Re-listening to the mix again today 
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Volume Two up!
80’s SYNTH-POP 12" REMIX MIX VOLUME TWO
1982
Tonight I think I’ll walk alone I’ll find my soul as I go home
Heaven 17 - Let Me Go (Extended Mix)
Blancmange - Feel Me (12" Mix)
Thompson Twins - Love On Your Side (12" Mix)
Yazoo - Situation (US 12’’ Mix)
Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter (You Don’t Give Me Love) (Extended Version)
A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) (Extended Version)
New Order - Temptation (12’ Mix)
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science (Extended Version)
Visage - The Damned Don’t Cry (Extended Version)
Soft Cell - Insecure Me (12” Version)
Thompson Twins - Lies (12" Version)
Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind (Extended Version)
The Human League - Mirror Man (Extended Version)
Soft Cell - It’s A Mug’s Game (12” Version)
A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) (12" Version)
Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling (Long Version)
Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence (Longer)
Yazoo - Don’t Go (Re-Mix)
Soft Cell - Torch (12" Version)
Berlin - Masquerade (Extended Version)
Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me (Extended Remix)
2 hours 12 minutes!
ETA - deleted stuff Simple Text put in there when I pasted, even though it didn’t show in Simple Text. Weird.
1982 tracks in the pool that didn’t make it into the mix but you should definitely still check out: Heaven 17 - Temptation (it annoys me), Icehouse - Hey Little Girl (I deemed it not synth enough), Blancmange - God’s Kitchen (already had 2 tracks from them), Soft Cell - Say Hello Wave Goodbye, and What? (already 3 Soft Cell tracks), Depeche Mode - Now This Is Fun (too downer), Fad Gadget - Saturday Night Special (I couldn’t get it to fit), and Liasons Dangereuses - Los Ninos Del Pargue (too dark and industrial for this mix)
Speaking of downer Depeche Mode, I went back and forth on Leave in Silence several times and was going to leave it out until I thought it would be funny to immediately follow it with Yazoo - Don’t Go
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Bit of a group project, dice bag for the 8 year old. The kid decided on the size, I cut the fabric, kid sewed with her dad’s help and supervison. Kid put in the strings after I showed her the trick with a safety pin, and I made the beaded charm.
She’s gonna be a druid with a whole wolf pack and wolf shifting. I’m going to be a moon witch (really a sorcerer). Her dad will DM.
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A family that dungeon crawls together, stays together!
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Making soft shackles.
Settle down.
Metal shackles like this have been a mainstay in boating and rigging applications for many years,
but they are being replaced in many applications by soft shackles made of dyneema (spectra) rope.
These have a number of advantages — lighter, easier to manipulate without tools, won’t knock your teeth out if left on the corner of a flapping sail. The larger one shown could lift a car, maybe two if you have a more relaxed attitude toward safety factors.
But that’s not what I came to talk about.
In the second picture, note the jackknife in the tray of my sewing kit. It’s an early 1940s vintage British army knife that used to look like this.
But last year as I was opening the main blade, I heard a metallic snap, and found the spring had broken in two, destroying the usefulness of the knife as a folder. I decided to make a fixed blade.
Since I never throw anything away, I had some birdseye maple and brass rod lying around, so here is the result.
Some might point out that the tang (the part extending into the handle) is very short, and they would be right, but I maintain that it’s probably as strong as the original knife, and I don’t plan on doing a lot of prying with it. It will be more of a utility shop knife.
The marlinespike was a different issue, since by its nature it has to stand up to a lot of prying and levering.
Bamboo (or rattan?) handle, copper pipe ferrule, brass pin through the original pivot hole. The void in the bamboo is filled with a hardwood dowel and epoxy.
I had some birdseye maple left, and I’ve always wanted to make an ulu (the traditional Inuit knife).
Made in the traditional way from an old saw blade, (Sorby, Sheffield).
Some might point out that the typical ulu has more curvature on the edge, and they would be right, but that’s not always the case, and since this one will mainly be used on a cheese board it suits my purposes.
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Nice work, Tek!
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Your tools are wonderful, most especially the ones you’ve made yourself! That maple is sooo beautiful.
My BF’s basses have hipped me to lots of exotical woods who make my eyes and hands very happy. Lotsa stuff I doubt I’d ever meet otherwise.
Kartika - Used by Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist practitioners and deities to cut through attachments and other bullshit
Round Knife < STRONGWAY TOOLS, L.L.C.
I love the round knives saddlers use too, also
and these saddlers’ tools
have such great faces!
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The wooden handles will gain a lovely patina from being handled.
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Posted this in a different thread: working on this model:
There are three models/units in here: the Gluttony model (Egyptian woman), the Anubis robot (which will be over 9 inches tall), and a light-up throne.
It’s 1/10 scale, which is bigger than my preferred 1/12 scale, but the throne and Anubis will also work for 1/12.
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Hope to see it when it’s done 
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They have about five coats of tung oil so far. The feel is nice now, but in a couple of months I’ll give them some more, and eventually they’ll have a nice semi-gloss finish.
I didn’t polish the blades because I like the grey patina on carbon steel, and the iron oxide layer (magnetite) actually resists rust.
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made these drawers yesterday out of inch thick rift sawn oak. they’re 13in wide but the widest we could buy was 9in + wide (i.e. tall, when installed) so we bought an extra length to rip ~4 inches wide and “laminated” (maybe not correct term) them to the bottoms of the 9in boards with pocket screws to make them 13in.
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Made a cat hammock yesterday
Hiro approves.
I think I’ll refine the design, add some scoop-outs to the fabric, but a decent baseline to start from. The goals were easy to wash and swap, and cat appreciation, and so far, so good.
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Love it!!!
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Nice! The hammock probably feels protected too, since it’s under the table.
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Yup, safe from the Kitty Hawks.
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yesterday’s jobs
paper towel drawer
you can’t buy rift-sawn white oak corbels or I guess we would have bought them. so we hand-made these. I designed the template by tracing a spray paint cap for either end, then freehanded the arch, albeit with lots of erasing
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ok, on one hand I love it
on the other hand… how big is your kitchen you can afford a drawer only for paper towel rolls 
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my kitchen is pretty modest. this client’s kitchen is in a giant hexagonal living room/kitchen/bar on a million dollar lake house. that drawer is on the 14 foot island, and we built wall cabinets behind it and a pantry behind that. trust me, there’s plenty of room.
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you can fit my kitchen in that island 
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