Just stuff I do for fun
When turning metal on a lathe, the speed of the workpiece is quite important. Too slow and you tend to get a rough cut, too fast and the material work hardens. In Donald de Carle’s The Watchmaker’s and Model Engineer’s Lathe: A Users Manual, de Carle presents a table of… Read more“Adding a countershaft to the lathe”
I love curry. Seriously. Curries of all kinds. But… a lot of the curry recipes I’ve found can take hours to make and require trips to special stores like H Mart, or if they are quick, they tend to be bland and underwhelming. So finally, when I found an awesome… Read more“Weeknight Curried Chicken”
A while back, I purchased a vintage Boley watchmakers lathe to work with, but life got in the way and I wasn’t able to do the work needed to get it running. Over the Christmas break, I pulled it out and started working on it. Lathe Cleanup The first step… Read more“Trying Out the Watchmakers Lathe”
It happens quite often. You visit a tall ships festival at a nearby harbor and on all of the ships you see these: So you turn to one of the crew members and you ask, “What are those fuzzy caterpillar looking things up there?” And they smile and answer “Those… Read more“Baggywrinkle: Or what’s that fuzzy stuff on the ship?”