Made a gas tank skid plate from scrap for our offroad project
Worked great
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That’s absolutely beautiful. Is that its final color? I hope so because I adore it.
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Re final color of yarn
It’ll blend slightly more when I ply it. Then it can blend slightly more depending on next project. Kind of get more heathery. Not planning on dyeing it though.
Knit/crochet would blend more, plus any texture introduced.
Weaving, it depends on what else i pair it with for warp/weft. Close color value and texture of pattern would be more subtle. Or I can go with darker contrasting value to make it pop. I’m thinking if I did that, then probably I would dye some silk a dark dark brown picking up the dark notes of the yak down.
The other option to go with it is I have some raw buffalo fiber (they shed and industrious lady I got it from has a neighbor that let her glean his pasture). I have to separate it (they have five distinctly different types of fibers in their coats) plus get the grass out of it and wash it, then spin the downy undercoat part and see if it’s enough…
Weaving, maybe a nice scarf for my husband. I’ve been thinking about adapting the opening music score of Barber’s Adagio (his fave) into a music draft and using that as a basis for the pattern (doesn’t literally look like music, but rather the music is sorta converted like math into a weaving pattern, but the genesis of the music to textile is there). Gotta play around with that to see if it will do what I want…
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This is fantastic. Any chance you might share design so I could cut one for my home workshop?
I haven’t had a lot of time recently to work on projects but I did manage to finish a game prop with only a day to spare a little while ago. I needed an otherwise innocuous case that opened up to be a portable altar/workstation for a modern day, progressive voodoo practitioner. Big thanks to @mreynolds for the sweet penmanship on my favorite item in the whole case, individually labeled vials of graveyard dirt!
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Very cool.
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I was excited to be a part of a crazy awesome project! Looks amazing
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Ok that’s just awesome! All the neat bits. But now we REALLY need more story on this project. Too cool.
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That is probably the coolest prop I’ve ever seen. 
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My son used Makerspace tools to design and create his first pinewood derby car. I tried to “guide” a bit of the design by my sons iron-will ruled and I truly was only the cutter and holder as he hammered. 100% his design not a bit of my own messing.
Today, at his banquet, we found out he came in 3rd place - which I honestly consider first because “parent fingerprints” were all over the other cars. Couldn’t be prouder. Look at his lovely grin. Thank you guys for making the pathway for success for so many people and projects.
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I love that he did this himself!!! Kudos!
And I got a laugh out of the third picture - the one where he is wearing a helmet and the dust collection tubing is smack dab behind his head. It looks like either he is a spaceman or it is sucking his brains out.
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This 1:12 scale carver’s workbench is the companion piece to the shaving horse. Everything is from scratch except the four tiny brads fastening the vise screw garter.
It is constructed from an intentionally diverse selection of woods - mostly el cheapo pen blanks of mystery wood (except for the pieces that were tapped/threaded). It has a combination of mortise & tenon joinery, and way too many individually turned pegs (20 !)
The vise is fully functional. This view of the underside shows the traditional screw and rod mechanism.
BTW, if someone can tell me the proper name for the carving hold-down clamps (hooks), I’d appreciate knowing. (EDIT: Thanks to @photomancer who clarified that this type of bench dog is typically called a “holdfast”). 
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http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/tools/holdfast/
(Argh! I did not read far enough before posting.)
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Had my first try at making printed tshirts using heat transfer vinyl. I used a silhouette cameo to cut the HTV, 2 hours of weeding out the design, and about 30 minutes at the tshirt press . I’m super happy with the way they came out!
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Floating T-Shirts! Wingardium Leviosa!!!
Nice Job.
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Latest vessel. Steel base (thank you for welding it @EthanWestern) redwood burl, tiger wood, curly maple, African blackwood and ebony.
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Kris, nice work. I visited @TLAR last weekend and saw some of your work for sale. Beautiful vases.
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Finished and delivered a monster cutting board today. Walnut and maple end grain, 17" x 23" x 2", laser engraved Chef’s name as a little surprise for him. This was made for my buddy who is the executive chef at Braindead Brewing in Deep Ellum, check them out for some great beer and even better beer.
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