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Bicycling, Photography and Programming

  • Parsley and Hazel

    They are getting along nicely.

    jedreynolds

    June 14, 2020
    Bellingham, Photos
    Bunny, companion, rabbit
  • Next Scrap

    This beautiful piece of wood was passed on from an instrument builder, it looks like a perfect species for a fretboard. It’s 1-1/4″ thick. I desire 7/8″ for dice to slide, and 13/16″ is narrow enough to make them wedge. I have some narrow gauge saw blades but not nearly so thin as a band…

    jedreynolds

    May 30, 2020
    Bellingham, carpentry, DIY, DnD
    carpentry, dice box, dicebox, fretboard, Light wood, linseed
  • Maple dice box

    I came across a 2×6 scrap of what I’ve been told is maple. I sawed it up into a few dice boxes that I’m using my router to hollow. Each is going to be finished with linseed oil, but constructed in slightly different manners. This one is the first time I’ve used brass threaded inserts,…

    jedreynolds

    May 25, 2020
    Bellingham, carpentry, DnD, fun, Photos
    carpentry, dice, dice box, DIY, linseed, maple
  • Adding Lots of Storage Pools to Libvirt

    I do not enjoy having subdirectories involved for storing files in libvert. The virt-manager interface is just way too brutal about how you manually add storage pools. After much ranting, I wrote a bash script to add these directories for my VM disk images. 1 #!/bin/bash 2 3 set -e 4 #set -x 5 existing_pools=()…

    jedreynolds

    April 15, 2020
    F/LOSS, fun, Linux, Programming, shell scripting, sysadmin
    libvirt, pool, storage, virsh, virt-manager
  • Bass of Spades assembled!

    Jesse worked hard on the Bass from morning to night, with some long interruptions to build fencing around the chicken run. We started off the morning by soldering the knobs and and the pickups. It took filing a rough spot on the bridge and flux to get the ground wire soldered to the bridge. Then…

    jedreynolds

    April 11, 2020
    Bellingham, carpentry, DIY, fun, music
    Bass, bass of Spades, bridge, DIY, drill, primus
  • Adding the poly

    Two coats of wipe on poly should be sufficient to keep the paint on.

    jedreynolds

    April 10, 2020
    fun
  • Stop the dizzy spinning!

    A clever way to keep that body from spinning in the breeze of the fan.

    jedreynolds

    April 10, 2020
    Bellingham, carpentry, DIY, family, fun, music
    Bass, Finger, glove, spin
  • Silvering the Bass of Spades

    Jesse carefully masked the body of the bass and we primed and sprayed two coats of silver paint on it. And I created a way to stop the body from spinning in the breeze

    jedreynolds

    April 9, 2020
    Bellingham, carpentry, DIY, family, music
    Bass, bass of Spades, DIY, primer, silver, spinning
  • Staining the Bass of Spades

    Jesse has named it The Bass of Spades. We gave a second coat of stain to the headstock and only coat was needed for the body. The neck/fretboard got boiled linseed oil.

    jedreynolds

    April 8, 2020
    carpentry, family, fun, music
    Bass, spades, spin, stain
  • Building a bass, 1

    Jesse is building an electric bass guitar from a kit we bought from Reverb. We need to sand and finish the neck and body. Then we solder the electronics together. The results will be gratifying. To focus on using supplies we have, we decided to use a darker teak stain for the body and headstock.…

    jedreynolds

    April 7, 2020
    carpentry, DIY, fun, music, Photos
    Bass, carpentry, stain
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