I always found myself adding more and more water. I'll change the egg flour ratio next time. I like the flavor anyway.

So many eggs ...

Griff, the exact recipe for those hot dog buns (which I've also used for hamburger buns) is:

1/3 cup coconut flour*
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
4 eggs
1/4 cup oil (I used grapeseed, but canola or whatever is fine too)
2 TBS honey

Blend dry ingredients. Add oil, and mix with a fork until all lumps are gone. Then beat in eggs and honey. Batter will be very wet, and needs some sort of form to make an appropriate bun/loaf/whatever shape. For hamburger buns I use one of these. Bake at 375 for 12-13 minutes.


*It's really a much better idea to weigh coconut flour rather than measure it. The amount of compaction in the measuring cup is going to dramatically alter the dry/wetness of the batter. 100 grams of coconut flour = 1 cup, so for this I weigh out 33 grams.

Thanks!

I made this 10' monopod and a silly rocketship base for it today. SOmehow, in a box labeled "weird hardware" in the studio, we had a thrust bearing that perfectly fits onto 3/4" conduit, as well as a few shaft collars that don't fit so perfectly but definitely work. So the top camera mount is adjustable, and it pivots really smoothly on an adjustable point. In fact, for serious height, the thrust bearing will socket nicely into the drill-holder hole on the top of my 10' A-frame ladder. So it's functionally a 10-18'-above-grade camera platform.

Next step is to turn a 9' bicycle brake cable into a remote for the camera, so I have more than 10 seconds to compose a shot.

That's a wonderful feeling. :D
Don't they have wireless remote thingys that you can adapt for use with your camera?

Not for my camera (Lumix LX7 -- I had an LX1 for four years, loved it, got this one after only a few moments of research, and have yet to fall in love with the interface.)

Also, the bike shop was open today, and of late my motto is something like: "strike while the iron is hot or probably you'll forget you ever put it in the forge to heat up until two years from now when you're doing deep cleaning and trying to remember why that shit is sitting around."

The trigger end is a few pieces of silicone tubing over the brake cable, for grip; and a spring between two washers on the pre-finished (brake lever) end of the cable. Total functional length is just over 8'.

The camera end is a bent piece of aluminum, drilled to fit the tripod mount, with a tiny hole to align the brake cable with the camera's shutter. The brake housing is held in place with a few cable ties and a piece of copper wire.

My son did about half the work on this chainsaw. It's made of sandwiched layers of foam board. Came out pretty well.
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Cute. :)

That's awesome

very nice work

Thanks! I'm pleased with it. I wanted something cartoony and harmless looking, but also clearly a chainsaw.

He's taking it to a marching band party at school as part of his lumberjack costume. I wanted to minimize any possible complaints about a weapon at school.

Ya cut down 10,000 acres of spotted owl habitat and do they call you a lumberjack?
No.

But you perpetrate one chainsaw massacre...

The design for the State Team yard signs

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Gonna move the eagle down a smidge, but these will be hand painted with stencils, so no need to fix this version (actual signs are 32" * 48")

Oh and this came out of the kiln today:

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Now I just have to glaze it -wasn't happy with the test tile, so put another one in to fire today. Looking at the pic, it doesn't seem all that impressive, but that sucker is approx. 6" diameter and hollow. it's a replica of the ancient d20 recently unearthed in Egypt.

Six inches is pretty big!

I'm impressed. It came out really well. For a handmade item to look so geometrically perfect is impressive.

thank you :D

Nice sign and nice 'multi-sided rolly around thingy!' :)

Great job on the sign & the die. You are quite talented

thanks -now we just have to see if we can make the signs work IRL. the board we have is donated and rough, the paint too, the stencils will be made by me :eek: ....and the help is volunteer and usually a little tipsy.... :lol:

The signs are made and up (4'*32") and liked by the recipients and passers-by, and my d20 just came out of the glaze fire and looks good :) happyhappy. pics to follow

Sounds like you're on a roll. :thumb:

I made a bunch of carving chisel handles to go on a set of beautiful old Addis carving chisels I bought some time ago.
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The set came with two loose handles and needed more.

Sweet!
I just bought some ebay chisels to clean up and give as Christmas presents.

Made a work bench. SeeAttachment 46163 if I can post image from tablet...

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If'n ya put a small, low speed fan blowing through that little radiator heater, you'll feel more heat in the room...



ETA: Good looking bench, btw.

hmmm... I guess you get the idea.

Thanks Grav. That was my first tappatalk pic post... grumble

Nice bench! Looks like a good working spot.

Thanks. I just put on the second coat of poly. 2hrs more...

How many loose handles does a guy really need??

Loose handles are like clamps, you can never have too many.

Yesterday was a snow day, and I finally got around to putting the handles on. I messed up and drilled the holes for some of the tangs a tad too small, so the handles split when I drove them on. They are snug and work perfectly, but have ugly cracks in them. Have to make 3 more handles.

It's a bit of guesswork to know how undersized to make the tang holes so they grab the tangs snugly, but not so small that the wood splits under the strain.

Here’s how to fit tight handles w/o cracking:
Measure the length of the tang from tip to bolster. (ie total depth)
Measure thickness of tang at point, middle, and bolster.
Find three drill bits whose diameter matches the thickness dimensions and mark their respective depths by placing the tape about ¼” closer to the bit’s end than the required depth. (To make the holes shallower.)
Drill the smallest diameter hole first, take care that you stop ¼” from the full depth of the tang.
Drill the next size hole and then the largest diameter hole being careful not to let the bit grab (and pull into the hole, thereby drilling too deep.)
Be sure there is a ferrule in place
Dip the tang in a bit of linseed oil and put it into the handle.
Tap the back of the handle with a hammer, the chisel or tool does not have to be in contact with a table, it will seat itself by the hammer blows.
The last undrilled ¼” will grab the tip of the tang like a nail in wood.
The handle shouldn’t split, if it does then your holes may be either too shallow or too narrow.
Alternatively, you can drill a pilot hole in the handle and heat the tang until it is red hot, being careful not to draw the temper of the edge part, and plunge it into the handle. The problem with this approach is that the hole can become too loose if you over burn it.

Oh, and nice handles.

Here's a third way to make the holes, it requires a home made drill bittish thing.

Get a piece of drill rod and hammer it flat until it is the same taper as the tang. File the edges square to the face (maybe at a slight angle). Drill a pilot hole and use your scraper bit to ream a taper at slow speed.

Drill it big and fill it with J-B Weld epoxy. :haha:

The voice of reason.

Indeed.

And it takes longer than you might expect to make a handle. You have to get the wood down to rough size, and then plane each surface of the octagon, including a nice taper towards the chisel, and then ease the corners where it will fit in your palm. Each handle has 25 facets, and while they don't have to meet any exact specifications, when you make 10 handles, that's about 250 surfaces to cut. Each surface takes about half a dozen strokes of the block plane. It adds up. 1,500 plane strokes, give or take.

No wonder it took a couple hours.

Octagons are awesome though, because the chisels won't roll off the table when you set them down. And they are plenty comfortable.

Ahh, so you didn't use a taper jig and rip them on the table saw?

:eyebrow:

Planes are more fun.

Plus, I'm not sure the table saw would have been that much faster. You still have to make a ton of cuts and reposition the work piece in the jig each time. I just used the saw for the picture because it was the only clean surface in the shop.

I have to agree, planes are more fun, more quiet, less dusty, and so on.

I love to turn handles on the lathe, so that's probably the route I'd go. I do have a nice octagonal (London pattern) boxwood handle on a Marples chisel that I like.

Those are very nice!

I was trying to do roughly the same shape as the handles that came loose with the chisels, except I wanted octagonal handles that didn't roll. I was picturing pfeil chisel handles in my mind as I did these. I also didn't go with a ferrule, because that would be a fair amount of extra work, and I though I would try getting by without them.

In High School wood shop I made handles for three of my Dad's chisels. These were the chisels he smacks with a hammer making holes in floors and joists, for copper tubing clearance. Nobody told me Mahogany was inappropriate.
They were beautiful... were. :o

Those aren't my chisels, just a pic from the net to illustrate the style.

Bruce, did you put a heavy ferrule on the butt end? That can help a lot.

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Like these fellas

At least you know he liked them and used them, right?

Yes, but heard about it several times as he told others. :(

What does this look like to you? Did I overdo it? I'm starting to think maybe it looked better when it was solid pink...

Is it supposed to resemble a snake? Because snakes can be that intricate.

I think it looks cool.

Some sort of stylized bowel/aboriginal creation-myth vehicle.

a festive transverse colon?

Yeah, it's supposed to look like a digestive tract. Minifob envisioned this thing that he wants for Christmas: a marble track that is also a model of the digestive system, so you can see how food travels all the way through you. Of course no such thing exists, and we told him he should be a toy designer when he grows up. But I found a winding wooden track, and thought I'd give a shot at painting it.

But I think maybe it looks too busy? I can paint over it if I want to, just red on the outside and pink down the middle...

I don't think too busy is bad. you're clearly not going for anatomically/photographically correct, why not make it merely representational? It doesn't look "wrong" The details do have meaning, and you can see them in what you've painted. I'd say keep it.

Was he envisioning the inside or the outside of the GI tract? Yours looks like the outside, but the inside would make more sense if the food were traveling through it. It's probably a lot more difficult to get that texture right though.

A cutaway view would be cool.

I know I'm not helping.

That is supposed to be a cutaway view--but I realize now that from a 3-dimensional perspective, the red and pink ought to be flipped, so darker is farther away from you. You can't tell from the picture, but one side is slanted higher so when you drop the marble in it rolls quickly down to the other end. What he's envisioning is vertical, like this, but much more complicated, and with marbles instead of cars.

I think it looks amazing.
And children as smart as Minifob will see what they want to see.

My offering. Far less impressive.
I don't like gift tags. Never have done.
But I wrapped quite a few prizes of similar sizes this year, and they were certainly not interchangeable.

In the absence of any cameras in the house I was unable to dress Diz up in the Santa hat and collar I bought for him this year (Poundland), expressly for the purpose of making said tags...
In the absence of the 3/4 full pack of photo paper I was going to use for same...
Well, I had to improvise.
Photo of Diz from 2009. Printed on normal printer paper. Stuck on with sellotape.

I put this on the scanner as luckily that hasn't been "lost" :)
Pretty much life-size (the present, not Diz).

And anyway when all the presents are together it has quite a cute handmade feel to it. That and the fact that this is the wrapping paper Mum didn't use last year is making me feel quite earthy.

What did you make today?
 

$615

Bowel!
Got it in one.

you're full of it.

The project continues.

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Nice!

I don't see a single western saw. Aren't those Japanese saws awesome? The one I have is the only saw I use. My grandfather's western saws are all hanging there, but never get used.