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First commissioned work. Vet hospital owner I happen to know needed a emergency gift for a client. Little boring but usable. Playing around with inlays. For a whiskey group.

SoundCloud is just a social media site that hosts original music for creators. It lets me upload my music and share it with the player app you see. Hosting my music there has the added benefit of creating a reference date for ownership of the music without spending the cash to get a copyright. Better than nothing I guess?

Nice, Naaman! I've been meaning to have a serious go at inlay work given my skills at CAD - since the software that does it automatically is out of my price range - but haven't gotten there yet. Someday... For now I'm too distracted by my stick-smashing project. Headset, stem, and spacers arrive this week so I got the cockpit mocked up. Ignore the stick smasher in the background that currently serves as a workbench and beer holder.

ready for some good vibes. (pun intended)

My latest tune.

No help here, I also need to purchase a “smaller” bandsaw in the 16-18” region. Smashed up a pinewood ply box.

Doing some last minute shopping before the Jet sale ends. Anyone know or hate the newer Jet low end 3/4 HP bandsaw with 13” re-cut that is getting such great reviews? https://www.woodcraft.com/products/14-steel-frame-band-saw-13-resaw-capacity-model-jwbs14-sfx

I am using the REL T/7i, which is in the middle range of their T series. It is a nice small sub that produces very controlled bass. It also integrates very well with the Moths using the high level REL input. IMO REL is the top of the heap with the technology of their subs for integration into stereo audio systems. That being said, I would not use it in an HT setup as it does not have enough "punchiness" for that. That is probably why REL makes separate lines for HT use.

Be very careful with the disassembling. The dust cover is extremely fragile.

Report from cuisine de joamat. One side of the balanced board works alright – able to set output current and offset is within a millivolt. The other side – output current controllable but servo doesn’t work as desired, offset, varies round plus two and a half volt. Here is an aerial picture of the output board. I’m not so happy to dive in with test pins in there… and servo parts on the bottom side. …maybe I should be satisfied with one working side out of two possible.

The fence cannot be locked down without these. It is not the clamp but the twist lock handles that lock the fence in place. I could use the router free handed I guess. Spoke to Patty, parts are coming, I assume on the back of a Caribou, to finish it out.

Not just plain white vinyl

I think there are enough of us with turntables to warrant a specific vinyl thread. After all it's not the same as streaming digital. Shirley Bassey: Good, Bad but Beautiful

That just made me feel old for some reason:

1 3/4HP will not resaw 13" of hardwood, at least not well, regardless of stated capacity. If you think you want to resaw that much, you need a bigger motor. That said, it's unlikely you need to resaw that much - unless you are also buying a 13" jointer and a 13" planer. I have a 1 3/4HP Laguna. I am able to resaw ~6" of oak using the Laguna resaw blade. Even that is slow and I wouldn't try to push it any harder. I wish I'd bought the 2 1/2 HP 220V version, but it wasn't a quick option at the time and I needed it in a hurry. But I do like it - it is way better than my old Grizzly. The general advice I'd give is to pick the max width you want to mill, and build you shop around that. That is typically dictated by the size of your jointer as those are typically the smallest tool. When I bought my bandsaw, I had a 6" jointer, so it was plenty. And really, with very few exceptions, there is not a lot of reason to work with wood wider than 6-8" as it has a tendency to warp too much. For wider, you are better off gluing smaller pieces together, or veneering plywood. The Jet is lacking (at least) two features of the Laguna which to me are worth the price difference*. The first is the Laguna has ceramic blade guides which are much nicer. The second is that the Laguna has a pedal braking system. That might not seem like a big deal, until you stand there waiting for the saw to slowly slow down after each use. Laguna stuff goes on sale as often as Jet, so it will be discounted soon enough. There is also a new Hammer in your price range: https://us.feldershop.com/en-US/en-US/en-US/Sawing/Machines/Bandsaw-Hammer-N2-35.html * as a general rule, tools are the one place where economic laws seem to actually apply. If one tool costs more than another, there is almost always a good reason for it.

Orange Cranberry (American) Muffin and Tea

Definitely a case where you don’t want to have any body part around the V. No matter your proclivities.

VID-20210128-WA0000 (1).mp4

Very cool! I don't spend enough time exploring my Seaboard Rise 49 but it never fails to inspire new ideas when I do. I'm a big fan of wavetable synthesis. I've been using Serum for about a year now. It's great for solving the issue of creating unique patches. I realize that the listening public could care less (or might even prefer) that a sound in your track might be identical to one that they've heard a hundred times before but we are supposed to be creating originals right? Anywho, I'm not sure how Deluge will sample wavetables but you can find a gazillion 1 sec .wav samples meant to be used by Serum online (google Serum Wavetables) or grab a cheap digital recorder and collect organic samples from the great big world. Either way, nothin' but fun IMHO!

If it is working fine, why mess with it?

Don't forget Queen Hippolyta

old pics of the 20 year old in her youth

RIP Ida.

RIP Frau Blücher

RIP

https://youtu.be/sy4o5VZJmU0 Heck. I can't wait for this Deluge firmware update. We're getting wavetable synthesis, MPE support, and a couple of other cool things that I can't recall atm. This instrument and this company, are the best.

Even better, add another album to the mix...

Got it almost built and right at the end I realized the fucking Canadians forgot two pieces that are supposed to be mounted to the fence to where the clamps are supposed to mount so now back to waiting.

seafood and zoodles last night

The sublime Joni Mitchell, now age 77. Currently releasing her unheard back catalog on CD and records. Before lockdown we went to see Graham Nash in concert; In his words "a night of recollections and music", and it was clear he has never really got over breaking up with her after two years of living together way back. And the regret has defined his music ever since.

Warmed Cookies and Ice Cream

Savory Toasted Crumpets

Still waiting on the Mast r Fence III but everything else is constructed and leveled. Really impressed with the build quality of how everything comes together.

Happy Birthday Mike!

Happy birthday from Michelle and I!

Home-grown, grass-fed, on-farm butchered, bag-aged (one month), pan-fried striploin. This is one of the best steak experiences I've had.

This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes again Can you picture what will be So limitless and free Desperately in need of some stranger's hand In a desperate land? I love the guitar intro.... in "Apocalipsis Now" It is a work of art

Tuna casserole https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/86069/tuna-noodle-casserole-from-scratch/

Sunday night dinner - chicken enchiladas verdes - made with my chili verde recipe for the sauce and marinated chicken (in lime juice, olive oil, salt, pepper and oregano). Pre-bake Time to eat

So I went ahead and modded my L700 mk1. I'm generally pretty skeptical of Lambda mods, but my yoke broke on the left side and I fixed it with duck tape and a coat hanger, and mysteriously my coat hanger solution ended up being far more comfortable than the stock setup. So I got to wondering if there was a way to custom-make a better yoke, and lo and behold, someone else has already done it. These are 3d printed by Socas and they work pretty well. They allow for a wider range of motion for the earcup and they fix the problem of having too much pressure at the top of the earpad and not enough at the bottom. So if you're one of the people who, like me, can't wear the current generation Lambdas properly, this is a solution. You will need a Torx 6 screwdriver to get the screw out that holds the yoke in place, and after that it's an easy swap. This does affect the sonics a bit. In the past I always read accounts of people hearing the L700 as overly warm and a bit congested and wondered what on earth they were hearing, but how... that's kinda how it sounds. The frequency response gets rotated clockwise, the highs are much smoother and more palatable, but the midrange shout and upper mid dip gets even more noticeable. The solution of course is EQ. I'm not gonna post all of my settings since you really need to personalize your own EQ but -5db at 1150hz q1.41 and +2db 3khz q0.5 evens out the mids, then you also need to drop the peaks in the highs - which we all hear in different places - and adjust the lows to taste. I have a MiniDSP ears now and will probably be able to EQ more accurately, but I thought I'd give a heads up to @yaluen and others who are in the same boat that there is a fix, and you don't need to write the current-gen Lambdas off (though I don't know if this works for the L300/500). This thing sounds very smooth and natural now, with great imaging and clarity but a bit lackluster impact in the lows, which I'm sure a more powerful amp than my 717 will fix. Oh, and the Mk2? My opinion of it has turned pretty sharply downwards. I prefer my modded mk1 by a good margin.

I have two blue hawaii se (golden reference hv and lv psus) , two joamat mini t2 (with golden reference hv and lv psus) and a diy t2. I only have experience with them using sr007 mk2 earspeakers. The hawaii is very good, far far far better than the stax srm006 or anything modern stax sells. The mini t2 is better still improving bass, micro dynamics and detail. The diy t2 is fantastic its takes the mini t2 strength and improves on it and adds better macro dynamics, even better bass and detail. If you can get any stax amp get the diy t2. As far as I can tell the sr007 needs as much drive as possible to get the best bass and dynamics and the diy t2 has the drive.... (we are still waiting for Kevin Gilmore to design a single ended stax amp which uses 300Bs or 211s or something even more powerful... 🙂 ) In terms of build difficulty the blue hawaii is probably the easiest (there are two version the original uses obsolete components but the modern version only uses transistors which are still available new), the mini t2 amp boards are almost all surface mount (psu is still through hole) and require precision and a good hot air station. For checking a stereo microscope is very useful. It only uses modern components and costs a bit more than the blue hawaii to build. The diy t2 is not difficult to build (if you use resistors that can handle the voltages) it's just big and intimidating. In terms of build costs the diy t2 is by far the highest. (there are two versions of the t2 one which uses almost all obsolete and very expensive nos components and a more modern version which only uses two types of obsolete transistors.). Either way you need to be aware there are many people selling fake nos transistors which will fail and blow up immediately on switch on or if you are "luckier" fail slowly over time. So you either need a trusted source or a transistor breakdown voltage tester and transistor identifier and even then you are taking a risk... (almost every seller of nos transistors on ebay sells fakes or a mixture of fakes and modern "equivalents" relabeled as originals. In terms of size I built the entire blue hawaii in a single 400mm deep case, the mini t2, transformers in one case and the amp and psu in a single 400mm deep case. Diy t2 transformers and psu in one 400mm case and amp in another 400mm case. (I had to modify the diy t2 amp board gerber files for the amp circuit board to make it fit)...

I've been listening with the utopias a couple hours every night since I got them. I love that I can throw all kinds of recordings at them and they are always very listenable. They are my favorite headphone. Biggie.

RIP Cicely Tyson at 96. Just thinking of Sounder or Roots makes me remember being a kid, and a little weepy. 😢 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/obituaries/cicely-tyson-dead.amp.html

R.I.P. Cloris Leachman... 94...

Pioneering South African AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend dies at 88 https://www.losangelesblade.com/2021/01/24/pioneering-south-african-aids-researcher-joseph-sonnabend-dies-at-88/

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