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Made of wood: Wenge
Wenge is my favorite wood. It is beautiful, hard, resistant, exotic, hard to come by. Working with wenge wood means your hand is full of...
acszolie
Mar 27, 20221 min read
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Corner radius measuring tool
Here is a cool tool that I made to measure corner radius. When I draw from an existing object, especially if it requires attachments,...
acszolie
Feb 3, 20221 min read
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Christmas candle holder
Wood and fire share a complex relationship; they have an affinity for each other that can be challenging to manage, making it difficult...
acszolie
Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Made of wood: Macassar Ebony
I visited an exotic wood shop in Geneva, and what I witnessed was truly astonishing. The vast selection of exotic woods was...
acszolie
Sep 5, 20211 min read
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Discovering the annular cutters
I saw it somewhere, and just, you know, take my f...n money. It cuts metal like nothing else. So fast, smooth and easy to use.
acszolie
May 19, 20211 min read
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Made of wood: Bocote
I stumbled upon an old, dirty, and cracked wooden board in an abandoned warehouse and inquired if I could claim it. Upon planing the...
acszolie
Apr 20, 20211 min read
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Smelly leather
Working with leather can be quite delightful, but laser cutting it is a different story. The strong and somewhat unpleasant smell aside,...
acszolie
Apr 7, 20211 min read
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My thing for bowties
When I first encountered these intricate joinery techniques many years ago (before YouTube), my reaction was simply, "Wow, how is this...
acszolie
Feb 23, 20211 min read
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Some inlay work, using the laser cutter
I've always wanted to attempt this, but I never had the patience to do it entirely by hand. The laser cutting and engraving process has...
acszolie
Feb 4, 20211 min read
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If you want something done, do it yourself...
Building some tools/machines Some things you can buy, others you can't... or you can, but where's the fun in that? My first project was a...
acszolie
Nov 27, 20201 min read
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Continue the Nixies?
There was a request to create more Lamina Nixie Clocks in turquoise and gold colors. I began cutting and preparing a new DROID version,...
acszolie
Aug 1, 20201 min read
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Laser: ON - Woodize - Atelier, Laser Cuttery
The machine arrived in 2020, and after a two-year break, I could once again smell the freshly cut wood. I missed it. I love it. From 2011...
acszolie
Jul 21, 20201 min read
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Joined Knock on Wood to give woodworking classes
Pure coincidence plays a role in life, or maybe it's karma, or our pre-written path, who knows... I met someone with a fantastic idea,...
acszolie
Oct 5, 20191 min read
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