My bowl from the awesome ceramics class today.
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nice job!!!
Thanks!! Lots of luck and a great teacher. I am praying that it doesnāt crack after all that work. 
Dry it very slowly. I sometimes wait 3 weeks to fire. usually i wait 1 week in plastic, one week in paper, 1 week in open air. but right now at Christmas everything is ughā¦ hurry up and dry!
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I havenāt been a member quite long enough to have any work made up there fired, but I unloaded a kiln of cups (and a few jars) at school today. Iām also a chandler, so about half of these will have [candles] and half of those are gifts. 
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Nice work toussaintpeg! I look forward to seeing your future work at DMS
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What is the name of the group? Can I buy one from them to support them and you? I journal in the mornings and this would be perfect.
Yay potters! Love them!!!
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Iāve been working on a slab table at the space, and I recently finished up. Really happy with how it turned out!
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Thatās awesome, what did you finish it with?
I used 4 coats of semi gloss Arm-R-Seal applied with foam brushes. Lightly sanded with high grit (800?) between coats.
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They are not available for sale.
We gave them out as awards at our annual party. The files to laser cut your own are on the Members drive.
MembersDrive\Mike Churchill\Leatherworking\Fieldnotes Notebook Cover\
The file is ā3 up Field_Notesā¦aiā
And is designed to cut three notebook covers from one piece of leather. Iād recommend scaling it up 2-3% to make insertion of the notebooks at bit easier: as currently designed, the Fieldnotes were a very tight fit.
Iāll be at DMS Thursday night if you want help in cutting your own - just let me know via PM if youāre interested.
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Thank you. Iāll reach out after Iāve taken the Laser cutting class. Likely in the next month.
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Custom Christmas ornaments for the players of the NAHL Lone Star Brahmas hockey team. These kids are, for the most part, living with billet families during the season. I made two ornaments for each player, so they can give one to the billet family and keep one for themselves. Just something small to commemorate their time here.
They are made from 3mm Baltic Birch plywood that I stained purple. I then engraved and cut them using my 40 watt ULS Versalaser.
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Nice work! I got about 80 feet into demo on ours and cried uncle. I wasnāt making minimum wage because Iām inept, especially not with dump fees and we have a solid 160 feet to deal with. I shall make amends by running the farm fence over holiday.
Finished wiring up the sticks tonight in Electronics. They are plugged into a box that has DB-15 connectors on it. I still have to put speaker, test, and service switches on the front of the box and then monitor, power, and speaker connections on the back before wiring up the JAMMA harness.
When finished, it will hook up to one of the Sony PVM monitors I picked up last week and it will be used to test arcade game boards when Iām at trade shows.
The sticks cost me $5 each at the First Saturday sale in downtown Dallas. They were missing the battery cover and I had to modify them by removing the wireless transmitter, drilling a hole, and running wires to hook everything up.
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After the Fiberfrolic last night, I hung around and made an over-engineered leather case for my little Gingher embroidery scissors, including fancy-schmancy closure. Theyāre expensive and delicate and a case has been long overdue.
The case was pretty straight forward, but I needed a closure to be sure they wouldnāt fall out in my bag.
The over-engineering came in on the closure. Didnāt leave room at top for button/snap, so what I wound up doing was cutting a scrap strip of leather, then passed through slits at top. Worked good, but didnāt like the way it lay. Well, then wrap it. Cool look, but wouldnāt stay put. So more slits on the side for anchor. Perfect. It actually holds real well, and I like the funky look.
Iāve taken various leather classes, but this is the first little baby independent leather project Iāve done. So Iām kinda tickled with how it turned out.
And thanks bunches to @HankCowdog for all his help and suggestions last night and to @Webdevel for the several great classes of his that Iāve taken
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Amazing!!! Itās awesome to see the finished pictures.
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