Does anyone have any interest in one of the following:
- Making a leather bag/pouch
- Making a glass from a wine bottle
- Making a desktop trebuchet / onager
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Tue, 2010-03-16 10:43
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While I stand a very good chance of completing a trebuchet by the next event, it turns out that kitifying the process is a little more involved than I'd thought. We can still build them, they will just be a bit more effort (unless my new rotary tool also works miracles, which is possible).
It sounds like the glass thing is going very well, and I think that would be awesome. I've recently come to posess a sand-blasting setup which might be suitable for etching designs onto the cut glass. I haven't tried it yet, so more on that later.
I'm very interested in the leather bag, pretty interested in the glass, and not interested in the trebuchet, although I will prolly still make one if everyone at a meeting is making one. I'd be happy for these projects to happen at a meeting I hold at my house, although I tend to kick people out around 11, so if we need more than 2 hours I would suggest starting at 8 instead of 9.
Glass Cutting has begun, and is a success.
Dragorn and I ended up giving it a go last tuesday after the meeting.
we discovered that:
Beer bottles are less likely to crack on the cut seam than wine bottles
Wine bottles are less likely to crack on the cut seam where the glass is irregularly extra thick
Both options can result in useable glassware with a fair bit of sanding/polishing.
I'd bring the gear to work on the project to a meeting, but the idea of making powdered or sharded glass in a place of business causes hesitation. We've made a point to have this be a basement/outdoor activity.
somewhere along the line, I actually found plans on the internet for a desktop treb. Started to build it, then moved and lost the parts. I seem to remember the hardest thing about it was bending the damn pin to the exact right angle to get it to fire without flipping over, or tossing the load backwards.
DerrrrrrrP! http://www.nefastus.org
http://picasaweb.google.com/dr4gorn/Pub#5449418137614221138
http://picasaweb.google.com/dr4gorn/Pub#5449418277219668258
I'll bring it thursday.
How does #2 work?
Interested in atleast #3
Yes, yes and yes.
I'm interested in all three... but first I have to finish the time machine.
I think that the glass cutting will be a fairly boolean outcome:
0) Everything I drink out of this glass tastes like bloody facewound
or
1) Success
The Leather bag requires more thinking and dedicated time.
A burning Tire-A-Pult (the tire would be burning... not the A-pult) occurred to me while listening to NPR this morning. Nothing like some middle eastern unrest to make you think "I wonder if they've built seige engines in Palestine".
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Oh.. DESKTOP trebuchet... I have less use for that, unless pladd is planning on an incursion over the cubewall.
I'd be interested in learning how to make a leather bag.
Pyg and I were discussing the wine bottle thing the other day, I'd put in a vote for that.