See the full gallery on Posterous Today I had enough pieces cut and routed to dry fit and screw 2 wedges. Awesome. I can assemble a wedge in about 40 […]

When I started thinking about building something that floats, I started with spheres. I pictured a giant ping pong ball that could hold 4 or 5 people. It would be […]

See the full gallery on Posterous Today, all the templates are done, so I am getting a sense for how much I can do in one morning. The result… I […]

See the full gallery on Posterous Today I started by finishing the last couple of dadoes for the  full-size router template, and then cut two mating verticals. Everything went fine […]

I want to make a full size router template to cut the rabbets for the vertical supports. This is a good job for the CNC router, but its raining this […]

I have been struggling with the CNC router as a part of my workflow. Loading the van with full sheets of plywood to drive to Menlo Park, unload, setup, struggle […]

As many times as you look at the tape measure and do sketches, you can never really “see” the scale of something until you start to build it. My son […]

To cut the boat shapes quickly I am going to try cutting multiple sheets at one time using a jigsaw. I’m building a “cut table” so I can cut straight […]

The people at the Tech Shop were extremely helpful, which was fortunate because going from 2d Illustrator files to cutting on the CNC machine is not as easy as it […]

This project has been in sketch pads and in lunchtime conversations for several months now. A couple of months ago I started takling the classes necessary to run a shopbot […]