Restoring a Table

I’ve been watching a lot of restoration on Youtube recently: AT Restoration, Hand Tool Rescue to name a couple. I thought I’d give it a go: there’s an old side table that’s been in the family for ages: at some point it seems to have been slightly incompetently covered with thick white gloss paint, butContinue reading “Restoring a Table”

Building a Drawing Machine

I quite fancied one of these AxiDraw drawing machines, but at the price they go for, I couldn’t really justify it. However, I did some looking around and found this home-made version: I can definitely justify making one myself. I already had a Keyestudio CH340 Arduino Nano clone and Keyestudio CNC shield v4 in theContinue reading “Building a Drawing Machine”

A Map of Arrakis (Dune)

For my next project I wanted something more complicated. As the new Dune film is out, and I’m a total Dune fan, I thought a map of Arrakis would be pretty cool. The Map Unlike Mars, there’s no geo data for Arrakis as (a) it doesn’t exist, and (b) no one’s done it yet :D.Continue reading “A Map of Arrakis (Dune)”

Die Cutter Project 2: A Map of Barsoom

The circular cutout of my previous project gave me an idea: what if I drew a planet next? I’d bought some red card from Hobbycraft, so Mars was the obvious choice. I always liked the name for Mars, “Barsoom” from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars Series, so that would be the title. The Map Data WhereContinue reading “Die Cutter Project 2: A Map of Barsoom”

Succeeding with Prometheus Copper Clay!

This is the process I’m now using: its had 100% success so far. This post is stitched together from various pieces; I unfortunately didn’t take pictures of the complete process for a single piece. Step 1: Roll out and mould the clay I’m working on a smooth piece of board with some acetate film stuckContinue reading “Succeeding with Prometheus Copper Clay!”