Haydon

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Dad, husband, medic, UVA double hoo. Interested in policy, specifically health, neurology/emergency medicine, security and the like.

I spent too long riding around in emergency vehicles. Occasional earnest woodworking posts.

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For a timeline cleanser, I finished surfacing the wood for the table I’m building. I need to joint the edges and arrange the grain pattern I want, but this gives an idea of what I’m working with. I have a before and after of the lumber, and the sheer amount of sawdust and shavings.

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Haydon

Specifically see -

They do have it on the app! It’s this button here.

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Haydon

Yep, here is what I think they were referencing. This language is very similar to what's in the Lancet letter.

Update - they came out perfectly! The spalted areas are totally solid now, and once I clean up some of the excess epoxy you won’t even be able to tell. I also filled and stabilized a large crack on one of the boards that I think came out nicely.

I’ve had luck with soaking these spalted areas with epoxy previously, so I decided to try again! The trick is to brush on the epoxy and allow it to soak into the pores of the affected wood. This should take about a day to cure, and I’ll post an update on how it turned out then!

Small update - when I milled out the walnut lumber I found a few spots with spalting/rot in them. The thing is though, it looks really cool! So I want to preserve the spalted patterns it while reinforcing the overall strength of the wood.

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Helen/Tina/Boob Punch

Not to blow up your notifications, but I just finished jointing the table legs and I can’t get over the amount of character in this wood.

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Helen/Tina/Boob Punch

Just look at this contrast before and after milling!!! (!!!!!!)

Update - brother in law helped me mill some of the walnut this morning. Just look how gorgeous this stuff is right underneath the surface. This stuff is extremely rich, owing to it being air dried rather than kiln dried.

New projects! I recently acquired about 150 board feet of 100+ year old air dried walnut found in the loft of a barn. I have big plans for this, and by that I mean tables of various shapes and sizes. I’m excited to post updates as I go.

Here it is, finished and installed! Just gotta wait for things to set up and I can take the clamps off.

I know I said my next project would be a canoe, but we needed a new kitchen island so I did that instead. I decided to use some tools I recently inherited from my grandfather to make a faux live edge type banding around the tabletop. I used scrap walnut pieces and then regular 2x8’s.

The dimensional lumber was easy enough to join. I used dowels and it went fine. For the walnut banding I had to get a bit creative since none of the pieces were the same size. I used my bandsaw to get the pieces approximately right, and then carved them using a dremel and angle grinder.

I decided to lean into the inconsistent walnut pieces by carving out a flowing/live edge-ish feel to them.

After sanding and then wiping down with mineral spirits here is the unfinished but cleaned up result!

And here it is with the first coat of finish - I used a mix of boiled linseed oil, polyurethane, mineral spirits, and a *touch* of dark stain to help bring out the walnut edges’ features.

@ablum.bsky.social chatoyancy!

This kinda sucks!

It’s pretty straightforward to break into most cars without causing too much damage. Older cars with tempered glass are similarly easy. EVs with laminated glass not so much!

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The Fig Economy

I usually have issues with science by press release but these are amazing. I look forward to reading the full results. Stopping a trial early because of positive results is a heck of a thing!

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Haydon

This is the key passage.

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Jeremy Harris

I’m perfectly fine using the phrase in this context. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

I feel honored that I was preempted.

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Haydon

And here they are! Finished and ready to be wrapped.

Sorry to interrupt fast food price/misreading economic indicator graphs discourse but I wanted to post a quick update on the end grain cutting boards I made. The wedding is Saturday so I used my new polisher to put wax on them and I think they look very pretty.

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Proof of Burden

Even the World’s Wettest Prime Minister couldn’t turn things around.

ICJ ruling that Israel must halt its Rafa offensive. icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

Vote was 13 - 2, with Sebutinde and Barak against.

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☀️ Starshine

Thanks for the heads up. Incredible to go on This Website and have your opening Salvo "what is a woman?" (sic).