As promised:
I am pretty pleased with how they turned out. I am finding that turning epoxy is trickier than turning wood, especially as you get it thin. I had several blow up on me as i was getting to the finishing stage. But, live and learn!
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Neat!
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I see what you did there!
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Those are lovely! Great work!
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Eh, Iâll take credit for wit where i can! 
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Me too. Though I can spend hours just trying to come up with them.
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Sometimes he likes to go against the grain. Then with the grain. Then against it. With it. Against it. With. Against. With against. WithagainswithagainstwithaginstwawawawaâŚ
[/wood turning humor]
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Those look lovely. I went down a rabbit hole and found this video, which was mesmerizing. Wood turning looks down right meditative.
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Wood turning is the art and science of sharpening your tools to exactly the correct profile, edge angle, and sharpness.
Sometimes you even get to play with wood.
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The lathe is the scariest tool in the shop to me. I know a lot of people who attribute that to the table saw or router, but I saw someone get hit in the face with a chisel handle due to a moment of inattention, and that stuck with me.
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A degree or two of attack can be all it takes between a perfect long smooth cut, and the skew chisel digging into the piece, twisting it off the lathe, and a couple of pounds of spinning wood hitting you in the face at high speed before bouncing off and landing somewhere at the back of the workshop.
Luckily, I only needed a touch of superglue at the ED, there was no concussion or need for stitches.
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Was waiting for lathe cat, did not leave disappointed.
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They were (are?) bigger in Europe. And Iâm going to see them tomorrow!
This is my summer anthem:
That they have been around releasing music since before I was born and are still being creative and doing their thing is just a feelgood fact.
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EAT YâSELF FITTER - The Fall
Iâm in the furniture trade
Got a new job today
But stick the cretin
On the number-three lathe
Went down the town
To a HM club
The sign had a cross
Through a couple well-dressed
They looked at my coat
They looked at my hair
An Easy Rider coot
Grabbed the edge of my coat
Said: âYouâre too smart for hereâ
I said: âIâll see the managerâ
He was the manager
Eat yâself fitter
Up the stairs, mister!
Eat yâself fitter
Analytics have got
My type worked out
Analytics on me
The poison render
I grope about
And when I go out
My mind splits
My eyes doth hurt
The musical chairs
Have been swallowed up
By a cuddly group
Who land and rub off
Hoping that
Whatever it is
Will land and drop off
I met a hero of mine
I shook his hand
Got trapped in the door
Felt a fool, Iâll tell ya
Charmed to meet ya
Eat yâself fitter
Up the stairs, mister!
Eat yâself fitter
Became a recluse
And bought a computer
Set it up in the home
Elusive big one
On the screen
Saw the Holy Ghost, I swear
On the screen
Whereâs the cursor?
Whereâs the eraser?
Whereâs the cursor?
Whereâs the eraser?
G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O
G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O
G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O
H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O
Whatâs a computer?
Eat yâself fitter
'Whatâs a computer?â?!
Eat yâself fitter
The Kevin Ayers scene
South of France
Plush velvet
Aback! Aback!
Aback! Aback!
Leviâs Fridays
Greek holidays
Barratt heritance
Barratt heritance
Barratt heritance
Barratt heritance
Mit-Dem!
Victim!
A Mit-Dem!
Donât wanna be a mit-dem!
Donât wanna be a victim!
Donât wanna be a mit-dem!
Donât wanna be a victim!
Pick the fleas mister
Eat yâself fitter
Eat yâself fitter?
Eat yâself fitter!
Who tells you what
To tape on your vid. chip?
How do you know the progs you miss
Are worse than those you single out?
And whatâll you do when the rentalâs up
And your bottom rack is full of vids
Of programs you will nay look at?
The way they act is, oh, sheer delight
Cardboard copyright
Make it right
Panic in Sudan
Panic in Wardour
Panic in Granadaland
Panic all over
By the wretched timesheeters
Of my delight
One starry night
The powers that be will have to meet
And have no choice but to
Eat each other
Eat yâself fitter
Eat each other!
Eat yâself fitter
(Eat yâself fitter, yeah!)
Portly and with good grace
The secret straight-back ogre entered
His brain aflame
(Eat yâself fitter!)
With all the dreams
It had conjured
It had conjured
It had conjured
It had conjured
A victim!
A victim!
A victim!
(Eat yâself fitter!)
Donât wanna be a victim!
Donât wanna be a victim!
Donât wanna be a victim!
(Eat yâself fitter!)
Donât wanna be a mit-dem!
The centimeter square
Eat yâself fitter
Said it purged fear
Eat yâself fitter
(Eat yâself fitter, yeah!)
(Eat yâself fitter, yeah!)
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from Perverted by Language (1983)
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80âs SYNTH-POP 12" REMIX MIX
VOLUME NINE
1986
Youâre breathing in fumes I taste when we kiss
The Human League - Human (Extended Version)
Kraftwerk - Musique Non Stop (12")
Animotion - I Engineer (12 Inch Remix Version)
Kissing The Pink - Certain Things Are Likely (Original 12â Version)
Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show (12" Remix)
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (Extended Dance Mix)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - If You Leave (Extended Version)
The Art Of Noise - Peter Gunn (Extended Version) featuring Duane Eddy
Kate Bush - The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix)
New Order - Shellshock
Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hanginâ On (WCH Club Mix)
Desireless - Voyage Voyage (Euro Remix Remix)
Sparks - Music That You Can Dance To (Extended Club Version)
Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2 (12" Remix)
Animotion - I Want You (12 Inch Remix Version)
Book Of Love - You Make Me Feel So Good (Flutter Mix)
Depeche Mode - Stripped (Highland Mix)
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building a handrail with standard length metal pickets creates a problem because the existing roofed porch is held up with decorative columns, which have turned decorations starting lower than the normal handrail height.
what to do?
well, if youâre my boss, youâve been buddies for 40 years with a guy who professionally builds and welds tube chassis-es for race cars. so, you drive up to his shop, bolt the pickets together in groups of ten, drill new holes in them on the drill press, then cut off the extra length on a bandsaw with a metal cutting blade.
this bandsaw is cool, itâs on a swingarm. it only makes straight cuts and you lay the saw on the material and gravity pushes it through.
he has a regular upright bandsaw for curved cuts, too, of course.
Danâs shop is off the hook.
he keeps bits he uses often on a series of magnets
the walls are full of souvenirs from cars he worked on that wrecked beyond repair
but weâve been meaning to go up there for a while because I inherited a welder that I knew absolutely nothing about, so we brought it and Dan showed me how to use it.
first attempt: nervous and moving way too fast
some improvement
way too slow, burned a hole through it
starting to get the hang of it, but you can see where I had to fill in some gaps
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At first I thought it was a little sculpture1) made from scrap and broken tools.
1) Well, in a way it is, isnât it.
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those look like my first attempts at welding. my instructor called it âseagull spot weldsâ, because it looked like bird shit.
nowadays, if i need something welded, i get the mum to do it. sheâs been certified for 35 years and lays down a nice little bead!
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