My mom moved recently. She got an apartment so she wouldn’t have to deal with stairs and garden maintenance anymore. A fresh start means new furniture. Some of the old stuff was sold second-hand...Read More
Previous articles: part 1. After a lot of research, I finally decided on how to make the limbs for my recurve bow. I think I managed to find a good curve shape and length, so it is time to make the fo...Read More
I’ll let the video speak for itself on this one. But in case you were wondering, the hole was not intentional, it was a zeroing mistake. Mach3 still holds a lot of secrets … The script ca...Read More
Well it is finally time to test out my upgraded Shapeoko. I finished it by adding an LED strip underneath the X-rail and put the enclosure back over it. So here it is in all it’s glory: I must ...Read More
When I V-carved the zebra a while ago, I always intended it to be an inlay test. Now that I am confident enough, I finally took the plunge. However, looking at the intricate detail and very tiny p...Read More
After yesterday’s success, I am going to assume I am now an inlay master. 🙂 Today I wanted to try something a bit different: inlaying with straight-walled pieces. I chose this simple paw-gr...Read More
Today I did the same inlay again, albeit with slightly modified parameters, because I now actually understand what is going on and how the pieces fit together exactly. For contrast I chose a piece of ...Read More
Today, I finally tried to do a Vcarved inlay. Inlays have been on my wishlist for a long time, but the idea somehow spooked me as I thought it would be a complicated process. Subject of this test ...Read More
Today I had an epiphany. Just watch the pictures. Can’t wait to carve things out of this stuff! So I bought a lot of pencils. 49 cents/pack. Sweet! For optimal results they need to be hexagon...Read More
Tomorrow we throw a birthday party for a friend, this is the card I made on the laser cutter. The difficulty was to get all the characters connect to at least one or two other ones to make sure it i...Read More
Today i didn’t do a whole lot on the plane, but what I did makes all the difference in the world: I glued it all together! Now it kinda sorta looks already like a Corsair, minus the nose and the...Read More
I finally received the modeling plywood I ordered. I tried cutting the required shapes on the lasercutter, but once again a layer of glue must have prevented the laser from cutting all the way through...Read More
Now that everything is painted, there’s not much more to do besides finishing it all up. I applied a white pinstripe and did a custom headstock ‘logo’. Hell yeah! Enjoy the last pict...Read More
Time for making the guitar look pretty! I first applied a pore-sealant and gave it a good sanding afterwards. About the rest of the pictures, I’ll just let them speak for themselves. Last...Read More
Next I hand-routed all the cavities where the electronics (and also the neck) would come. The pockets are not perfect but hey, its not too bad either… While doing this, I managed to apply t...Read More
Next up was milling the guitar body. I did it with a manual router, using the MDF template I made earlier. After cleanup: This is why a man needs a mancave: For the organic features, I used a belt san...Read More
This is a project I did a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but I’m still kinda proud of it, so I decided to put it up here. Well, that, and I am still waiting for components for ongoing ...Read More
I’ve had the plans for a while. Now that the lasercutter is set up, I finally was able to cut all the parts and I started building the hull structure. Some larger parts I had to cut on the SO2. ...Read More
Some time ago, I was browsing the web in search of nice ways to store some wine/booze bottles. I stumbled upon a nice modern wine rack design from some guy/company that seems to have gone off the...Read More
Paid a visit to my local exotic hardwood vendor… From left to right you can see: purpleheart, Santos palissander & Wenge, Asian Padauk & Pyinkado, Ebony, Tulipwood (Bahia rosewood pa...Read More