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After much wishing I had some hardy tools , I made some hardy tools.  These tools fit in the square hole in an anvil.  Hole sizes are nonsta...

I got a railroad forge from craigslist a few years ago.  beautiful flywheel, but rather rusty.  I ran the blower on an electric motor for a...

This post has been a long time coming.  Guess I've got some phase lag to deal with. I never did set up an engineering job for this sum...

Here's a video from June 2013 of an overtone flute I made.  It's a fipple flute (like a recorder or pennywhistle).  This one had a b...

after not one, not two, but three complete failures at composite layup, I decided to switch approaches.  Using some high-tech material which...