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Crafting, Building, Making

More projects can be found on the 30 day challenge page.

Jewelry from old watch parts.

Cigar box guitar.

Coffee table. Ikea table covered with African stamps.

Papercraft theater. Pattern designed by Chris Ware from the Acme Novelty Library series.

Papercraft pinhole camera. It works.

Slit drum. Old pine cabinet door body and figured maple top. My mom was tossing the doors. The mallets are made from hickory dowels and superballs.

Wooden flash drive. Carved pine with an old glass marble. The nice wood makes up for the fact that it's only a 1/2 G drive :P

SCSI flash drive. It's an old 2GB Quantum hard drive, the system drive from my old Mac clone in fact, gutted and filled with (4) 2GB flash drives in a USB hub. The flash drives are a RAID array so this is an 8GB drive which is to say four times a big as the original drive. Always a good thing to pull out and hook up at conferences with computer geeks

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Digital TV antenna Maple and cherry wood, copper wire, glass beads and antique electrical stand-offs. One of those "I'm not paying $40 for something I can make out of stuff I already have" projects.

Frame. It's four feet high. The maple parts are cut-offs from the theremin I built for the ETC . The cherry back is a cabinet door from the scratch and dent section of IKEA that I got for $2. The artwork are prints by Jeff Jones I've had for 25 years waiting for a way to display them.

Wall hanging. 1x3 IKEA cabinet door, again from the scratch and dent section of IKEA, with Space stamps (mostly Soviet and Czech) . I wouldn't say I collect stamps but I like them a lot, they're cheap and the artwork, especially engraved stamps, can be beautiful.

Puzzle box. Oak with mahogany inlays. I put the inlays in the top and side to make the look slightly more confusing to someone trying to figure out how it opens. Same with the square "key" on top which spins making it less obvious that it's actually a peg holding the first piece in place.

Great-grandad's cellphone.Motorola Razr covered in mahogany veneer with brass rod and old watch parts. My steam punk phone was an attempt to salvage a phone that was pretty ugly due to scratches and scrapes from dropping it so often. The metal on it added a lot of heft, making this feel like a much more substantial device and, interestingly, easier to hold onto thus dropped less often. A cool thing that happened was that as it got handled and got oil from my hands on it, the wood darkened to an amazing aged shade of brown.

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