Friday night I finished up the leather working project that consumed the week.  Six 9"x13" painted leather patches. Saturday I ran some Cat5 around under the eaves at the house for the wireless link to the studio. Got that all working and configured the new airport express at the studio to provide wireless in the studio as the link operates on a ( Read more... )

Lots of things have been worked on and progress has been made.  As always there is more to do, and some of the things that were on the "real soon now" list haven't been worked on much.  The bulk of my non day job, non sleeping (although that decreased there for a bit) has been focused on getting things moved over to the new workspace and getting ( Read more... )

Made good progress on the moving last week. Treadmill and weight machine moved from the basement to the studio, and 2 stacks of flat files, the work table, a few bookcases, tubs of things and more moved from the studio to the basement.  Most everything else in the back part of the studio moved to the front room, and large portions of the garage ( Read more... )

Monday I did some more welding on the rack, cleaned up the garage a little, and did some work on the Jetta. Even managed to watch the rest of a TV show I started a month ago. Tuesday was dinner and some shopping with alyska.  Wednesday was Archery and Fighter practice, got a few good rounds in with a bow before getting a few good rounds in with the ( Read more... )

Last Monday I did get the trailer un-loaded and the tools mostly arranged. Tuesday morning I did get the Argon refill and stainless filler rod, and did some stainless welding after dinner. I also shaped and mounted a hand guard on my center grip shield.  Wednesday was Fighter Practice, where I used the the center grip for the first time in practice ( Read more... )

Tuesday night I spent arranging and finding things in the garage, Wednesday I did make it to practice, but not in armor. Still managed to leave with more than I went with and broken at that. Gives me a project to get the stainless welding setup and practiced. Thursday we got a sword and shield made for PJ. Now I need to make a shield for Skeeter at ( Read more... )

Kilt selling went well over the Memorial day weekend, and I even had time to expand my thoughts on my KDS ventures and give myself a deadline to 'ship' something. Kind of aggravating to then not be able to physically do anything about it until last night, but that is what was needed.  After getting back on May 31st, the 1st and 2nd were at the day ( Read more... )

Thursday night I mowed the lawn and then did the photoshoot for the pauldron. Pictures should be up and in galleries in the next few days. Friday I ran an errand to Menards for a dimmer switch and a few other things in preparation for the weekend. That evening I spent a majority of the time cleaning the garage and filling up the trailer with more ( Read more... )

Last few nights have been mostly productive. Tuesday I reworked and updated the GCA and KDS sites to have actual working galleries instead of a few pages with pictures on them, still need to flesh out the word portions. Then, I puttered around with the wireless link a little and cut some more vinyl.  Wednesday I took it easy for the night and went ( Read more... )

Friday night along with Sunday morning and early afternoon were spent with a collection of hammers, some steel and the anvil. It was good. The collaboration project is now ready for coloration, new powder techniques were tested last night. It is still on track to be mostly done this weekend so that is good too.

Saturday was a change of pace to get ( Read more... )