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maker raft race » making

after some bad ideas involving wheelie-bins, we realised that the brewery two arches down regularly chucks out empty disposable beer kegs. even better, they’re actually pressurised with nitrogen (it’s how the beer is squeezed out), and have hexagon end-caps. and so our design for a lean, mean catamaran came to be.

with cutlass decoration? and branded t-shirts? of course.

diary | 04 aug 2017 | tagged: slms · cutter

christmas cutting in-situ

…and in-situ, after the big meal.

diary | 25 dec 2014 | tagged: cutter

more christmas cutting

more ‘in-house production’ for christmas, on it’s way back from the laser-cutter…

diary | 23 dec 2014 | tagged: cutter

first class cards

these are first-class christmas cards: so close to christmas day, those are the stamps we had to use.

diary | 23 dec 2014 | tagged: cutter

sartorial sparkage

did i mention i love my *spark packing tape? at some point, it occurred to me it would work as a belt. that, and i had access to a laser cutter. hmm…?

diary | 26 oct 2014 | tagged: cutter

south london makerspace signage

5.30am sunday satisfaction: south london makerspace has a sign. laser cut, glued and painted, four of us were there for the one quiet dawn of the week to actually get it up there.

the good companion site is temporary, hopefully this will advertise SLMS’s existence before it likely gets tucked away in a more industrial nook or cranny. you can see it from brockwell park, with plenty of buses passing.

there’s a nice write-up on the SLMS site: a good sign

diary | 27 apr 2014 | tagged: slms · cutter

wedding » invites

having proposed, turns out there’s actually this follow-through thing called a wedding. as the asker of the original question, it seems almost odd to do something else: thats where the life changing moment is, not just in the answer but in the decisions leading up to that moment. of course – and this is my interpretation – a wedding isn’t about you two, it’s about contextualising that within a community, making the announcement and saying this is (all/) us, from hereon in.

and so, finally, a date has been settled, venues arranged, lists made. more importantly: the first true joint project, the invites! totally happy about how they came out, and so much the better for the joint creative effort and them coming from our own hands[1][2].


  1. our hands, and the cutter: can’t deny i bought it with a thought that it could come into its own for wedding stationery). ↩︎

  2. don’t expect it to be any cheaper though, and forget about having any weekends. cut. fold. cut. fold. cut. fold. stick. ↩︎

diary | 17 apr 2011 | tagged: cutter · wedding

christmas card cutting

note to self: nomatter how early you start a project to make january engagement to christmas time wedding time cards, it will still be hit or miss whether they’re ready before christmas. final score: wedding date unconfirmed itself largely rendering the whole thing moot. grrr.

diary | 22 dec 2010 | tagged: errata of life · cutter

...and 10m of industrial sticker

which all adds up to being able to design and tweak in-situ, on-site. useful when curved surfaces are involved, and most welcome when on-site is in sardinia.

diary | 16 sep 2010 | tagged: errata of life · cutter

cnc knife blade...

turned out, it wasn’t so far off the price of getting a vinyl sticker cut as buying the just-on-the-market hobbyist cutter machine itself. having the means of production: so much better. having the means of production so compact, you can fit it with the laptop as hand luggage? crazy times. especially when in the security queue at the airport you realise its basically a knife blade surrounded by electronics… not that they did, thankfully.

diary | 16 sep 2010 | tagged: errata of life · cutter