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Making a Walking Stick

Walking Stick

This is how I made a wood/bone walking cane for my dad and his 70th birthday.

Can I Convert a 3D Printer into a CNC?

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Well yes, I did and this is the video. I turn an old Prusa i3 into a budget CNC with a spindle kindly donated by Banggood. Its not a bad little machine for the cost and will cut wood, plastics, arcylric and even just about handle aluminium (with issues) Check out the video here and…

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Making a 3D Printed Animated GIF

This tutorial will go over the steps I made to create the Picard animated GIF in the video using 3D printed frames – a 3D printed animated GIF if you will…..

Wooden Bandsaw Reindeer

In a festive mood and wanting to try out my new 6mm blade on my bandsaw I thought I’d have a go at a 3D reindeer that I’d seen on Matthias Wendals site. Using a scrap piece of 2×4 I cut it down to roughly the size I wanted and printed out the template to…

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Wood Turned Xmas Tree

November 1, 2017 Wood Turned Xmas Tree Categories Christmas Decoration, Lathe, Project Still with xmas on its way I wanted to make another practice object on the lathe and had an idea for an xmas tree decoration. I had some holly from a work colleague which I had been seasoning in the shed for 6…

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1st Wood Turned Snowman

  I still hadn’t made anything on the lathe other than sawdust and round bits of wood so I needed to make my first thing.  As it was xmas, a snowman seemed ideal. I used a piece of 2×2 construction pine and set about rounding the stock with my roughing gouge.  I had previously been…

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1st Whistle

In line with the “projects my daughter will love but my wife will hate” set of projects I wanted to make a simple wooden whistle that my daughter could use during playing with her trains. I’d never stopped to wrap my head around the theory of how a whistle works nor remember ever being taught…

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Hanging Ikea RIBBA Frames

We wanted to put a large selection of photos on the wall in Ikea black Ribba frames but this was a plasterboard wall and we wanted them in specific locations.  Picture hanging wire and other hanging solutions have never worked for me so I needed to come up with a new solution. Please note as…

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1st Carved Spoon

I’m not planning on becoming a full time spoon whittler any time soon but I love the idea of spoon carving and am impressed by the craft.  I wanted to make a little spoon for my daughter that she could use but also keep and in years to come say “my dad made that” I…

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Pallet Wood Planter

It’s been two months since we moved so I really felt I needed to just make something rather than spend the time doing what we’d been doing for weeks, unpacking and tidying.  Plans for the garden dictated some planters so it seemed a good placeto start. With my limited funds, I love the idea of…

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I’m sad to say I’ve reached the end of the tot I’m sad to say I’ve reached the end of the totally fantastic @cabmech automata tinkering global workshop but have finally “finished” this little tribute to @badlipreading seagulls! (stop it now) 
Its riddled with flaws and doesn’t work 100% BUT each problem has been a teaching moment and there are so many little lessons from this one little piece.  I might post up some of the issues and what I’ve learned if there is interest.
As for the course - if you have any interest in Automata or mechanical mechanisms I highly recommended it.  Caberet Mechanical Theatre are currently taking signups for the next workshop.  We had some amazing guest speakers such as @smithautomata @carloszapataautomata @automatamaker and @firetheinventor and the facilitators were absolutely amazing!  I learned not just tips and tricks on how to make but also how to re-evaluate my approach to making stuff and re-learned how to play and tinker.
Also I’ve finally been given the kick up the bum to start properly working on Automata so expect to see me post a few badly working prototypes soon followed hopefully and eventually by things I’d feel happy about selling!
#CMT #Automata #woodworking #steam #steameducation #starwars #caberetmechanicaltheatre #seagulls
New video up on my YouTube Channel! The lovely peo New video up on my YouTube Channel! The lovely people at @shadow_foam gave me loads of their stuff so for my wife’s birthday, I challenged myself to make this nice little display case for a @taskmaster stamp set.
It worked out great and was the first time I got to try this stuff out and I’m really impressed. 
If you fancy trying this stuff for yourself I can offer you a 10% discount if you use the offer code “WOODGIN” you can even ask them for a free sample!
#shadowfoam #workshop #organise
I had a long speech about how we’re all innately I had a long speech about how we’re all innately makers but honestly this video summarises how I feel…
Just make stuff, no excuses!
#makersgonnamake #maker #justmake #makestuff #makethings
*Update* no more electric shocks! I decided someti *Update* no more electric shocks! I decided sometimes buy is better than DIY (hate myself for saying it though) and got this little LED lamp from Ockenden timber.
Filming is much nicer and I can move it around from the sander to the lathe when required.
#workshop #lighting #ledlights
If Luke ran into this little fellow on degobah he’d have shot it with his blaster.
However, thanks to the awesome @mister.jake.fee and some carving training today I’m a little bit safer and got a few great tips on how to improve my carving game.
Thanks Jake!
#whittling #woodcarving #starwars
Don’t tinker while tired! Curious if anybody el Don’t tinker while tired!
Curious if anybody else has ever done anything this silly.
#electricalsafety #doasisaynotasido #nearmiss
I call this piece Appetiser on a cocktail stick… I call this piece Appetiser on a cocktail stick…
Update on the fantastic @cabmech automata tinkering global workshop I’m attending.  Last week we were playing with motors and while this was fairly basic electronics, the application of motors and switches in our automata creations in weird and wonderful ways was pretty mind expanding.  A switch doesn’t have to be a conventional switch, it could be anything!
This is one of the things I’ve loved about the course but that I’m only finally starting to realise this week; the freedom to experiment and just play with no judgement on what we create.
I’ve been struggling with various wooden things putting pressure on myself to finish something perfect and that is what I want to ultimately create but sometimes it’s OK to just protype and mess around with cardboard. 
That’s not to say cardboard is just for prototyping either!  The amazing @reallouloucousin shows that cardboard doesn’t even have to be a scrappy protype either and can be a beautiful end piece too.
I’m looking forward to taking everything I’ve learned from this course and making my first pieces but I’m also looking forward to putting aside some time to just sit at my workbench and play 🙂
#cmt #caberetmechanicaltheatre #automata #steam #steameducation #play
Bosch sent me this fantastic little saw and I did Bosch sent me this fantastic little saw and I did a video on it.  Go watch.
#bosch #boschprofessional #boschbiturbo #mitresaw
Need help from the maker community’s….hive min Need help from the maker community’s….hive mind 🤭 tried dyeing some thin wood (soaking for a few days in @unicornspitstain ) to make some little bees for an automata but on taking them to the scrollsaw I’ve found the colour hasn’t penetrated far.  Black’s an easy one but is there a bright yellow wood?  Can I do something clever to make the stain get further into the wood?  Do I give up and have cubic bees? 🐝 
#automata #bees #unicornspit #woodstaining #wooddye
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