I decided I’d like to begin filming some of my outdoor ramblings and post the videos on Youtube. This was the birth of AboriginalOK.com. I have yet to build the site, but that is coming soon as some space opens in my outstanding project queue. In the meantime, here is the first video:
I’m working on a new website dedicated to Tindle Knife Works. I’m building it from scratch on Rails, and hope to deploy it on Heroku.
In other news, I have been working with a mill vise and cutting blanks out of 1095 High-carbon Steel. I’ve got a prototype for the Negotiator in the works, and hope to finish it within the month. I’ve also been fashioning a new smaller scale gas forge due to a burn ban prohibiting me from using the coal forge outside.
A new shed has given me much more space in the shop, so hopefully I’ll be able to prove out more designs in the near future.
Cheers,
Brandon
I recently purchased a shed large enough to hold all of the excess lawn equipment and tools that currently clutter my garage. With the newly earned free space, I intend to build a larger scale brewery so that I can produce larger batches of beer. The ultimate goal is to automate the system with arduino and computer control. I will put a page on this site dedicated to the project, so you all can follow along. More to come.
Cheers,
Brandon
I shall be embarking on a hike this Sunday morning; the goal is to circumnavigate a local lake, which I’m not certain is possible without traipsing through someone’s yard.
Here’s an image of the planned set of way-points that I (and my friend Michael) plan to hit. It has been over one hundred degrees for the last month or so, so we intend to get out early and try to beat the heat. However, we reserve the right to turn the hell around and go back to the air con at any point.
This is a good example of the side-effects of owning and using a fitbit.
For my latest personal carry knife, I decided to make some micarta. For non-knife folks out there, micarta is a (typically) canvas based material used for making grips for knives and guns and anything else you need to keep hold of as well as possible. My micarta was made from strips of denim, glued up with epoxy. The process is fairly tedious and potentially messy, but also straight forward.
Essentially, you just cut one inch by 7 inch strips from the denim, coat them in epoxy (one at a time) and stack them up, alternating light and dark sides to create an interesting grain-like pattern when finished.
Let that sit until the epoxy goes off and cures fully, then you can cut your scales out of it and work it just like wood.
The finished handle can then be varnished with superglue, and you’re done.
Unfortunately, I didn’t take photos throughout the making process, but have some of the finished product.
Photos to follow.
I’ve just created @TindleKnifeWks on Twitter which will keep users informed of new designs, available knives, and knife philosophy etc. I will be adding a link to follow me on this account as well.
Coming soon…
Cheers,
Brandon
p.s. I’m working on a catalog of designs for potential customers to peruse. Look for that, I’ll announce it on twitter and here when it’s ready.
Announcing my second (and most likely final) random word novel, The Hacker in the Rain. For this magnificent tome I’ve used the 850 most common words in the English language as the dictionary file, so it is actually readable. A major contrast to my previous book (Bistephanic Orphanage Toolkit).
As of this writing, the Amazon listing is there but not available for purchase, this will change shortly…so…go ahead and buy it.
Cheers,
Brandon
So, half as a joke, half as a psychological experiment, and half as a piece of performance art I published a novel comprised entirely of random words. That is right, random words, so you can’t really call it a novel, but I did. It is called the Bistephanic Orphanage Toolkit (also randomized) and is currently available on Amazon.com. It’s fun and weird and a perfect addition to any eclectic library. Go purchase it and all your hopes and dreams will come true.
As an added bonus, if you are a creative type and find yourself experiencing the dreaded block, you can utilize the random madness to spark your own fresh inspiration. It works quite well.
Cheers,
Brandon
