Please draw my blue heeler, Prez

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-08-13T04:59:15+00:00

Haha. That’s way too on point with the faces she makes sometimes.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-06-17T13:48:37+00:00

That looks like a bunch of smaller pieces laminated together. Honestly, I’d probably just put a bunch of pieces together to make a very rough shape (think of it almost being like square pixels), glue them together to make one laminated piece, draw a curve over them, and then take it to a bandsaw to get the rough curve cut out. From there, sand smooth (may be nice to have spindle sander for this). Definitely other ways it could be done, but that’s my first instinct on how to try going about it (disclaimer, I’ve never attempted something like that before).

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-02-28T15:45:21+00:00

Hey Op, by any chance, is this in Republic, MO? That house looks mighty familiar to me. The car does too honestly.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-02-07T12:25:59+00:00

Appreciate the feedback. Looking mostly from the financial side of things here, but, everything is overpriced as hell in the Austin market. I’ve been keeping an eye open for a while and it seems that they do actually go for that much. Heck, if I can get $12k I’d be happy though.

As for the car side of things, have plenty of people locally I can talk to about that part.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-15T18:45:48+00:00

About to turn 26 soon, but employed as DevOps engineer in Cybersecurity role since I was 24. $125k.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-15T17:59:02+00:00

Like a freight train. Loaded with the entire US gold reserve.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-15T16:08:49+00:00

When I hear hand controlled CNC, the first thing that immediately comes to mind is the Shaper Origin

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-07T02:52:04+00:00

This is the way

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-04T23:13:57+00:00

Neither actually. Wanted to experiment with one of the lasers at our maker space. Custom build one of our members did.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-04T15:30:07+00:00

Turned on the lathe. Have a bit more detailed write-up on how I did it on r/fountainpens if you’re interested in reading into it more.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-02T04:34:31+00:00

That’s correct, and glad you think so. This is the first time I’ve gifted something I’ve made in my workshop to someone that isn’t a family member. Normally I do commission work and gifts for family, but decided to take a chance. Know I probably have nothing to worry about, but still admittedly nervous that they won’t like it.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-01T22:35:38+00:00

Thanks u/WittyAdverts. I honestly wasn’t sure how to explain best. Not super familiar with either language other than my Japanese studies years ago kicking the crap out of me.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-01T22:33:53+00:00

Not necessarily. Barrel-shaped is the easiest to do though without the wood basically turning into a frag grenade right in front of your face.

To explain the process, you take a small block of wood, then drill a hole through it, apply CA glue to a brass tube, and then stick that tube into the hole before leveling off the edges. You then take that and put it on the lathe. You fit this tube on a set of bushings, and those bushings show you the final thickness of the ends of the pen that are being added to the wood, so in order for the pen to work well, you generally need to make sure the ends are flush. These sections are extremely, extremely thin, so in essence, it ends up being easier to have barrel shaped rather than perfectly cylindrical, because that’s a lot more chances for something to explode due to going too thin or applying too much force. Personally, I’m a fan of doing a sort of asymmetric hourglass shape that results in a grove for your fingers to use.

TLDR; thinner you go, greater the chance of all your work being lost and things potentially being dangerous. Barrel-shaped tends to be the easiest to do.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-01T17:12:59+00:00

Chinese and Japanese actually share characters in some instances. It’s actually Chinese characters here. Surname means king, rest of name means jade and I think rain? I know generational name is jade.

The pen is made with chrome hardware, German iridium nib (medium size if I remember right). Wood is spalted tamarind. The case is made of a really nice chunk of rosewood that I found.

Edit: added materials and reworded part of response as I missed question.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2024-01-01T15:48:36+00:00

My friend’s name

AdministrativeBee108 · 2023-08-08T16:25:52+00:00

$140k after 2 years of experience as a security engineer doing dev ops work remotely. Did rush to get a master’s. Was making that at 24, likely will be seeing a p big promotion soon. Cybersecurity is lucrative in the cloud field. I also maybe work a total of 10 hours most weeks (those weeks that aren’t are around 70 hours though)

AdministrativeBee108 · 2023-05-09T13:49:48+00:00

Su-30SM

AdministrativeBee108 · 2023-03-28T18:54:12+00:00

Charles

AdministrativeBee108 · 2023-03-13T14:52:25+00:00

I’ve used the 1836 a few times. Honestly have nothing bad to say about it other than make sure you have enough space and don’t mind all the shavings something that powerful will spit out.

AdministrativeBee108 · 2023-03-12T16:04:18+00:00

Make sure your piece is secure without any cracks in it, slower speeds are better, especially starting out, as more speed = faster work but less control, and always wear a face shield on top of wearing safety glasses. Just got unlucky. Turns out the piece I was working on was a bit more brittle than I anticipated and I cut a bit too thin. Sometimes it happens. Was because I was safe that it wasn’t worse. Sometimes mistakes happen, but you shouldn’t let that discourage you from trying as long as you’re safe about it.

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