00624 Paint on water

Cara and Meriel were adding paint to water with some turps on it.

It's only the coolest thing ever in the world.

00623 Richard's Board

It was Richard's Birthday over the weekend.

Helen said, "make a board for him, please".

So I did.

And 18 short months later, it was finished:

00622, the iPod amp

There once was a man who worked day and night to make an iPod dock with speakers for his wife's birthday.

He failed and instead went to the shops and bought one and was sad.

For the record, I was not that man, but in sympathy with his tale, I built a failed iPod amp, just to see what it would feel like.

Wood from a skip, speakers from the dump:

The electronics are still to be finished, sometime before my death.

00621 Emerging from hibernation

I have been working and not blogging.

There has been some making, but it's been sporadic and slow.

Tom and Claire's backgammon board is the first thing to be finished, just before Christmas.

This is the inset window with their monogram set under greenhouse glass, held in place by a circular wooden frame:

They were pleased, I reckon. I was.

Wood was stuff chucked away from a local flooring company and the ply was from a skip. Properly covered in cement it was. Puuuuuurfect.