I’m going to be doing the usual drive-pilgrimage that will leave me exhausted, sleepless, and disoriented – but thankful.
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I’m going to be doing the usual drive-pilgrimage that will leave me exhausted, sleepless, and disoriented – but thankful.
Jazzlet’s knife is done.
What if your “good guys with guns” turn out to be the Keystone Kops?
There’s something about the texture of terracotta, like plaster – it reflects and captures light in a way that seems unusually clear and crisp.
Old school mold-makers and modelers like Adam Savage use a technique for framing molds in which they cut cardboard boxes and glue them together with hot glue.
Before my big end-of-year spate of travel started, I did some forge-welding and made a few pieces of bar-stock. One of the pieces was intended for a bread-scoring knife for Commentariat(tm) member Jazzlet.
Yesterday we went to the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC! Is there some way I can make “going to museums” a career? Would any national magazine like a museum reviewer? Contact my agent.
Andrew M emailed me with a strange factoid.
Post vises are popular with blacksmiths because they can clamp incredibly strongly and the ajax-style threading allows them to be tightened quickly with one hand.
I had a sudden trip to Boston that I needed to work into my schedule, which meant I had to get up early, vote, go to the post office, and then drive fast and furious down to Washington airport to get the 6:00pm Jetblue flight northbound.