I don’t understand these feelings I’m having. I find this talk weirdly exciting.
Seriously, though, great work. A lot of folks would have whined and shook their fist at the air when their material costs rose. I’m glad you’ve dug in and found better solutions.
Also, I wish Substack would move the Send button away from the left so I can rearrange my sentences without accidentally posting weird cryptic nonsensical comments that are somehow less readable than if I’d just left my unordered stream of consciousness word vomit in place.
It was honestly a really enjoyable design challenge, just one that kept growing in scope by the day. The more I dug into it though the more it seemed like a viable solution, which was really motivating. Now that I’ve done a few and learned how to approach it things are going much faster.
I’ll edit my post and put a link to the vacuum table setup I got, but Jace, the owner of AirWeights, is seriously good people. We spent about an hour on the phone talking about how best to go about everything, and he seemed genuinely excited about what I was wanting to do. My understanding is that he worked in aerospace specializing in this sort of machining fixturing, dude is incredibly knowledgeable.
Man, that really seems like the sweet spot when you can knock out a product you enjoy making that is as freakin’ awesome as these are. I use mine just about every day.
I love hearing that, thank you! I use mine pretty much daily too, and Chris just placed yet another order for the Lost Art Press crew, which is just... mind blowing to me.
I don’t understand these feelings I’m having. I find this talk weirdly exciting.
Seriously, though, great work. A lot of folks would have whined and shook their fist at the air when their material costs rose. I’m glad you’ve dug in and found better solutions.
Also, I wish Substack would move the Send button away from the left so I can rearrange my sentences without accidentally posting weird cryptic nonsensical comments that are somehow less readable than if I’d just left my unordered stream of consciousness word vomit in place.
Your last paragraph absolutely sent me lol.
It was honestly a really enjoyable design challenge, just one that kept growing in scope by the day. The more I dug into it though the more it seemed like a viable solution, which was really motivating. Now that I’ve done a few and learned how to approach it things are going much faster.
I’ll edit my post and put a link to the vacuum table setup I got, but Jace, the owner of AirWeights, is seriously good people. We spent about an hour on the phone talking about how best to go about everything, and he seemed genuinely excited about what I was wanting to do. My understanding is that he worked in aerospace specializing in this sort of machining fixturing, dude is incredibly knowledgeable.
Man, that really seems like the sweet spot when you can knock out a product you enjoy making that is as freakin’ awesome as these are. I use mine just about every day.
I love hearing that, thank you! I use mine pretty much daily too, and Chris just placed yet another order for the Lost Art Press crew, which is just... mind blowing to me.
I keep thinking about cnc battleship. I feel like it could be the new “chess by mail”.
You may have just stumbled on a new form of art!
It's all great fun until repeatability enters the chat. Strong work!
Thanks so much! Just took 50x the amount of time and some gentle weeping, you know how it is!
Wow! Good job.
Thanks so much!