From a FB post from 5 years back:
Decided to do something in the wood shop today. Les has been telling me we need more hooks for coats and purses in the front hallway, so I made this from cedar and railroad spikes. The spikes were cut shorter on the band saw, then drilled and tapped to accept bolts that thread in from the back.
It’s still hanging in my hallway near the front door.
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Here’s what came up on FB from 5 years ago this time:
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This video was obviously taken with a 5 year old state-of-the-art potato.
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Another project started five years ago this week. I’m ready to dig it out and finish this one. It’s a clock that uses gauges to show hour/minute/second.
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You need to get an airplane six pack …
I’ve got a speedometer/instrument cluster out of a Chevy that I’ve done a clock with, and I have an altimeter, but who knows what I’ll come across next?
Here’s another “six years ago” project from me at MakeICT. There’s a ringmaking technique where the user taps on the perimeter of a quarter or other coin to very gradually mushroom the edges all the way around to make a ring from the coin. It takes a very long time, so I built a machine that would turn a coin on a steel plate while repeatedly striking the edge. Last ring I did with a quarter, it took almost a week for the ring to reach the desired shape.
My Dad claimed using a spoon to do the same thing with a coin was an old prison method of making rings.
Indeed it was. Of course, that’s back when they used stainless steel spoons. Although lightweight, they were hard enough to deform the coins over time, which was one thing the prisoners had in abundance. The really inventive prisoners would sometimes also figure out ways to anneal the coins, either with a lighter or by running current through them with batteries from their (at one time available) radios, television sets, or tape players.
Those are gorgeous!
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I believe there is a copy of that shirt in the cabinet in the Welcome Center.
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Really? I guess I might have made it, then. Is it laser-singed, like the photo?
