Once the blade is annealed, it’s time to haul it out and shape it, or “profile” it as some knife-makers say. Every part in the process is really important, because each permanently affects the ones following. Sometimes you can go back and correct something, but only at the cost of winding the clock forward again afterward.
Commentariat(tm) agent kestrel sent me some plum liquer that she made. My eye happened on the bottle as I was grabbing orange juice to make mimosas, this morning.
Please give me feedback if these are getting boring for you, and I can stop and spend my time complaining about the F-35, instead. I’m going to do a series of postings about a knife I recently delivered into the hands of its new person, which I am quite proud of.
In a recent posting, I described a situation involving a few pounds of epoxy and a steel pressure can. [stderr] Commentariat(tm) agent MattP (must mock his crappy brain) suggested a cross-bar and a threaded rod, and I liked that idea.
This is for Q. It’s a quick-to-make and yummy meal with great reheat potential.
I may have mentioned before that it’s really hard to drill a hole through composite steel, since (sometimes) the metal hardens from the heat of drilling through the layers. Thus, you get a ways into the piece and think “this is going well” and suddenly all activity ceases until you re-anneal the work.
This is another really awkward story from the build files.
Somehow this escaped my notice; probably because I don’t watch much funny television. (Can we still talk about “television” anymore?)
I didn’t get much in the way of pictures, because things got busy and a bit hectic.
My friend Michael Helms [helms] is a famous Hollywood portrait photographer, who does head shots of stars as they rise and fall. He’s been bored and has been sending me some of the photos he has been doing out of boredom and – with permission – here are a few of them.