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Holiday project

Posted on July 13, 2025July 18, 2025 By admin

Just like the tiled table project at Christmas, this holiday break saw is take on another DIY project.

I got my grubby hands on an old wine barrel from Cave du Bon (free with a wine purchase) so we spent some time sanding it, then trying to find a jigsaw (only to find out that my jigsaw had been sitting in Colin’s garage for the last 2 years) then fighting a wonky charger that would cut out because of the crazy heatwave, then varnishing it and filling it with the hundreds of wine corks we’ve been collecting since covid (just shy of 900 as time of writing).

We’re also making a lamp out of a Jeroboam that I got from Bolle. Just need to fill it with gravel to weigh it down and then finish up with glueing the bulb holder.

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Yesterday’s second craft project

Posted on July 18, 2022January 4, 2025 By admin

Katy’s always wanted a round kitchen table. We upcycled one from Facebook marketplace. Old school solid wood and extensible. Gave it a damn good sanding then two coats of mat black that, in this heat, only took 5 minutes to dry. The top is still the same color of untreated wood, that’s only a poor lighting artefact. Now we need to sand and paint the chairs to match.

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Today’s craft project

Posted on July 17, 2022July 18, 2022 By admin

Handmade wine cork memory wall hanging. Got a wine crate from the local wine merchant, some plexiglass from hornbach and just a bit of DIY bodging and voila! It’s a bit wonky in places, but has character!

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Knife forging, part 2

Posted on October 7, 2020January 4, 2025 By admin

This is after rough grinding, fine grinding, hand sanding, polishing and sharpening. Need to buy paracord for the wrapped handle.

How shiny is it now, you ask?

This shiny.

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Knife forging, part 1

Posted on September 23, 2020May 2, 2024 By admin

Spent the morning forging the rough shape, finished up after lunch, then did the 1st grinding and getting it ready for the quench and thermocycling. After the heat treatment and relaxing, we started on the profiling grinds, and then it was time to leave.

Part 2 will be in a couple of weeks, when we finish the grinds, then polish, sharpen and paracord wrap.

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Proud of that :)

Posted on August 27, 2020 By admin


Fact 1 – NMD and her human have moved to Lausanne, where the humans are a lot more finicky about leash laws
Fact 2 – It’s been super hot these past few weeks, and Katy likes to dunk NMD in the lake to cool her off.
Fact 3 – Leash laws mean that Katy has to go in the lake with NMD
Fact 4 – Katy doesn’t like walking with wet shoes

So what to do?

Break out the ingenuity! We ordered 5m of strapping from AliExpress, and some hardware bits from Hornbach. I then spent an hour or so breaking out my mad sewing skills, and the end produxt has been tested in anger today and the results are promising!

https://www.flubu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/wp-1598527374444.mp4
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when you can’t find exactly what you want

Posted on July 28, 2020 By admin

…make it!

And the original gimp source file, for reference.

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Canada trip picture mosaic

Posted on October 3, 2018July 28, 2020 By admin

Click to see full version (2100×2100, 5MB)

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Letting my inner Floydian out to play

Posted on March 11, 2015 By admin

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Please note that the small images link to full-sized, 7805×8700 90MB PNG files suitable for large-sized printing.

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Updated Holmes

Posted on June 20, 2014March 11, 2015 By admin

I wasn’t completely happy with one of the previous Sherlock Holmes pictures I made a few days ago, so I tinkered with it and I’m much happier with how this one came out.

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