Crafts / Craftsmen / craftswomen (craftspeople, I suppose)

A bit of progress on the dinghy, which the above carbon centreboard case was for. All fitted, painted and woodwork done.

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My Screen Printing Studio is well up and running now, been developing new process and techniques to try and get a corner in the market.

Been fun working with some interesting illustrators making up posters and then selling them on my store online. Nice getting to print different styles of artwork.

here are a couple:

Any feed back is welcome, especially if its about shit stuff... I end up spending so much time looking at it all I don't really know what anything actually looks like anymore!

Have put a forum discount on if anyone wants anything, 15% off with DASLFGSS

http://www.mansonspress.com/store

Sorry to say that the first feedback is your link doesn't work for me, dude. :(

(but I have pasted the URL and that does)

hopefully works now.. i am good at this computer stuff me...

Sorted! Nice work.

I struggled past line ... er 4

(https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTExWDEwMjQ=/z/7LkAAOSwuxpZbWni/$_86.JPG)

They all look great. On the eye chart one it looks a bit funny because normally you'd have 5 and 6 letters in the last two lines.

Like the skull notebooks; if you're making more of them let me know.

I plan to get more into woodworking once the good weather reappears. I am shit at it but I enjoy it. I don't really have suitable indoor space to do it so summers on the deck are perfect.

Meanwhile, something I had no idea I would find enjoyable, pom poms. mrs_com wants to make a wreath or something out of them so was making a load the other night. I thought I would give it a go. I had no idea you could make patterns in them.

Left to Right - first attempt at a heart, half mottled half blotched, single stripe. I've since managed two perpendicular stripes but that looks too much like a St. George's cross. Although I could probably make it out of red and white wool and market them to white van owners.

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Finished off this laminated ball. little brother in the background

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Seconded

I made a headshell.
I don’t really like it when you use bike parts in other stuff, but I needed washers and the half inch pitch was a perfect fit. And When I cut out a piece of spoke for the finger lift I thought that the head end had a useful haptic quality so...

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That’s really nice.

making wooden rings now. PM me if you want to buy one :)

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Blurgh... my super cheap studio is getting demolished and so having to find a new space.

I am a printmaker and designer so need a desk and a workshop. current space is 150sqft and super tight.

I am stuck between going full guns and getting a 650sqft double space, having about 25osqft of studio for my printing and then the rest shared desk space to make up the rent, managing the desk spaces as well as my print work... or... find a 150-200sqft workshop and squeeze myself in... with the possibility of having to move in 12months if business goes well.

Anyone any experience... i have been super sheltered in my amazing wee studio and never been out in the big bad world of real life studio renting.

I guess studio renting is like renting a room in your flat out. If you get nice people in, it's nice. If not, it's not.

If you have an angle on the studio it could prob act as a pretty good filter

Really enjoying using my new DeWalt compact router.

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those are really nice

Router to cut the tenon slots in the dowel, fit/glue through tenons then router to "mill"/plane the flat?

I like those, very nice.

Table saw to cut the flat, then careful belt sanding. There are so many router bits to buy!

Like this;

http://www.trend-uk.com/en/UK/productlist/4/55/Flush_Trimmers.html

https://youtu.be/DV9Cb_-Axos

He's a bit of a trumpet but the idea is great. I was thinking about a platform I can clamp to the edge of my bench to hang the router from and make a quick table router, probably include those holes in it too.

Any fabric craftspeople on here? I’m borrowing a sewing machine at the moment and having a go making a few things, bikepacking bags to start, then hopefully backpacks etc.
I’m looking for advice regarding embroidery machines. I’d like one to be able to add embroidered designs to the bags, and to clothes. I only want to spend a couple hundred quid, but I want one that’s pretty much automatic. I’ve seen that some come with software so you can upload a design and then just draw on the directions for stitches. I don’t know where to start really. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.