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Yes, the tradition continues. A new tool for each project. This is the lowly paint scraper. The edge is not a razor blade but more like a squared-up card scraper. This way if you push or pull it across a surface the 90deg sharp edge will scrap, but not dig in like a razor blade would.
From the "wood finishing" class I took at Lee Valley, the biggest tip I got was that while it is necessary to sand between coats, you don't necessarily need to use sand paper. A scraper like this is good enough between coats to get rid of raised grains or dust specks.
This is one of my recent measurement tool repair projects. I've got this piece from eBay in partially functioning condition. I was unable to find the actual manufacturing date, but the latest date of a patent listed on a package goes back to 1935. This makes me believe that it was made by still existing B.C. Ames Co. sometime right before the Second World War. It has 0.0001″ resolution and 5-0-5 large (⌀ 3.5″ or 89mm) bidirectional dial. Both graduation and text were not screen-printed but written (probably, using a pantograph copying tool).
This tool is now perfectly functional and quite accurate even after almost 90 years.
To bring it back to life, I had to:
- disassemble it and clean some moving parts,
- realign hand shaft to make it perpendicular to the face plane,
- restore black oxide finish on a hand tip,
- size, fit and replace the dome (I used a glass from some old alarm clock rather than a celluloid dome that has been used originally because I didn't find a good replacement).
I have expanded the pegboard storage system I inherited. It has taken a year, but I finally have most of my tools organized the way I want. The power tools still need a little organizational help.
Space Tool. 2011. 10” H x 8” W x 3.5” D.
Mixed media, cast plastic, rubber, found objects, inkjet on paper, UV curable inks on card stock and cardboard. Multiple of 5 pieces.
Tools of the Trade. Metal is placed in pitch to hold it stable while it is formed with punches. In this case the metal is Sterling Silver.
Tools: Contax 139 Quartz, Zeiss 50mm f1.7, Ilford Delta 3200. Process and scan by Exposure Film Lab.
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At this month's Open MAKE: Tools event, visitors were invited to explore their own creativity with our four Featured Makers from around the Bay Area, who shared their art, ingenuity, and techniques.
Guests made needle-felted creatures with Moxie, created three-dimensional shapes by sewing sheets of fabric together with Judy Castro, fused plastic with clothes irons, used sewing needles and conductive thread to make circuits embedded in bracelets and badges, and used motors and other tools to take Light Painting to a whole new level.
Photo by Gayle Laird
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu
DLECTRICITY 2012 Installation, Artist: NBNY.
Nuit Blanche New York (NBNY) presents a curated collaborative response by artists, writers, architects, and urbanists to the multitude of visions of the new city. Through a unique online visual platform, participants in New York and Detroit visually interpreted a glossary of writing about Detroit as a collage of moving images, photographs and illustrations. These works have been facilitated by NBNY using an innovative new tool, ToBe– a web-based interface that allows users to collage media in a canvas where they can draw and modify a shared palette of shifting content. Juxtaposing outsiders and locals, the project takes inspiration from How to Recuperate an Urban Crisis, Andrew Herscher’s important new glossary of urban figurations on Detroit. “ToBe Detroit” illustrates the complication and conflict of perception and offers a platform for visual dialog as a means to explore community across geographic boundaries.
NY contributors include: Urtzi Grau, Cristina Goberna, Canyon Castator, Karen Wong, Cassim Shepard, Troy Conrad Theiren, Pedro Gadanho
Detroit contributors include: M Saffell Gardner, Dianetta Dye, Olayami Dabls, Brandon Walley, Glen Mannisto, Vince Carducci, Cedric Tai, Mo Will, Daniel Sperry
www.dlectricity.com/the-exhibition/projects/23-garfield-l...
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Enxada na qual trabalhei duro alguns dias, removendo centenas de quilos de terra e folhas no sítio do Camping do Noel em Minas Gerais.
A hoe. A tool with which I have worked hard these days, removing some hundreds of kilos of earth and leaves on the farm of Camping do Noel located in the state of Minas Gerais.
At this month's Open MAKE: Tools event, visitors were invited to explore their own creativity with our four Featured Makers from around the Bay Area, who shared their art, ingenuity, and techniques.
Guests made needle-felted creatures with Moxie, created three-dimensional shapes by sewing sheets of fabric together with Judy Castro, fused plastic with clothes irons, used sewing needles and conductive thread to make circuits embedded in bracelets and badges, and used motors and other tools to take Light Painting to a whole new level.
Photo by Gayle Laird
© Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu
Esta foto muestra la via de bajada, bastante más facil y las herramientas que posibilitaron la aventura. Here a photo of the way down and the tools that helped with the aventure.
OXO Barware, designed by Eleven
Eleven's latest line of OXO Bar tools photographed by Christopher Harting.
Opened by Nabisco in 1956, This plant was a well known landmark in Northeast Philadelphia. It's nine story tower loomed over Roosevelt Boulevard and the small of cookies and chocolate wafted over the neighborhood day and night. Inside, about 700 workers manned eight ovens in three shifts allowing such familiar product names such as Oreo and Teddy Grahams to be baked nonstop.
After Phillip Morris bought out Nabisco in December 2000, the company operated this plant under its Kraft foods subsidiary. When Kraft spun off it's snack business in 2012, the resulting company-Mondelēz-continued operating the facility.
On Thursday September 12, 2010, the bakery became the latest scene of workplace violence when a disgruntled worker <a href="http://6abc.com/archive/7659454/"killed two and wounded another after being suspended from her job.
May 1st, 2015 was the last day of operation for the Philadelphia baker as Mondelēz claimed they wanted to consolidate jobs at newer facilities in New Jersey and Virginia. Union officials however <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/business/2015/07/10/boyle-oreo-mondolez/"suspected operations were being outsourced to Mexico.
Mondelēz <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/city/2016/01/29/nabisco-factory-to-be-sold-tower-to-be-demolished/"sold the property to a developer who has plans to build a retail center on the site, with one portion of the sprawling factory being reused as a distribution center. By the end of 2017, the landmark tower and adjoining structures were no more....
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Vintage 8½" pliers mfd. by F.E. Lindström AB, Sweden.
The company was acquired by Bahco.
Lindström and Bahco are now part of Snap-on Inc., Kenosha, WI., U.S.A.
Detail: www.flickr.com/photos/100761653@N07/16820453946/in/photol...
I had to make an adapter plate to be able to properly mount the quick change tool post on my taig lathe. The taig mini mill just isn't up to the task of cutting cast iron, so it took about 4-5 days just to make the plate.
Rounding the corners was the worst part because corner rounding end mills have a neutral rake with no helix. I think I'm going to get some router bits for this part because the modern ones seem to be made with the carbide brazed at an angle. They aren't made for cutting metal, but the geometry is still better than the corner rounding end mills made for metal.
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