Instead of thinking about shaving, I got to fight my computer… I think I won though.
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My SOTD setup
I don’t have a big bathroom with loads of counter space, so if I were to do the SOTD photos in the bathroom I would have to either balance everything on the sink or treat y’all to photos of the seat of my bog.
How about no?
I do however have a free shelf in the room next to the bathroom, so I set up a small area for photo shoots there. Nothing too fancy but then again I use my cell phone to take the pictures, so there is no reason to go overboard.
Two shelf brackets to give me a left and right limiter, a wooden board in the back, a bright lamp (originally halogen but switched to LED like almost every single lamp I own), and a recently added microfiber towel.
Crude, but functional.
Busy, sorry
Travelling, no post today.
Real life, busy.,..
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Busy, busy
So no real post today. Sorry =(
Define “razor sharp”
razor-sharp adjective (SHARP)
- extremely sharp:
- These animals have razor-sharp teeth.
razor-sharp adjective (CLEVER)
- If you describe someone or someone’s mind as razor-sharp, you mean that that person thinks very clearly and quickly:
- She’s got a razor-sharp mind.
More turning
I’m getting a bit better – mostly, I think, due to the fact that a lot more care was taken in drilling out the hole for the bolt used to secure it to the chuck of the horizontally mounted drill (hurrah for reasonable priced drill presses).
And yes, I’m still making simulated brush handles. They are a convenient size to work with, and are something I can easily relate to.
Personally I’m having great fun doing this. it is very satisfying to take a piece of wastewood from the kindling pile and in the span of half an hour turn it into something. Watching a thing take shape is quite rewarding, and while I can’t see myself turning wood for a living I can see myself making shaving brush handles and other odds and ends as a hobby.
Barber paradox
The barber paradox is a bit of mental gymnastic derived from Russel’s paradox, that shows that an apparently plausible scenario is allegedly logically impossible:
Suppose there is a town with just one barber, who is male. In this town, every man keeps himself clean-shaven, and he does so by doing exactly one of two things:
- shaving himself; or
- being shaved by the barber.
Also, “The barber is a man in town who shaves all those, and only those, men in town who do not shave themselves.”
Starting from this, one is supposed to ask the question “Who shaves the barber?”, which allegedly leads to the paradox…
In this day and age the solution ought to be simple though; the barber is logically a woman*. Simple as that!
*) At least in Norwegian that is – the term “a man” is often used (correctly or incorrectly) as a somewhat genter neutral way of saying “a person”.
Turning, turning, turning…
I’ve long had a fascination with lathes, and wood lathes in particular. It’s amazing how a lump of wood can turn into a bowl, a candlestick, a shaving brush handle…
Buying a lathe is not cheap, so instead of spending a small pile on cash on a hobby I’ve never really tried before I mocked up a prototype lathe with an old drill and some other odds and ends. Rasps works well when working with soft wood like pine, and after a bit of hit and miss I did manage to turn out a couple of test pieces.
Yes, the two top ones are approximations of shaving brush handles. Obviously they are a long way away from anything usable – but I had fun making them and I can see myself taking up wood turning as a more permanent hobby.
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Real Life keeping me busy.