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home studio

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Where "studio" = "cardboard box, paper and a desk lamp"

Shooting product shots for upcoming project. Tethered shooting makes life a lot easier, but sadly my camera is a bit too old to let me do live views. Maybe if it goes well I'll be able to afford a less vintage Nikon..
23rd Aug 2012, 01:02   comments (3)

pinklight

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my favourite way to read. the second shot gets the colour more right.
14th Aug 2012, 21:04   comments (4)

on a slate

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Been craving chicken mayo maki all day. So I made some.
27th Jul 2012, 19:41   | tags:,comments (0)

Woodworking level up!

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Why yes that is a sliver of purpleheart atop an even slimmer wedge of blackwood, sandwiched in what I think is white oak. Ballpoint pen tip for scale.

Unfinished as yet because the purpleheart has been worked so it needs 24 hours to go more purple. Will probably have a gentle clear lacquer, finished to satin or thereabouts.
11th Jul 2012, 16:36   | tags:comments (2)

Network attached storage

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2TB Buffalo NAS rehomed inside a classic Sony tape deck. The NAS leds are wired to the VU meters, and are also visible as blue glints underneath the lovely fat switches. Tape deck is non-functional, but all the buttons and switches still clunk around pleasingly.
3rd Jul 2012, 22:47   | tags:,comments (3)

pull my wood

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Light pull what I made from padouk and African blackwood. I am covered in orange sawdust.
27th Jun 2012, 18:03   | tags:comments (14)

clever doggie

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So the vet said she shouldn't be allowed to jump too much until her stitches were out. I thought by placing this box full of bubblewrap on her chair would stop her jumping up onto it.

Which it did. Until today. When I came downstairs to find this.
25th Jun 2012, 18:29   | tags:comments (6)

wood identification challenge

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so I was passing my favourite sawmill on the way home today and I popped in to see what was in the hardwood offcuts bin. I picked up a nondescript dirty brown piece of plank for 50p, on the off chance it was something magical. I cut off a bit and quickly sanded/polished (hence some sawmarks still visible) it, and it did this.

It doesn't come off very well in the photo, but it's a really shiny coppery-gold colour, flecked with these dark marks, it's absolutely stunnning.

Anyone got any ideas what it might be?
19th Jun 2012, 16:51   | tags:,comments (11)