Finished assembling the figure, but am still working on all the decorative accessories.
So many little pieces. So much sanding.
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Temps and humidity are approaching Hell’s front porch levels, so I spent the early part of the afternoon updating my wall of happy behind my desk in the janky add-on room that serves as my home office. Some creative work from myself, some from Kiddo, and some from @KeybillyJefe’s awesome postcard art project.
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so honored!
there’s more where that came from!
stay happy and enjoy!
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80’s SYNTH-POP 12" REMIX MIX VOLUME SIX
1984 (Part Two)
I know my dreams are atomic and I can take any flack
Wrapping up 1984 with an eclectic mix of songs about love, dancing, ADHD, obsession, BDSM, and the end of the world. Plus, the best ABBA cover ever recorded!
After six 1.5 to 2 hour mixes we are only just now approaching the middle of the decade. I don’t know how many mixes total this will end up being, but MixCloud only gives you 10 for free, so I might have to make them longer from here on out.
01 Propaganda - Femme Fatale (The Woman With The Orchid)
02 Sparks - Dance Godammit (12 Inch Club Version)
03 Ultravox - Love’s Great Adventure (Extended Version)
04 Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive! (Heavy Breather Sub-Version)
05 The Art Of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (Closely Closely, Enough’s Enough)
06 New Order - Thieves Like Us
07 Blancmange - The Day Before You Came (Extended)
08 Animotion - Obsession (12 Inch Remix Version)
09 Naked Eyes - (What) In The Name Of Love (Arthur Baker 12" Mix)
10 Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
11 Section 23 - Looking From a Hilltop (Restructure)
12 Depeche Mode - Master And Servant (Slavery Whip Mix)
13 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls (Extended Mix)
14 Howard Jones - Pearl In The Shell (Extended Mix)
15 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears in My Eyes (Special Remix)
16 Sparks - Progress (Extended Club Mix)
17 Berlin - Dancing in Berlin (Dance Re-Mix)
18 Propaganda - Das Testament des Dr Mabuse
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I made some shelf brackets out of a hardwood scrap, oak I think. my friend’s shelf is dark wood, so I reduced a cup of coffee down to almost nothing and brushed on a few coats and dried it in the sun. it raised the grain a little so I sanded it with 220 super fine grit. removed the dust and wiped it with coats of Danish oil until it filled all the end grain, 3 coats, I think.
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Do they have a sort of coffee smell?
Nice work!
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probably not after the oil, if at all.
[checks]
you can definitely smell the oil, but putting my nose right on it you can tell there’s coffee with it, but it’s extremely faint. like, maybe confirmation bias faint.
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Have you tried the vinegar/steel wool trick with oak? It reacts with the tannins and darkens it to a similar look as walnut.
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cool, I’ll try that next time. news to me
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Thank you for sniffing to find out for me!
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Am I the only one who thought, “reducing a cup of coffee” meant you drank the coffee?
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this client’s basement kind of sucked and they wanted a laundry room, storage, and a different entryway because the space was split up awkwardly.
so first we built this wall where you formerly entered this space. and we cut out the new entryway. the other side of the wall is a wide storage area accessible from the unseen far right basement stairs.
note the raised concrete pad on the floor. we made a platform over it to house the washer and dryer and a huge folding table.
the mud room cabinet on the opposite, existing wall would ordinarily be super easy, but note the floor is tilted for a drain, the pipes overhead, the bricks are sticking out and sunk back, and the left wall drastically out of plumb.
putting 2x4s on the wall to space away from the uneven brick.
instead of making it and setting it to the wall, we mostly had to build it in place.
it really changed the space, particularly finishing the ceiling and getting the plumber to tear out all the pipes over the washer area
to the left
and 180°
there will be hooks on the tops of all three sides of the vertical cabinet walls for hanging clothes and backpacks (they have 3 kids)
two days last week and then six straight 8hr days
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Damn. Did Mr Magoo’s Construction Co build that place?!
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80’s SYNTH-POP 12" REMIX MIX VOLUME SEVEN
1985 (Part One)
The calls of the machine drowning in the steam
01 Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels (Remix)
02 Book Of Love - I Touch Roses (Long Stemmed Version)
03 Propaganda - p.Machinery (Beta Mix)
04 Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better (Extended Mix)
05 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (12" Mix)
06 Sparks - Change (Extended Club Mix)
07 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Secret (Extended Mix)
08 Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Dance Mix)
09 The Art Of Noise - Legs (Inside Leg Mix)
10 Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended)
11 Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis (12" version)
12 Yello - Vicious Games (12" Mix)
13 New Order - The Perfect Kiss (12")
14 Bronski Beat - Hit That Perfect Beat (Instant Mix)
80’s SYNTH-POP 12" REMIX MIX VOLUME EIGHT
1985 (Part Two)
Do you still play the records that I gave away?
01 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Urban Mix)
02 Propaganda - Frozen Faces (12" Version)
03 Icehouse - No Promises (Dance Mix)
04 Yello - Desire (12" Mix)
05 Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line (Extended Mix Parts 1 And 2)
06 The Flying Lizards - Sex Machine (12" Version)
07 Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) (Original 12" Mix)
08 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - So In Love (Extended Version)
09 Book Of Love - Boy (Extended Mix)
10 Midge Ure - If I Was (Extended Mix)
11 I Start Counting - Still Smiling (Extended Version)
12 Yello - Oh Yeah (Indian Summer Version)
13 Propaganda - Duel (Bitter Sweet)
14 The Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (Beaten)
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A
for Flying Lizards!
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deleted the logo on my bike’s seatpost
plastic stencil
• 40 grit sandpaper
• coarse steel wool
• 100 grit
• 220 grit
• fine steel wool
I would have just mirror polished it, but the post is machine-finished with horizontal mill marks, so that wouldn’t have looked right. maybe I’ll just mask the lower bit and mirror polish upwards from the bottom of the oval later, but I’m ok with this
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That’s a lot of work to delete a logo. Then again, Zoom done many of us wrong… 
I did a lot of patching on the deck today. Most boards are good but a few were retaining moisture when it rained, so I replace those sections. It was really woodworking, since I was cutting precise zigzags in the old boards and mirror-image matching them with the new boards so that each board would have footing on the joists. I had the router out since the new boards were slightly wider, and I trimmed them with a table saw then rounded over the top edge to match, and also the new boards were thicker, so I needed to rout channels for each joist the exact depth of the difference so that the boards would match up on top.
Whew. I’m beat.
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Got a kit that makes resin coasters. Can only 2 at a time. The glitter was the kid’s idea. She chose the flowers and the level of glitter. A bit much for me, but she is very pleased. We’ll have to do the other two later. Maybe I can convince her to go with a bit less glitter?
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that’s a lot of customization for deck boards. but if the new material doesn’t match the existing, whaddya gonna do?
no wonder you’re tired.
I do a lot of customization on this bike for aesthetics. this was nothing compared to doing the full resto-mod, deleting the black finish on the brake levers and the spokes down to silver, custom painting and upholstering the saddle etc. even wrapping the bar tape one layer took longer, and I have long fingers so I have two layers.
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