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You ground your own lenses? Wow! Patience of a saint.
Reflectors use mirrors; !lenses. I've ground a few too; Polished fewer and never completed any :)
bunch of weirdness, but my hobby is building sprayed in facecoat glass fiber reinforced concrete pieces.
Most of my newer pieces are 3/4" thick and have EPS foam cores. My first attempt is the solid grey double sink in the bathroom which weighs at least 250lbs, I thought there had to be a better way, and there was. The desk with the imac on it is 28x60 and weighs 90lbs.
Sorry about all the other random pictures, especially if you get to see t-shirt diaperman on the beach.
I built a device to catch the mail that comes through the slot in my front door. It had previously been falling on the floor and driving me crazy. One day I came across this nice product, http://www.amazon.com/SNAIL-SAKK-Mail-Receptacle-Slots/dp/B0... , and it seemed more than possible to make my own. So, using a fabric shopping bag from a local store, some Velcro and a sewing kit I managed to put my own together in…
The makerbot.
I built a device to catch the mail that comes through the slot in my front door. It had previously been falling on the floor and driving me crazy. One day I came across this nice product, http://www.amazon.com/SNAIL-SAKK-Mail-Receptacle-Slots/dp/B0... , and it seemed more than possible to make my own. So, using a fabric shopping bag from a local store, some Velcro and a sewing kit I managed to put my own together in…
What happens if the stack overflows?
About a year ago, I spent a weekend building a letterpress. It's turned into a fun hobby. Printmaking is much more difficult than I'd have expected. One of the biggest challenges is maintaining a clean, inkless field. It's so easy to get ink on your hands, at which point it's nearly impossible to pick up a sheet of paper without smudging it before you're within three feet of the press itself. Registration (proper ali…