MITERS plane

A lonely RC plane wing wandered into MITERS the other day.  It even had a working aileron servo.  Bayley told me to make it fly, so I said okay.  I cut out some insulation foam, jammed a CF rod into it, and put some tailfeathers on it.

despite everyone's beliefs (including my own) it flew.

wood auger

I went to the forge today and started my first wood auger.  It's supposed to look something like this.

Dorm chair mandolele

A while ago I spotted a broken chair in the basement.  I scavenged some oak from it, and finally got around to using it this past weekend.  In a one-night extravaganza of poor craftsmanship, I put this together.

mbira

back in the summer of 2011 I made an mbira.  It's a lamellophone with roots in Africa.  Notes are created by plucking rigidly held metal strips of different lengths.

dulcimer thing update

dulcimer thing is lots of fun.  My finger's been hurting a lot lately, so I haven't been playing much, but I did finally get around to fabricating a machine tuner after a big bass string torqued one of my wood tuning pegs apart.  

obligatory quadrotor post

I just recently got the chance to play with my first quadrotor.  A friend donated to me a small-ish (about 1' square) quad frame made of CF laminated over end grain balsa as well as a handful of older brushless motors and ESCs.  I haven't always been the biggest fan of quadrotors, but this one flew into my hands so I figured I'd better try it out.

wood chisel

today I forged a wood chisel from a piece of car spring.