The hexagons are piling up again on the workbench, which are leftovers from making hexagon pendants. We have hundreds of these slightly odd sized, but yet uniform bamboo hexagons. Ryan used a bunch for advertising tokens for his shop back in Week 30...I guess at week 61 it's my turn! My Instagram "following" feed is inundated … Continue reading 61: Hexagon Trivet
Looking back over 2014, I am quite impressed by how well our projects went off. Not everything went off well, but that's a learning experience too. Here are the top three fails of 2014: 1. Week 21: Laser Engraved Bricks - while the brick (oddly, as I have come to find out and am working on … Continue reading 54: Dyeing Acrylic
Recently, an old friend got in touch and said he wanted to get a new wallet. Brenn wasn't interested in the same flap of leather or cloth that we've all been using for a few decades. Instead, he was interested in a simple flat wallet similar to something seen online. Simple and flat are things I … Continue reading 48: Simple Wallet
http://youtu.be/UzDyObuscbk When I first heard about living hinges (not the plastic ones), it was the same time I learned what a useless machine was. Useless machines are entertaining, but it was for some reason shocking to me that I could laser cut a particular pattern into certain materials to make them flexible. In reality, … Continue reading 45: Living Hinges
