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By Dave, November 8, 2006 8:34 pm

Tom’s Project Notebook

Quite a broad range of projects that fit into the SCA world.  Cool stuff.

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By Dave, November 8, 2006 8:31 pm

By-Products

Check out the benches and seats/garden sculptures.

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By Dave, November 2, 2006 10:46 pm

The Shaving Horse

Good info on the shaving horse.  Guess I will try building one of the dumbhead type sometime soon.  The one I have now is the English two post type but limits the size of the stock I can shave or work.

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By Dave, November 2, 2006 10:20 pm

Tarp Shelters – An Introduction by David B. Macpherson – EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE ™

More types of shelter from a tarp than I had ever imagined could be made.  Extensive info on temp shelters.  Wonderful site!

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By Dave, November 2, 2006 10:15 pm

Wallpaper Paste
* 1 cup flour (wheat, corn, or rice)
* 3 teaspoons alum
* water
* 10 drops oil of cloves (natural preservative)

Combine the flour and alum in a double boiler. (If you don’t have a double boiler, set a smaller pan inside a bigger one that contains enough water that can be brought to a boil without overflowing). Add enough water to make a consistency of heavy cream; stir until blended. Heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture has thickened to a gravy texture. Let cool. Stir in the clove oil. Pour into a glass jar with a screw top. Apply with a glue brush.
Makes 1 cup
Shelf Life: 2 weeks refrigerated

Have made and used it before.  Long time ago.

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By Dave, October 30, 2006 9:58 am

This is another 2 piece pix that I took of a necklace hanger someone had made of 1/2 inch rebar for the upright and and square iron for the foot.  There were 2 of these with a  3 to 4 foot rod hanging between them with the jewlery on it.  I didn’t ask but assume that there was spikes on both ends that go 8 to 12 inches underground.  Total height above ground was about 4 feet. Top hoop was 6 to 8 inches.
Cat needs something along this line to display her work.  Will see about making something along these lines to hold some bamboo rods.  May try to make a double hook affair to hold 2 rods at different heights.

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By Dave, October 13, 2006 9:40 am

A Low Impact Woodland Home

This is a great little house built out of mostly indignious materials. So many things about it I like I can’t list them all right now.  Am gonna have to spend some quality time thinking on this.

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By Dave, October 13, 2006 12:32 am

Gallery / Toys and Collectibles – Villafane Studios Artist Ray Villafane

Wonderful stuff!

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By Dave, October 11, 2006 9:30 pm

Just finished the 3rd batch of bread in the oven and decided to take pix of the finished product.

From the top

Bottom

Cut loaf on another larger loaf.  This is a white/whole wheat mix using sour dough starter, some bread yeast, brown sugar, a couple of cups of 2 % milk, a bit too much salt ;-), and nothing else.  15 minutes of kneeding and 4 hours rising.  Oven wasn’t quite hot enough to do it all.  Should have had another burn but was dark and I was tired.  Will start earlier next time and use less salt…

And the book that started it all:

better pix on the way.

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By Dave, October 10, 2006 9:46 am

10HP_Chevy

Powered by a Changfa diesel engine.  Interesting engine conversion. Note the belt drive.

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By Dave, October 6, 2006 11:45 am

Recipies – ACTIVATING YOUR DRIED SOURDOUGH CULTURES

Bits and pieces. So much to learn about a (seemingly) simple process…

My starter does have the brown water on it so must be close anyway.  Wondering if I should use milk the next time.  Some say to and some say not to…

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By Dave, October 6, 2006 11:42 am

Jeff Varasano’s NY Pizza Recipe

This dude has a serious pizza jones!  And I salute him for it.  Am going to try again soon in my mud/brick oven.  Last time I didn’t get the floor hot enough and they kept sticking.  The pieces that made it out were good but just not what I was looking for.  May try a bit of coal next time to increase the heat.  Though I was cooking loaves of bread in about 5 minutes last night after doing a stir and sweat number on the coals that were left after the fire was mostly out.  Kept moving them around for a half hour or so which got the floor just about right for the bread so maybe that is what I need to do for the pizzas too.

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By Dave, October 6, 2006 11:36 am

How to make roses from maple leaves | haha.nu – a lifestyle blogzine

Neat! Looks to me like you could use any large leaves just as long as they are still flexable.

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By Dave, October 1, 2006 11:29 am

FastMHz.com :: View topic – Induction Launchers & EM Rocketry

Interesting launching of rocket videos on the site.  Neat stuff!  As a point of safety though I think I would clamp or bolt the launching coil down.  The way it keeps landing on top of the capacitor bank and transformer/coil/whatever would worry me just a bit… 😉

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By Dave, September 20, 2006 9:11 pm

jory squibb

Builder of the Moonbeam 3 wheeled motorcycle/car/transport. With pics and a basic discription of what he used and how he built it.  Interesting but I don’t feel a burning need to build one of these.  Yet.

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By Dave, September 20, 2006 12:07 pm

The Internet Craftsmanship Museum

So much to see!  This site will take a LOT of time to get through.  Wonderful stuff!

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By Dave, September 17, 2006 4:39 pm

Volkswagen Beetle art car on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Dave Winer’s new header graphic at Scripting News is a howl!  It’s a picture he took at the “How Berkeley Can You Be parade” today.  Wonderful stuff! Note the tag on the left – GLASQLT, Glass Quilt maybe?  Would fit the car. 😉 Lots of other pictures of interesting stuff there too.  Thanks for sharing Dave!

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By Dave, September 17, 2006 9:34 am

P1000629 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Wish there was more on this neat looking bike but that it. The person who took the picture doesn’t seem to want to share their work as there is no option to download ANY size copy of this.

The amazing part of this particular bike is that wheel struts and all seem to be bamboo. Wonderful work. Fair photography. Non-Burningman attitude toward sharing on the part of the uploader.

Update: Went to the page source code and found the image link and stole a copy of the damn thing. Cropped it down to the part I was interested in and that’s what’s left above.  The link will take you to the full thing on flicker.  If the owner bitches I will take it down but this is such wonderful work I want my own archival copy for future reference.

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By Dave, September 15, 2006 6:42 pm

MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make a hand cranked document shredder

Start with an old broken shredder, cut, weld, attach handle, attach brackets, attach under bench, shred.  Not quite a from scratch project but not bad at all.  Seems like I have an old shredder around here somewhere that has a burned out motor… 😉

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By Dave, September 11, 2006 9:46 am

Roper’s Knot Pages – Hitches – Constrictor knot

Lots o’ Knots! This link was found at Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » How to Build a Tiki Bar .
Lots of closeups of knot illustrations. Good stuff!

Update: A new user, illbixby has commented on this and posted (see comments) a scan he did of a drawing of a transom lashing which he used building the tiki bar, which I will also post here for reference.  Thanks illbixby!  Not sure if knotphile is a word or not but it should be! ;-)  Also including the picture of the transom knot marlin, again for reference.

Transom Lashing