Hello,

LeChat lives about an hour out of town. I have two friends who live on the same block as your second picture. My blacksmith shop is right downtown in Louisville, you're welcome to come by for the nickel tour. (Fred's retired, I'm Lewis.)

Welcome to town.

Lewis

How come I never get any of Satan's Birthday Cake at this party?

It must be at the secret air conditioned orgy that no one tells me about.

I did not know that about slow cooling silver and gold. Thanks, Eric.

I've done the cross-hatching and foil inlay as well. You still need small, sharp chisels and the foil should be a little thicker than gold-leaf. It sounds like you're going to go for an approach that lets you get it done in time for BM 2011, so I am not gonna dig out my notes. It is not really like ...

It's painstaking and pretty slow, but the end results are pretty cool. I have some chisels forged out of steel tool bits (of the type used in lathe tools) and they work pretty well. It's kind of hard to give advice without knowing your metal working background. Can you make and heat treat the tools ...

Simon of the Playa wrote:Oh god, your blatant disregard for reality only makes me want you more.

You couldn't handle god.

I was a couple of blocks down. That sign saved my ASS several times: I'd be trucking along, daydreaming or distracted by something shiny and then ASS!

Wake up and turn here. Cool.

Ygmir, sorry to hear about your aunt. Lost my mom last August (2009) to cancer and I cannot offer any fucking advice, but you've got all of our support. Was up in Rochester last week and got her ashes settled. Mom's the first person to go into the new Columbarium in the same cemetary as Susan B. Ant...

i also have a small inverter, a one amp battery charger and a battery isolator that I never put into the art car that I will bring this weekend. and I have a butane soldering iron and heat shrink tubing that I will bring to the burn. And lots of landscape wire for 12v stuff and Cricket says we shoul...

I'm embarrassed to show my face because I haven't done anything with that three speed bicycle hub that unjon sent me last year. I had a lifetime supply of very good shine in 1999 and haven't touched a sip since. I certainly thought the Y2K bug had ended the world. I have an extra charge controller a...

:shock: :shock: :shock: Wow. That is looking awesome. Not as in 'dude' but as in AWE! I have an extensive set of keyway broaches if you should need to use them. You could use them when you come to get your flypress. (See the arbor press in the background?) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnH...

Ancient American tradition is that if you don't like something, ignore it.

What's the theme? Art, music, and burning shit in the desert.

Fishy Birthday Happy!

Thanks Masho, I am afraid I'm having moments of doubt. Had a couple of medical issues crop up in the immediate family and they are eating up quite a bit of time. I could self-finance, or do the work, but I am running out of the energy to do both. Might do a smaller solo piece for this year as my fir...

Hi, I'm Lewis too.

I don't understand the obsession w/ dr. B either.

Hell, if you already live in the desert then you already have a pretty good idea of what soap you need.

My .02

My girlfriend came home with a floor length faux-fur coat and said she thought it might be kinda fun for burning man. She wasn't really sure, seen so many pictures of crazy stuff, she's really shy and insecure, yada, yada. "Honey, that's what we call a 'playa coat'. You're gonna need some furry leg ...

I'm gonna have to get intimate with thousands of feelthy heepies?!

There's no grant big enough!

BMorg doesn't like me enough to give me piles of cash. Looks like it is only gonna be 20 feet in diameter.

Life is so unfair!

See you in September!

LeChat, we'll get together for a special coffee run to catch up with ClarkCon!

capjbadger, I already have a secret plan to reuse the perimeter fence as a gerbil wheel next year. I want a bicycle with a 20 foot gerbil wheel on the back so that people will walk in it and drive me around the playa. You want armor plating as well? I am gonna have to gear it down. LeChat, I have ab...

So I was at dinner with some friends (who are burners) and the ladies were discussing their childhood love of Spirograph (tm). My girlfriend (not yet a burner) says "I always wanted to be the pen in the Spirograph." I immediately interrupted whatever deep philosophical conversation I was having "We ...

Let's see:

hooping.org should have some info as the time draws near and

Rich Porter will definitely blog about Spin Cycle camp and hooping events as well. http://isopop.com/

easy way to replicate the look of old farm equipment (AGRIPUNK!): Start with bare metal; do a lousy job of brushing on paint, thin and blotchy; apply ferric nitrate solution (I got some, along with your knife switch.) and wait; perhaps moisten occasionally. I can also advise on all-paint finishes. H...

March 1st is the notification date. Mild confusion on that other post.

Thanks, I wasn't sure how much the sear height on wheel-chairs differed from standard chairs.

Upon reflection, it would have to be pretty close so that standard desks and tables would be accessible as well. I'll check a few folks.

If I were the trouble-making, devil's advocate type I would argue that these tea party rallies are also TAZs...

Woot! Woot!

Ms. Fishy, LeChat and I have found an elegant solution for the access issue, but I could use some suggestions for my art piece. It's basically a giant spirograph. The outer ring gear is a circular fence and the central moving gear is suspended from a track above. The track ensures that the central g...

I have a heavy-duty, ceramic knife switch that used to be the cut-off for my house.