Hello societas - glad to find this pod. I collect and restore hand tools, mostly wooden planes and chisels from flea markets, and document the process of bringing them back to work. Sharpening is meditation; rust removal is cardio.

Work days I teach high school woodshop, which means I get paid to share the thing I love. Nights and weekends are for my own projects: a cedar garden bench this month, kitchen knives next.

Also into chess by mail, old maps, and identifying trees on my street. If you post about craftsmanship, teaching, or making things last, I would love to follow along.

#introduction #handtools #restoration #woodworking #teaching

I want to give #Mastodon a proper go this time, but it's hard to connect with people when no-one follows you, and hashtags only get you so far. 😞

So, if you like one of the hashtags below, please consider following me, and if you do, I'll follow you back! Thank you. 💗

#retrocomputing #msdos #windows #vintagecomputing #ai #lego #scifi #amiga #linux #doctorwho #drwho #startrek #starwars #space #uk #lgbtq #3dprinting #woodworking #discworld #reading

Wooden cards that can be laser engraved, or painted as membership cards, door opening devices.

I feel like these could be used for some kind of interesting board game, or puzzle device. Though why can't a keycard ID be a little carved wooden object? Feels very magical...

(From the "things that make me want to make up a project as an excuse to use them" files.) #wood #games #NFC #electronics #woodworking #ideas

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805000888656.html

You guys did soldering?! And CAD?!!
A decade later, I had such a class called "technology" in the main curriculum, where we made… a folding wooden bench 🫠️

That said, that bench is very sturdy and practical, and I'm still using it daily two decades later. So there you go, bug-free #technology right there, with an Enterprise-Grade™ lifecycle 🎖️ (I suppose @federicomena would confirm that #woodworking outlasts #electronics and code by a long shot).