The world lost a fine man today.

Paul was my best friend.  Knowing Paul, he was a best friend to many others.

This picture is how I remember Paul.  Laid back, easy going and ready to get down to business and get things done.  “Bingo, bingo, bingo” was a saying that he kept alive from our trigonometry teacher and his football coach.

We met in [...]

Some Grandpa time

We spent some time at the cottage and captured a great picture of Grandpa and our son sitting on the deck.

From the Bamboo pad

Here’s something a little different.  I got a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet for Christmas.  This is the first image that I played with.  It’s my son from a few years ago.  It was fun to play with the original picture and mix it up a bit.

Bias Cut Laminate Workpiece

A cousin of mine was wondering how such a pepper mill was created.  He’s done segmented turning before, but for reasons unknown to the universe, he was just drawing a blank on how to get started setting up this kind of turning blank.

With pictures being worth a thousand words, I fired up the CAD [...]

A Simple Translation

Here’s Jan Hudec from the Canada Ski Team zoomin’ down the slopes.