The Wolfling Project

I made about a dozen wine glasses as gifts for a Thanksgiving party. The images are from a quick Google search of "cornucopia," cleaned up in Photoshop and converted to a transparent GIF.

Wine glass, obverse. Goddess riding cornucopia.

Wine glass, reverse. A cornucopia seal marked 2009.

The results of the second cleaning session: a lot of work with coarse and fine steel wool, a wire brush, and a buffing wheel.

The rust is gone from the exterior surfaces, but pitting remains, as I don't want to put these on a grinding wheel.

Pitting shown on barrel (black)

Detail of the replica flintlock.

I started the restoration of a pair of replica Revolutionary War flintlocks with Chuck on Sunday. They had a lot more rust and pitting on them than I remembered from my initial inspection. Storage in cloth bags for the last twenty years wicked away most of the protective oil. Fortunately the insides of the barrels are not pitted or damaged -- and they're smoothbores, not rifles.

We disassembled one homebuilt rifle from its Springfield stock and started work. An hour of steel wool and sandpaper gave middling results on the exterior of the barrel and the retaining rings.

Since I'm done with the Techno Router SBU (and taking the ShopBot SBU tonight) I'll need some practice on the machines -- and 3D software.

1 ft. square battle board with hill and large crater, made in SketchUp

We machined a small (about 2 cu. in.) 3D form out of blue foam on the Techno router, which had a good amount of detail with smooth surfaces.

I took the TIG Welding SBU at TechShop today. It went well, but I'll need some more practice before taking the Level 2 class that handles joins. Fortunately the TIG welder schedule looks pretty clear.

Also about half-done with a few Corel Draw plans for more laser-cut items. Time to pick up more scrap @ TAP.

If you want to see what I did before I started enjoying the soft life in Northern California, check out my SmugMug portfolio.