Rabid builder type that jumps from project to project. Loves woodturning, Medieval mechanisms, and everything that has moving parts. Gadgets, Clocks and Chemistry Rules! Shown a big red button labeled "Do Not Push ~ Danger", would have to be restrained from pushing said button. 
The days are racing past and I am in need of progress on the triangular stool front.
The legs need holes drilled. I used a bit and brace for the first few holes, but pear wood is hard, and I am weak! Drill press it is.
Fitting the first leg with the cross dowels. I made a [...]
I took a whole bunch of pictures at Coronet this last weekend, but most of the court and fighting pictures turned out awful. The majority of the good images I got were on my early Saturday morning walk around. It came as a bit of a good surprise at just how many period/periodesque/non modern pavilions [...]
I sold the cone of shame. That leaves me two days to make another tent…. so…..
I built a new tent today. Took me an hour. 45 minutes of that was ripping a 2×4 into 2 beveled tent poles.
I like it a 1000 times more than the cone of shame…. and it doesn’t even have end [...]
A.T. War is near at hand, and I have procrastinated on the A&S competition. So with the pool of days diminishing quickly, I decided I better get on with it. My entry is going to be a pole lathe turned triangular stool. I had previously turned a triangular back stool, so it should be a [...]
I am done… as done as I will ever be. From the second I realized my mistake in building this temporary tent, I have grown to hate it. It is a fairly nice looking tent, and it is pretty damn dry in this glorified painter tarp. It is however nothing like I was attempting to build in the first [...]
Lions Gate Archery & Heavy Defenders happened this weekend despite the horrific weather. Only a few die hards managed to brave the weather enough to camp. I was among those glorious few, as I wanted to test out my new tent at an event that was near-ish to my house if it turned disastrous.
Friday night was just [...]
So I have a conical tube of canvas. I now need to make a pole to support the whole shebang. Since my truck will only accommodate poles 6′4″ in length. I am going to have to make a two part sleeve/pole set up.
I wanted to pretty up the cone tent. I had by this point realized the mistake I had made when making my template, and decided to make it pretty to make up for the fact that it wasn’t going to look like the tent I was trying for. Sadness!
I did a quick doodle of a [...]
At this point I had not realized I had screwed up the template. I marked out all the sections on the painters tarp with wax tailor markers. The template was longer than the tarp, so I ended up using the wasted space at the corners to make up for the short lengths of canvas.
Hard to [...]
The big news… Recently I was contacted by an individual from Austin Texas, about purchasing my bedoiun tent. After a very short period of time a mutualy agreed upon price was determined, and the tent shouls be in Texas as I write this. This means I have very little time to make a new tent [...]
