 3d printer. I tried making a centering jig for a leather belt. It printed perfectly. But when I assembled it, the snaps to join the jig broke. What? One hour of printing and a big…

Earlier this week I wrote about a slim pocket notebook cover I 3D printed from TPU filament. I tend to use that notebook for longer notes: full sentences, paragraphs, and more exploratory…

Welcome to another round up of what has been happening in the workshop this week. Two commissions out the door, and a third finished - progress on new models and old, and some personal projects too!…

Just for fun I modified a Famicom cartridge to use custom EPROMs, in order to run a ROM hack the old fashioned way.

It looks like people are starting to come around about designing, planning and building houses by counting number of nails they used. It’s probably for the best; people sure went crazy about it…

No I've not started a power rangers project, but have actually finished my Turbo Tank, that I started at the beginning of the scenery challenge, it certainly helped having my new work area to be able…

Featured model photos will be presented on this main page. These photos are from my followers who show passion, patience and dedication to the hobby. A postflight model for S40 is pending. Stay tuned…

Team Associated RC10 4 Wheel Drive Part 1 "What's In The Box" Hello fellow RC enthusiasts from around the World, I hope you are all well. I know I said my next project would be the Kyosho Javelin,…

There is the little thing of needing some paint and then I can glue the copper rod for the induction engine in place. <img alt="" border="

Spector sweater I started the project and finished the neck already but I&rsquo;m not sure I like how it turned out because of the colour pooling. Decided to knit another version of neckband using…

HA’s older son “L” is here for an indefinite stay with his ladyfriend. They’ve been staying in the recently-refurbished studio. They’d like to be able to do a little of their own cooking, so we…

It turns out there&rsquo;s a kind of freedom available to all of us, and it&rsquo;s called &ldquo;changing your own watch battery.&rdquo;

Fixing mistakes. I’ve gotten to the point in my knitting career where I’m not afraid to fix mistakes. Let’s be clear, though. Most, if not all, of the errors I discover during the process would never…

Six days at Haughtongreen bothy for a work party. We’ve been looking after the bothy officially for maybe 2 years now, and our work has been confined to keeping the paintwork up on exterior surfaces,…

I was under-challenged in high school, so to occupy myself I started writing. A letter-sized sheet of printer paper folded into quarters fit nicely in my back pocket and let me write even when I…

Somehow, I spent 8 months of my free time designing and building a wall lamp from scratch. I didn&rsquo;t have prior experience in woodworking or LED strips. Read on for how it came to be (and how it…

It has been a few years since I last put together unofficial LEGO sets using MOC instructions from Rebrickable and ordering parts from BrickLink. Today is when I clicked publish on one of my own…

Learning from a lengthy course

I wear jeans a lot. This comes with the consequence that, while durable, denim wears down over time. In my case, that means three pairs of jeans each with a hole in the left knee. There seems to be a…

Yarn: Circulo Anne Weaving Yarn . 3 towels. Woven area roughly 12"x24". Hemstitched.

This is episode #07 of the Ruby Stained Glass Notes, a pop-up newsletter in which I write about the process of building a stained glass panel celebrating Ruby. Today, I'm back from the summer break…

According to our latest utility bill our water use had doubled each month for the past two months. Turns out we had a leak somewhere under the house. Considering the state of our old pipes, and not…

Gradient sweater Colour I knit a swatch to test the gradient/faded combo for my next sweater. The good news is that they goes well and has the depth I&rsquo;m looking for. The bad news is that I…

Narrow gauge track is marked with a circled N A man-made causeway supports the track between the docks. In between Twin Otter construction tasks my mind drifted to possible plans for a layout where…

I&rsquo;ve decided to completely rebuild my DIY alarm system. Mean Well UPS supply instead of C-TEK charger Bigger battery in dedicated cabinet Arduino Mega as core, Raspberry Pi only as MQTT relay…

This creative idea is submitted by Mr. Higgins, who always inspires us with his passionate and unique mechanical concepts. In the real world, closed-loop gravity and heat systems run into big limits…