Tennis shots : Serve! Volley! Over there! Ace! Drink!
Posted by on April 6, 2010 (No Comments)
Jolly ho, chap! I seem to be getting progressively less ambitious with my Hummingbird projects… Or, just more doable for the average Jose/Josephine. Anyway, this week, we’re making tennis shots—shot glasses made from tennis balls! You’re thinking: ‘Gross!’ And, ‘So impractical!’… but WRONG! They sit up just fine (no rolling around), the fuzzy hai... Read More
Springtime for Hitler and Boots in Particular
Posted by on March 22, 2010 (No Comments)
The snow’s melting and it’s pretty much time for springtime. But the grey gross sludge on the sidewalk sucks, and a lot of people, especially us guys, are stuck in soggy sneakers. Rubber rain boots are obviously the way to go. It’s too bad that they seem to be something unmanly at Cornell—I haven’t seen any guys in rubber rain boots anyway. So today we’re gonna... Read More
A Word on Tools
Posted by on March 17, 2010 (No Comments)
It depends on the project, but usually, the more the merrier. The first project, the snowskate, was pretty technical and kind of required a lot. I’ll try to keep it simpler from now on, but I just really had to make a snowskate. Anyway, here’s a list of tools and some alternatives –with their lowest possible prices – in order of necessity, generally speaking. With ... Read More
Project 1: Snowskate (’tis the season)
Posted by on March 1, 2010 (No Comments)
Project 1: Snowskate 'Tis the season of sledding. But as an addict of longboarding, trays and blowup swans just don’t quite do it for me, and real snowboards are just way too serious. The solution: a snowskate – a skateboard on skis. materials: -skateboard deck ~ any plank 30-35 inches. I’m cutting it out of plywood -blocks of wood for risers ~ can be made from... Read More