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So.
Some of you might remember me. Haven't really posted since about this time two years ago? Used to be way too active in terms of posts/day?
ANYWAY, at the risk of possibly looking like a self-aggrandizing attention whore and in response to what I'm going to interpret as a few indirect requests...projects.
Obligatory first: Dog. Always a project, as anyone who cares for such a beast knows.
Absurd creature...
Exhibit B: A Personal Irritation and Acoustic Nuisance Originator. Also known as PIANO. My grandma's trailer home needed clearing out since she moved and I asked if I could have this. Fixed it up, learned to tune it (more or less; not like it holds a tune anyway), and can play it okay-ish. Trying to learn to actually read sheets, though, and...so much frustration. Hence the acronym. Doesn't help that what I'm trying to play right now is in B-flat, but whatever, I guess.
After getting exceedingly fed up with my old desk (and then doing nothing about it for quite some time), I built a new one. The old one was actually a fold-out table, not a desk, so it had a bunch of cross-supports and legs in the middle and it was generally a massive pain in the ass to sit at, since there was absolutely no place for your legs to rest comfortably. As an aside, this was something of an experiment to see if it was possible to make particle board look good.
(Spoiler: It's not.)
For similar raging-over-cramped-spaces reasons, I would later decide it prudent to construct some extra storage in the garage, since dealing with things out there as it stood was much more difficult than necessary.
And I must say, having all my tools so easily accessible is quite nice. If I needed so much as one thing cut just once, I was in for a half-hour or more's worth of finding what I needed, actually cutting the thing, and then cleaning up. Muuuuch easier a task now. Especially if it was something small. The addition of the scroll saw helped immensely in that regard. Most of anything that could be considered scrollwork that I needed done was a job for a Dremel with a spiral saw on it. Not fun.
And, most recently, I saw this oh-so-neat device on YouTube, saw what it was made out of, and thought "well that might be an interesting way to waste a day or two and $15".
Too many hours and too much money later...
It's called a laminar water jet. It's basically a glorified hose nozzle, and the working mechanism behind "jumping jet" style fountains.
It's quite a bit more impressive in person, I swear.
Still waiting on the pump for it. Thing uses soooo much water and floods the yard faster than you'd believe with even just a small outlet. If anyone gets any funny ideas, take my advice and just do one out of 2" or maybe 4" pipe. 6"+ nozzles eat a budget like damn. Now if I could just figure out what to do with it after I'm done...
Some of you might remember me. Haven't really posted since about this time two years ago? Used to be way too active in terms of posts/day?
ANYWAY, at the risk of possibly looking like a self-aggrandizing attention whore and in response to what I'm going to interpret as a few indirect requests...projects.
Obligatory first: Dog. Always a project, as anyone who cares for such a beast knows.
Absurd creature...
Exhibit B: A Personal Irritation and Acoustic Nuisance Originator. Also known as PIANO. My grandma's trailer home needed clearing out since she moved and I asked if I could have this. Fixed it up, learned to tune it (more or less; not like it holds a tune anyway), and can play it okay-ish. Trying to learn to actually read sheets, though, and...so much frustration. Hence the acronym. Doesn't help that what I'm trying to play right now is in B-flat, but whatever, I guess.
After getting exceedingly fed up with my old desk (and then doing nothing about it for quite some time), I built a new one. The old one was actually a fold-out table, not a desk, so it had a bunch of cross-supports and legs in the middle and it was generally a massive pain in the ass to sit at, since there was absolutely no place for your legs to rest comfortably. As an aside, this was something of an experiment to see if it was possible to make particle board look good.
(Spoiler: It's not.)
For similar raging-over-cramped-spaces reasons, I would later decide it prudent to construct some extra storage in the garage, since dealing with things out there as it stood was much more difficult than necessary.
And I must say, having all my tools so easily accessible is quite nice. If I needed so much as one thing cut just once, I was in for a half-hour or more's worth of finding what I needed, actually cutting the thing, and then cleaning up. Muuuuch easier a task now. Especially if it was something small. The addition of the scroll saw helped immensely in that regard. Most of anything that could be considered scrollwork that I needed done was a job for a Dremel with a spiral saw on it. Not fun.
And, most recently, I saw this oh-so-neat device on YouTube, saw what it was made out of, and thought "well that might be an interesting way to waste a day or two and $15".
Too many hours and too much money later...
It's called a laminar water jet. It's basically a glorified hose nozzle, and the working mechanism behind "jumping jet" style fountains.
It's quite a bit more impressive in person, I swear.
Still waiting on the pump for it. Thing uses soooo much water and floods the yard faster than you'd believe with even just a small outlet. If anyone gets any funny ideas, take my advice and just do one out of 2" or maybe 4" pipe. 6"+ nozzles eat a budget like damn. Now if I could just figure out what to do with it after I'm done...
Been way too long. 
