Public Displays of Disaffection

I recently bought myself some Pilot Kakuno fountain pens with extra-fine nibs.

I just recently nabbed a set of pencil brushes for Krita — SK3 — and they are quite remarkably pencilly.

I went out to my workshop fully intending to tidy it up, but I found some off-cuts from some long-forgotten project sitting under the lathe and made these three little pots instead.

A5, ball-point pen.

Here's a little kitchen tool I whipped up today from a scrap of oak I had lying around — a push-pull stick for getting hot racks in and out of the oven.

This small bowl (roughly 110 mm in diameter) is something I turned from a slab of some mystery wood.

Look!

The floor of my work room is just coarse-grain particle board, which is notoriously terrible to get wet.

I've re-handled this old Sorby mortise chisel that has been reground as a square-end scraper.

This morning I made this little four-sided awl out of a tiny scrap of something, red gum maybe, and a 4mm Allen key.

We had the ash at the end of our driveway severely pruned a few days ago -- it had some dead or dying limbs -- and so today I've started splitting the remains.

This is a smallish (450 x 300 mm) oil that I began without any clear idea where I was going, except to repeat a composition I'd done in acrylics and oil pastels quite a few years ago.

My friend Bob gave me an old Stanley #4 smoothing plane to revive.

My trusty, but increasingly creaky old '96 Pulsar was stolen last week.

Fairly often, I have a need to cut small pieces of copper or brass for various projects.

Here's another box, made from salvaged rimu.

For the first time, I'm trying out some iron-on-peel-off PCB film for etching copper plaques.

Small rimu tray, 120mm diameter, intended for keeping gaming chits and things under control.

Acrylic on stretched canvas, 500 x 500 mm.

Here's yet another knife rebuild.

I've spent the last couple of days putting together this low plinth for a rock at our dojo.

Nearly full Empty Wood nook: empty and (nearly) full.One more layer to go here, and then I move on to the next firewood stacking space.

Here's another piece, turned from timber out of the scrap pile.

Yet another little bowl, 125mm diameter by 70mm tall.