Projects

Projects that I’m doing

DIY ring display box

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We needed a ring display box and couldn’t find any locally, we didn’t plan ahead and buy one online. Which is pretty much how every DIY story starts, right?

So here is the plan we came up with.
Supplies.
Pool noodle
Black fabric
Picture frame
String
Hot glue gun
Scissors

1. Cut a section of the pool noodle the width of the frame.
2. Cut the section in half lengthwise, then halfs again, then halfs again. This will leave you with 1/8ths.
3. Lay these out on the backing of the frame. Until you have enough.
4. Hot glue them down to the backing.
5. Cut the fabric into a strip the width of the frame and about 3 times the length.
6. Glue the top edge of the fabric to the top of the noodles, where you glued it down.
7. While keeping the fabric taught, use a piece of cardboard/posterboard to push the fabric between the noodles.
8. Try not to get frustrated.
9. Do this for the remaining noodle sections.
10. String! Spiral string through the cracks in the noodles, this will help keep the fabric in when they pull the rings out. (This isn’t tested!)
11. Insert the backing back into the frame.
12. Done!

more pictures after the break.

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The re-shedening

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I was procrastinating on some other things and I thought, you know why not take that wood that’s been sitting in the yard for like 2 years and cut it up and fix the trim on the shed? Cause that’s a totally normal thing to do on an overcast Saturday afternoon. And because it’s a shed, there’s no building codes, I’m not going to go to Costco and spend $600 on a shiny new plastic shed while this one is still standing under it’s own power. So a couple hours later, I’ve used every part of the buffalo.  I should have probably taken a better before picture, but I remembered after i’d already fixed part of it.

None of this is the ‘right’ way to do it. I used old rusty screws to join everything together and I didn’t really measure anything. But if you’re sick of looking at something, my message is ‘just get out there and do something’!

Now I just need to take up the rotting plywood that’s in front of it and then organize the contents of the shed…

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New sculpture test.

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I decided to get motivated on a new set of sculptures. I have this idea for a new series, something about tv headed creatures wearing tuxedos.

I thought instead of drawing a lot of things this time I would just get something out thwre. I need to work on the ratios. I might make the head a little bigger and the suit a little more dynamic.

I’m also thinking of getting away from the ‘half sculpture in a plaque’ things. I might make this one into a full bust. That way it would be easier to plug into the wall and make this thing a lamp.

Plug job

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Finally got around to changing out the spark plugs on the forester. I’m hoping that this will solve the rough idle and gas mileage. They are pretty corroded and you can see some black soot on the two rear (top) ones. This is probably because I couldn’t move the wrench very well on those two because there isn’t much space between the engine and the frame. I have a good feeling about this! Of course it still could be that I set the timing wrong when I changed the belt. There is some oil leaking from the cam seals, so I’m probably going to have to get back in there anyway. But I hope it can wait till summer.

Changing the spark plugs is just like any other job on the car, it looks tough at first, but you get the hang of it once you do it once.

Here’s a post from SubaruForester.org