stove pipe fiddle

there's a new fiddle in town!

Carrying large and awkward things

The crufter's dilemma: You come across something simply wonderful, but it's too heavy, awkward, or hard to move to the place you want to move it and in a way you want to move it.
I think problems like this are interesting, and I'm going to dump experiences in this post.  Some of them even have pictures.

Summer 2012

motorized 14' long  projection screen - tied to bicycle seat and handlebars, did not attempt to ride bicycle.  would have been uncomfortably heavy to carry a long distance.

all of my stuff. shopping cart and backpacking frame were essential.  bungees and ropes useful also

Hooked carving knife

I tried to carve a spoon a few weeks ago.  It went well until I tried to carve the scoop.  I could really have used a curved blade.  Instead, I gouged it and ground it smooth with rocks.  It worked, but I'd rather have carved it instead.
Back at school, I was reminded of the "crooked carving knives" I saw on this site.  I love it when people provide lots of details on how they make things, even when they're trying to sell them, because it makes it a whole lot easier for me to try to make them.  So I tried making one.

Tongue Drum

I first saw these on youtube a while ago.  They're lamellophones just like the mbira, except made out of wood.  Having recently crufted some nice-ish wood, I traced out a pattern, figuring that if I made the tongues roughly different sizes, I could tune them later.

Nice Things Tricopter

Up until now, I've made all of my tricopters out of cheap materials like golf club shafts, bamboo, and balsa.

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.