Geez, I'm getting old or something. Dealt with some arch problems on one foot over the winter, right knee's been acting weird, and now I think I'm getting an RSI in my right hand from my desk job. Blerg.

Went to my parents house for Easter last weekend, and went to Toronto and saw my aunt's and unc's. It was great, it's been way too long since I've seen all of them, they're all so great.

I recently finished the two work benches I was building for the local bike shop re-cycles. I'm really happy how they turned out, it was a fun project. They're ( Read more... )

So far in the welding class I've been taking I've been working with a small torch tip, that produces a small flame that will weld steel up to about 2 mm thick. It's quite manageable to work with. Last night I brought in two sections of an old steel fence I've chopped up - I wanted to weld them end to end to make a bean pole for our garden. The ( Read more... )

Things keep on trucking. The welding course I've been taking has been really fun, I'll be sad to see it end. I reeeeally want to get a oxy-fuel setup for the house so I can keep practising, though I'm not sure I can get away with it at my place ( Read more... )

I made two jigs for my router this weekend - one for mortising and one for tenons. Hopefully I'll get to put them to use soon, I'm looking to make a shoe rack, and then a wooden border for a big piece of stained glass we have. The router is an extremely fun tool! It creates a disturbing amount of wood dust though, I think I'll make an outdoors ( Read more... )

So, I have all the measurements ready for Heather's bike, the workshop is ready and we have the tubes; we can start mitering tubes now. I'm both quite excited about this, and also a little wary. I guess there's no time like the present!

Also, hot damn my shed is turning into a fine little workshop.

Heather made this for my sister for Christmas, I just got around to posting this photo of it. I made the pattern for it, and she did the rest.


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It's snowed. A lot! I'm looking forward to XC skiing. My foot seems to be getting better, so I'm cautiously optimistic I can rock my skis soon. Very soon! F-yeah ( Read more... )

Mountain biking last weekend:

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