I recently picked up some unknown to me fruits from a tree in Venice. The PlanetNet app told me it’s probably Melia azedarach. Here is a picture of the fruits hanging on the tree. There is only a thin layer Weiterlesen…
The Ficus macrophylla trees are now about 9 to 10 months old. One of them began to develop aerial roots recently
A couple of years ago I bought a Murraya paniculata from a local orchid nursery. After a few years it started to develope flower buds and I was excited to finally see it blossom. Unfortunately the buds never fully developed. Weiterlesen…
Here are some pots from my latest glaze firing. The white glaze is a recipe from digitalfire. I’m still learning how to use it. This time I sieved the glaze because I had some problems with big ragged particles being Weiterlesen…
Hidasuki (緋襷) is a style of Japanese Bizen pottery. As far as I can tell the pots are unglazed and wrapped in rice straw before firing. The straw leaves distinctive red lines on the clay. For my experiments I used Weiterlesen…
This article will give a rough overview of how I built a 2×72 belt grinder (more specifically 50×2000 mm). I tried to keep this project as cheap as I could using a combination of old and new parts. It probably Weiterlesen…
In this article I will briefly explain how I built a foot controller for the GYS Protig 201 AC/DC TIG welder. Previously I’ve already talked about the connector for the foot pedal here. The (almost) finished pedal looks like this: Weiterlesen…
Years ago I picked up an old electric kiln for free. The insulation wasn’t bad although the kiln was made in the 1970s by a company called DanKiln from Copenhagen. The kiln was made of insulating firebricks on the inside, Weiterlesen…
Here are some small (around 10 to 25 cm in diameter) bonsai pots that came out of a recent firing. Temperature was cone 5 or about 1200 °C on the pyrometer. The glaze is a commercial glaze that I never Weiterlesen…
This is an update to a previous article. The ficus trees are now about 6 months old. The seeds initially germinated and grew all together in one small pot. I seperated them rather early and quite a few of the Weiterlesen…