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Anna Morris 🎩🍿

I was in a weird fidgety mood today, as if waiting for something to happen, but nothing would, so I couldn't really focus on anything. Actually my hands are itching to start on the next big project, which is the painting rack, but I won't get the supplies for a couple of days. So I'm just overthinking what I'm going to do when they arrive, and it's not productive 🙄 To feel like I've achieved at least something I did the following: - @calmer breathing exercises - worked for a while on a cross-stitch project I've been doing it bit by bit for ~4 years, for like a couple of days every year. Life just seems too fast to be spending time so indulgently on such an impractical thing 😔 But actually I like the mood that cross-stitch gets me into: focused, calm, calculating. So I just thought, maybe I should conscientiously use it as a mood tuning instrument, and perceive the pattern I'm making not as a goal, but as a therapeutic bonus!

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Anna Morris 🎩🍿 pfp

Anna Morris 🎩🍿

I managed to squeeze in a little side quest project before new year - restoration of a mid century coffee table. The top was worn, and the legs were flimsy so those horizontal bars have fallen out at some point. I thought it will be a quick one - sand the top, glue the legs and bars together, finish with wood oil. The first part was exciting - I finally got to use the paint stripper the right way! The lacquer layer was thick enough for it, and the dopamine from scrubbing it off when it turned into a paste was great 🤤 But it wasn't as quick as I expected, still took ~2 hours. The real challenge came with glueing. Turns out the legs were flimsy cause the original joints were broken in two places and very lazily replaced by screws (I didn't have the energy to think of anything better, so the screws had to stay 😔). (This turned into a long read, will have to continue in the replies ⬇️)

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Some new timber arrived for the sides so I got those planed down (more carefully this time) and bent them to shape. Next is to glue in the end block and neck block and add all the side braces. I also 3D printed some cauls to make the spreader clamp.

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the missing of today. her gift for tomorrow (that’s the reference picture)

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Making some hanging bicycle racks I'm doubling it up and painting with exterior semi gloss. Also, adding supports and castor wheels on the bottom. When I have guests staying it'll need to be outside https://www.instructables.com/Vertical-Bike-Rack-from-2x4s/

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Some progress with this shoji screen. I will design some custom hinges and 3d print those next. This is all from bits of scrap wood I had leftover.

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Finally finished my live edge shelf just before the holidays, stoked how it came out. More details in this reddit post i just made: https://old.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/1h825z5/live_edge_kitchen_shelf_just_in_time_for_the/

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I've started making a kumiko Shoji screen This kind of woodwork takes a lot of time and patience, and that's the best part, it's kinda meditative. More pics below

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Been building a lot of stuff with my hands and machines in the last month or so. Here's my first attempt at crafting with a CNC: it's for an upcoming installation that I'm also working on. Took a lot of measuring, CAD work, and cutting 2 sheets of 4x8 plywood stock on a large shopbot. I learned so much making this. From how to make slot mechanisms, to the joys of tolerance. I did not enjoy working in inches or as a new friend calls them "freedom units".

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I hit my first setback in the guitar build. I was probably a bit too aggressive with the settings here on the planer and broke one of the sides. More timber is on order, I will start working on the fretboard this week instead.

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Got the bambuLab A1

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The top and back of the guitar are finished now. I will start the sides tomorrow. Hopefully I can make some time to progress this, it would make a nice Xmas gift to myself tbh 😆

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I starting making a t shirt last night. I measured myself and make some patterns in good olde autocad It was a new years resolution of mine a few years back to learn how to tailor, I'm just getting into it now 😅

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how can I put these spare batteries to good use?

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Templates and routers, two of my favorite things Under shelf lighting and controller pretty much done just waiting on a diffuser before final assembly!

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