When I was bending these spikes I thought I was witnessing a violation of an axiom I learned as a beginner - steel bends where it is thinn...

Last week I downloaded a few images from my old shop camera then it expired. New batteries couldn’t shock it back to life. So after many...

Last week I needed six rings for a chandelier project. I made them by tacking a 5/16” round rod to a 1.25” round mandrel then wrapped a c...

For the past couple of weeks, besides trying to get the lawn to recover after the terrible hot and dry summer, I’ve been finishing a chand...

I like to design projects which use hot punching as a technique. There is a little bit of a learning curve to climb before it gets easy b...

It occurred to me that over time there has been a change in my thinking about forming. This is something akin to the gestalt of seeing po...

Over the summer I started using the pedal hammer in an auxiliary manner and now think I should report it. The one I’m referring to sits r...