Woodwork, metalwork and a lucky find
Some good news this week, my latest article has been published in HackSpace #12. I teamed up with The Kuriologist to make an interactive candy bowl in the style of a Monkey Skull. Also, 4 of my projects made it into “Book
Posted in: Techniques
Tags: Routing, tapping
Self tapping vs. Thread cutting screws.
Bespoke furniture maker Jamie Hubbard asked on twitter the other day if anyone knew the name of the following screw which he’d dug out of an old car light fitting. I thought they looked very like the screws you get
Posted in: Techniques
Tags: bolts, screws, tapping, thread
Small screwed bush
The next component to machine was one I like to call the “Top Hat”. It fulfuls two purposes, it holds the clock mechanism to the face of the clock and it acts as a bush to support the spindles that
Posted in: Machining, Topsy Turvy Clock
Tags: tapping
Big taps
For a project that I started the other year I needed an M14x1mm tap which I purchased from Arc Euro Trade. It was not until I decided to use it that I realised I did not have a tap wrench
Grinding and tapping aluminium
The latest progress on the flea was to add the eyes. I cast some large eyes from aluminium a few weeks back. The backs of these were a bit uneven so clamped them up in the workmate and ground them
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
