I kinda feel bad for whoever had enough English to put DIY + AREA together as a brand name for their company, but not quite enough to realize it also parses as DI-YA-RE-A.
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T.Rob
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My first time turning deer antler produced a nice looking Vesper click pen. The antler was incredibly hard and even sharp carbide cutters bogged down a bit. The biggest surprise was that it gave off a smell of over-crispy barbecue. Now I understand why people charge a lot for these - lots of work and now I need to air out the shop for a week!
We are only two weeks away from closing on our house sale so I do a walkthrough every day or so, just to make sure no major issues develop to kill the deal.
Today it seems there's a serious leek under the kitchen sink. It's always something.
This dragon pen is in my Top-5 faves of all the pens I've made. The burnt bronze fittings and Poly-Ag stone barrel match so well. Plus, it's a hefty pen with good balance. Not for writing War and Peace longhand but great for signing the deed to your castle keep.
The camera meter likes the presentation case a LOT better than the black velvet background. I may have to start shooting all of them in a case.
That pool cue pen is devilishly hard to manage. At 8.5 inches, no pen box or display fits. Normal pen pots tend to tip over. Something had to be done so I figured why not manage it like any other pool cue and make a cue stand for it?
Voila! #HotOffTheLathe today are the two cue sticks used as the uprights for the stand divider. The rack is 3D printed. The base is #shapermade and the divider is laser cut. Used all the toys on this one!
#HotOffTheLathe tonight is a gold Vesper pen with black palm barrel. The wood is so dark I had to reduce the contrast drastically to show it against the gold.
I love the Vesper pens for their weight, balance, and solid click mechanism.
Next completed item from the #woodworking / #woodturning queue is a cue.
Well, a pen made to look like a pool cue, anyway. Pen is 8.5 inches long with the cap on.
Although challenging to make, the hardest part turned out to be finding a gift box for it. Ended up using a bracelet gift box.
Must have done a good job getting MIL's house ready for sale because it was under contract before the week was out. Now I am *finally* able to get caught up on some projects in the queue.
First up were these crochet needles for a Fediverse acquaintance who does amazing things with yarn. She said these are for a machine that she makes hats on. Cool!
All this time I thought I was being lazy using a pressure washer to wash the cars. I was today old when I discovered they have brushes that automatically rotate the car for you.
I feel like it's worth the $18 just so I can contact the vendor's tech support to complain that I can't get it to rotate my car.
Wife waits until the paneer is made to tell me she needs something to press it with. Stat!
Naturally, I go out to the shop and return with half a dozen clamps, angle irons, a 5 gallon bucket and two lids with about 100 holes drilled in each.
"Problem solved," I announce.
"You're an idiot" she says, then builds this. "Clamps? Paint buckets? We're making FOOD here."
I protest "To be fair, you don't know where those 2L bottles have been."
I'm not wrong. But apparently I'm still an idiot.