Category: Allgemein

Who are the Hex Girls?
Obviously you’re not a Scooby Doo fan…

My daughter LOVES the Hex Girls, and for Halloween she wanted to be the lead singer. So I decided to build her a guitar closely modeled on the one used by Thorn (or Sally McKnight).

We started with the Batman logo from the 1960′s and did some vector manipulation. Then got a single plank of poplar from the local hardware store. Cut a single strip to make the neck, and glued up the rest to make the body.

 

 

 

I think it was a hit…

 

I’d been using an old dining table as a workbench for a long time – and it just wasn’t working out. The cables for all the test equipment kept getting tangled up, and it was too deep to be an efficient use of space. 20 minutes in to any project and it was a mess…

For Father’s Day I got a pocketing jig that lets you make joins in wood very quickly. So… instead of going out and buying a new desk I decided to make one custom-fit for me. I had about half a dozen 2×4′s kicking around the garage and so this seemed to be a great use for them.

I started with just some basic measurements (height of chair etc…) and built the desk around myself. So everything is at the right height and within easy reach. I think the trick is to just modify it to suit your needs. 2×4′s are cheap and very forgiving of having multiple holes drilled in them. Since there wasn’t a lot of glue involved I can reconfigure it whenever I need to.

There was very little measuring needed and the whole thing went together in a day. I’d just mark up the timber against the existing structure, cut, drill and attach.

Additionally, lifting all the test equipment up off the main work area helps enormously with the cable tangle problem.

I wrote it up on the Make project site – more info here.
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I was watching the latest episode of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated with my daughter last week and could not fail to spot this gratuitous reference to Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. (Something I never thought I’d see).

What was really interesting was that this was a 20 second vignette that had nothing to do with the regular mask-wearing, kid-meddling shenanigans. Once it was over we returned back to the regular plot with no further mention. Since it’s unlikely that the target demographic for Scooby Doo has ever seen a Hellraiser movie this one was purely for the parents watching…

After opening the door, the unseen caller starts to say “Oh such sights…” only to have the door slammed in his face and the sheriff mutter “Weirdo!”

Nice touch. More please!

UPDATE: StrangerUK01 posted this on their Youtube channel:

OK so it looks a lot like a black dot on the face of the sun, but you don’t see it very often…

Taken with a Nikon D2X, 300mm zoom lens and a solar filter.