Garlic bread scissors!
A question came up in the house, and we are wondering about outside perspectives.
Is it acceptable to cut a garlic baguette with scissors?
#food #poll #makersHour #garlic
Please share so we can get as many answers as possible!
Update on Titanic. There is more detail parts in the storage box, but they will have to wait. #Makershour #TitanicProject
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A5 #makershour #lateentries
Too many project books already! Got a few on jewellery the other week to add to the pile.
Currently reading "ikigai", the Japanese philosophy of a fulfilled life. My life is certainly full!
I also read the first chapter of a book called something like "adhd is awesome", but that was weeks ago. 
The biggest project in your life is probably you.
Today I second coated MiL's oak table,
And chatted with the chaps digging up the road.
Put Mum's laundry in the machine,
Then moved the car onto the road.
We went to the community workshop,
And added decoration to the rainwater tank.
I cut some boards,
To use with old picture frames for artwork.
Sorted through the rainwater goods,
And found parts to fit gutters to the wood store.
That will be a job for next week,
When I have ladders on site.
The new trailer coupling was delivered,
As was the shelf brackets for the church hall.
[Edit: We collected all our spare bikes and parts,
And donated to Manchester Bike Kitchen.]
I finished the shelf for Mum,
And then got that fitted for her.
Measured and cut a board,
To fit on the side of her bed.
It will be upholstered,
And will enclose that side of the bed for her.
Did caretaking,
And email admin.
Joined in #MakersHour,
It was very busy tonight.
Watched a couple of videos,
Now very tired.
Amser gwely,
#NosDa
#MakersHour A5: I bought this "507 Mechanical Movements" book a little while ago, but haven't really explored it properly yet, it is interesting "food for thought" though... it was actually at the request/inspiration of my partner, who also likes mechanisms. I think I prefer books that inspire pondering over books that instruct me how to do a thing.
I'm a lover of books, but must admit that for most practical things I've moved on from them as a medium. I may regret this when our civilisation plunges into the new dark ages ahead... if I have time outside of scavenging for food and trying to stay alive for whatever brief period I survive the cataclysm.
Perhaps the books I desire most are the workshop manuals for cars from the time before they became computers with an engine and wheels. Give me an old Ford F-100, little 4.1 litre Cleaveland V8 in it, and a manual and time to tinker and I think I'd be happy :) [This was actually my first vehicle.]
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I had a book on Japanese joinery once. It was like a tall pocket book and it showed each joint assembled, exploded, and the methods of marking and cutting.
I lent it to a friend and it never came back. The friend passed away and even his family clearing out his stuff never found it.
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe a book with lots of useful knitting stitches in it! I also have a weakness for vintage knitting books with photos of alarming looking knitwear! #MakersHour
@Indigoatcrafts @Maker_of_Things @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe Nope, nope, I've closed the file and not saved the changes. This is one of those little trivial rabbitholes designed to trip me up. Have this. No more. No. #makersHour
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe A5: I probably already have that book. But I am fascinated by Japanese carpentry. I already bought a book about the building of the temples and wood joints. But you can never have enough of those. 
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A5 generally I have the books I want for the making I do. But I have recently been struggling to find "the engineers black book: metric edition" from somewhere that will ship to the Netherlands for an affordable price.
Q5: @MakersHour
If you were going to buy a book, connected with your making, which book would you choose?
A5: I don’t know if there is such a book. It would need to cover woodwork, metalwork, electrical, miniatures, theatre set and prop building, repairs, writing…
Aside from the theatre work, I already have all the books I am using for research and references for my regular makes.
Q5: If you were going to buy a book, connected with your making, which book would you choose?
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#MakersHour A4: Dunno, probably not... I don't interact with a whole load of people in any casual sort of way IRL really, I'm content in a state of isolation. So the opportunity doesn't particularly arise.
A2: Sourdough bread and trying to maintain our little garden. Not as much in the appartment as I probably should be doing 
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#MakersHour A3:
Fantasy answer: infinite free clean power... the group being "everybody".
Reality answer: I've just been staring at this for 5 mins and I'm coming up blank... there are many little or large things you could do to help various groups of people. I don't personally know such a group so it's hard to pick one specific obvious thing "close to home" per se... I've got a lot of non-realistic ideas lol... but something actually achievable that involves a "make" rather than "bloody revolution"... not sure.
@Indigoatcrafts @Maker_of_Things @MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe I spent far too long on this joke.
Have an army of rooks. #makersHour
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A4 not really. I have given people instructions on various tools at the makerspace and helped less experienced makers to solve problems with design and make. But never converted a non maker to making.
@MakersHour@cupoftea.social @makershour@a.gup.pe #MakersHour My job, in part. The main bit is as a science technician in a high school, but the senior (16-18yr olds) work with me on various projects. And that often means actually doing some wire stripping and soldering, 3D printing, RasPi stuff, borrowing some of the CDT department's kit and making the things we need to do science. Personally, one of the best bits of the job.
Q4: @MakersHour
Have you ever ‘converted’ anyone to the joys of making? If so, how did they get on?
A4: Oh, I don’t know. I might have done (back in the good Twitter days) due to people seeing what I had made, and being inspired to have a go. I have also taught cabinet making students at college, some of whom have never done anything practical before.
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Q4: Have you ever ‘converted’ anyone to the joys of making? If so, how did they get on?
#MakersHour
@makershour@a.gup.pe
