Rats! Can’t see it, don’t have a Tumblr account.
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Ditto, That´s what she said. 
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Ok here’s the same video but on the tubes:
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Oh yes! I’ve seen that technique before, but at a higher speed and worse camera so I could never quite understand what I was seeing. This is SO well done.
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My take on this (brilliant) repair:
You want to replace missing stitches in a knit cloth. Each row needs a length of yarn about 3 times the width of the hole. A loop on the left keeps the slack out of the way; it surrenders the yarn neatly as you create the new stitches. The latch tool makes the stitches interlace with the one below it as you climb up the ladder.
At the top, the blunt needle uses the sewing end of the yarn to secure the top of the last stitch, then weave it in to the existing fabric. It’s a version of the Kitchener stitch.
At the end of the repair, the slack has all been taken up. Also, some of the repair stitches lie on top of existing stitches–this reinforces the join and helps ensure it won’t come undone.
I think. 
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I was completely wrong about what I thought this person was making:
(This tumblr link I don’t think you need an account for since it did a preview)
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LOL! Would not have guessed in a million years. I was leaning towards instrument case of some sort!
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I don’t know why, but that just seems like a cool bit of information to know.
How many passes on the passthru for that particular engrave? 
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Not nonlaser but prosumer laser welding is about to bloom. biggest uncertainty is tariffs .
At least one active kickstarter with another poised to drop.
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Another machine for my shop? My wife will be tickled pink 
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i guess this could be done on a laser too, but i don’t think it was. i’m tempted to try building it in layers on my GF, but it would be a better CNC (maybe in high density foam).
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Cleaning out my mom’s house to get her ready to move into a retirement community next week and found this beautiful old leather-bound book from 1834, with tooled and guilded page edges.
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Normally I’d say laser all the things but don’t touch this book. It’s perfect.
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oh heck no. a little online searching says it sells for minimally $500ish, potentially more. no chance i’d mess w/it. even the end sheets are mesmerizing. you can kinda tell, but they almost feels like an optical illusion when you move the book around in the light. incredible paper for the early 1800s. someone put a lot of time, effort, and money into binding this. i work with a woman who got her degree in bookbinding from one of the premiere book binding university programs in the country and she was gaga over it.
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ok, because good things come in threes, i’ll post one more non-laser thing. i saw a fantastic band last week at ram’s head on stage in annapolis, md. lachy doley (touring with drummer jackie barnes, son of the singer jimmy barnes, and bassist ken perkerwicz). i discovered lachy on youtube because of the song below, voodoo child, which he plays on a clavinet that he modified to have a whammy bar. he plays some incredible stuff with that and on his hammond organ playing thru a vintage 70s leslie speaker.
and then the maker side, the story behind the whammy bar.
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Thanx for sharing that! I discovered Latchy several years ago and have always loved what he does with the Hammond but I had never heard that particular live version of Voodoo Child.
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Wow, that is fantastic! And poems besides! Winner winner! Definitely a treasure to keep ahold of.
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