I’ve finally gotten around to throwing some up my projects on here! The pens (lathe) are my current favorite project, I’ve made tons more, but these are some of my favorites: (Learn to make pens in an upcoming class! Sorry, can’t help but to promote!)
I’ve made a few rattles as gifts using the “sandwich” method, where the middle layer has a hole which acts as the hollow section. Always an interesting moment when you get close to the final shape. If you didn’t get the dimensions right, the flying rice becomes a very clear indicator…
Cool idea, I’ll have to try that out sometime! I did a hollow form for the bulb with a mortise and tenon to connect with the handle. Getting the tenon small enough while still being able to hollow was a real trick.
Halloween is one of my favorite times, at least partially because ‘good enough to last one day’ is often the target. So, any Halloween projects to share?
Here’s a quick print+assembly of a prop for a kid’s costume:
Designed in vinyl-cutter software in about 10 mins, cut in about 2 mins. Just a reminder if you have any kind of cutter (knife or laser), you are moments away from custom stencils.
Finished a year-long project (mostly outside Asmbly) yesterday! These estate sale stained glass windows (excluding the middle ones in both pics) were covered on at least one side with layers and layers of lead paint, exterior grout, and many years of dirt and grime. We did a bunch of chemical based stripping, scraping, and wet sanding by hand to get past the lead content while keeping dust contained - with full PPE. That left me with a solid two days of power sanding and fine finish work with chisels, and a couple more days applying and waiting for the finish to dry. I took a quick visit to the metal shop with my dremel to clean and polish up the metal hardware (brass and copper plated cast iron), then spent yesterday crimping metal cable and hanging everything.
I don’t have many before pictures, but here’s how we’re looking now:
One cool discovery was that this window was held in (underneath the exterior grout) by some very antique nails - manually forged ~3/8” nails with a square profile, not modern wire-based nails! So I definitely had to reuse them to hold the glass going forward.
Wow Evan, those windows are gorgeous! And I absolutely love how your plant vines trail across the big windows. Thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures of your work.
Very nice! I was admiring the second one in person in the storage area - the patchwork looks great contrasted with the clean lines of the rest of the piece.
I’ve been digging in on some pen work for the holidays, including some fancier ones I hadn’t gotten to try yet. (@phurfphurf These are the ones you asked I show!)
Finally finished a music box with Lego characters for a friend’s wedding! This is the first box I’ve made - it’s been a learning experience, but it ended up coming out all right as long as you don’t look too closely.
